Previously on Rookie Blue, Juliet was shady and Andy grew suspicious, and Gail started the adoption process for Sophie through a case worker named Laura Lee.
Somewhere in lovely Canada, Andy and Chris are going for a run when Andy spots Juliet getting into an SUV. Assuming it’s shifty business she’s about to witness, she stops running, and Chris proceeds to dive into the bushes, assuming it’s his coke-loving boss’s boss’s wife who is currently sort of stalking him.
Inside said SUV, Juliet is talking to her buddy who she drives with a lot, and says she’s ready to talk and doesn’t want to risk waiting. The man says he’ll call an emergency meeting with the powers that be, and Juliet heads to work. Where she spots Andy spotting her.
They both awkwardly lie to each other before going their separate ways.
Today is the day of the community softball game, and all of 15 Division will be there, except for Andy and Sam, because they’re going on another McSwarek getaway to Oliver’s cabin. But don’t worry, they pitched in for popsicles.
Inside the precinct, Gail has Traci in her metaphorical clutches and is trying to force her to have a natural conversation while they spy on Steve Peck’s meeting with Laura Lee.
Traci informs her that standing so close to another person you are not trying to bed is not normal, but Gail is too worried about what Steve is telling her social worker to worry if anyone thinks her and Traci are cool for the summer. But soon enough, the meeting is over, and Laura Lee says Steve had nothing but wonderful things to say about his baby sister. The only concern Laura Lee has is that she didn’t see any kind of social work or official work with kids on her record. So Steve starts up a lie about how SUPER involved Gail was in planning today’s cops-and-kids baseball game, and Traci jumps right in to back him up. Laura Lee says she’ll see them there, which makes Gail do her adorable panic-smile.
After Laura Lee leaves, Gail says she’s feeling something strange and unfamiliar-and what’s weirder, it’s even affecting her vocal chords.
When Traci asks if it’s fear (a fair guess, because I doubt Gail fears much) Gail says actually it’s gratitude and she hugs her brother.
At the park, Oliver tells Juliet that this community needs help. It was on the rise to being a safer place, but then some gang violence scared away all the do-gooders, so they’re here to try to kick start the project again, beginning with the park.
Also here to help? Our old friend Noelle!
She’s back from finding out that the twins she gave birth to were part of an illegal cloning experiment and having one of them shoot her in the gut Headquarters to pay her old friends a visit.
Gail shows up with t-shirts for the kids (a shade of yellow not even gangs want to claim as their own) and sees that Laura Lee really did show up, sending her into panic-mode.
Gail sees two girls fighting about boyfriends and phones and decides to distract them by handing them yellow shirts. She convinces one resistant girl to take one, first using Gail Force One and eventually using panic-sweetness because she sees Laura Lee watching her. After the resistant girl takes a shirt and leaves, Gail awkwardly pats the other one on the head. She’s better with kids when she’s not trying at all.
I’m mostly going to skip Andy and Swarek’s road trip because I can sum their whole arc in a few sentences at the end, but I will say they ended up in some poison ivy, because Andy describing it as “mutant three-leaf parsley” is the best and most useful description I’ve ever gotten.
Anyway, eventually the baseball game gets going and everyone’s having a grand old time.
But before she can take her turn at bat, Gail sees an SUV roll by and shouts for everyone to get down a fraction of a second too late for everyone to react in time. Two kids are shot and everyone else drops to the ground. Dov runs after the car, getting a partial plate, and Gail runs to stop the resistant girl from running toward one of the victims, restraining and calming her by hugging her and speaking quietly to her.
After things settle down, the girl, Mishi, asks Gail if she can give HER her statement instead of having to talk to a different cop, but Gail’s a witness too so she can’t.
At the precinct, they match the partial plate to big time baddie Boz Shepherd, who they almost caught once so really need to nail down this time.
When Traci and Steve track Boz down and start arresting him, he sees Gail and calls her “baby sister” and flirts with her a bit, causing Steve to lose his cool for a minute. But this guy hurt kids, so Gail wants him as bad as Steve does, so she talks her brother down and promises him a bottle of wine if he gets the confession.
Boz swears that he wasn’t at the park, and that shooting kids at play is not a man’s move. He leaves his SUV on the street with the keys in it to test the neighborhood, but says he has an alibi for the game today.
They go to check it out, and the business owner says that, much to his chagrin, Boz is indeed in there every Saturday, including today.
At 15 Division, Chloe pulls video from Mishi’s friend’s phone, but stops because she realizes there’s a sex tape on it. Instead of stopping the video, she tapes paper over the screen, because she’s adorable.
Gail talks to Mishi, and Mishi realizes they want to pin this on Boz, so she says it was him. They go back to the owner to let him know about the conflicting statement, and suddenly the owner changes his tune. Sadly it takes Gail a minute to pick up on what’s going on, but when she does, she feels super weird about it.
Gail asks Mishi about it, but Mishi isn’t interested in elaborating. Gail wants to get Boz, but in the right way; her brother wants to get him, he doesn’t care how.
But when Gail finds out from Mishi’s friend that Mishi’s boyfriend (and one of the victims), Boris, sent out their sex tape last night, Gail realizes what’s happening and goes to the hospital to talk to Mishi.
Gail talks to Mishi about her brother and Boz and says she understands why she lied, but the truth is more important here. Gail promises she’ll still do what she can to help them, but they have to cooperate.
Winston comes to pick up Mishi but Gail and Chris are there, waiting to arrest him. He doesn’t resist, he just tells Mishi he was just looking out for his family before they take him away.
After Winston is arrested and Boz is released, Traci promises Gail that Boz has no idea who named Boz or who snitched on Winston, that all he knows is that Winston was caught, so everyone should be safe.
That’s enough to make Gail happy, but Steve is pissed. She’s not sorry; she wanted to do what’s right. But Steve sees it more like a personal stab in his personal back and says she wasn’t looking out for her family.
But before she can get too sad about it, a little voice brightens the whole hallway and Sophie is there, hand in hand with Laura Lee. Laura Lee tells Sophie that Gail saved a girl today without even thinking twice, and calls her a hero. Sophie and Gail start talking and being adorable together and Laura Lee leaves them to hang out until seven.
While all this was going on, Andy and Sam had a typical McSwarek misadventure, but Andy says she doesn’t mind because perfect doesn’t have to be perfect because just being together is better than perfect. And she says it so casually, like it’s the truest thing she’s ever known, so she just starts to head back up to the cabin after, but when she stops to turn around and say something about dinner, she sees Sam down on one knee. She’s surprised, but she accepts his proposal.
After they…celebrate, Andy asks Swarek about Juliet, and why he acted like he knew something when she mentioned her suspicions earlier. Swarek says he asked a friend of his to look into the evidence room bombings because he worried it was an outside job, and he suspects Juliet is probably Internal Affairs doing just that.
And it turns out, he’s right, and the friend he asked to look into things was Noelle. Juliet gives her info on Jarvis, Diaz and Duncan, but Noelle isn’t impressed with any of those leads. Noelle knows Juliet must have something more concrete, because she demanded this meeting, so Juliet tells her, regretfully, that there was one person whose ID is logged as going into the evidence room in the right time frame to have planted the bomb: Oliver Shaw.
NOOOOOO!
Not Oliver! Not OUR Oliver! Not THE COURIER WAS SICK, OLIVER. He better be being framed. I don’t think my heart could recover from papa bear being dirty.
Anyway, what did you think of “Home Run”? Delightfully Gail-ful, yeah? Do you think Gail and Laura Lee have potential?
(Reminder, no spoilers from the future, Canada!)
