The Rookie isn’t about to devastate Nyla (Mekia Cox) simply after she caught the serial killer, is it? Glasser (Seth Gabel), who she’d been maintaining a tally of for a couple of episodes, is lastly handled, however now, her husband James’ (Arjay Smith) life is hanging within the stability.
The Rookie just isn’t new on March 4 (on account of Donald Trump’s handle), that means followers are left with the cliffhanger from Season 7 Episode 8 for one more week. Episode 9, titled “The Kiss,” will air on March 11. Episode 8 left off with a serious cliffhanger.
Throughout a wildfire (the episode was filmed earlier than the California wildfires), James organized and ran the shelter for many who needed to evacuate their properties. Kylie (Maria Zhang) got here in to volunteer and shared that she hadn’t been on the middle these days as a result of she’d been going by means of lots. James then intervened when he noticed a man, Connor (Levi Meaden), talking with Kylie and grabbing for her. Connor left, and Kylie admitted to James that there was a capturing involving rival gangs exterior the place she works, however she didn’t need him to become involved as a result of it was too harmful. If she was concerned, he was, he mentioned, and he or she kissed him. Nolan (Nathan Fillion) noticed and walked away earlier than he noticed James pull again and stress, “I completely love my spouse.”
Nolan then, whereas being obscure, tried to get recommendation about what he noticed. Bailey (Jenna Dewan) was busy, and Angela (Alyssa Diaz) mentioned she’d be a rich, glamorous widow if Wesley (Shawn Ashmore) kissed one other girl. Nolan, nonetheless, instructed Wesley about seeing James kissing one other girl and requested if he needed to inform Nyla. Wesley suggests giving James an opportunity to come back clear first, and Nolan tries to get him to speak to his buddy. Wesley refused, although he identified the place he was now in, having to maintain it from his spouse Angela.
However then the episode ended with, as Nyla regarded ahead to taking her trip days with Glasser in custody, Connor capturing James and Kylie exterior the shelter. By the point Celina (Lisseth Chavez) bought exterior, it wasn’t wanting good for both of them. Uh-oh!
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The logline for Episode 9 reads as follows: “The workforce mobilizes to find a suspect after a lethal sequence of occasions impacts one among their very own. In the meantime, Celina takes on her first case with Bailey’s assist.”
Whereas James’ accidents didn’t look good on the finish of Episode 8, they didn’t appear life-threatening essentially both, so we’ve a sense he’ll survive to take care of the fallout of that kiss with Kylie in addition to the opposite points between him and Nyla from earlier within the season about policing and their relationship.
Earlier this season, after Episode 5, TV Insider spoke with Cox about Nyla and James’ conflicts, together with her admitting that she frightened they bought married too quick. “I feel Nyla reacts. She reacts and he or she reacts harshly typically, however it’s undoubtedly a response to the battle and it’s her fault. She’s the one who mentioned, let’s get married,” she mentioned as a part of our Booked: The Rookie Aftershow. “However I feel she’s questioning every part in that second and he or she’s pissed off and he or she is aware of that he’s pissed off as nicely. And there’s been plenty of that I feel just lately for them and he or she doesn’t know what to do about it. So she’s greedy for straws. She’s making an attempt to determine what the very best factor is to do.”
When she regarded forward on the time, Cox teased, “You see their relationship as an actual relationship. You see that although there’s love there, there’s battle there. I feel you see Nyla grow to be weak in a manner that you simply haven’t actually seen in a very long time. And yeah, I feel that you simply simply see that they’re examined. They’re examined lots in these subsequent few episodes.” That would have simply been referring to the occasions of Episode 8.
Contemplating there’s the aftermath of James and Kylie’s kiss to discover, with Nyla sure to search out out on the worst potential second (and not sure the way to react if Kylie dies), one thing tells us that this can as an alternative be used to proceed to, as Cox put it, take a look at the couple. Nyla might should take care of the difficult emotions of James being alive and upset concerning the kiss and the truth that he didn’t name her after the preliminary dialog with Kylie about Connor. We might see this resulting in extra points of their relationship and even a (short-term) separation sooner or later (after he recovers).
However what do you suppose will occur to James? Do you suppose he’ll dwell or die? Tell us within the feedback part under.
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