Welcome To The Other Side – The episode begins in court with Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers) charging Diego Perra (Esteban Carmona) with 6 counts of armed robbery. The police do not handle this so well.
Reina Vasquez (Denise G. Sanchez) removes evidence from the Melrose Bandits case to protect her next of kin.
Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) tells Maurice ‘Mo’ Bassi (Stephen A Chang) to wave the white flag at trying to access Finbar McShane’s (Michael Reilly Burke) federal records. Mo tells him those are fighting words and then notices that Bosch has the Jimmy Robertson (Paul Calderon) murder case open on his desk. Bosch tells him that he needs to retrace Robertson’s last steps.
Honey receives a call from Chief Hughes (Sophina Brown), who is not at all happy about Honey’s filing. Honey tells her that she is taking the time to build an unimpeachable case. Hughes asks her if she has heard from the Mayor and hangs up. Later Honey discusses the case with her colleagues and decides that they need to speak with Perra’s girlfriend again.
Maddie Bosch (Madison Lintz) arrives at work to find that Vasquez has taken the day off. She and another colleague will be tailing Nestor Gomez (Jesse Gallegos).
Bosch speaks with the bartender that Robertson was with before he left for the taco food truck. All she really has to add is that Robertson’s stuff is still stuck in her closet. She can’t bear to keep it and she can’t bear to get rid of it. Bosch helps her go through the clothes and finds a parking garage ticket that says – Las Palmas 1 pm 11/14.
Vasquez confronts her nephew about the robberies. He tries to act like he has little to do with Nestor and Victoria ‘Fortune’ Hernandez (Andrea Cortes) but she clearly doesn’t believe him.
Janice finds a Uno card on her windshield with a time and meeting location.
Patrick Currey (Jeremy Glazer) receives word that Mo has been asking around about him.
The address on Robertson’s parking garage slip leads Bosch to a DEA parking garage. Once there he speaks with a DEA agent about a case that Robertson was working on. The agent doesn’t know much but promises to look into it. After leaving the agent, Bosch calls Perry Lopez (Miles Gaston Villanueva) to ask what Robertson was working on. Perry is extremely hesitant but promises to give Bosch five minutes.
When Honey’s team goes back to question Perra’s girlfriend she tells them that she heard messing with the sliding glass door the night the cop died. She supposedly reported this but the cops did nothing because nothing was missing.
Maddie and a fellow officer tail Gomez while Perry gives Bosch Robertson’s case files. There was only one cause involving narcotics. Bosch asks Perry if he can get ahold of the murder book. He says that he’ll look into it.
Honey’s team discusses what they learned from Perra’s girlfriend. This is interrupted when a coworker comes in and tells Honey that Currey wants five minutes with her tomorrow. Honey agrees to meet with him.
Vasquez goes to her sister to talk about Albert Torres (Tommy Martinez). She tells her that Albert isn’t a bad kid and he’s been working with a roofing crew. He’s also apparently spending time with their grandfather on the regular.
Mo meets with Janice and gives her his request. She is extremely hesitant at first but thinks twice when he reminds her that she owes him.
Maddie and a coworker follow Nestor to a Dollar Store where he meets Albert. Maddie happens to get a picture of Albert.
Bosch continues to look into Robertson’s last Juan Doe case. He learns that Robertson ordered a fingernail analysis for what was supposedly a shooting death and surprisingly enough found a white chalk-like substance under the nails. The victim also had a blank key card in his sock.
When Currey meets with Honey he tells her that Emmett Archer (Jim Holmes) became closed off and that’s what hurt him the most in the end. He also tells her that he could be a good friend to her.
Vazquez visits her grandfather and learns that Albert and Victoria have been visiting him recently. When the nurse pulls Vasquez’s grandfather out of the room, she searches it and finds a box full of stolen jewelry items.
Perry gives Bosch Juan Doe’s key card as promised. Mo tracks it and finds that it comes from a hotel in Lancaster. The check-in was in late October.
Honey learns that Perra’s DNA was not on the bullets but an unknown male’s was. They are running it through CODIS as they speak.
Albert meets with Slippery Sam and arranges for him to look at some merchandise.
Maddie is back at the station going through the Melrose Robbery file when she notices that the report is missing some pages. She and a Sergeant decide to run him through LexisNexis to see what pops. This is when Maddie learns that Albert is related to Vasquez.
Later that night Maddie surprises Bosch while he is having dinner. They share a drink and she tells him that she might know an officer who is protecting someone potentially dangerous. He tells her that she has to decide how much of the gray she is willing to live with. He also tells her that this person could still do the right thing when the time comes.
Victoria asks Albert when he is going to move out of his mother’s house. He surprises her by telling her that he was thinking about getting out of town with her. She tells him that she isn’t going to pack up her life and they need money to do something like that. He tells her to let him worry about that for a change. When Victoria later gets up to get them a beer from the fridge, she sees a photo of Vasquez.
Mo is at home when Janice shows up with the file on Finbar he was looking for. She tells him that it was sealed because Finbar had an accomplice, who just happened to be a former intelligence asset.
Maddie shows up at Vasquez’s place with some soup. Maddie tells her about tailing Nestor into a Dollar Store and then tells her that they need to talk about her nephew.
The agent Bosch met earlier tells him that Robertson’s contact was a DEA agent named Nemeth. Robertson supposedly asked him about black ice and fentanyl for a Juan Doe case that he was working on. Bosch later tells this to Honey and tells her that the agent didn’t give Robertson any information because there was no information to give. The conversation doesn’t get much further because Honey receives a call from Corvus Pike (Tim DeKay). After hanging up with Pike, Honey tells Bosch that the DNA found on the bullets was tied to the Juan Doe case Robertson was working on.
The episode ends with Bosch saying that Jimmy was a hit and it was the sicarios.
Bosch Legacy Review
For me, this series would be so much better if it just found a way to fill out the scenes a bit more. It seems almost like a waste to have a minute-long scene. I get building suspense and checking in with all the characters, but this makes for a long boring watch if not done correctly. And, unfortunately, I feel the serious have done it more incorrectly than correctly. That said, there were some interesting aspects and I am interested in seeing where the show goes from here, so I’d have to give it a 5.7 out of 10.
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