After an eight month hiatus, The Rookie is about to grace our screens as soon as extra, with season 7 premiering Tuesday, January 7 on ABC! It’s been an extended wait, however the first episode makes it nicely value it proper out the gate.
To recap the final season’s finale, the LAPD was infiltrated by a grimy rookie psychiatrist, Blair London, who bought officer secrets and techniques to Monica Stevens. Blair was arrested, Monica is someplace operating via the hills of Argentina, Nolan received shot within the ass, and the officer tapes are within the possession of the FBI. In the meantime, Oscar Hutchinson and Jason Wyler (Bailey’s ex-husband) escape jail, leaving the season off with a cliffhanger.
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| “The Shot” – THE ROOKIE, Pictured: Lisseth Chavez as Celina Juarez and Nathan Fillion as John Nolan. Picture: Disney/Mike Taing © 2024 All Rights Reserved. |
Now, the season 7 premiere, “The Shot”, begins simply the place the finale left off, the place Nolan (Nathan Fillion) struggles together with his harm and grapples together with his age whereas looking for two fugitives. Then, after a bounce, we meet the most recent rookies – Miles Penn (performed by Deric Augustine) and Seth Ridley (performed by Patrick Keleher, making his TV debut!) – who instantly achieve quite a lot of depth and characterization simply from their first episode. We get Tim (Eric Winter) and Lucy (Melissa O’Neil) as coaching officers, making a flirty wager over their contemporary trainees. And Celina (Lisseth Chavez) lastly will get her brief sleeves! (It’s by no means too late, apparently.) In the meantime, Wesley (Shawn Ashmore) discovers one thing he needs he might unlearn…
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| “The Shot” – THE ROOKIE, Pictured: Lisseth Chavez as Celina Juarez, Patrick Keleher as Seth Ridley, and Deric Augustine as Miles Penn. Picture: Disney/Mike Taing © 2024 All Rights Reserved. |
The stakes are greater than ever on this episode. It does return to its roots, fulfilling Hawley’s promise of a “re-pilot” (by way of TV Insider), with some callbacks to the primary episode. Audiences will discover themselves intrigued by the 2 new rookies, and excited for the Chenford to return. Deliver on the wager!
It’s a premiere value tuning in for!
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| “The Shot” – THE ROOKIE, Pictured: Shawn Ashmore as Wesley Evers. Picture: Disney/Mike Taing © 2024 All Rights Reserved. |
Character of the Week: Lucy Chen
Lucy will get the interim TO place and instantly knocks it out of the park. Rookie Seth Ridley would possibly want quite a lot of work, however Lucy is set to coach him in a method that fits her private fashion, slightly than copy one other TO’s strategies – all whereas nonetheless aiming to beat Tim of their wager!
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| “The Shot” – THE ROOKIE, Pictured: Melissa O’Neil as Lucy Chen, Eric Winter as Tim Bradford, and Richard T. Jones as Lt. Wade Gray. Picture: Disney/Mike Taing © 2024 All Rights Reserved. |
Ship of the Week: Wopez
Wesley and Angela’s relationship actually received pushed to the background in season 6, however they begin robust with this premiere!
(Chenford is a detailed second, I promise! However Wopez really deserves their flowers.)
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| “The Shot” – THE ROOKIE, Pictured: Alyssa Diaz as Angela Lopez and Shawn Ashmore as Wesley Evers. Picture: Disney/Mike Taing © 2024 All Rights Reserved. |
Dialogue Teases:
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“Attempt to suck much less.”
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“I am simply saying, I will lower a bitch.”
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“Reduce the crusts off his sandwiches.”
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| “The Shot” – THE ROOKIE, Pictured: Eric Winter as Tim Bradford, Melissa O’Neil as Lucy Chen, and Deric Augustine as Miles Penn. Picture: Disney/Mike Taing © 2024 All Rights Reserved. |
Do you’ve gotten any theories for “The Shot”? What are you most enthusiastic about? Who’s saying the teased traces? Remark under all of your ideas about The Rookie!
Be sure you catch The Rookie dwell on ABC at 10PM on Tuesdays—or make amends for Hulu the subsequent day!