The Evil Lawyer Episode 4 "Oath" Review: Sorn Lies Under Pressure, Ang Finds Seya, and Jittri Admits Her War With Anan
What happens — the short version (spoilers)
- Ang introduces herself as a Ruam Thai advisor during the maritime-worker bill discussion and connects with Pang on the labor-protection thread.
- Sorn testifies that he saw Mek hit Techin repeatedly with a golf club, giving the prosecution a vivid version of the killing.
- Jittri cross-examines Sorn on distance, sound, the Rodtang fight, the number of blows, and his strange reference to a stray threat.
- Sorn disappears when the prosecution calls him, turning Jittri's earlier Mai move into a delay for Mek's case.
- Mek learns how Jittri helped Kung, Nemo, and Meuk after a call-center-scam frame-up, then confronts her about knowing Anan.
- Ang and Pang bring Mek to Seya, who says Nay Oo is his sister and in danger, but Mek pushes too hard and nearly breaks the fragile trust.
The Evil Lawyer puts Mek's trial on the stand, then uses Sorn's shaky testimony, Jittri's backstreet network, and Seya's fear for Nay Oo to show how every oath in this story has already been priced.
“Oath” is the first episode where Mek’s murder trial feels fully alive in court. The earlier hours were about custody, bail, witness lists, and the facts circling Techin’s death. Episode 4 finally makes the prosecution’s version speak out loud, and the version is brutal: Mek hit Techin with a golf club until he stopped moving, then smiled.
The show understands why that kind of testimony is dangerous. It does not have to be elegant. It has to be vivid enough for a judge to remember. Jittri’s job is to make the vividness wobble before it hardens into record. Outside court, Ang and Pang pull the Nay Oo thread toward Seya, while Mek begins to realize Jittri’s interest in Anan is more personal than professional.
Ang introduces the fishery-worker bill and meets Pang as more than a party problem
Before the golf-course case takes over, the episode returns to the political source of the rot. Angsumalin Thumnart steps into a public conversation about maritime workers and identifies herself as a Ruam Thai Party advisor. She says the party has drafted a subordinate bill to protect workers and wants to discuss what might be missing.
It is a revealing scene because Ang is both useful and compromised. She can get into rooms because of Dr. Atchara and Ruam Thai, but the very party access that helps her also connects her to Suwat, the boat party, and a machinery built to absorb scandals. Pang’s presence gives Ang a second path: not party optics, but labor advocacy and migrant-worker reality.
The episode does not make Ang heroic by pretending she is outside the system. It makes her interesting because she knows she is inside it and still keeps trying to open a door for someone else.
Sorn testifies that he saw Mek kill Techin from the guard booth
The prosecution’s witness hearing is the episode’s procedural centerpiece. Sorn says he heard shouting from the guard booth, ran over, and saw Mek hit Techin in the head from behind with a golf club. He describes repeated blows, Techin falling face-first, Mek looking furious and even satisfied.
It is an ugly performance because it gives the prosecution exactly what it needs: intent, violence, and a defendant whose behavior can be read as monstrous. If the court accepts Sorn’s account, Mek’s whole alternate story collapses before Nay Oo or the missing gun can matter.
Jittri’s cross-examination attacks the seams without overplaying them. She asks about distance, sound, the Rodtang fight airing that night, and Sorn’s claim that he could hear specific words across the golf course. She pushes the number of blows, his failure to intervene, and the odd phrase he uses about assessing danger from a “stray” threat when Mek supposedly only had a golf club.
The best part is that she does not need a confession. She only needs uncertainty. A witness this colorful becomes vulnerable the second his details start looking rehearsed.
Jittri turns Sorn’s gun slip into a crack, then Sorn disappears
The cross works because it turns Sorn’s confidence into overreach. He wants to sound precise, but precision forces him into impossible distances and strange instincts. The golf course has a lake between the booth and the scene. The direct distance is about 250 meters. If he heard every word, why was he doing nothing? If he feared a stray, why would a golf club produce that thought?
Jittri’s question about a stray bullet is the episode’s cleanest courtroom jab because it points back to the defense theory without declaring it. Mek’s story needs a gun. Sorn’s testimony accidentally leaves room for one.
Then Sorn vanishes when the prosecution calls him as the next witness. The disappearance is not presented as a noble rescue. It is the result of Jittri’s earlier work on Mai’s case and the wider plan to buy time. The court is forced to react to absence. Jittri has made delay out of a body not being in the room.
