Harry Bosch quotes from Bosch

Irvin Irving

[Over Bosch claiming where the money is hidden, it's where Nash is] Follow the money.

Harry Bosch

Follow the fucking money.

Harry Bosch

If Holland were an ordinary mook with a public defender, he'd be begging to cop a plea. But he's a semi-famous film director with a high price mouthpiece.

Well, I still think he'll plead.

Harry Bosch

This is L.A. I've got two words for you.

Don't say "OJ".

Harry Bosch

Robert Blake.

Phil Spector.

Harry Bosch

The exception that proves the rule.

That's why I like In-N-Out: you're in, you're out. [To Anita] Any luck?

Harry Bosch

I've left messages.

This is way better, Dad. Trust me.You love In-N-Out.

The Animal Fries. What's better than that?

Harry Bosch

Yeah, I know, but...

But, Maddie, you've never even been here before.

It's true, but everyone at school keeps talking about it: Danny Meyer, first Shake Shack in L.A. Any relation to Oscar?

Harry Bosch

Who? Sorry. I'm not up on my trendy eateries.

Philistine.

Harry Bosch

I'm a throwback. Check my fur.

I love that bracelet, Anita.

Oh, thanks, Maddie.

Thrift store catch. It's so retro.

Well, actually, it's not...

What are you going to get?

I don't know. A shake, I guess.

Harry Bosch

Thank you. City attorney's discovery was thin, but you knew that.

Why is it that guys like you, when you don't get your own way, always assume it's personal?

Harry Bosch

Tell me about this witness list.

Lengthy. Meant to daze and confuse.

Harry Bosch

In a trial that Elias apparently thought wouldn't last long.

Read into that whatever you like.

Harry Bosch

Someone turned this case for him.

I can't share his strategy, Bosch.

Harry Bosch

I can guess his strategy. Terry Drake and Frankie Sheehan are the only ones who know for sure what happened in that junkyard bathroom.

Is that a question or an answer?

Harry Bosch

You tell me.

Nice try. Again, we're stuck at what I can't legally divulge. Not a good place to be. So, if you will excuse me. [Walks past him and away]

[Harry arrives to his residence backyard to find Frank on porch] I knocked. Nobody was home.

Harry Bosch

If someone was, I'd be throwing your fսckin' ass down that hill.

You think I killed Elias?

Harry Bosch

Where you been, Frank?

Here and there. Doesn't matter. Everyone's a suspect till they're not. I have all these... thoughts rattling around in my head.

Harry Bosch

I'll bet you do. Quickest way to clear yourself, Frank... give me your piece.

[Scoffs] Sorry, Harry. [Sighs] Nowhere else to go.

Harry Bosch

Come on. Let's go inside. Oh, shit, it's fսcking cold up here at night. Yeah. Catalina eddy. Wind comes whipping off the ocean. [Frank stands up] Go inside.

[Standing in Harry's living room window] Actually drove by Hollywood Station. Goddamn microwave forest. All those news vans lined up. fսck¡ng L.A. City wants to blame this on a cop. Already made up their minds. City doesn't decide. People have no idea. They have no fսck¡ng idea what it takes to do this work. I didn't do Howard Elias, Bosch. I wouldn't waste a bullet on that mοtherfսcking shyster. I did, once. Have to kill a guy. You read about that in my TEAMS report? Oscar Villanova. Male, Hispanic. It was a good shoot, everyone said, you know? It was a good shoot, everyone said, you know? But every October 12, his birthday, I think about how he's not getting any older.

Harry Bosch

All our secrets come out at some time, Frank. Maybe it's your time.

I didn't kill Elias. I did Black Guardian. I did that one, Bosch. I'm not proud of it. [Walks to couch] Happened just like Harris said. [Sits down] Pencil in the ear, squeal and confess.

Harry Bosch

Heat of the moment.

Thought we had our guy. I was so fսcking angry. The Kincaid girl, picturing her... tied up somewhere and alone, scared. You'd have done the same thing, Harry. You would've. Cops like us, we get stuff done.

Harry Bosch

[Having lunch with Harry at a restaurant patio] Feds were investigating Stanley Woo in China?

Please. [Dryly chuckles] Dragon Head of the Wu Fu Triad. How does he not get looked at?

Harry Bosch

You told me Reggie walked away from his uncle and the family business when he married you.

Walked away.

Harry Bosch

Walked back. Swell. When were you gonna tell me?

[Having lunch with Harry at a patio] Organized crime is a fact of China. Has been for a thousand years. Reggie doesn't think of it the way we do. I don't care what Reggie thinks, but our daughter... I know. That's why Maddie and I stayed in Vegas when you got the job in Macao.

Harry Bosch

Why'd you go back last year?

