Bondsman Valenzuela calls Mick about a wealthy client named Louis Roulet who has been charged with attempted rape and assault.

Mick meets Roulet in jail and hears his claim that sex worker Reggie Campo set him up for money.

Mick learns his ex-wife Maggie has been assigned as the prosecutor on the Roulet case at the bail hearing.

The judge grants Roulet bail set at one million dollars despite the prosecution's push to keep him locked up.

Levin finds a bar security recording showing Reggie initiating contact with Roulet, directly contradicting her statement to police.

Mick discovers the actual murder knife bears Roulet's initials on the handle, proving the first knife shown to him was fake.

Mick visits Jesus Menendez at San Quentin and Jesus positively identifies Roulet from a six-person photo lineup.

Mick and Levin share a drunken dinner and conclude that Roulet murdered Martha Renteria and that Jesus is innocent.

Roulet is found sitting inside Mick's locked home and makes a thinly veiled threat about Mick's daughter Hayley.

Roulet tells Mick in the courthouse hallway that he killed Martha Renteria, knowing attorney-client privilege protects the confession.

Prosecution rebuttal witness Corliss testifies that Roulet bragged in jail about killing a woman who danced in a snake pit.

The prosecution moves to dismiss all charges against Roulet, and Roulet is formally acquitted of attacking Reggie Campo.

Detectives immediately arrest Roulet outside the courtroom for the murder of Martha Renteria as he leaves the building.

Mary Windsor shoots Mick in the stomach at his front door and Mick kills her with a concealed gun.

Louis Roulet is sentenced to life in prison for multiple murders and Jesus Menendez is pardoned and released.

Criminal defense attorney Mick Haller takes on a wealthy client named Louis Roulet, charged with attacking a sex worker, only to discover his ex-wife has been assigned to prosecute the case. As Mick investigates, he uncovers evidence suggesting Roulet is the same man who committed a murder for which Mick's former client Jesus Menendez is currently serving time in San Quentin. Roulet has deliberately chosen Mick as his attorney, knowing that attorney-client privilege will shield his confession and prevent Mick from going to the police. Trapped but determined, Mick engineers a secret scheme using a jailhouse snitch to plant testimony that leads detectives to connect Roulet to the earlier murder. After Roulet is acquitted of the assault charge, he is immediately arrested outside the courtroom, and his mother's subsequent attempt to kill Mick ends with her death and Mick's near-fatal shooting. Ultimately Roulet is sentenced to life in prison and Jesus Menendez is freed, though the damage done to an innocent man haunts Mick for the rest of his life.

The headline events of Mick Haller's battle to expose a wealthy serial killer.

Mick argues in court that a police helicopter's thermal imaging of Harold Casey's property violated his right to privacy.

A Road Saints biker named Ted pulls over Mick's car on the freeway and delivers Harold Casey's ten-thousand-dollar cash payment.

Mick buys a cameraman's footage outside the courthouse in a practiced con designed to make himself look indispensable to Dobbs.

Mick visits Gloria Dayton in jail and trades a drug lord's identity to prosecutors to keep Gloria out of prison.

Mick, Levin, Roulet, Cecil Dobbs, and Mary Windsor meet at Dobbs's Beverly Hills office to plan the full defense strategy.

Mick represents repeat drug offender Darius McGinley at Compton court, where the sitting judge makes openly racist remarks from the bench.

Mick confronts Roulet outside Van Nuys court about deceiving everyone by claiming he had attended a year of law school.

Mick meets prosecutor Ted Minton and shows him the bar security DVD, inadvertently surrendering the defense's strongest piece of evidence.

Maggie reveals over St. Patrick's Day drinks that the prosecution has a secret jailhouse snitch named Corliss as a witness.

Levin's investigation uncovers multiple women who allege that Roulet drugged and raped them before the incident with Reggie Campo.

Mick and Levin interview Mary Windsor about her rape and Levin privately suggests Roulet may have attacked his own mother.

