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Riley Utley

‘Yoda Always Dies’: The Lincoln Lawyer’s Showrunner Told Me Why They Decided To Kill Off (Spoiler)

(L to R) Becki Newton as Lorna Crane, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Mickey Haller, Angus Sampson as Denis "Cisco" Wojciechowski looking at a computer in The Lincoln Lawyer. .

Major spoilers for Season 4 of The Lincoln Lawyer are ahead! Read with caution, and watch the show with a Netflix subscription.

Much like how Eddie died in the middle of Season 3, The Lincoln Lawyer shocked me in Season 4 by killing off a major character in the middle of the installment. So, I had to ask the showrunner about their choice to have Elliott Gould’s Legal die amid the season that dropped on Netflix’s 2026 schedule, and he told me why they decided to do it now and the impact it had on Mickey.

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