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“Rookie Blue” recap (5.7): Goodbye to You

Previously on Rookie Blue, Andy and Swarek kissed and made up, Oliver was temporarily given a white shirt which made him HBIC, and I filled out multiple missing persons reports for Holly Stewart, since the forensic pathologist was nowhere to be found.

We begin with Oliver skipping into the Penny because soon he will get his blue shirt back. A few of the officers from 15 Division, including Andy, toast to King Oliver, long live the king.

The next day, Oliver’s last in that blasted white shirt, but chipper as can be since it’s his last day on the throne. The inspector finds him and asks him why on Earth he would turn down this job offer, but Oliver says he wasn’t cut out for this job, even if he WAS really good at it. He whistles on down to send off his squad for the last time ever.

Today the cop stuff is called Operation Cannoli; a project I am totally behind until I find out it doesn’t involve sitting around and eating delicious pastries. There was a fire bombing in Little Italy and the main suspect is Vinny the Quitter. Gail interrupts Nash’s spiel to ask why he’s called that, and Nash says he used to be called Vinny the Smoker. I don’t know if she was kidding or not, but Gail and I are both amused. Chloe gets an assignment and she is ECSTATIC because she’s off desk duty. Oliver wishes her happy birthday and tells Gail she’s on duty with Chloe and Nick, and Gail, totally deadpan, says her birthday is in November. Never change, Peck. Never change.

After everyone heads out on their assignments, Oliver calls Andy “A type goddess, organizer of piles” asks her to clean his office before the next person takes over his reign as staff sergeant.

Nick and Chloe head into a bakery in Little Italy to try to find Vinny the quitter (not before Gail calls Chloe and asks for a cannoli) but the owner, Mario, isn’t giving him up. He instead tries to deflect and tells Chloe he has a son, and asks if she’s Italian. When she tells him that she’s Portuguese, he says fuhgeddaboudit and tells the officers to leave a card and surely he’ll call when and if Vinny makes an appearance.

Back at 15, the inspector comes into Oliver’s office to tell them that the hearing has been moved and it’s now in two hours. Andy decides now’s as good a time as any to tell Oliver that she fudged some of her reports to make Duncan look better than he was. Oliver tells her that this is not good news; no good deed goes unpunished.

While in a tailspin from this news, Oliver gets a call from Chloe and Nick saying they hit a wall, but Oliver tells them to get creative and hangs up on them. Creative they do get, and they grab some trash bags from the garbage truck collecting from the bakery. Public property means no warrant necessary. Bazinga.

The only problem is, Chloe is afraid if she sorts through trash, she’ll be stinky for the surprise party she assumes Dov is throwing for her later. Which-Chloe, darling-I love you, but hoping for a surprise party is just a recipe for being let down. Especially if your boyfriend is Dov.

Just to throw another wrench in what was supposed to be an easy breezy last day as staff sergeant, Oliver’s ex Zoe shoes up with their daughter Izzy. She was suspended from school because she was part of a weird-sounding performance art protest in support of the drama club. Dov helpfully offers to watch Izzy, but Oliver tells him that she would eat him for lunch, and puts Gail in charge instead. Gail tries to pawn her off on Diaz, but no one has seen or heard from Chris all day. So it’s Gail who is entrusted with Oliver’s teenaged daughter. Because Gail is the one Oliver trusts the most. Though I do have a feeling Gail’s soft spot for children doesn’t extend past junior high. I know mine doesn’t.

Nick and Chloe bond over heaps of garbage, and Chloe says that, even if she doesn’t get a party, she’d be okay with spending her birthday the way she usually does: eating popcorn and watching The Breakfast Club. The bonding session ends abruptly when Chloe finds what she thinks is a penis, and is rightly terrified. As it turns out. it’s not a penis, but a thumb. Thank goodness, especially considering where this appendage goes next. Anyway, it’s enough for a warrant, so Nick and Chloe’s stinky initiative paid off.

They find Vinny and bring him in, and Swarek catches Vinny in a cover up by referring to their witness as a “she” even though Swarek never said it was a woman. Either way, Vinny already had that woman shut up, much to BroPeck’s dismay.

Upstairs, Oliver is getting frustrated as Andy’s case seems bleaker and bleaker, but Andy supports her actions. She wanted Duncan to prove he wasn’t a Gerald. Oliver tells her that he gets it, but she wasn’t doing her job as a training officer, and that’s a problem.

Izzy pops in and asks Oliver if he’ll make her a sandwich, but he says he’s busy. Unfortunately, Izzy doesn’t do what I usually do when my father says he’s too busy to hang out with me, which is start singing “Cats in the Cradle” really pathetically under my breath as I walk away.

