[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Rookie Season 7 Episode 15 “A Deadly Secret.”]
The Rookie has enjoyable with its newest documentary-style episode — and it’s one which brings a key revelation for exes Tim (Eric Winter) and Lucy (Melissa O’Neil) in addition to might have simply arrange a storyline for Season 8.
The LAPD investigates when Nolan’s (Nathan Fillion) son’s ex, Abigail (Madeline Coghlan), goes lacking, and it leads them to the deserted ward of Westview. There, Tim and Lucy encounter a type of reality serum that leads to a couple confessions, together with his most embarrassing reminiscence and the truth that she’s already forgiven him for his or her breakup — and apparently a dialog about potential child names. When information of the chemical substances that poisoned the ward reaches serial killer Glasser (Seth Gabel) in jail, he even begins pondering a brand new protection.
Beneath, showrunner Alexi Hawley (who visitor stars because the documentary’s interviewer) talks about that key second for Chenford and what’s forward — and the storyline that would come again in Season 8.
Now we have Tim and Lucy, with the reality serum revealing that she’s forgiven him already, and so they apparently mentioned child names. Does this take them one step nearer to getting again collectively?
Alexi Hawley: I imply, look, I feel all through the season up till this level, we’ve been heading in that route. That’s clearly a extremely enjoyable element. I do suppose her second of realizing that she has now absolutely forgiven him is form of a very powerful second that occurs there, as a result of alongside the way in which, although they’ve ended up in mattress collectively a couple of instances, although it’s felt prefer it’s returned to regular, I feel beneath all of it, he nonetheless actually broke her coronary heart and it has taken this lengthy for her to lastly forgive him. And I simply thought to have that realization have occurred after they’re each underneath the affect of sodium pentothal and make it extra of a discovery for her as effectively was tremendous enjoyable.
What’s subsequent for them?
I feel a number of it does concentrate on the sergeant’s examination as a result of that in a number of methods is form of the ultimate impediment to wherever that is going to go. And so yeah, I might say that’s the main focus is so much will get held on that, after which what follows.
So Glasser talks about having a protection now with the presence of medication. Is that one thing we’re really going to see play out, the potential of that working, this season?
Not this season. I feel probably going into Season 8. I imply, he’s such a terrific actor and such a terrific character, and we’ve not likely ever taken something to trial earlier than on our present as a result of we’re actually a patrol present. However early days, we’re speaking about form of like, is there extra we will do? Is the form of repercussions of that potential protection that we launched in a form of absurdist episode a bit, would it not really work? And so I do suppose we very a lot may see him once more down the street.
Speak about making a visitor look once more. There was that trade with Zuzu, which, creepy.
Sure, sure. I began doing, on the time, the off-camera interviewer for these true crime documentaries, actually, as a result of I like being on set and I don’t get to be there so much, so I assumed it’d be enjoyable to work together with the solid that method, but additionally as a result of I do know them and I do know the present form of uniquely effectively, and I actually wished the power to form of improv with them or riff on stuff with them. And so final season, I feel, we ended up with a storyline that put me on digital camera. I do suppose that it’s now enjoyable to form of have me there extra as a touch upon what’s happening with Chenford or no matter. However yeah, for me, it’s simply enjoyable to be on set with the solid.
The Rookie, Tuesdays, 9/8c, ABC