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Season 5 Episodes
Episode 11: The Naked and the Dead
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I’m S5 E7 Lopez and Harper are talking to a cop about the scene and they ask him if anyone saw anything, he says that a CI said Double R did. They ask who it is and he says “Some new girl gang” and they get so pissed and offended. He did nothing wrong, he literally said that there is a new girl gang and they act like he just said “just some weak girl book club”. Please explain.
Why was everyone ok with the fact Nyla cheated with her husband on Halloween. Then she brought up her husbands Fiance as an ex sex working like oh “I don’t want to ruin her life only if I really have too”. Bitch you didn’t have too. You could have been a decent person and tell her that her husband cheated on her with you and that would have kept her kid from moving too. Then Nyla gets pregnant and my first thought was who’s is it? But they just ignore the fact she did sleep her ex while she was also seeing James. Arron gets told about it and acts like it’s nothing. Also “we fell into a past routine” is a horrible excuse.
If you could produce a string of episodes of the Rookie, what would your plot be?
I know they have kinda had this plot in some for when they try to track down Rosalind in Seattle and also somewhat when they discover the person behind the arson is a serial killer and set up Fred but Im a huge crime show fan and i love hawaii 5-0/ncis so my plot would be the team tracking down a serial killer who is crossing state lines so they would go either washington dc and team up with the ncis team or hawaii and team up with 5-0 in order to find the killer or maybe they go to both states and all work together 😂
In 6 x 1, after Harper shot (and killed) the guy at the hospital, she was 1) able to talk to others 2) not supervised by a cop 3) told by Wesley the shot was good and no big deal.
In 6 x 4, after Lucy shot the guy, she was 1) in a room by herself, 2) cop posted as a guard, 3) Wesley was very cold and told her the investigation would resume if he died later.
Decided to rewatch season 6 to see if it felt less choppy and “off” if I were to binge it and noticed this.
I don’t like chenford in the beginning ig I also liked them the new episode definitely made me like them more but I feel the whole chenford fanbase makes me dislike them even more considering how they treat chenford like the messiah in a way but this is just my take
Okay so we need Lucy and Tim married season 6. There has already been 4 episodes of season 6 out so far but we’ve had Angela married, Nyla married, Bailey married, now we just need Lucy married!!
I also think Lucy may be pregnant in season 6 because her and Tim were talking a lot about “their kids” in the make a dream episode.
I loved Chenford and their build up so much. They had tremendous chemistry.
But now that they acutally ended up together they bore me. No more excitement or chemistry.
Anyone else feel this way?
What are some leadership lessons that we can learn from Sergent Tim Bratford?
I love both characters but they seem a bit op as characters imo. I wonder if anyone see what I do or am buggin?
i remember a episode where jackson is arresting oscar and oscar says how he knew his dad and that he was a bad cop and then a few episodes later or the same episode i cant remember he checks his dads file and confronts him about it
Just finished episode 17, damn it, Oscar! Why the fuck u still alive!?? I can't freaking wait to see Oscar get the comeuppance he deserves. I swear I thought he was gonna die in the hospital as a result of all of his stalling. Damn. And now we have Oscar and Elijah. Psychopath (Oscar) meets a Sociopath (Elijah). Yes, personally I believe there is a difference, they're not just synonyms of each other. I want both of them to DIE.
so this isn't exactly an easter egg -
A while back Eric posted a BTS picture of Lucy in a hospital gown, and we saw Grey and Wesley there as well. Now Tim and Grey being there with Lucy makes sense, but why would Wesley be there - they aren't THAT close. The only reason Wesley being there makes sense is that the reason was legal related.
I've come across many theories as to why Lucy was in the hospital - some thought she was pregnant, some thought it was an injury due to UC work, etc...
But this was so obvious and this easter egg was so out there, and all of us missed this reason altogther.
It's just fun to think about that
I know this is an unpopular opinion but he's so annoying to me. Like it's genuinely hard to watch any scenes he's in.
He does these long ass monologues to everyone (perps, victims, coworkers, etc) to "relate to them" but they just have me shouting at the tv " STFU JOHN OMG" 😭
I know he’s the main character so this is how he’s written in the show but his personality SUCKS. He’s just not likeable. He seems fake and condescending to me.
AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON HIS HIGH HORSE. He's soooo morally correct that he couldn't even kill a literal serial killer to save his GIRLFRIEND because 'murder is wrong 🥺'... be fr. He just walks around like he's better than everyone and acts like he knows more than everyone around him even tho he's only been a cop for like 3 years and everyone else is way more qualified.
