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“Rookie Blue” recap (6.10): Nothing but the Truth

Previously on Rookie Blue, Steve Peck was outed as a dirty, dirty cop, Marlo had Swarek’s baby, and Gail did everything she could to try to adopt Sophie.

We open with Andy letting herself into Sam’s apartment for a date night, but instead of finding her fiance, she finding a sleeping Marlo. Sam comes home with the baby and things are hella awkward. Andy storms off and finds herself at the Black Penny, trying to look tough drinking straight whiskey, but kind of looking like she hates the drink as much as she hates everything else.

Juliet shows up and says that she’ll probably go away forever after the trial is over, if Andy wants to vent. So Andy does, voicing her concerns about the baby and marriage and Marlo. Juliet so helpfully offers her a way to run away from her problems: an undercover gig that would last about 5 months. She tells Andy to think on it, and Andy looks like she just might.

At the courthouse, Gail asks Chris if her outfit is okay for testifying in her brother’s case. She’s afraid of being the reason her brother goes to jail.

You can tell she’s rattled because she tells Chris she appreciates his friendship. Things go from bad to worse when her father shows up. Papa Peck asks his daughter what she’s planning on telling the judge, and then flat-out tells her to lie for her brother. Doesn’t hint around it or “strongly suggest” it. He tells Gail to say she was having coffee with her brother at the time of the bombing. He even throws in a dose of guilt, telling her that Steve being in the guns and gangs unit means he won’t survive very long in prison.

At 15 Division, Andy tells Sam she’s worried about being in the way of his new family, and tells him about the opportunity she got to go undercover for a few months. They clash on this subject, because she thinks she’s giving him space, but he thinks she’s running away

Juliet is at the precinct today, cleaning out her stuff. She tries to say hello and goodbye to Nick but he’s torn about how to feel about her. On one hand, it was so easy for her to lie to him, on the other she didn’t have much choice. So they say polite but frosty goodbyes.

Andy and Dov are assigned a music festival, where they find a boy trying to help a stumbling girl stay on her feet. They offer the kids a ride, but the girl falls over and starts muttering about the medical tent and convulsing before they can get her into the squad car. Andy goes to the medical tent to check things out and meets the big guy on campus, who has the AUDACITY to be named Peyton O’Brien. O’BRIEN. LIKE ALIYAH’S ABSENCE WASN’T ENOUGH. *sobs*

I can’t even bring myself to call him Peyton because P.SAWYER so I’m just going to call him The Promoter. So anyway, Andy finds The Promoter looking over a whole bunch of zombie girls just like the one Dov just took to the hospital. The Promoter says he does his best to keep drugs out of the festival but it’s hard because that Molly is a sly little bitch. Dov calls Andy from the hospital and says the girl had two drugs in her system: Ecstasy and roofies.

At the courthouse, Juliet arrives and sits next to Gail, who is NOT happy to see her. Juliet tries to explain that she didn’t force Steve to do bad things, she just reported it, but Gail doesn’t want to hear it. Gail asks how her ex is doing, and Juliet is confused, but Gail clarifies that she’s talking about how she ruined her chance with Nick. Juliet doesn’t have a comeback for her and Gail tells her that’s an annoying response because it’s hard to hate her when she looks like a kicked puppy.

Juliet asks about Gail’s adoption, reminding her that she was supposed to meet Laura Lee this morning and totally forgot. She calls Laura Lee and begs for forgiveness, saying she can meet her at the courthouse but things are bananas right now. When she hangs up, Juliet is sympathetic, which makes Gail mad because she doesn’t understand why it’s happening.

The first girl’s boyfriend, Bryce, tells Andy that he bought his girlfriend VIP passes, and they realize all the roofied girls were backstage. The Promoter says he might know who drugged the girls and leads the cops to a band’s trailer. When they get to the trailer, the band, The Stone Brothers, are wrestling. As they get dragged to the station for assault, they say of course The Promoter brought the cops to them, because he hates them.

When Laura Lee gets to the courthouse, Gail starts to panic and apologize profusely. Laura Lee is not impressed, as this is the second meeting Gail has missed. Gail tries to explain that her life has been really crazy lately, but Laura Lee points out that 8 year olds are sent to this earth with one mission: to create as much chaos as possible. If she can’t handle grown-up drama, she sure isn’t ready for 8-year-old drama.

Laura Lee tells Gail that there’s another family interested in Sophie, but Gail isn’t hearing that. Laura Lee tells her -warns her, really-that she has to do what’s best for Sophie. Gail just asks for the day, please just one day, and Laura Lee grants her that wish.

At the station, Traci and Swarek interrogate the Stone Brothers, specifically bringing up an incident involving minors from a few years ago. The Stone Brothers say they were high out of their mind when that happened but are now clean and sober. Swarek shows them roofies they found in the Stone Brothers trailer, and they think they’re being framed because they used to be real assholes. The first person that comes to mind that has access to their trailer is Rusty the Security Guard, so Chloe goes to get his info from The Promoter.

