The Lincoln Lawyer season 1, episode 5 recap – “Twelve Lemmings in a Box”

Mick and Trevor take a client meeting at Pink’s (great chili dogs), where they discuss hiring a jury consultant. To Mick’s surprise, his client tells him he doesn’t want one. Why? Because the arrogant gasbag trusts his instincts, which got him where he is today. Something tells me his gut will get him a nice jail cell without a view.

So Mick takes matters into his own hands. He finds a poker player he trusts, an English woman, just entering middle-aged and still has a bit of sex appeal. She is an old friend, so much so that we don’t know her name, and Mick greets her warmly. He cannot afford her but allows her to read a jury for him. Not for money, but to practice her skills. She says yes, but only for a day. The plan is for her to sit in the back and text Mick who she thinks needs to get the hook.

We still have the issue of the bug. Mick told Cisco to keep it in the truck, and they removed it since at no point. Yet, Mick keeps talking to Izzy openly about the case and now about the jury pool. Perhaps this is nothing. I mean, everyone pretty much knows who he wants on the jury. But this is something to keep monitoring.

Also, the Jesus Menendez case. Lorna grabs the file for him that is over a year old. He admits to her it is eating at him. Something tells me that this case, the way it keeps being sprinkled into episodes, will be a second-season mystery if renewed.

Unfortunately for Mick, Trevor insists on signing off on any jurors that he wants to jettison from the case. It doesn’t help matters that the prosecutor, Jeff Golantz, is his jury whisperer. He asks the jury would it be hard for them to be impartial that the victims were having an extramarital affair. (Obviously, blaming the victim’s defense helps Mick and Trevor). The nameless English rose texts Mick that two, four, and fifteen are bluffing and to keep them. However, Golantz dismisses them immediately.

Mick even brings some theatrics. He knocks over some pens from his desk, and good old Trevor picks them up for him. The jury can now ask themselves, how could a man this polite murder two people? Mick even has Lorna pull him for a personal matter to allow Golantz to look at his open notes on the desk. He takes the bait, thinking the blue star he placed on juror five’s stick note meant he likes her for the jury. He didn’t because he didn’t want anyone who wanted to write a screenplay. The prosecutor dismisses her.

Cisco tracks down one of Jan’s affairs. By the way, in the creepiest way possible, by grabbing a mani-pedi right next to her. She talks to her ex-husband, who confronts Cisco. He is aggressive and is using intimidation on Mick’s private eye. Cisco notices he also keeps referring to his ex and his wife. Can this toxic control freak be the natural killer? He threatens Cisco by brandishing his weapon.