The Closers (2005)
After three years out of the
LAPD, Harry Bosch returns, to find the department a different place from
the one he left. A new Police Chief has been brought over from New York
to give the place a thorough
clean up from top to bottom.
Working with his former partner, Kiz Rider, Harry is assigned to the
department's Open-Unsolved Unit, working on the thousands of cold cases
that haunt the LAPD's
files. These detectives are
the Closers they put a shovel in the dirt and turn over the past. By
applying new techniques to old evidence they aim to unearth some hidden
killers and bring them to
justice, for "a city that
forgets its murder victims is a city lost."
Harry and Kiz
are given a politically sensitive case when a DNA match connects a white
supremacist
to the 1988 murder of
Rebecca Verloren, a sixteen-year-old girl. Becky was of mixed race, and
the case appears to have a racial angle. This was LA before the riots
and Rodney King; the city was a powder
keg waiting for a match. The
detectives who worked the case all those years ago seem to have done a
decent job, but something doesn't fit.
Meanwhile Harry's
nemesis, Deputy Chief Irving,
is watching him. In the new
"clean" LAPD Irving has been sidelined to a meaningless job. Compelled
by vengeance, he hopes that Harry will make a slip.