The Rookie Season 6 Episode 6 Review: Secrets and Lies

Chenford followers, how are you all doing?

If The Rookie Season 6 Episode 6 wasn’t anything, it was completely brutal for these viewers who love the fan-favorite ‘ship as we watched a multi-season-long slow-burn relationship that appeared rock stable get pulled from beneath our toes within the blink of an eye fixed.

The hour additionally offered us with one other infamous Rookie villain who might unsurprisingly pop up once more and have Bailey and Nolan attain an underwhelming determination about parenthood.

We additionally noticed that rookies Celina and Thorsen nonetheless have a lot to study.

On the subject of Celina, will we ever delve deeper into an precise storyline that addresses the sequence of errors she makes and the implications of her actions hitting her full pressure?

It’s onerous to know if Celina’s more moderen and ongoing sample of fumbling one thing up displays her and one thing deeper that we have but to discover or speaks to John Nolan and how poor he could also be as a coaching officer.

Either method, it feels as if we’re lengthy overdue for the sequence to handle what’s taking place there, because it needs to be main someplace, proper?

While it did not appear affordable to someway combine inmates in some work program with the unhoused — hell, it was a clusterf*ck of issues ready to occur — an inmate taking off and the invention of a lacking/useless lady’s backpack takes the cake.

The incident cut up into two totally different case-oriented subplots that had been completely wonderful for what they supplied to the hour.

On the one hand, unraveling the household drama that transpired, prompting Theresa to throw away her shot at getting out to go after the folks accountable for the affair and betrayal, was mildly intriguing.

It turned out her mom was the one she ought to’ve been fearful about, and she was the one who was sleeping with Theresa’s boyfriend.

It was completely savage and led to an intense home state of affairs that had Theresa swinging a bat and able to go to warfare over this betrayal.

It was one thing ripped from Jerry Springer, however it was entertaining so far as circumstances go.

Meanwhile, Thorsen reveals how simply it’s for him to permit his experiences to affect how he approaches the job when he rapidly assumes that legislation enforcement and possibly the DA railroaded Corrina’s boyfriend, inflicting him to admit to a homicide he did not commit.

Thorsen was so out of line throughout his method. He did not take into account how sustaining a rapport with the longer term DA is instrumental in correctly finishing their jobs. He’s not able to enjoying the politics angle nicely.

But at the least in Harper’s succesful palms, she may verify him for his conduct whereas permitting him to work alongside her to seek out the true killer.

Harper going undercover as some damsel who did not know methods to shoot to get the suspect’s gun and affirm that it was the one used to kill Corrina was a fantastic scene.

And then I blinked, and the case was wrapped up.

But then, that was the final challenge with a lot of this installment. While it was entertaining and nice in some ways, the pacing points had been taxing and obtrusive.

It’s so evident that we’re feeling the repercussions of this shortened season, and the sequence hasn’t labored out methods to produce sure storylines correctly to accommodate a truncated season.

For instance, the Bailey Nune and Nolan factor was a storyline that did not must be shoehorned into this explicit installment. They may have held it off as a B-list storyline for one more episode.

It was additionally grating, because it usually is when a pair on tv who had been initially childless all of a sudden rehash the child’s dialog like this.

Nolan’s son is sufficiently old to have his personal mortgage, and Nolan may very nicely be a grandfather any day. And that is wonderful. The sequence has beloved to mess around with the truth that he is “old” because the sequence’ exception.

Angela: I’m in.
Tim: You positive?
Angela: I acquired your again, boo.

Hell, is not the complete preliminary premise of the sequence about that?

In no method did anybody envision Nolan desirous to have extra youngsters at this stage in his life. He’s fortunately an officer now, determining his standing and future in a area the place he already acquired a late begin.

Bailey had by no means indicated earlier than that she needed to be a mom. It was a dialog they might have had earlier than, the place they’d’ve been on the identical web page.

Bailey all of a sudden getting “baby fever” together with her middle-aged new husband out of the blue is such an underwhelming arc to discover. It’s so drained and pointless.

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There are so few fortunately child-free {couples} on tv that they do not introduce this “what if” storyline of whether or not or not they need to pursue parenthood.

It felt like Bailan was past that, which was relatively refreshing, and now we’re again to this and Bailey being obnoxious when she was beginning to be bearable.

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The little bit of her ready for him to get up so she may loudly announce that she needed a child was annoying, and so was her diving into child books and different issues once they hadn’t even had a correct dialog.

And her all of a sudden pressuring him on one thing that all of us thought that they had mentioned and resolved nicely earlier than they acquired married was agitating.

