Mickey receives a direct threat from DEA agent DeMarco inside his own car, then consolidates his strategy: he will represent cartel boss Hector Moya in his habeas petition to force DeMarco into open court. Cisco travels to Las Vegas and confirms DeMarco coerced the gun shop owner who testified at Moya's trial using the same blackmail method he used on Gloria Dayton. At Victorville, Mickey meets Moya, secures a deal, and learns the exact chain of events that put Gloria's name on the witness list. On the drive home, Lorna and Izzy surface a decade-old case linking Bishop and DeMarco to the same territory — and then Eddie is killed when their car is run off the road.

This episode establishes that Gloria's murder and Moya's wrongful conviction are products of the same operation, not parallel threads. The Budwin Dell discovery gives Mickey a documented pattern of coercion rather than a single witness's word, and the Bishop-DeMarco connection closes the gap between the federal and local sides of the conspiracy. Eddie's death confirms that DeMarco's opening threat was not posturing and raises the personal cost of the case to a point Mickey can no longer treat as professional risk.

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