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* CastingGag: In "The Overnight", Chen is accidentally dragged into an ''Series/AmericanIdol'' audition. Her actress Melissa O'Neil won ''Canadian Idol'' in 2005.
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* CastingGag: In "The Overnight", Chen is accidentally dragged into an ''Series/AmericanIdol'' audition. Her actress Melissa O'Neil won ''Canadian Idol'' in 2005.
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* ActorAllusion: Chen getting thrown in front of the ''Series/AmericanIdol'' judges in "The Overnight". Chen's actor Melissa O'Neil won the third season of ''Series/CanadianIdol'' in 2005.
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** [[Series/SharkTank Mark Cuban]] appears in the Season 2, asking Nolan and Grey to take care of an annoying entrepreneur who won't stop trying to pitch to him.
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** [[Series/SharkTank Mark Cuban]] appears in the Season 2, asking Nolan and Grey to take care of an annoying entrepreneur who won't stop trying to pitch to him.
* BrokenPedestal:
** Nolan is shaken when his academy instructor, Jeremy Hawke, goes rogue and tries to steal his son from his wife during a custody case.
** West has trouble when he is presented with evidence that his father was a dirty cop, although his father is able to counter the accusation and is just hurt that his son doubted him at all.
** Nolan is shaken when his academy instructor, Jeremy Hawke, goes rogue and tries to steal his son from his wife during a custody case.
** West has trouble when he is presented with evidence that his father was a dirty cop, although his father is able to counter the accusation and is just hurt that his son doubted him at all.
* DoAnythingSoldier: Detective Nick Armstrong is established as one, as his role as 'night detective' means that he needs to be ready to take on any case that might come up during the night, although he is generally expected to just deal with the essential groundwork and then hand it on to more focused investigators later.
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* DoubleStandard: In season 2, Chen is rocked that Bradford is angry because she didn't write down on a report how [[spoiler: he was ready to kill himself rather than face death by a virus.]] She's amazed he's so rules bound as he snaps that any important incident should be on a report if it plays into a cop's mindset. Chen fires right back that if that's the case, she should have been writing down the ''many'' times Brandford covered for his wife and Brandford shouldn't be acting so high and mighty.
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* DoubleStandard: In season 2, Chen is rocked that Bradford is angry because she didn't write down on a report how [[spoiler: he was ready to kill himself rather than face death by a virus.]] virus]]. She's amazed he's so rules bound as he snaps that any important incident should be on a report if it plays into a cop's mindset. Chen fires right back that if that's the case, she should have been writing down the ''many'' times Brandford covered for his wife and Brandford shouldn't be acting so high and mighty.
* RealityEnsues: When Nolan becomes the focus of a vendetta by a gang of white supremacists, the police retaliate by working to arrest the majority of the gang before they can kill Nolan. Chen asks why the gang was allowed to continue when it's this relatively 'easy' to lock down on their resources, but Bradford explains that since most of the time new gangs will just spring up to replace the old one it's easier to let the status quo be unless something significant happens.
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Or rather physical attraction as West and an actor he was coaching as a police consultant do show chemistry but are thwarted by a stalker shooting West, thankfully center mass where his vest caught it. %%InUniverse.
* SadisticChoice: In Season 2, Nolan is faced with a difficult choice. Does he save a known killer from drowning in wet cement or does he save a grieving father who just hanged himself after putting the killer in wet cement?[[note]]The show frames the situation as a learning experience for Nolan. Detective Armstrong explains to Nolan that he will be faced with horrific decisions as a cop, but he will have to confront each one based on the situation at hand rather than his own biases. In those times, there will be no happy endings, but Nolan will have to learn to live with them and know that he will have to face more horrific situations as his career progresses.[[/note]]
* SadisticChoice: In Season 2, Nolan is faced with a difficult choice. Does he save a known killer from drowning in wet cement or does he save a grieving father who just hanged himself after putting the killer in wet cement?[[note]]The show frames the situation as a learning experience for Nolan. Detective Armstrong explains to Nolan that he will be faced with horrific decisions as a cop, but he will have to confront each one based on the situation at hand rather than his own biases. In those times, there will be no happy endings, but Nolan will have to learn to live with them and know that he will have to face more horrific situations as his career progresses.[[/note]]
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: Chen and Lucy at one point rescue a store-front psychic from a man who attacked her after she mentioned that she saw him with a beautiful woman in the woods; as it turns out, the man was suspected of murdering his wife and disposing of her in the woods, but the psychic just said something that sounded good.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Or rather physical attraction as West and an actor he was coaching as a police consultant do show chemistry but are thwarted by a stalker shooting West, thankfully center mass where his vest caught it. %%InUniverse.
