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The Rookie Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 2021 - 2021
Episode 1
Consequences
Sun, Jan 3, 202143 mins
Nolan finds the stashed fake evidence, Grey asks him to step out of his house but Nolan demands a warrant to enter first in order to buy time to hide the stash and calls Wesley as his defense attorney. Getting dressed to contest the warrant, Wesley accidentally finds a positive pregnancy test. Brought to the hospital, Armstrong implicates Harper as Nolan's accomplice, turning the tables when Harper explains Armstrong's corruption to Internal Affairs commander West and Lopez finds Armstrong's go bag off of a tip acquired from Rosalind Dyer. Nolan attempts to clear his name by going undercover to catch his Armenian mob paymaster Derian to implicate Armstrong, who escapes from the hospital and makes a deal with Derian, tipped off by Rosalind about the cops finding his go bag. As Armstrong prepares to execute Nolan, his gun proves empty and he is shot to death; Nolan can escape and arrest Derian. Nolan and Harper get letters of reprimand in their personnel files, virtually barring promotion, and Nolan is held in the training program for an additional month and faces a disciplinary exam. Lopez is promoted detective and opts to hold off on announcing her pregnancy for a clean start as a rookie detective.
Episode 2
In Justice
Sun, Jan 10, 202142 mins
Nolan and Harper are punished by being assigned to a community policing center. Lopez has a shaky first day as detective. Chen has her car stolen and tries to take care of the girl who did it. West is assigned a new TO, but this new guy is not exactly the perfect cop he seems to be.
Episode 3
La Fiera
Sun, Jan 17, 202143 mins
Nolan's life is complicated further by his self-invited mother Evelyn, who claims his bed and dumps her umpteenth fiance, hence demands Nolan's support to illegally keep the ring. Distracted by an armed man in scuba gear, Nolan fails his firearms re-qualification exam, and later stumbles upon a plot to assassinate a businesswoman with shady connections when he returns to practice for the retake. West and his new TO continue to clash as Stanton opts to arrest an entire Black family who are not even connected to the crime committed by the suspect that they're looking for. West reports Stanton to Grey with Bradford's backing, but West is outraged when Grey says that Stanton will only be assigned to administrative duty. Grey, who plans early retirement, later admits his wife that he and West must solve the issue.
Episode 4
Sabotage
Sun, Jan 24, 202143 mins
Nolan's mother stays on longer than he thought, she decides to sell dubious products. She sells them at the station and tells everyone he uses it which Isnot true and When the ones who use it show side effects he tells his mother she needs to make restitution. But shes evasive forcing Nolan to make a hard decisions. Grey tells West if he wants to get rid of Stanton they need to have strong evidence. So West rides with him watching him as he mistreats people. Bradford and Chen are assigned to back him UP but they decide to see if they can get evidence against Stanton. Wesley wants Angela to see his mothers doctor but she prefers her own. When Wesley sees her at work to talk about it she worries That it might tip them off shes pregnant and worries That Shell be treated differently but When the lead detective assigned a case that should have gone to her. She thinks he knows.
Episode 5
Lockdown
Sun, Feb 14, 202143 mins
Nolan passes his disciplinary exam but is once again reminded that he is unlikely ever to be promoted. He is held hostage by an armed man with dead man's switch threatening to blow up the police station unless a dangerous felon is released, but Grey and Harper presume and start looking for another motive, only to bump into danger inside the bomb shelter. West reaches a point of no return when Stanton threatens to report a firing offense against West, who bluffs back that his father, the head of Internal Affairs, would rip apart Stanton's career. Without prospect for promotion, Nolan aspires becoming a training officer, which requires completing his degree. Stanton sets up West to take a massive beating from the very ghetto scum he protected in a public housing complex, but West activates Stanton's body camera, showing his TO passively observed the beating, resulting in suspension.
Episode 6
Revelations
Sun, Feb 21, 202143 mins
Bradford and Chen are assigned to work in the security of a convention of covert operations and he meets his old friend Mack Daniels with a hooker and notes that he is addicted in Oxycodone. West is working at community policing. When a criminal breaks in the convention, Nolan and Harper come to give support to Bradford and Chen and one classmate identifies Nolan and exposes him to the class. Later, Harper and Chen help Harper's former colleague June in an undercover work, and Chen's work is praised by her colleagues.
