![]() ![]() Sequel Hook: Ends with Mickey Haller deciding to run for DA.Namely, her husband's corpse is buried in the backyard. Rewatch Bonus: There's a reason why Lisa Trammel was so desperate to hang on to her home.No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Mickey Haller receives one.Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Lisa Trammel would have gotten away clean after two murders-but she just had to taunt her lawyer.McConaughey actually did play Mickey Haller in the film version of The Lincoln Lawyer, released that same year. Mythology Gag: A producer muses that Matthew McConaughey would be good to play Mickey Haller in a movie.Logging onto the Fourth Wall: Mickey Haller's firm website, is a real site that will redirect to some information about the book.Haller can't do anything about that, but he can send in an anonymous tip that will lead police to her other murder, namely her husband who is resting quietly beneath her flower garden. Justice by Other Legal Means: Lisa Trammel is guilty.Heel–Face Turn: Mickey Haller's decision to turn away from criminal defense work and run for District Attorney at the end of the novel is portrayed as this.Fun with Acronyms: Foreclosure Litigants Against Greed.A detail (a freshly turned garden in the suspect's home) is introduced, and Mickey Haller says, "It was what the great filmmakers would call foreshadowing." In the end it is foreshadowing, but in a different way from what Haller guesses. Could she point out where Lisa was in the photo? I didn't say Lisa was in the photo." When she expresses skepticism about Mickey's courtroom stunt in which he asked a witness to pick Lisa Trammel out of a photo she wasn't in, he says, "I asked the question. Mickey's junior associate, Jennifer Aronson, has a more developed sense of ethics.He chooses not to tell the judge that one of the jurors had a father who suffered a foreclosure, because the juror question was, "Have you or anyone in your immediate family ever been involved in a foreclosure?" ("The word 'ever' was not in that sentence.").Exact Words: Being a lawyer, Mickey Haller is a big fan of this trope."Eureka!" Moment: Lisa Trammel gives a child a balloon at a party, and Haller instantly figures out how she managed to strike a much taller man in the top of the head with a hammer-the victim was looking up, at a balloon.Drop the Hammer: The murder weapon used to cave a banker's head in.Double-Meaning Title: The "Fifth Witness" is known as such for being the fifth person to be called by Mickey Haller to testify during Lisa Trammel's trial and taking the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination.Subverted in the end, when it turns out she killed him and buried him in the backyard. Disappeared Dad: Lisa Trammel's husband has been missing for years after running out on Lisa and their little son.That's a reference to The Lincoln Lawyer, and how Haller helped Kurlen find and convict the true guilty party in the Martha Renteria murder. When Detective Kurlen proves surprisingly willing to turn over discovery material to Haller, Haller says it's because he and Kurlen "have a history". ![]()
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