Elizabeth Clayton is a woman 40-50 y.o.a as of 2017. She had a daughter named Daisy who was murdered in 2009. After Daisy's death, Elizabeth became addicted to oxycodone. She was conscripted into a drug gang that used people such as herself to fill bogus prescriptions for oxycodone. The gang operated out of Pacoima and Slab City. In 2017 she met Harry Bosch who was working undercover on a murder investigation. When the drug gang was broken up, Bosch took her to the Road Saints clubhouse where she was kept in a locked room to get her past the initial phase of opioid withdrawal. Bosch then paid for her to get into rehab at a facility called The Start in Canoga Park.
When Elizabeth was fully recovered from her addiction, Bosch invited her to live at this house for a time to get herself more firmly established as a sober person. She had her own bedroom initially but then became sexually involved with Bosch. (This describes the portrayal of the character from the book.)
Portrayal[]
Clayton is played by guest star Jamie Ann Allman in the 2015 streaming series Bosch. She is a recurring character in the fifth and sixth season. Her storyline is broadly similar to that in Two Kinds of Truth. In the series Elizabeth Clayton is portrayed as a addict army vet who goes off the deep end after her daughter Daisy's murder never gets solved . She first appears in the fifth season as member of a vet addict support group . Bosch meets her while undercover investigating a opioid crime ring run by Walsh. She was part of a group of vets getting false prescriptions for Walsh's gang in exchange for drugs . Bosch gets to know her while undercover as a vet and finds out about her daughter Daisy . Bosch feeling sympathetic for Elizabeth gets her out of the group by getting her arrested for shoplifting . Bosch later reveals hes a cop to her and get to turn on Walsh . She is able to help LAPD and the DEA find the drug camp. A year later its revealed Bosch had been investigating Daisy's murder on the side wanting to help Elizabeth get justice for her Daughter. He eventually finds evidence linking a suspect to Daisy's murder. He figures out Daisy's killer is Roger Dillon a crime scene cleaner who made her murder look like the mo of a serial killer. Bosch arrests him after finding evidence in his van and office tying him to kidnappings of other girls and Daisy's murder . He tells Bosch he killed Daisy in self defenses because she pulled a knife on him and the other girls are still alive. He says he sold them to traffickers . He ends up making a deal with the DA in exchange for giving up the traffickers and the safe return of the surviving girls . He ends up getting only 11 years when its proven his Intel was right . The surviving girls are rescued by Detectives Vega and Pierce. Bosch tries to argue with the DA that Daisy didn't have a knife on her . But isn't able to prove it. He tells Elizabeth about the deal and is devastated is more than likely not going even serve the full 11 years . Due to grief for failing her daughter . Elizabeth is found dead in her apartment by Bosch when he goes to return Daisy's photo . She committed suicide oding on pills mixed with alcohol . She is given a vets funeral and Bosch attends it .
Her character shows the pain and suffering anyone can go through after losing a loved one causing someone to choose to go down a path of destruction and drowning not knowing how to get out and in the end not wanting to get out because it is all they know how to do.
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Unlike the novel Two Kinds of Truth. She does not have a one night stand with Bosch nor does she live with him in the series .
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