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* TitleDrop: Mayor Ramos, revealing that he knows about how O'Shea has been courting Irving, says "The thing about secrets in this town is, they have a short shelf life."

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* TitleDrop: Mayor Ramos, revealing that he knows about how O'Shea has been courting Irving, says "The thing about secrets in this town is, [[OpenSecret they have a short shelf life.life]]."
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Eddie Arcenaux and George Irving are up to their usual shenanigans. Eddie pulls up to a dry cleaner and has George pick up a shirt, which he tells George to keep; inside the box is $2000. Later, they rough up a heroin dealer and demand a cut of his take. The whole time, Arcenaux is unaware that George is actually working for InternalAffairs, as seen when George calls his handler, Lau, and reports everything. Meanwhile, George's father Irvin Irving meets with Mayor Ramos, who wants to win his support away from Rick O'Shea (Creator/StevenCulp).

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Eddie Arcenaux and George Irving are up to their usual shenanigans. Eddie pulls up to a dry cleaner and has George pick up a shirt, which he tells George to keep; inside the box is $2000. Later, they rough up a heroin dealer and demand a cut of his take. The whole time, Arcenaux is unaware that George is actually working for InternalAffairs, as seen when George calls his handler, Lau, and reports everything. Meanwhile, George's father Irvin Irving meets with Mayor Hector Ramos, who wants to win his support away from Rick O'Shea (Creator/StevenCulp).
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Harry tells Lt. Billets that he has a lead from Tony Allen's office. A car was caught on video leaving the lot; it was tracked to a big parking lot with a lot of [=SUVs=]. Bosch and Edgar go to the parking lot and realize just from the look of the men in suits that it was an FBI car and they're in an FBI parking lot. Inside the building, Agent-in-Charge Jay Griffin admits that Tony Aliso was the target of an FBI investigation, something about "national security", but refuses to give any more assistance.

Back at Hollywood station, a tech reveals that glitter was found in the cuffs of Tony Allen's jacket, as well as fingerprints on the lapel. Meanwhile, out of nowhere Bosch gets a call from Keisha Russell at the ''Los Angeles Times'', telling him that she has been getting calls from a woman who has information about the unsolved murder of Harry's mother in 1979. (This is the beginning of an arc that won't be fully resolved until the end of Season 4.)

Eddie Arcenaux and George Irving are up to their usual shenanigans. Eddie pulls up to a dry cleaner and has George pick up a shirt, which he tells George to keep; inside the box is $2000. A later scene confirms that George is working for InternalAffairs when he calls his handler, Lau, and reports everything. Still later, Eddie and George rough up a heroin dealer and demand a cut of his take. Meanwhile, George's father Irvin Irving meets with Mayor Ramos, who wants to win his support away from Rick O'Shea (Creator/StevenCulp).

Bosch learns that Tony Allen was once Armin Avakian and ran with an Armenian street gang. Further investigation indicates that Allen's porn business was really a money-laundering scheme. Bosch interviews Veronica Allen who indicates that she couldn't stand her husband, and that she was in the dark about his business affairs. The episode ends with Bosch headed to Vegas, both to see his ex-wife and daughter and to investigate Tony Allen, who left Vegas for LA right before he was murdered.

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Harry tells Lt. Billets that he has a lead from Tony Allen's office. A car was caught on video leaving the lot; it was tracked to a big parking lot with a lot of [=SUVs=]. Bosch and Edgar go to the parking lot and realize just from the look of the men in suits that it was an FBI car and they're in an FBI parking lot. Inside the building, Agent-in-Charge Jay Griffin admits that Tony Aliso Allen was the target of an FBI investigation, something about "national security", but refuses to give any more assistance.

Back at Hollywood station, a tech reveals that glitter was found in the cuffs of Tony Allen's Tony's jacket, as well as fingerprints on the lapel. Meanwhile, out of nowhere nowhere, Bosch gets a call from Keisha Russell at the ''Los Angeles Times'', telling him that she has been getting calls from a woman who has information about the unsolved murder of Harry's mother in 1979. (This is the beginning of an arc that won't be fully resolved until the end of Season 4.)