* SadisticChoice: In Season 2, Nolan is faced with a difficult choice. Does he save a known killer from drowning in wet cement or does he save a grieving father who just hanged himself after putting the killer in wet cement?[[note]]The show frames the situation as a learning experience forNolan.Nolan, as he has to choose to help the killer as it's easier to save the killer rather than the man who doesn't want to be saved. Detective Armstrong explains to Nolan that he will be faced with horrific decisions as a cop, but he will have to confront each one based on the situation at hand rather than his own biases. In those times, there will be no happy endings, but Nolan will have to learn to live with them and know that he will have to face more horrific situations as his career progresses.[[/note]]
* RomanceOnTheSet: Or rather physical attraction as West and an actor he was coaching as a police consultant do show chemistry but are thwarted by a stalker shooting West, thankfully center mass where his vest caught it.
* SadisticChoice: In Season 2, Nolan is faced with a difficult choice. Does he save a known killer from drowning in wet cement or does he save a grieving father who just hanged himself after putting the killer in wet cement?[[note]]The show frames the situation as a learning experience for
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* SpottingTheThread: Nolan and Bishop are checking out a gym with the owner claiming everything is okay. A former construction worker, Nolan notes that in all the houses he's been in and built, he's never seen anyone putting a circuit breaker right next to a water pipe. He opens the door to show a stash of drugs and money.
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* SpottingTheThread: SpottingTheThread:
** Nolan and Bishop are checking out a gym with the owner claiming everything is okay. A former construction worker, Nolan notes that in all the houses he's been in and built, he's never seen anyone putting a circuit breaker right next to a water pipe. He opens the door to show a stash of drugs and money.
** When Nolan spots a piece of tape over a doorbell camera, Detective Nick Armstrong notes that 75% of detectives would have missed that, encouraging Nolan’s ambition to make detective.
** Nolan and Bishop are checking out a gym with the owner claiming everything is okay. A former construction worker, Nolan notes that in all the houses he's been in and built, he's never seen anyone putting a circuit breaker right next to a water pipe. He opens the door to show a stash of drugs and money.
** When Nolan spots a piece of tape over a doorbell camera, Detective Nick Armstrong notes that 75% of detectives would have missed that, encouraging Nolan’s ambition to make detective.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Bradford has a chance to get back in his wife's good graces by removing a stash of drugs from her apartment before it is searched. He nearly goes through with it but in the end leaves the drugs to be discovered.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: WhatYouAreInTheDark:
** Bradford has a chance to get back in his wife's good graces by removing a stash of drugs from her apartment before it is searched. He nearly goes through with it but in the end leaves the drugs to bediscovered.discovered.
** When Chen still needs to deal with seven different crimes in two days to pass her field evaluation, she finds herself in a position to get the vehicular theft crime she needs when she finds a woman who has moved the licence plates from her husband’s car to her own. However, learning that the plates were only switched because the family could only afford to insure one car and the other one is getting repaired, Chen chooses not to be the kind of cop who would focus on numbers over people and lets the woman off with a warning (although this act allows Bradford to pass her on making an ethical decision in a difficult situation, which was another scenario she needed to face).
** Bradford has a chance to get back in his wife's good graces by removing a stash of drugs from her apartment before it is searched. He nearly goes through with it but in the end leaves the drugs to be
** When Chen still needs to deal with seven different crimes in two days to pass her field evaluation, she finds herself in a position to get the vehicular theft crime she needs when she finds a woman who has moved the licence plates from her husband’s car to her own. However, learning that the plates were only switched because the family could only afford to insure one car and the other one is getting repaired, Chen chooses not to be the kind of cop who would focus on numbers over people and lets the woman off with a warning (although this act allows Bradford to pass her on making an ethical decision in a difficult situation, which was another scenario she needed to face).
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* ThisIsReality: West and Chen are assigned to be "consultants" on a TV cop show set and educating the actors to how "real" cops operate.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: The officers run into a guy running a con by pretending to be a cop pulling people over on "traffic violations" and then accepting a bribe to drop it. They quickly see through it due to his uniform not looking right and lacking the right car markings.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: ImpersonatingAnOfficer:
** The officers run into a guy running a con by pretending to be a cop pulling people over on "traffic violations" and then accepting a bribe to drop it. They quickly see through it due to his uniform not looking right and lacking the right car markings.
** The officers run into a guy running a con by pretending to be a cop pulling people over on "traffic violations" and then accepting a bribe to drop it. They quickly see through it due to his uniform not looking right and lacking the right car markings.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The crux of "Greenlight" is a white supremacist ordering a full-on manhunt for Nolan... because he arrested his girlfriend and accidentally [[WardrobeMalfunction ripped her dress]] in the process.
** Deconstructed, as putting a hit out on a cop,[[RealityEnsues leads to the police immediately retaliating]]. Grey even points out to the leader of the white supremacists.
