Bosch: Legacy (Season 2) Episodes 3 & 4 Recap and Ending Explained – How Will Chandler and Bosch Solve the Lexi Parks Case While Being Investigated by the Feds?

Bosch: Legacy (Season 2) Episodes 3 & 4: With the first two episodes devoted to solving the cliffhanger ending of the first season of Bosch Legacy, the series is now open to fully exploring another case while also dealing with the repercussions of both Chandler and Bosch’s actions in the first season of Bosch: Legacy, which had led to the blowing up of an oil pipeline connected to the Russians, and in the death of Carl Rogers, which had been done in part due to Rogers’ involvement with the Ivanovich family and the Russian Mob.

Bosch: Legacy (Season 2) Episodes 3 & 4: Recap

Episode 3 – Inside Man

Four months before the current timeline of Bosch: Legacy, Assistant City Manager for West Hollywood, Lexi Parks, is found brutally murdered. Her body lies spear-eagled on her bed, her face horrifically mangled. Her body is discovered by her husband, LAPD Deputy Vince Harrick, who worked the night shift and thus has a bulletproof alibi, fortunately or unfortunately. Four months later, the police finally arrested a man named David Foster for the murder of Lexi Parks because of evidence tying him to the case. Before being escorted away by the police, he instructs his wife to call Honey Chandler of Rose and Associates, as Foster had once been Chandler’s client.

Meanwhile, in both Bosch’s cases, they are both dealing with damages caused by prior seasons’ issues continuing into this season. For Maddie, we see her swimming laps around the pool before diving into the depths of the pool and holding her breath for a minute and 25 seconds. One wonders whether this is the only way she can meditate or bring some peace to her troubled state of mind because, as we learn later, she has been having trouble sleeping and thus has been waking up exhausted. Most of her nights would either be spent with her boyfriend or having drinks with Paulina, her classmate who had been shot on duty last season and still hasn’t returned.

Maddie thus laments not getting any action in the field to her ex – Vasquez, who has recently been inducted into the CRU (Crime Reduction Unit) in a new position. But because this is Maddie, she can’t resist getting into the field. Thus, on her job working the front desk, Maddie follows up on a stolen Cartier bracelet ($35,000), which had been left in the bag on the passenger seat of the car, while the owner of the bracelet had made a return at the store. Maddie followed up on the case by going to the store and identifying the neighboring car as a Tesla, which she knew had its own set of security footage. She meets with the owner of the Tesla and reviews the video feed, managing to get the plate number of the getaway car and clearer footage of the thief. She shares her results with Vasquez, who is impressed with her work but not at all surprised at her dedication to this case, like a bloodhound. When the woman returns to the station, it is revealed that she is only interested in obtaining her bracelet back, and she sternly tells Maddie to tell the assigned detective to drop the charges. The fact that she was also interested in the bag more than the bracelet is a cause for suspicion. One can surmise that this plot thread will be revisited later.

Bosch, however, gets entangled in a different case. Previously, he learned that the house that is being refurbished after last season’s earthquake would already go over budget if Bosch kept the contractor around for “punch-up” jobs. Thus, he “fires” the contractor and chooses to go about the punch-ups himself. This is symptomatic of both Bosch and Maddie trying to get their feet back on the ground and realign themselves with a purpose. Bosch’s uncertainty is further highlighted by his checking up on Maddie every night just to ask where she is or whether she will be having dinner.

At Rose and Associates, Chandler is visited by two FBI agents, who try to intimidate Chandler into revealing her and Bosch’s involvement in the murder of Carl Rogers and his attorney. They inform her that they are highly suspicious of Chandler and Bosch because both of them are close to the shipping containers that housed the bodies of Rogers and his attorney, Keating, after being killed by the Ivanovich family.

