Bosch: Legacy (Season 2) Episode 7 & 8 Recap and ending Explained: The one thing I am getting with this season of Bosch: Legacy is the somewhat low-key nature of the case, which becomes more and more important because of the cumulative expansion of the consequences of these cases. Out of these two episodes, it is pretty evident that the overall Lexi Parks murder case is far less of a conspiracy than more of a plan gone wrong because of a victim getting wise of extortion. It feels low-stakes, but because Bosch becomes so involved with the feds up on Chandler and his trail, as well as Ellis and Lonh being theoretically savvy antagonists, the expansiveness of the case comes to focus far easier than one would expect.
Bosch: Legacy (Season 2) Episode 7 & 8 Recap
Episode 7 – I Miss Van Scully
Things are moving forward as the season reaches its endgame. On the one hand, we see Ellis and Long racking their heads doing actual police work, staking out an illegal brothel, and gathering evidence of the apartment complex being actually utilized as a brothel.
Bosch, on the other hand, has gone to an Omega watch shop to finally follow up on Lexi Parks’ missing watch. What he learns is slowly beginning to shed light, with the owner of the watch actually revealed to be Dr. Schubert and that the watch had been pawned off, which Bosch deduces had been to the Nguyen brothers. From there, the watch must have landed in the hands of Lexi Parks. As for the Nguyen brothers, the events of the previous episode start plaguing Bosch’s guilt because Detective Duran, in charge of the Parks murder, informs him that the Nguyens were killed by two masked robbers and that Bosch’s card had been found at the scene.
What strikes Bosch is the timing of the murder—just 10 minutes after he left that shop. As he informs Chandler, they might have been following him. When the detectives ask him what he has been doing there, Bosch tells them that he has been following up on a missing watch that Harrick had bought. Chandler ends the interview there because he could reveal more information about their case. But it is more about Chandler being worried about Bosch taking on this case, while Bosch, too, reveals as much to Maddie regarding his responsibility for the murder of the Nguyens.
Maddie, too, is going through emotional battles of her own, and when met by an officer rep asking whether she has trouble sleeping, Maddie brushes her off, revealing that she can power through. Later that morning, though, in a rare moment of emotional openness, Maddie hugs her two friends in the workforce, realizing that there are people at her side ready to watch her back at any moment’s notice.
Ellis’ plan, on the other hand, is to sneak into Bosch’s house and find out more information about him. What he does find of interest is a picture of Bosch and Maddie, which he shares with Long, identifying Maddie as the cop who had been kidnapped some three to four months ago and suddenly realizing that there is a way that they could kill two birds with one stone.
They explained to their superior officer that they could take down this operation at the Brothel, but they would need the help of CRU to provide additional muscle, which they were granted. Ellis believes that working with Maddie Bosch would give them access to Bosch. Meeting with Vasquez to decide which team members would be located at which position, he surreptitiously arranged so that he could team up with Maddie to handle surveillance.
We saw at the beginning of the episode Chandler dropping an envelope at the mailbox. It turns out to be a subpoena sent by the federal office, which Chandler secretly sends to Scott Anderson. Anderson puts two and two together, along with the fact that Bosch had his grand jury testimony. This excites Anderson enough to ask for permission to go after Chandler for a story. However, her meeting with him doesn’t go as expected for Anderson, with her choosing to decline to comment. However, Anderson goes ahead and publishes that story about the FBI investigating the Russian mob and its ties with domestic terrorism.
The published story puts Chandler in the spotlight, whereby she comments that this is a smear campaign and someone is trying to destroy her reputation by ending that subpoena and forcing her to come to Traila. As a result, jurors involved in that case started dropping like flies, which would bring the FBI investigation back to square one. This might have been Chandler’s ingenious plan, which failed to account for Ramirez as well as Rose’s trust in her.
In the Brothel investigation case, with Long going in as the undercover client, Maddie and Ellis bond over the difficulty of testifying against their captors. What puts Maddie at ease is that, unlike most cases, Ellis brings up Bosch but is careful not to bash Maddie’s father, even though his actual feelings are far different. This puts Maddie at ease; she informs him that her father’s investigation has led to a bank robbery where two masked men killed the Nguyens. When the raid occurs, it is systematic, if a bit too aggressive, especially from the perspective of Ellis, while arresting the pimps and sex workers. It becomes an educational day for Maggie to watch a new side of the police force.
