But one thing is for certain– he looks pissed.Heartstopper tells the story of two British teenagers at a British high school – Charlie, a high-strung, gay overthinker in public, and Nick Nelson, a cheerful, soft-hearted rugby player – who make one day stay together. He pulls back the zipper of our little tamale girl, looks sad, then disgusted, then looks up towards a point in the room where we do not know what he has locked eyes on. But before the end of his shift, he visits the coldest motel in LA, the morgue. Though, by the end of their day’s worth of investigation, they ask themselves this: Was this a gangland attack, or did someone pay the killers to burn down the building to kickstart a case of gentrification?īosch doesn’t know. A few curt words from Harry telling his partner to get his a*s together. Afterward, Bosch and Jerry have it out, but in a way only the two most quiet detectives can. He basically gets a slap on the wrist, acting within the policy for the shooting, but not for notifying anyone he is staking out the house and call for backup. He has had a hearing to see if the shooting on that Haitian kingpin was justified.
To end the episode, Jerry finds out his fate. The media has even coined her “The Little Tamale Girl,” which adds a racial element that turns up the political heat to solve the case sooner rather than later.
The new mayor, who is Hispanic, has noticed the dead little girl, Sonya Hernandez, call Chief Irving out on his lax police force. Has Detective Harry Bosch finally had enough?įinally, Chief Irvin Irving (Lance Reddick) quit the mayoral race last season to assure his post for the future but now may find himself out of a job. His brow noticeably wrinkles, he covers his mouth, and his hair even seems a slight shade of white. As he drives away, later, we see the emotion come to his face. Clearly, the perps planned this fire down to the finest detail. That and the door the child tried to open at the fire escape was nailed shut. That’s what he found when he made his way up the stairwell of the crispy apartment building. But he can’t handle the picture of an innocent dead child who was robbed of a chance to have a life. Meanwhile, Bosch can handle most scenes, a dead innocent adult just as much as a criminal whose time ran out. Why does he give a damn? Because he put some hot lead into him even after he gave himself up, hands clearly in the air. He is still shooting the murderous kingpin who killed his Uncle at the end of last season. That’s because he has slept through the numerous phone calls, sleeping his daily bender off. He leads his team and directs the detectives to canvas the area, but notices his partner, Jerry Edgar (Jamie Hector), is noticeably absent. Though Bosch wasn’t there, he was dating Judge Sobel (Bess Armstrong), who apparently can’t resist his stoic charm.
Billets (Aquino) house, the team gets the call. He finds the fire escapes were nailed shut, causing the child to die of smoke inhalation. Bosch arrives to find an apartment building smoking from a fire that was just put out. This season takes us to the Hispanic section of Los Angeles, where gang violence has erupted, costing a little girl her life. How else do you explain casting Welliver, Jamie Hector, Amy Aquino, and Lance Reddick in key roles and make it last for seven seasons?
Down from the casting of every single character, the series has always been remarkably comfortable within its own skin. Just because the streets of Los Angeles are sun-soaked doesn’t make the show any less authentic. The same for Connelly, a newspaperman who covered L.A’s finest in the City of Angels for decades. Simon was a former crime reporter covering the drug trade and murder police in Charm City. What has separated the last few seasons of one of Amazon’s staple shows was its unexpected grittiness and office politics humor, a hallmark of one of the great police shows, David Simon’s The Wire.