By Johnny Loftus for Decider
If we’re talking lives screwed up by the Glory Days case, the strongest argument after the victim and the man accused of her murder could be made by Eddie Rojas. (May he swole in peace.) But the work of crusading defense attorney Mickey Haller never ends, even when the show unexpectedly kills off his driver, and so he’s griping to Izzy about it from the back of his brand-new bulletproof Lincoln.
It’s pretty shortsighted. Still, Mickey and his team have prepared a list of witnesses they hope to have testify, a list designed to support the relevance of calling to the stand their ultimate witness, the DEA’s James DeMarco. But it’s tricky, because Haller’s plan requires considerable buy-in from Judge Regina Turner. In court, after some of the questioning goes his way, and more of it is bogged down with repeated calls of “Objection! Relevance!” from Forsythe, counsel is finally called to the bench as baby attorney Sly Funaro, Jr. fumes on the stand.
The problem here is that in this courtroom, anyway, DeMarco’s usual scheme for the silencing of both witnesses and lawyers – you know, by murdering them – isn’t currently on trial. And after another individual questioned on the stand either can’t or won’t concede the DEA agent’s under-the-radar manipulation in the Glory Days case, Judge Turner makes Mickey’s life even more screwy. “I am not allowing Agent DeMarco to testify at this time, Mr. Haller.”
You win some, you lose some. Which applies to Andrea Freeman’s case, too. Still troubled by her moment of professional neglect – while Freeman forgot to phone her client about her violent ex-husband’s temporary release, the guy proceeded to murder her client – Andy shares her sense of lasting regret with her protégé and assistant attorney, Vanessa Blake (Chelsea M. Davis). Sensing an opportunity in a cutthroat office environment – it’s a move Andy probably taught her – Blake brought the oversight to Suarez, the boss district attorney, and now Freeman has been removed from the case.
Read the rest of the recap, HERE.