Title:"Fugazi"
Directed by: Ernest Dickerson
Written by: George Pelecanos and Michael Connelly
Air Date: February 13, 2015
Previous: Blue Religion
Next: Mama's Boy
Guest Starring: Mimi Rogers, Adam O Byrne, Steven Culp
"Fugazi" is the 4th episode of the first season of Bosch.
Bosch and Edgar track down murder victim Arthur Delacroix's father. Sam Delacroix, once a handsome TV actor, is now a flabby alcoholic working as a golf ball retriever at a driving range. They don't approach him yet, however, instead going out to Palm Springs to interview Arthur's mother. Christine Delacroix is now Christine Waters and she is very rich, having married the man who built that particular development. Christine says her husband regularly beat her so she left, but she can offer little excuse why she left her kids behind in care of an abusive alcoholic. Edgar in particular is sickened.
Back in Los Angeles, the verdict is in: Bosch is held liable in the shooting death of Roberto Flores. However, the jury awards Flores's widow the grand sum of $1. Bosch taunts Honey Chandler, only to find out that she doesn't really care; since she technically won the case the city has to pay her fee, so instead of getting one-third of one dollar she will get something in the neighborhood of $250,000.
Finally, it's time to go on the field trip with Raynard Waits, who has promised to reveal the location of several bodies. Bosch, Crate, Barrel, Deputy DA Lou Escobar, and DA Rick O'Shea accompany Waits into an abandoned factory that he says was his kill site. After Waits trips, falls on his face, and smashes his nose, Escobar and O'Shea give the order to uncuff him, over Bosch's loud objections.
Bosch was right to object. As Crate is moving to put the cuffs back on Waits, he grabs Crate's gun and shoots him in the gut. Then he spins around and fatally shoots Escobar. Edgar and Bosch open fire, and Bosch gives chase down the storm drains, but loses Waits. As the episode ends Crate is being taken into surgery, while Waits, now free, steals a van and pulls into a garage in a residential neighborhood.
Tropes:
- Abandoned Warehouse: Where Waits leads the cops on the field trip to find bodies. Whether or not he actually ever left anyone there is not revealed.
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The storm drains where Bosch chases after Waits must be at least seven feet in diameter. Bosch runs all the way to the LA River before realizing he has lost Waits.
- Calling Parents by Their Name: Harry calls his daughter Maddie in Vegas. He doesn't like it when she calls him "Harry" but he doesn't protest.
- Catch Twenty Two: What Mank is in when he finds out that George keyed in an incorrect plate number so he could justify searching Waits's van. If Pierce reports it, then everything found as a result of the search is tainted. And if it isn't reported, Mank is the one who get in trouble for not noticing.
- Courtroom Episode: The Flores lawsuit ends with Bosch being found symbolically culpable but the city being fined $1.
- Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Christine Waters really doesn't, saying only that she thought the kids would be "better off" in the custody of her abusive drunk of a husband.
- Down L.A. Drain: Bosch and Irving stroll along the Los Angeles River. Irving talks about how the city is sprucing it up, but Bosch notes that it's still an ugly concrete ditch. Later, Bosch finds himself running out into the open into the concrete ditch, after he loses track of Waits in the storm drains.
- Fake Video Camera View: We see Waits, while he's taunting Bosch in the police van, from the POV of the video guy that is recording events for O'Shea.
- Flipping the Bird: Sam Delacroix doesn't like it when Edgar hits a golf ball that bangs right off his cart.
- Gilligan Cut: As the two detectives drive out to Palm Springs, Edgar the clothes horse suggests stopping at an outlet mall. Bosch refuses. Edgar pushes. Bosch says "Still not stopping." Cut to an annoyed Bosch pulling into the parking lot of the outlet mall.
- Oh, Crap!: Rick O'Shea as he stands dazed among the blood and chaos, after Waits shoots two people and escapes.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: Julia wears a tight cocktail dress with no back when she comes over to Bosch's house.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Honey Chandler is killed by a Jack the Ripoff character in The Concrete Blonde but lives in this show, the Jack the Ripoff plot not being included.
- Title Drop: "This whole situation's fugazi," says Bosch after Waits escapes. Apparently that's cop speak for "fucked up".Irving: And now you've got to un-fuck it.
