By Johnny Loftus for Decider
“Everyone around you dies!”
As hot takes from teens go, that’s a tough allegation for any parent to take. But when it comes to Mickey Haller, his daughter Haley has a pretty strong case. They’re at the funeral of Eddie Rojas, after all, her childhood babysitter and his newest Lincoln Lawyer driver, who in Episode 5 was killed in the fiery car wreck that was actually a targeted attack on Haller. And on this one, Maggie McPherson, whose previous Lincoln Lawyer Season 3 appearance was in an Episode 1 flashback where she told her then-husband – wait for it – to be careful, has to back up their daughter. Maggie’s sympathetic to the loss of Eddie. But she also drills down to the real source of Haley’s anger: she doesn’t want to lose her father next. Outside the funeral, Mickey admits to his team that he’s at fault in all of this. But he’s not done fighting. “I’ll find the motherfucker who did this. I’m gonna find him, and I’m gonna bury him.”
It’s a solid line from Mickey, and it’s certainly not cheap bravado. But he’s already found him – all signs point to DEA agent James De Marco as the culprit – and he’s already trying to bury him, as the Glory Days murder case continues to get absorbed into this larger conspiracy. To Julian, Mickey stresses that it’s not just a theory. “Glory Days was killed because a crooked DEA agent and a former cop were working together to corrupt the system and cover their tracks. And I’m gonna show them how and why.” For now, Haley’s staying mad at her dad. And while a teenager is probably the only person in our society harder to convince than a courtroom jury, when it comes to his cause, Mickey Haller has a better track record with converting the latter.
With her own case destroyed by her direct negligence – an abusive ex-husband was out of jail on an official pass, and she didn’t warn her client in time before he killed her – it’s Mickey who Andrea Freeman calls for comfort. They agree that their vocation requires both risk and sacrifice in an unequal measure, which can be difficult to manage. (Tell that to Eddie Rojas, but in general, we get their meaning.) Andy also says that unlike Maggie, she’s not going to ice out Mickey when the going gets heavy. “Don’t ice me out, either,” she concludes. And back at the office, Lorna is pulling for her boss (and ex-husband) to make it work with Freeman.
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