Eddie Arcenaux and George Irving are up to their usual shenanigans. Eddie pulls up to a dry cleaner and has George pick up a shirt, which he tells George to keep; inside the box is $2000. A later scene confirms that George is working for InternalAffairs when he calls his handler, Lau, and reports everything. Still later, Eddie and George Later, they rough up a heroin dealer and demand a cut of his take.take. The whole time, Arcenaux is unaware that George is actually working for InternalAffairs, as seen when George calls his handler, Lau, and reports everything. Meanwhile, George's father Irvin Irving meets with Mayor Ramos, who wants to win his support away from Rick O'Shea (Creator/StevenCulp).

Bosch learns that Tony Allen was once used to go by the name Armin Avakian Avakian, and ran with an Armenian street gang. Further investigation indicates that Allen's porn business was really a money-laundering scheme. Bosch interviews Veronica Allen who indicates that she couldn't stand her husband, and that she was in the dark about his business affairs. The episode ends with Bosch headed to Vegas, both to see his ex-wife and daughter and to investigate Tony Allen, who left Vegas for LA right before he was murdered.
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Harry tells Lt. Billets that he has a lead from Tony Aliso's office. A car was caught on video leaving the lot; it was tracked to a big parking lot with a lot of [=SUVs=]. Bosch and Edgar go to the parking lot and realize just from the look of the men in suits that it was an FBI car and they're in an FBI parking lot. Inside the building, Agent-in-Charge Jay Griffin admits that Tony Aliso was the target of an FBI investigation, something about "national security", but refuses to give any more assistance.

Back at Hollywood station, a tech reveals that glitter was found in the cuffs of Tony Allen's jacket, as well as fingerprints on the lapel. Meanwhile, out of nowhere Bosch gets a call from Keisha Russell of the LA Times, telling him that she has been getting calls from a woman who has information about the unsolved murder of Harry's mother in 1979. (This is the beginning of an arc that won't be fully resolved until the end of Season 4.)

Eddie Arcenaux and George Irving are up to their usual shenanigans. Eddie pulls up to a dry cleaner and has George pick up a shirt, which he tells George to keep; inside the box is $2000. A later scene confirms that George is working for InternalAffairs when he calls a cop named Lau and reports everything. Still later, Eddie and George rough up a heroin dealer and demand a cut of his take. Meanwhile, George's father Irvin Irving meets with Mayor Ramos, who wants to win his support away from Rick O'Shea (Creator/StevenCulp).

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Harry tells Lt. Billets that he has a lead from Tony Aliso's Allen's office. A car was caught on video leaving the lot; it was tracked to a big parking lot with a lot of [=SUVs=]. Bosch and Edgar go to the parking lot and realize just from the look of the men in suits that it was an FBI car and they're in an FBI parking lot. Inside the building, Agent-in-Charge Jay Griffin admits that Tony Aliso was the target of an FBI investigation, something about "national security", but refuses to give any more assistance.

Back at Hollywood station, a tech reveals that glitter was found in the cuffs of Tony Allen's jacket, as well as fingerprints on the lapel. Meanwhile, out of nowhere Bosch gets a call from Keisha Russell of at the LA Times, ''Los Angeles Times'', telling him that she has been getting calls from a woman who has information about the unsolved murder of Harry's mother in 1979. (This is the beginning of an arc that won't be fully resolved until the end of Season 4.)

Eddie Arcenaux and George Irving are up to their usual shenanigans. Eddie pulls up to a dry cleaner and has George pick up a shirt, which he tells George to keep; inside the box is $2000. A later scene confirms that George is working for InternalAffairs when he calls a cop named Lau his handler, Lau, and reports everything. Still later, Eddie and George rough up a heroin dealer and demand a cut of his take. Meanwhile, George's father Irvin Irving meets with Mayor Ramos, who wants to win his support away from Rick O'Shea (Creator/StevenCulp).



* AsHerself: Saxophonist Grace Park appears as herself at a nightclub where Harry and Billets have drinks. (The song she's playing is called "Blues for Harry Bosch).

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* AsHerself: Saxophonist Grace Park appears as herself at a nightclub where Harry and Billets have drinks. (The song she's playing is called "Blues for Harry Bosch).Bosch").
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Directed by: Alex Zakrzewski\\
Written by: Eric Overmeyer and Tom Bernardo\\

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Directed by: Alex Zakrzewski\\
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Written by: Eric Overmeyer Creator/EricOvermeyer and Tom Bernardo\\Creator/TomBernardo\\



Guest Starring: Creator/JamesRansone, Robbie Jones, Creator/StevenCulp, John Marshall Jones]

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Guest Starring: Creator/JamesRansone, Robbie Jones, Creator/RobbieJones, Creator/StevenCulp, John Marshall Jones]
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Guest Starring: James Ransone, Robbie Jones, Creator/StevenCulp, John Marshall Jones]

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Guest Starring: James Ransone, Creator/JamesRansone, Robbie Jones, Creator/StevenCulp, John Marshall Jones]
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* AsHerself: Saxophonist Grace Park appears as herself at a nightclub where Harry and Billets have drinks. (The song she's playing is called "Blues for Harry Bosch).

