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The Rookie Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
20 Episodes 2019 - 2020
Episode 1
Impact
Sun, Sep 29, 201942 mins
Danger is ever-present as the officers of the Mid-Wilshire precinct grapple with the aftermath of a plotted attack on the city of Los Angeles, leaving Officer Bradford fighting for his life. Flash forward two weeks and the rookies receive the shocking results of their latest training exam, leaving one officer questioning what the future holds. Meanwhile, tension develops at home as Nolan and Lopez advance in their relationships with Jessica and Wesley.
Episode 2
The Night General
Sun, Oct 6, 201942 mins
Nolan teams up with new Night Detective Nick Armstrong for a murder investigation case that results in an unexpected reunion with a former love interest. Meanwhile, Officer Bradford reluctantly accepts help from Officer Chen as he prepares for his sergeant exam, and Officer West pursues an unconventional move after finding himself in need of a new home.
Episode 3
The Bet
Sun, Oct 13, 201943 mins
Officer Nolan navigates building tension in his relationship with Jessica and a developing rapport with Grace while working a high-stakes criminal case involving an undercover homeland security agent. Meanwhile, Officer Chen meddles with Officer Bradford's love life, and Officer Lopez learns some surprising news about Wesley.
Episode 4
Warriors and Guardians
Sun, Oct 20, 201942 mins
Officer Nolan gets off to a rocky start after being introduced to his new training officer, Nyla Harper, who has an unconventional approach to police work after her stint as an undercover detective. Meanwhile, Officer Bradford struggles to think of an appropriate birthday gift for Rachel, and Officer Lopez finds herself navigating a case that triggers a personal memory.
Episode 5
Tough Love
Sun, Oct 27, 201943 mins
As part of their second phase of training, the rookies are asked to develop their first confidential informants. Officer Nolan soon discovers that no two informants are the same and struggles with his newest task. Meanwhile, Officer Chen's mother complicates her home life when she comes to stay with her.
Episode 6
Fallout
Sun, Nov 3, 201942 mins
Nolan has to go to the court of Judge Stevens to testify about a car accident caused by a drugged driver and Jessica comes to the audience to give support to him. Out of the blue, there is an alert warning of missile attack in LA bringing immediate chaos to the city. Sgt. Grey sends his officers and rookies to the streets to help the population while Nolan and Jessica have to control the situation in the court. Meanwhile Nyla Harper brings her daughter to the police department and has to face another problem.
Episode 7
Safety
Sun, Nov 10, 201942 mins
Rookies or duos are assigned to community bonds, mainly various liaison duties, like Nolan as guest speaker in his ex's pregnancy class while his own lover Jessica's false positive compromises their relationship, overpowering an intruding ex proves the easier bit. Bradford gets assigned with recovering West as volunteer coaches to his favorite team Watts Rams so he can spar with favorite star Eric Weddle, but also becomes the only refuge for an ex-con single mother and her boy, whom she mysteriously pulled from the promising junior team, which suddenly tie sin with a seemingly routine diamond deal guard duty. Lucy duly regrets ignoring the dragon detective's advise to dodge any neighborhood meeting complaint by referring to an imaginary task force, stuck in petty jobs, one of which proves an explosive nightmare by chance.
Episode 8
Clean Cut
Sun, Nov 17, 201942 mins
Officer Nolan kicks off his birthday by babysitting a crime scene at a law office. Meanwhile, Officer Bradford and Officer West are set to receive special awards, and Sgt. Grey rides patrol with Officer Harper after she requests an early annual evaluation.
Episode 9
Breaking Point
Sun, Dec 1, 201942 mins
Officer Nolan's trust is tested when he tries to help the previous owner of his home reconnect with his family. Meanwhile, Officer Harper has finally earned an overnight visit with her daughter that is put into jeopardy when her past undercover life resurfaces again.
Episode 10
The Dark Side
Sun, Dec 8, 201943 mins
Officer Nolan and team are charged with escorting a notorious female serial killer to the graves of her previously unrecovered victims. However, when they arrive, they unearth even more than they expected. Meanwhile, Officer Chen meets a seemingly perfect man who sparks her interest, and Officer Lopez worries about Wesley as his PTSD continues to increase.
Episode 11
Day of Death
Sun, Feb 23, 202043 mins
Caleb Wright has abducted Lucy Chen and buries her alive, after a frustrated escape attempt, in a steel barrel in the desert. Nick's despair obviously only amusing Rosalind, it's up to 'amusing gentleman' Nolan to question her and extract some clues. The whole team makes the case its ole priority, even stickler Tim uses illicit force on a suspect to speed up a lead, but to little avail as time runs out. Nolan works on Rosalind's pride to turn her against Caleb, who gets all the press attention, and lures guilt-consumed Nick into a trap. Caleb's new hideout is finally found, but he gets shot during the raid, so Tim desperately looks for a clue as nothing can be spotted from the police helicopter in the vast void.
