Title: "The Four Last Things"
Directed by: Adam Davidson
Written by: Daniel Pyne
Air Date: April 21, 2017
Previous: The Smog Cutter
Next: God Sees
Guest Starring: Paola Turbay, John Ales, Paul Calderón
"The Four Last Things" is the second episode of the third season of Bosch.
It turns out that Harry is dating Anita Benitez, the deputy district attorney handling Andrew Holland's prosecution. They part after a date and Harry goes to check on his camera surveillance of Edward Gunn. Bosch sees two men enter Gunn's room and attack him. He walks away.
The next day, Edward Gunn is found dead in the parking lot, having fallen from his third-floor apartment. Detective Jimmy Robertson (Paul Calderon) is called out to investigate, but Bosch is called to the scene as well due to his prior interest in Gunn. Harry is able to retrieve one of his hidden cameras but can't get to the one in the smoke detector. Robertson retrieves a whiskey glass which eventually is revealed to have Harry Bosch's fingerprints on it (it's the one that Rudy Tafero stole from the bar in the previous episode). Harry claims he carelessly picked the glass up at the crime scene.
Edgar has a lead on "Sharkey", the young graffiti artist who may have been in the vicinity when Billy Meadows was murdered. The next scene shows Sharkey and his crew mugging and robbing another would-be john.
Harry and Benitez interview one Annabelle Crowe as a potential witness for the Andrew Holland trial. A year ago, she went to Holland's place for sex. He choked her into unconsciousness, and when she woke up naked on his bed, she ran off. Crowe thought maybe she might have interpreted rough sex as something different, but has decided to come forward after hearing about Holland's murder trial.
Edgar goes to Lt. Billets. He knows that Bosch is lying about the print on the glass and is worried that Harry might have become a Vigilante Man. Billets tells Edgar to investigate it on the down-low.
Andrew Holland knows all about Bosch's life and background, as he reveals in a smarmy, arrogant talk with the Hollywood hangers-on at a party.
The guy riding a bike through Koreatown shoots at and narrowly misses a bystander.
Edgar goes back to Gunn's apartment, and he discovers Harry's camera in the smoke detector. He also notices the weird owl statue. He looks at the bottom and sees that someone has taped the words "Cave Cave Deus Videt" to the bottom of the statue. Back at headquarters Edgar finds that it's Latin for "Beware, Beware, God Sees", and it's from the painting The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, by Hieronymus Bosch.
Tropes:
- Adapted Out: In the novel A Darkness More Than Night, ex-FBI agent Terry McCaleb is the unofficial investigator of Harry Bosch's involvement in the Gunn murder, working along with Detective Winston of the LAPD. In this season both characters are gone, with new character Jimmy Robertson pursuing the Gunn murder while Jerry Edgar investigates unofficially. This is because Amazon does not have the rights to the Terry McCaleb character, that character having been used for the film of Blood Work.
- Conversational Troping: After Holland calls Harry Bosch his Inspector Javert and mentions he's a Son of a Whore, one of his party guests asks if he's thinking about this for his next movie. Holland pauses for a second and says "It's too tropey, who would believe it?"
- Film the Hand: Andrew Holland did not like the LAPD videographer filming the search of his house.
- Hero Antagonist: Detective Jimmy Robertson, who starts to seriously entertain the idea of Bosch as a suspect in the Gunn murder after getting the match on the fingerprint.
- Inspector Javert: Andrew Holland thinks that Harry Bosch is "my Inspector Javert".
- Knuckle Tattoos: Harry tells the story of his "HOLD FAST" knuckle tattoos. He got them when he was a teenager but, when he joined the Army, his drill sergeant made him punch a concrete wall until his knuckles scarred over and obscured the tattoos.
- Ominous Owl: The spooky owl figurine that Harry sees looks even spookier when Edgar notices it by flashlight in the dark. And the mysterious Latin saying just makes it spookier still.
- Rank Up: Pierce has been promoted to Detective I since we last saw him. He's working as Robertson's partner.
- Son of a Whore: Andrew Holland uses this exact phrase to describe Harry Bosch.
- Visual Title Drop: The second result when Edgar googles "cave cave deus videt" is "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things" by Hieronymous Bosch.
