Title: Money, Honey
Directed by: Troy Batchelor
Written by: Jeffrey Fiskin and Katie Pyne
Air Date: April 17, 2020
Previous: Part of the Deal
Next: The Ace Hotel
Guest Starring: Lynn Collins, Mimi Rogers, Linda Park
"Money, Honey" is the 5th episode of the sixth season of Bosch.
In another attempt to flush Alicia Kent out, Bosch calls her insurance agency and tells them to hold off on paying out for Stanley Kent, while the investigation continues. Edgar for his part is trying to find where Stanley Kent kept the videos from the spy cam, but coming up empty. The wiretap reveals that Alicia did in fact text someone, complaining, but the detectives don't know who owns the mysterious burner phone.
Edgar hits on the idea of checking the LAN at St. Agatha's Hospital, where Stanley Kent worked. Sure enough, the videos are there. He downloads them as Alicia Kent arrives at the station to reclaim her husband's property. Billets stalls Alicia for a while, until Bosch joins the conversation and confronts Alicia with the photo of the robe in her room. Alicia blows him off and is about to leave when Edgar enters with the incriminating video that he finally found: Alicia, strolling around her living room at a time when she was supposedly hogtied on her bed. Alicia demands a lawyer.
Bosch interviews Alex Sands, Daisy Clayton's old companion. Alex, who has gone straight and now has a wife and a kid, tells a contemptuous Bosch how he and Daisy used to run the streets of Hollywood together. He also tells Harry that he saw Daisy talking to a man in a white van the night she disappeared.
Bosch then talks to Anthony Servidone, the retired detective who worked on the Daisy Clayton case. According to him, Daisy was originally thought to be a victim of a serial killer known as the Backseat Butcher, until they found out that the serial killer was in the drunk tank on the night she was murdered. His investigation next takes him to "John the Baptist" aka John McMullen, who still operates Moonlight Mission, and drove a white van. He denies involvement.
Meanwhile, the homeless turf war between Teddy Hobbs and Shawn Terrion from last season resurfaces when Terrion is found beaten to death. Pierce and Vega get assigned to this murder, but when they run into scheduling conflicts, Crate and Barrel steal their case. They know that Terrion was once in a turf war with Hobbs given they handled the matter during their reassignment to CAPS last year. They bring him in and manage to get him to confess to killing Terrion. Barrel leaves the station in triumph, a mood that is immediately destroyed when he finds out that Rodgers has died of another heart attack.
Edgar's investigation into Jacques Avril continues. Dwight Wise goes to Edgar and shows him photos of an auto body shop where Avril and several members of his gang often visit (earlier in the season, Winston dropped off a bunch of money there). Later, Edgar and IA are staking out an undercover Hovan's meeting with Jacques Avril, in which Hovan, undercover as "Felix Mariama", asks Avril to wash his drug money.
In other storylines: Irvin Irving meets Jack Killoran, one of his opponents in the mayoral election. Irving then marries Jun Park, his pregnant girlfriend. Honey Chander meets Dante Crow and tells him that he can settle for $500K or roll the dice and shoot for $5-6 million. Crow elects to go for the big money. Heather Strout meets with Ian, the sheriff's deputy that Barrel met in the first episode, and he agrees to help her get "hard justice" for her husband, killed by the FBI.
Tropes:
- Call-Back: Crate and Barrel bring up remarks that Hobbs said to them in his interrogation interview when they questioned him over his turf war with Terrion last season. The incriminating remark is something Hobbs said to Barrel about how there "could be mayhem" if Terrion took his spot.
- Creator Cameo: Executive producer Henrik Bastin is sitting next to Bosch and Servidone in the bar. (Michael Connelly sat at the same bar when the same two characters, Bosch and Servidone, were talking at this same bar in season 5 about the Preston Borders case.)
- Flipping the Bird: Vega flips off Bosch when he razzes her about Crate and Barrel solving the Terrion case while she and Pierce were out of town.
- Manly Tears: Barrel quietly sobbing in the bar as he mourns the death of Rodgers.
- Match Cut: From Servidone drinking a beer in the bar to Crate pouring coffee in the squad room.
- Reformed Criminal: Alex Sands has turned his life around since Daisy was murdered, and now he runs a kitchen modeling business.
- Shout-Out: Crate and Barrel, the movie buffs, talk about how much they liked Bad Day at Black Rock and The Professionals ("Claudia Cardinale!").
- Shrine to the Fallen: Harry Bosch keeps photos of the victims of unsolved cases at his desk. Later, when he goes to see John the Baptist, he finds that the preacher has done the same with people he has baptized who were killed.
- To Absent Friends: Barrel, at the bar, mourns Rodgers' death by ordering two shot glasses of whiskey and clinking them together in a toast.
