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“Rookie Blue” recap (6.04): Let it go

Previously on Rookie Blue, Nick played Romeo to Juliet’s…well, Juliet, Andy became suspicious of Juliet’s secret past, and Gail met a prisoner who gave her a new perspective on parenthood.

We open at the Black Penny, where Nick immediately starts his daily attempt to win Juliet over, but Andy swoops in to crotchblock, still wary of Juliet’s intentions.

When Andy gets back to her own table, Gail asks her and Traci for advice. She’s making a pre-Sophie bucket list and doesn’t know what to put on it, because most of the things people have on their bucket list are more like nightmares than dreams for Gail Peck.

Anything that doesn’t involve people. Or lunchboxes.

Duncan comes over and asks why Gail is making a bucket list, and Gail hilariously says it’s because she’s going shopping for buckets. Because Gail is, has been, and always will be the best one.

Meanwhile, Chloe tries to get Dov to talk to her but he’s more interested in talking about a possible move to the intelligence department.

The next day, Chloe is hurting, saying that she stayed til last call with Juliet. Nick’s phone rings and Chloe convinces him to answer it, on speakerphone since he’s driving. The man on the phone is named Finn and based on the way Nick hangs up right quick and shuffles her out of the car, she knows something weird is afoot.

Nick goes to this mysterious Finn’s apartment, who gives him a license plate and sends him after a man who they both seem to have been looking for. Finn says he would go after him, but he’s in a wheelchair, so it’s up to Nick.

Dov finds a very pregnant Margo packing up their evidence room bombing investigation, saying the powers that be decided it was Ted and since Ted is dead, the case is closed.

The Crime of the Week is a man who was in prison, and was in the hospital for chemo when he attacked his doctor with a scalpel and escaped. Juliet and Nick are paired up, and he lies and uses the license plate Finn gave him as a fake lead. Once he finds the truck, he slashes its tires, and lies again, saying he has a migraine and wants to go back to the station.

Not too long after, Andy sees Nick leaving the precinct in plainclothes and asks Juliet what’s up. Juliet mentions his migraines, but Andy knows Nick very well and has never seen him have a migraine.

What’s the female version of a pissing contest?

Andy asks Juliet to be real with her, so Juliet walks her through what just happened with the license plate and the bar. They trace the plates and find out it belongs to a guy named Marco, so they start to look into him.

Dov and Chris find the prisoner, chase him, lose him, then follow his trail to a woman’s apartment, where they find an orange jumpsuit. A woman comes home while they’re there, and freaks out a little. But when they explain why they’re in her apartment, she explains that the prisoner is her husband. Who she met on a prison dating website. I didn’t even know prisoners were allowed to use the internet. Or are they using the smartphones hidden in bathroom stalls and tool sheds?

Andy and Juliet figure out that Nick was in the car when his parents were killed, and so was his brother, who none of them even knew existed. His brother named Finn.

Gail and Duncan are out, watching for the prisoner but also some kids with killer dance moves. Duncan says they should dance too, because he looked at her bucket list, and dance lessons were totally on it.

That was code for something gay.

A kid invites Duncan to dance and Gail lets him go, while starting to feel the beat a little herself.

Using intel Chloe gives her on why someone might want to date a prisoner and the promise that her husband would go back to prison if he was caught, Traci gets the prisoner’s wife to give up his ex’s address.

When Nick left the precinct, he took his gun and went to the bar where Marco was hanging out. He orders a bourbon and starts chatting the man up. They share stories; mistakes and regrets, all that jazz. Eventually the car accident comes up, and Marco admits he was drunk and hit a family of four, and then ran away instead of owning up to his crimes. Before Nick can react, Juliet comes in and says that someone left their lights on. Nick takes the hint and goes outside with her, where she does not mince words. She comes right out and confronts him about who this man is, and how he lied to her pretty little face.

MY HAIR MAY BE FULL OF SECRETS BUT AT LEAST YOU CAN TELL BECAUSE OF HOW BIG IT IS

Nick points out that she’s been lying to him since the day they met. She has no counter-argument so she lets him go inside, supposedly to tie things up. But instead, Nick invites Marco out for a drink at a different bar, and they leave, using the back door (not a euphemism).

Dov and Chris catch up to the prisoner at his ex’s house, where he was trying to leave her flowers despite the fact that they broke up five years ago and she wants nothing to do with him. He pleads with her, saying he’s dying, but Dov says they talked to his doctor and he’s going to be just fine. His ex is incredibly unimpressed.

Marco takes Nick up to a rooftop, where Marco talks about how he’s a drunk, and every morning he wakes up is a surprise to everyone, and how he thinks about falling off the roof all the time because he’s too chicken to jump. Nick asks if the hit and run plays into his drinking and guilt ever, and Marco says sure that’s part of it, though he has a daughter he abandoned and a wife he let down too. Juliet tries to catch up to them but Nick locks her out and confronts Marco, who by now has figured out who Nick is. Marco says a kid was driving, not Nick’s father, and that even though he was drunk and speeding, it was Nick’s car that came across the line and hit him. Nick doesn’t want to hear that, so they tussle a bit, and end up with Marco dangling from the edge. Marco yells at Nick, begs him to end it, to let go. And Nick does let go, but not physically. He pulls him up, and arrests him.

Nick goes back to see his brother and tells Finn that he turned Marco in. Finn is disappointed, he had been hoping for a more bloody kind of revenge. But Nick’s not that kind of guy. Also Nick has a question-he checked the police reports and wants to hear the truth from Finn about who was driving that night. Finn confesses that their father was tired and he took over driving, and that he’s glad it was him that ended up in the chair and not his little brother.

Nick lets go one more time and leaves Finn alone in his apartment.

At the station, Andy asks Chloe how she was so wise about the prisoner and his wife’s relationship stuff, and Chloe says that she understood, because she was doing the same thing as that woman. She convinced herself she was waiting for someone, someone she knew deep down would never work out. She knew because, just like the prisoner’s wife, she has Dov’s favorite beer in her locker.

But maybe it’s time for Chloe to let go, too.

The cold never bothered me anyway.

In the de-gunning room (I’m sure there’s a better name for that room but whatever), Duncan asks Gail if she thinks he’s a tool for dancing with the kids. She does think he’s a tool, but she thinks dancing with the kids was great-outreach, good for the kiddos. Duncan asks if she’s being nice because she’s dying, which seems like a reasonable assumption when it comes to Gail, and she goes stony-faced and says yes. Duncan starts to panic and stammer until Gail breaks into her best smile and laughs her best laugh. Then she tells him that she wants to take secret hip hop lessons, and visions of Hanna Marin dance in my head.

“If Alison Hendrix can twerk, so can I.”

Chloe comes in and Gail says hi all sweet while motioning to Duncan that if he says anything about these dance lessons she will kill him dead.

Chloe then asks Duncan on a not-date to drink the beers in her locker, and Duncan can’t believe his freaking luck.

Outside, Dov gives margo a pizza box full of bomb papers he was supposed to throw out. Dov had a great day on the street today, but he realizes now that he wants to be in Intelligence. Which seems ironic to me, but we’ll give it to him.

When Juliet comes back, Andy asks her about Nick and what happened with Marco, but Juliet just tells her to ask him herself. Juliet then heads out to meet up with Nick and tend to his wounds.

“Romeo and Juliet had a happy ending, right?”

Nick kisses her in lieu of a thank you, because who wouldn’t kiss that face?

What did you think of “Letting Go”? Who’s excited for the potential of Gail Peck hip hop dancing?

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