Great – another documentary episode for The Rookie. I thought last week’s episode felt like a filler episode, but this one is very much a filler episode. If I’m being honest, I would’ve preferred a break in the schedule. The documentary episodes are usually the lowest rated episodes and this week’s new episode will most likely join the bunch.
This episode centered around a former LAPD officer Richard Rowley, who died twice. You read that correctly – he first “died” when the sailboat he was on was hit by a rogue wave and he went overboard, never to be seen again. The suspect at the time was his on and off again girlfriend Darla Phillips. They were married a few days before this incident which is why she was one of the main suspects. Already with this case, I felt disengaged. What I will say is I liked that they brought back the training videos we saw last season that Miles wanted to modernize. Something about story continuation does it for me, but still, this episode was …odd.
I truly tried to enjoy this episode but I couldn’t help but space out multiple times throughout. The storytelling was all over the place. We started out with the double death of a former officer, to a coffin found in his garage with a body of another person who also had the same stab wound Richard had. The audit of the training tapes then lead them to involvement of a possible cult Richard might’ve been involved with who believed they were possessed by a demon.
Somewhere in there was the mention of aliens – apologies as I truly did space out. But then, all these events tied to a movie: a thriller that was released in the 90s.
Further along the episode, Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki show up to speak on their “expertise” of the supernatural because …they starred in a show called “Supernatural”. Right, so I suppose that’s a logical connection (I say very sarcastically). This was a crossover I never expected because in no way would this crossover make sense in the world of a police procedural unless they were visiting the set of the show which would make sense at least.
I was extremely frustrated watching this episode. Between last season and this season, we’ve been introduced to some interesting characters that have had storylines that kept viewers on the edge of their seats. There’s the Liam Glasser case, the Heath Everett problem and a plethora of other storylines that could’ve continued but instead we get…whatever this was.