Showrunner Alexi Hawley who has been carefully crafting the love story of Chen and Bradford, recently discussed what has been the plan for the couple throughout Season 7. “I didn’t want to make it easy, partly because I felt like what Tim had done to her, the way he broke up with her, the way he punished himself by punishing her was fairly seismic,” Hawley explains to TV Insider regarding what he is doing with Chenford. “And I felt like it would be a disservice to the characters if we just had a couple of episodes of penalty box and then they were back together.”
“So I thought it was really important this season to dig into the real effects that it had on her, him doing some work because clearly what he did was not emotionally healthy, and then also just treat them as real flawed human beings who have a hookup, even though it’s probably not the smartest thing for their relationship, and then find distance again, and then have Lucy sort of make some choices that are emotionally complicated for her,” he adds. “So all that said, I do think at their heart that there is an undeniable connection between the two of them, and part of it is just them sort of finding their way back towards each other whenever that happens..”
‘The Rookie’ Continues Incorporating Film Homages
“I mean, that was very inspired by, you know, Jame Gumb’s house in The Silence of the Lambs, right? When I started writing that story, to me, that’s what immediately jumped to mind was that amazing sequence from the movie where Clarice is, you know, he bolts into the house and she’s looking for him, and it’s really scary.”
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