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“Rookie Blue” recap (5.06): Daddy issues

Previously on Rookie Blue, Gail and Holly were on a break and Andy found a body in a trunk.

We open on Oliver and Swarek giving 15 Division everything they know about the body in the trunk. Which, unfortunately, isn’t much. Before they can break off to solve the mystery, a man stumbles in and is shocked to see his brother on the murderboard. They interview the brother a little, but of course he couldn’t imagine anyone who would want to hurt his brother because no one ever does. This is why whenever I meet someone that I suspect is capable of murdering me, I tell my best friend. I’m hoping she has a running list she’s holding onto so she doesn’t sound like one of these useless people on cop shows.

Meanwhile, Nash has a mystery of her own: Her baby daddy, Dex, is MIA. He wasn’t at mediation (which is good for her) but he also didn’t show up to pick up Leo (which is not so good).

Gail and Nick are partnered up today, and even though good ol’ Nick is focused on the job, Gail is plotting out his online dating profile. After all, she knows all kinds of weird things about him. Like how he sleeps with his eyes half open and has never fallen prey to the mysterious black hole that steals singular socks. Nick then says that Gail is single now, too (WRONG) so he can make her a profile that says she flosses her teeth with her hair, which she points out is no longer true. Because she cut off all her hair. WITH HOLLY. REMEMBER, GAIL? REMEMBER HOLLY? *weeps quietly* They decide their job is to go visit someone who they believe owned the car the body was found in. When they get there, the man is in his robe and asks if he can get dressed before he goes down to the station for questioning. Gail agrees, but says that Nick will have to watch him to make sure he doesn’t make a run for it. She would do it, but she doesn’t swing that way anymore. When they do get the guy, Sean, down to the station, McNally and Swarek interrogate him. He is pretty calm and a little confused, so it makes sense when Dr. Howard says that it isn’t the man he gave a test drive to, which is the main suspect for this case.

Sean’s wife mentions that a man named Larry lives in their basement. Larry is a friend of Sean’s, an ex-con, and, according to Dr. Howard, definitely the guy he gave a test drive to. Swarek says it might be a debt he’s paying to a former cellmate, so he offers to go to the prison to check it out. He’s acting a little shifty, so McNally decides to go with him on a road trip.

Definitely NOT road tripping is Chloe. She’s frustrated; she can’t find a single motive anyone could possibly have for killing this guy, she’s sick of being on desk duty, and her stupid tequila husband kept a blood clot in her neck that she would very much like to part with. Unfortunately, since the vic is dead and the desk is inanimate and her tequila husband works for a different precinct, Dov gets the brunt of her anger.

Nash finally gets a call from her baby daddy…well, from the hospital, who is calling to ask her to pick Dex up after a bar fight. She doesn’t have time, what with a killer on the loose, so BroPeck gallantly offers to get him for her. But Dex isn’t quite as keen to be picked up as BroPeck was to fetch him. They fight it out (verbally…Dex is in pretty bad shape) and Dex says he’ll just call his brother for a while. BroPeck says that he should probably make that his first call next time and strolls right on out of there.

In the squad car, Gail is trying to take a picture of Nick for his online dating profile, and they’re all coming out pretty horrible, which delights Gail to no end. Despite Gail seemingly not focusing on the case, she helps Nick realize that the suspect is probably at the bus station, because there’s always more to Gail Peck than meets the eye.

Having way less fun is McSwarek. They are on the most awkward, boring road trip ever. Which maybe isn’t fair because I’ll forever be comparing road trips to Helena and Sarah’s road trip on Orphan Black and that was the best road trip in the history of road trips. Anyway, Andy tries to use the game “two truths and a lie” to get Swarek to open up to her and share some of his feelings since he’s a cold, quiet, broody man. But since he’s a cold, quiet, broody man, he doesn’t fall for her tricks and purposefully (?) plays the game very, very wrong.

Back at 15, Dov and Chloe realize that the brother might have been the intended victim, not the man who was stuffed in the trunk. Because the man in the trunk was a good guy; he even volunteered at a homeless shelter. But his brother foreclosed on homes for a living; meaning he was basically filling said homeless shelter.

When NicklePeck show up at the bus stop, they see their suspect standing in line. Nick calls out to him, telling him that running away from the cops works about 0.000001% of the time, but he tries anyway. They figured that would happen, so Gail was ready and waiting for him when he did. Andy and Swarek’s uncomfortable road trip ends at the prison, where they’re interviewing people about the Larry character NicklePeck just nabbed. Andy finds out that one of the people they were supposed to interview shared Swarek’s last name, but her Swarek got the call that Larry got picked up, so he’s ready to skipadeedoodah on out of there.

