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“Rookie Blue” recap (5.05): Weapons and Shoes

Previously on Rookie Blue, Holly’s friend BitchTits made Gail walk out on Holly indefinitely, Andy finally shook the Rookie, Diaz started doing drugs, and a little girl who lost her mother made Gail “The Ice Queen” Peck cry right on the spot.

Dov and Diaz are working the night shift, but Diaz is having a hard time staying awake. He says it’s because the wonky work schedule and wonders what it would be like to work a regular job with regular hours. He doesn’t have much time to muse on that though, because the boys are called to respond to a frat fight nearby.

Chris and Dov try to break up the fight, but the boys are pretty instant on beating on each other. Diaz quickly gets fed up and lets his own fists fly, causing everyone else to look at him like he’s a little crazy. Dov starts to arrest the offender who isn’t underneath Diaz and finds a gun in his waistband-meaning Diaz almost just got himself into some deep…water.

When Dov recounts this tale to his girlfriend, Chloe expresses concern, since Diaz also freaked the freak out at the delivery guy on Fight Night. Dov says he’ll keep an eye on it. Speaking of Diaz, he’s with his dealer even now, who is telling him he should probably take a little break. Chris, when your drug dealer tells you to buy less drugs, it might be time to make some changes. Look at your life. Look at your choices. To make matters worse, he now owes his dealer money.

The frat fight revealed that there’s a bar nearby that’s selling guns illegally, so a select few members of 15 Division are going undercover to try to bust it up. Andy has to lay low because Rookie Gerald is suing her, and Gail still hasn’t filed her murder report for the woman who died in her arms in the laundry room, so it’s just Dov, Nick, and Diaz on this adventure. Nash and BroPeck give the guys the plan, and can I just say, these two make a very attractive couple, but they also make one badass team of detectives.

They split up when they get to the bar, Dov playing it cool while Nick makes the deal with the shady manager, and Nick flirting with the hot bartender. Back at 15, Swarek asks Andy for help with a missing person case, but going through his financials, it looks like it might just be a grown-up runaway. With the day Andy’s having, that doesn’t sound half bad.

Chloe walks into the locker room to find Gail fighting a losing battle with a shirt. Chloe helps her out of it and tries to hand it back, but Gail says she can keep it, calling Chloe a “tiny little creature.” Chloe is concerned, because it seems like Gail has been going on a spending spree lately, buying random crap and giving it away. It’s like backwards hoarding. Gail looks at Chloe like hell would freeze over before she shared her feelings with her, but before Gail can sass Chloe into oblivion, Oliver comes in and tells Gail to stop stalling on that witness report for the laundry room murder. While Diaz is trying to make the money drop for the guns, he runs into his dealer, who is pissed. Diaz said he had to work tonight, and this didn’t look like working. Diaz couldn’t very well tell him that he WAS working without revealing that he was a police officer, and you can see his tension building like a Jenga tower. Dov interrupts and unwittingly saves him, and it’s time to pick up the guns in the back alley. Seems legit. But the dealer follows Diaz outside and ruins everything, and Chris has no choice but to arrest him.

Nash and BroPeck send Nick to get the money from where Diaz dropped it, but it’s already gone, so he heads back into the bar to await the next move.

At 15, Oliver walks out and shouts to the whole room that Gail Peck had better get her noodle arms in his office holding that report in three minutes OR ELSE. Chloe follows Oliver into his office and says she’s worried about Gail. You see, she’s been put on desk duty because everyone’s afraid for her life, and she’s been using the time to observe and sprinkle fairy dust all over the place. Between the compulsive shopping and hair-chopping, Chloe is afraid that Gail is a heartbeat away from going all Amanda Bynes, and we can’t have that. Chloe, I’m sorry I ever found you annoying. You’re an angel for looking out for Gail despite all the mean things she says to you, and for seeing through the tough exterior to the Gail we know and love.

BroPeck tries to make Diaz book his dealer, but Diaz knows that if he doesn’t get the dealer out of this somehow, he’s going to get outed as a druggie, so he’s spiraling in a panic. He eventually goes into the kitchen and swaps out the drugs for baking soda (keeping the drugs for himself) and makes it down to evidence, where it will be tested. Dov is starting to see Chloe’s point about Diaz acting shifty, but Diaz says he’s just shaken from screwing up the job today, since the job’s all he’s got right now. And while there’s surely an element of truth to that, it’s likely he wouldn’t be screwing up so much if he wasn’t on drugs all the time.

Nick manages to book the hot bartender for serving after hours, which will give them a warrant to search her phone, which will put her smack dab in the middle of the illegal drug ring, so Nash and BroPeck are happy. Despite Diaz and his dealer almost ruining everything, it worked out fine. Though BroPeck is a little suspicious, because the dealer ended up being let go because the “drugs” they confiscated ended up being baking soda, which seems like a strange thing for a dealer to be waving around. Even weirder, why would he have given up the name of a supplier if he knew he didn’t have drugs on him? If they looked into the name he gave them, would it just be the general manager of a nearby Target? It’s only a matter of time before the Nash/BroPeck SuperDuo figure out what’s going on.

Oliver finds Gail in the break room, wrapped in a scarf as blue as her mood, and starts in on her about the report, but before he can scold her, she hands it over. He looks at his buddy and tells her to sit down, asking what’s wrong. He asks, kindly, if she’s upset about Holly. She’s a little embarrassed that he’s heard through the grapevine, and he says he feels bad that they didn’t work out. Gail says maybe it will still work out, and maybe this rough patch is part of it, but that’s not what’s getting her down. She can’t stop thinking about the woman who got shot in the laundry room. More specifically, the little girl who went to her friend’s house with a mother and came back without a family. Eight years old and all alone, all because her mother was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She can’t figure out why-after all, she herself has been through worse, and quite recently-but this one case her hard.

Oliver smiles knowingly. Everyone has that one case. The one that humanizes things, the one that breaks the skin, the one that knocks you down so hard it’s harder to get back up than ever. He said it’s not a bad thing, to feel the things she’s feeling. It’s not a fun thing, it’s not a great feeling, but it’s good and it’s human and she will be better for it.

Oliver says that if she ever needs anything…but saving him from having to say it, Gail perks up and says, “Like weapons?” Oliver says, “Or shoes,” and it’s a beautiful little throwback to Episode 4.10, and a nice reminder that their friendship is subtle but deep, and one of my favorite things about this show. Gail and Oliver hug it out, and Oliver tells her that it’s okay, and even calls her “kiddo.” It’s so lovely it hurts.

Oh heck, what’s one more picture of Gail and her Blue Scarf. Meanwhile, amidst their missing person case, Swarek tries to comfort Andy, but she’s extra worried about the trial because she lied on her reports. Or at least lied by omission. She didn’t write down every stupid thing Rookie Gerald did, because she was only one person and she enjoyed sleeping. But they have other things to worry about right now: They followed a lead to a lookout and found their missing person’s car…with a body in the trunk. And since that’s where the episode ends, I have a feeling this is going to be a doozy of a case.

What did you think of “Going Under”?

(This is your weekly reminder to keep your spoilers to yourself, Canadian buddies! We’re not all Time Lords!)

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