Episode 12
Now and Then
Sun, Mar 1, 202042 mins
Tim grudgingly allows Lucy to switch partner to a female while recovering from her abduction trauma, under training officer Nyla Harper. That leaves Tim free to act as babysitter for Nolan's son Henry's fiancee Abigail, who the Nolans wanted to experience the grim side of police work and -training in the vain hope she would be scared off. Lover Sterling Freeman's Hollywood fame having compromised Jackson's police work due to storming fans, they fake a very public breakup.
Episode 13
Follow-Up Day
Sun, Mar 8, 202043 mins
Each strife duo is handed an unsolved case the detectives didn't solve. Nolan learns his fully estranged father left him an old car, which is stolen back by his previously unknown half brother Pete, who was raised poorly by their drunk dad, hooks up with a pole dancer in John's case and keeps changing his mind which brother should have the car and what it means. Tim's upcoming sergeant promotion exam results distract him from the case of the stolen statue, but he still finds an original solution for a complex gang feud. Public defender Wesley Evers must convince his bossy mother Melanie he's preferable to her non-criminal 'real lawyer' and to turn in her tennis lover, who gave her a gun used in an armed robbery.
Episode 14
Casualties
Sun, Mar 15, 202041 mins
Tim has passed his sergeant exam, but may have to wait endlessly for actual promotion unless he accepts a transfer. War veteran Tim finds the prime suspect of the murder on a fellow homeless squatter a former Marines front platoon member, feeling responsible for his amputated limb. The team follows the trail to a counterfeit money case, then refuses to desist as demanded by federal agents, whose brass-covered covert operation they confront at utter career peril, calling a marker to access the top secret joint Californian crime fighters database.
Episode 15
Hand-Off
Sun, Mar 22, 202042 mins
To Nolan's horror, he's one of the victims of a hacker who steals identities and max out on their accounts and credit cards, amassing a fortune in luxury goods. Nolan's life savings, meant as his son Henry's college fund, are wiped out and the cyber crime expert says he'll be lucky if less then half is tracked down and claimed back in court over about four years, overseas accounts are probably lost forever. Nolan finds unrepentant cyber thief Jordan Neil and his stash, but also must rescue the rascal fiend from a criminal fellow victim, whose violent repertoire includes amputation, with a twisted reward. Jackson insists to treat a physically lost petty case, thus stumbling onto a murder, but also neglecting the annual regulation infractions to do list left by the sergeant, who faces a trauma with Lopez from her first patrol day, at the parole hearing of the man who killed her partner drunk but now seems reformed for his teen son.
Episode 16
The Overnight
Sun, Apr 5, 202042 mins
Officers Chen and Bradford respond to a call at the Los Angeles auditions of "American Idol," and Officer Chen ends up facing Ryan Seacrest and the judges (Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie). Meanwhile, Chen befriends reporter (Roselyn Sanchez) whose motives are not clear.
Episode 17
Control
Sun, Apr 12, 202043 mins
Nolan and Harper encounter Nolan's former C.I. Bianca, who tells them that Ripper has returned with a large shipment of fentanyl. DEA Agent Michael Banks determines that Nolan and Harper must go in disguise to confront Ripper. They meet with Ripper, but when Bianca confronts Ripper she is abducted. Chen meets a firefighter during a call and is intrigued by him. Lopez also interrogates a bank teller after a woman is murdered, and clashes with Detective Calderon on how the case should be handled. Banks offers Harper a job with the DEA after they successfully rescue Bianca, but she respectfully declines his offer.
Episode 18
Under the Gun
Sun, Apr 26, 202043 mins
Nolan and Harper are assigned by Sgt. Grey to escort four juvenile delinquents to a prison facility in the Juvenile Immersion Program promoted by the city. While driving to the facility, one youngster is sent back to the correctional facility after robbing the police car. Nolan, Harper, Deputy Sharp and the three juvenile delinquents meet Warden Miller that brings two dangerous prisoners to expose the life in prison for the youths. Out of the blue, there is a riot in the prison and the group is trapped inside without any weapon. Meanwhile, Sgt. Grey summons Lopez and tells that LAPD has hired a tech company to use an algorithm to target officers who are most likely to be sued and she was flagged as the most problematic officer in the station. Therefore, West and she would spend the day with the nerd Elvis Grimaldi to show the police work by the book in quiet areas of LA and help him to collect data.
Episode 19
The Q Word
Sun, May 3, 202042 mins
Their rookie year is coming to an end and officers Nolan, Chen and West are about to be squeezed harder than ever before as their training officers evaluate whether they are truly ready for the job. Meanwhile, after one of their rookie classmates is involved in a shooting, the team uncovers some unsettling evidence.
Episode 20
The Hunt
Sun, May 10, 202042 mins
Nolan reviews the footage of his camera and suspects that Nick Armstrong has killed Erin in cold blood. He discusses with Harper that tells that he shall have evidence of his suspicion; otherwise, he could lose his job. He decides to visit Rosalind Dyer that gives a clue to him. He breaks in Nick's house and soon he learns how naive he is. Meanwhile, Tim tries to say goodbye to Rachel, but they decide to see how their relationship will work with Rachel moving to New York.
