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“Rookie Blue” recap (6.9): Frankie, my dear, I don’t give a damn

Previously on Rookie Blue, Oliver was accused of being a dirty cop, but the dirty birdy ended up being Steve Peck, who was busted for the evidence room bombings and arrested by his friends and family.

We open with Traci beating the crap out of a punching bag in her backyard. Gail comes out to tell her that there’s a heat advisory today, and also that she should probably stop ignoring Steve’s attempts to contact her from jail.

Gail isn’t sure Steve is guilty, and she’s sure her brother has a good explanation for doing the things he did. It’s been a few weeks now, and Gail hates all the pitying looks she gets. Traci doesn’t feel sorry for her though. In fact, she’s not really a fan of any of the Pecks right now. But Gail didn’t come here to be insulted, so she leaves Traci to her mission to sweat to death.

At 15 Division, the mood is high because Oliver is not only back, but back in blue. Though he’s backseat driving the morning meeting, scoffing at decisions like putting Dov and Chloe together on desk duty and assigning Gail to push papers with new detective Frankie Anderson.

The overall mission of today is to keep the city from going insane from the heat wave.

We check in on a very pregnant Marlo this week. She’s going to a support group at the local mental health facility, Lakeview, and things go awry during the meeting. One woman, Sylvia, is talking about making the voices in her head stop when someone outside the room gets stabbed, causing a commotion. Swarek gets the call and Andy agrees to come with him even though it’s weird.

No one saw the stabbing, and the victim has schizophrenia, but with no history of violence. Also at Lakeview is Sadie, a former frequenter of 15 Division. She’s a little twitchy, but offers to help Swarek in any way she can.

Andy talks to the group leader, who admits that everything has been a little crazier these past few months for some reason.

That’s when Marlo notices that Sylvia is missing and based on what she was rambling about before the chaos hit, it’s pretty imperative that they find her and her husband immediately.

Back at the precinct, Chloe and Dov are off to a rough start, but Chloe is doing her best to Chloe through the awkward.

On the way to find Sylvia, Marlo chats with Andy about hating the stigma of bipolar disorder, that no one seems to understand that it’s a disease she has that’s out of her control. She’s liking Intelligence, but she wishes people were more sympathetic. Lucky for her, even though Marlo is carrying her fiance’s baby, Andy is adorable and sweet about the whole situation.

At 15, Frankie is being weird with Gail, and honestly she’s being a little mean but it’s hard to focus on that when she’s saying things like “out of that uniform” and mentioning Gail’s chest. But mostly she’s giving Gail a hard time about being Steve’s sister, saying the Peck Police Dynasty has fallen.

Gail tells Frankie she doesn’t need to like her, Gail is fine on her own, she doesn’t need anyone else’s trust. Frankie doesn’t believe a word she says about all that, but lets it go.

When Marlo and Andy get to Sylvia’s apartment, she isn’t there. Her husband’s new pregnant girlfriend is, though. After talking to them a bit, they find out Sylvia dropped a cat at their apartment this morning, and Marlo knows this means she’s going to kill herself.

Gerald and Nick find a guy having an OD seizure at the mental health facility, they realize that there’s a drug problem in the clinic. Nick asks about the staff, but the group leader points a finger at Sadie instead.

At 15, Frankie tells Gail to come work for homicide and toughen up. They spar with their words for a bit, Frankie not even close to being intimidated by Gail, and Gail calls her insufferable. Frankie says takes one to know one.

Gail says Frankie doesn’t know her or her brother and to kindly leave her alone, but that makes Frankie spring up and get in Gail’s space. She’s known Steve for years and worked closely with him and now everything they’ve ever done together is being called into question. In more ways than one.

Then Frankie lets it fly that Steve tried to set them up once because he thought they would be a good match. Gail and I make the same face.

Frankie jokes about dodging a bullet and then talks about how lately she’s been in a pattern of meeting women who laugh, have the best sex of their lives, get jealous, develop inferiority complexes, get their hearts broken, and leave. While she is saying these things, Gail’s eyes slowly scan Frankie head to toe.

When Frankie stalks off, Gail has no words, and neither do I. It’s so rare that I wish for someone to play for my team and it turns out they actually do. It’s a beautiful thing when it happens.

In less gay and exciting news, Marlo and Andy find Sylvia on her balcony. They manage to get her inside, but she grabs a knife and locks herself in the bathroom while Marlo goes into full-on labor. Marlo refuses to focus on the baby she’s birthing until she knows Sylvia is okay so Andy kicks down the door and tells Sylvia to get her shit together because there’s a new human on the way. It’s stressful and there’s a lot of yelling and an almost-mishap with the umbilical cord but in the end, Marlo gives birth to a beautiful six month old and Swarek shows up in time to cuddle the baby everyone is happy. Except Andy. She’s just sad.

Swarek gets a warrant to check Sadie’s bag and finds out it was indeed her who was selling drugs to recovering drug addicts, which is why someone stabbed a dude for his money today. Unfortunately, their history together won’t help Sadie now, and she’s off to the Canadian version of Litchfield.

Chloe and Dov spent their day trying to help a boy who was worried about his girlfriend because he hasn’t seen her all day and she has asthma, which isn’t good in this heat. All day, Dov praised this boy’s relationship, because it sounded so perfect. Come to find out, the relationship was all in his head, and it was just a neighbor he fantasized about, who turned out to just be out of town for the weekend and is just fine.

After that wraps up, Chloe sasses Dov about his delusions, saying a perfect relationship doesn’t exist.

Chloe begs Dov to just get mad at her and let it all out, so he does, yelling at him until finally not being able to stand it anymore and kissing her on the mouth. He did bring up her shooting again which reminded me again of her blood clot (jk seeing her neck ever reminds me) and so now that things are going well for her, I worry even more for her life. Especially after Chasing Life traumatized me this week. But for now, things are good in Chloe and Dov land.

Gail goes back over to Traci’s house, telling her she understands and will shred Steve’s letter for her. She tells Traci that she’s a good cop, mother and friend, and that they shouldn’t have to carry the burden of Steve’s mistakes, echoing what Frankie said to her earlier. Gail says what Steve did isn’t their fault. Traci appreciates this point of view and pours Gail a glass of wine.

What did you think of “Ninety Degrees?” (Remember, Canada, keep spoilers to yourselves! Especially about the future of Frankie!)

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