Tonight on ABC their new series The Rookie airs with an all-new Sunday, May 8, 2022, season 4 episode 21 called, “Mother’s Day,” and we have your The Rookie recap below. In tonight’s The Rookie season 4 episode 21 as per the ABC synopsis, “Sergeant Grey supports Officer Nolan’s desire to become a training officer and offers to ride with him for the day to get him ready. Meanwhile, Tim and Lucy must manage expectations in their respective relationships as they decide on their plans for Mother’s Day and romantic vacation.”
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In tonight’s The Rookie episode, someone brought an uncaged python onto the bus. Everyone who saw it had panicked and they all ran off. They also called the cops. Officers Nolan and Chen responded to it. They got on the bus. They met the owner who didn’t see why freeing his python on a crowded bus was a poor idea and so animal control was called to take over. By this point, the officers were used to weird calls.
They also had bigger things to focus on. Chen’s boyfriend wanted her to meet his parents. She said no. She didn’t think they were ready for that at this part in their relationship and so imagine her surprise when she learned that Bradford was actually going to Hawaii with his girlfriend.
The two officers have been dating their significant others around the same time. Chen thought the trip to Hawaii was about a proposal and so she asked Bradford about it when they were doing their runs. But he had no idea what she was talking about. He wasn’t planning on proposing.
He and his girlfriend have only been together a few months. Bradford just wanted to go on vacation. It was Chen who informed him that his girlfriend might be thinking about the bigger picture and that was when he began to panic. He wasn’t ready to get engaged. It took him years to get out of his first marriage and he still has scars from that.
Bradford and Chen were still talking about when they got a call. Some parking attendant had snapped and he stole a Porsche belonging to a rich client as well as all the keys to the rest of the cars. Then across town, a meal assistant got fired for putting croton on a salad. She threw a fit.
This case belonged to Nolan and Sergeant Gray. Gray decided to ride with Nolan because he heard that Nolan was having a hard time with the union president. He also knew that Nolan wanted to become a TO and so he offered to ride with him to help advise him along the way. And it’s good they got to talking because Nolan had a lot to say.
Nolan began the conversation by poking holes into Gray’s plans with his wife. It was Mother’s Day. Gray has to go big for the holiday else he risks angering his wife and so Nolan convinced Gray to pick up a gift on the way home. They also got called about their rogue assistant. She had apparently teamed up with the rouge parking attendant and they went on a crime spree. The first place they hit was the restaurant where Lopez was having lunch with her mother-in-law. They robbed both women of their availability before making a run for it. Lopez had promised her mother-in-law that she would recover their lost items.
No one messes with Mother’s Day. Harper agreed to help with the case because her ex-husband took their daughter out of town to visit his mother and he completely ignored the part about Harper being a mother, too. Harper couldn’t be around her daughter during this special day. She also couldn’t be around James because James was taking his kids to visit his ex-wife and so if Donovan was that decent. But unfortunately, he’s not. Harper was in the clear to work the case and so she teamed up with Lopez to find the couple that robbed her friend. They started calling their cell phones because Bonnie and Clyde had stolen the customers’ cell phones.
The runaway couple answered the phone. But they only did so because they were recording it and posting in on TikTok. Lopez found out about thanks to Harper. Together, they continued to hunt the rouge couple. They later learned that they kidnapped a bridal store in order for Monica to try on a dress. They also got a suit for Jonah while they were at. From there, the couple went to a church. They crashed a wedding and took everyone by gunpoint so that they remained a captive audience for the wedding. The couple got officially married. They said they were sick and tired of the system pushing them down after they do everything they were supposed to do.
But Lopez caught up with the couple. She arrested Jonah first. She had to wait to get Monica and by then she got a hold of Monica’s belongings. Or to better put it, the stuff that she stole. Lopez found her bracelet. She also got back her mother-in-law’s necklace. The bad guys got arrested. It was a good ending to everything and Harper got to spend time with her daughter. Her former mother-in-law came by with Harper’s daughter. She heard what Donovan did and she refuses to sign off on it.
And Bradford didn’t have to worry about a proposal. His girlfriend doesn’t ever want to get married or have kids. She’s good just dating. But Bradford doesn’t know how to feel about that. And neither does his friend Officer Chen.
THE END!