And sure enough, once at the station, a grazed hand here and a furtive look there got Celina, for one, suspecting that Chen and Bradford were very much back on.
You also had Nolan unexpectedly being assigned a new rookie, Connor (played by David Gridley), who seemingly put in an impressive 11 months with a well-regarded Sergeant McAdams. John cried foul straight away, refusing to be pranked, but Connor’s story held up. Well, save for the part about him being any good. After John witnessed the genial lad flounder and flub, he reached out to the former TO and learned that McAdams unloaded the kid just before his retirement, lest he go out on a bad note.
Elsewhere, you had an increasingly frustrated Tim dealing with the LAPD’s new social media intern (Dog Wihh a Blog‘s Kayla Maisonet), whose idea of April Fool’s jokes 1) flooded the station with people thinking parking tickets were being forgiven, and then 2), much worse, triggered a “Purge”-like situation by posting that “all crime is legal” that night.
The whole Purge thing is where I thought the episode started to smell funny, especially when the streets grew littered with costumed and masked marauders straight out of Central Casting, and every garbage barrel became a bonfire.
#Chenford going at it like rabbits? And a perilous Purge situation flooding the streets with maniacs? It all seemed juuuuuuust a bit too “out there” for a legit episode of The Rookie. But Mid-Wilshire’s finest did their best to keep the rampant crime in check… Nolan’s rookie redeemed himself with some smart thinking re: a domestic abuse situation (but nonetheless will finish his 12 months at a quieter precinct)… Angela and Nyla got their guy (an ethically challenged detective) in the “Ben Dover” case… and Lt. Grey had the last laugh with Lucy and Tim, by feigning a heart attack after chewing them out for an against-the-rule book romance.
