By Johnny Loftus for Decider
“The man in the hat was Neil Bishop.” Oh shit! When Holt McCallany first popped up as Bishop in Season 3 Episode 1 of The Lincoln Lawyer, it was in flashback form, back when Mickey Haller was still a public defender and Bishop was a police officer. Even though they were in court, the scene was so charged with mutual dislike, it’s a wonder they didn’t come to blows right in front of the stenographer.
And given that we already knew Bishop in the present as the district attorney’s investigator on the Glory Days murder case, now that Lorna has also ID’d him as the guy who was tailing her the night she was murdered, we are very much looking forward to more confrontation. Because Manuel Garcia-Rulfo plays Mickey Haller with such a charming gleam in his eye, it’s really cool to see him downshift into the kind of grinning pugnaciousness that overtakes Mickey when he and Bishop soon have another encounter. Mickey will ask Andrea Freeman how investigators are appointed to district attorneys’ cases. But in the meantime, he basically dares Neil Bishop to punch him in the face.
Does fingering Bishop as the driver of the green Civic that was following Glory also mean he killed her? Haller isn’t ready to go that far yet. But he does put Cisco on tracking down any connection Bishop might have had to Hector Moya (Arturo Del Puerto). Via a sex worker associate of Glory, Mickey also has a lead on a DEA agent, James De Marco, who Glory agreed to help by placing a gun used in a triple homicide in the presence of Moya, a move that got the cartel captain sent up to Victorville for life. But it’s all conjecture without more solid evidence. For now Mickey focuses on what he also has, which is any reason he can think of to visit Andrea at work. Sure, he really does want to know how Bishop got assigned to Glory’s case. That could sort out more of who’s involved, and why it seems they are so interested in framing Julian La Cosse for the murder. But he also wants to flirt hard with Andy and grab a quick makeout session behind the vertical blinds in her office.
Andrea is old friends with her fellow prosecutor Maggie McPherson, and she says she did her girl code due diligence, clearing their new romance with Mickey’s first ex-wife. But there could be a more pressing issue. While Mickey loves all the men in the place frowning at him as he leaves Andrea’s office, Andrea’s big boss, Chief District Attorney Adam Suarez (Phillip Anthony-Rodriguez), is less than enthused with the visit.
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