Fans are sad over the fact that Blue Bloods is coming to an end, and the cast has already teased that the final episode is sure to bring some tears.
The Finale Is Going to Be Emotional
Donnie Wahlberg teased a major moment coming in the show’s series finale that might make some fans emotional.“The audience will probably be happy. There’ll be a lot of tears. I think the same kind of tears we had, but there is a very sad scene that happens in the middle of the final episode, which will be very emotional,” he told Andy Cohen during an appearance on his SiriusXM radio show in October 2024. “But I think the audience is gonna be really happy because I think there are a lot of things — so to answer your question directly, I think it feels like a finale, but a hopeful, forward-thinking finale.”
There’s a Cemetery Scene
Abigail Hawk, who portrays Abigail Baker in Blue Bloods, shared an interesting filming location for her final day on set with Tom Selleck.
“My last day, Tom’s last day, gosh, quite a few of our last days on set, was at a cemetery,” she told Express on October 12, 2024. “Which is not giving anything away, but certainly dangling a little teaser.”
The cast finished filming the show’s final scenes back in June and it was rather emotional for everyone.
“It was hard,” she said. “And I felt like I was almost watching myself because it was so surreal and I was so in it that I couldn’t see it, if that makes sense?”
“It was almost like being so close to the fire that I can’t actually experience how hot it is,” Abigail noted.
What Will Happen to Frank Reagan?
While we’ll have to wait and see how the series ends, showrunner Kevin Wade teased what was to come for Tom’s Blue Bloods character, Frank Reagan.
“For Frank, very specifically, the mayor [guest star Dylan Walsh] is in a certain jam, and so he says to Frank, ‘Here’s the keys [to the city], you drive,’” he told TV Insider in May. “The mayor is in a situation where he can’t do his job, and Frank takes it upon himself, almost personally, to find the person who put the mayor in that position. Frank is a man on a mission to find out who went after his boss.”
He also explained why Frank will likely not retire from his job at the series’ end.
“I’m pretty sure that Frank would stay in his job until the series ended,” Kevin said. “We didn’t really pursue that avenue because the show is built on him being the police commissioner of New York City. So, to take a detour during the last mile, if this is the last mile, I don’t know what he would be doing down at the hardware store or having coffee with old buddies during the day. I always have to look at stuff that generates stories. Police Commissioner of New York generates stories. He’s the CEO of 35,000 cops.”
Series Favorites Are Returning
In addition to Dylan returning, other series favorites have returned to reprise their roles throughout the show’s final eight episodes.
“Dylan is back in a major way. Peter Hermann, as Jack Boyle, is back in a significant way. Nicky [played by Sami Gayle] and both of the boys [Andrew Terraciano and Tony Terraciano as Sean and Jack] are back. … Also, Joe Hill [Will Hochman] is back and integral,” Kevin said. “We’re not just playing “the greatest hits,” but everybody that the audience loved and that we loved working with and thought contributed to terrific storytelling, we found a way to bring them in. So, it’s chock-full.”
Is Love Still in the Air Between the Characters?
As for other characters like Danny, Baez, Jamie and Eddie, some big things are coming.
“I can’t spoil the surprise,” Kevin said. “There is a welcome surprise for the audience with Jamie and Eddie, and Danny and Baez have a walk-off that I hope the audience … also finds to be a welcome surprise.”
Thoughts on a Cliffhanger Ending
He revealed that for the Blue Bloods sendoff, he drew inspiration from other great shows like M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Sopranos and Deadwood.
“I watched a lot of them for what they might have in common, and what they basically had in common, it seemed to me, if I boiled it down, is they did a great show. And in the last few minutes, they did some little pivot towards, ‘This is also the last show,’” he explained.
“That avoids the ‘We are now going to do a retrospective of how great we’ve been!,’ because I think people tune in just to see a really good episode of the show that they loved,” he added. “In the case of Blue Bloods, the season finales that worked best were where we found a crime or criminals or a situation for all the Reagans to work together. You know, separately but together. And we did that in this one. So, we have four different stories but all aimed at the solving or preventing the same crimes.”
