SPOILER ALERT: This story comprises particulars of tonight’s Blue Bloods collection finale and Season 14 ender ‘End of Tour.
“Our dinners are by no means concerning the meals,” proclaims NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) close to the tip of Blue Bloods‘ last episode. “You know, we’ve bought rather a lot to be pleased about, and looking out round this desk, I gotta say, I couldn’t be extra proud, or grateful,” the patriarch provides earlier than the household bows their heads to hope like the great Catholics they’re.
In the tip, because it was when the Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess created CBS collection debuted on September 24, 2010, Blue Bloods stays all about household – the fictional multi-generational cop household of the Reagans, the fraternity of the police, plus the District Attorney’s workplace, City Hall, and New York City itself. With a visitor look by Edward James Olmos as an incarcerated ganglord Lorenzo Batista, who has an extended sit-down with Frank, hoping to cease his vengeful son, discover the responsible shooters and finish the struggle.
(L-R): Tom Selleck as Frank Reagan and Edward James Olmos as Lorenzo Batista
Starting with a lifeless New York Supreme Court decide, a wounded Mayor, and the killing of Officer Eddie Jacko-Reagan’s accomplice of three seasons Officer Luis Badillo (Ian Quinlan) the tip of Blue Bloods is way bloodier than the primetime NYPD household drama goes. Yet, with the Big Apple become a gangland struggle zone as a ruthless banger tries to get his daughter again and Commissioner Reagan given” the keys to town” by Mayor Peter Chase (Dylan Walsh) from a hospital mattress, the Siobhan Byrne O’Connor and Kevin Wade co-penned and Alex Zakrzewski directed “End of Tour” is placing pedal to the metallic to recover from the end line.
In the bluntest phrases, as one gang chief tells town in a video: “The extra time you waste, the extra of your folks we waste.” It will get messy.
(L-R): Len Cariou as Henry Reagan, Tom Selleck as Frank Reagan and Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan Boyle
A full uniform and bagpipes funeral for Officer Badillo is a tearjerker by any measure, for all involved.
Stay tuned for Deadline’s Q&A with Blue Bloods EP Kevin Wade for the BTS skinny on the collection finale. That interview will submit at 11 pm PT, after the episode airs on the West Coast.
Outside of the entire household targeted on shutting down the bloodshed on the streets, the tip of Blue Bloods has youngest Reagan son Sargent Jamie Reagan (Will Estes) and his spouse Eddie Janko-Reagan (Vanessa Ray) tells the household that they’re having a child on “June 13.”
With grandpa and ex-police commissioner Henry Reagan (Len Cariou) overjoyed at a fourth era becoming a member of the household, Assistant DA Erin Reagan (Bridget Moynahan) decides to pause telling everybody that she and her ex-husband Jack Boyle (Peter Hermann) are getting again collectively – “social gathering of two, City Hall.” Something they don’t appear to have even shared with their again from the West Coast daughter Nicky Reagan-Boyle (Sami Gayel).
A semi-regular on the present since Season 10, Detective Joe Hill (Will Hochman) the rediscovered son of deceased Reagan son Joseph and Frank’s grandson, can be on the desk within the collection ender, now totally accepted and accepting of his kin.
Absent from Reagans’ desk, however not “End of Tour” is Detective Marie Baez (Marisa Ramirez). The longtime accomplice of Frank’ oldest son Detective First Grade Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg) is, as at all times, instrumental in bringing down the dangerous guys within the episode. Unlike previous episodes, particularly after a heart-to-heart widower Danny has along with his grandfather, End of Tour seems like the start of the long-anticipated romance between the companions – who head out arm-in-arm for a pizza, no euphemism.
The 293 episode of Blue Bloods doesn’t wrap all of it up in a bow, and not one of the Reagans or their prolonged skilled household are killed off, as many a collection ender would discover exhausting to withstand.
Avoiding the pitfalls of many collection finales, what the 18th episode of the 14th Season does is have fun its characters with the stable storytelling Blue Bloods has been placing on the small display for 14 years.