Jittri’s office family explains how Kung, Nemo, and Meuk became her tools
Away from court, the episode gives Jittri’s world a rougher shape. Mek meets the people around her office, including Nemo and Meuk, and learns about Kung. They were not recruited from a polished legal pipeline. Jittri helped them when a call-center-scam raid left Kung framed as the fall guy, and Meuk, Kung’s younger brother, stayed in the orbit too.
The backstory adds useful roughness to Jittri. She really does help people the formal system chews up. She also turns them into assets. When her office needs research, pressure, errands, or intimidation-adjacent work, they are there.
That ambiguity is the show’s strongest register. Jittri’s people are funny, loyal, chaotic, and useful. They are also proof that she builds power in the spaces official institutions abandon.
Mek’s reaction to them is also telling. He arrives with courthouse instincts and keeps finding a legal office that runs more like a neighborhood survival network. Jittri’s credibility with these people does not come from a bar-card credential; it comes from having shown up when respectable lawyers would have left them to take the fall.
Mek confronts Jittri about Anan and learns this is revenge
Mek is not slow; he is just late to the deeper war. After watching Jittri’s behavior in court and hearing how much her next case may matter to his, he asks the obvious question: she already knows Anan, doesn’t she? He suspects Anan did something to her.
Jittri’s answer is not a full backstory, but it is enough. She wants to see Anan suffer. More specifically, she wants the pain of a parent watching the person tied to a child’s death walk free. That is not a neutral defense strategy. It is revenge wearing a legal robe.
The episode needs that admission because Mek’s trust has been stretched thin. Jittri is not simply defending him because he is innocent. She is defending him because his case is a weapon against Anan. Mek may still need her, but he now understands that being useful to Jittri is not the same as being safe with her.
Seya says Nay Oo is in danger, and Mek nearly breaks the trust Ang needs
The final movement brings Ang, Pang, Mek, and Seya into the same thread. Pang is helping find Nay Oo. Seya was forced to work on a fishing boat, does not trust easily, and says he was separated from his sisters. He identifies Nay Oo as his sister and says she is in danger.
Mek hears inconsistencies and pounces. If Seya was separated at the border, how does he know Nay Oo is in Bangkok? If Pang only mentioned assault, why does Seya react as if murder is involved? Mek is logically alert, but emotionally clumsy. He treats Seya like a lying witness when Seya is also a terrified survivor.
Ang has to stop him. Her anger is justified because Mek is risking the only fragile bridge they have to Nay Oo. The scene is smart because Mek is not wrong to notice contradictions; he is wrong about how to handle them. Legal instinct and trauma-informed patience are not the same skill.
The closing beat, with Nay Oo being told people are investigating her, tightens the noose. Everyone is looking for her now. The question is who finds her first.
That ending also changes the search dynamic. Nay Oo is not simply missing evidence waiting to be discovered. She is aware enough to hide, frightened enough to move, and valuable enough for dangerous people to track. The episode makes her absence active, which gives the coming episodes a sharper kind of dread.
Tiny details worth clocking
Sorn’s surname appears with slight spelling variation in the subtitles, but the role is consistent: he is the forestry officer and Mai’s father.
Judge Rit and the court pressure around Anan remain separate threads. The episode hints at judicial compromise without reducing every judge to the same function.
The next defense setup is introduced as something Jittri may use to fabricate or stage evidence for Mek’s defense later. That is a setup, not a resolved case in this hour.
Seya’s fear matters as evidence. His contradictions do not automatically make him false; they make him a scared person with information he cannot safely release.
Final verdict
“Oath” is one of the season’s most confident episodes so far because it lets the courtroom work and the human-trafficking thread sharpen each other. Sorn’s testimony gives the prosecution a vivid story, Jittri’s cross makes that story unstable, and Ang’s meeting with Seya shows how hard it will be to turn hidden truth into admissible proof.
The hour also deepens Jittri in exactly the right direction. She is not secretly pure. She is angry, useful, strategic, and dangerous. Mek can survive because of her. He can also be swallowed by her war.
Rating: 8.6/10 – a strong courtroom hour with a sharp witness takedown, a richer Ang thread, and the clearest admission yet that Jittri’s defense is also revenge.
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