Later, when Honey comes to Bosch to give him a heads up, Bosch reassures her that they are just fishing, as she had suspected. The only clue they had to go on was a partial text message. But he also reminds her that their meeting immediately after the FBI visited Chandler was probably what they had expected her to do. Then again, the FBI expected these actions from guilty minds, but as Bosch asks Chandler and affirms, neither feels guilty about what happened. Bosch meanwhile informs Crate and Barrel to get representation because there is a chance that they will be questioned by the Feds, to which they reply in their usual shtick that they would be comfortable pleading the Fifth Amendment. Retirement makes one a lot less worried.

Meanwhile, Bosch asks Mo to hack into the law firm’s email to check whether Rose or even Ramirez, Chandler’s assistant, is talking to the Feds. Mo uncovers an encrypted email exchange whose attachments he could hack, revealing some blueprints, which Bosch identifies as the ones for the shipping containers. While not specifically directed towards any of his two suspects, Mo still believes Ramirez is the “Inside Man”, as “old man Rose couldn’t operate a fridge”. Still, to confirm their hunch, both Bosch and Mo follow Ramirez and Rose, respectively. While Rose retires for the night. Bosch informs Mo that Ramirez is at a restaurant visited by two “flowery t-shirts”-wearing individuals, clearly strapped. Ergo, Feds. Thus, Mo takes point and sends photos of that meeting to Bosch.

Chandler, meanwhile, meets with David Foster and asks him the requisite questionnaire. Did he know Lexi Parks? Negative. Does he have an alibi? He was at home with his wife Louise for the night, as far as he could remember, an event that had occurred four months ago. Satisfied with his answers so far, Chandler requests to the judge at Foster’s hearing that the arraignment continue until she has the chance to review all the evidence at discovery. The judge offers Foster 30 days, which he accepts. With no bail assigned to the case, David remains in lockup. Meanwhile, the DA’s office will have discovery by the end of the day, but the prosecutor does warn Chandler that they have pretty compelling evidence against her client, namely his DNA samples all over the body.

As Bosch and Chandler meet, Bosch informs her of Ramirez’s involvement with the Feds, which disappoints her tremendously. But she agrees to let the relationship continue, such that feeding them misinformation could allow the Feds to fall into entrapment, thus making this investigation on them null and void. As for both Bosch and Chandler to work together, they need a plausible cover story, and thus, much to Harry’s chagrin, he is hired by Chandler to investigate the Lexi Parks case. Harry’s first step as an investigator is to check in on the Parks’ now-for-sale house. Conversing with a neighbor, he learns that the attack occurred pretty much silently, and unbeknownst to many people, the couple did not have a dog, which Bosch surmises the killer also knew about.

The episode also introduces another wrinkle in the form of James Allen, a male escort who leaves the bar with a potential customer and brings him back to a motel. Allen is, however, forced to leave him when he sees headlights outside his room and requests that the customer stay inside and “not worry his pretty little head”. The customer waits for a couple of minutes and calls Allen, only to find both Allen and the car missing. This thread dovetails nicely into the meeting Chandler has with David Foster’s wife to discuss his alibi, as a spousal record is not the most believable one in front of a jury. However, Louise reveals that he hadn’t been home that night and believes that he has fallen off the wagon again. It is confirmed by Foster to Chandler, who tells her that he restarted doing drugs around six months ago with his dealer named James Allen, and he had been with Allen the night of the murder. Displeased with Foster for lying to her, Chandler asks for Allen’s number to verify Foster’s new statement to her. Back at the office, Honey asks Ramirez to send all the documents in the Lexi Parks case to Harry Bosch and herself.

The Carl Rogers murder is a huge case, which Will Barron, the head agent overseeing the case, wants to crack open. And the loose ends in that case, he believes, are Bosch and Chandler, whom he correctly assumes are strongly linked to the murder. Thus, even though they had failed to rattle Bosch by saying they knew about the blow-up of the pipeline, Bosch didn’t flinch and just advised them to get out of his house, which they did, leaving the subpoena on Bosch’s table. According to Barron, they can tap Bosch’s phone but not Chandler’s legal firm, and thus intend to go deeper to find any strand in this case that could force Bosch and Chandler to testify before the grand jury.

