History Recap / BoschS7E08

* BadToTheLastDrop: When meeting Anderson at the newspaper cafeteria, Harry says "coffee sucks" but it's better than at RHD.

* BadToTheLastDrop: When meeting Anderson at the newspaper cafeteria, Harry says "coffee sucks". Anderson shoots back that it's better than at RHD.

Pena is booked. Anderson comes to the station at Harry's summons, and Harry tells him everything about Irving's dirty quid pro quo about letting Pena walk away from five counts of murder in exchange for blackmail material against Lopez. As both Anderson and Jerry leave, the latter as Harry tells him that Harry will take the blame, Irving shows up at the station and orders Pena's immediate release into FBI custody.

* BadToTheLastDrop: When meeting Anderson at the newspaper cafeteria, Harry says "Coffee sucks". Anderson shoots back that it's better than at RHD.

* TheFellowshipHasEnded: Hollywood Homicide is dissolves as the LAPD reorganizes, and all the detectives are assigned elsewhere, except for Bosch, who quits.

Maddie Bosch has decided to apply to join the LAPD, rather than follow in Honey Chandler's footsteps and study law. She sends off an application. Later she meets with an LAPD mentor, whom she tells that she is joining the police because she wants to "make a difference". In other career news, Irving, newly confirmed as chief, comes by Hollywood station and tells Billets that with Captain Cooper under arrest and on his way out, she is getting permanently promoted to captain to replace him. Billets posts the new assignments: Edgar is going to RHD, Bosch and Vega will be working homicide at West Bureau, and Pierce will be assigned to "the late show", working the night shift. Pierce is horrified. Everyone meets at the bar after work, which is where Maddie tells her father the job. After he gets over the shock he tells her he'll always be proud of her.

Meanwhile, Bosch is still pursuing the Mickey Pena case. He meets Agent Reece, who tells him that the Critical Incident Team is gathering for a big operation. Next Harry goes to Luke Goshen (Creator/MatthewLillard), his FBI acquaintance last seen in Season 3. Bosch wants to know where the big meeting is going down, but Goshen, who is not involved with the Pena case, is reluctant. However, later Goshen is present when Agent Bremmer gives the CIT a briefing about the meeting that is going down at the El Cholo restaurant.

Bosch also is looking into why Irving is so willing to let Mickey Pena off the hook. He goes to reporter Scott Anderson of the ''Times'', who reveals that there was an FBI investigation of Mayor Ramos, for misuse of funds, which never went anywhere. Harry confronts Irving directly, accusing him of letting Pena walk in return for getting incriminating info about the mayor from the FBI. Irving blows him off.

At the station, Edgar sees Harry with paperwork, and Harry tells him that he's filing charges against Mickey Pena. Edgar forcefully reminds Harry that they have been ordered to stay away from Mickey Pena and if Bosch pursues the case he'll wreck his career. When Bosch says that he refuses to let Pena walk for the five deaths in the arson fire, no matter what Irving says, Edgar agrees to help. Soon after, Harry gets a text--obviously from Goshen--about the place and time of the meeting.

Edgar and Harry arrive at El Cholo. As Edgar waits outside, Harry sneaks into the restaurant by the back door and snatches Pena out from under the nose of the FBI. As Edgar and Harry whisk Pena away, he tells them that they're ruining their careers for nothing: he's a protected CI and as soon as the FBI finds out where he is they'll just take him into custody anyway. Harry does not care. Pena is correct: when Agent Bremmer of the FBI finds out that the LAPD grabbed Pena, he calls Chief Irving and angrily demands Pena back. Irving, who realizes what has happened, heads for Hollywood station.

Pena is booked. Scott Anderson comes to the station at Harry's summons, and Harry tells him everything about Irving's dirty quid pro quo about letting Pena walk away from five counts of murder in exchange for blackmail material against Mayor Ramos. As both Anderson and Jerry Edgar leave, the latter as Harry tells him that Harry will take the blame, Irving shows up at the station and orders Pena's immediate release into FBI custody.

Irving, enraged, tells Bosch he is suspended. Meanwhile Pena, who has been taken outside by FBI agents, is allowed to smoke a cigarette on the sidewalk. Suddenly Sonia Ramirez's father Hector shows up. He points a gun at Pena, says "Por Sonia," and shoots him to death. The cops outside fill Hector full of bullets and he dies just as Harry rushes out to him. As a shocked Irving looks on, Harry gives Irving his badge.

Back at home, Maddie Bosch sees her father with all the unsolved cases from his desk at work. She asks what he'll do next now that his LAPD career is over. The answer comes in the next scene, the last of the series, where Harry is filing an application for a private detective's license.

* GrandFinale: To the series.

!!Tropes

* TheBusCameBack: Luke Goshen reappears for the first time since season 3.

* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: Bosch decides to quit the force, disgusted with Irving playing political games with a murder case.

* RealitySubtext: The season's sole acknowledgment of the COVID-19 pandemic happens early on when Maddie sees it mentioned on a newscast while submitting her application for the police academy.