Previously on Rookie Blue, Andy got attacked in Traci’s apartment by a serial rapist but she scared him off, Chris started sleeping with his boss’s boss’s wife who he met in NA, and Gail started the process of adopting a little girl whose mother died during a case she was working.
We open in Traci’s favorite coffee shop, where she’s joking around with her boyfriend, Steve Peck. Steve dorks around and makes Traci giggle and it’s sweet and adorable and lovely.
The Roommates roll up to work, Chris teasing Dov for eating seaweed, Gail crumbling it up right in his face, and they see Mrs. Jarvis. Chris and Gail tell him to shut it down, but Chris is a big old softie so instead he just tells her he can’t play hooky with her and to please leave so he can go to work now.
Today’s Crime of the Week is a raid that Traci organized against some firearms dealers. They have all the warrants they need, so they’re all going to go in to pick up the baddies as soon as the next shipment arrives.
On their way out, Traci gets a call that her son is sick, which worries Gail immensely, because her cold, cold heart will always warm up for children in need.
But when Traci shows up to Leo’s school, she finds out that Leo is in class and feeling just fine. This is strange, but Traci doesn’t have time to get to the bottom of this mystery, she has a raid to run, so she heads back to her car, where she is promptly chloroformed, because she didn’t CHECK THE BACKSEAT OF HER CAR BEFORE SHE GOT IN. ALWAYS CHECK THE BACKSEAT, PEOPLE. ALWAYS.
At 15 Division, Andy and Peck try to lie for Traci, but they forgot to align their stories ahead of time, and Andy is exceptionally bad at lying under pressure, especially for a cop.
Everyone is ready at the raid site, and even though they still can’t find Traci, they have to go in without her if they’re going to make this bust. Gail is a little nervous and asks Andy to listen while she jumps up and down to make sure she’s not making noise because she’s the cutest little odd duck in the flock.
When the shipment comes in, ETF storms in, 15 Division close behind, and find the firearms and a Big Bad named Thom Kozik. Thom feigns concern for the missing cop he overheard them looking for, making him very suspect.
Swarek interrogates him a little, and Steve Peck shows up and convinces Oliver that he’s cool enough to go in, too. But he is decidedly not cool and ends up clocking the guy, who knows the punch was caught on camera and that he’ll be able to use it to get some time shaved off his sentence. Swarek determines he’s not actually involved in Traci’s disappearance at all, so Andy and Gail are sent out to find her.
McPeck find Traci’s car in the school parking lot. Traci’s phone is inside, but the detective is not. Also inside is a bouquet of flowers signed XOXO, Gossip Girl and they know it’s the serial rapist they thought they scared away in the pilot.
Traci is hella kidnapped.
Detective Sex Crimes comes back to 15 Division and tells them they have one suspect named Adrian. He doesn’t have alibis for any of the previous attacks, plus he’s just generally shifty, but they don’t have enough to charge him.
While the rest of the squad finds Traci, Gail and Dov are sent to pick Leo up from school and take him anywhere but the station.
Juliet decides her services will be better used in the station, because she has some deep web skills that came out of nowhere. In the squad car, Gail jokes with Leo about possibly being his aunt someday, then tries to make him laugh using a bananaphone because she’s the cutest.
Dov isn’t amused, so he gives Leo handcuffs to arrest Gail for-and I quote-being a ding dong. In scenes like this, I remember that Charlotte Sullivan and Gregory Smith have known each other for at least 20 years since they were in Harriet the Spy together, and it warms the very cockles of my heart.
Suspect Adrian called out sick today, so a handful of 15ers go to his house (that has way too many old radios to be the house of a sane person) and nab him. Meanwhile, Traci hears people moving around above her, and tries to call out for help, but as her friends goes downstairs and Traci’s noises get closer, it turns out they’re in two separate places; Chloe and Nick find an empty basement and it’s Traci’s kidnapper that’s coming down her stairs.
Dov asks Leo if he wants to go for ice cream, but he’s a little too old to not be suspicious and says he just wants his mom. Gail promises him everything will be okay, because his mom is a superhero. One time she even solved a case in record time just so she wouldn’t miss his hockey game. She says nothing will stop Traci from tucking Leo in tonight and Leo takes comfort in this and rests his head on her shoulder.
YOU GUYS USUALLY I’M NOT INTO THE WHOLE SINGLE-LESBIAN-MOM ON TV THING (obviously I support this in real life, it just sometimes feels like a cop out on TV) BUT HOLY CRAP GAIL IS GONNA BE SUCH A GOOD MAMA.
Eh hem. Anyway.
Andy looks Adrian in the eyes and is sure it’s the guy who attacked her, but Adrian has an alibi for the time of Traci’s disappearance, and Detective Sex Crimes says he doesn’t match the profile of the Gentleman Rapist. Therefore, they suspect it might be a tag team of terrible humans.
Traci talks to her kidnapper, who is videotaping her on his phone; she talks about Leo, plays down her relationship with Steve, and eventually calls him by name, because she realizes it’s Coffee Shop Corey.
She asks for water and he offers her beer, but then he kisses her. He didn’t fall for her sweet talk.
Back at 15 Division, Juliet used the deep web and Facebook to connect the dots between Adrian and Corey and sends everyone to the address she found.
Traci also puts together that Corey has a partner, and that’s why she’s still tied up, generally unharmed. Corey decides he’s tired of waiting and cuts Traci out of her chair, but quickly realizes his mistake when she kicks. his. ass. It’s amazing. She manages to lock herself in a room, but it’s a storage room with no windows, so she grabs a bike lock and waits as he takes down the door with a hammer. She smashes him as soon as he gets through, and by the time he recovers enough to lunge at her with his hammer, Andy and Co. swoop in to stop him.
Corey admits to his hand in the kidnapping; he chose the girls and made sure Adrian was “nice” about raping them before he sent Corey the video…psychotic. They found all the videos, so they’ll be able to charge him for more than just kidnapping Nash, thank goodness. I hope they signed his arrest records XOXO.
Oliver asks Detective Sex Crimes how she deals with these sickos every day, and she says because today, they won. She does it for the days they get the bad guy.
In the locker room, Traci is starting to wig out, so Andy gives her a hoodie, a doe-eyed look, and a hug.
Andy tells Traci how proud she is of her, and then takes her out to see Leo. Leo hugs Gail and says she’d be a pretty cool aunt someday, which is the highest compliment to Gail. Dov agrees with her, and then even goes so far to say she’d be a cool mom, though he teases that the “pretty” was debatable.
When Chris gets back to his apartment, he finds his married mistress waiting for him. She tries to get him to do drugs with him, and gets mad when he offers to call her sponsor. She tells him that he can’t judge her and that if he tells anyone, she’s going to tell her husband, his boss’s boss, that they were sleeping together, effectively putting Chris between a rock (of coke) and a hard place.
What did you think of “A Real Gentleman”?
(Friendly reminder to our Canadian friends, no spoilers of episodes you’ve seen past this one! Thank you!)
