Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 4 Review: Past is Present

Frank confronted a troublesome determination, however did he do the fitting factor in the long run?

Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 4 compelled him once more to confront the tragedy of his son Joe’s dying. Everyone’s feelings had been operating excessive, however Frank developed a novel resolution that displayed the empathy his critics declare is non-existent.

Meanwhile, Danny obtained caught up in making an attempt too laborious to assist a troubled teenager, however what does this imply for him going ahead?

Unsurprisingly, Danny’s troubled child was Trina, the woman from Blue Bloods Season 13 Episode 14 who obtained caught with. a physique in her trunk. But this time, the roles had been reversed.

Instead of Baez wanting to assist the woman whereas Danny’s suspicious meter was set to 10,000, this time, Danny was the one who had a gentle spot for the child. What was happening with that?

Danny claimed he wished to deal with her with the kindness she’d by no means skilled earlier than, however Baez was proper that he was performing like a surrogate guardian.

It’s too unhealthy that this NYPD exists in a separate universe from the one on Law & Order: SVU as a result of Danny and Olivia Benson may gain advantage from the identical assist group for cops who wish to be social employees!

Who Was Trina, Anyway?

Although there have been just a few references to having helped Trina up to now, Blue Bloods did not make it clear what her story was.

Last time round, she’d crashed into Danny and Baez’s automobile whereas excessive, they usually discovered a physique in her trunk. At the tip of a convoluted story, she snitched on the true killer — that is who Jayden was.

This story was an excellent follow-up, although it appeared odd that Danny took such an curiosity in Trina. He had subsequent to no use for her throughout her authentic look, and the sensation gave the impression to be mutual.

Danny’s Been Questioning His Future

After Linda died, Danny deliberate to stay a widower endlessly like Frank had executed, however not too long ago, he admitted he would love a brand new relationship however does not wish to threat getting damage once more if the particular person dies.

One of his sons is gone, and the opposite is a younger grownup together with his personal life — may Baez be proper that Danny desires to guardian Trina, and that is why he obtained so concerned together with her?

Let’s hope she does not pop up once more. She made Danny look unhealthy by stealing cash from a man he obtained to provide her a job. She obtained concerned with the unhealthy crowd she was presupposed to keep away from, so she wasn’t headed wherever good even earlier than Jayden got here again into the image.

Why did Danny and Baez fall for the drained TV trope of a perp asking to go to the toilet so they might escape? It was apparent what Trina supposed, and these two aren’t rookies!

Someone must also do one thing in regards to the cop escorting her being so inept that she rapidly overpowered him and took his gun. Considering that she did not know learn how to use it, everybody is fortunate that this did not finish tragically.

Danny Was Also The Only One With Compassion For McFadden

The title Sonny Malevsky introduced up robust emotions for everybody, and with good motive. When Malevsky killed Joe Sr., he took a son, brother, and father away from his household.

But nobody was pondering clearly.

Frank: How would you’re feeling should you met him on the road?
Erin: I’d really feel nice… after I punched him within the nostril.
Frank: But why?
Erin: Because of who his father is. The apple cannot fall removed from the tree, and that fruit is poisoned.

Erin’s feedback had been particularly annoying. It made no sense to imagine that McFadden, who was a child on the time Joe was killed, had change into a cop as a result of he was a troublemaker like his father.

I hope she’s fairer towards prison defendants than she was to this man, whose solely transgression was holding his start title secret in order that Frank would take into account his software to hitch the NYPD.

Ironically, nobody would have discovered his true identification if he’d sucked it up and accepted Frank’s commendation in particular person. Frank solely discovered who he was as a result of one other cop spoke up about why McFadden was absent.

Shouldn’t his start title have popped up throughout a background test? There’s no approach the NYPD would have employed him with out one.

Details like that made this example appear contrived, however that is a minor situation. Once Frank turned conscious of who this cop was, he had an emotional determination to make.

I’m shocked Garrett was squarely on the facet of firing McFadden. Wouldn’t which were a public relations nightmare?

The NYPD did not want headlines within the Ledger suggesting that Frank Reagan fired a cop who had not too long ago helped a pregnant sufferer ship her child to settle an previous rating.

Frank Eventually Made the Right Decision

Frank grappled with whether or not to fireplace the cop for mendacity on his software by not sharing his start title. This technicality irritated me despite the fact that I perceive why the NYPD wants former names.

Criminals shouldn’t be in a position to change their names and change into cops. But it felt like Frank was debating whether or not to punish a cop who had saved his title change secret to guard himself from prejudice.

In this case, Frank knew the cop was not a prison and was certainly one of his greatest officers, so it felt just like the rule wasn’t meant to catch folks like him. But Frank could not ignore it, both, as a result of the principles have to use to everybody equally.

Bringing Joe Hill in to speak to McFadden was an excellent resolution. Frank may gauge what sort of particular person McFadden was based mostly on his interactions with the son of the person McFadden’s father had killed, and McFadden handed that take a look at with flying colours.

As I suspected, McFadden was little greater than a child when his father killed Joe Reagan, which was one more reason to not decide him solely by his father’s misdeeds.

Fortunately, Frank realized that after witnessing the dialog with Joe Hill, who was surprisingly mature about the entire thing.

Joe has by no means been certainly one of my favourite characters as a result of he is a lone wolf who typically has a unfavourable angle towards the Reagans. However, this time, he dealt with the state of affairs calmly and had the humility to confess he had no thought what to do.

Frank additionally demonstrated once more that he is certainly one of TV’s most interesting gents by permitting Joe and McFadden to handle one another’s ache as a substitute of speeding to judgment.

Henry Got A Chance To Shine

Henry hasn’t had a lot display screen time recently, so I used to be thrilled he had a facet story.

He and Jamie have gotten into it earlier than. Jamie nearly all the time underestimates Henry, and this was no exception. Henry turned the tables on a reporter in search of a dramatic story of police misconduct.

I applauded Blue Bloods for touching with regards to the race for clicks. This is an enormous drawback with media, no matter the place it lands on the political spectrum.

Journalists’ priorities are sometimes stirring up drama and getting clicks and rankings moderately than reporting the reality, which may result in biased items reinforcing the viewers’s beliefs.

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This is one of many driving components of the polarization and lack of ability to agree on the information within the United States, and Blue Bloods known as it out gently.

Blue Bloods is not afraid to assist the police despite the fact that that is unpopular in some components of American society. I cherished Henry’s recommendation to Alison and the speech he gave.

Alison may have painted him in a horrible gentle. Henry was commissioner when civil rights weren’t thought-about as essential as getting unhealthy guys off the road.

Police officers in his day had been allowed to beat confessions out of suspects and in any other case violate their rights, so a biased reporter may have simply used that to color Henry as a demagogue and an instance of what is improper with police tradition.

Instead, Henry obtained her to know a special perspective, and now there is a probably viral clip of him explaining why police work is essential. Go, Henry!

Who Shot At Erin Was Less Important than Vengalis Bothering Her

Erin Reagan’s storylines are sometimes the least compelling of the hour, and this one was no exception. The Vengalis stuff was primarily foolish, and the case was wrapped up rapidly after the identical fool tried to run Anthony over and obtained himself arrested.

There was little investigating, so viewers did not get to observe alongside and attempt to guess who the unhealthy man was. The reply was tacked on, together with a menace of extra Vengalis bothering Erin.