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Guest Starring: James Ransone, Robbie Jones, Creator/StevenCulp]

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Guest Starring: James Ransone, Robbie Jones, Creator/StevenCulp]
Creator/StevenCulp, John Marshall Jones]



* InternalAffairs: A rare heroic example. George is working with IAD to expose whatever Arcenaux is up to.

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* InternalAffairs: A rare heroic example. George is working with IAD to expose whatever Arcenaux is up to.to.
* IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney: After revealing that she got arrested a couple of times for prostitution back in the day, Veronica says "I was young and stupid."
* JurisdictionFriction: As always with the LAPD and the FBI. Agent Griffin admits that the FBI was wiretapping Allen's office, but won't say why and won't share any intel. Later Deputy Chief Irving gets the feds to turn over their data but is suspicious with how readily they do it.
* {{Perfumigation}}: A random gag has Arcenaux grossed out by the cologne that George sprays on himself in the locker room.
--> '''Eddie''': The bad guys are going to smell you coming.
* SarcasmMode: The cranky IT guy who has to stay late, searching through the hard drive to Tony Allen's computer.
--> '''IT Guy''': I'd ''much'' rather be here than at home with my juicy and enthusiastic girlfriend.
* TitleDrop: Mayor Ramos, revealing that he knows about how O'Shea has been courting Irving, says "The thing about secrets in this town is, they have a short shelf life."
* TVTelephoneEtiquette: Lampshaded. Bosch gets some necessary info from reporter Keisha Russell and ends his call, leaving a bemused Russell holding her phone and saying "Detective?"

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%%This recap was created by me by mistake. I attempted to make a recap for Season 1 Episode 2 but made a typo on the URL. I will be leaving this recap here until I come around to Season 2 in time. Please do not cut or delete.



Guest Starring: James Ransone, Robbie Jones]

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Guest Starring: James Ransone, Robbie Jones]
Jones, Creator/StevenCulp]



Harry tells Lt. Billets that he has a lead from Tony Aliso's office. A car was caught on video leaving the lot; it was tracked to a big parking lot with a lot of [=SUVs=]. It turns out that the car was in fact an FBI car. Agent-in-Charge Jay Griffin admits that Tony Aliso was the target of an FBI investigation but refuses to give any more assistance.

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Harry tells Lt. Billets that he has a lead from Tony Aliso's office. A car was caught on video leaving the lot; it was tracked to a big parking lot with a lot of [=SUVs=]. It turns out Bosch and Edgar go to the parking lot and realize just from the look of the men in suits that the car it was in fact an FBI car. car and they're in an FBI parking lot. Inside the building, Agent-in-Charge Jay Griffin admits that Tony Aliso was the target of an FBI investigation investigation, something about "national security", but refuses to give any more assistance.
assistance.

Back at Hollywood station, a tech reveals that glitter was found in the cuffs of Tony Allen's jacket, as well as fingerprints on the lapel. Meanwhile, out of nowhere Bosch gets a call from Keisha Russell of the LA Times, telling him that she has been getting calls from a woman who has information about the unsolved murder of Harry's mother in 1979. (This is the beginning of an arc that won't be fully resolved until the end of Season 4.)

Eddie Arcenaux and George Irving are up to their usual shenanigans. Eddie pulls up to a dry cleaner and has George pick up a shirt, which he tells George to keep; inside the box is $2000. A later scene confirms that George is working for InternalAffairs when he calls a cop named Lau and reports everything. Still later, Eddie and George rough up a heroin dealer and demand a cut of his take. Meanwhile, George's father Irvin Irving meets with Mayor Ramos, who wants to win his support away from Rick O'Shea (Creator/StevenCulp).

Bosch learns that Tony Allen was once Armin Avakian and ran with an Armenian street gang. Further investigation indicates that Allen's porn business was really a money-laundering scheme. Bosch interviews Veronica Allen who indicates that she couldn't stand her husband, and that she was in the dark about his business affairs. The episode ends with Bosch headed to Vegas, both to see his ex-wife and daughter and to investigate Tony Allen, who left Vegas for LA right before he was murdered.
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* DirtyCop: George Irving's new partner Eddie Arceneaux is a very dirty cop indeed, who is hitting drug dealers up for protection money and smuggling cash around.