It felt like there was solely alleged to be one right reply, that Nolan got here round to provide into Bailey and her want despite the fact that it was the exact opposite of what that they had determined eons in the past.

It’s typically offputting, and the hour concludes with them going off to do some baby-making. Nolan states that it might be merciless to deprive Bailey of an expertise that he beloved himself practically three many years in the past.

Whether or not Bailey and Nolan really undergo with the method of getting a child stays to be seen, however this arc was disappointing throughout.

Of course, some are sure to really feel the identical about Chenford breaking apart.

Lucy: Stop attempting to guard me, Tim!
Tim: I can not. I will not.
Lucy: You learn Lopez in!
Tim: It’s totally different!
Lucy: How?
Tim: She has much less to lose than you! Please, simply avoid this for me, okay?
Lucy: I can not. I will not. You clearly need assistance, and I’m finished enjoying the nice girlfriend. You haven’t got to inform me all the pieces, however you’ll let me in.

This storyline is such a troublesome one as a result of the performances had been so nicely finished, as was a number of the dialogue associated to all of this.

The storyline itself of Tim Bradford having this reckoning is meaty. It has a lot potential to be one thing nice, a captivating character examine, and a chance for actual evolution for this character.

The challenge is that, due to a truncated season, they dropped this storyline on us out of the blue and then wrapped up the crux of it simply as rapidly.

When you examine it to how they performed the Rosalind arc or the build-up for Angela and La Fiera, it took us on this journey as a result of it was a multi-episode arc that we acquired to see play out proper earlier than our eyes.

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Elijah’s state of affairs with Wesley and Angela was a lot the identical.

All of those arcs have the time and house to construct — the strain slowly etches up, making the climax riveting and, on the very least, well-earned.

But a lot of this Ray and Tim state of affairs seems like we acquired an data dump earlier than we had been thrust into motion, and there was no satisfying build-up to get the strain going and make viewers as invested in all the pieces as we must always’ve been.

Greer got here out of nowhere and was gone simply as rapidly. They alluded to Tim’s Army days, however we had been saved at the hours of darkness, and a lot surrounding it felt half-baked.

Tim: Lucy, I’ve been mendacity to myself for a very long time. That’s clear to me now, and I can not simply return to method issues had been, not proper now. Maybe by no means.
Lucy: Wait, are you breaking apart with me?
Tim: I’m sorry.
Lucy: You know, you do not get to try this. You do not get to mislead me and then use that as an excuse to depart me. That’s not okay. What you are doing will not be okay.
Tim: I do know. You, you’re an unimaginable individual. No, you are unimaginable. You deserve so significantly better.
Lucy: Oh my God.
Tim: That’s why I’m strolling away.
Lucy: Don’t do that; why are you doing this? Why are you doing this?
Tim: I’m sorry.

It is not that the storyline itself is not good, nor that it isn’t thrilling to get one thing for Bradford on a private entrance that may crack him open in new methods.

The challenge is that it is all so rushed, with little room to breathe and for us to take a seat in any of it lengthy sufficient for it to really feel worthwhile or give us an opportunity to really feel genuinely invested within the arc and its potential final result.

Most of this arc has been advised to us relatively than proven, and it seems like we have missed essential elements alongside the way in which. We’re getting an expedited storyline that ought to’ve taken up at the least six or seven installments in a daily season.

It makes you marvel if this large Tim Bradford arc ought to’ve taken place subsequent season as a substitute of this one.

Somewhere in all of this, we study that Greer was gone, and Tim spent days utilizing his private time to tail Ray and try and catch him in some nefarious exercise as a gunner with the Venezuelans.

A kidnapping was thrown into the combo, which led to the massive arrest that Tim may get Ray on relatively than the vow to kill him.

But despite the fact that it was rushed alongside so rapidly, all we acquired was a badass glimpse of Angela and Lucy popping out of crates and Ray giving certainly one of his villain soliloquies, laying down his menace earlier than we abruptly reduce to Tim below investigation.

Even Tim below scrutiny was blink-and-you-miss earlier than Commander West advised him he was cleared, and Ray, I suppose, was simply dealing with his time for what they booked him on.

All of that occurred so quick that it was irritating.

Instead, they centered on the emotional toll and fallout from all this.

At Lucy’s prompting, Angela managed to trace Tim down and impeded his stakeout, driving shotgun with him after an cute heart-to-heart.

Angela and Tim’s friendship is definitely among the best and most underrated of the sequence, and it was genuinely a delight to see them sharing the display screen once more and happening this journey collectively.

