The Evil Lawyer Ending Explained: Is Mek Found Guilty or Innocent? Who is Kosol?

Helmed by Nottapon Boonprakob and Jakkarin Thepvong, Netflix’s ‘The Evil Lawyer,’ also known as ‘Thanai Pisat,’ steps into the world of Jittri, a defense lawyer who specializes in getting the worst criminals in town out of jail. This time, however, her paths cross with a fellow lawyer, named Mek, who gets caught up in a murder conspiracy that involves powerful people who would much rather see him go to jail than get to the truth. As Mek’s unlikely alliance with Jittri begins to take shape, it becomes clear that she has her own vested interests to take on the case, and while the ending of this Thai legal thriller series takes the form of an exhilarating court trial, the real battle is fought on a different scale entirely.

The Evil Lawyer Plot Recap

‘The Evil Lawyer’ begins with Jittri, a defense lawyer, pushing law to its greyest limits as she gets a spiritual guru acquitted on charges of the desecration of an infant baby’s corpse. The trial earns Jittri the scorn of the public, but that doesn’t seem to faze her too much, as the legal world knows her as the most ruthless attorney around. At the same time, we are introduced to Mek, a new lawyer who has mostly been keeping a low profile by doing pro-bono cases. This time around, he is assigned the case of an old man who is about to plead guilty in court regarding the burning of a factory that was seemingly in his name. However, Mek feels suspicious about the details and claims that the man was coerced into making this decision by a more powerful entity in charge of the entire factory.

The prosecution in this case is a lawyer named Techin, who was once Mek’s classmate at law school. His father, the corrupt police chief named Anan, happens to have a personal stake in this case and wants to get the job done by hook or crook. A desperate Techin lures Mek to his mansion under the pretense of explaining why his girlfriend, Ang, broke up with him two years ago. There, he reveals that Ang was on a boat where a murder was covered up, and if the truth were to come out, many powerful people would be at risk. However, Techin’s intent is not to blackmail Mek with this information; rather, it is to frame him for the murder of his caddie, Nay Oo Anan, who also happens to be the sister of the girl who died on the boat.

While Techin tries to shoot Nay and pin the blame on Mek, the plan backfires as Nay, injured but alive, strikes Techin’s head with a golf club, ultimately killing him. As she flees, the blame for Techin’s death falls on Mek’s shoulder, and Anan seems determined to bring him hell one way or another. At the grimmest of hours, Jittri of all people offers to represent Mek on the condition that he helps her solve other cases. Over time, however, it turns out that Jittri has been handpicking these cases to raise an army of witnesses and consultants who will testify in Mek’s favor in court. At the same time, Mek and Ang reunite while looking for Nay, and eventually meet her brother, Seya, who briefly took care of her after the shooting incident, but cannot find her since. Eventually, though, Mek, Jittri, and Ang are able to club their forces and unleash the truth about Anan’s criminal activities to the masses. What remains then is the actual court trial, where Mek’s fate is to be decided.

The Evil Lawyer Ending: Does Mek Walk Free? How Does Jittri Win the Case?

‘The Evil Lawyer’ ends with Mek being declared innocent in court, after a long and hard-fought legal battle that is ironically won with a lie. Though Jittri spends the entire show trying to prove her client’s innocence, in the end, it is Mek, and not her, who has a stroke of genius. Instead of trying to prove that he was trying to save Nay Oo’s life, Mek does a complete 180 and claims that he was, in fact, a co-conspirator. Doubling down on the lie, Mek claims that he was colluding with Techin to cover for Anan and also to protect Ang from a criminal investigation. However, during the attack, Nay somehow overpowered both of them, killing Techin with a golf stick before making an escape, all the while unintentionally framing Mek as the murderer.

Though this reversal of narratives seems counterintuitive at first, its main purpose is to eliminate whatever little leverage that the prosecution has left. By doing this, Mek essentially reframes the money trail that’s been connecting him to Techin this entire time, and while the original position was that he pre-planned the murder after receiving the money, Mek can now claim that this black money exchange has nothing to do with the case at hand. At the same time, his falsified retelling presupposes the existence of Nay, defeating one of the prosecution’s biggest arguments. If they are to deny this line of events, they must find a way to disprove the entire boat conspiracy, as well as the existence of Nay, both of which have already been proven in court.

Perhaps the cleverest thing that Mek employs through his new lie is the shifting of blame from Techin, someone who’s already dead, to Anan, who is still alive. Mek claims that the duo was essentially working under Anan’s orders, which is why his gun was used to make the first shot. While Nay cannot be present in court, this still puts much of the onus on the police chief himself, who becomes publicized as a man who coerced his own son to do criminal deeds. Somewhere behind all of this, Mek’s side of the situation is put into reasonable doubt, and since the court cannot determine exactly what happened on that fateful night, it responds to this information overload by declaring Mek innocent under a fair trial. However, this is just one half of the story, as the real nightmare awaits him outside of the court.

Who is the Man at the End? Why Does He Kill Anan?

After securing his win dishonestly, Mek cannot help but feel that Jittri’s infamous ways have rubbed off on him. Though he intends to stop this trend right there and part ways with her, there is still one more thing left to do. Curiously, Jittri seems to be visibly anxious when she explains that both she and Mek have been summoned to Anan’s mansion, and it’s only after they are seated that the full picture opens up. The man awaiting our duo inside is not Anan, though he is there as well, with a look of terror plastered on his face. Rather, our mystery man turns out to be the criminal leader who has so far only been referred to as “the Boss.” Though we are told that he is currently in prison, this scene confirms that his powers haven’t diminished one bit, which also means that Mek is essentially in his domain now.