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* DirtyCop: George Irving's new partner Eddie Arceneaux is a very dirty cop indeed, who is hitting drug dealers up for protection money and smuggling cash around.around.
* InternalAffairs: A rare heroic example. George is working with IAD to expose whatever Arcenaux is up to.

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%%This recap was created by me by mistake. I attempted to make a recap for Season 1 Episode 2 but made a typo on the URL. I will be leaving this recap here until I come around to Season 2 in time. Please do not cut or delete.



Episode: Season 1, Episode 2\\
Title:"Lost Light"\\
Directed by: Kevin Dowling\\
Written by: Eric Overmeyer and Tom Smuts\\
Air Date: February 13, 2015\\
Previous: 'Tis the Season\\
Next: Blue Religion\\
Guest Starring: Creator/MimiRogers, Alan Rosenberg]

"Lost Light" is the 2nd episode of the first season of ''Series/{{Bosch}}''.

The investigation into the skeleton of the boy in the woods continues. Edgar does some checking and discovers that one of the residents of the neighborhood, one Nicholas Trent, is a child molester. It was one conviction for indecent exposure to a child 25 years ago, but Bosch and Edgar, lacking any other lead, start to focus on Trent.

Harry meets Officer Julia Brasher (Creator/AnnieWersching) for drinks again. This time drinks are followed by sex at his house. Unfortunately they aren't quite discreet enough when he drops her off, and soon Hollywood station is burning with gossip about Harry and Julia's romance.

The trial concerning Harry's shooting of a suspect continues. The attorney for the city gets Harry to testify that the shooting was justified, while Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers) accuses Harry of looking for an excuse to shoot Flores. Afterwards, Harry's supervisor Lt. Grace Billets goes to Deputy Chief Irvin Irving (Creator/LanceReddick) and relays Harry's accusation that Captain Pounds leaked Harry's file to Chandler.

Meanwhile, a window-washer named Raynard Waits is tooling around Hollywood late at night, looking for male prostitutes. He is pulled over by two beat cops when his license plate comes up stolen. The beat cops discover a dead body in the van. Waits, staring at a possible death sentence, offers to confess to several more murders that he has committed--including that of the young boy whose bones Harry found in the woods.

The episode ends with Nicholas Trent's lawyer calling the LAPD and asking where he is. Bosch and Edgar go to Trent's house, and find that he hanged himself.

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Episode: Season 1, 2, Episode 2\\
Title:"Lost Light"\\
Title:"The Thing About Secrets"\\
Directed by: Kevin Dowling\\
Alex Zakrzewski\\
Written by: Eric Overmeyer and Tom Smuts\\
Bernardo\\
Air Date: February 13, 2015\\
March 11, 2016\\
Previous: 'Tis the Season\\
Trunk Music\\
Next: Blue Religion\\
Victim of the Night\\
Guest Starring: Creator/MimiRogers, Alan Rosenberg]

"Lost Light"
James Ransone, Robbie Jones]

"The Thing About Secrets"
is the 2nd episode of the first season of ''Series/{{Bosch}}''.

The Harry tells Lt. Billets that he has a lead from Tony Aliso's office. A car was caught on video leaving the lot; it was tracked to a big parking lot with a lot of [=SUVs=]. It turns out that the car was in fact an FBI car. Agent-in-Charge Jay Griffin admits that Tony Aliso was the target of an FBI investigation into the skeleton of the boy in the woods continues. Edgar does some checking and discovers that one of the residents of the neighborhood, one Nicholas Trent, is a child molester. It was one conviction for indecent exposure to a child 25 years ago, but Bosch and Edgar, lacking refuses to give any other lead, start to focus on Trent.

Harry meets Officer Julia Brasher (Creator/AnnieWersching) for drinks again. This time drinks are followed by sex at his house. Unfortunately they aren't quite discreet enough when he drops her off, and soon Hollywood station is burning with gossip about Harry and Julia's romance.

The trial concerning Harry's shooting of a suspect continues. The attorney for the city gets Harry to testify that the shooting was justified, while Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers) accuses Harry of looking for an excuse to shoot Flores. Afterwards, Harry's supervisor Lt. Grace Billets goes to Deputy Chief Irvin Irving (Creator/LanceReddick) and relays Harry's accusation that Captain Pounds leaked Harry's file to Chandler.

