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“Rookie Blue” recap (5.9): Downright Melancholy

Previously on Rookie Blue, Gail tried ask Holly for forgiveness but it was too little too late, Andy and Swarek actually started working, and Dov ignored Chloe despite her neverending cuteness.

We begin with Oliver showing his team a video he took that starts with Dov protesting being filmed. Gail takes the camera with a flash of sass, and present-day Gail giggles when she sees herself on screen. In the video, Gail takes the camera past a rambling Chloe to the break room, where Swarek is telling Andy he made fancy dinner reservations for them. Gail tells them that they’re boring and Andy attacks the camera.

Present-day Oliver flicks off the TV and tells them that this was a perfect example of what not to do with the cameras that they are going to have mounted to the front of their uniforms for their shift today.

Today’s task is Moving Day, which is basically making sure everyone who is supposed to move actually moves, which sounds like one of Gail Peck’s circles of hell. She volunteers for desk duty, but Oliver doesn’t bite and puts her in a car with Nick. McNally is paired with Chloe, who is still just excited to not be benched. Besides, it can’t be worse than finding a thumb in garbage.

The cameras are being tested in three precincts, and as for now they’ll be monitored internally. Dov implores them to make sure their cameras are off when they’re using the bathroom, and Oliver tells them to “Serve, protect, and keep it PG.”

Andy is not pleased with the idea of wearing a camera; she thinks it will be a distraction after the Duncan/Gerald fiasco. Chloe doesn’t mind so much, though, because she’s an open book, nothing to hide, no secrets at all, she is so sure she won’t do a single solitary thing that she doesn’t want seen on camera. Even she can’t tell how weird she’s being about the divorce papers in her hands that Wes dropped off.

NicklePeck are driving their squad car and Gail is mumbling and grumbling to herself. Nick asks what her problem is and she says she doesn’t want to watch people move, especially today of all days. Tonight is Peck Family Dinner night, and it was supposed to be her first family dinner with them as a lesbian-a word she stumbles on a little, still not quite used to saying it out loud in reference to herself-and she was really hoping Holly would be there. Traci and Leo were supposed to be there, too, but since Nash and BroPeck are on the outs, there would be no external buffers to save her from her passive aggressive family. She wishes aloud that she would never have to have a family dinner again, and Nick tells her that she doesn’t mean that. Gail looks at Nick, remembers he has no family of his own, and then APOLOGIZES. Apologizes! Gail Peck! I think I saw a pig flying around in the background! Gail tells him that she normally is insensitive on purpose but she really, truly didn’t mean to that time. She invites him to dinner as a quasi-apology and he says there’s no way in hell he would subject himself to that voluntarily. Gail says it’s for the best because her family still hates him anyway.

Nearby, Chloe is narrating everything around them, like I would most definitely do if I was assigned a camera for a day. McNally isn’t having any of it, though, and her bad day gets worse when a man gets in her face about his stolen bike. NicklePeck steps in and stops the fighting and Andy tells them to let the guy go, much to Peck’s dismay.

Peck is hating every minute of this moving day and says that helping people move goes against the very fiber of her being, and watching isn’t all that much better. They knock on one apartment door to make sure the occupants are scooting and two kids greet them, smiling sweetly and telling the cops that their mother just ran out for the rental van and should be back shortly. Chloe and Andy enter a different apartment to clear it and find a man bloody and unconscious on the floor. Chloe bends down to inspect him and another man rushes past, knocking her into a wall. And I won’t lie, I hold my breath and wait for that stupid aneurism to burst every time Chloe is bumped. Or any time she does something extra adorable. Basically I’m in a constant state of fear for Chloe’s life. Andy gives chase to the running man, but he parkours over a fence and is gone.

Nash comes to investigate and get the details, and Gail tries to get out of Moving Day by asking if she needs help back at the station, which she doesn’t. Nick suggests they go check on the kids again and Gail relents because she does like kids, after all.

NicklePeck ask the kids if they saw the parkour man, but they say no and nervously watch as Gail peeks under some tarps at the bikes they have stashed. When one matches the description of Andy’s man’s stolen bike, the girl blurts out that they had no choice, how else would they pay the rent?! The brother jumps in to say their mom needs some help. Gail moves to bring them in, but Nick pulls her aside, covers their cameras with his hands and says maybe they should give the kids a break. Gail looks at him like he just asked her if the sky was blue and says points out that there’s audio on the cameras, too. Nick grins sheepishly then takes the kids in, telling Gail to stay and wait for the mother to come home since she loooooves Moving Day.

At 15 Division, the brother begs Nick for community service, but Nick says that’s not up to him. Nick tells Oliver that the kids have no record, so he’s not looking to lock them up, so Oliver suggests he finds the owners of the stolen bikes. If no one presses charges, they can let them go. Giddy with this news, Nick calls Peck and asks her if the mom came home yet, and she says that she asked around, and no one has seen the mother in about a year.

