‘Bosch: Legacy’ Recap – ‘Escape Plan’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz, Deji LaRay, and Denise G. Sanchez as Harry Bosch, Officer Madison Bosch, Officer Julius Edgewood, and Officer Reina Vazquez in Episode 209 of ‘Bosch: Legacy’ – ‘Escape Plan’. (Photo Courtesy of Tyler Golden, Amazon Freevee.)

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode 209 of ‘Bosch: Legacy’. To revisit the previous episode, clickhere.
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Normally, crime dramas follow a pretty standard formula for the end of the season. In that, our hero and the villain will duke it out in the finale, so that everyone gets to enjoy one epic tale that brings together the story in a satisfying manner. With justice for all, of course, and few crime dramas ever deviate from that. Because it is a tried-and-true formula, and it allows for so much storytelling and tension building to come forth in the penultimate episode. But once in a while you run into a crime drama that likes to defy convention, such as Bosch: Legacy on Amazon Freevee.

For its next episode, ‘Escape Plan’, the penultimate of season two, felt more like a season finale. In large part, because the looming core battle between Honey Chandler and the United States of America was resolved in this particular tale. Because despite being carted off to jail and hammered by the FBI about her involvement in the Rogers case, she had a surprise waiting for the Feds. Courtesy of some wonderful sleight of hand trickery that she had been saving for just this moment. For when she brought the FBI into court to challenge what seemed to be a flawless search warrant, she used that trick to showcase that the FBI had improperly executed its warrant, which allowed for the case to be thrown out.

Plus, a Bosch outright defeated Ellis in this story. But that was no easy task. In fact, for some time it also seemed as though the battle between Harry and Ellis would loom large. For we learned that Ellis was indeed hiding out inside of a houseboat and biding his time and pondering upon leaving or exacting revenge on the man that harmed his partner and ended his crooked career. And of course, Bosch was looking over his shoulder at every step. Simply because there was a real danger here, one he did not want to acknowledge and thankfully, Maddie stepped in and made sure he had LAPD officers watching his back at every step, and had it not been for that, disaster could have struck.

Because eventually, Bosch was able to figure out where Ellis was hiding and decided to make a preemptive strike upon him. Which went, so-so. Because what Bosch was not prepared for was the fact that Ellis was his equal from a physical and fury standpoint. So, those two went toe-to-toe for some time aboard the boat that Ellis was hiding out upon and sadly, one wrong step on Bosch’s part, combined with that fury… had our hero within seconds of losing his life. But Maddie had a lock on his phone and was able to get to the marina with plenty of backup. Wherein she arrived just in time to save her father’s life by dropping Ellis like a bad habit.

Putting an end to his reign of terror and well, in any other show that would be it. That would be the season finale and we’d move right along. But that means this unconventional show has a little bit more up its sleeve. Such as bringing the Parks case to its full conclusion. Because despite the bad guys being gone and witnesses being in place, the DA’s office did mention they want to press ahead and put the wrong man away, which did get buried behind the action here. Action that isn’t done yet, at least not when it comes to the FBI. Since we learned that Mo’s lady is a Federal Agent and she has all kinds of dirt to bring him down, the kind that might come back to bite our heroes, if the FBI get access to his files. Until next time.

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