[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Rookie Season 7 Episode 14 “Mad About Murder.”]
The Rookie has taken fairly just a few hitmen off the desk by the tip of the most recent episode, together with one with a connection to some predominant characters.
All of it begins when Tim (Eric Winter) is shocked when a man reveals up at his door speaking a few hitman for rent. That leads the LAPD to an internet site and a listing of targets in Los Angeles to warn. However then, to their shock, the hitmen begin turning up lifeless after the positioning is hacked, and (on physique cam footage) they witness an murderer they know, Malvado (Jimmy Gonzales), whom Bailey (Jenna Dewan) had turned to when her abusive ex-husband was after her, killing one. When Nolan (Nathan Fillion) tells her, Bailey worries that if the LAPD catches him, he can use that as leverage.
The LAPD catches as much as Malvado when he’s going after the final unfastened finish (the one who employed him), and in the course of the ensuing combat with Nolan and Tim, Angela (Alyssa Diaz) should shoot him. So why kill off Malvado? Was it simply to remove that concern for Bailey and Nolan?
“To be sincere, for me, the Malvado storyline actually was there to point out the trauma that Bailey had been by way of,” government producer Alexi Hawley tells TV Insider. “It was actually an emotional storyline for her about with Jason’s escape and him coming for her and having her must face some issues that she truly hadn’t admitted to herself about what Jason had put her by way of. And Malvado being kind of this kind of primal fear-based motion that she took and the influence that that had on her storyline and her relationship with Nolan was the factor that was essentially the most fascinating about that to me. We purposely tried to maintain what she revealed to Malvado as being in the end simply peripheral. He did discover Jason on his personal and all that sort of stuff.”
He continues, “In order that being stated, sure, I feel on the finish of the day, the spark of concern that comes from him being again round once more was essential. However truthfully for me, the story actually simply was about Bailey and Nolan for essentially the most half.”
Elsewhere within the episode, Angela pushes Tim to spill about him and Lucy (Melissa O’Neil) throughout a late night time working. “I don’t know” what’s happening, he shares. “She’s taking the sergeant’s examination.” As Angela notes, then the 2 of them can get again collectively. “No, it’s an excellent transfer for her profession,” says Tim, however he admits, “It’s come up.” Angela presents him recommendation: Lucy is the very best factor to occur to him and if he wins her again after what he put her by way of, he higher say a prayer of gratitude each night time earlier than mattress. This comes after the exes attached on Valentine’s Day, then April Fools’ Day.
“I didn’t need to make it simple, partly as a result of I felt like what Tim had performed to her, the best way he broke up along with her, the best way he punished himself by punishing her was pretty seismic. And I felt like it will be a disservice to the characters if we simply had a few episodes of penalty field after which they had been again collectively,” says Hawley of what he’s been doing with Chenford.
“So I believed it was actually essential this season to dig into the actual results that it had on her, him performing some work as a result of clearly what he did was not emotionally wholesome, after which additionally simply deal with them as actual flawed human beings who’ve a hookup, despite the fact that it’s most likely not the neatest factor for his or her relationship, after which discover distance once more, after which have Lucy kind of make some selections which are emotionally sophisticated for her,” he provides. “So all that stated, I do assume at their coronary heart that there’s an simple connection between the 2 of them, and a part of it’s simply them kind of discovering their method again in direction of one another every time that occurs..”
As for what appears like a construct to an inevitable reunion, “Episode 15 has just a few sudden revelations as a part of our true crime documentary episode, some issues stated {that a} digicam caught that perhaps they weren’t alleged to, which I feel is enjoyable,” the EP teases.
The Rookie, Tuesdays, 9/8c, ABC