When she gets off the phone, she asks the angry guy from earlier if the orange bike was his and he says yes. She sasses him a little and he starts to walk off, struggling to balance a box under one arm and guide the bike with another. Gail, in a jaw-dropping act of kindness, goes and helps him carry the box. Nash goes to the hospital to check on their vic and the doctor tells him that he had oxy on him that was prescribed to someone named Barbara and that he looks like he’s beat up on the reg. The suspect that had run away from Andy walks into the hospital and when the nurse asks him what he’s doing, he says, in Portuguese, that he doesn’t want any problems.

They bring Chloe in as an interpreter and they find out that the running man and the bleeding man are brothers, but he won’t tell them much else. Besides Chloe speaking Portuguese being lovely and wonderful, there’s not much else about this storyline that kept my interest, because let’s be honest, we’re not here for all the cop stuff. Just some of the cop stuff. So here’s the rest of that story in a nutshell: They bring the doctor who prescribed the oxy into the station, and Andy uses the camera she hated to her advantage and they find out that the doctor wasn’t just prescribing drugs to illegal immigrants to keep them from being deported, but was part of a larger human trafficking ring. They bust it up and reunite the two brothers to their third baby brother whom they had lost when they came to the US and they all lived happily ever after.

Back to the more interesting cop case: the orphans. Nick takes the kids into the breakroom and feeds them hummus and coffee. They tell him that their mom took off with her boyfriend a year ago, but they didn’t want to get separated, so they’ve been getting by on their own. Nick says that they’re just kids, they shouldn’t have to get by on their own.

Chloe meets up with Wes because he conveniently forgot to sign one of the divorce papers. They eat hot dogs and do a cute little hot dog rap. They both take the blame for their failed marriage, then Wes leans in and kisses her. Chloe quickly says she has to go and runs for the hills.

Nick had talked to social services, and they don’t have anyplace to put them where they could be together, unless they both have records. Which sounds really messed up, but I guess even in Canada the foster care system needs a little love. So Nick’s plan is to give them both records, since they’re minors they’ll be expunged when they turn eighteen, so that they can be placed together.

In the locker room, Chloe and Andy awkward around a bit, because they’re both adorable, dorky and weird, but they’re both from different weird, dorky planets. Andy admits that Chloe was right about the cameras, that she barely noticed them all day and then they ended up working in her favor in the end. Panic floods Chloe’s face and she realizes that she had the camera on when Wes kissed her, and that Dov was the one reviewing the footage, and that she had to do some intervention STAT.

She sprints out of the room, knocking into Gail on the way. Gail lies down on a bench and tells Andy it must have been nice to bust a human trafficking ring, since all she did was peruse forgotten memories. Which is likely the real reason she doesn’t like helping people move; not because she hates helping people, but because she hates endings. She’s had enough of them, after all. She admits to feeling melancholy, and when she doesn’t get a shower of Andy’s happy peppy optimism, that for once she might have been looking forward to, she looks up to see the locker room is empty. She tells the empty room that it was a good talk.

Chloe flutters around Dov, trying to slyly convince him to save the rest of the videos he hasn’t watched for later, and her powers of persuasion work. He goes to get change and she sits down at the computer, frantically trying to find and delete the video of The Kiss.

Nick tells the orphan kids about his plan, their records, and that this was the only way to keep them together. He promises them that they’ll be fine here, that they’ll be well taken care of, and the boy asks Nick (more curious than anything, to his credit) how Nick knows all this. Turns out, Nick got them placed in a foster home he lived in for three years when he was a kid.

The woman who runs the home is a warm, sweet woman who serves them a hot dinner and tells the kids all about what Nick was like when he was living with her. They look around the table and realize maybe, just maybe, they were going to be just fine.

Back at the precinct, Andy and Swarek both say they might be too tired for a fancy dinner, and Swarek says that works out quite nicely because he actually kind of failed at making reservations. He suggests picking up pizza and beer on the way home and that actually sounds a million times better than any fancy restaurant ever would.

Nash runs into BroPeck in the hallway and before things can get too awkward between them, Gail steps in and asks her brother if they can get drunk at dinner tonight. He says that’s mandatory, and Gail snidely tells Nash she’s missing out. The Peck siblings walk off together and Steve says that tonight’s dinner could actually be fun for once. Gail scoffs at the very idea. Steve says he knows she’s right, it’s the same every month, and people never change. Gail disagrees. She tells him that she helped someone move today. He’s sure he didn’t hear her correctly…she what?! But he heard right. She helped somebody. He says, “Wow,” and hopefully thinks, “How can I get her and Holly back together? Since obviously she was a great influence on my sister.”

Nick goes to the corner store to buy the kids toothbrushes, but he doesn’t have any cash on him and the store doesn’t accept cards. The woman behind him in line offers to pay for the toothbrushes. They flirt over the cheesy puffs she was buying, which is the best kind of flirting, but they don’t exchange numbers or anything after this cute little moment, which means she’s probably either a serial killer or she’s about to get murdered.

What did you think of “Moving Day”? Next week is the two hour season finale!

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