** Deconstructed, as putting a hit out on a cop,[[RealityEnsues leads to the police immediately retaliating]]. Grey even points out to the leader of the white supremacists.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: DisproportionateRetribution:
** The crux of "Greenlight" is a white supremacist ordering a full-on manhunt for Nolan... because he arrested his girlfriend and accidentally [[WardrobeMalfunction ripped her dress]] in the process.
** Deconstructed, as putting a hit out on acop,[[RealityEnsues cop [[RealityEnsues leads to the police immediately retaliating]]. Grey even points it out to the leader of the white supremacists.
** The crux of "Greenlight" is a white supremacist ordering a full-on manhunt for Nolan... because he arrested his girlfriend and accidentally [[WardrobeMalfunction ripped her dress]] in the process.
** Deconstructed, as putting a hit out on a
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* OlderAndWiser: Despite being the oldest rookie, Nolan's life experiences had made him an expert with saying the right stuff to people.
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* OlderAndWiser: Despite being the oldest rookie, Nolan's life experiences had made him an expert with saying the right stuff to people. It's later revealed that Captain Andersen wanted him in her team precisely because he was bringing in skills and perspective that none of her other (universally younger) officers have.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A downplayed example happens when Bradford gets sprayed by a skunk about halfway through Season 1 and experiences nothing worse than his colleagues wrinkling their noses in his immediate proximity. In real life, skunk spray would make it unbearable to come anywhere near the target for quite some time and is also known to cause vomiting and temporary blindness if it hits the face, which it did in Bradford's case.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A downplayed example happens when Bradford gets sprayed by a skunk about halfway through Season 1 and experiences nothing worse than his colleagues wrinkling their noses in his immediate proximity. In real life, skunk spray would make it unbearable to come anywhere near the target for quite some time and is also known to cause vomiting and temporary blindness if it hits the face, which it did in Bradford's case. Skunks also use their spray only as a last resort, not as a first-strike weapon launched the moment a potential threat appears.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A downplayed example happens when Bradford gets sprayed by a skunk about halfway through Season 1 and experiences nothing worse than his colleagues wrinkling their noses in his immediate proximity. In real life, skunk spray would make it unbearable to come anywhere near the target for quite some time and is also known to cause vomiting and temporary blindness if it hits the face, which it did in Bradford's case.
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** Deconstructed, as putting a hit out on a cop,[[RealityEnsues leads to the police immediately retaliating]]. Grey even points out to the leader of the white supremacists.
--> '''Grey''': Your son is about to destroy everything you built because his girlfriend yelled at him.
--> '''Grey''': Your son is about to destroy everything you built because his girlfriend yelled at him.
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John Nolan (Creator/NathanFillion) is a 40-year-old facing a tough divorce. After a life-changing incident in which he stalls a bank robber long enough for the police to arrive, he joins the LAPD as the oldest rookie officer on the force. With him are fellow rookies Lucy Chen (Creator/MelissaONeil) and Jackson West (Titus Makin). With training officers Talia Bishop (Afton Williamson), Tim Bradford (Eric Winter) and Angela Lopez (Alyssa Diaz), the trio handle life as cops and the conflicts.
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John Nolan (Creator/NathanFillion) is a 40-year-old facing a tough divorce. After a life-changing incident in which he stalls a bank robber long enough for the police to arrive, he joins the LAPD as the oldest rookie officer on the force. With him are fellow rookies Lucy Chen (Creator/MelissaONeil) and Jackson West (Titus Makin). (Creator/TitusMakin). With training officers Talia Bishop (Afton (Creator/Afton Williamson), Tim Bradford (Eric Winter) (Creator/EricWinter) and Angela Lopez (Alyssa Diaz), (Creator/AlyssaDiaz), the trio handle life as cops and the conflicts.
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Captain Zoe Andersen.]]
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* RomanceOnTheSet: Or rather physical attraction as West and an actor he was coaching as a police consultant do show chemistry but are thwarted by a stalker shooting West, thankfully center mass where his vest caught it. %%InUniverse.
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* SadisticChoice: In Season 2, Nolan is faced with a difficult choice. Does he save a known killer from drowning in wet cement or does he save a grieving father who just hanged himself after putting the killer in wet cement?[[note]]The show frames the situation as a learning experience for Nolan. Detective Armstrong explains to Nolan that he will be faced with horrific decisions as a cop, but he will have to confront each one based on the situation at hand rather than his own biases. In those times, there will be no happy endings, but Nolan will have to learn to live with them and know that he will have to face more horrific situations as his career progresses.[[/note]]
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** L.A. Rams players Eric Weddle and Robert Woods appear as themselves in a cameo in Season 2, Episode 7, "Safety."
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* ColdOpen: Each episode opens with a bit of the cops on some odd call that usually ends in a humorous moment unrelated to the rest of the episode.
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: For Captain Anderson. [[spoiler:After being tied to chair and pushed into a pool, she dislocates her wrist to escape her handcuffs and caps two white supremacists (one of them ''underwater with his own gun'') before the third fatally wounds her in the throat.]]