Meanwhile, a window-washer named Raynard Waits is tooling around Hollywood late at night, looking for male prostitutes. He is pulled over by two beat cops when his license plate comes up stolen. The beat cops discover a dead body in the van. Waits, staring at a possible death sentence, offers to confess to several
more murders that he has committed--including that of the young boy whose bones Harry found in the woods.

The episode ends with Nicholas Trent's lawyer calling the LAPD and asking where he is. Bosch and Edgar go to Trent's house, and find that he hanged himself.
assistance.



* MythologyGag:
** Harry says that one of his cases was adapted "very loosely" into a movie called ''The Black Echo''. He has a framed poster on the wall. The first Literature/HarryBosch novel was titled ''Literature/TheBlackEcho'' and the paperback edition had a cover that looks almost exactly like the poster.
** This episode is titled ''Lost Light''. That was [[Literature/LostLight the title of a Harry Bosch novel]], but not one of the ones adapted for this series.
* TitleDrop: Harry remembers the "lost light", light from an uncertain source, that he would find when he went into the caves in Afghanistan.

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* MythologyGag:
** Harry says that one of his cases was adapted "very loosely" into
DirtyCop: George Irving's new partner Eddie Arceneaux is a movie called ''The Black Echo''. He has a framed poster on the wall. The first Literature/HarryBosch novel was titled ''Literature/TheBlackEcho'' very dirty cop indeed, who is hitting drug dealers up for protection money and the paperback edition had a cover that looks almost exactly like the poster.
** This episode is titled ''Lost Light''. That was [[Literature/LostLight the title of a Harry Bosch novel]], but not one of the ones adapted for this series.
* TitleDrop: Harry remembers the "lost light", light from an uncertain source, that he would find when he went into the caves in Afghanistan.
smuggling cash around.
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Episode: Season 1, Episode 2\\
Title:"Lost Light"\\
Directed by: Kevin Dowling\\
Written by: Eric Overmeyer and Tom Smuts\\
Air Date: February 13, 2015\\
Previous: 'Tis the Season\\
Next: Blue Religion\\
Guest Starring: Creator/MimiRogers, Alan Rosenberg]

"Lost Light" is the 2nd episode of the first season of ''Series/{{Bosch}}''.

The investigation into the skeleton of the boy in the woods continues. Edgar does some checking and discovers that one of the residents of the neighborhood, one Nicholas Trent, is a child molester. It was one conviction for indecent exposure to a child 25 years ago, but Bosch and Edgar, lacking any other lead, start to focus on Trent.

Harry meets Officer Julia Brasher (Creator/AnnieWersching) for drinks again. This time drinks are followed by sex at his house. Unfortunately they aren't quite discreet enough when he drops her off, and soon Hollywood station is burning with gossip about Harry and Julia's romance.

The trial concerning Harry's shooting of a suspect continues. The attorney for the city gets Harry to testify that the shooting was justified, while Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers) accuses Harry of looking for an excuse to shoot Flores. Afterwards, Harry's supervisor Lt. Grace Billets goes to Deputy Chief Irvin Irving (Creator/LanceReddick) and relays Harry's accusation that Captain Pounds leaked Harry's file to Chandler.

Meanwhile, a window-washer named Raynard Waits is tooling around Hollywood late at night, looking for male prostitutes. He is pulled over by two beat cops when his license plate comes up stolen. The beat cops discover a dead body in the van. Waits, staring at a possible death sentence, offers to confess to several more murders that he has committed--including that of the young boy whose bones Harry found in the woods.

The episode ends with Nicholas Trent's lawyer calling the LAPD and asking where he is. Bosch and Edgar go to Trent's house, and find that he hanged himself.

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* MythologyGag:
** Harry says that one of his cases was adapted "very loosely" into a movie called ''The Black Echo''. He has a framed poster on the wall. The first Literature/HarryBosch novel was titled ''Literature/TheBlackEcho'' and the paperback edition had a cover that looks almost exactly like the poster.
** This episode is titled ''Lost Light''. That was [[Literature/LostLight the title of a Harry Bosch novel]], but not one of the ones adapted for this series.
* TitleDrop: Harry remembers the "lost light", light from an uncertain source, that he would find when he went into the caves in Afghanistan.

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