He's not a good T.O. imo, and his ego is fuckin huge.
I could go on forever. I don't remember him being this unbearable in the earlier seasons, although I do remember thinking that every single one of his girlfriends are WAYYYY too hot and badass for him.
He dated a doctor, firefighter, FBI hostage negotiator/author, and the most unrealistic of all- Lucy Chen. Melissa O'neal is probably the hottest person I've ever seen and Lucy is wildly impressive. Anyways, l'm prepared to get hate on this unpopular opinion but seriously. Name one likable characteristic of John Nolan
Harper is basically the only one on the show that ever grabs a rifle when going into a high danger situation. When they get into a gun fight every episode, it makes no sense that they only ever use their handguns or a shotgun lol
I am only on season 3 tho so maybe it changes
Aaron fumbled the bag in season 6 episode 2 and I don’t know how to feel about it going forward. I feel bad for Aaron but it’s not like Celina did anything wrong. I really enjoyed their chemistry and conversations up until this episode and at one point, thought they could date. What does everyone else think?
Do we get any plots with Wesley and Angela this season? I miss them together! I want less Nolan and Bailey and more Wopez!
What next for Lucy's career ?
Do you think lucy will get promoted in the next episodes for her heroic act with the shooter? Will she make detective after all? Or will she find another path? I personally want her to get a promotion, I think she deserves it! But I don't want her to work UC or become a detective (I am bored with the same plot and them bringing up isobel in every conversation about uc!) .
What other options does she have ?
some see them as kinda mother/child but that's not really how i read them
She made a comment to Harper and Lopez about ' blowing the his head off so it pops off' in regard to the suspect . Is it just a throw away line or something the writers placed to make IA go even harder on Lucy .
Grey is going to retire and nolan will be promoted to sgt
I was going to make a TikTok about this, and maybe I still will but this will probably get more interactions and positive ones at that.
I’ve only got one specific thing currently and it’s partly inspired by Eric. He keeps mentioning how he was them to write his mom into the show somehow so.
I want a scene between Tim and his mom, it could be anywhere, but I want him to almost in a way open up to him mom about his time in the military, as a cop, and even how much his childhood affected him, even if he didn’t show it. It be interesting if he questioned why she didn’t do anything or mention how he had a little resentment for the situation they were in, even if she didn’t choose or intentionally put them in it. However what i really want to see and how it would end would tim confessing about how he walked in on his dad and another woman. Tell her that he was sorry for not telling her and explaining that he didn’t understand why he’d lie for a man like his dad, to where she takes a deep breath, or watery eyes or just comforts him and tells him that there was no need for an apology because he was a child.
I don’t know I just really need to see a small glimpse of his inner child being healed and I think that would do it
(Remaking this because I worded it wrong the first time.)
#EXAMPLE:
In a perfect world, Zoe Andersen would still be Captain.
They've alluded to it a few times and also talked about his retirement. I assumed they were foreshadowing his death, but it doesn't seem like it's going anywhere. Did the writers just drop the ball with this or are they playing a really long game?
Ok first of calling them bitchy is completely uncalled for . Both Nyla and Angela were working a high profile case involving a serial killer , and all Nyla and Ang did was give Lucy a stern look for her comment abt being near a smelly dumpster. All they asked was for her to do her job , they were in no mood to give her special treatment just bc they’re friends. And I see a lot of Lucy fans talk about her traumatic past bc of the job and use it as a reason to not be “mean” to her LIKE SHES A GROWN Up 😭 this is the real world sometimes people aren’t always going to be super nice and perky w her. Lucy will be fine it’s part of the job. Some lucy fans are unhinged and super annoying. But anyways one thing I wish the writers would had a scene with the three talking about the detective exam.
Does anyone think before they make ignorant comments like this?? does ANYONE who says this actually know what’s it’s like to know someone who has an addiction? It’s not just as easy as going “oh I’m just not gonna be an addict” it doesn’t work like that sweetheart. ITS A DISEASE
Look yeah, Tim leaving Lucy in the dark sucks and probably isn’t gonna be the best thing in the world, but like why is there so much hate for Isabel.
BEFORE anyone says it. Yes i know that she contributed to Tim’s trauma and that absolutely sucks but she was fighting an addiction and drugs make a person do things they would be ashamed to do sober, things that make addicts not want to get sober but at one point Isabel WAS Tim’s Lucy, was his light. Tim’s trauma didn’t start at Isabel and it definitely isn’t going to stop at her. She could’ve been sober since we met Tim in the pilot and he still could’ve been the same.
What are your opinions on Isabel?