Title: "Dreams of Bunker Hill"
Directed by: Aaron Lipstadt
Written by: Daniel Pyne and John Mankiewicz
Air Date: April 13, 2018
Previous: Ask the Dust
Next: Devil in the House
Guest Starring: Paul Calderón, John Getz, Winter Ave Zoli, Mimi Rogers, Kristen Ariza
"Dreams of Bunker Hill" is the 2nd episode of the fourth season of Bosch.
Bosch and Snyder go to Howard Elias's office. The special master is none other than Bosch's nemesis, Honey Chandler. She gives them Michael Harris's home address, but it turns out that he has been sequestered elsewhere.
Edgar shows up to work at Hollywood station, to everyone's surprise, since it's Saturday and he's not supposed to be back until Monday.
Bosch and Snyder manage to unlock Elias's phone by getting the thumb print off his corpse. As they head back to the station, Snyder expresses her unhappiness with Bosch for disrespecting her due to the IA investigation against him last season. Without actually apologizing, Bosch starts treating her with more respect. Snyder tells Bosch that IA didn't press the Michael Harris case because there was no evidence other than the cops' word against Harris.
Harris is determined to have been stashed in a downtown hotel room. With Chandler as his escort, Bosch quizzes Harris, who tells the harrowing story of how he was tortured. He was accosted by two RHD detectives at the junkyard where he worked. There, he was drowned in a toilet filled with urine, smothered with plastic wrap, and stabbed in the right ear with a pencil. Finally he confessed in order to stop the torture, only for the cops to discover shortly thereafter that the little girl's own father had killed her and dumped the body. Elias turned down a $420K settlement because he was confident he could win at trial. Chandler refuses to share privileged info from the case with Bosch but she does tell him that Elias didn't seem to have any obvious smoking gun on hand.
Robertson searches Elias's downtown apartment and figures out that he was having an affair. He eventually deduces that Elias's girlfriend was Pamela Duncan, his jury consultant. Elias's son Martin found out about it, which triggered a very ugly argument. Later, Lincoln interviews Elias's partner and discovers that Martin had a long arrest record, which his father had mostly succeeded in covering up, although his patience had recently worn thin.
The Koreatown Killer is still biking around LA; he nearly hits Honey Chandler.
Eleanor Wish goes to a building in Chinatown for an illegal poker game. Her game with the Chinese hoodlum is terminated when a senior and much more intimidating hoodlum arrives and starts giving the junior hoodlum a beating. Eleanor fiddles with her cell phone so she can take a surreptitious video. One of the Triad goons gives her a suspicious look as she leaves.
Tropes:
- The Bus Came Back: Honey Chandler, last seen in the season 3 premiere, returns and is once again gleeful to screw with Bosch. However, as the "special master" given oversight over Howard Elias's files, she isn't quite as antagonistic this time around.
- Chiaroscuro: When Eleanor arrives for her poker game the department store building is closed and there is only very minimal lighting. That just makes her trip upstairs to join the poker game, in shadows and darkness, all the spookier.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Smothering a guy with plastic wrap and perforating his eardrum with a pencil both qualify.
- Comforting Comforter: Maddie Bosch loves her dad, so she puts a blanket over him when he falls asleep on the couch.
- Decomposite Character: In the novel, the "special master" overseeing the files and Howard Elias's mistress were the same person. In the show they're two different characters, probably because the show wanted to bring back Honey Chandler.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Snyder's tirade about how Bosch treats her like a nuisance actually works in getting him to loosen up.
- Flashback: Brief flashbacks illustrate Michael Harris's tale of his terrifying ordeal at the hands of the LAPD.
- Pragmatic Adaptation: A huge chunk of the novel Angels Flight involves the mystery of who really did kill Stacey Kincaid. In this show it's dismissed by Harris with a single line of dialogue.
- The Triads and the Tongs: Eleanor gets a look at some more of the Triad people that Griffin has her investigating.
- You, Get Me Coffee: Chandler tells Bosch and Snyder to go out for coffee while she "Bosch proofs" Elias's offices.
