The Rookie

2018

4.5

179 reviews

TV-14

Rating

Eligible

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Season 4 episodes (22)

1 Life and Death

9/26/21

Officer Nolan and the entire team race against the clock to locate Lopez after she is kidnapped on her wedding day, not only to save her life but her unborn child's.

2 Five Minutes

10/3/21

Officer Nolan and Officer Chen's run-in with an infamous thief tips them off to a potentially big heist surrounding the Getty's big gala event; Nolan works up the courage to ask Bailey out on a date.

3 In the Line of Fire

10/10/21

Officers Nolan and Chen report to a structure fire and suspect that there is more to the situation than meets the eye; after a sniper shooting, the team searches for the shooter and discovers that the perpetrator has a connection to one of its own.

4 Red Hot

10/17/21

Officer Nolan and Officer Chen search for a missing person who may have international ties, putting everyone's lives in danger; Harper continues the search for a serial arsonist; Wesley must overcome an impossible task.

5 A.C.H.

10/31/21

When a new designer drug hits the streets, Officer Nolan and the team have a Halloween they won't soon forget; Lucy questions whether her apartment building might be haunted.

6 Poetic Justice

11/7/21

Officer Nolan and team are on a hunt to retrieve a buried stash of gold before any treasure seekers get hurt; Bradford is tasked with encouraging the oldest cop at the station to retire and invites him to ride with him.

7 Fire Fight

11/13/21

Officer Nolan and Bailey discover there's more to Fred's death than meets the eye; Officer Chen and Officer Bradford demand a treasure hunt rematch and enlist Officer Grey to help set the terms to a new bet.

8 Hit and Run

12/5/21

The team goes on a city-wide hunt for an individual who is threatening to cause a mass casualty event; Tim's sister shows up unannounced with some surprising news; Lopez continues her inner struggle over Wesley's deal with Elijah.

9 Breakdown

12/12/21

Desperate to break free from his connection to Elijah, Wesley tries to plant a listening device in his office to incriminate him; Officer Bradford and his sister, Genny, learn an unsettling truth about their father.

10 Heart Beat

1/2/22

Now that John Nolan knows about Bailey's past, he must decide if they still have a future; when a plane crashes in the middle of the city, the team races to find out why.

11 End Game

1/9/22

The team must rely on a criminal for his expertise to help take down an even bigger threat; Officers Chen and Bradford investigate the murder of an unhoused teenager who used to be friends with Tamara.

12 The Knock

1/23/22

The team responds to the report of a severed hand washing up on the beach and are on the hunt to find its owner; Tim attempts to prove he isn't a control freak to Lucy and invites her on a double date with him and Ashley.

13 Fight or Flight

1/30/22

Officers Nolan and Chen must fulfill three quests if they want to get a stolen police helicopter back safely from a teenage thief; Officer Harper and Thorson must guard a convicted cop killer in the hospital following a prison riot.

14 Long Shot

2/27/22

Officers Nolan and Harper help Skip Tracer Randy on his first bounty hunter case; Officer Chen and Sgt. Bradford hunt for a perpetrator on a citywide crime spree.

15 Hit List

3/4/22

Officer Harper puts Officer Aaron through "Plain Clothes Day," but the exercise is interrupted by an unsuspected visitor. Meanwhile, after two witnesses for an upcoming grand jury case are murdered, the team must track down the killers before it's too late.

16 Real Crime

3/13/22

Desperate to reset the way the world sees him, Officer Thorsen reluctantly decides to be a part of a reality show to help rebrand his image; the show's producer is found murdered and the team must investigate before Aaron is made suspect number one.

17 Coding

4/3/22

Officer John Nolan and the team feel they must negotiate with a distraught man who is holding a hospital hostage to ensure his wife receives a lifesaving surgery.

18 Backstabbers

4/10/22

The team is called to investigate a train robbery; Officer Chen has doubts about being Sgt. Bradford's aid; Officer Harper takes matters into her own hands and makes a life-changing decision about her personal life.

19 Simone

4/24/22

Officer Nolan and the LA division of the FBI enlist the help of FBI trainee Simone Clark when one of her former students is suspected of terrorism following an explosion at a local power station.

20 Enervo

5/1/22

The team, alongside the LA division of the FBI, are in a race to stop bombs that have been scattered throughout the city by a suspected terrorist; the joint task force is suspicious of the CIA's involvement in the situation.

21 Mother's Day

5/8/22

Sgt. Grey supports Officer Nolan's desire to become a training officer and offers to ride with him for the day to get him ready; Tim and Lucy decide on their plans for Mother's Day and a romantic vacation.

22 Day in the Hole

5/15/22

Officer Nolan is forced to spend a week in solitary confinement in a quiet border town with a young local officer who is in need of some training; Sgt. Bradford and Officer Chen go under cover together in a possible drug trafficking case.

About this show

Starting over isn't easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being an LAPD officer. As the force's oldest rookie, he's met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis. If he can't keep up with the young cops and the criminals, he'll be risking lives including his own. But if he can use his life experience, determination and sense of humor to give him an edge, he may just become a success in this new chapter of his life.

Ratings and reviews

4.5

179 reviews

Christian Publishing House

November 28, 2023

Season 1 and 2 are GREAT! Then season 3 takes a nose dive into wokeism in the EXTREME!!!!! It is racist this, racist that, gender this, gender that, the new rooking is a lesbian special forces Rambo. Defund the police is repackaged but there. I have had to skip over so many episodes out of frustration and anger. If you are not a woke person, DO NOT BUY season 3 forward. I find it ironic that in 40+ episodes of season 1 and 2, they did not deal with one of the now plagued woke issues.

M E

January 21, 2021

It's a decent show...but season 3 is starting to lose me. I'm not liking how season 3 trivializes the progress that has been made against racism. Sure it's still around today, but the show seems to be preaching that racism today is just as bad as it was in the past...and that just makes me shake my head in disappointment at the showrunners and their lack of respect of what people had to sacrifice in order to get to the world we have today.

22 people found this review helpful

Ken R

November 1, 2018

The Rookie, with Castle's Nathan Fillion, falls into an odd niche. Not really a police drama like SWAT, and not fully a comedy (they did spend one episode destroying a bunch of police cars.) So the show may not find a loyal audience because it is not fully devoted to one purpose. I do think Richard T. Jones and the rest of the very clever casting can propel the show to success, though. It is enjoyable to watch, but may run out of good plots quickly. Can you tell I am on the fence on this one?

13 people found this review helpful

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