Episode 7
True Crime
Sun, Feb 28, 202143 mins
In a true crime documentary, the station breaks down a recent case of former child actor Corey Harris , known for his role in Paul's Place, a Nolan family favorite, who turned into the leader of a cult, which Lopez and West encountered previously. Harper and Nolan initially responded to a call where Harris was reported by Debbie's father, before Nolan convinced her to stop to see her terminal mother. Harris is reported missing from his house, with blood later identified to his former co-star, Charlotte Luster, and a mummified Charlie Chaplin is found under his bed. Luster is reported missing next, her car found at LAX. Harris is found alive, and remains silent for five hours before demanding a lawyer, actually Wesley. Harris' mother is arrested after CCTV shows her parking Luster's car. She confesses claiming sole responsibility. Harris himself is later murdered during a live-stream to his followers, by his former acting student Ronald Sanchez.
Episode 8
Bad Blood
Sun, Mar 28, 202142 mins
When Nolan fails to take a test he asks the professor if he could take it. The professor tells him to answer an ethical question and if he can, she will let him. She gives him a day to think of the answer. Lopez is working the kidnapping of a judge's son. When DNA identifies the perp as being the daughter of Oscar Hutchinson she sends Nolan and Harper to talk to him. He says he doesn't know he has a daughter. When they ask for the women he's been with, he asks that they get him out so he can help them. Chen is reeling from a bad breakup. While on patrol someone spray paints their unit. Bradford recognizes it as being the work of someone who did the same thing to him ten years ago. West is being pressured by his father to consider joining internal affairs which he doesn't want to do. Grey decides to ride with West and talk to him about his career options and his advice differs from West's father's.
Episode 9
Amber
Sun, Apr 4, 202143 mins
Chen and West are working their last shift as rookies, while Nolan still has 30 more days. Nolan's professor joins him and Harper on a ride along, to do research for a book she's writing. While on patrol, they receive an amber alert on a missing baby. They all try to find the baby. When one suspect turns out to be innocent , they focus their attention on another.
Episode 10
Man of Honor
Sun, Apr 11, 202142 mins
Near the end of his probation, Nolan is called to a bank robbery in progress but when the robber is shot trying to surrender, Nolan can't stop thinking that there is more to the robbery. Lucy and Jackson ride together on their first day as newly minted officers. Nolan's friend Ben is back in town and offers Henry a job that makes him quit college. Overwhelmed with wedding preparations, Angela taps Tim to be her "man of honor".
Episode 11
New Blood
Sun, Apr 18, 202142 mins
Most-feared TO Tim Bradford stuns his former well-tested rookie Lucy Chen, who looked forward to watching his hazing, by acting far more accommodating to new recruit Katie Barnes, a military veteran like him, whom he tries to help building up confidence and a non-combatant helping attitude, but she shies away and leaves the LAPD. John is proud when his son Henry visits, presenting his colleague at his cool new job, alas having left college, but worried-sick as the boy collapses. Professor Fiona Ryan rather rudely refuses Nolan's protection after reporting credible threats from right-extremist opponents of her civil rights action, only to end up grateful for his protection and confiding how it started with her family's fate in their home town Philadelphia.
Episode 12
Brave Heart
Sun, May 2, 202143 mins
After rushing his son, Henry, to the hospital following his collapse, Nolan is reunited with his ex-wife, Sarah, and they must come together to help their son. Meanwhile, Detective Lopez discovers "La Fiera" is in the same hospital and wants to find out exactly why.
Episode 13
Triple Duty
Sun, May 9, 202143 mins
When some drug dealers are killed, everyone thinks La Fiera is retaliating for her son's death by the Madrigals. Lopez meets with La Fiera to convince her to stand down, but she doesn't. A DEA agent wants Lopez to work with him but she doesn't like him. Nolan and Bradford keep an eye on Madrigal. Chen is given an opportunity to go undercover, Harper tries to get her ready. West learns Stanton is back on the job. He Informs Grey who tells him there's nothing that can be done so he turns to Prof. Ryan who suggests he goes on TV to talk about Stanton. He tells Grey of his plans who warns him there could be repercussions, So they try to find another way.
Episode 14
Threshold
Sun, May 16, 202143 mins
Officer Nolan mildly injures himself while chasing down a shoplifter and the local DA wants to charge the suspect with assault despite Nolan's wishes. Meanwhile, Lucy goes undercover, Lopez' wedding venue is seized by the FBI and Nolan meets his new neighbor.