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: For [[spoiler:For Captain Anderson. [[spoiler:After After being tied to chair and pushed into a pool, she dislocates her wrist to escape her handcuffs and caps two white supremacists (one of them ''underwater with his own gun'') before the third fatally wounds her in the throat.]]
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* OutsideContextProblem: The first season finale starts off with the rookies about to sit their exams to see if they progress to the next stage of the training program. Between the briefing at the start of the shift & the exam starting in the afternoon, the threat of a terrorist cell potentially having chemical weapons in L.A. has been uncovered & taken precedence over the exam.
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* TheDogBitesBack: A horrible rich woman insults her stepdaughter constantly. When the girl sells off items for money, the woman fires the housekeeper for helping her. Later, the girl is arrested for shooting up the woman's expensive bags as the maid drops by to pick up her stuff. Seeing the kind girl arrested, the maid cooly asks the cops "which you like to see where "Mrs. hides all her drugs?"
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* TheDogBitesBack: A horrible rich woman insults her stepdaughter constantly. When the girl sells off items for money, the woman fires the housekeeper for helping her. Later, the girl is arrested for shooting up the woman's expensive bags as the maid drops by to pick up her stuff. Seeing the kind girl arrested, the maid cooly asks the cops "which "would you like to see where "Mrs.Mrs. hides all her drugs?"
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The second season is set to premiere on September 29, 2019.
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* TheDogBitesBack: A horrible rich woman insults her stepdaughter constantly. When the girl sells off items for money, the woman fires the housekeeper for helping her. Later, the girl is arrested for shooting up the woman's expensive bags as the maid drops by to pick up her stuff. Seeing the kind girl arrested, the maid cooly asks the cops "which you like to see where "Mrs. hides all her drugs?"
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* AsHimself:
** Music/WillIAm makes a brief cameo after Nolan and Bishop respond to a silent alarm at his home.
** [[Series/SharkTank Mark Cuban]] appears in the Season 2, asking Nolan and Grey to take care of an annoying entrepreneur who won't stop trying to pitch to him.
** Music/WillIAm makes a brief cameo after Nolan and Bishop respond to a silent alarm at his home.
** [[Series/SharkTank Mark Cuban]] appears in the Season 2, asking Nolan and Grey to take care of an annoying entrepreneur who won't stop trying to pitch to him.
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* DoubleStandard: In season 2, Chen is rocked that Bradford is angry because she didn't write down on a report how [[spoiler: he was ready to kill himself rather than face death by a virus.]] She's amazed he's so rules bound as he snaps that any important incident should be on a report if it plays into a cop's mindset. Chen fires right back that if that's the case, she should have been writing down the ''many'' times Brandford covered for his wife and Brandford shouldn't be acting so high and mighty.
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''The Rookie'' is a police series that began airing on ABC on October 16, 2018.
John Nolan (Creator/NathanFillion) is a 40-year-old facing a tough divorce. After a life changing incident in which he stalls a bank robber long enough for the police to arrive, he joins the LAPD as the oldest rookie officer on the force. With him are fellow rookies Lucy Chen and Jackson West. With training officers Talia Bishop, Tim Bradford and Angela Lopez, the trio handle life as cops and the conflicts.
It's expected to air the second season by Fall 2019.
John Nolan (Creator/NathanFillion) is a 40-year-old facing a tough divorce. After a life changing incident in which he stalls a bank robber long enough for the police to arrive, he joins the LAPD as the oldest rookie officer on the force. With him are fellow rookies Lucy Chen and Jackson West. With training officers Talia Bishop, Tim Bradford and Angela Lopez, the trio handle life as cops and the conflicts.
It's expected to air the second season by Fall 2019.
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''The Rookie'' is a police series that began airing on ABC Creator/{{ABC}} on October 16, 2018.
John Nolan (Creator/NathanFillion) is a 40-year-old facing a tough divorce. After alife changing life-changing incident in which he stalls a bank robber long enough for the police to arrive, he joins the LAPD as the oldest rookie officer on the force. With him are fellow rookies Lucy Chen (Creator/MelissaONeil) and Jackson West. West (Titus Makin). With training officers Talia Bishop, Bishop (Afton Williamson), Tim Bradford (Eric Winter) and Angela Lopez, Lopez (Alyssa Diaz), the trio handle life as cops and the conflicts.
It's expected to air the The second season by Fall is set to premiere on September 29, 2019.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The crux of "Greenlight" is a white supremacist ordering a full on manhunt for Nolan...because he arrested his girlfriend and accidentally [[WardrobeMalfunction ripped her dress]] in the process.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The crux of "Greenlight" is a white supremacist ordering a full on full-on manhunt for Nolan...Nolan... because he arrested his girlfriend and accidentally [[WardrobeMalfunction ripped her dress]] in the process.