Back at the case, Bosch interviews Parks’ colleague he had interviewed back on the third episode, whereby she gives Bosch Parks’ calendar book, where Bosch discovers a thumb drive hidden in the spine. That night Bosch plays the recording he discovers in the thumb drive, which reveals that Parks had discovered that the watch she had bought from the Nguyen had been stolen, and she threatens to set up a formal investigation if they don’t share the records. Bosch also follows up on Dr. Schubert but is unable to reach him.
Later, Bosch receives a text from Pierce, who reveals that James Allen’s guardian angels were two detectives, Ellis and Long, Adjunct Vice. He manages to ask Mo to extract information. Mo, meanwhile, had been involved in his own subplot of cracking through the pharmacy’s files and managing to decode through the firewall after working for hours, with a jazz record playing in the background. He manages to extract Jade’s information but chooses not to open it, instead giving her the information on another thumb drive, managing to remove her ex’s leverage on her.
Mo manages to find information on Ellis and Long, informing Bosch that they have an army background, especially in surveillance, which cautions Bosch, leading him to ask Mo to search for a tracker on his car. Mo finds it installed at the lower back of his SUV, but instead of destroying it, Bosch asks Mo to keep it running. His conversation with Chandler and Mo later reveals to him that they had pulled Chandler, and thus, a logical deduction by Chandler ensures that those two had rummaged through her briefcase, especially Foster’s file. Again, Bosch believes that the watch is the capstone connecting these cases.
He and Mo (followed by Ellis and Long) break into the Nguyens’ shop to find the records to search for shady transactions. What Bosch identifies is the hidden case beneath the trapdoor at the back of the counter. Mo uses the knife to cut through the perimeter of the lock of the safe, which unlocks its defensive mechanism and unlocks the safe. Inside, amidst the loose cash, they find a DVD, which Bosch believes is Nguyens’ insurance against the two detectives.
But at this point, both Ellis and Long have had enough because Bosch is sniffing too close. To overcome that, we needed to take a drastic step. So when Bosch and Mo are driving to Bosch’s place, Ellis and Long follow them to the hillside road, where they suddenly accelerate their muscle car, clearly intending to collide and overturn the car from the hill.
Bosch Legacy (Season 2) Episode 8
Seventy-Four Degrees in Belize
The immediate consequence of that cliffhanger ending in the previous episode is that the car was overturned off the cliff due to being crushed by the muscle car. But of course, the show doesn’t waste much time stretching out the suspense because, while Bosch is ok with a few scratches, Mo would still have to be resting in bed as he suffers from concussion. In a rare moment of emotional vulnerability towards his comrades, Bosch chooses to stay the night at the foot of Mo’s bed until she fully recovers. Mo does remember the car colliding with them as a silver muscle car.
But now Bosch has had enough of playing the nice guy. Upon returning home, he destroys the tracker in his car. He meets up with Chandler to explore the contents of the DVD, which is recording the transaction of the watch that Ellis and Long had extorted from Schubert (apparently). Bosch also remembers the last date with James Allen, describing the car that had come to meet him as a muscle car. Bosch takes that investigative thread and chooses to run with it, going to the garage, which is solely responsible for working on the vehicles of cops. Disguising himself as one of Ellis’ partners, he manages to look inside the glove compartment of the car, finding pictures as well as receipts.
Meanwhile, Chandler goes back to the graveyard overlooking Paramount Lot and requests footage of the motel where James Allen worked to prove security footage, placing Ellis and Long at the scene of the crime. All of this occurs while Ellis and Long learn that Bosch has survived the encounter, which makes them jumpy.
Agents Jones and James, doggedly but somewhat failing to execute their job, believe that Ramirez has been compromised. However, his boss assures them that the FBI is finally getting search warrants to confiscate all documents about the case, something that Agent James has been wholeheartedly calling out for since the beginning. But before that, Agent Baron wants to make the game a little bit more personal, to rattle Bosch. Thus, Agents Jones and James pay Maddie Bosch a visit to the police station, where they interrogate her regarding the Carl Rogers case and the pipeline explosion.
While she answers as much as she knows, she is in the dark about the explosion, and the insinuation by the agents that her dad might be involved pisses her off. She then regains her composure and firmly answers that she can’t help them. However, she does have questions of her own about her father, and she is shocked to see her father’s bruised and battered face, realizing that it couldn’t have come from a fender-bender like her father had stated. But she is more disappointed when she informs him about the FBI interrogations and asks whether what they are insinuating is true. Bosch replies that he can’t answer that for her protection, which answers Maddie’s question by omission.
