As TV fans wait to see which characters will reunite on Stranger Things and who Wednesday Addams’s stalker is, there is an excellent series currently airing, and that’s The Rookie. Now in its seventh season, the ABC drama is about John Nolan’s (Nathan Fillion) experience joining the LAPD later in life. Over the past few years, fans have gotten more and more invested in Lucy Chen (Melissa O’Neil) and Tim Bradford’s (Eric Winter) relationship, along with Nolan and Bailey Nune’s (Jenna Dewan) journey. The characters are full of charm and the team is always investigating something compelling, which makes for excellent TV.
The Rookie season 7 has a few more episodes left before what is sure to be a shocking finale. Thankfully, there will be a season 8 of the police procedural, and fans will hopefully get to enjoy watching Nolan for many years to come. So, when does The Rookie season 7 episode 14 come out, and what’s going to happen?
How To Watch The Rookie Season 7, Episode 14, “Mad About Murder”
Bailey (Jenna Dewan) and Nolan (Nathan Fillion) on The Rookie
The Rookie season 7, episode 14, “Mad About Murder,” will air on ABC on Tuesday April 15th, 2025 at 9 p.m. E.T. Since every episode premieres on Hulu the next day, fans can stream The Rookie season 7, episode 14 on Hulu on Wednesday April 16th, 2025.
The Rookie season 7, episode 13, “Three Billboards,” followed the mystery of the team trying to find out who put up some anti-LAPD billboards and Nolan and Bailey thinking about parenthood. “Mad About Murder” picks up where the story left off and has plenty of drama to keep viewers invested. The official description of The Rookie season 7, episode 14 reads:
“Tim receives a strange message, launching a larger investigation into the dark web; Celina works to take down a popular podcast; Miles helps update the department’s training videos.”
Along with Talia Bishop (Afton Williamson), who appeared in season 1, and of course Nolan and Bailey, Tim Bradford (Eric Winter) is one of the show’s best characters, and it’s great that he will be front and center in the next episode. From the description, it sounds like Tim will be solving a mystery. Miles Penn (Deric Augustine) also gets his own storyline, which proves that The Rookie shines when new characters are introduced, since they are always just as compelling as those who have been around longer.
Fans who have been invested in Celina’s Juarez (Lisseth Chavez) character arc will be glad to know that she has her own plotline in The Rookie season 7, episode 14. Since Nolan trained Celina, it’s been interesting to watch her growth, and in the upcoming episode, it sounds like Celina is concerned with a podcast. Perhaps the podcast shares some details about her personal or professional life, or maybe another character asks her to get the podcast deleted. Either way, this is an intriguing storyline. Like Max’s creative medical drama The Pitt, The Rookie shows characters who have been doing their jobs for a long time along with less experienced ones who are learning. This allows fans to become invested in everyone’s journey since it creates conflict. If Nolan and his team always knew what they were doing, then the show would get pretty boring.
What Did Nathan Fillion Say About The Rookie Season 7?
The Rookie season 7 has been just as fun as the previous seasons, and Nathan Fillion shared his thoughts on playing John Nolan on the popular TV drama about police officers for several years in a March 2025 interview with TV Guide. The actor said:
“What’s great is that, though he’s seven seasons into this new job, the job itself is not a static job. You don’t go in to do the same thing every day.”
