All bets are off when Lucy and Tim hit Sin Metropolis, as seen in our unique first picture from Season 5 of ABC’s The Rookie.
When final we tuned into the sunshine procedural from showrunner Alexi Hawley, Sergeant Bradford (performed by Eric Winter) had been despatched undercover as a drug seller named Jake, who he occurred to look a lot like (save for some distinguished tattoos). Later in that Season 4 finale, after the crew laid eyes on Jake’s girlfriend, it was determined that Officer Chen (Melissa O’Neil) may/would cross herself off as (ahem) Juicy.
That led to a personal “prep” session the place the 2 did a dry run of any potential PDA that is perhaps wanted to promote the lie. Dissatisfied with Tim’s tepid peck, Lucy pulled her former TO into a much more convincing, lingering liplock.
Within the Season 5 premiere (airing Sunday, Sept. 25 at 10/9c and titled “Double Down”), Officer John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) as soon as once more comes face-to-face with serial killer Rosalind Dyer (returning visitor star Annie Wersching). Lucy and Tim, in the meantime, as soon as once more discover themselves working undercover, with Detective Angela Lopez (Alyssa Diaz) and the Las Vegas PD, to nab the leaders of a significant prison enterprise.
As seen within the unique picture beneath, the undercover project is vulnerable to hitting a snag when a on line casino staffer “acknowledges” Tim. However Lucy appears to have the would-be drawback… dealt with.
On the casting entrance for The Rookie Season 5, Legends of Tomorrow alum Lisseth Chavez will guest-star in a number of episodes as Celina, a brand new rookie with a simple confidence and excessive marks on the Academy, whereas Tru Valentino, who joined the sequence final season as Officer Aaron Thorsen, has been upped to sequence common.
ABC can also be set to formally deploy, on Tuesday, Sept. 27, The Rookie Feds, a by-product of the springtime two-parter that launched Officer Nolan and us to Simone Clark, the oldest rookie within the FBI Academy (performed by Claws‘ Niecy Nash-Betts). The offshoot’s solid additionally contains Frankie Faison (The Wire), Felix Solis (Ozark), Britt Robertson (Huge Sky), Kevin Zegers (Transamerica) and James Lesure (Las Vegas).
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