Netflix has released the second part of season 2 of The Lincoln Defense which closes a case… to open another in the last minutes.
Warning, this article contains spoilers for part 2 of season 2 of The Lincoln Defense.
It’s a new victory for Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo). The West Coast’s “sexiest” lawyer has won his case by proving that Lisa (Lana Parilla) didn’t kill Bondurant. The chef is now free…well, not quite. Our hero understood that he had played with her and that she had murdered her ex-husband before burying him in the garden of his restaurant. Everything could have ended well for him, but the last minutes of episode 10 launch the lawyer on a completely different matter.
Haller is indeed called by a new client, who according to him is wrongly accused of the murder of his friend. The latter explains to him that he was recommended to him by the victim. If the name of the latter means nothing to him, the lawyer understands by going to visit the body in the morgue that it is Glory Days, the prostitute he had helped (and vice versa) in season 1.
The latter had left Los Angeles for Hawaii, in order to find her mother and to convert. But this last scene makes us understand that her plans have totally changed and that she has found herself in dirty business.
The murder of Glory Days will logically be at the heart of season 3 of The Lincoln Defense, even if it has not yet been announced by Netflix. She should also adapt to the screen the 5th opus of the Mickey Haller collection written by Michael Connelly. Entitled The Gods of Verdictthis novel was released in 2013. Here is the summary:
Lawyer Mickey Haller is at rock bottom. He failed in the election to the post of prosecutor, his ex moved away from him, his daughter no longer speaks to him except to reproach him. One day, he receives a text message from his assistant: Call me – 187. 187 being the code for “murder”, Haller knows that he will have to remobilize to defend the accused.
But the victim, Gloria Dayton, is a prostitute whom Mickey was very fond of and whom he thought had helped him get back on the right track. Finding out that she tricked him into continuing to prostitute herself and imagining that he may be the one who put her in danger quickly puts him under pressure. Not to mention that some would-be law enforcement officials resent Haller meddling in their business. Haunted by the ghosts of his past, the lawyer will have to work tirelessly and use all his talents to solve the case.
The murder of Glory Days could well be linked to the “tattooed man” whom Mickley had arrested in part 1 of season 2. A character who promised revenge and whose plot was dispatched (too) quickly . Anyway, our lawyer will logically be touched by this news, to the point of wondering if he is not responsible for this murder…