The Late Lance Reddick Makes Final Appearance As Irving In Bosch: Legacy Season 2 Finale (Exclusive Sneak Peek)

Before he passed away in March, Bosch vet Lance Reddick filmed his first appearance on Freevee's Bosch: Legacy spinoff — and TVLine has an exclusive first look at that very special guest spot in the Season 2 finale, which is the second of this Friday's two episodes.

In the original Bosch series based on the Michael Connelly novels, Reddick for all seven seasons was a series regular as Chief of Police Irvin Irving. In the final season, Irving made a back room deal with the FBI to drop an LAPD investigation if the Feds gave him the dirt he needed to blackmail Mayor Lopez into ensuring him another five-year term as police commissioner.

Bosch (played by Titus Welliver), though, had made sure that Los Angeles Times reporter Scott Anderson got the skinny on the Feds' plan to let an arsonist skate and head into WITSEC — and how Irving himself benefitted from the deal.

In the exclusive clip above, Irving meets up with Chandler (Mimi Rogers), and in doing so we get a sense of what came of that tip to the Times. Press play above to get the 411 on Irving — and then be left wondering why Chandler arranged this catch-up....

Bosch: Legacy opened Season 2 with a title card that dedicated the episode to both Reddick and Annie Wersching (who played Officer Julia Brasher on Bosch and died on Jan. 29 of this year). "[O]ne of the great gifts we had was bringing [Lance] back for one more scene," exec producer Tom Bernardo told TVInsider. "We had that devastating news hit, but we still have that last moment together. We're thankful for it."

Reddick, best known for playing Lieutenant Cedric Daniels on The Wire and General Phillip Broyles on Fringe, died at age 60 while in the midst of the press tour for John Wick: Chapter 4. (The actor's family has disputed "heart disease" as the cause of death.) Reddick appeared in numerous films and shows including — but far from limited to! — The Blacklist, Key & Peele, Resident Evil, the Disney animated revival of DuckTales, Netflix's animated Castlevania, the 2020 film One Night in Miami (directed by Regina King) and of course the John Wick saga.

Reddick recently co-starred in Showtime's The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial movie, and can also be seen as Zeus in Disney+'s upcoming Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series.

Freevee's Bosch: Legacy is already renewed for Season 3.