The final new connection in this episode comes from two gruff individuals having extorted a wealthy individual after catching him having sex with a much younger woman and threatening to expose that dalliance to his wife. The man is forced to pay up what is a pretty huge amount, and after witnessing this, one can surmise that this duo had been at this extortion game for a while.

The episode ends with Maddie returning home to Bosch to find Bosch putting the photos of the Lexi Parks crime scene back inside. He finally relents and shows her the crime scene photos, which they both agree are disturbing. When asked why Bosch is resuming working with Chandler again, he replies that whenever he sees Parks’ face, he is reminded of what could have happened to Maddie. Bosch then asks about the victim impact statement Maddie is supposed to present at the Dockweiler sentencing, but she is reluctant to pursue that line of discussion and instead goes to bed, where she lies awake, still unable to sleep.

Episode 4 – Musso and Frank

The episode opens with Maddie seemingly having decided to finally vacate her old house. We see her walking through her old house, very uncomfortable through the entire ordeal. She submitted her keys and asked to be informed when her security deposit would be available, which she would then pick up. Back in the present, we realise that Maddie is finally leaving the nest again because she needs to find her own place. As she rolls her suitcase out of the house, we see a heartwarming display of affection between father and daughter, both acknowledging out loud that they worry for each other but silently acknowledging that they can both take care of themselves.

Going through old footage of Lexi Parks, Bosch identifies her assistant Geisy Morales and meets up with her, but unfortunately, she isn’t helpful in identifying who could have killed her ex-employer. On the other hand, Bosch follows up once he learns from Chandler that she has been unable to reach him. Identifying his address with the help of a booking number that Mo had uncovered, Bosch drives up to Allen’s house and meets with his sister. There, he learns of the unfortunate news that James Allen has passed away due to a drug overdose. But as Bosch digs deeper, he learns that the cops who are investigating the Allen case are Detectives Pierce and Vega, and they both reveal, albeit reluctantly, that Allen had actually been killed via strangulation. Because this is actually following the patterns of a series of murders that Vega and Pierce are investigating, they admit that this might be a serial killer case.

In the case of Maddie, things are looking up for her. Sgt. Edgewood had been apprised of her good work regarding her “caper” and by the positive appraisal of her former TO Sanchez, and was offered a position in the CRU division, with Vasquez being her partner again. However, Bosch finds out about Maddie’s promotion, not from her but from Mank, whom he meets up with at Swingers Diner to catch up and ask about Maddie. Maddie, we also learn, is staying at her boyfriend Rico’s place for the time being and having trouble coming up with a suitable victim impact statement, unable to understand what good it will do, and uncovering the details of that day again. Rico, to cheer her up, offers to make Du-Par’s pancake, but she goes a step further and suggests they go to the restaurant. That evening, Maddie celebrates her promotion with Rico, Vasquez, and Paulina. The next day, Rico drops Maddie off at the station away from prying eyes, as, other than Vasquez, no one at the station knows about their relationship. And while Rico would like Maddie to continue staying together, she explains that she needs her own place.

For Honey Chandler, her visits to her therapist reveal how she knew David Foster. She had managed to defend him when he was 19 years old and was able to get his charges reduced, with rehabilitation included. Thus, she is frustrated as to how Foster has fallen off the wagon. She also reveals how she feels irritated at being fed through the same routine of flirting or continuing that game of being polite while being approached at the new yoga place by a man wanting to chit-chat with her. Chandler vehemently shuts down any further discussion about this matter with her therapist.

Unfortunately for Chandler, the FBI is closing in on her. Agents James and Jones visit Raul Arraya in prison, where they reveal the telephone recording of Honey Chandler subtly threatening Willy Datz of repurcussion in prison via the hands of Arraya if Datz does not give information about the Russians. But Array doesn’t flinch and refuses to snitch to the feds. Instead, he says that Chandler is bluffing and that a Russian prisoner killed Datz. Meanwhile, Mo had managed to access Ramirez’s phone and uncover all the communications between him and his FBI handlers. He reveals that to Chandler, who remarks that the communication has currently stopped.