Tim: What are you doing?
Angela: Being a pal. What are you doing? Talk.
Tim: I can not. For your personal good.
Angela: Are you engaged in a felony act?
Tim: Not in the mean time.
Angela: Then inform me.
Tim: Angela… if this goes sideways and you are wherever close to it, you would be fired.
Angela: If Lucy will get fired, it is an issue. If I get fired, I begin dwelling off my husband’s belief fund and name it wine o’clock, so spill.

It was an ideal reminder that it doesn’t matter what occurs, they ALWAYS have one another’s backs.

Angela wouldn’t let Tim go off on his personal to do goodness is aware of what, and she did not bat an eye fixed at risking her profession and life probably to assist him take down Ray nonetheless potential.

She had so many nice moments and traces, whether or not it was stealing his drink and meals when she hopped within the truck or her joke about how she’ll merely stay off of her rich husband’s belief fund if she acquired fired, Angela was one of the best, and Alyssa Diaz slayed her one-liners and zingers.

And as a lot as Tim needed to disclaim it, she was proper about being his greatest pal.

She jumped into the fray nicely earlier than that they had their sitdown, the place he acquired to elucidate what occurred abroad in some clunky exposition that highlighted the problem of the sequence telling relatively than displaying.

We lastly acquired the context as to why Tim could be in bother if the reality acquired out.

But the crux of the emotional fallout in all of this was the Chenford angle, and Lucy was fed up, understandably so.

Nothing ever good comes from a beloved one omitting and mendacity to somebody to “protect them,” as a result of as was the case of Ray actually displaying up at Lucy’s condo and being menacing round her and Tamara, no is protected if they don’t seem to be ready.

I put my profession above my oath, and two troopers, two respectable males, did not come residence that evening. And I’m going to should stay with that for the remainder of my life.

Tim

Knowing about one thing is best so you may adequately defend your self. Lucy wasn’t protected, and Tim left her at the hours of darkness.

Yes, his thought course of made sense to him, however it doesn’t suggest it was proper.

For Lucy, it was supremely irritating that Tim confided in Angela Lopez earlier than he did her, particularly when she sought Angela out for recommendation relating to Tim’s secrecy.

Tim’s degree of omission was irritating. It’s one factor for him to not wish to inform her all of the soiled particulars about what was taking place. But he did not inform her something and then went days with out chatting with her or adequately speaking.

There’s no state of affairs the place Lucy might be okay with that, and she deserved some open line of communication even when Tim did not really feel he may inform her the entire fact.

Tim made a a lot larger mess of issues than there wanted to be with this cussed refusal to have primary communication that might put Lucy comfortable.

It felt like he was sabotaging their relationship from the second he acquired that cellphone name.

Tim is such an impartial individual. He’s the Captain America of the sequence as nicely — somebody who genuinely tries to do all of it by himself and holds himself to a excessive commonplace and then does not really feel worthy when he falls in need of the pedestal he places himself on.

Eric Winter does some nice work throughout this installment. The combat with Lucy was difficult to observe, and the battle on his face as he tried to persuade her that he was defending her was nice.

The stony expression as he flat out lied in the course of the inquiry and how guilt-ridden he appeared on the finish when he was not solely processing that he lied to males he admired however that it may nonetheless value him his metro place was some nice stuff.

But it is that breakup scene that was the clencher. He appeared so tormented as he broke issues off with Lucy and expressed that he did not suppose he may ever return to how issues had been earlier than.

And as a lot as you wish to attain by means of the display screen and shake him, given all the pieces that transpired, one can perceive his thought course of.

Angela: I’m your BFF, I do know you.
Tim: I’m a grown man. I haven’t got a BFF.
Angela: Technically you may solely have one BFF.

What occurred in Iraq is without doubt one of the most traumatizing issues he skilled, notably practically dying and witnessing his buddies get blown to bits in entrance of him.

But it is also one of the vital regrettable issues that he is finished. He’s carried the guilt of feeling accountable for Henderson and Coyle’s deaths. He thinks his selfishness and considerations about his profession drove his actions relating to Ray.

From how he advised the story, it sounds extra like his loyalty and sense of honor prompted him to wish to do issues on his phrases, bringing Ray in as greatest as he may on his phrases out of some sense of respect for what that they had as comrades.

He had no thought it might backfire so horribly. Tim does not notice that a few of his greatest traits dictated how he dealt with the state of affairs as a result of he could not see previous the guilt.

Even the mendacity he did relating to Ray’s loss of life was for noble causes, as he needed to make sure that Ray’s household acquired his advantages.

It was mistaken, sure, ethically, for positive, however morally sound, whether or not he is able to acknowledge that.

But as a result of they had been amongst his worst selections, and he felt as if he was not at his greatest when he made these selections, the truth that years later, he nonetheless ended up mendacity to save lots of his job and Lucy and Angela make him really feel as if he is no higher than who he was again then.

