The Lincoln Lawyer: Season 3 - Netflix Series

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Goes down smooth, just like a Hollywood courtroom drama is supposed to go. It's got all the requisite parts: courtroom arguments, personal problems, romance, a little bit of violence, and they are all very skillfully blended. Everything is reduced to pleasant, ideal first world standards. i.e. it's a fantasy. I mean even the gangster with the face tattoos is clean cut and well dressed.

Mickey Haller is called the Lincoln Lawyer because he conducts business out of the back seat of his Lincoln. He started with a blue 1963 four-door convertible Continental which is same model JFK's limo was derived from. But that car is 60 years old. He still keeps it around, but now he rides around in a Lincoln Navigator.

In episode 5, while returning from the Federal prison in Victorville, he gets run off the road by a tow truck. His driver was alert enough to realize the tow truck was gunning for them, but somehow the Lincoln was not able to outrun the tow truck. Okay, it's TV. His driver is killed in the accident and the Navigator is destroyed.

In episode 6, Mickey comes out of his house in the morning and finds this beast in his driveway:

Armored Navigator

It only shows up on the screen intermittently and then only for a couple of seconds. Also, the Print Screen Key on Windows requires that you also press the Windows Key and as soon as you do that the red timeline pops up on the bottom of the screen and cuts off the bottom half of the wheels. Stupid Windows.

While the stock Navigator is a big car, the armored version appears beefier, more muscular. I don't quite understand that. Did they make some changes to the body or is it just cosmetics? That weird, semi-flat paint might have something to do with that. There seem to be several companies building armored Navigators, but I did not find anyone claiming to have built this one, which I find a bit odd.

The Navigator is a present from the drug cartel boss that Mickey went to see in Victorville. Nice to have powerful friends in low places.