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Mickey Haller’s (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) next case is going to be a personal one on the Netflix series based on Michael Connelly‘s books.
The Lincoln Lawyer Season 2 ended with him ready to leave one case in the past — though there were a few loose ends and potential danger for not only the titular character but also those around him as a result of how some things went down — and already meeting his next client. With that person, a murder suspect, comes a trial from the book The Gods of Guilt. Season 3 would be based on it, co-showrunner Ted Humphrey confirmed to TV Insider.
Season 1 began “with the guy on the beach who is a broken shell of a man who has lost his career and kind of lost everything in his life,” and with the series, their goal with Mickey is “to tell the story that the books tell, of the mountains this guy has to climb and the valleys he has to fall back down into again and again on his road to whatever redemption he’s going to reach,” he explained. Bringing this case up for Mickey at this point “does feel like the logical next story in that journey.”
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What will change from The Gods of Guilt?
The first two seasons of the Netflix series deviated from the books on which they were based. As Humphrey explained, those changes came about because it was necessary to “update” some key features as well as “make it all a little more cinematic,” such as by making Lisa (Lana Parrilla) Mickey’s love interest. For a potential third season, just like in The Gods of Guilt, Mickey’s new client has been accused of murdering Gloria Dayton, Mickey’s friend; in the book, the client is her “digital pimp,” but so far, Julian has only introduced himself as her friend.
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Who killed Glory Days?
In the book, Julian’s book counterpart was innocent of the crime (the murderer was a corrupt DEA agent), but we’ll have to wait to see if that’s the case if there’s a third season. After all, in the book series, it was a big deal that Mickey’s client was actually innocent. But in Season 2, Lisa wasn’t guilty of the crime she was on trial for (though she did kill her husband), so that could change things for Mickey’s next client.
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How much danger is Mickey in?
Season 2 didn’t wrap the case up neatly with a bow, and rather, Mickey was given reason to be wary of one of the major players involved: Alex Grant (Michael Goorjian), who was now losing major projects in the aftermath of key reveals during the trial. Legal Siegel (Elliott Gould) warned Mickey that Alex seems to have a real vengeful streak and was likely even more angry with him. And when Mickey left the restaurant after their dinner, a car nearly ran him over. He called Izzy (Jazz Raycole) to check about Alex’s car the night she served him with a subpoena, and she said it was a fancy black sedan.
“If there’s danger out there, there’s danger for everybody,” Humphrey warned. Something tells us that would be a problem for Mickey in a third season.
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What role will Izzy have in Mickey’s life and at the firm going forward?
Izzy’s dream came true in Season 2, and by the end of it, she was leaving behind working as Mickey’s driver and opening her own dance studio. But while Lorna (Becki Newton) and Cisco (Angus Sampson) are on their honeymoon, she will be helping out at the firm. As for what’s ahead for her, “we will find what the next kind of challenge is for Izzy down the road,” Humphrey said. Mickey’s driver is killed at one point in The Gods of Guilt, so anything that could keep that from happening to Izzy, who was created for the show, is great.
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Is there hope for a future for Mickey and Maggie?
It doesn’t seem likely. The exes seemed poised to trying to make it work again in the middle of Season 2, only for Maggie (Neve Campbell) to move away instead. “It’s heartbreaking as it always is for him. The one thing from the books that we’ve kept very, very true to is that this guy can just never quite get it right with his ex-wife, who’s really the love of his life, and there’s something kind of very real about that,” Humphrey explained.
While it’s unclear how much we’d see of Maggie in a third season — Campbell’s schedule would be a factor — that isn’t the last time she’ll appear. “It is dictated organically really by the books and the stories,” the co-showrunner said.
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Will Lisa return?
Lorna did call the police about Lisa’s husband’s body being in her garden, but she could easily return in a future season. After all, it was left open-ended as to whether or not Lisa was the one to send those guys to beat up Mickey, though it was confirmed in the book. “We chose not to do that for a number of reasons, dramatic and creative, and leave it more open-ended as something that Lorna suggests. So that’s kind of one that I guess my preference is to leave it for the audience to come to their own conclusions on that,” Humphrey shared. “And there’s nothing to say that in the success of the show, Lisa may not make a reappearance someday.”
If Lisa did return, it would certainly mean trouble for Mickey — and, if she found out Lorna called the cops, probably her as well. Plus, their romantic relationship could make things complicated.
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Will Mickey return to working out of the car?
We wouldn’t mind a mix of Mickey in the office and the car! Humphrey explained that cinematically, it made more sense to have Mickey working out of an office versus the “claustrophobic” space of a car (which would also mean more phone conversations). But if there is a third season, “all bets are off,” he added. “Could we see him in a different office space? Could we see him in no office space? And back to Lorna having a little office and him being in the car all the time? It’s all open.”
