Bosch: Legacy (Season 2 Finale) Episodes 9 & 10: In a certain fashion, this season of Bosch has been dealing with the fallout of the previous season’s major case ever since the first two episodes. Compared to that exploration, the actual new case of this season feels slightly low-stakes. Though it ultimately does connect and utilise the characters of Maddie and Harry in an emotionally poignant and intense action set-piece, It manages to end on a considerably shocking note, not as terrifying as previous seasons, but extremely dire from an emotional perspective. This would ultimately cause a major rift in the recently healed and slightly evolving relationship.
Bosch: Legacy (Season 2 Finale), Episode 9 “Escape Plan” Recap:
The end of Episode 8 doesn’t look too good for Chandler, and as Episode 9 opens, we see Special Agent Baron almost gloating with anticipation. As the FBI states, this is a happy hour; they haven’t booked her yet, but the voice recording of her threat has been discovered in the cloud, and it would be enough to put her in jail. However, Chandler points out that Happy Hour is a scam, so, to put it mildly, no deal. A similar sense of confidence is in Bosch as well, which isn’t sitting well with Maddie, who is understandably worried about him. He is too cool, one might surmise, with how he dismisses the threat of Ellis to Maddie, saying that he is long gone. And when recently paroled convict Daryl comes to the father-daughter table to threaten Bosch, Maddie has to show her gun and badge to drive him away. Ellis, however, has plans of his own. He has managed to hide out in the boat of one of his “blackmailed clients”, and has hired someone to bring him food, new clothes, and an entire new identity worth of paperwork. However, his getaway car is difficult to procure, and the boat’s engine is dead. Ellis finally has to agree to pay more to his associate for the car. Rose bails out Chandler, but it is clear that Rose is very disappointed in Chandler’s actions, especially with how much of a hit it has done to the firm’s reputation. While Chandler apologises and promises she will fix it, her immediate action to state it to the press doesn’t fill Rose with much confidence.
According to her, the FBI has overextended their grasp and their investigation is utterly meaningless, and that is exactly what she states in her statement to the press, which is watched by Mo, who is in charge of the protection of the two prostitutes involved in the extortion scheme of Ellis and Long. On the other end, Chandler and Bosch are trying to throw the Foster case out. However, DA Archer isn’t buying out and requests the case be thrown out. Chandler calls him out, saying that he is trying to save face and bring in a result because of the coming elections. Chandler’s Trump card is finally revealed the next day at the trial, where the FBI brings in shredded documents as evidence of destroying evidence. Chandler reveals that it had all been a ploy. She had sent the evidence to an attorney friend of hers, along with the digital files as well. Thus, what the FBI currently has is fake evidence, which would be inadmissible in court. Chandler manages to let the FBI case against her be dropped without even breaking a sweat. “That was beautiful”, said a beatific Bosch. We concur. As Bosch drives away from the courthouse, he realises he is being tailed. He tries to run a red light to shake it off, but realises, much to his chagrin, that it is a cop car. His chagrin intensifies when the cop tailing him is revealed to be Maddie, who is conducting an operation to provide security for her father because he refused to provide protection.
Mo informs Bosch when he is back at his house that the women are planning escape routes to get out of the house. Bosch informs Mo that they are on their way and asks Chandler to pick him up while he escapes from the backdoor to shift off his tail, which Maddie had put outside. At the safe house, while questioning them, the women reveal that Ellis and Long have taken possession of a boat from one Dan Purdy as part of their extortion schemes. Realising that Ellis might be hiding out there, he takes Chandler’s car and drives out to the port, while informing Mo to pinpoint the boat’s location from the pier. The boat’s name is Calamity Jane, and as Mo informs Bosch when he reaches the pier, it houses thousands of boats. Mo finally manages to locate the boat based on a delivery sent to one of the piers last night. Realising that that is where Calamity Jane is. Bosch climbs over the fence and walks in.
Meanwhile, Maddie, keeping a watch outside her father’s house, expresses to Vasquez her fears of becoming her father, straddling the line between justice and vengeance. Vasquez asks her to embrace it because she can’t fight genetics. Suddenly hearing that a blonde woman has entered the house, Maddie realises that Sam must have come to walk Coltrane and that only happens when Bosch is not in the house. Tracking Bosch’s phone, he finds him driving towards the marina and realises that he is going after Ellis alone. She immediately asks Vasquez to floor it because she has a bad feeling about her father’s current mode of action.