And it is onerous for him to reconcile with that, prompting him to reevaluate who he’s as a person. Considering all that, it is no marvel he does not really feel as if he is worthy of Lucy proper now.

The solely cellphone name I’m going to make is for an ambulance to wheel you out of right here except you get out. Right now.

Lucy

The breakup feels inevitable in that context, in order brutal and irritating as it might be, it is comprehensible for the character of their story.

Tim will not be in an excellent place proper now, and after what Ray unearthed from his previous, the repercussions of it on his profession now, and how all of this despatched Tim reeling and enacting self-flagellation, it is in all probability advisable that he take some house from Lucy so he can concentrate on himself.

It’s a captivating turning level for the character, or at the least it might be if the storyline is dealt with nicely and delicately, and we get to see the fruits of his labor as he places within the work to come back to grips with who he’s and accepts that.

There’s little question that when he is in a greater place, all roads will lead again to Lucy, and when that inevitably occurs, they will be higher and stronger for it.

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It does not make it any much less brutal that they’ve ripped this pairing aside the way in which they did, however right here we’re.

On Lucy’s finish of issues, you may perceive the place she’s additionally coming from. Tim has finished nothing however mislead her for days, and then he used all of that to push her away and finish issues.

It’s no marvel she’s infuriated by all of that. The factor they constantly had going for them from their time spent collectively as companions nicely earlier than they had been a pair was their skill to speak.

And all of a sudden and abruptly, that was gone, and we had been left with this. But now Tim will get to dictate that they weren’t speaking and resolve they will now not be collectively.

He thinks his reasoning is selfless, whereas Lucy probably feels egocentric.

It means they do not get to work by means of issues collectively and confront no matter points Tim faces as a staff, which is how she likes to method life.

It’s not them united in opposition to an issue; it is Tim alone.

To add insult to damage, Tamara is shifting out and shifting on, which can even set off some abandonment points for Lucy.

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She has some issues she probably must unpack for herself as nicely, as she’s somebody who looks like she’s not ready to be alone.

She misplaced Jackson and discovered Tamara shortly after, and she acquired to direct all of her love and consideration to this younger lady. She moved into her residence so Jackson’s absence did not hang-out her.

And she was barely out of her relationship with Chris earlier than she dove proper into issues with Tim.

Now, she’s dealing with Tamara leaving her, and Tim has simply damaged issues off together with her to work on himself as a result of he does not really feel worthy of her.

But it is humorous how his not feeling worthy may prolong to her feeling alone. She does not have anybody to lean on.

What occurs when your greatest pal, confidant, and greatest supporter can also be the person you like who simply dumped you?

Lucy has additionally had a troublesome go of it not too long ago, because it’s feeling as if she’s continually shedding, whether or not it is the detective examination, practically her life, or Tim and Tamara.

Melissa O’Neil was magical all through this hour. Her steely resolve with Ray was such a fantastic scene, and the anger fueled her when she confronted Tim about it.

Her demand that he inform her what was taking place was sufficient to provide you chills. We’re so accustomed to seeing her so optimistic and even-tempered that the fiery, annoyed facet of her was new territory.

She was messy, offended, and emotional in a really intriguing method, which makes me wish to unpack much more about Lucy than we have seen so far.

And that frustration translated nicely as she went from confusion to frustration to disbelief, anger, and heartbreak when Tim broke issues off together with her.

All these feelings had been superbly displayed throughout her face throughout that remaining scene with Tim.

O’Neil and Winter have such unbelievable chemistry and clearly know methods to play off each other so nicely that they might make one thing so irritating and painful as their breakup into one thing actually stunning that hurts so good.

Tim: Lucy, I’ve been mendacity to myself for a very long time. That’s clear to me now, and I can not simply return to method issues had been, not proper now. Maybe by no means.
Lucy: Wait, are you breaking apart with me?
Tim: I’m sorry.
Lucy: You know, you do not get to try this. You do not get to mislead me and then use that as an excuse to depart me. That’s not okay. What you are doing will not be okay.
Tim: I do know. You, you’re an unimaginable individual. No, you are unimaginable. You deserve so significantly better.
Lucy: Oh my God.
Tim: That’s why I’m strolling away.
Lucy: Don’t do that; why are you doing this? Why are you doing this?
Tim: I’m sorry.

But alas, Chenford is kaput for now. But I’m okay with placing an asterisk in that. How about you?

Over to you, Rookie Fanatics. How did you are feeling about this episode? Are you upset in regards to the Chenford breakup? Is this the final of Ray? Sound off beneath!

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