‘The Rookie’ Recap: Season 5 Episode 1 — Did Chenford Have Sex?

The following comprises large spoilers from The Rookie‘s Season 5 premiere.

This Sunday evening in The Rookie‘s Season 5 premiere, what occurred in Vegas between “Dim” and “Juicy” didn’t keep in Vegas for Tim and Lucy.

Prior to resuming their undercover dynamic as a thug and his moll, Sergeant Bradford (performed by Eric Winter) and Officer Chen (Melissa O’Neil) every have been nudged by confidantes (Lopez, Tamara) to reply for any actual emotions brewing beneath the floor.

Later, en path to Vegas in a drug vendor’s PJ, they shared one other passionate, extended, “fake” kiss to assist promote Dim and Juicy’s Mile High Club antics. Afterward, Tim himself even gut-checked Lucy on what she is likely to be feeling — however she shrugged off their convincing “practice” kiss as merely having the comprehensible impact of an intimate act.

Once that profitable task was over and Tim walked Lucy dwelling, she contended that they have been technically nonetheless “undercover” as lovebirds, and he or she invited Tim inside. After a lot thought, he took the bait.

Taking “Chenford” this far within the Season 5 premiere “felt like the organic place to go,” showrunner Alexi Hawley tells TVLine. “The reality of it is when he was her direct supervisor, there was no way [to go there]. Even now, we’re in a place where there is a discrepancy in terms of rank, so that still is an issue, but it did feel like we were building to this place where it felt organic to push it.”

The Season 4 finale’s doppelgänger twist, which paved the way in which for Tim and Lucy to pose as a prison couple, “allowed us to let some things that the audience completely saw under the surface come up,” Hawley famous, “and now we’re at a place where we can’t ignore it. So this season, we definitely have to lean in to whatever it’s going to be, the next stage of this.”

But what’s going to any “next stage” seem like now that Tim and Lucy’s coupling was interrupted by the surprising discovery of the latter’s beau, ADA Chris Sanford (Kanoa Goo), splayed throughout her sofa along with his wrists slit — the grisly handiwork of escaped serial killer Rosalind Dyer?

“Rosalind was mad at Lucy for not showing up in court and not playing her game…,” Hawley says of Dyer’s agenda. “That was her way of getting back at Lucy. And it also was a pretty brutal obstacle to throw in Chenford’s way.”

Whatever Chris’ destiny seems to be, “there’s going to be a great sense of guilt” for Lucy, who takes the blame for him being focused. “Rosalind only chose Chris because of Lucy, so that’s definitely going to have an impact,” says Hawley.

Will a shaken Lucy compartmentalize what was about to transpire between her and Tim, as she processes what occurred to Chris? “It’ll definitely have an impact on her point of view on what she was about to do with Tim,” Hawley previews. “That is something she’ll have to navigate — that shocking reality, or splash of cold water” on an intimate second.

Elsewhere within the Season 5 premiere: Officer John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) was granted a “golden ticket” for his artful heroics within the Season 4 finale — inviting him to decide on any subsequent LAPD put up he needed.

Affirming that golden tickets in such a situation are actual issues, Hawley notes, “You can’t say, ‘I want to be commissioner,’ but any division, any job you want, they will train you for — which is why I love the gag of everyone chiming in on what he should do,” Ok-9 unit/getting to maintain the canine included!

Nolan as an alternative will use the reward to get again on the coaching officer observe, which “is very much in line with what we’re trying to do as a cop show that talks about how the only way for the police to change is for the police to change,” Hawley explains.

What type of TO will Nolan be, as soon as his new gig kicks in with Episode 3 (and following a modest time soar)? Will he take any cues from Tim, Nyla, Angela or Talia when breaking in his first boot?

(*5*) says Hawley. “But there’s this line of being too good or too prepared to offer the good thing about a doubt on a job when s–t can come out of nowhere and switch all the things upside-down.

“We’re going to throw a lot at him,” Hawley shares, which can increase the query: “How do you train somebody when chaos is happening?”

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