Tonight on ABC their new series The Rookie airs with an all-new Sunday, December 12, 2021, season 4 episode 9 called, “Breakdown,” and we have your The Rookie recap below. On tonight’s The Rookie season 4 episode 9 as per the ABC synopsis, “Desperate to break free from his connection to Elijah, Wesley tries to plant a listening device in his office to incriminate him. Meanwhile, Officer Bradford and his sister, Genny, learn an unsettling truth about their father.”
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Tonight The Rookie’s episode begins with Chen making an arrest while Nolan is looking at engagement rings in a jewellery store. Chen sees him looking and says he looks happy with Bailey. Chen then asks if Bailey met Henry and Nolan realizes they never met, he can’t propose until they do.
Bailey is helping Nolan decorate his tree, she says she has enjoyed being taken care of, but now since her leg is better, she wants to make it up to him. He says Henry is going to call, he would love if they could chat. She would love to, but she has to run, her first day back at work. Bailey leaves, Henry calls Nolan from Japan.
Harper and Nolan arrive on shift, he asks her if she thinks proposals should be a big thing, she says no. The two are on a case, staking out after Wesley agrees to plant a listening device in Elijah’s office to incriminate him. Wesley goes in and he does great. The team cause a distraction outside which gives Wesley enough time to plant the bug. But Elijah is not stupid, and he figures it out. Grey goes in to get Wesley and warns Elijah about hurting him.
Chen is helping Bradford and sister Ginny with the house when he finds a gun hidden inside a wall. The serial numbers have been filed off the gun, Bradford and Chen leave, when Ginny is annoyed, he says it is their job. It turns out the gun matches a bullet that was used in a homicide, the victim’s name was Frank. Bradford says he lived down the street, he was fourteen when he was murdered.
According the case file Frank’s murder was a botched home invasion. Bradford says he remembers having a football game, when they got home the cops were everywhere. His dad hated Frank. Chen interviews Frank’s wife, who Bradford’s father was having an affair with. She says on the day Frank was killed, she arrived home, the house was a mess, he was shot and there was blood everywhere.
Grey tells Wesley to go home, regroup and they will start up in the morning.
Tamara is a student getting to see the ropes around the station with Smitty, she goes to Nolan and asks him why he is letting Smitty walk all over him with the other officers.
As Frank’s wife is leaving the station she sees Bradford and is annoyed, she says she is done and leaves.
Harper meets with her ex, she wants to have a conversation and avoid dragging her daughter through another custody fight. She makes a proposal and he says she is an absent parent, he tells her that she wants full custody to have a nanny raise their child.
Bradford goes to see his father who says he never thought he would see his face again. Bradford reminds him of Frank and Monica, he says he knows he was sleeping with Monica, he saw them. He tells him that he found the gun and he knows he killed Frank. His father says, so what if he did, what is he going to do about it. His father admits to killing Frank and says he had it coming, he tells him to arrest him and take him off his death bed. Bradford says this is not over and leaves.
Nolan tris to set up a video call with Bailey and Henry, but there are technical issues and Bailey can’t hear him and Bailey has to go, another failed attempt for Nolan. Then, Nolan and Harper get called to see Grey, Lopez has figured out how Elijah smuggled the drugs into the county. Something hit her when she was listening to the tapes, he has been making donations to a food bank, in the form of canned goods to Mexico every month. They would be sealed, so dogs couldn’t smell the drugs. They head to a the local food bank where the donations come from and when they shout out to a group of men out there that they are police, shots are fired, but the LAPD quickly take control.
Chen tells Bradford that she brought Monica back and there was more to the story. Bradford goes back to see his father and tells him that he didn’t kill Frank, Monica confessed. Frank was beating her, she fought back and she shot him. His father hid everything to protect Monica. Bradford tells his father he was an abuser too and his father says he taught him what he had to make him a man. Bradford tells him that he hopes it hurts and walks out. Chen is outside the room to console Bradford.
Nolan and Harper how her talk went, it didn’t go well. He tells her to play hardball, use Penelope’s past against him.
An arrest warrant was issued for Elijah, the team go out to get him. They go inside and find dead bodies and they find Elijah hiding in a locker. Lopez asks Elijah who did this and he says Abril, he says she took control and they came for revenge because he is the one who told Wesley where to find her.
Smitty is outed for playing dirty against Nolan by Tamara.
Bradford returns to the house and apologizes to his sister for not being present. He say she will fix up the house and be responsible for selling it, she should be with her family.
Bailey and Henry finally have a chance to talk, for over an hour and Nolan is thrilled.
Harper meets her ex and he tells her that he can’t believe she stooped so low, Penelope broke up with him.
Lopez gets a call from Abril, she says she just crossed the border and is going home. She basically tells her she is ok as long as she doesn’t go after her in Guatemala.
Nolan takes Bailey out for lunch, he tells her she is a good roommate and a super good kisser. They exchange I love yous and he is about to propose when Jason walks up, she asks when he got let out and he says last week. Then he tells Nolan that he is her husband.
THE END!