Nash asks Gail to take the thumb to the morgue, to which Gail’s knee-jerk reaction is that she absolutely will not. But when Nash ignores her and says she has to see if Holly can get a print, Gail pretends she’s suddenly interested in severed thumbs. Oliver says this works out perfectly, because now Gail can take Izzy through a drive thru for food on the way. Gail tells Izzy that she better behave, or she’ll be put in the back of the cop car.

Diaz is still MIA, so Dov starts to make up an excuse for him to Oliver, but almost before he’s finished talking, Diaz calls in sick using a different excuse than the one Dov just made up. Oliver is suspicious, but he so does not have time to deal with that right now.

Gail is eagerly watching a doctor inspect the thumb, and looks a little panicked when he says he needs Dr. Stewart’s expertise. She calls him Rodney, begs him to try harder, and calls him a slacker when he ignores her and goes to get Holly. Gail looks a little like Simba when he realizes bravely strutting into the Elephant Graveyard was maybe more than he was ready for.

Luckily, Izzy is there to distract her, and distract she does, because she opens a fridge and starts poking at a dead body. Gail scolds her and tells her that the body belongs to a human being and that she should show some respect. Gail Peck, respects the dead, less so the living. Izzy rolls her eyes and says it WAS a human being but now it’s just a heap of flesh and bone. Holly hears a science cue and strolls into the room like she hasn’t been missing for centuries and says that, technically, “human being” is a species, so that dude’s a human, dead or alive. She meets the totally schooled and unfamiliar eyes that look upon her with shock and awe and asks, “Who are you?” Gail jumps in, seeing an opening for a totally nonchalant first contact since The BitchTits Incident and says it’s Izzy Shaw, teenage delinquent. Gail tells Holly that it’s good to see her, trying to ease the awkwardness, trying to lessen the thickness of the air between them. Holly doesn’t respond and jumps right into her work. She still has that small default smile she always has, but she barely looks at Gail the entire time. She doesn’t look like she holds onto any awkwardness, any anger-but it doesn’t look like she’s holding on to anything else either.

When Holly excuses herself to get more supplies, Izzy takes one look in the singe-marks Gail’s eyes bore into the back of Holly’s lab coat and asks if Gail and Holly used to bone. Gail scoffs at the expression, and Izzy asks if it offended her, probably ready to start a pride protest right there, but Gail says she wasn’t offended by the statement, just its inaccuracy.

Big Mario is called into the station and questioned, but, even though it’s pointed out that they found Vinny in his basement and a thumb in his trash, all he has are shrugs for the detectives.

Meanwhile, a terrified Andy paces around while she waits for the hearing to start. Duncan has the best lawyer in all the land, and Andy’s good-for-nothing union rep is late and doesn’t even remember her name. The presiding officer wants a decision by the end of the day, and Oliver is more than happy to oblige; they just want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Back at the morgue, Holly is rehydrating the thumb for a print, still not really acknowledging Gail’s presence any more than she’s acknowledging Izzy’s. Gail watches longingly as Holly leaves again, but Izzy has no empathy for the situation at hand. She just wants to hang out with her dad. Probably a little frustrated with Holly, definitely a lot frustrated with herself, she lets her frustration out on the only frustrating thing she can actually attack right now and tells Izzy that obviously Oliver doesn’t want to hang out with his daughter if she’s here with Gail.

Andy’s hearing kicks off and it is stressful. There are few things in life that feel worse than someone not believing what you know to be the truth. Andy says Duncan wasn’t willing to learn, wasn’t willing to put himself in harm’s way. In fact, he is still insisting the battery was dead on his walkie and refuses to admit that he chickened out and almost got Andy killed. Duncan’s lawyer is cocky and rude, especially after Andy admits to the room that she tweaked some reports. She gave him too many chances.

Before she leaves the morgue, Gail finds Holly in her office and thanks her for her help. She tries to play it cool and casual and she asks if she can take Holly out for a drink and an apology. Holly smiles and says that Gail had her chance to apologize. The day after she walked out, the week after, during any of the unanswered calls. Gail just wants a chance to explain, but Holly smiles at her sadly and says, “I’m seeing someone.” At this point, Gail realizes she blew it. More importantly, she realizes that-maybe for the first time-she cares that she blew it. She keeps the smile on her face, but her eyes betray her. Before Gail can say anything, Holly apologizes. There’s only so much you can work to fix something if the other party won’t meet you even part way. Gail says it’s fine but makes a noise like a she’s been mortally wounded as she walks out and eventually screams for Izzy, who isn’t where she left her.