* ModestyBedsheet: Chen and Nolan each have their own when show post coital in "Time of Death".
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-->'''Jackson:''': Also a 12-0-20.
-->'''Chen''': Oh, illegal possession of a firearm.
-->'''Crook 1''': Actually, its a 417. The guns are fake.
-->'''Nolan''': Ha! He's right!
-->'''Chen''': Yep, but this knife is real and that is a violation of..
-->'''All three rookies''': 21510b!
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-->'''Crook 1''': Actually, its a 417. The guns are fake.
-->'''Nolan''': Ha! He's right!
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-->'''All three rookies''': 21510b!
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''The Rookie'' is a police series that began airing on ABC on October 16, 2018.
John Nolan (Creator/NathanFillion) is a 40-year-old facing a tough divorce. After a life changing incident in which he stalls a bank robber long enough for the police to arrive, he joins the LAPD as the oldest rookie officer on the force. With him are fellow rookies Lucy Chen and Jackson West. With training officers Talia Bishop, Tim Bradford and Angela Lopez, the trio handle life as cops and the conflicts.
It's expected to air the second season by Fall 2019.
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!! ''The Rookie'' includes examples of the following tropes:
* TheAllegedCar: After Nolan and Bishop crash two [=SUVs=], the LAPD motor pool gets revenge by giving them a decades-old beater of a patrol car that is on the verge of completely falling apart. [[spoiler:Bishop then proceeds to use the junk heap cruiser’s trunk as a [[RammingAlwaysWorks battering ram]] upon the front door of a perp’s house when the situation becomes urgent.]]
* AmusingInjuries: Pursuing a suspect, Nolan jumps over two fences without checking what's on the other side and ends up with a forehead full of cactus spines.
* BaitAndSwitch: The rookies are drinking at a bar to celebrate their first day and a waitress slips Nolan her number. The final shot has Nolan giving her a considering look before cutting to a trail of feminine clothing leading to Nolan's house... which turn out to have been Chen's.
* BrakeAngrily: One of Bradford's "training techniques" is to suddenly slam the brakes during an ordinary conversation and scream, "I've been shot! Call EMS! Where are we?!" to demonstrate the importance of a cop always knowing their location. Chen is unable to answer, and he forces her to get out and follow as he drives slowly away, until she can tell him where they are. He fails to rattle West with the trick, however.
* BulletproofVest: West's uniform top gets covered in vomit and he didn't bring a spare so he ends up wearing a bulletproof vest for the rest of the shift. It comes in handy when he takes a shot in the shoulder which would have been fatal without the vest.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The crux of "Greenlight" is a white supremacist ordering a full on manhunt for Nolan...because he arrested his girlfriend and accidentally [[WardrobeMalfunction ripped her dress]] in the process.
* DrillSergeantNasty: The three training officers take this role with their rookies, barking orders at them and quizzing them even when dealing with calls. Bradford, however, is the nastiest of the bunch.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Comes into play during a domestic incident, when Nolan suspects the much larger husband is being abused by his wife. He thinks about bringing it up, but leaves it be. [[spoiler: Which proves a fatal mistake when the wife stabs her husband to death.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: For Captain Anderson. [[spoiler:After being tied to chair and pushed into a pool, she dislocates her wrist to escape her handcuffs and caps two white supremacists (one of them ''underwater with his own gun'') before the third fatally wounds her in the throat.]]
* ExplosiveStupidity: Narrowly avoided. A woman comes into the station to hand over her husband's collection of guns and a ''live landmine''. Which she had stuffed in a suitcase she was banging around on the way in. Nolan is very careful with the unstable ordinance and calls for the bomb squad at which point the woman asks about the ''other'' mines in her car. Cue massive explosion outside.
* GlorySeeker: Jeremy "the Hawke" has an obsessive need to be seen as a great police officer. When his career and personal life fall apart, he turns that into a need to prove he can outwit and outfight the police force.
* HeroicBystander: How Nolan's story began: he was stuck in the middle of a bank robbery and ended up talking to the robber long enough for the police to arrive.
* HiddenDepths: Bradford may seem a thick-headed lunk but has a deep understanding of people. At a lunch, he expertly points out the issues Bishop and Lopez have with each other in a way that would do the department shrink proud.
* HiddenWire: Bradford's wife has to wear one as part of her CI deal, despite protests that it will likely get her killed.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: Nolan's move into law enforcement is seen as this in-universe by more skeptical officers, with parallels only reinforced by his secret relationship with the younger Chen. However he is entirely serious about his new career and does his best to disprove his doubters.
* InsistentTerminology: As Nolan learns on his first day, it's not a patrol car, it's a ''shop''. They work in it.
