Bosch

As the pilot opens, Bosch is tailing a suspect. Eventually cornering him in an alley, Bosch shoots the suspect when he reaches in his pocket. The incident is shown later in the episode in two separate flashbacks. When seen from Bosch’s point of view, it appears that there is something in the suspect’s hand that falls in a puddle. When the incident is recounted by the plaintiff’s lawyer during a wrongful death suit, there is clearly nothing in the suspect’s hand and Bosch is shown planting a gun. Whatever really happened, Bosch is cleared by the department. The show fast-forwards to two years later when Bosch is being sued by the suspect’s family in a wrongful death civil suit.Restless because he has been on restricted duty during the trial and anxious to do more active detective work, Bosch convinces two other detectives to trade shifts with him so he can work their weekend shift, much to the chagrin of his partner. On Saturday, Bosch is called out on a case which turns out to be a suicide, and a second case wherein a doctor reports his dog found a human bone in the woods.Bosch Season 1-7 Download

The latter investigation turns up more bones and the coroner determines the skeleton is that of a small boy who was horribly abused and beaten, then buried in the woods. The boy has been dead since at least 1989 and could have been anywhere from 10 to 12 when he died, but because severe abuse stunts children’s growth, the victim’s exact age is uncertain. The details of the boy’s mistreatment – more than 40 broken bones, some healed and others relatively recent – and death are so grisly that Bosch has to step away from the coroner’s recitation to go into the restroom to splash water on his face and sit down on a commode for a moment to regain his composure.