While Anan has been receiving threats from the Boss’ enforcers this entire time, it isn’t until this moment that the gravity of the situation truly sets in. As it turns out, this meeting has been set up to discuss Anan’s manner of death right in front of him, with the Boss coldly informing Jittri about the narrative they will be deciding upon. Without warning, one of the Boss’s men, all gloved up, shoots Anan in the head, before carefully placing the gun in his hand to make it look like a suicide. It soon becomes crystal clear that both Mek and Jittri are way out of their depth here and completely at this mystery man’s mercy. Surprisingly, however, the Boss seems more interested in partnering up with this lawyer duo, particularly Mek, whom he recognizes.

At the end of ‘The Evil Lawyer,’ the true antagonist is revealed to be Kosol, aka the underworld boss, who is also the man who murdered Mek’s mother years ago. Though we barely know what transpired in Mek’s childhood to make him stray away from his father, all the puzzle pieces begin to fall into place with this revelation. Kosol seems to be a figure who can operate even above the law and has been using people like Anan and Suwat as mere puppets in the grand scheme of things. This is also likely why Mek’s father, Judge Rit, never fought against Kosol with his entire might, as he knows exactly what the man can do. What even Kosol doesn’t know, though, is that Mek is fundamentally not the type of person who will just play along with this charade, and while this might not be the moment, their grand clash is all but inevitable.

Are Jittri and Kosol Working Together?

Perhaps the most jarring revelation in the final moments of the season is that Jittri is also Kosol’s lawyer and, on some level, has been in the know this entire time. Given how openly Kosol reveals their partnership to Mek, almost as if taunting him, it is possible that she knew about Mek’s other case and chose Mek’s case for that precise reason. However, even she isn’t prepared for what Kosol does after stepping out of prison, and while she cries at the sight of a dead Anan, it is not out of sympathy, but because Kosol essentially hijacks her drive for revenge and puts a miserable end to it. This entire time, Jittri has been defending the worst people she’s ever known for the sole purpose of building a connection to defeat Anan, and while that goal is ultimately met, it is certainly not in a way that she ever imagined.

While there is some ambiguity as to how closely involved Jittri and Kosol have been this entire time, there is no doubt now that she will have to do his dirty bidding from this point onward. To begin with, going against Anan while being Kosol’s lawyer always presented a conflict of interest, and while she is known for being flexible about these arrangements, all of this was likely happening under the Boss’ supervision. However, with things getting way out of hand, Kosol finds himself with no choice but to step in and handle matters by himself. In light of this, Jittri is placed at a difficult crossroad, as working under the criminal would mean completely betraying Mek, and yet at the same time, the alternative puts everything she has built so far at risk. For once, Jittri can no longer claim to have the upper hand, and the timing could not have been any worse.

Is Nay Oo Dead or Alive? Does Seya Find His Sister?

‘The Evil Lawyer’ retains the ambiguity surrounding Nay Oo’s disappearance, though it is entirely possible that she is still alive. While we never get any update on her from the moment of her disappearance from the hideout, that doesn’t stop Seya from looking for his sister. At the end, he decides to make the matter public by putting up posters of Nay in the hopes that someone might have seen her. However, considering that the most likely scenario here is that she was kidnapped by Anan’s men, the idea that she might be alive and on the run seems a bit too far-fetched. However, Seya’s resilience in this case is something he has derived from Jittri, who never stopped looking for her father, either, no matter how tough the going got.

The most probable explanation for why Nay might still be alive is that the narrative has been amping up the ambiguity this entire time. If her potential survival was never meant to be a huge plot point, the creators could always just make her death explicit. However, by keeping things obfuscated, they are likely building up to a major plot point that will take place later in the story. The fact that Nay leaves her gun behind and doesn’t even use it for self-defense is perhaps the first sign of this not being an easily explicable cover-up or assassination. Secondly, we see Anan’s men fishing for information much later in the story, which shouldn’t be the case if Nay was already within their grasp. As such, chances are that there might be a third party involved in all of this, who has a reason to keep Nay alive after all of this.

Will Mek and Ang End up Together?

Amidst the investigative chaos and ethical quandaries of ‘The Evil Lawyer,’ one narrative thread that doesn’t get an easy conclusion is Mek and Ang’s love story. After breaking up a few years ago, likely due to Ang’s lingering trauma and guilt about the boat incident, the duo is in a far more stable position now. While Nay Oo may be missing, her sister’s case has been brought to public attention, and a trial is now all but inevitable. With this, the biggest baggage between Mek and Ang no longer remains, and they are free to continue their relationship from where it abruptly left off. The bigger challenge, then, is whether the two of them feel the same way about each other as they felt all that time ago.

When seeing things from Mek’s perspective, it becomes clear that his love for Ang never quite faded away, and he is most likely ready for another chance to right their wrongs. Things get more complicated when we take in Ang’s side of the story, as she mainly broke up because of how she felt like a terrible person, looking the other way as an innocent person died. That version of Ang, however, is long gone, and the person that remains is one who is true to their beliefs about justice and humanity. In that sense, Mek and Ang can make the perfect team, thematically foiling Jittri’s rather cynical view of the world. However, all of these developments are put on the back burner after Kosol’s arrival, as now, Mek must confront his own past before he can look forward to a future with Ang.