User Reviews

Although this is a great episode, as usual, for The Rookie it hurts that so many episodes are linked strictly to the rookie feds like this one as to binge a show or to catch up. You're having to constantly figure out what to watch when and in what order which can get confusing and turn people away. Right now the rookie still has strong ratings, but the rookie feds is lacking on most accounts which makes me scared for the rookie. If Feds ratings, don't come up for the show continues to go down. I feel like it is a sinking ship that could drag the rookies ratings down which nobody wants to lose that show.

Sorry, but my inner Pittsburgher got riled near the end of this episode... a large portion of it is set in Nolan's hometown, the borough of Foxburg, which is in Clarion County, just north of Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH. Home of the Pirates? Remember them? NO person in Western PA roots for the Phillies (if they don't want to be shunned). Why would anyone from Western PA dive the six hours to Philly (which I also love, I may add) to watch a game there? Instead of Mike Schmidt, the writers could have written Willie Stargell. Oh, I am wounded to the heart...

Apart from that major insul---um---glitch, this was one of the best episodes this season. Bringing in members of "The Rookie: Feds" was a great way to handle the situation to "kill two birds with one stone" regarding some major baddies of this series. I look forward to seeing how this story line eventually concludes.

The added comic relief of seeing (the very tall) Nathan Fillion getting out of a Smart Car is, on its own, worth watching this episode.

It was sad and shocking to see an "In Memory" at the end for Annie Wersching, who died from cancer on January 29, 2023. She was an absolutely gorgeous woman and mother of three. Rest in peace, Annie.

So, back to "You know that thing where you toggle your flat hand?" That's the way I felt about this show. Parts of it were very entertaining, but parts of it were ridiculous. Comme ci, comme ça.

Should we start with an police entrapment where some of the cops are pretty much in view, weapons and all, right out on the sidewalk?

How about a militia attack on a house owned by a woman known to have recently died?

Or trying to set two drug cartels against each other with a plan to stop them before a war breaks out.

These things are over the top dumb, yet we like the cast and there were some amusing moments.

Nolan and his girlfriend have to deal with the aftermath of Nolan's mother death. I think that was fun. The rest of the story was about setting a trap for Elijah. I was not impressed with that storyline.

But I wanted to comment an aspect of the show that it is becoming annoying. The show already had a large cast but now there is the recurrence of a lot of other people, and that makes things very complicated. On one hand, they have FBI agents, for the Rookie spin-off, who appeared randomly in some episodes, like this one. And on the other hand, now we have the team of Metro, where Tim is working. It is too many people and as we do not care for the new characters it just add noise to the show.