On tonight’s “Minimize and Run” episode of The Rookie, Bailey Nune (Jenna Dewan) is obtainable a brand new job by Colonel Russell Wilkes (Tuc Watkins), her former commanding officer. The one catch is that it’s in Washington, D.C.
SecDef has tasked Russ with placing collectively a working group contained in the Pentagon. A workforce of his personal selecting. They might spearhead bringing battlefield medication into the twenty second century. It’s the most consequential task of his profession and Bailey is the primary individual he requested to be part of it.
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John Nolan’s (Nathan Fillion) response is that it’s “simply an honor to be nominated.”
“The truth that he referred to as me first, that’s fairly nice,” Bailey stated.
To which John responded, “Our life is ideal proper now. There’s no means we’re messing that up.”
And Bailey agreed, pretending she isn’t whereas truly nonetheless serious about it.
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The subsequent morning, John talked about the job supply to Angela (Alyssa Diaz) and Nyla (Mekia Cox),. He informed them that because it’s in D.C., it’s a non-starter, however Nyla thinks in another way.
“It might be a non-starter for you, however I wager your over achiever of a spouse is critically serious about it,” she stated.
John realized Nyla was proper. “If that’s one thing she needs to do, relocating to D.C. might be cool.”
“Not,” Nyla stated. “I hung out there throughout my joint ops days. It took me about three weeks to unclench each time I got here dwelling.”
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However Russ doesn’t quit simply. He dropped by to see Bailey at dwelling and informed her he couldn’t go away L.A. with out giving it yet one more shot. And whereas he was there, he noticed what a pleasant life she and John have created.
“I’m not a health care provider or a scientist with a Ph D,” Bailey requested. “Why me?”
“Having a couple of additional letters after your title doesn’t make you a genius,” Russ stated. “I additionally know if I deliver you an issue, you gained’t relaxation till you’ve checked out it from each conceivable angle twice earlier than bringing me an answer.”
Bailey promised to consider it. Then Russ baited her by saying, “In the event you don’t need the job as a result of it’s not the proper match, or the proper time, however deciding you’re not adequate earlier than any person else can, that’s the coward’s means and I do know you’re not a coward.”
So, that night time Bailey made a flowery dinner to be able to entice John right into a dialog, letting him know that she’s nonetheless serious about the job supply.
“Earlier than you inform me no or inform me 100 the reason why it gained’t work, spend a while to discover the concept.”
She requested John to discover what a switch to DC PD would imply, and he or she agreed that in the event that they got here to completely different conclusions that they might abort the concept. “Both we’re each in or we’re each out,” she stated.
John stated, “I wish to do the whole lot I can so that you can be blissful, so I’ll do the whole lot I can from my finish to see if it’s possible. We’re on this collectively.”
However when John does discover the concept, the whole lot he learns is detrimental.
Nyla tells him that possibly she’s spoiled by LAPD, however what she noticed was “being a cop there means loads of crowd management round authorities workplaces, crappy climate: storms within the climate, swampy climate in the summertime. You get two weeks of cherry blossoms a 12 months and that’s about it.”
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And Sgt. Gray (Richard T. Jones) additionally doesn’t have excellent news to share a couple of switch.
“You do know that you would need to begin on the very backside once more, together with redoing the academy” he defined. “You had been 5 years youthful [last time]. You’d get a fairly hefty signing bonus, however your annual wage could be a lot lower than you make in L.A., plus the price of residing in D.C. is simply as costly. So, in the long term, your bonus actually wouldn’t make a distinction, particularly if Bailey is simply making a authorities wage.”
Later that night time, John informed Bailey that he did his due diligence, however he doesn’t suppose he could make the transfer. It could imply beginning another time as a rookie, however this time as an alternative of being 45, he’d be 50.
Then Bailey hits him with, “What if I’m not able to say no?”
John reminded her of what she had stated the night time earlier than about each of them needed to agree.
She stated, “I meant it once I stated it, so the place does that go away us?”
The place certainly?! A bicoastal relationship might be troublesome, however this might the present’s means of writing her out if discovering storylines for her character have gotten a problem.
The Rookie airs Monday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT on ABC. Streams subsequent day on Hulu.
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