Bosch finds the boat and checks it out, locating another hapless boat owner tied below deck, only to be held at gunpoint by Ellis, who had discovered Bosch snooping around. Bosch, to buy time, bluffs that CRU had been keeping tabs on him and would be onto them any second. Little did he know that Maddie, right at that second, had arrived at the pier and was searching for her father, splitting from Vasquez, who was searching at the other end of the pier. As Ellis moves towards his radio to connect to channel 16 to check whether Bosch is telling the truth, Bosch moves and attacks him. Bosch manages to knock the gun out of Ellis’s hand and continues to scrape with him. Ellis tries to bring out another gun, and Bosch struggles over it, letting a shot get fired into the ground. That shot captures the attention of both Maddie and Vasquez.
Maddie rushes over to one end of the pier, where she can see the deck of the boat where Bosch and Ellis are having a fistfight. Ellis manages to hit Bosch and bring him to the ground, and as he readies to shoot the final bullet, Maddie fires two slugs into him. The gun and Ellis both fall off the deck. As Bosch gets up, dazed and winded, he looks over at Maddie. She is scared and bewildered at what she has done, but she mouths “I got you” to her father. Vasquez arrives at the boat and presumably calls the authorities to secure the scene. Maddie would be questioned regarding the use of her firearm, but Bosch reassures her that she did the right thing; she saved her father’s life. Perhaps to break the intensity, she remarks that they both had Coltrane to thank for this. As the episode ends, FBI Agent Barron calls in his secret agent, the woman known as Jade Quinn, the hacker whom Mo had been sweet on. She is revealed to be a mole for the FBI by the name of Janice Morrell, and she is very close to nabbing Mo for the feds.
Bosch: Legacy (Season 2 Finale), Episode 10 “A Step Ahead” Recap:
Bosch enters its season finale with the major antagonist of this season being defeated and one of the primary cases being solved. As the episode opens, Maddie gives her testimony about Ellis’ shooting, confirming she had to draw her gun and fire when she saw Ellis moving to shoot her father. The big wrinkle from that interrogation, however, is that they weren’t able to recover Maddie’s gun, and even though her lawyer reassures her that it would be found, Maddie knows her credibility would come into question if it weren’t recovered. She even asks Vasquez, who reaffirms that she had heard shots but hadn’t seen the gun. Maddie also had an interaction with Bosch regarding the aftermath of the shooting. Initially, she was tiptoeing and trying to talk through their shared trauma, but ultimately, Maddie explodes with anger at her father after being told by him not to shrug that guilt off. She tells him that she is furious at him for nearly getting killed, furious at Ellis for being a dirty cop, and, as she breaks down slightly, furious at her mom for not being here. She asks him whether he ever thought about what she would do once she lost another parent, to which Bosch again replies, “Every day”. Chandler, meanwhile, is now taking stock of her bearings, knowing full well that her time at the firm is over. She politely refuses to allow Ramirez to come back and work for her; her trust being broken is a sacrifice she can’t forgive. Opening up to her therapist, she reveals that all the events from the past year to right now have made her into a different person, but she also acknowledges that her decision has also been one of survival, and she will be okay with that.
Meanwhile, Janice, the FBI mole, tells her boss that she is very close to cracking Mo, but there is a risk of her identity being revealed, which would put her at risk of being doxxed by the hacker community. Baron promises her that her identity will be protected, and Mo will also be given leniency, provided that he will rat out Bosch and Chandler. To that end, Janice wants Mo to grab a bite. Mo, however, is tired of the dance and wants something more substantial, and Janice, perhaps because of her current circumstances, tells him that she isn’t interested in moving beyond friendship, at least for now. The FBI, however, raided Mo’s house the next day, capturing an unsuspecting Mo and dragging him into an interrogation. There, he is manipulated into thinking that the FBI is looking to indict Jade, and they will prosecute her unless Mo gives the FBI information about Bosch and Chandler. Mo isn’t interested in being a snitch but also recognises that he is stuck between a rock and a hard place, and thus asks Baron to give the deal in writing and to take a few days to consider.
