Title: "The Wine of Youth"
Directed by: Zetna Fuentes
Written by: John Mankiewicz
Air Date: April 13, 2018
Previous: Past Lives
Next: The Wine of Youth
Guest Starring: Paul Calderón, John Getz, Winter Ave Zoli
"The Wine of Youth" is the 6th episode of the fourth season of Bosch.
Frankie Sheehan, still on the run, wakes up in his car.
Maddie still can't reach Reggie to tell him about Eleanor's murder. Jerry Edgar, still reviewing the video on Eleanor's phone, is able to identify the restaurant where the game took place from the geotag information on the video file. Edgar and Bosch go there and find that the FBI has already arrived. Chuck Deng asks them to stand down, but Edgar and Bosch decide on their own that they will pursue the killers. Later, Edgar's phone spelunking eventually reveals the name and contact info for Tiffany Hsu, the dealer who got Eleanor into the illegal poker game.
Bennett and Pell, the arson investigators looking into Caffrey's death in the Riverwatch arson, have identified their suspect: a construction welder named Alberto Bondingas who bragged about getting a substantial payday for setting a fire. Meanwhile, Bradley Walker talks with his business partner, at the site of Walker's big construction project.
Detective Snyder's ID is found in the parking lot.
Madeline Bosch gets access to her mother's safe deposit box. Inside she finds various mementoes, like her baby teeth and an old picture of her father. Maddie breaks down and cries.
Snyder watches the ballistics test on Sheehan's gun. Meanwhile, Lincoln meets with Bradley Walker, who expresses impatience at not getting updates about Elias from Harry Bosch. Detective Lincoln reluctantly supplies the update herself.
While out on the street, Billets, Crate and Barrel are summoned to the scene of a hit and run. It turns out to be none other than the Koreatown Killer, who has been struck by a car and killed while out on his bike. Crate notices the KTK's gun, which bounced under the car in front of him.
Sheehan makes contact with a teenaged neighbor and gets a ride back to his neighborhood. He sneaks into his estranged wife's house but is spotted. Harry and Edgar, out in a squad car when they hear the bulletin, race back in the hopes of preventing Frankie from getting shot. Eventually there's a standoff between the LAPD and Sheehan, parked in his driveway. Frankie says he's going to kill himself but Harry, who tells Frankie that he believes Frankie is innocent of the Elias murder, gets him to surrender.
Later, Bosch gets the word from Robertson: ballistics of the slug recovered from the Elias shooting match Sheehan's service gun.
Tropes:
- Anticlimax: The Koreatown Killer plot thread that's been going for a season and a half has the KTK die out of nowhere in a hit and run.
- Chekhov's Gun: Another reference to Snyder's ID, which will later be crucial to The Reveal. Snyder says someone found her ID in the parking lot.
- Can Always Spot a Cop: Bosch and Edgar play a game of "spot the Fed" as they arrive at the Golden Soup, guessing which people they've passed on the way in are FBI agents. Then Chuck Deng greets them inside.
- Life Will Kill You: All that foreshadowing about the KTK's reckless cycling habits pays off as he is struck and killed by a van.
- Manly Tears: Frankie Sheehan cries in the passenger seat of his car as Harry talks him into surrendering.
- Relationship Upgrade: We see that Robertson is now dating Shaz, the bartender from the Smog Cutter, as we see her picking him up for a one night stand at the end of the episode.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the novel Angels Flight Frankie is murdered, but in this show he's taken alive by the cops.
- The Triads and the Tongs: The investigation of the Triad gangsters who murdered Eleanor continues, as Harry and Edgar trace where the poker game was and identify the dealer.
