- The true story of the bones murder is finally revealed, placing Bosch in hot water and stretching the LAPD to the breaking point. Bosch's own painful past leads him headlong into a showdown with Raynard Waits.
- Bosch drives up to Hollywood Station, a media horde is waiting, he deflects questions to the reporter Dave Tyler in the group. Inside , Ryder and Johnson give an update on the Monica Reynolds murder. Capt Pounds comes by with sarcastic comments aimed at Bosch. In the patrol shift briefing, Jerry Edgar gives out photos of Johnny Stokes, some of the cops make negative comments about Bosch.
Bosch reads a file at his cubicle, Julia Brasher comes around passing out folders, she has been assigned to clerical duties. Bosch is terse and tells her to leave it on the desk. He goes to see Lt Billets, she snaps it's his own fault for sleeping with Brasher.
After work Bosch meets Billets at a bar, he has a beer while she drinks rye. Grace apologizes for the morning. She asks why Capt Pounds is after him, he alludes to an incident years earlier. Grace then mentions she is in a relationship with a colleague.
Waits calls Bosch and hints he is getting tired and it is time to go away. Harry then reveals he knows Raynard is a phony name, about McLarens, the starfish, the dungeon. Waits hangs up.
The next day the cops see more video stills of Waits van. Johnson and Ryder are still going through the McLaren files.
Waits approaches a young mother with a baby in stroller. He makes friendly small talk.
Maddie sets Bosch up on Skype and they start a video call. Maddie is frustrated with her mother's over protection. They talk about the accident. Maddie is anxious to come to LA.
A jogger hears a baby crying, he finds the tot alone in a stroller, and a Happy New Year note signed by Waits.
The cops have a New Years' Eve house party at Billets'. George Irving tells Pierce he is going Command and off the streets, he seems happy.
Waits brings the bound and gagged mother into his garage.
Jerry introduces his girlfriend to his co-workers. Billets goes to the toilet with drinks, Ryder is there and the two women kiss.
Waits drags the woman to the centre of his tunnel. He acts pleasant and apologetic and gives her water.
Bosch talks shop at the party. Suddenly everyone's phones start ringing. They switch on the TV to see the breaking news bulletin on the kidnapping. Bosch takes off to the Station and calls Eleanor Wish for her opinion.
Eleanor says the woman is bait for Harry and this is the end-game.
Irving and his aide watch the Chief announce a full police search, no time off for any cops until the woman is found.
Raynard apologizes for the wet tunnel and rats. He phones the reporter Tyler at the LA Times. Waits wants him to write his story. Tyler lets him talk and records the monologue. Later, Tyler arranges a meet with Bosch, Harry takes the phone to transcribe the conversation, he says he will return it in one hour. Tyler feels bad about the Trent suicide and the Hooker murder.
Harry reads out the turgid monologue to the other cops. The speech has a reference to a statue in Echo Park. And all the incident locations on the map make a circle around Echo Park. They start looking in the 22 remaining orphan files and Harry finds one quickly, a David Harris at McLarens from 79-88 with a French Teacher foster mother Irene Saxon.
Edgar and Bosch drive to the address. Jerry does more research on the car computer, more details fit Waits. At the house they climb the stairs to the home, Bosch detects a dead body smell and breaks a window to enter. They find the dead Mrs. Saxon in her bedroom. They go back downstairs and go into the garage and finds the van and workshop. Jerry has to go out to the car to call for backup.
Harry notices a garden hose dripping water, he pulls aside a flag and enters a dark tunnel. With gun at the ready he creeps down the passageway. Then, he confronts Harris/Waits holding the woman and a gun. After some back and forth, Harris pushes the woman aside, Bosch with a clear shot puts two into David's chest, killing him.
Everyone mobilizes, even the Chief shows up to view the scene. They congratulate Harry, even Brasher smiles slightly. The SID cops want a quick interview later. Harry calls Eleanor to let her know. Irving tells Bosch that Harris' gun was empty, it was Suicide by Cop.
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