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The Lincoln Lawyer season 2 episode 8 recap: Covenants and Stipulations

The next day, things are tense at trial as Lisa presses Mickey to let her take the stand. He doesn’t want to do that as he fears she’ll make herself look worse under cross-examination.

In the meantime, Mickey keeps cutting Andy off when she tries to present evidence, like the bloody gloves and the murder weapon. He’s prepared to stipulate that these two things belonged to Lisa and can enter into evidence uncontested.

It’s a way to prevent Andy from detailing the evidence to the jury. This way, yes, it can be used against Lisa, but now the jury doesn’t get to hear Andy going on and on about it. Plus, it fits with Mickey’s case anyway. He never said the gloves or hammer weren’t Lisa’s, just that someone else intentionally planted those items to frame her.

Today’s prosecutorial witness is the gardener who found the hammer. Mickey tries to point out that it’s suspicious timing that the hammer suddenly shows up right after the trial starts. He reiterates this point to O’Brien, too. Either O’Brien didn’t investigate very well at the start and missed something as glaring as the murder weapon, or it appeared at a very convenient time and place, lending credence to the possibility Lisa was framed.

Seemingly out of nowhere, Lisa’s ex, Jeff, shows up at the courthouse. Suddenly he’s eager to take the stand and help clear Lisa’s name, but only in exchange for a cut of the podcast money. He insinuates that Mickey can have him lie on the stand if he wants, so long as he gets paid. Mickey tells him, in no uncertain terms, to f*ck off.

In court, Andy calls her next witness, Walter Kim, who helped Bondurant get the temporary restraining order. Walter is the one who said Lisa got violent toward Bondurant at a protest, and he brings photographic proof that does appear to show Lisa getting in Bondurant’s face.

Mickey used Cisco to dig around and found someone else in attendance that day, a biker wearing a camera on his helmet. That footage shows a different angle of the incident that makes it clear Bondurant got in Lisa’s face first, and she was defending herself.

But Andy’s last witness is a real doozy. It’s Henry Dahl. Mickey can’t do anything to stop it because Henry has raw interview footage from his time spent with Lisa, and Andy believes one of Lisa’s statements is damning. Considering it’s the defendant’s own words, the judge must let things proceed accordingly, even if it blindsides Mickey.

The tape Andy plays has Lisa saying she learned everything there was to know about Bondurant, including where he got his coffee and parked his car. It proves Lisa knew where Bondurant would be because she knew the parking garage he used and his regular spot. It’s not looking good for Lisa now, so, in a desperate move, Mickey decides to put her on the stand.

The subplots in this episode are mainly about Izzy and the arrival of Mickey’s mother, Elena. Elena is an actress invited to town for Mickey’s birthday, a day he hates celebrating. Once there, she decides to stay with Mickey to audition for a new show. Something goes wrong at the audition, and Elena’s agent drops her. As for Izzy, she’s getting railroaded out of her new dance studio because the landlord is suddenly trying to charge her way more for the security deposit than they initially agreed.

With Lorna’s help, they prove he was discriminating against Izzy, hiking up the price for her but offering Lorna the place for much less, unaware the two are friends. Lorna and Izzy take their grievance straight to the owner and threaten legal action if she doesn’t make things right. Izzy finally gets her dance studio, which means she’ll soon leave Mickey to focus on her dream.

Written by Maddy Lennon