Levin fails to appear at the Dodgers season opener and Mick receives a call from detectives saying Levin has been shot dead.

Detectives Lankford and Sobel serve Mick with a search warrant for the Woodsman gun used to murder Levin.

Mick arranges with Valenzuela and Road Saints leader Vogel to station men near Maggie and Hayley's apartment to stop Roulet.

After three surgeries, Mick is suspended by the California Bar for 90 days but vows to return to criminal defense work.

While taking on the Roulet case, Mick juggles a full roster of other clients, collecting payment creatively and cutting deals with prosecutors to keep guilty people out of maximum-security sentences. His investigator Levin digs into Roulet's background and the prosecution's evidence, turning up both the bar security footage and a troubling history of violence against women. After Levin is murdered, Mick faces the threat of being framed for the killing while also managing the increasingly dangerous Roulet and his protective mother. Mick quietly maneuvers to neutralize the prosecution's jailhouse snitch while also arranging for allies in law enforcement and the criminal underworld to shield his family from Roulet's threats. The trial proceeds with Mick outmaneuvering the inexperienced prosecutor at every turn, and the case ultimately collapses under the weight of the prosecution's own misconduct. The aftermath leaves Mick financially ruined, surgically repaired, and professionally suspended, but still committed to representing the underdog.

The cases, investigations, and behind-the-scenes moves that shaped the Roulet trial.

Levin points out the striking similarity between the Roulet assault case and Mick's earlier Jesus Menendez murder case.

Sam Scales calls Mick a legal con man after his guilty plea, and Mick refuses to shake Scales's hand.

Detective Kurlen corners Mick outside Van Nuys court and demands to know whether his legal career contributes anything to society.

Roulet reveals he has carried a knife ever since he discovered his mother bound and raped inside an empty property.

Mick wakes up in Maggie's bed the morning after St. Patrick's Day and finds their daughter asleep between them.

Mick folds photos of both women to hide their injuries and places them side by side, finding they look like sisters.

Mick reviews the Menendez case files and finds the knife wounds on Martha Renteria match Roulet's knife exactly.

Jesus Menendez spits on the prison visiting glass and accuses Mick of never believing him or fighting for his innocence.

Mick plays Levin's final voicemail, recorded moments before the murder, saying Levin found evidence that could free Jesus Menendez.

Mick opens his bedroom closet gun box and finds the inherited Woodsman pistol registered in his name has been stolen.

Mick produces a jailhouse surveillance video in court proving Corliss and Roulet never had a conversation in the holding pen.

Judge Fullbright erupts at prosecutor Minton in chambers, calling his decision to put Corliss on the stand prosecutorial misconduct.

Cecil Dobbs accidentally reveals he already knew Corliss's testimony was about Martha Renteria, exposing dangerous prior knowledge of the case.

Detective Sobel reveals that a parking ticket places Roulet's car outside Martha Renteria's apartment on the night of her murder.

Sobel confirms Maggie knew the police's plan to use Roulet as bait all along and that Roulet had bugged Mick's phone.

From the moment Levin flags a resemblance between the Roulet case and an earlier conviction, a chain of revelations begins that will upend everything Mick thought he understood about innocence and evil. A series of encounters forces Mick to confront his own moral failures, from dismissing a guilty plea for repeat con artist Sam Scales to realizing he never genuinely fought for Jesus Menendez. The physical resemblance between Reggie Campo and murder victim Martha Renteria cracks the case open, and Mick's prison visit to Jesus confirms the worst: he helped convict an innocent man. After Levin is murdered, two final discoveries lock the full picture into place: a voicemail Levin left just before being killed, and a parking ticket that places Roulet at the scene of Martha's murder. In the courtroom, Mick engineers the jailhouse snitch's testimony and then destroys it, triggering the judge's fury at the prosecution and ultimately forcing a dismissal. The truth about Mary Windsor and the bugging of Mick's phone reveals the full depth of the conspiracy Roulet had built around him from the very beginning.

The discoveries and moral reckonings that transformed Mick's understanding of guilt and innocence.