[Warning: The next accommodates MAJOR spoilers for the Blue Bloods Season 14 premiere.]
Blue blood' The ultimate season started on Friday, February 16 on CBS, marking the start of the top of the crime procedural.
A lot of the plot of Blue blood The season 14 premiere was the standard cop present you'd discover: Reagan household feuds, variations over how and when to ship justice, and extra. However two story strains will proceed to be among the important issues dealing with the police household all through its closing episodes.
Jamie (Will Estes) is on a harmful undercover mission in a intercourse trafficking ring that may proceed all through the episodes. Within the premiere, viewers noticed him taking kidnapped ladies and taking them to a secret location. Whereas holding the ladies captive in a secret warehouse, Jamie clashes with the obnoxious Hader (visitor star Aaron Abrams) whereas attempting to cease the prison from sexually assaulting one of many ladies.
Later, their plan is compromised and Jamie accuses Hader of being a snitch earlier than secretly arresting him. The chief of the ring then decides that they should kill the ladies by burning them alive, however Jamie convinces him that it isn’t the correct resolution. Jamie unexpectedly arrives house for a household dinner after three weeks away on the finish of the episode, however has to return incognito shortly after.
Estes beforehand advised TV Insider that within the February 23 episode, viewers will see Jamie meet his nephew, Joe (Will Hochman), as they each go on secret assignments associated to this intercourse trafficking ring.
“Jamie loves Joe, however he does enterprise slightly in a different way than Jamie. He does it, and so they collide,” Estes mentioned.
Elsewhere, Frank (Tom Selleck) receives a favor from Mayor Peter Chase (Dylan Walsh), who decides to droop the correct to housing regulation in response to an inflow of buses of immigrants searching for refuge in New York Metropolis. As a substitute of being for the unhoused, the mayor says he’s really getting used as a “one-stop store” that’s costing the town $5 billion to run.
“That is coming from the man who a minute in the past was greeting these buses with scorching espresso and handshakes,” Frank says, criticizing the politician and his motives. Chase says that he wants Frank's help to droop the regulation, because it could possibly be a controversial measure.
Dylan Walsh as Mayor Chase, Tom Selleck as Frank Reagan in Blue blood Season 14 premiere (Peter Kramer/CBS)
“This isn't a cop factor,” Frank declares. The mayor reveals his priorities (politics over individuals) when he asks Frank to “run some numbers” to justify this political resolution. “You possibly can speak concerning the crime wave,” Chase says, as Frank responds, “The crime wave isn’t brought on by this inflow.”
“I've seen you put together the e-book to your cops like you have got 4 Michelin stars,” Chase provides when Frank continues to problem him. In his workplace, Frank reveals to his interior circle: “I don't disagree with the mayor's place. No “Get out of this room.”
“The correct to housing is meant to be a security internet,” he argues, however it’s now being overtaken by the rising variety of immigrants. “If you happen to overload the security internet, it turns into a legal responsibility, a hazard and defeats the entire function.”
Detective Abigail Baker (Abigail Hawk) challenges Frank's perspective by covertly arranging a gathering with Eddie's (Vanessa Ray) associate Badillo (Ian Quinlan), a Latino officer whose dad and mom have been immigrants. The officer gave him helpful details about how law enforcement officials take a political stance, saying it offers criminals the chance to current themselves because the “opposition” celebration. Frank initially tells the mayor that he can’t publicly help this political motion.
This expertise makes Frank perceive how troublesome the mayor's job might be, a battle they understand they share. “It's very lonely being on the prime,” Chase says. Frank's exhaustion from the job is made clear when he admits that he typically considers quitting his job as NYPD commissioner.
He doesn't give up as a result of “over time, I believe this job grew to become my definition, so if I give up or bought fired, I don't know who I’d be.” Regardless of being a “pillar of the neighborhood,” Frank feels he could be nothing with out his work. This may little doubt be the principle query on Frank's thoughts all through the ultimate season.
Frank makes a change in favor of the mayor on the finish of the episode, indicating his willingness to adapt and take political stances, even when they’re measured. He agrees to help Chase as requested, however edited the mayor's speech in order that he would really feel comfy backing up the statements. Frank would fairly “take the beating” from the police than see their numbers lowered in potential price range cuts.
All through this episode, Frank clearly discovered an ally within the mayor, however Chase will quickly point out retirement to the commissioner. We'll see how that goes.
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