“Bosch” Season Four: L.A. Landmarks Provide Clues

This season, the locations are clues.

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Amazon Studios hit drama Bosch has always incorporated the Los Angeles landscape into its story lines and in season four, location plays an even bigger role. Producer Tom Bernardo said, “This season, the locations are clues.”

Bernardo, Bosch location manager Paul Schreiber, and Neel Sodha from DTLA Walking Tours took members of the press on a short walking tour in downtown Los Angeles to show a few of the key locations featured in pivotal moments of season four as Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) investigates the murder of prominent attorney Howard Elias (Clark Johnson). Sites on the tour included the Angels Flight trolley, the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Grand Central Market, and the Bradbury Building. The Bradbury Building is known to movie fans from Blade Runner, but for Bosch, the building is seen in it’s classic form for Elias’s office. Location manager Schreiber recalled that the show’s production designers had to construct an office from the ground up as only a portion of the building is currently occupied.

The view from Howard Elias’s office — photo via Diane Gordon

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After the tour, executive producers Bernardo and Henrik Bastin and cast members Titus Welliver, Lance Reddick, Amy Aquino, and Madison Lintz (pictured below) met with press to field questions in the Gallery Bar at the Millennium Biltmore.

Titus Welliver, Lance Reddick, Amy Aquino, Maddie Lintz (photo via Amazon Studios)

Welliver set up season four: “When we pick up this season, civil rights attorney Howard Elias is shot to death on the eve of a trial” and Bosch heads up a special task force to investigate the murder and it has reverberations throughout the police force. Welliver noted, “Chief Irving assigns Bosch to lead the task force, which places Harry at odds with his own department and the community. He’s a white detective assigned to investigate the death of a man who is a prominent member of the African-American community and it’s got people upset. The city is ready to explode. But Irving knows Bosch will work the case.”

Angels Flight trolley in downtown Los Angeles is a murder scene in Bosch season four (photo via Diane Gordon)

Bosch’s relationship with Reddick’s Police Chief Irvin Irving is further complicated by Bosch’s relentless search for his mother’s murderer. The pressure of Bosch’s personal travails combined with the high-profile Elias case makes for, as Welliver described, “a lot of plate-spinning, and we wouldn’t have it any other way. If he didn’t have all those plates to spin, it wouldn’t be Bosch.”

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