Meanwhile, Chandler makes her move in the Foster case, pointing out that the CTE had obtained the semen that had been used to frame Foster for the Lexi Parks murder by Ellis and Long. However, DA Archer tries to argue that the evidence isn’t believable enough to be admissible in court, but the judge believes the opposite, admitting the evidence to be presented. Once the hearing is adjourned, Chandler asks the DA to drop the charges, but he refuses. Here is when Bosch reveals a bombshell to the audience: that Long is alive and is admitted to Cedar’s hospital. Bosch asks for permission from Chandler to question Long about their responsibility in the frame job, pretending that Ellis has given him up under interrogation. Impersonating a doctor, Bosch sneaks into Long’s hospital room at St. Cedars and reveals to a shocked Long that Ellis is implicating Long in the murder of Lexi Parks, showing himself as an accessory. That is enough for Long to dispute and reveal that Ellis was responsible for the murder. As revealed in Episode 4, Ellis had a violent and uncontrollable temper, and that temper had gotten the better of him, and he had bludgeoned Lexi Parks to death. Bosch had been surreptitiously recording Long’s statement, and both Bosch and Chandler brought the recorded statement to Archer. Archer refuses to entertain it as valid evidence because Bosch can’t go around surreptitiously recording suspects as he isn’t a cop. However, Chandler retorts, stating that this proves that there is ample exculpatory evidence to prove otherwise. Then Chandler delivers an ultimatum: drop the charges against David Foster within 4 hours, or she will release the recording to the media, implicating Archer as someone open to indicting an innocent just to close a major case, putting a damper on his political aspirations.
Maddie, meanwhile, reveals to Rico while they are having a get-together at the bar that she will be moving out as she has finally found a place of her own. While she reassures Rico that they aren’t breaking up, in the subsequent conversation where she confides to her father about her finding her place, she also informs him that she has broken up with him; he just doesn’t know it yet. Meanwhile, Chandler meets up with Irwin Irving (the late great Lance Reddick), where she reveals her next big plans. She wants an endorsement from Irving to run for the post of district attorney against Archer. The DA later, perhaps realizing that the ultimatum is legitimate, agrees to drop the charges against Foster, clearing his name of wrongdoing.
Elsewhere, Maddie is walking towards the parking lot when she gets a call from the correctional facility where Dockweiler is being held. Dockweiler has passed away due to a drug overdose. That night, Bosch tells her that it was likely Dockweiler had been forced to overdose on drugs because other inmates don’t look kindly towards molesters. Maddie still repents that he got off easy. Maddie is also bothered by her anger towards Bosch, and while she is trying to get over it, she also needs closure over the loss of her mother. To that end, she goes to the FBI Los Angeles headquarters and peruses through their electronic memorial wall, locating her mom’s accomplishments and also finding a picture of her with Maddie as a baby, which causes Maddie to break down. Later, while talking to Chandler, she reveals the first time both Eleanor and Harry met while on the case, before wondering whether she is beginning to lose empathy. Chandler reassures her that the fact that she is plagued with self-doubt about it proves that she is still in possession of it. Maddie also gets a bit of good news from Mank: her gun has been located, making her testimony legitimate. She can rest easy that night.
Bosch Legacy (Season 2 Finale), Episode 10 Ending Explained:
The entire Jade Quinn subplot had been a red flag from the beginning, especially with the amount of runtime dedicated to it. But even as we see Mo apparently deliberating between betraying Bosch and Chandler, we hold out hopes that this wouldn’t be the case. It turns out to not be the case, because at night, as the two of them play Uno and Jade tries to squeeze info about Bosch and Chandler out of him, FBI agents Jones and James bugging their conversation, Mo flips the tables on her, revealing that he knows about her real name and subterfuge, and asking her to inform her handlers that she is fine. Once she does that, she asks him how long he has been aware of her dual identity, which he refuses to divulge. She reveals that she still has the thumb drive implicating Mo in the PharmaWell hack, but he reveals that any hacker worth his salt sends information on a thumb drive with a 24-hour failsafe, after which the information would automatically be deleted. Thus, that thumb drive is useless, and now Mo has all the cards. He makes a deal with Janice: Janice would leave her job with the Feds, and he wouldn’t reveal her true occupation in the hacking community. She doesn’t reveal her choice but does tell him that her feelings for him did exist. “Maybe in another life”, and Mo’s reaction sums up his disbelief, tinged with heartbreak.
At a press conference the next day, Chandler admonished DA Archer for his unceremonious handling of the Foster case before revealing that she would be running for the office of DA in direct opposition to Archer. Bosch and Maddie, who had been in the crowd and pleasantly surprised but fully believing that she would win, had been walking away when they were met by journalist Scott Anderson. He wants to know how the grand jury investigation was just dropped and if Bosch and Chandler sent him that subpoena. Bosch refuses to divulge, with a cheeky grin. The episode, though, ends with a revelation for Maddie, which could cause strain in her relationship with her father. While her father goes out walking with Coltrane, she picks up his phone, where we hear Preston Borders, who Bosch had sent off to prison in the original series, informing her that he took care of Dockweiler, exactly as Bosch had wanted. The shock on Maddie’s face is apparent to Bosch as he enters, and when she asks him what he has done, he is unable to answer, as the season ends on a cliffhanger.
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