[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 14 “New York Minute.”]
The Reagans get to have fun the late member of their household, Joe (who died earlier than the collection started), in a method they by no means might within the newest episode of Blue Bloods.
Close to the start of the episode, Frank (Tom Selleck) learns that the Irish Society pulled an invite to honor Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) with a service award (earlier than the detective even knew about it). It appears to be a primary within the 100-odd years of honoring cops and firefighters. The figuring out issue is, ostensibly, Danny’s popularity and baggage.
The mouthpiece is Grace Edwards (Lori Loughlin), with whom Frank beforehand crossed paths. He units a gathering along with her away from his workplace—as he does when one may get overheated—and tries to attraction to her. She says that stains within the press and public notion are onerous to take away, at the same time as Frank argues his son is a adorned cop and tremendous household man. That doesn’t change the truth that he comes from New York’s most seen cop household and enjoys a popularity as a really unfastened cannon. Their subsequent assembly doesn’t go significantly better, along with her feeling like she’s been blackmailed, not given data pertaining to 5 of her former nominees and board members.
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To Frank’s shock, Henry (Len Cariou) thinks it’s in all probability factor that the award has been taken from Danny. They each understand how Joe’s turned out; he obtained it earlier than he died (the ceremony was scheduled for 2 days later), and as Henry sees it, it’s jinxed. Different recipients have been paralyzed and stabbed by a perp. He even tries to get Erin (Bridget Moynahan) and Jamie (Will Estes) on his aspect. Jamie thinks Danny deserves it, however Erin argues it’s Joe’s award and will keep that method.
Danny (lastly) finds out about it when the reality comes out over, after all, household dinner. As everybody argues, he leaves the desk to return to his case.
At Frank’s final assembly with Grace, he tells her about Joe and admits he fooled himself into considering this award might shut that circle when nothing can. He apologizes for not dealing with it very properly.
The episode ends with Frank, Henry, Danny, Erin, and Jamie assembly at Joe’s favourite restaurant, the place they’d go every time it was his flip to choose. Danny reveals he was formally ordered the award and turned it down, for 2 causes (and neither is as a result of he thinks it’s cursed).
“I simply suppose being detective doesn’t have to be rewarded with a shiny gold medal. I feel the reward that I get is catching dangerous guys, reuniting households, saving lives, and that’s sufficient for me. And actually, we might have saved all of ourselves lots of chaos if we had simply talked about it within the first place,” he explains. The second purpose is straightforward: “Joe. All of us admired Joe from the second we knew what an enormous brother was, what a primary baby was, what a primary grandchild was, and he wore all of these titles exceptionally properly. However he was additionally a second-to-none cop, and he was really deserving of this honor, and I don’t suppose that he ought to must share the highlight with me. This award belongs to him.” With that, they have fun Joe, “the best way we by no means obtained an opportunity to,” and toast to him.
“I feel that it was at all times actually candy once we might convey that character of Joe Reagan again,” Moynahan tells TV Insider. “It was at all times actually fascinating to have storylines the place they introduced Joe Reagan again as a result of he’s a part of the household, and but we by no means met him on display as a result of he had handed away earlier than the pilot. And it’s simply one other method that we Reagans obtained to bond over one thing that we cared about, we liked, and by some means the viewers additionally discovered to like Joe through the years. In order that was actually a touching second for us.”
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