* InsultBackfire: First meeting West, Bradford snaps at him over being late and tries to put fear into the young man. West (whose father is a police commander) responds by saying he's more than happy to have Bradford act this way as it'll inspire West to be at his best.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Bradford's wife finally gets clean and is working through the rehab program, he tells her that they can't be together. Not because he doesn't love her but because his presence will be a constant reminder of her days as an addict. For her to really recover and rebuild her life, he can't be part of it.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: The officers run into a guy running a con by pretending to be a cop pulling people over on "traffic violations" and then accepting a bribe to drop it. They quickly see through it due to his uniform not looking right and lacking the right car markings.
* LawmanGoneBad: Jeremy "the Hawke" lost his position on the force and was relegated to training duty while also facing a pending divorce from his wife. After a drunken confrontation with her boyfriend, Jeremy chose to flee rather than be arrested and used his knowledge of police tactics to evade capture.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Wesley has sex with Angela ''inside the police station'' (in a back room, but still), as a reward for letting off his client.
* {{Nepotism}}: When Bradford realizes West freezes under fire, he chews out Lopez for not warning him. He wants to go ahead and report West but Lopez points out how the guy is the son of a major Internal Affairs officer and "you think he won't blame you for this?"
* NewMeat: Nolan, Chen, and West are fresh out of the police academy and are just starting to find out what it means to be a cop.
* NoodleIncident: One episode opens with Chen somehow having managed to roll her shop with no explanation whatsoever.
* OlderAndWiser: Despite being the oldest rookie, Nolan's life experiences had made him an expert with saying the right stuff to people.
* PoliceCodeForEverything: Naturally. Played for laughs at the beginning of the season finale, where the trio pause a study session to arrest a pair of StupidCrooks who failed to notice the rookies reciting police codes five feet away. They recite the codes for the various offenses, and then one of the crooks ''corrects them on a code''.
-->'''Jackson:''': Also a 12-0-20.
-->'''Chen''': Oh, illegal possession of a firearm.
-->'''Crook 1''': Actually, its a 417. The guns are fake.
-->'''Nolan''': Ha! He's right!
-->'''Chen''': Yep, but this knife is real and that is a violation of..
-->'''All three rookies''': 21510b!
-->'''Crook 2''': ''[=WTF=] look''
* TheReveal:
** Nolan and Chen are in a relationship which they keep quiet.
** Bradford is seen giving money to an obvious drug addict--who's his estranged wife.
* SecretTestOfCharacter:
** Bradford is fond of saying "''everything'' is a test" to Chen. He acts like he doesn't understand Spanish and is pulling over some Latino men because of their race. When Chen argues about it, he answers her in Spanish to ask "now was I pretending the subtle racism or not knowing the language? You don't know."
** When Bradford is forced to take time off after being shot, Chen is assigned to a laid-back officer who talks of how he's happy to never put himself in danger. When a call comes in, he's reluctant but Chen insists they back some fellow officers up. Later at the station, Chen finds out the guy is a good friend of Bradford's and he got Chen assigned to him. Bradford states that he wanted to be sure Chen wouldn't accept such a laid-back attitude and looks forward to working with her again.
** Chen is in a public restroom when someone reaches over the stall door to take her belt and gun. She races to tell Bradford, who chews her out for being so irresponsible. Bradford then gets a call saying his wife is in the hospital and they have to go. When Chen asks about her gun belt, Bradford just reaches into the car to hand it to her, revealing he'd stolen it and might well have driven her crazy about this "mistake" all day if not for the call.
** Subverted as Bradford realizes an Internal Affairs officer is trying to get him to implicate himself with things like letting Mario Lopez go for a traffic violation. He and Chen find an addict who accidentally stepped into a bear trap. Thinking it's another IA test, Bradford compliments the man on his great "makeup work" before yanking the foot out...and the guy nearly bleeds to death as Bradford realizes this is for real.
* SpottingTheThread: Nolan and Bishop are checking out a gym with the owner claiming everything is okay. A former construction worker, Nolan notes that in all the houses he's been in and built, he's never seen anyone putting a circuit breaker right next to a water pipe. He opens the door to show a stash of drugs and money.
* SwallowTheKey: When a stubborn protester attempts this in "Redwood", [[RealityEnsues he immediately begins choking on it.]]
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: The second episode's ColdOpen has Nolan convincing a recently dumped bride not to jump from the Hollywood Sign.
* ThatManIsDead: Bradford attempts to warn the detectives that his wife, having changed drastically due to her drug habit, is nothing like the veteran undercover cop in their records. They ignore his warnings and she proceeds to make a mistake that tips off her target.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: "Time Of Death" features [[spoiler:Nolan]] killing a suspect in self-defense, plus the subsequent mental anguish it brings on him.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: A serial killer is revealed to be an ordinary-looking, seemingly kindly older man with senility.
* WhamEpisode: "Greenlight" as [[spoiler: Captain Anderson is killed in the line of duty while saving Nolan.]]
