[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the Blue Bloods series finale, “End of Tour.”]
Blue Bloods has come to an finish. The CBS procedural concluded 14 seasons of storytelling with a tense episode that introduced the whole Reagan household and their allies collectively on the identical case, one which made every of them take inventory of their lives.
In “Finish of Tour,” lethal mayhem unfold all through town after a supreme court docket decide was murdered and NYPD officers (embody Eddie and Badillo) and the mayor had been focused in a string of coordinated assaults orchestrated by the united gangs of New York. They had been demanding amnesty for the discharge of their imprisoned members and others awaiting trial. The decide wasn’t the one one that died within the violence.
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Eddie (Vanessa Ray) and associate Badillo (Ian Quinlan) had been having an off-the-cuff day at work when the capturing started. Eddie was shot, however it wasn’t life-threatening. Badillo, nonetheless, sustained main accidents that led to his loss of life as some followers predicted primarily based on the sequence finale funeral images. In a non-public second in his hospital room, Mayor Chase (Dylan Walsh) instructed Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) to ignore the chain of command and metaphorically take the “keys to town.” This was the mayor’s method of telling Frank to make use of no matter means essential to convey these individuals to justice. He wanted the NYPD commissioner to behave like a cop once more, and that’s what Frank did.
Frank used the ability of his workplace to query the imprisoned Lorenzo Batista (Edward James Olmos) in an off-the-books interrogation. He was gathering intel about Lorenzo’s son, Alejandro, who was one of many individuals concerned in planning and executing the assaults. Frank instructed the resistant Lorenzo that life in jail is healthier than loss of life for his son, saying that he would give something for his eldest son, Joe (a cop who died on the job earlier than the occasions of the sequence premiere), to be alive, even when it meant having to spend all of his time with him throughout jail visiting hours.
Danny (Donnie Wahlberg), Baez (Marisa Ramirez), and Eddie labored collectively to seek out Carlo Ramirez (Manny Perez), who beforehand needed to flee the nation however returned for vengeance and to reclaim his daughter. Henry’s (Len Cariou) recommendation for Danny on catch Carlo was additionally family-oriented: “Suppose like a father.”
Jamie (Will Estes) had household top-of-mind as he labored to convey his spouse’s shooter and Badillo’s killer to justice. His nephew, Joe (Will Hochman), helped. And the thought of cops being focused made Erin (Bridget Moynahan) concern dropping one other brother, so she labored with the NYPD on the hunt to seek out the attackers.
There have been unhappy and completely happy endings within the episode. Badillo’s funeral was meant to be a show of the sacrifices made on this line of labor. There have been some unexpectedly romantic moments afterward, like when Erin and Jack (Peter Hermann) determined to get remarried in non-public. In a second that was certain to be thrilling for Danny and Baez followers, Danny made good on his promise to his grandfather to go on the lookout for love after this case was over. He requested Baez out for pizza after the mud settled, telling her that he was fulfilling a promise to his grandfather.
The final Reagan household dinner noticed each of Danny’s sons again in addition to Erin and Jack’s daughter, and Jamie and Eddie revealed that they had been anticipating a child. There wasn’t a dry eye across the desk because the sequence got here to an in depth. The ultimate shot was a body of Selleck’s Reagan smiling at his household.
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