I just... I wasn't ready to give up on him. And then Griffin came to me with an assignment. Help them see if family Woo was behind something they were looking into, and I'd get my credentials back. I know, I know. I just thought if I could show Reggie what his uncle was doing, he would come back to us. Turns out his uncle wasn't even involved.

Harry Bosch

In that.

"In that". Reggie found out, we had this blow-out. Said I had to choose between the FBI and him. And I said, "No, it's your choice: your uncle, or Maddie and me."

Harry Bosch

You did the right thing.

I kept trying to convince myself that he was gonna choose us. And then, this morning... He's making a big mistake. I loved him, Harry. Past lives just catch up with us. Can't change who we are. Not your fault. Not his. Maddie takes the hit. She's a tough bird, like her mama. She'll understand. That her mom is a two-time loser?

Harry Bosch

Come on, Eleanor. What's the matter with me?

Not a thing.

Harry Bosch

[Realizes Eleanor has forgotten her phone walking to her vehicle] Eleanor, your phone! [Motorcylists come by and assassinate Eleanor] Fuck! [Rushes forward with gun drawn]

Harry Bosch

Frank.

You fսckеd me.

Harry Bosch

No, you fսckеd yourself. You lied to me.

After all your bullshit about believing me and proving me fսcking innocent...

Harry Bosch

Nothing I can do about ballistics.

Aw, shit no. Yeah, that's a perfect frame. Yeah, whose idea was that?

Harry Bosch

You still saying you didn't shoot Elias?

Yeah, and my gun didn't either because I had it with me and I wasn't fսckin' there.

Harry Bosch

You're a blackout drunk.

Fսck off, Harry! How would you even know?

Harry Bosch

Fսck you! Explain the match.

I... I can't. I can't.

Harry Bosch

Time was that would've been your job.

Hmm? Yeah. What happened to you?

Harry Bosch

Got support so we can go in?

Yeah, but this is a follow-away caper, Bosch. Watch and wait.

Harry Bosch

He's one guy. You play pool?

Jerry Edgar

Always wanted to learn. [Harry and Jerry jump out of vehicle]

Bosch! Shit!

Harry Bosch

Who is he?

Just what he said. High-level MSS agent, consular cover.

Son of some party bigwig. A princeling, corrupt or gone rogue. He was running a money dump from China.

Parking cash in local banks for God knows what kind of financial terror.

Jerry Edgar

You just let him walk?

Fly. And no, we didn't. I don't think the president could have kept Chen here without an international incident.

We tail him back to Shanghai, see who he answers to back there. When his bosses realize how completely he's failed and exposed them, then...

Whatever they do to him is worse than anything you or I could ever imagine.

Harry Bosch

And that offers comfort to me? My daughter?

Eleanor Wish was instrumental in bringing down a major foreign threat to our country. She gave her life for it. I should think that's something that you'd want to honor.

Harry Bosch

You assholes got her killed. [Punches Jay in the face]

You're wrong. Griffin put his reputation on the line for her.

Harry Bosch

What is this? If I'm wrong, this is your boss' phone, you can just give it back to him. But if I'm right, you'll find that he sent a photo that Eleanor took at the poker game and gave it to a Chinese intermediary... who exposed it to the man who had Eleanor killed.

Jerry Edgar

We found his number on Eleanor's cell. Backtracked the texts from the call log.

Harry Bosch

Maybe he didn't realize how dangerous Chen was when he sent it, but Griffin poked a hornets' nest to see what flew out. It was two assassins on a motorcycle.

This is fucked up.

Harry Bosch

I don't know about you, Chuck, but for me... a special agent like that shouldn't be in charge of anything.

Harry Bosch

[Follows Bradley to underground subway access who finds a gun] Police. Drop your weapon.

Detective Harry Bosch. No backup?

Harry Bosch

Drop the weapon.

Shoot me, Harry. That's what you want to do. [Jerry Edgar walks down stairs] You're the cop who makes his own rules. Finds his own justice. FID will clear you.

Harry Bosch

Surely.

I have a loaded weapon. Here's your chance.

Harry Bosch

And make it easy for you? You're good for the murders of Howard Elias and Lanny Johnson. Then there's Caffrey, the other victims of the River Watch arson. And Marjorie Lowe.

I have no idea who you're talking about.

Harry Bosch

City Hotel, 1978. She was a call girl. You strangled her. Left her in a Dumpster.

You're greedy, Bosch. Just do it.

Harry Bosch

A man's got to be accountable for what he's done.

Death cheats the system.

Harry Bosch

And I'm gonna make sure you spend the rest of your fucking life in Pelican Bay solitary. You won't do well in prison.

