After killing a suspect while in pursuit, John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) faced a barrage of trauma, including his own mental duress over the incident and questioning from Internal Affairs, the LAPD Union Rep, a lawyer, and more. Things got even more dangerous for Nolan when the brother of the man he killed broke into his home and started to beat him with a baseball bat.
Lucy (Melissa O’Neill) happened to be showering when the assault began, after falling back into bed with John in the heat of the moment after a very traumatic few days. She snuck into the living room, just as the intruder was drawing his gun on Nolan, and we all heard a shot ring out, not knowing where it came from before we saw television’s most ominous words: “To Be Continued.”
Meanwhile, Jackson (Titus Makin) tried to get some face-time with his father Commander West, who was busy leading the Internal Affairs investigation into Nolan’s shooting. Talia (Afton Williamson) gets the “tap” to take the detective’s exam, which scores her some valuable experience with detectives, who are, unfortunately, working Isabel’s (Mircea Monroe) case. Talia tries to help Isabel through wearing a wire on a major drug bust, but Tim (Eric Winter) insists on being on the rescue team should the bust go south. The s— does hit the fan when Isabel pushes too hard to get to her dealer’s source, and when the team, including Tim and Angela (Alyssa Diaz) burst in, they find the hotel room empty except for some blood and Isabel’s discarded wire.
EW called up The Rookie showrunner Alexi Hawley to help us get out of the proverbial escape room of our emotions by filling in some of the dots on that “to be continued” card and what might lay in store for all of our heroes when the show returns in 2019.