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Netflix’s ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Showrunner Just Delivered Devastating News to ‘Bosch’ Fans

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5 February 2026

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The Lincoln Lawyer is back for a fourth season on Netflix, and the legal drama keeps getting better. Based on Michael Connelly‘s books, the Manuel Garcia-Rulfo–led adaptation is among the highest-rated adaptations. The series is not the first time Connelly’s works have been adapted; the Prime Video series Bosch is based on his book series. In the fifth season of The Lincoln Lawyer, based on The Resurrection Walk, the two worlds collide as Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) and Mickey (Garcia-Rulfo) — who are half-brothers — team up to investigate and exonerate a woman wrongly accused of murdering her husband. Unfortunately, fans won’t see this team-up.

Since the rights to Harry Bosch are owned by Prime Video, Netflix cannot use the character in The Lincoln Lawyer. However, this family aspect of the story is important, and Netflix has a workaround. The Lincoln Lawyer‘s showrunner, Ted Humphrey, confirmed to TV Fanatic that while Bosch is not coming to help, they have a replacement lined up. “We are certainly allowed to create new characters, and we can certainly expand the world. If we have an interesting idea for how to expand the world of Mickey’s family, we can look at how to do that,” he said, before adding,

“There are a lot of interesting guest stars and new faces to the show this season. I think the audience will have to look out for who they are.”

Among some of the various guest stars in The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 is Cobie Smulders. The actress was cast in an undisclosed role, with the character’s arc expected to extend to Season 5. In the final minutes of the Season 4 finale, she introduces herself to Mickey as his sister Allison after saving him from a targeted mob hit. With The Resurrection Walk chapter of Mickey’s life exploring Mickey’s family and Allison showing the physical prowess displayed by Harry Bosch, Netflix finds a way to seal that gap.

Titus Welliver Is Not Done with ‘Bosch’ Yet

The character might not be appearing in The Lincoln Lawyer Season 5, but fans can catch him in the next season of Ballard. “I’m going to do three episodes [of Ballard] starting in February, so I’ll go and join up with Maggie Q and the whole Ballard group again. So I’m excited for that. It’ll be fun,” Welliver recently said in an interview with FabTV, confirming that he will indeed appear in the spin-off. Fans can also catch him in his post-Bosch era in the fourth season of Dark Winds, premiering on February 15.

The Lincoln Lawyer Season 4 is now streaming on Netflix.