- Bosch gains a new ally in his ex-wife Eleanor. Deputy Chief Irving makes a series of deals that will shape the future of the police department - and possibly even the city itself. Waits's disturbing focus on Bosch intensifies.
- Raynard Waits is in his mother's house, an odd place built partially under a hillside. He arranges her dead body in bed into a sleeping position, lights a candle, then has a coffee. He is deep in thought.
Harry reviews his old file while listening to jazz. In the morning he goes to Norm's for breakfast with Eleanor Wish. She is going back to Las Vegas, Maddie was in a minor car accident the previous night but is alright. Harry is upset, the two argue, Eleanor storms off.
Waits calls Harry again and tells the cop his mother died yesterday.
Irvine Irving has breakfast with his wife, they discuss his plans to see an activist clergyman and the political manoeuvring with Rick O'Shea.
Detectives Johnson and Ryder are going through the McLaren files. Harry tells them to look for the code A102, these are the boys sent into the solitary cell. Brasher comes in to work and reports to Capt Pound. He tells her outright her story on Stokes is bogus but urges her to file a sexual harassment complaint on Bosch, then the 3rd Unsat will be forgotten. Brasher is hesitant as the relationship with Bosch was consensual.
Irving meets a Minister in his church, he asks the Reverend to support O'Shea for Mayor. In return the black man asks for an easing up in racial profiling and to avoid 'Ferguson' type policing.
CSI Jessop shows Bosch and Edgar his new findings. He checked a skateboard found in Nicholas Trent's house, under the wheel assembly there are written initials AD 1993, a year before Arthur Delacroix disappeared. Then the CSI talks to Bosch in private. He admits an error in revealing the contents of Arthur's backpack to a telephone caller claiming to be an Assistant DA. This was how Raynard Waits knew about the starfish. In the parking lot, Jerry says they had the right guy all along, Nicholas Trent, Harry reluctantly agrees and says write it up.
Waits closes up a cell phone backplate, then goes cruising in his van. He pulls up by a dumpster in an alley, but it is locked.
At a gym Julia works out with George Irving and discuss her options. He urges her to file against Bosch, but she seems to realize she will be stigmatized either way.
The next day Bosch sees Brasher at work in uniform. He is surprised and says she should take a leave and be truthful about the garage incident. The two argue in front of other cops.
O'Shea and Irving walk together in park beside City Hall. The DA says the Reverend will support him for Mayor if he gets a seat on the Police Commission. Irving is upset with this development and O'Shea points out the Deputy Chief started this ball rolling.
Bosch goes back to Nicolas Trent's house and sees Dr. Guyot walking his dog. Harry asks him about kids in the neighbourhood, there are few now but 20 years ago there were many. The Blalocks who lived up the street may know names but they moved to Tonopah. Harry checks out the old Blalocks house and notices it is the house in the old photo of the kid skateboarders. Jerry then calls to say he had called the Blalocks earlier but the Mrs. had denied having foster kids. Guyot gives Harry an envelope, he still exchanges Christmas cards with the Blalocks.
Harry makes the 6 hour drive to Tonopah at night, and parks in front of the Blalock house at 4 am. At daybreak he goes to the front door and is greeted by a friendly Mr. Blalock. Blalock is a retired Fire Dept Captain from the Hollywood area, he makes Harry coffee. Audrey Blalock is suspicious but they admit they cared for 38 foster kids. Harry shows the old photo and they pick out Johnny Stokes, one of their wards. They also recognize a photo of Arthur Delacroix's skateboard, recalling Johnny had won it in a contest. They later sold it to Nicolas Trent. In the car Harry calls Jerry, now realizing that Stokes probably killed Arthur over the skateboard.
Back in LA Harry gets a call, the police have detected Waits' cell phone signal, Harry rushes to the location. There, Edgar updates Bosch, a hooker has been found dead in an alley dumpster. Bosch has a look at the scene and recoils. He says it is a staging of his own mother's death. Waits must have done it as a message, knowing how to set it up from the online newspaper links about Bosch during the Flores trial. Then Waits calls Bosch and says his mother was a saint while Harry's was a whore, then hangs up and tosses the phone.
Harry goes to Police Archives and gets his mother's case file. Marjorie Phillips Lowe murdered in 1979. He reads the file at home and recalls the last time he saw her. He drinks whisky and reflects.
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