The majority of this episode follows a night outside Musso and Frank’s grill. Unbeknownst to Chandler and Bosch, they are followed by the two extortionists from the previous episodes. Their interest in Chandler and Harry stems from something regarding one of their cases, but considering that the only character they could positively identify is Chandler as the lawyer, it is clearly possible that they are connected to the Foster case. It is interesting, though, that the larger dude has anger issues, while the thin, wiry man, who is his partner, is presumably the calmer and cooler one. They are also able to identify that Bosch is a cop by his gait, and as the older man walks to the bar to spy on Chandler, he informs his partner that Bosch is armed.

The younger guy follows Bosch to his house, where a cursory search through his mailbox identifies his name. Meanwhile, the older guy waits outside Musso and Frank Grill until Chandler arrives from the bar. As she drives away in her black Mercedes, he gets inside the returning car and follows Chandler. This is where the show strains credibility because, considering how much of a traffic-prone area LA is, the fact that the car manages to return to the grill within minutes is really suspect.

Anyway, we learn that the extortionists are quite resourceful, as the older guy calls 911 and gives out information about Chandler’s Mercedes, pretending he is a civilian who is following a drunken driver. The police lodge this as an official DUI and contact available units, which gives them the excuse to turn on the flashing lights in their car. Yes, our extortionists are cops, and the events of the previous episode now start becoming slightly clearer but also muddier. Chandler, realising something is amiss, calls up Rose and presumably informs him to go with Bosch to the meeting with Foster, the one they had agreed on that night at Musso and Frank Grill, such that they could somewhat connect the Lexi Parks case, even though according to Bosch there is no conceivable way those two intersect, and thus this might be a frame-job, and Foster is not helping with the lying.

Back on the road, Chandler is forced to stop her car, and the two cops ask her to take a sobriety test as they believe she is “under the influence”. When Honey refuses to take the bait, they arrest her and send her off to Hollywood Station in a patrol car that has finally arrived at the location. Once that patrol car is gone, the real reason for this stoppage is unveiled, as the bigger cop manages to shimmy open the door of the Mercedes and open up the boot of the car, where they finally locate the file marked “David Foster”. The plot thickens.

Bosch: Legacy (Season 2) Episode 4 – Ending Explained

The next morning, Chandler sits uncomfortably in a holding cell, with a woman lying beside her who is clearly sick. Mank enters as his daytime shift begins, gets shocked upon noticing Chandler in the holding cell, and manages to calm her down when Chandler vehemently tries to persuade him that she wasn’t under the influence. He finally takes her out of the holding cell and asks her to sit on one of the benches near the locker rooms while he takes stock of what is happening. Meanwhile, Rose and Bosch go to meet David Foster, where Bosch warns him that if he continues lying, Bosch will start to walk. Foster finally reveals that not only was James Allen his dealer, but he had also been in a relationship with Allen for six months. He is, however, unaware of Allen’s murder.

Later, Bosch picks Chandler up from West Hollywood Station and, after informing her of this morning’s events, drives her to the impound lot to recover her car. She is stunned to find that the car has been unlocked, and even though she had three glasses of wine, she remembered quite well that David Foster’s file had been in the front pocket of her briefcase, not the second pocket. Chandler also informs Bosch that the cops who had picked her up were in plain clothes and not uniforms.

Now the FBI agents James and Jones take Barron’s advice to “dig deeper” to heart when they finally start going through the CCTV footage of the camera opposite Simon Wakefield’s home. Wakefield had been Carl Rogers’s financial advisor who was found murdered in his pool last season by Chandler, and Chandler’s fingerprints had been found on the pool skimmer she had used to extract Wakefield’s phone. The camera footage showed not only Chandler exiting from the house but also Lee Ivanovich. That gives them proof of a sort of reasonable doubt that Chandler is connected to the Russians directly, and they are getting close. Bosch and Chandler are slowly going to have a federal-sized problem on their hands.

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