* WhamShot: After a night drinking, the camera cuts to Nolan's house...where Chen is stepping out of the bedroom, revealing the two have been together for two months.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Bradford has a chance to get back in his wife's good graces by removing a stash of drugs from her apartment before it is searched. He nearly goes through with it but in the end leaves the drugs to be discovered.
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John Nolan (Creator/NathanFillion) is a 40-year-old facing a tough divorce. After a life changing incident in which he stalls a bank robber long enough for the police to arrive, he joins the LAPD as the oldest rookie officer on the force. With him are fellow rookies Lucy Chen and Jackson West. With training officers Talia Bishop, Tim Bradford and Angela Lopez, the trio handle life as cops and the conflicts.
It's expected to air the second season by Fall 2019.
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!! ''The Rookie'' includes examples of the following tropes:
* TheAllegedCar: After Nolan and Bishop crash two [=SUVs=], the LAPD motor pool gets revenge by giving them a decades-old beater of a patrol car that is on the verge of completely falling apart. [[spoiler:Bishop then proceeds to use the junk heap cruiser’s trunk as a [[RammingAlwaysWorks battering ram]] upon the front door of a perp’s house when the situation becomes urgent.]]
* AmusingInjuries: Pursuing a suspect, Nolan jumps over two fences without checking what's on the other side and ends up with a forehead full of cactus spines.
* BaitAndSwitch: The rookies are drinking at a bar to celebrate their first day and a waitress slips Nolan her number. The final shot has Nolan giving her a considering look before cutting to a trail of feminine clothing leading to Nolan's house... which turn out to have been Chen's.
* BrakeAngrily: One of Bradford's "training techniques" is to suddenly slam the brakes during an ordinary conversation and scream, "I've been shot! Call EMS! Where are we?!" to demonstrate the importance of a cop always knowing their location. Chen is unable to answer, and he forces her to get out and follow as he drives slowly away, until she can tell him where they are. He fails to rattle West with the trick, however.
* BulletproofVest: West's uniform top gets covered in vomit and he didn't bring a spare so he ends up wearing a bulletproof vest for the rest of the shift. It comes in handy when he takes a shot in the shoulder which would have been fatal without the vest.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The crux of "Greenlight" is a white supremacist ordering a full on manhunt for Nolan...because he arrested his girlfriend and accidentally [[WardrobeMalfunction ripped her dress]] in the process.
* DrillSergeantNasty: The three training officers take this role with their rookies, barking orders at them and quizzing them even when dealing with calls. Bradford, however, is the nastiest of the bunch.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Comes into play during a domestic incident, when Nolan suspects the much larger husband is being abused by his wife. He thinks about bringing it up, but leaves it be. [[spoiler: Which proves a fatal mistake when the wife stabs her husband to death.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: For Captain Anderson. [[spoiler:After being tied to chair and pushed into a pool, she dislocates her wrist to escape her handcuffs and caps two white supremacists (one of them ''underwater with his own gun'') before the third fatally wounds her in the throat.]]
* ExplosiveStupidity: Narrowly avoided. A woman comes into the station to hand over her husband's collection of guns and a ''live landmine''. Which she had stuffed in a suitcase she was banging around on the way in. Nolan is very careful with the unstable ordinance and calls for the bomb squad at which point the woman asks about the ''other'' mines in her car. Cue massive explosion outside.
* GlorySeeker: Jeremy "the Hawke" has an obsessive need to be seen as a great police officer. When his career and personal life fall apart, he turns that into a need to prove he can outwit and outfight the police force.
* HeroicBystander: How Nolan's story began: he was stuck in the middle of a bank robbery and ended up talking to the robber long enough for the police to arrive.
* HiddenDepths: Bradford may seem a thick-headed lunk but has a deep understanding of people. At a lunch, he expertly points out the issues Bishop and Lopez have with each other in a way that would do the department shrink proud.
* HiddenWire: Bradford's wife has to wear one as part of her CI deal, despite protests that it will likely get her killed.
* HollywoodMidLifeCrisis: Nolan's move into law enforcement is seen as this in-universe by more skeptical officers, with parallels only reinforced by his secret relationship with the younger Chen. However he is entirely serious about his new career and does his best to disprove his doubters.
* InsistentTerminology: As Nolan learns on his first day, it's not a patrol car, it's a ''shop''. They work in it.
* InsultBackfire: First meeting West, Bradford snaps at him over being late and tries to put fear into the young man. West (whose father is a police commander) responds by saying he's more than happy to have Bradford act this way as it'll inspire West to be at his best.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Bradford's wife finally gets clean and is working through the rehab program, he tells her that they can't be together. Not because he doesn't love her but because his presence will be a constant reminder of her days as an addict. For her to really recover and rebuild her life, he can't be part of it.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: The officers run into a guy running a con by pretending to be a cop pulling people over on "traffic violations" and then accepting a bribe to drop it. They quickly see through it due to his uniform not looking right and lacking the right car markings.
