Tonight on ABC their new series The Rookie airs with an all-new Tuesday, January 7, 2025, season 7 episode 1 premiere called, “The Shot,” and we have your The Rookie recap below. In tonight’s The Rookie season 7 episode 1 as per the ABC synopsis,
“Now recovering from a gunshot wound and feeling the effects of his age, John and the team welcome two new rookies and continue the hunt for two dangerous inmates with very personal vendettas following their prison escape.”
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In tonight’s the Rookie episode, Oscar and Jason broke out of prison. They received help from Monica Stevens. The woman was now on the run herself and she left LAPD in quite a mess before she fled jurisdiction. Monica could be anywhere in the world. Thus making her a problem for the federal agencies.
Oscar and Jason however didn’t flee to the border. They stuck around. Oscar loved to cause chaos. Jason meanwhile has some old scores to settle with his ex-wife, Bailey. Bailey was now married to Officer John Nolan. They knew she’d be in danger with Jason on the run and so she deployed with the National Guard.
It will be months before Bailey returns. Just long enough for the cops to resolve the situation. They looked for Jason. They thought he joined up with a few low-level drug dealers and were proven to be wrong about that. They arrested the drug dealers. They just couldn’t arrest Jason because he wasn’t there.
Jason knew how to evade them. The newly promoted Lieutenant Grey was in put in charge of the manhunt and his people were coming up empty. He also needed more hands. He temporarily promoted Officer Lucy Chen up to P3.
This means she gets to train a new rookie. She didn’t want the promotion. What she really wanted was to become an undercover cop. She didn’t want to be in patrol forever. She only accepted the promotion because it was temporary and she also made a bet with Sergeant Tim Bradford. The two exes were still figuring out how to work together.
They thought they should keep it light and fun with a bet. They bet each other that they could train their own rookie to be better than the other. Lucy got Seth Ridley. He was all a bundle of nerves.
Tim got Miles Penn. He was cocky. He was a cop in a small town back in Texas. He hated how slow it was there and so he moved to LA to catch more action. Tim really didn’t want to train this guy. He spotted his cockiness from the start. Penn was just way too smug and it didn’t help that he tried to flirt with Lucy.
Lucy and Tim still have feelings for each other. Tim may have broken up with her, but he thought he was doing that to save her career. He didn’t want to get her demoted like he had been. And so Penn did everything wrong on that first day.
There was an armed robbery that day at local pharmacy. Nolan was first on the scene. He came close to taking the guy down with his own rookie’s help. He failed to get the guy because the scene wasn’t clear to take the shot and so the guy was free to injure a pedestrian outside in his bid to escape. Lucy later caught the guy.
He pulled over in the alley to take all the pills he stole from the pharmacy. He was dead on the scene. Lucy’s rookie was so shaken by his first dead body that he accidentally vomited all over the crime scene.
Ridley later explained that his girlfriend in high school had OD. He tried to save her life. He gave her CPR and nothing worked. She died that day. Ridley was now shaken every time he smells that smell of vomit. It’s a trigger for him.
He promised he’d work on it. He luckily wasn’t going to be in too much trouble because their perp was dead. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. It’s clear that he wasn’t working with anyone else. He swallowed all the drugs he stole. He killed the pedestrian only they couldn’t take a dead man to court over for it. The case was closed.
The patrol officers were coming back to park their cars when an alert went up. One car showed high levels of radiation. It turns out the FBI has been keeping something from the local cops.
The feds said that a cold war relic went missing. It was a nuke. A very old nuke. The cops must have gotten close to the nuke without realizing it and now they have to rush back onto the street. They had to try locating the nuke before it was used or sold. Nolan also took the time to collect the child of the victim in the pharmacy’s robbery from school and he took her to the hospital to say goodbye to her dad.
Once that was done, Nolan joined the others in hunting down the nuke. They found the men involved. They told the cops who had it in their car and who was driving. It led to a car chase with the police. Then a shootout. Tim’s rookie was a hot mess. He goes running in without any thought to his own safety much less the safety of others.
They still got the nuke. Thanks to Nolan! Nolan took the killing shot for the final guy and the case was resolved. The scene was handed over to the FBI. Tim and Lucy’s bet ended in a draw because both their rookies screwed up. And Tim never once suspected that his own rookie was living out of his car or that he was homeless.
Plus, the corruption caused by Dr Blair London the therapist has led to an internal review. Lopez’s husband was in charge of the investigation. Wesley works with the District Attorney’s office. He had to listen to hours of London’s sessions with police officers and that’s how he came to hear another cop admit to the therapist that he has feelings for Lopez.
Wesley wanted to confront this man. He wanted his wife to stay away from this man only he couldn’t do that because he was supposed to be unbiased. He couldn’t use someone’s confession to their therapist against them. He just had to watch this guy flirt with his wife and not say anything.
Nolan meanwhile returned home to an empty house. He felt so lonely that he congratulated himself on a tough day. And there was no one there to tell him he was being silly.
THE END!
