Huge modifications are afoot for the Reagans.
Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 20 left us with so much to look ahead to when the collection returns for a thirteenth season.
Erin threw her hat within the ring (once more), whereas Baez made a giant, life-changing determination after once more questioning if she was making a distinction as a cop.
I had a sense Baez was going to undertake that child from the second it was launched.
She was upset in regards to the mom’s loss of life and felt like she wasn’t making any distinction as a cop.
Baez: You ever really feel like all the pieces we do does not make a distinction?… We arrest Munoz and he is out on bail and we arrest him once more and he kills somebody, and what distinction does it make?
Danny: I all the time take into consideration how a lot worse it might be if we weren’t right here.
Danny thought the newborn was fortunate to be alive, nevertheless it had no mother and father, and Danny inspired Baez to make the world safer for the little lady.
Certain sufficient, she’s taking that child dwelling together with her. It isn’t the Jamie/Eddie child a whole lot of followers had been hoping for, nevertheless it’s nonetheless thrilling.
It additionally brings up a ton of questions. In the beginning, will Baez keep on the drive now that she has a toddler to care for?
She does not seem to be the stay-at-home kind, however she by no means thought she needed children both. And he or she’s been progressively extra sad at work all through this season.
All of the violence and negativity have been attending to her for some time. She has been feeling increasingly like police work does not make a distinction and that perps get out of jail rapidly and are free to wreak extra havoc whereas all of the cops can do is put them away for a few hours.
Below the circumstances, I would not be shocked if she took prolonged maternity go away, although the concept saddens me. She has such nice companion chemistry with Danny, and it typically crosses the road into one thing extra.
However a depressing Baez isn’t any enjoyable in any respect, and he or she might fear that she might get damage or killed and never make it dwelling to her child.
Danny’s remark that he was all the time there if she wanted something sounded just like the type of factor you say when you do not anticipate to see somebody recurrently anymore, too.
Will he be breaking in a brand new companion come fall? Solely time will inform, nevertheless it actually sounded prefer it.
In the meantime, Erin determined to place her hat within the ring in any case. Yay?
This could be extra thrilling if she hadn’t already determined to run as soon as after which undecided as a result of she was afraid she’d be seen as using Frank’s coattails.
Crawford’s place is untenable, a minimum of as written to this point. The thought of not prosecuting non-violent offenders sounds nice on paper. Nonetheless, if knife-waving robbers are thought-about non-violent as a result of they solely threatened violence, the coverage has gone too far.
I want Blue Bloods would provide a extra nuanced take a look at felony justice reform legal guidelines, one the place there was a center place between Frank’s and Crawford’s. Each time the difficulty comes up, it is all the time that the brand new insurance policies are utterly ridiculous, ill-informed, and contribute to rising crime charges.
Blue Bloods has a extra conservative outlook than many crime dramas, so it is comprehensible that the collection is anti-reform. Nonetheless, a majority of these insurance policies are additionally not what most individuals who assist reform are hoping for. A extra nuanced dialog would permit viewers to know either side of the difficulty.
Then again, Blue Bloods’ job is to entertain greater than it’s to tell, and it is true to Frank’s character to not be for these ridiculous kinds of reform.
Crawford’s dedication to not prosecuting non-violent offenders would have been admirable if her definition of non-violent had any foundation in actuality.
No justification makes any sense for a perp who threatened each civilians and cops with a knife to be thought-about “non-violent.” Non-violent offenders are individuals who obtained caught with a dime bag of unlawful medication, underage drinkers, shoplifters who’re unarmed, and the like.
Due to Crawford’s nonsensical method, Eddie’s companion shot a repeat offender, and that offender stabbed a lady this time. NOW can he be labeled as a violent offender? Sheesh.
I wasn’t an enormous fan of Erin’s response. She did not like that Frank publicly referred to as out the DA’s workplace, and it wasn’t the primary time. At any time when she and Frank do not see eye-to-eye on the DA workplace’s insurance policies, Erin will get upset that Frank referred to as her workplace out.
She makes a giant deal about how she does not wish to be handled because the Commissioner’s daughter, however her protest all the time strikes me as wanting Frank to deal with her workplace with child gloves as a result of his daughter works there.
She will be able to’t have it each methods like that.
Crawford appeared to suppose she was operating towards Frank for her place. Her press convention in response to his seemed like an assault advert urging individuals to not vote for him… when he wasn’t even operating.
Now that Erin’s hat is within the ring, it is about to get ugly. Crawford will attempt to paint Erin as Frank’s proxy and counsel that if you do not need the Commissioner operating the DA’s workplace, you’d higher vote for her over Erin.
Elsewhere, Joe is turning into a part of the household now.
Joe: Can I ask you a query? My mother says she did not inform my dad she was pregnant as a result of he would have insisted on marrying her if he knew. Is that true?
Jamie: Yeah, it’s.
Joe: I want I might have recognized him. I ponder typically if it might have been totally different if I had.
Jamie: Typically I ponder if he would have accomplished issues totally different if he knew he had a son.
Joe: You imply would he be extra cautious if he had a child?
Jamie: Yeah. And possibly he would nonetheless be alive. Guess we’ll by no means know.
He and Jamie had a heart-to-heart about Joe Senior, he got here willingly to Sunday dinner, and Danny informed him to close up.
Danny was treating him as a full Reagan throughout that argument. Joe ought to be proud that he obtained below his pores and skin.
Joe’s pre-stakeout dialog with Jamie was compelling, too. The brothers talked about Joe Senior and his absence for the primary time. Extra of this, please.
What we did not want, although, was Jamie and Danny getting all territorial over Sanchez. Let the FBI or the CIA be the stereotypical obnoxious cops who insist the case is theirs now. There was no want for Danny to do it.
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Blue Bloods airs on CBS on Fridays at 10 PM EST / PST. It’ll return for Season 13 in the course of the autumn of 2022.
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