If you can believe it, cop stuff is still going on. I’m glad it wasn’t an overly complicated one, because I would have missed it entirely, what with my heart cracking like thin ice under a heavy boot. The thumb Chloe found belongs to Mario’s son, Little Mario. Nash interviews him but Little Mario is super unhelpful. Swarek and Nash eventually work out that Vinny cut off his thumb, which pisses off Big Mario, and that makes him want to confess about knowing Vinny was involved in the firebombing. Suddenly and almost magically, the witness is free to talk about what she saw.

Up in the hearing, bad turns to worse when Duncan reveals that he had recorded a conversation he had with Andy at the Penny. Duncan obviously started recording on his phone and THEN approached and tried to get something out of her, but Andy’s statements are too damning for anyone to notice. In the video, she admits to the possibility that she could have been a bad T.O., that it was her job to get him ready, and he obviously isn’t ready. Real-time Andy is, understandably, pissed.

Oliver pulls Andy aside to calm her down, but they both know there’s no way this ends well. Peck comes and interrupts to tell Oliver that Izzy is missing, because of course she is, on this, the worst day ever.

Before going back into the hearing, Oliver runs into the inspector and admits he’s worried about McNally. Oliver tells the inspector that if he can take care of the case against Andy, he’ll keep the white shirt. The inspector says he will do this on one condition: He has to take Duncan back, too. The inspector goes in and suspends the hearing, and re-hires Duncan. Though I don’t know why Duncan would want to work here now, anyway. Andy is even more pissed than ever, but Oliver is so done. Oliver says she wasn’t ready, that they both failed Duncan, and that they have to take responsibility for their actions. Andy tries to plead with him, calling after him as he storms away. But he turns around and says she can’t call him Oliver, not anymore. From now on it’s “Staff Sergeant” or “Sir.” Long live the king, indeed.

Gail meekly tells Oliver the first good news he’s heard all day: She pinged Izzy’s phone, she’s right outside. After Oliver scurries off, Gail runs into Holly, who is returning the severed thumb. She asks if Gail found Izzy, and is relieved to hear the teenager is safe. Gail sort of forces a laugh and is all, “Teenagers, eh? Aren’t they the worst? So immature and bratty-oh hey, that reminds me! I’m those things, too.” She looks at Holly, standing there in the middle of the brightly lit hallway, and opens her heart to her. She apologizes, genuinely, sincerely. She tells Holly that she doesn’t want to throw away the most wonderful person she has ever met, just because she had one temper tantrum, one crippling moment of doubt. Holly’s eyes fill with tears. It’s everything she has been waiting to hear. It’s everything she hoped Gail would show up at her doorstep or pick up the phone and say. It’s just too late. With another sad smile, she hands over the evidence bag and says, “Goodnight, Gail.” That sound you heard was me breaking through the ice and drowning in feels.

Outside the precinct, Oliver and Izzy have a heart to heart. You see, Izzy had walked in on Celery performing a fertility ritual, and this is what “new sibling acting out” looks like when the child in question is in high school, not kindergarten. Oliver assures Izzy that he doesn’t have any immediate plans for a baby. Oliver and Izzy decide to just hang out, and “Cats in the Cradle” finally stops playing in my head.

Searching the precinct and finding only Nick, Chloe realizes that Dov is not throwing her a birthday party after all. Or even taking her out to dinner, for that matter. Nash comes in with a present that was left for her, and Nick says Dov came through after all. She opens it, and it’s a copy of the Breakfast Club and some popcorn. The only problem is, it isn’t from Dov. It’s from Wes. The non-ex ex-husband.

The reason Dov isn’t sweeping Chloe off her feet is that he, determined to get to the bottom of why his best friend is acting so squirrely, is going through Diaz’s car. He finds drugs in the car and storms home. He finds Diaz under a mound of dirty clothes and snack wrappers, in the middle of a game of online poker, and Diaz still clinging to the sick day excuse. Dov digs around and finds more drugs and excuses. Diaz says it’s his life, his business, but Dov points out that it’s his house, his business. Diaz says they share the house, and it’s not like he’s some junkie or something. Dov says no, he’s not a junkie, but he IS a copy, and he walks away, disappointed. By the way, the whole time this scene is going on, a profoundly sad song is playing, making this feel like an epic breakup. Which I guess, in a way, it is.

Andy, whose day was almost as bad as Oliver, is relieving her stress and anger the old-fashioned way: playing basketball. Swarek joins her and is actually really sweet and helpful and supportive-and REALLY bad at basketball.

What did you think of “Deal with the Devil”?

This is your weekly reminder to keep your pretty lips zipped if you’re in Canada and have seen past this episode! I know you guys only have one more episode left, but we have four!

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