History Series / RookieBlue

* YouFailLawForever: This Troper isn't incredibly familiar with Canadian laws regarding search and seizure but I am pretty sure all of those guns from episode 4 would be inadmissible in court seeing as how both officers entered without a warrant.
** You can enter without a warrant, and anything in plain sight is admissible. [=McNally=] was invited in, and Epstein went in searching for her (not needing a warrant because someone's life being in danger is probable cause).

* ShoutOut: One episode opens with Sam quoting, almost word-for-word, [[CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!]].

*LesYay: In Season 4 there seems to be a lot of it going around between Gail and Holly, the forensic pathologist.

** In Season 3, Gail gets one in the form of a new rookie, who happens to be her ex-fiancee who basically left her at the alter

** In Season 3, Traci is now a detective and there is a new rookie in the precinct, Nick Collins, [[spoiler: Gail's ex-fiance]]

* TonightSomeoneDies: Played Straight in "Out of Time"

** [[spoiler: Gail cheats on Nick with Blackstome]]

*LesYay: In Season 2, seems to be a lot of it going around between Gale and Holly, the lab tech.

* ShutUpKiss: Chris to Gail.

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''Rookie Blue'' is an Creator/{{ABC}} (Global in Canada) series focusing around five new rookies assigned to Division 15 straight out of the academy. The show focuses a lot more on the personal lives of the rookies than other crime shows, and has been described as "''GreysAnatomy'' with rookie cops". It follows their introduction to real policing under the guidance of the senior officers and detectives at Division 15, and how they struggle to cope with the toll the job takes on them and their lives. While there is a main character, [[TomboyishName Andy]] [[GirlNextDoor McNally]], the show utilises its ensemble cast very well and every episode will follow each of the rookies and some of the senior officers. The series is one of handful of shows airing on US TV (''{{Flashpoint}}'' being another) in which its Canadian setting is actually preserved.

** TheSmartGuy: Dov
** TheBigGuy: Chris

** In Season 3, Traci is now a detective and there is a new rookie in the precinct, Collins, [[spoiler: Gail's ex-fiance]]

* YouGetMeCoffee: For all the rookies, but especially in one scene for Chris as he detailed to help Sam, Jerry and Shaw (all senior officers). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] for Andy as she makes Sam coffee.

* AloneWithThePsycho: Happens to [[spoiler: Luke, Oliver, Andy, Sam, Gail and Jerry]].

!!!Tropes:

* ActionGirl: Played reasonably realistically. Expect Andy to lose as often as she wins in a fight.
** Maybe turning into FauxActionGirl, given how often she needs to be rescued in season 2.
*** FauxActionGirl or not, it played realistically as Andy is a bit headstrong and her headstrongness has lead her to do stupid choices in her career.

* WhamEpisode: Season 3's "Out of Time".

* ByTheBookCop: Played straight with Chris amongst the rookies, averted by Dov and notably by Sam.

* LoveConfession: [[spoiler: Dov ]] takes too many painkillers and ends up high as a kite. He ends up telling [[spoiler: Gail]] that his new girlfriend is amazing but she is not perfect like [[spoiler: Gail]]. He then tells her that he wants to marry her and have kids with her. When the drugs wear off and he realizes what he said, things get really awkward between them.

* OnceAnEpisode: During Season 1, near the start of the episode there's a scene in the squad room, at the end of which the officer in charge says "Protect, Serve and (plot significant statement the rookies will not follow)". By the start of Season 2, it seems they are doing this off and on.

''Rookie Blue'' is an {{ABC}} (Global in Canada) series focusing around five new rookies assigned to Division 15 straight out of the academy. The show focuses a lot more on the personal lives of the rookies than other crime shows, and has been described as "''GreysAnatomy'' with rookie cops". It follows their introduction to real policing under the guidance of the senior officers and detectives at Division 15, and how they struggle to cope with the toll the job takes on them and their lives. While there is a main character, [[TomboyishName Andy]] [[GirlNextDoor McNally]], the show utilises its ensemble cast very well and every episode will follow each of the rookies and some of the senior officers. The series is one of handful of shows airing on US TV (''{{Flashpoint}}'' being another) in which its Canadian setting is actually preserved.

* ActionGirl: Played reasonably realistically. Expect Andy to lose as often as she wins in a fight.

* AffablyEvil: Jamie Brennan.

* AlwaysMurder: Averted. The 15th has dealt with a variety of crimes, ranging from child abduction to drug trafficking.

* BadassInDistress: Sam in the season 2 finale.
* BettyAndVeronica: Sam (Veronica) and Luke (Betty) for Andy (Archie). Initially at least.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Sam and Andy, Chris and Gail.

* ClearTheirName: Andy's father becomes a murder suspect in one episode, leading Sam and Andy to try and find evidence to clear him.

* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler: Andy]] from a psychopathic army sergeant and [[spoiler: murderer]]. Also [[spoiler: Gail]] from a man who is abducting women from a hotel.
* DirtyHarriet: Andy and Gail do a stint as prostitutes in a sting operation. Later in the season Andy has to pretend to be a stripper and Sam's girlfriend in an undercover operation. Gail later pretends again to be a high class prostitute to bring in a murder suspect for a missing prostitute. [[spoiler: It's the wrong guy. Turns out the missing person wasn't actually dead, but another prostitute ''had'' been killed earlier by a guy scouting in the same area.]]
* DonutMessWithACop: Shaw is always hungry, though not necessarily for donuts.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Chris]] to [[spoiler: Gail]] after he's been stabbed and they are trapped in a warehouse with no way out. Although he does not come out and declare his love, he does say he misses her and still has feelings for her.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: The chemistry between Andy and Sam. Even her boyfriend can see it.
* FairCop: All of them.

* GoodCopBadCop: Used sometimes. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] early in season 2.

* InterruptedIntimacy: [[spoiler: Sam and Andy]] get interrupted by his boss. Since he's undercover working for a very nasty drug dealer, this is not played for laughs.

* MeddlingParents: Superintendent Elaine Peck. She's actively trying to manage her daughter's private and professional life.
* NewOldFlame: The new detective, Jo Rosati, that Andy has to work with the season 2 opener. Turns out she's [[spoiler: Luke's]] ex-partner, in more ways than one. At the end of the episode, she joins the 15th. That is until [[spoiler:[[KickedUpstairs she was transferred to another station]].]]

* OldCopYoungCop: Obviously. However the senior cops are not that much older than the rookies.

* OneHeadTaller: Luke/Andy, Chris/Gail. Sam/Andy if that counts.

* RescueRomance: Ensues between Dov and his new bomb-disposal squad girlfriend when she rescued him from a bomb-trigger trap.

** The quote is actually from Andre Malraux, a French author and politician.
* ShutUpKiss: Chris to Gail.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Andy has shot and killed a man, been shot, been spattered with the blood of a victim standing next to her, had to suspect her own father of murder, almost witnessed a suicide and much more, just months out of the academy, but has had no counselling beyond her friends and colleagues.

* TonightSomeoneDies: Played Straight in "Out of Time"
* UndercoverCopReveal: In the first episode, after [[NeverLiveItDown Andy arrests a him as a murder suspect and brings him back to the station]].

* YouGetMeCoffee: For all the rookies, but especially in one scene for Chris as he detailed to help Sam, Jerry and Shaw (all senior officers). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] for Andy as she makes Sam coffee.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Izzy, Shaw's daughter, much to his regret. It becomes a huge plot point in one episode, as she is identified by it. '''Many''' times.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Izzy, Shaw's daughter, much to his regret. It becomes a huge plot point in one episode, as she is identified by it. Many times.

* GenreSavvy: During the 'scavenger hunt' exercise Dov realizes that the key part of undercover police work is to get a criminal to trust you and then being able to betray that trust to make an arrest. Especially GenreSavvy as he has just done the same thing earlier to his best friend. He does this in a very straightforward manner while Andy and Traci spend a lot of time creating new personae for themselves. He realizes that quite soon after. And that he's good at it.

* AloneWithThePsycho: Happens to [[spoiler: Luke, Oliver, Andy and Sam]].

* BigDamnHeroes: Luke, for [[spoiler: Andy]]. Then later, Shaw and the others for [[spoiler: Sam]].

* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Usually averted, played straight notably when Andy is [[spoiler: confronting the child-killer in the park rec centre]].

* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler: Andy]] from a psychopathic army sergeant and [[spoiler: murderer]].
* DirtyHarriet: Andy and Gail do a stint as prostitutes in a sting operation. Later in the season Andy has to pretend to be a stripper and Sam's girlfriend in an undercover operation.

* GenreSavvy: During the 'scavenger hunt' exercise Dov realizes that the key part of undercover police work is to get a criminal to trust you and then being able to betray that trust to make an arrest. He does this in a very straightforward manner while Andy and Traci spend a lot of time creating new personae for themselves.

** In Season 3, Gail gets one in the form of a new rookie, who happens to be someone that dated her before he had shipped out to the Iraq war.

** In Season 3, Traci is now a detective.

*** [[spoiler: And now Gail is getting close with an old flame of hers]].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Izzy,Shaw's daughter.

* RankUp: At the end of the first season, the rookies get promoted to regular officer status. Though they're still rookies compared to everyone else at the division. LampShaded in the last scene of the first season in the a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

*** [[spoiler: And now Gail is getting close with an old flame of hers as she dates Chris]].

''Rookie Blue'' is an {{ABC}} (Global in Canada) series focusing around five new rookies assigned to Division 15 straight out of the academy. The show focuses a lot more on the personal lives of the rookies than other crime shows, and has been described as "''GreysAnatomy'' with rookie cops". It follows their introduction to real policing under the guidance of the senior officers and detectives at Division 15, and how they struggle to cope with the toll the job takes on them and their lives. While there is a main character, [[TomboyishName Andy]] [[GirlNextDoor McNally]], the show utilises its ensemble cast very well and every episode will follow each of the rookies and some of the senior officers.

* NewOldFlame: The new detective, Jo Rosati, that Andy has to work with the season 2 opener. Turns out she's [[spoiler: Luke's]] ex-partner, in more ways than one. At the end of the episode, she joins the 15th.