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[Mick, armed with a baseball bat, discovers Louis has broken into his house]
Louis Roulet: [sitting casually in Mick's home office] If you're wondering how I got in, I'm in real estate, so if I want to get into a friend's house...
Mick Haller: No, we're not friends. You're my client. And I'm your lawyer.
Louis Roulet: My lawyer. See, that's exactly what I wanted to remind you of. I'm about to go on trial, and yet I couldn't reach you. Now I find out where you were all day. Heard you tell Maggie.
Mick Haller: You shit.
Louis Roulet: You went to see Jesus Martinez. And I know what you talked about: Donna Renteria. You're right, Mick. I killed her. There. No reason I shouldn't tell my own lawyer since it's all confidential. Attorney-client privilege. Isn't that what you told me?
Mick Haller: It's time for you to go, Louis.
Louis Roulet: Alright.
[He sits up, finishes his drink, and stands up. He notices a framed picture of Mick & his daughter Hayley on Mick's desk]
Louis Roulet: [walks out into the living room] That's a cute picture of your daughter Hayley. She's very pretty. She's got soccer practice tomorrow, right?
Mick Haller: [following Louis] Don't.
Louis Roulet: [pretending to be confused] Don't what?
Mick Haller: [gets in Louis' face] You think you're the first client to threaten me and my family? Huh?
Louis Roulet: All I said was she's pretty.
Mick Haller: Are you scared, Louis? Because where you are right now, you're in a very dangerous place.
[He opens the front door and Louis leaves]
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Mick Haller: [sitting on Maggie's front porch as Louis approaches him] Hello, Louis. My family's here.
Louis Roulet: I know.
Mick Haller: You bring your knife? My gun?
Louis Roulet: Maybe.
Mick Haller: Good.
[pulls his new gun out of his coat pocket]
Mick Haller: 'Cause I brought this. You've got one chance to turn around and leave.
Louis Roulet: [stepping closer] And then what? You gonna keep coming back every night? Every day? Or just try to get me sent up to San Quentin like Jesus Martinez?
Mick Haller: No. I'm not quitting until Martinez is free and you're convicted of murder. And when that needle goes in your arm, that will be me.
[nods]
Louis Roulet: [as a commuter train passes by in the background] Well, why don't you just shoot me right now?
Mick Haller: I don't think I'll have to.
[looks out towards the street]
Louis Roulet: [turns around] Hey!
[Eddie Vogel and his biker gang pull up and start vandalizing Louis' car with baseball bats]
Louis Roulet: That's my car!
[a biker rides up from behind and hits Louis with a baseball bat, knocking him to the sidewalk]
Biker: It's Louis' car, man!
[the bikers continue vandalizing Louis' car as Mick gets up and walks to the street]
Biker: Come on, now. Get him up. Get up!
[another biker grabs Louis and drags him out into the middle of the street]
Mick Haller: Hospital, not the morgue.
[Eddie gives Mick a two-finger salute as his posse beats up Louis and Mick walks away]
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