In the car, Andy says that she knows it was his father that was Larry’s sponsor, and is sad that he won’t share his feelings with her. She’s been through this before. Everything is hunky dory then bam, she hits a wall with him and they crash and burn. She doesn’t want to do that with him again. She doesn’t have the energy to. And I really don’t blame her. But it seems Swarek is still holding onto a little residual resentment that she went undercover for six months, even though he had broken up with her right before. Whether it’s remembering the pain of being without her, or Andy’s really upsetting sad-eyes, I can’t say, but Swarek hands Andy a file, and she opens it to find out it’s all about his father. He’s sharing.

On the way back to 15 Division, Gail tells Larry that his good buddy Sean is talking to the detectives about him right now. This sends Larry over the edge, and he bashes through the car window, grabs some glass, and shoves it into his throat. Apparently Larry didn’t like what he heard.

Inside the precinct, Sean’s wife is getting coffee with Nash, when they walk by the room with the murderboard. Her eyes flicker, but the wife says she doesn’t recognize the vic, so Nash thinks it’s just the weirdness of seeing pictures of a dead body on the board.

McSwarek go back to the prison to talk to Mr. Swarek and says they should meet his father, who is a jerky jerkface. Like, you thought Swarek could be a douchecop sometimes? This guy has his PhD in Douchebaggery. I’ve given Swarek a really hard time over the years; his closed-off, moody, grumpypuss ways got real old real fast. But after knowing what his father is like? I’m just proud of him for not becoming a serial killer.

After getting nowhere with the Father of the Year, Andy asks Swarek for five minutes alone, which he grants her. As soon as he leaves, her eyes darken, and she hisses, No more Miss Nice Andy. Andy tells Mr. Swarek that she knows Larry called him so he might as well give her the scoop. Because her pretty face is convincing when it’s being serious, he admits that Larry did call him to vent. Sean followed his wife and found out he was cheating on him with someone who had a black sports car. So Sean had Larry test drive that type of car until he found out who it was. When he met Brian, the vic, Larry brought Brian to Larry, who beat him bloody and shoved him in the trunk of his brother’s car. Larry was framed, and the vic wasn’t even the right guy.

On her way out, Pop asks Andy what “Sammy” says about him, what she’s heard. Andy tells him, point-blank, that she didn’t even knew he existed until today. Someone call a medic, he’s going to need some ice for that burn.

Worried that Sean would go after his wife, Kelly next, Nash and Diaz meet NicklePeck at their house to go save her. When they walk in, they see Kelly doesn’t need saving. She’s sitting on the floor, cleaning up blood, and singing, “Sing, sweet nightingale” like a regular Cinderella. Kelly smiles sweetly up at them and is all, “Oh don’t mind him, he’s just dead. Such a goof, that husband of mine.” Nash takes advantage of this apparent psychotic break and asks her what happened, and Kelly says she was going to run away with her lover to Costa Rica, and didn’t know he was dead until she saw him on the murder board. When they left the police station, she knew he knew she knew he knew. But Sean forced Kelly into the car and beat her up all the way home. When they got inside and he was still being a crazy person, the ghost of her lover inhabited her body, picked up the knife, and killed Sean dead. Back at the prison, Swarek goes into the interrogation room one last time. He tells his father that he used to be afraid of him. Then he was afraid he’d be just like him. But he’s done with the fear. He’s ready to let it go, let it go. Pop Swarek tries to make his son feel bad one last time by telling him that he doesn’t forgive him for what he did, but Sam doesn’t care. He never felt guilty for what he did. He tells his father he forgives him, turns away and slams the door.

Once everything is calm in the station, Nash tells Dex to take care of himself. They’re always going to have Leo in common, so he can’t go getting himself beaten to death. BroPeck sees this little interaction and seems a wee bit jealous. How he reacts to this next week will tell us just how much Peck he really has in him.

The road trip back to 15 Division goes a lot smoother than the ride to the prison. Swarek finally opens up to Andy, and admits to having lied to get his dad his first six months in prison. But he killed a guy inside to get himself 20 more. He asks Andy if it’s too much sharing, but she insists it’s not. In fact, she might be a secret lesbian, because all of this feelings processing has gotten her so hot that they teleport into a bedroom. Swarek attempts to play two truths and a lie but just keeps announcing truths, which isn’t how you play at all, but is still feelings-sharing, which makes Andy’s clothes spontaneously fall off her body. They kiss and make up and I sure hope he’s better in bed than he is at roadtrip games. For Andy’s sake.

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