Highlights
- Madison Lintz has been playing Maddie Bosch for almost a decade and will continue to be a significant character in the expanding Bosch universe.
- Maddie’s character went through a traumatic kidnapping in Bosch: Legacy Season 2 but eventually recovers and returns to work.
- Maddie takes a life for the first time in the line of duty, showing her growth and resilience as a character.
Madison Lintz has played Maddie Bosch for nearly a decade now in Prime Video’s Bosch and Amazon Freevee’s Bosch: Legacy. Season 3 is currently in the works and the universe is expanding significantly with spin-offs on the way, meaning there is a lot more to come from her character moving forward.
Lintz started out as a recurring guest star on the original series, before she became a series regular as the show went on. Her role in the spin-off, Bosch: Legacy, was a significant expansion for Maddie, with her now being one of the primary characters in the show. Lintz appeared in 64 of 68 episodes of Bosch, and has appeared in all 20 episodes of Bosch: Legacy.
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What happened to Maddie in Bosch: Legacy?
Bosch: Legacy Season 2 kicked off with Maddie at the front and center of the action, as a man in a luchador mask attacked her in her apartment. A fight between them takes place, with Maddie using her police training skills to get the better of the masked intruder until he knocks her out using chloroform. He removes his mask and the offender is revealed to be Kurt Dockweiler, who was the city inspector Maddie made contact with towards the end of Bosch: Legacy Season 1. Dockweiler puts Maddie in a bag, and throws her in his truck and heads off to the Mojave Desert with her.
Dockweiler is driving through the desert, and stops to give Maddie another shot to keep her unconscious. She tries to fight him off, but she passes out again.
Maddie wakes up and is handcuffed in a wooden crate, screaming for help. But nobody hears her screams, as she’s buried underground in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Her father, ex LAPD detective, Harry Bosch, manages to track her down and rescue her from the crate.
Maddie makes a full physical recovery in hospital, but is left with mental scars from her traumatic kidnapping. Maddie eventually returns to work and is on light duties to ease her back in, working at the front desk, but she’s getting itchy feet and wants to get back into action. Reina Vasquez has a new position working for the Crime Reduction Unit at the Hollywood station, and Maddie manages to earn a promotion to this team as well, and also starts up a new relationship with fellow officer, Rico. She struggles to sleep after the ordeal, and sleeps with a gun under her bed.
As season 2 progresses, Maddie works on her victim impact statement, with Dockweiler’s trial fast approaching. She insists she isn’t a victim as she wasn’t raped, but is clearly still struggling with the incident and takes it out on a suspect at work. She ends up reading her impact statement at Dockweiler’s trial, giving her some closure on the ordeal she suffered.
Maddie takes a life for the first time in the line of duty, and she does it in order to save her father’s life, after he gets into a fight with Lexi Parks’ murderer, Don Ellis. She seems to cope well with the shooting, taking on Harry Bosch’s mantra after killing a suspect.
Taking a life to save a life.
It brings out some anger she still feels about her mum’s death, and she reflects on how much she needs her father in her life. Bosch: Legacy‘s Season 2 ending sees Maddie’s feelings towards her father take a turn for the worse when she intercepts a call on his phone from Preston Borders, a prisoner who claims to be responsible for killing Kurt Dockweiler.
Who is Maddie Bosch?
Maddie Bosch is the daughter of ex-LAPD detective turned private investigator, Harry Bosch. She grew up largely estranged from her father, as she lived in Las Vegas with her mother, Eleanor, who was a former FBI profiler. Her relationship with her father improved over time, as she ended up moving to Los Angeles to live with him. Over time, she would learn more about the job that kept Harry Bosch from seeing her as much as she was growing up. Maddie and harry grow even closer when Eleanor is murdered, leaving her with only one parent.
Maddie showed an interest in the law and criminal justice, and went to work for defense lawyer, Honey Chandler for some time, much to the chagrin of her father, who had a complicated past with her new boss. Maddie eventually left her job with Chandler, but remained close with her. By the start of Bosch: Legacy season 1, she had joined the LAPD as a rookie cop, following in the footsteps of her father.
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