The Lincoln Lawyer
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Mickey. If you sacrifice too much for this job, you'll end up like me. Alone. Divorced. A couple of kids who barely speak to me. You don't wanna be a male spinster, trust me. It's a terrible Hollywood cliché.
Legal
Mickey: You know, Andy, um, you're a damn good lawyer.
Andrea: Thank you, Haller. So are you.
Izzy: She'd [Lisa] have to be insane.
Lorna: She is. Certifiable.
Lisa: My father bought the building for next to nothing. He made cabinets. So he ran a shop on one side and raised a family on the other. I wanted to do the same thing.
Mickey: You live there as well?
Lisa: Yes, it's my home. That's why I didn't want to sell it to Mitchell Bondurant or to anyone.
Unlike Alex Grant, Lisa Trammell had the motive, the means, and the opportunity to commit murder. Unlike Alex Grant, Lisa Trammell repeatedly made damning, even threatening, statements to and about the victim. In fact, her conduct was so threatening that it forced Mitchell Bondurant to take out a restraining order against her. But, of course a restraining order only works if the person being restrained chooses to obey it. Just like a magic trick only works if the audience allows themselves to be fooled. Don't let yourselves be fooled. See through Mr. Haller's parlor tricks. See through them…to the truth.
Andrea
Legal: Now, what's so important that you had to see me the morning your trial starts?
Mickey: Someone left this on my doorstep last night.
Legal: That's an FBI target letter.
Mickey: Yeah, addressed to Alex Grant, also known as Alex Gazarian, my strawman.
Legal: I prefer the term alternate suspect, and this says that your alternate suspect is a person of interest in a federal investigation.
Mickey: Construction fraud. You know that e-mail Mitchell Bondurant sent? This puts it in a whole new light.
Legal: How so?
Mickey: Well, Bondurant sends an e-mail threatening to expose Alex Grant. By itself, it's not clear what he meant. The judge even said it wasn't enough to point the finger at him. She needed more. Well, this is more. This makes it look like Alex Grant was up to something illegal. That e-mail he sent wasn't a threat. He was blackmailed.
Legal: Blackmail's are pretty good motive to kill someone if it's legit. But this? This just shows up on your doorstep on the eve of trial. Either someone's really trying to help you, or they're really trying to fuck with you. You gotta find out which one.
Mickey: How do I do that?
Legal: Well, first, you gotta confirm that the letter is real or not, and you gotta do it fast.
Andrea: What about a spider?
Dr Arslanian: A spider?
Andrea: You know, lowering itself from its web. You see something out of the corner of your eye or feel something on your head, and instinctively…It's possible, isn't it?
Lastly, you'll hear how police found the defendant's gardening gloves in her garage with Mitchell Bondurant's blood on the gloves she used to murder him, blood that could have only been from that murder. As I said, it's simple. The facts don't lie. Now, defense counsel will try to paint the defendant as an upstanding member of her community, a victim of gentrification who was harassed by Mitchell Bondurant. All I would say to that is don't be fooled. Don't be fooled by the calm expression, the crisp white blouse, the manicured nails. Don't be fooled by all the red herrings and smoke and mirrors. Defense counsel will put on a good show. That's all it is. A show. Because he has no answers to the evidence we will present, and in the end, his shiny bag of tricks does not erase the fact that Mitchell Bondurant was brutally and violently murdered. And the woman who murdered him is sitting right there.
Andrea
So, in the last six months, you looked at those hedges many times, correct? Many times, I'm sure. And yet, you never saw that hammer before. Until, suddenly, the hammer just shows up at the exact same time my client happens to be on trial for murder.
Mickey
Lisa: Why can't I just tell the truth on the stand?
Mickey: Andrea would magnify any inconsistency and make it look like a lie.
Lisa: But it's not.
Mickey: I know, Lisa, but even if we put you on the stand, it wouldn't be to tell the story of that day. It would be to tell your story. Why's your restaurant so important to you? If I was prepping you to testify, that's what we'd be talking about.It's too risky. Trust me.
Cisco: How'd it go?
Mickey: I won the battle, but if I can't come up with something else, we might lose the war.
Cisco: Yeah, well, maybe this will help. You
were right. There is a connection between Henry Dahl and Alex Grant.
Mickey: What did you find?
Cisco: Well, you know, Grant has all those shell companies. One of them is an S Corp named Pan Media, mainly invest in entertainment projects. This guy is the president of that company, David Webber. Mickey: Who's David Weber.
Cisco: He's the executive producer of Henry Dahl's last podcast. Something called Skid Romance.
Mickey: Great work, Cisco.
Mickey: I've been a lawyer for a long time, Lisa. And I know when something's off. After a while, I knew you didn't kill Mitchell Bondurant, but… just because you're not guilty of something doesn't mean you're innocent of everything.
Lisa: What exactly are you accusing me of?
Mickey: Jeff was going to ruin everything, huh? Until he disappeared. So, where is he, huh?
Lisa: Mickey, don't.
Mickey: Where is he? Where is he?
Lisa: This is insane.
Mickey: He hated cilantro.
