Tonight on ABC their new series The Rookie airs with an all-new Tuesday, April 2, 2019, season 1 episode 18 called, “Homefront,” and we have your The Rookie recap below. On tonight’s The Rookie episode as per the ABC synopsis, “When one of their colleagues is arrested by Internal Affairs for lying on the witness stand, it leads to the release of three felons whose cases he worked on and the team being asked to check in on them now that they are free.”
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A rookie was being sued. Officer John Nolan was being sued for dislocating a man’s shoulder as he bumped into him while he was pursuing a criminal and Nolan barely remembers touching the man much less knocking him over. The rookie was going to be assigned a lawyer by his union and everyone told Nolan not to worry about it because he got Simon Parks. Parks was considered a shark in the courtroom because he gets most of these lawsuits thrown out and so Nolan calmed down some when he heard it all. He thought that the arbitration was going to go much smoother and he couldn’t wait to meet his lawyer. Nolan liked everybody else had assumed that his lawyer was Simon Parks Sr. and unfortunately for him it was Junior he met.
Junior was barely out of law school. He also admitted that Nolan would be his first case and so Nolan’s TO found the whole thing funny. Officer Bishop thought it was funny that the oldest rookie was paired up with the youngest lawyer and so she laughed about it even as Nolan tried to call his union. He wanted to see if his union could get him another lawyer and he was denied. Nolan was stuck with Junior and it made things awkward when Junior brought up how he was almost replaced. Luckily, he didn’t hold the decision against Nolan and all that he asked was that Nolan didn’t speak in front of the judge. It was a simple request and the officer forgot all about it when they were in arbitration.
Nolan first mocked the plaintiff over the man’s neck brace and then he tried to talk to the judge. The judge knocked him down a few pegs because he said he couldn’t sweeten into overlooking police brutality and so the judge was unpredictable. Junior begged Nolan not to talk and for a while, he didn’t. Then he heard the plaintiff go on and on about how the police have never apologized to him for all that they did (which included running over his dog) and that got to Nolan. He apologized to the man because he thought this situation was just a case of someone’s pain being misunderstood, but by apologizing in front of the judge no less he made it seem like he was willing to acknowledge guilt.
Nolan got played and he wasn’t the only one. His friends had all been assigned a task from their Sergeant. Sergeant Grey had called a meeting where he said that one of their own was arrested. He mentioned that Detective Jenkins was arrested because the evidence was found that he committed perjury and that an innocent woman spent ten years in jail. This woman along with two others was released from jail because Internal Affairs found Jenkins lied in all three cases and these people bear watching. The rookies were all being asked to watch these people by Internal Affairs and this meant IA was going to be hanging around to further dig through Jenkins’s cases. Commander West was on site to deal with any questions and he was using this opportunity to spend time with his son who hasn’t reached out to him in a while.
Officer West was asked about that. He replied that he was just busy and that was a lie on his part. He hasn’t contacted his father because he heard from a man in jail that his father planted a weapon on him. Now, this criminal is not denying that he killed his victim and so he was just denying being dumb enough to hold onto the gun. He had also been bluntly honest and Officer West has no reason to doubt the story. He just doubted his father. Everyone believes that his dad was as straight as an arrow and he didn’t. He tried to talk to his partner and she was too busy flirting with her boyfriend to take his concerns seriously. Hence West decided to take the thing into his own hands. He confronted his dad and his dad denied the story.
Commander West also told off his son for investigating a superior officer and so that made the younger West even more suspicious. He refused to talk to his dad and going to keep on ignoring when the Commander did come clean. He never framed anyone or lied, but he did confess to cutting some corners back then because that was just how the job was done. The Commander understood that it was a very good excuse to his son because he drilled into his child’s head that was never an excuse to break the rules since his kid was an actual kid and so he came clean. He did plant a gun to arrest a man because he thought the man was too dangerous to be free and he told his son to do everything but that he raised him to be better than he was. And so the commander tried to get his son to forgive him and unfortunately, that wasn’t going to happen anytime soon.
West and his friends did do good in their jobs. He and his partner helped Samantha Bennett who was wrongfully imprisoned to get into contact with her ex-husband and daughter while Officers Chen and Bradford assisted their recently released con with his wife. Max Kagel married his wife when he was never expected to come out of prison and she took exception without having to be married to him now that he was free. She tried to kill him and was arrested for attempted murder. Alisha was dragged away saying she only married him because her mother was on her case for still being single. She was now the one behind bars and it’s doubtable her husband will ever visit her in prison. And so the only one that went off script with their criminal was Bishop because she realized they had a connection.
Not a love connection, but a criminal one. Bishop has a foster brother that used to run with Terry Wright’s crew and she failed to put her relationship with a known criminal on her application to the Police Academy. She didn’t mention it because she knew it could cost her, her chances at becoming an officer and so she didn’t tell anyone when she sat on her brother to watch if he was going to meet up with Terry. Her brother later did and they were spotted with guns when Bishop called it in. She was going to arrest both and come clean about Dan being her brother when they caught her by surprise. She was taken a hostage and the whole police department went looking for her. Even Nolan left the meeting with the lawyers because he said he didn’t care how much money they tried to take him for.
Bishop was alright in the end, though. Her brother saved her from Terry and what he got in return wasn’t much. Bishop arrested Dan and she came forward to her Sergeant about their familial relationship. She admitted to making a mistake when she lied on her paperwork, but she warned that she could have just ended her career. So Bishop wasn’t in the mood to celebrate with Nolan. The lawsuit against him was dropped when he showed how committed to his job and to his TO he was. And so Junior used that to get the judge on their on the side.
THE END!
