Title: "Dark Sky"
Directed by: Ernest Dickerson
Written by: Elle Johnson
Air Date: April 13, 2018
Previous: Missed Connections
Next: Rojo Profundo
Guest Starring: Paul Calderón, John Getz, Winter Ave Zoli, Linda Park
"Dark Sky" is the eighth episode of the first season of Bosch.
ICE cops descend on the construction site for Bradley Walker's building and haul away Bondigas, the person of interest in the Caffrey arson.
Bosch confronts Snyder about her name on the evidence checked out of the LAPD evidence room. Snyder angrily denies it and then surprises Bosch with the news that there's a camera at the front desk of the evidence room. Later, Harry goes to Irving, who is not thrilled to hear that there may be another dirty cop, but still gives Bosch permission to see the footage.
Billets and Bosch watch the footage from the evidence room. It turns out that it wasn't Snyder, it was her IA partner Detective Lincoln who checked out the evidence. Harry, Pierce, Edgar, and Robertson meet on the roof of Hollywood station and talk about how to smoke Lincoln out. Bosch tells Robertson about the suspected Michael Harris video. Bosch sends Lincoln off on an errand while the others start investigating her.
The male cops are finding out that Lincoln has a squeaky clean record, when Snyder strolls into their room and tells them that she's started an IA investigation on her own. Snyder discovered that Lincoln recently made two large bank deposits, both five figures, at times when Elias deposited large settlements. Their guess is that Lincoln discovered the hypothetical Harris video and sold it to Elias.
Meanwhile, Crate and Barrel have gotten several hits on the fingerprints of Clifton Campbell, the bicyclist killed in a hit-and-run last episode. They find hits from incidents including assault, theft of cell phones, and murder, involving a man riding a bicycle. They realize that they have solved the Koreatown Killer case.
Pierce's determination regarding the missing bullet in the Elias case pays off, as he finds it down the hill.
The cops lure Lincoln into an interview room by telling her that they want her to interview Sheehan's partner, Doug Rooker. After they get her into the room, Bosch gradually steers the conversation to Howard Elias and the conjectural Michael Harris video. Eventually Lincoln realizes that she is the target of the investigation, not Rooker. She flatly denies selling anything to Howard Elias and says that she will only talk to the DA, Rick O'Shea.
Bosch, Edgar, and Mandarin-speaking Detective Moy go back to the Golden Soup restaurant to show around the photo of Shiwei Chen, the photo that came from Eleanor's phone. While they're showing around the photo, two Triad thugs show up and open fire with automatic weapons. Bosch shoots one but the other hops on a motorcycle and gets away.
Tropes:
- Accidental Hero: Crate and Barrel didn't even want to be there when they were called to the Clifton Campbell hit-and-run. They wind up solving the Koreatown Killer case.
- The Chessmaster: Irving offers Desiree Zealy, the zealot leading the anti-police protest, a job on the police oversight board. This maneuver not only co-opts Zealy but also compromises her in the eyes of the other protestors when they see her talking to Irving.
- Dirty Cop: It turns out that Lincoln switched out bullets in order to frame Frankie Sheehan for the Elias murder.
- Hitler Cam: A ground-level view of Pierce as he finally finds the missing bullet from the Elias shooting.
- Internal Affairs: Internal Affairs investigating an Internal Affairs cop! Snyder's IA case against her own partner uncovers the suspicious deposits.
- Significant Background Event: Two guys in leather jackets are shown in the background entering the Golden Soup as Bosch, Edgar, and Moy are leaving in the foreground. They turn out to be Triad gangsters.
- Spiteful Spit: One of the workers at Bradley Walker's apartment building spits at the ICE goons that have come to arrest Bondigas.
- The Triads and the Tongs: Two Triad gangsters open fire at the Golden Soup. One of them looks a lot like the guy who killed Eleanor.