Feeling bad for Selfie, Traci shows him some of the photos the drugged girls posted from the festival, and he’s useful for once in his life by pointing out that The Promoter is in almost all of them. He would also have access to all the buses…and sure enough, when they run his name, they realize that The Promoter’s little sister was part of the Stone Brothers scandal involving minors.

Dov comes back to the festival, and Bryce the Boyfriend is confused as to why he’s not still with his girlfriend. Dov has him sit down and says that her heart gave out from all the drugs and she died. Bryce goes into shock. And I’ve seen a lot of TV, so I’ve heard the overused phrases, but I really liked what he said in his disbelief. “Her heart is so strong. She wouldn’t leave me.”

Chloe is searching for employee records with The Promoter in his office trailer when she gets the call about his sister being drugged by The Stone Brothers.

Chloe confronts The Promoter, who isn’t actually sorry at all. His sister never fully recovered from what happened, and The Stone Brothers never got punished because the drugged girls were considered “unreliable witnesses.” Which Chloe points out is a fucked up thing, and proof our system is broken, but is no excuse for drugging other innocent girls just to frame the Stone Brothers. Especially since one of those girls, someone else’s little sister, died. The Promotor never wanted that, and his guilt makes him submit willingly when Chloe starts to arrest him. But before they can get out of the trailer, they realize Bryce has locked the door from the outside and set the trailer on fire. Chloe uncuffs The Promoter and they try to get out, but are have no luck until Dov shows up and busts down the door.

Chloe isn’t breathing by that point, but after yelling a bunch of times and giving her mouth to mouth far less, she eventually starts to breathe again and teases him for taking so long because she’s the Chloe-est Chloe to ever Chloe.

When Juliet leaves the courtroom, she tells Gail that she wanted so badly to be part of the 15 Division family, but her job came first. Gail asks her if she’s okay with the choices she’s made, and Juliet says she is. She looks in the mirror and looks at her choices and she knows who she is and why she did what she did. Papa Peck interrupts and calls Gail in to talk about her brother, Juliet’s words lingering in her mind.

Gail is interviewed about her whereabouts the day of the bombing, specifically regarding her brother. She explains that she went to the lounge, saw Steve, and asked him to be the godfather to the little girl she’s planning to adopt. All this happened about an hour before the bomb, but she doesn’t remember exactly how long they were there. She starts to say that they had plans to get coffee, and the lawyer tries to put words in her mouth, tries to get her to say she was definitely with Steve when the bomb went off. Gail starts to stammer, trying to clarify, and the insPECKtor (see what I did there?) growls at his daughter to just say what she means. Gail stammers some more, trying to decide right here and now whether to do what’s Right and True, or to protect her brother.

Gail paces in the hallway until her father comes out and says that Steve confessed and took a plea; he’s going to testify against Santana for a slap on the wrist. Gail thinks that sounds like a good thing, but Papa Peck is PISSED.

Steve comes out next and Gail apologizes. Steve says she has no idea what he’s tangled up in, but he’s sorry too. Gail is so, so sad. Her grasp on everything she loves, everything she knows, is slipping, slowly but surely.

You can tell the season finale is around the corner, because things start getting tidy just in time to blow apart. Chloe and Dov are back together and sitting pretty, Marlo finds Andy and tells her that her sister will be staying with them so Sam will be more free and Andy leaving would be the worst thing, Nick stops Juliet on the way to the airport and offers to come with her for a while and they kiss and make up. Andy and Sam actually talk about their feelings and make up and Sam bought a goldendoodle named Boo Radley.

But then there’s Gail. Drinking alone at the Penny. Laura Lee meets her there, and asks what she’s looking for at the bottom of the bottle. Gail is looking for herself. She was faced with two options, telling the truth or telling the not-truth, and she honestly doesn’t know which one she would have chosen if Steve hadn’t interrupted. And the fact that she doesn’t know is calling into question her entire self. She steels herself and asks Laura Lee about the other family interested in Sophie. The mother is a teacher, the father is a contractor, they live in Sophie’s school district and they already have one other adopted child living happily with them. Gail looks devastated. They sound perfect.

It’s like the last finger on the rope, and down she tumbles. And Gail Peck cries.

What did you think of “Breaking Up the Band?”

Next week is the US airing of the season finale, and it takes place the day of the McSwarek Wedding, though whether or not it will actually happen is anyone’s guess. (Except you, Canada! Keep your spoilers to yourself! I have, by some miracle, managed to avoid knowing anything that happens.) I can’t even lie to you, I’m really upset that Gail will be without her Plus One Forever, but maybe she’ll find a new plus one. As long as they don’t go in the coat closet together.

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