This article contains discussions of police corruption and sex work.
Spoilers for The Lincoln Lawyer Season 3 lie ahead!
Trina Rafferty and Kendall Roberts are vital supporting characters in Lincoln’s lawyerof mystery of Glory Days season 3, making it important to understand its background. When it comes to The Lincoln Lawyer, each season has several small pieces that come together to create a bigger picture, answering the central mystery of the criminal cases. Season three is no exception, exploring the corrupt secrets of DEA agent James De Marco through multiple lenses.
Two of the most important characters Lincoln’s lawyer Season 3 – Kendall Roberts and Trina Rafferty – appear in three or fewer episodes each. These two women provide the most damning details about James De Marco and Hector Moya’s situation during the investigation, putting Mickey and his team on the right path. As such, the public must have a clear understanding of who they are and what they know.
Kendall Roberts and Trina Rafferty were sex worker associates in the glory days
Kendall Roberts, Trina Rafferty and Glory Days would cover each other
All over Lincoln’s lawyer In season three, Kendall Roberts and Trina Rafferty provide crucial information that helps Mickey and his team discover that Hector Moya’s arrest and Glory Days’ murder were linked to a massive conspiracy. Kendall and Trina worked as high-end sex workers in Los Angeles alongside Glory Days. The three of them used to help each other with each other’s clientele.
When Glory Days said she was leaving Los Angeles and her career for Hawaii, Kendall Roberts also decided to take her life in a different direction, unaware that her friend was lying about leaving sex work. Kendall became a yoga instructor and gave up sex work. However, she appears to have maintained friendship with Trina because she hides her former colleague from Mickey and Cisco after the woman testifies on the stand. Unlike Trina and Glory, Kendall won’t confirm whether she met Hector Moya while doing sex work.
Trina Rafferty, on the other hand, continued doing sex work after Kendall Roberts left, remaining connected with Glory Days during that time. She served as Agent De Marco’s confidential informant after he threatened to charge her with crimes. While she interacted with Hector Moya Trina said she never turned him into De Marco because of how dangerous the cartel leader was. Ultimately, Glory Days shared with Trina the secret about the corrupt agent who forced her to set up Hector Moya and plant the gun in his apartment, sending him to prison for life.
Did Kendall Roberts and Trina Rafferty know that James De Marco killed Glory Days?
Kendall and Trina had different levels of knowledge about the glory days
When it comes to Kendall Roberts and Trina Rafferty knowing the truth about the Glory Days murder, The Lincoln Lawyer points to the latter knowing while the former likely doesn’t. When approached about her former colleague, Kendall seemed unaware that something terrible had happened, unless the former sex worker was also an A+ actress.
However, Trina Rafferty behaved as if she knew everything about the preparations for the Glory Days murder. She spoke about De Marco as obsessive when it came to Hector Moya and seemed to be very afraid of the agent, avoiding getting involved in the Habeas Corpus case in Lincoln’s lawyer season 3.
How James De Marco convinced Trina Rafferty to testify
Lincoln’s lawyer remains cryptic about how De Marco threatened Rafferty
While Trina confirms that agent James De Marco pressured her to testify, the end of Lincoln’s lawyer the third season does not specify the method. However, it is possible to speculate how he could have achieved his objective based on the corrupt agent’s established behavior. The most likely explanation is that he threatened to arrest her for charges he previously dismissed. After all, she mentioned that he had dismissed his crimes when she acted as a confidential informant.
Another possibility is that De Marco threatened to expose her as a confidential informant. If this fact had been publicized, Trina Rafferty would likely have lost all of her clients and been ostracized by her colleagues. Considering her high income, she would almost certainly quit for this reason.
Alternatively, he could have outright threatened to kill her if she testified, a threat she would have taken seriously if she believed De Marco killed Glory Days in Lincoln’s lawyer. Ultimately, all of these possibilities fit De Marco’s characterization. Due to the lack of concrete answers, each of these possibilities could be true, as could other unmentioned theories. In any case, his threat was sufficiently impactful in Lincoln’s lawyer Season 3 for Trina to lie under oath and tell Cisco that she wouldn’t testify or go public with what happened until De Marco was behind bars.