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Bosch: Legacyseason 3 is currently in production, after the massive success of Season 2, which sawHarry Bosch and Honey Chandler team up to solve the murder of the assistant city manager of West Hollywood, Lexi Parks, with a mystery surrounding what actually happened to the woman.
Excitement is building for Bosch: Legacy season 3, with the announcement that it will crossover with the upcoming untitledRenee Ballard spin off, with both shows set to be based on Michael Connelly’s novel,Desert Star. An untitled spin-off series featuring Bosch’s ex-partner, Jerry Edgar, is also in the works.
The Season 2 plot of Bosch: Legacy revolves around the murder case of Lexi Parks
Bosch: Legacy season 2’s main story focuses on the murder of a woman called Lexi Parks.Parks and her husband, Vince Harrick, The couple were discussing finding time to see each other more prior to her death, and they agreed to have breakfast together when he returned from his shift as a sheriff’s deputy. The next morning, Vince discovers Lexi brutally murdered in their bed.
Who was accused of killing Lexi Parks?
The police arrest a man called David Foster for Lexi Parks' murder. As he’s being taken away by police officers, Foster tells his wife to callHoney Chandler.Honey arrives at work, and Martin Rose informs her that a former client, David Foster, wants her to represent him.
Chandler meets with David Foster and asks if he has an alibi, to which he claims he was at home with his wife on their regular date night.
In court, Honey asks for the arraignment to continue while she has a chance to get up to speed with the case, and the judge offers Foster 30 days. He accepts. The prosecutor says David’s DNA was found at the scene and inside Parks' body.
Chandler enlists the help of Harry Bosch to be an investigator on the Foster case. She gives the ex LAPD cop the same dollar bill she previously had as payment for his services and he accepts. Bosch is initially skeptical about Foster’s innocence, but once he fully delves into the case, he becomes convinced Foster has been framed.
Chandler meets Foster’s wife to discuss his alibi, and she admits he wasn’t home on the night of Lexi Parks' murder. Chandler visits Foster, and he admits to doing drugs again around six months ago, and says his dealer is a man called James Allen, who he was having a secret love affair with, and he was with him the night of Parks' murder.Allen later turns up dead, after being killed by the same people who framed Foster.
Who actually killed Lexi Parks?
Bosch uncovers a conspiracy that involves a couple of corrupt police detectives calledDon Ellis and Kevin Longin the murder of Lexi Parks.
Bosch meets with old colleagues, Detectives Pierce and Vega who are assigned to the murder of James Allen. Bosch discovers that Allen had previously been arrested for drug dealing and sex work, but in a strange twist, these arrests stopped three years earlier. Bosch thinks someone on the inside was looking out for him. Bosch tracks down the detectives that arrested Allen, and this leads him to Ellis and Long.
Bosch is convinced Ellis and Long are involved in Lexi Parks' death, when Chandler identifies them as the detectives who pulled her over during her bogus DUI arrest. Ellis and Long become aware of Bosch closing in on them as suspects, and they put a tracker on Bosch’s car, and run him andMo Bassioff the road. Bosch eventually tracks Ellis and Long down and there is a shootout between him and the corrupt detectives, with Bosch shooting Long (non fatally), and Ellis escapes and goes on the run.
Chandler presents evidence that Ellis and Long murdered Lexi Parks and framed Foster by using a condom from Foster’s secret lover, James Allen to plant Foster’s DNA on the scene. Bosch and Chandler get a confession from Long, who is recuperating from his injuries in hospital. They bring this evidence to the District Attorney, but he claims it’s inadmissible in court as they didn’t get Long’s consent to record it.
Chandler threatens to release the recording to the press, which would leave the DA forced to explain why he didn’t drop the case. This leads to the charges against Foster being dropped and he is a free man. Harry Bosch tracks down Don Ellis, who is hiding out on a boat, and a fight ensues, butMaddie Boschturns up just in time to shoot Ellis and save her father.
Bosch: Legacyseason 2’s endingsees the Lexi Parks murder case wrapped up, and it is a major factor in pushing Honey Chandler to decide to run for District Attorney, which looks set to be a major storyline in the upcomingBosch: Legacyseason 3.
Bosch: Legacy
Cast
Bosch: Legacy picks up where the original Bosch series left off, with the titular detective leaving the LAPD and going into business as a private investigator. Titus Welliver reprises his role as Harry Bosch, along with Mimi Rogers and Madison Lintz. Both shows are based on the novels by author Michael Connelly.
