Title: "Rojo Profundo"
Directed by: Neema Barnette
Written by: Michael Connelly and Eric Overmyer
Air Date: April 13, 2018
Previous: Dark Sky
Next: Book of the Unclaimed Dead
Guest Starring: Paul Calderón, Winter Ave Zoli, Steven Culp, Linda Park
"Rojo Profundo" is the 9th episode of the fourth season of Bosch.
Harry has a dream in which he's at Angels Flight with his mother. Then he gets on the train and sees someone who looks like Eleanor Wish. He wakes up in a start and sees his daughter, who asks about the funeral of his mother. Harry tells Madeline that Marjorie Lowe got no funeral, because he was only a boy and there was no other family.
Frank Sheehan is snuck out the back of Hollywood station to avoid protestors. DA Rick O'Shea arrives for the interview for Lincoln. Lincoln tells the detectives that she didn't give the Harris video to Howard Elias. She gave it to Bradley Walker, and he acted as an intermediary. Lincoln, Walker, and Elias were all part of a scam in which Lincoln passed on sensitive Internal Affairs intelligence to Walker and Elias; Elias would then would file lawsuits and earn lucrative settlements, which he and Walker would then split. However, in the Michael Harris case, Elias "got religion" and decided to take the case to trial. He had the video of the torture as it happened. Due to the nature of the content, he would have to provide his source in court, and thus implicate Walker. Walker, who would've had his reputation tarnished, decided to personally kill Elias himself.
Unfortunately they have no evidence on Walker other than Lincoln's story. O'Shea notes correctly that they have nothing, and leaves.
The arson squad tells Harry that Bondigas, the suspect in the fire that killed Caffrey, has been deported.
Millie Elias comes into the squad room. She turns over to Bosch her husband's personal effects taken from his body, which include some change and a steel ring. She tells Harry that her husband never wore any jewelry, but crime scene photos show that Elias was in fact wearing a ring when he died.
Meanwhile, the investigation into Eleanor's murder continues. Harry notes that Eddie Vang, the shooter who escaped from the Golden Soup in the previous episode, strongly resembles the man who shot Eleanor. Harry receives a visitor who claims to be a Chinese policeman. It's Shiwei Chen from the "Ministry for State Security"—the man at Eleanor's poker game. When Chen asks if Maddie has been in contact with Reggie Woo, Harry takes it as a threat and promises to kill Chen if he comes near Maddie.
Chief Irving has a contentious meeting with Mayor Ramos. Ramos, angry that Frankie Sheehan was released, says he's going to side with the protestors.
Bosch goes to the Biltmore Hotel, where Walker had his fundraiser at the time of the Elias murder. Harry follows some hotel workers into the kitchen, where he finds a rear exit. The door leads to stairs, which go to the old Red Car subway tunnels, which go to another set of stairs, which leads to an exit at the base of Angels Flight. Bosch now knows how Walker could've gotten to and from Angels Flight without being seen.
Tropes:
- Abandoned Area: Ends with a creepy sequence where Harry goes on a long walk through the dark, abandoned tunnels of the old Red Car system, before resurfacing at Angels Flight, retracing Walker's route.
- Dream Sequence: The episode starts with a dream of Harry's where his mother disappears at Angels Flight.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Robertson and Snyder go drinking together after realizing they were both betrayed by their partners—Drake lied to Robertson about the Harris affair, and Snyder's partner Lincoln is a Dirty Cop.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Lincoln says that Elias was so enraged by what was done to Michael Harris that he refused to settle and insisted on taking the case to trial. Bradley Walker killed him for it.
- One Last Job: Lincoln says that the Elias affair was supposed to be her last job, as everyone was going to make a lot of money off of the settlement.
- Title Drop: Shaz, the bartender at the Smog Cutter that Robertson has been dating, makes him a "Rojo Profundo", or Deep Red, "the color of betrayal".
- You Just Told Me: Robertson bluffs Sheehan, telling him that they already have the video and it shows Terry Drake torturing Harris along with Sheehan. When Sheehan basically shrugs, Robertson knows that Drake is guilty as well.