That night, Chandler and Bosch discussed and recapped what had happened with the case. Upon learning from Mo that the security footage puts Ellis and Long at the scene of the crime during James Allen’s murder, Bosch tries to reconstruct the case. Dr. Schubert buys that expensive watch from Omega and then proceeds to extort the watch from Ellis and Long, effectively selling it off to pay off his gambling debts. Ellis and Long sell off the watch to the Nguyens for a nice, meaty commission, but this cozy arrangement gets thrown a monkey wrench when Lexi Parks’ husband buys the watch from the Nguyens, and she learns that the watch is stolen.
She threatens to audit the Nguyens, which leads to her death. The only question remaining unanswered is how Ellis and Long managed to get David Foster’s DNA at the scene of the crime, especially in the body of Lexi Parks.
Meanwhile, turning on the music to distract any bugs that might be in the room, Bosch talks with Chandler on her balcony, informing her that the feds had questioned Maddie. Boch is adamant that he doesn’t want Maddie’s career to be collateral damage in Chandler’s crusade, and Chandler reassures him it won’t be. Meanwhile, Ellis and Long reminisce that it is seventy-four degrees right now in Belize, presumably talking about the escape plan should an event like this arise. But Long reminds him that the heat is seventy-four degrees here as well, indirectly pointing to how close Bosch is getting. They decide that “everything” has to go.
Bosch finally visits Dr. Schubert and talks with him about Ellis and Long, extracting from Schubert the confession that they had been extorting from him because he had been caught cheating with a honeytrap. Subsequently, he is forced to pay Ellis and Long a surplus amount of money per month. Bosch reminds Schubert that the Lexi Parks murder might have something to do with Schubert’s watch and that he might be in danger. Furthermore, Bosch needs to be careful what he wishes for because Ellis and Long, at the exact moment, drive up to Schubert’s house and, seeing Bosch’s SUV, move inside with guns drawn out, intending to finish this once and for all.
Bosch manages to call 9-1-1, but he plans to risk being busted when Schubert comes out of his chamber to convince Long that he hasn’t informed Bosch about anything. Long admits that he believes him, but he shoots Schubert dead anyway. A firefight breaks out as a result, with Bosch managing to shoot Long. He then resumes firefighting with Ellis after Ellis has tried to sneak up behind him, but he gets wise of that. Ellis manages to escape before Bosch can shoot him down, and he has to exit as well as he hears police rushing in. He raises his hands and gives himself up to the police. Before that, while exiting, he walks up to the dying Long and asks Long where Ellis is going. Long isn’t interested in saying, and Bosch isn’t interested in helping him out either by calling an ambulance.
After being arrested, Bosch is rejoined by his lawyer Chandler in the questioning by Detectives Santana and Duran, where he explains everything he had on the case. Their suspicions about the murder remain with him, which pisses Bosch off, who snarls at them to do their job. Back at the car while returning with Chandler, he remembers that Ellis might be going after the sex workers he had been using for his extortion scheme, so he asks for Chandler’s permission to use her safe house, provided they don’t convert it into a new business venture again.
That night, as Maddie and Bosch reminisce about the details of the case, Bosch is disappointed that he hadn’t been able to bring Ellis to justice, but he doesn’t regret any of the events that happened that day. Maddie does inform Bosch that Ellis had worked with her, which shocked Bosch and incensed him when Maddie realized that Ellis wanted to use her to get information about the case. Maddie asks Bosch whether he would lie to her, to which Bosch replies in the negative but concedes there is some information he won’t be able to reveal to her for her good.
Bosch: Legacy (Season 2) Episode 8 Ending Explained
Meanwhile, David Foster had been attacked while he was moving cells. The problem is that the attackers had been deputies assigned to protect him. Chandler, worried, meets up with the judge and the prosecutor, who agree to have Foster placed in protective custody, with a stern command to the Sheriff’s Department to not let Foste be harmed.
However, the FBI finally has search warrants, which they utilize to crack down on Bosch’s house and Chandler’s office. This is upsetting to old man David Rose, who sees this blatant invasion by the authorities as a stamp against his own reputation, finally forcing him to acknowledge to Chandler that he will have to do anything he can to protect his firm, which could ultimately mean Chandler being fired at the end of this case.
Jones and James admittedly don’t find much, but they do stumble across a recording that they believe Ramizrez had been holding out on, perhaps as his own insurance. It was a recording insinuation that Chandler was threatening Rogers, which is enough for them to provide reasonable doubt for the cause of arrest under suspicion of the explosion. Bosch Legacy season 2, episode 8 ends with Chandler being accompanied out of the house, under arrest, with the media covering the entire frenzy.
