The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4: Haller Defends Self, Meets Sister

Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer returned for its fourth season on February 5, with all 10 episodes available for streaming, delivering a high-stakes storyline that sees defense attorney Mickey Haller fighting for his own freedom before an unexpected family revelation upends his world.

The season, adapted from Michael Connelly's novel The Law of Innocence, picks up directly from the third season's cliffhanger. In that prior chapter, based on The Gods of Guilt, Haller had successfully defended tech entrepreneur Julian La Crosse against murder charges tied to the death of escort Gloria Dayton. The case unraveled a web of corruption involving DEA agent James De Marco, who killed Dayton to cover his ties to the Juárez cartel, and LAPD investigator Neil Bishop, who confessed on the stand before taking his own life. De Marco met a violent end at the hands of the rival Tijuana cartel. As Haller drove home, police pulled him over and discovered the body of his former client, con artist Sam Scales, in the trunk of his Lincoln Navigator, framing him for murder.

Throughout Season 4, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo's Haller, typically operating from the back seat of his chauffeured vehicle while...