* LawmanGoneBad: Jeremy "the Hawke" lost his position on the force and was relegated to training duty while also facing a pending divorce from his wife. After a drunken confrontation with her boyfriend, Jeremy chose to flee rather than be arrested and used his knowledge of police tactics to evade capture.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Wesley has sex with Angela ''inside the police station'' (in a back room, but still), as a reward for letting off his client.
* {{Nepotism}}: When Bradford realizes West freezes under fire, he chews out Lopez for not warning him. He wants to go ahead and report West but Lopez points out how the guy is the son of a major Internal Affairs officer and "you think he won't blame you for this?"
* NewMeat: Nolan, Chen, and West are fresh out of the police academy and are just starting to find out what it means to be a cop.
* NoodleIncident: One episode opens with Chen somehow having managed to roll her shop with no explanation whatsoever.
* OlderAndWiser: Despite being the oldest rookie, Nolan's life experiences had made him an expert with saying the right stuff to people.
* PoliceCodeForEverything: Naturally. Played for laughs at the beginning of the season finale, where the trio pause a study session to arrest a pair of StupidCrooks who failed to notice the rookies reciting police codes five feet away. They recite the codes for the various offenses, and then one of the crooks ''corrects them on a code''.
-->'''Jackson:''': Also a 12-0-20.
-->'''Chen''': Oh, illegal possession of a firearm.
-->'''Crook 1''': Actually, its a 417. The guns are fake.
-->'''Nolan''': Ha! He's right!
-->'''Chen''': Yep, but this knife is real and that is a violation of..
-->'''All three rookies''': 21510b!
-->'''Crook 2''': ''[=WTF=] look''
* TheReveal:
** Nolan and Chen are in a relationship which they keep quiet.
** Bradford is seen giving money to an obvious drug addict--who's his estranged wife.
* SecretTestOfCharacter:
** Bradford is fond of saying "''everything'' is a test" to Chen. He acts like he doesn't understand Spanish and is pulling over some Latino men because of their race. When Chen argues about it, he answers her in Spanish to ask "now was I pretending the subtle racism or not knowing the language? You don't know."
** When Bradford is forced to take time off after being shot, Chen is assigned to a laid-back officer who talks of how he's happy to never put himself in danger. When a call comes in, he's reluctant but Chen insists they back some fellow officers up. Later at the station, Chen finds out the guy is a good friend of Bradford's and he got Chen assigned to him. Bradford states that he wanted to be sure Chen wouldn't accept such a laid-back attitude and looks forward to working with her again.
** Chen is in a public restroom when someone reaches over the stall door to take her belt and gun. She races to tell Bradford, who chews her out for being so irresponsible. Bradford then gets a call saying his wife is in the hospital and they have to go. When Chen asks about her gun belt, Bradford just reaches into the car to hand it to her, revealing he'd stolen it and might well have driven her crazy about this "mistake" all day if not for the call.
** Subverted as Bradford realizes an Internal Affairs officer is trying to get him to implicate himself with things like letting Mario Lopez go for a traffic violation. He and Chen find an addict who accidentally stepped into a bear trap. Thinking it's another IA test, Bradford compliments the man on his great "makeup work" before yanking the foot out...and the guy nearly bleeds to death as Bradford realizes this is for real.
* SpottingTheThread: Nolan and Bishop are checking out a gym with the owner claiming everything is okay. A former construction worker, Nolan notes that in all the houses he's been in and built, he's never seen anyone putting a circuit breaker right next to a water pipe. He opens the door to show a stash of drugs and money.
* SwallowTheKey: When a stubborn protester attempts this in "Redwood", [[RealityEnsues he immediately begins choking on it.]]
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: The second episode's ColdOpen has Nolan convincing a recently dumped bride not to jump from the Hollywood Sign.
* ThatManIsDead: Bradford attempts to warn the detectives that his wife, having changed drastically due to her drug habit, is nothing like the veteran undercover cop in their records. They ignore his warnings and she proceeds to make a mistake that tips off her target.
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: "Time Of Death" features [[spoiler:Nolan]] killing a suspect in self-defense, plus the subsequent mental anguish it brings on him.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: A serial killer is revealed to be an ordinary-looking, seemingly kindly older man with senility.
* WhamEpisode: "Greenlight" as [[spoiler: Captain Anderson is killed in the line of duty while saving Nolan.]]
* WhamShot: After a night drinking, the camera cuts to Nolan's house...where Chen is stepping out of the bedroom, revealing the two have been together for two months.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Bradford has a chance to get back in his wife's good graces by removing a stash of drugs from her apartment before it is searched. He nearly goes through with it but in the end leaves the drugs to be discovered.
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