Elias broke our contract. We had a business arrangement. Out of nowhere, he decides to destroy my ability to get funding for development. Everything my foundation has done, my family name.

Harry Bosch

Drop the weapon, Walker.

Forget the rest of them. There's only one murder that matters to you, right? And the only satisfaction you'll get for that is killing me. Anything else, I feel I'd be cheating you. [Stamps on phone camera light on ground and fires gun at Harry who disappears before the fired shot who appears alongside Bradley gun at his head]

Harry Bosch

Drop the fucking gun. Drop it. Get on your knees. Put your hands on your head.

Here we are.

Harry Bosch

No. Here you are.

Just say it.

Harry Bosch

That you killed her.

You know, some people are the guardians of progress. We build the cities, we... we walk you to the future. Sometimes, other people... get in the way. Marjorie Lowe was a whore. She knew the game. I paid her for certain services, things went awry.

Harry Bosch

She was my mother.

She was a whore who let them take her son away.

Harry Bosch

[Points gun at Bradley's forehead] You murdered my mother, you pig.

I did. Sorry.

Harry Bosch

J. Edgar, you heard that?

Jerry Edgar

I heard it, Harry.

It's not admissible.

Jerry Edgar

Securing the weapon.

He had a gun to my head, you saw it.

Harry Bosch

Cuff him, call it in.

I didn't fire, Jerry.

Jerry Edgar

I know. Murder weapon in his hand. We have him dead to rights for Elias.

I want a lawyer.

Harry Bosch

You heard everything? [Jerry nods] All I need. It's done.

Jerry Edgar

Got plans tonight?

Harry Bosch

Get this wiretap signed, walk my dog. Thrilling.

Jerry Edgar

You're like a monk in a monastery up on that hill.

Harry Bosch

I dig wearing those robes. I've noticed that you and Bennett have become rather chummy these days.

Jerry Edgar

[Chuckles] No comment.

Harry Bosch

I thought so. Catch you tomorrow.

Jerry Edgar

All right, partner. Have a good one. [Walks to his vehicle and Bosch walks to his vehicle but unable to drive out the lot due to Dax and his sidekick blocking path recording with phones]

The deep state let you go. Detective Harry Bosch. Badge number 2997. Get his plate.

Harry Bosch

That's enough. Clear out so I can exit.

Not even pretending to be a free citizen today, Detective? Registration's almost expired.

Harry Bosch

Clear the driveway so I can exit.

No seat belt. Damn shame. Hope your daughter wears hers.

Harry Bosch

What did you say?

Young lady in her prime, whole life ahead of her. [Harry gets out vehicle and walks up to Dax's face] Get this, get this.

Harry Bosch

The fսck did you just say?

Jerry Edgar

[Runs over] Harry!

Harry Bosch

Back the fսck up. You mention my daughter again and they'll be scraping you off the pavement with a fսcking spatula!

Jerry Edgar

Come on, man, he's not even worth it. Don't give 'em the satisfaction. [To Dax] Get the fսck out of here! Go!

Fսcking pig.

Irvin Irving

[In office] So when does Kennedy lower the boom?

Jerry Edgar

We're meeting with Chandler this morning.

Irvin Irving

She'll be looking to renegotiate.

Harry Bosch

Won't she be surprised?

Irvin Irving

This Three Oh Eight video that dropped last night...

Harry Bosch

Nothing to worry about in my view.

Irvin Irving

They're still persons of interest in the Craver murder.

Jerry Edgar

Got to follow every lead.

Irvin Irving

[Gets up with Harry and Jerry then getting up] Tread lightly with these people.

Harry Bosch

Yes, sir. [Walks away with Jerry]

Chandler will try to get this suppressed. Her chances? [Phone beeps] Slim to none. [Turns on speaker phone]

It's Honey Chandler.

Speak of the devil. Send her in, please.

Jerry Edgar

We went by the book. The tape will hold up.

Harry Bosch

"Conspiracy supersedes consent."

[Entering room, sarcastically to still seated Harry, Maxwell and Alicia] Please don't stand on my account. [Sits in chair] May I? For the record?

Go ahead.

Three days ago, Clifford Maxwell was killed by the FBI as they attempted to take him into custody for the murder of Stanley Kent.

We won't revisit the plea deal.

Not asking you to. Mrs. Kent is ready to accept the plea and proceed immediately to sentencing.

In fact, we're pulling it.

I'm sorry?

The plea agreement. We're pulling it. We have new evidence that your client has been less than truthful in her proffer. We're filing additional charges against her for the murder of her husband.

What new evidence? Come on, don't be coy. I'll get it in discovery. [Alex facially cues to Harry]

Harry Bosch

We have Alicia Kent on tape planning her husband's murder with her lover, FBI Agent Clifford Maxwell.