[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Rookie Season 7 Episode 14 “Mad About Murder.”]
The Rookie has taken fairly a couple of hitmen off the desk by the tip of the most recent episode, together with one with a connection to some most important characters.
All of it begins when Tim (Eric Winter) is stunned when a man exhibits up at his door speaking a few hitman for rent. That leads the LAPD to a web site and a listing of targets in Los Angeles to warn. However then, to their shock, the hitmen begin turning up useless after the positioning is hacked, and (on physique cam footage) they witness an murderer they know, Malvado (Jimmy Gonzales), whom Bailey (Jenna Dewan) had turned to when her abusive ex-husband was after her, killing one. When Nolan (Nathan Fillion) tells her, Bailey worries that if the LAPD catches him, he can use that as leverage.
The LAPD catches as much as Malvado when he’s going after the final unfastened finish (the one who employed him), and through the ensuing combat with Nolan and Tim, Angela (Alyssa Diaz) should shoot him. So why kill off Malvado? Was it simply to get rid of that concern for Bailey and Nolan?
“To be trustworthy, for me, the Malvado storyline actually was there to point out the trauma that Bailey had been by way of,” government producer Alexi Hawley tells TV Insider. “It was actually an emotional storyline for her about with Jason’s escape and him coming for her and having her need to face some issues that she truly hadn’t admitted to herself about what Jason had put her by way of. And Malvado being form of this form of primal fear-based motion that she took and the influence that that had on her storyline and her relationship with Nolan was the factor that was probably the most fascinating about that to me. We purposely tried to maintain what she revealed to Malvado as being finally simply peripheral. He did discover Jason on his personal and all that form of stuff.”
He continues, “In order that being mentioned, sure, I believe on the finish of the day, the spark of concern that comes from him being again round once more was necessary. However truthfully for me, the story actually simply was about Bailey and Nolan for probably the most half.”
Elsewhere within the episode, Angela pushes Tim to spill about him and Lucy (Melissa O’Neil) throughout a late evening working. “I don’t know” what’s happening, he shares. “She’s taking the sergeant’s examination.” As Angela notes, then the 2 of them can get again collectively. “No, it’s a great transfer for her profession,” says Tim, however he admits, “It’s come up.” Angela gives him recommendation: Lucy is one of the best factor to occur to him and if he wins her again after what he put her by way of, he higher say a prayer of gratitude each evening earlier than mattress. This comes after the exes connected on Valentine’s Day, then April Fools’ Day.
“I didn’t need to make it simple, partly as a result of I felt like what Tim had performed to her, the way in which he broke up along with her, the way in which he punished himself by punishing her was pretty seismic. And I felt like it could be a disservice to the characters if we simply had a few episodes of penalty field after which they had been again collectively,” says Hawley of what he’s been doing with Chenford.
“So I assumed it was actually necessary this season to dig into the actual results that it had on her, him performing some work as a result of clearly what he did was not emotionally wholesome, after which additionally simply deal with them as actual flawed human beings who’ve a hookup, regardless that it’s most likely not the neatest factor for his or her relationship, after which discover distance once more, after which have Lucy form of make some selections which might be emotionally difficult for her,” he provides. “So all that mentioned, I do assume at their coronary heart that there’s an plain connection between the 2 of them, and a part of it’s simply them form of discovering their approach again in the direction of one another every time that occurs..”
As for what looks like a construct to an inevitable reunion, “Episode 15 has a couple of surprising revelations as a part of our true crime documentary episode, some issues mentioned {that a} digital camera caught that perhaps they weren’t imagined to, which I believe is enjoyable,” the EP teases.
The Rookie, Tuesdays, 9/8c, ABC