Love was certainly in the air for Tuesday’s all new episode of The Rookie. While we saw Bailey and John navigate the aftermath of her involvement in Jason’s murder, others have found a way to rekindle old sparks.
John’s finding it difficult to talk to Bailey about what he knows: that she has been communicating with the man who murdered Jason. I could understand his dilemma, but only slightly. We all know John struggles with morality and cannot compromise. However, in this case, it’s his wife. We’ve previously seen him struggle when it came to Bailey when Rosalind Dyer had her kidnapped and put in danger. The only way to save her was to kill Rosalind, who was unarmed. John couldn’t do it then and it seems that character trait is sticking around now.
Bailey confronts him about what’s been going on and he finally tells her what he knows. Now, what I didn’t expect was how Bailey would respond to the accusations. There was no denying it, but there was no remorse for what she’s done. She even goes as far as throwing away the evidence of her involvement. I could understand Bailey’s fear and her explanation for doing what she did was fair, however, doesn’t make it right.
There was no resolution by the end of this episode. In fact, Bailey decides she needs time away from John while she tries to understand why he didn’t understand why she did what she did. She believes that John owes her an apology, but I don’t think he does. There was a proper way to handle this and I think both John and Bailey handled it incorrectly. What I wonder now is, knowing that Bailey was an accessory to Jason’s murder, will John turn her in or go against his moral code and figure things out? Whatever the case is, the two of them need to have a conversation.
Another pair that needs to have a conversation: Lucy and Tim. At a Gala hosted by Grey’s wife, Luna, we find the pair fighting this tension that’s been building up the entire episode (but honestly for quite some time now). Earlier in the episode, Tim and Lucy work an assignment together where folks line up to turn in their exes. When a confession leads them to surveilling for someone “moving something big”, we witness these small moments between them as the tension builds. The way Tim steals looks when Lucy isn’t aware, and just how Lucy becomes distracted when Tim says he’s bringing a date to the Gala (the date was his sister, Genny, but she didn’t know that).
Later on at the Gala, when Lucy sees said date, she instantly hugs Genny and man the look on Tim’s face when Genny asks “doesn’t she [look amazing]” should be the reference photo for knowing when someone is in love. It’s as if when he saw her he was over trying to hide the looks. He was no longer stealing the looks, they were intentional.
An altercation takes place at the bar causing Tim to be injured and of course Lucy has to be the one to help him, right? They go back to the hotel room (thank you John and Bailey for fighting and freeing up the room), and Lucy cleans Tim’s wound and sweet baby Jesus, you can cut the tension with a knife. The bandage doesn’t even make it on, when Tim turns to look at Lucy as he slowly moves closer and if we’re being honest here, our boy looked hungry for a piece of Lucy (that’s as PG as I could say that). There was a bit of hesitation on Lucy’s part, but then she gave in to everything we all know she was feeling for quite some time and we have the reconnection of chenford that we’ve been begging for.
I enjoyed every minute of it and didn’t know how much I missed them together until this very moment they shared, but not like this. It became very clear the morning after (not the morning after we begged for but if this is how we get it then, I guess it works) that there was something unsaid between them. They’re still holding back from having that much needed conversation and I hope that before anything happens further between them we get the opportunity to see them have that talk.
Overall this was one of my favorite episodes to watch, but I want to hear from you. What’d you think of the all new episode of The Rookie? Share your thoughts!
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