List of The Rookie episodes

The Rookie is an American police procedural television series created for ABC by Alexi Hawley. The series follows John Nolan, a man in his forties, who becomes the oldest rookie at the Los Angeles Police Department. The series is produced by ABC Studios and Entertainment One; it is based on real-life Los Angeles Police Department officer William Norcross, who moved to Los Angeles in 2015 and joined the department in his mid-40s.

The Rookie's first season premiered on October 16, 2018. On May 10, 2019, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on September 29, 2019. On May 21, 2020, the series was renewed for a third season which premiered on January 3, 2021. The series premiere was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also due to COVID-19, the series was shortened to 14 episodes. On May 14, 2021, the series was renewed for a fourth season which premiered on September 26, 2021. On March 30, 2022, ABC renewed the series for a fifth season which premiered on September 25, 2022. On April 17, 2023, ABC renewed the series for a sixth season which premiered on February 20, 2024. The series premiere was delayed due to the Writers Guild of America (WGA) 2023 strike. Also due to the WGA strike, the series was shortened to 10 episodes. On April 15, 2024, ABC renewed the series for a seventh season.

As of April 9, 2024, 104 episodes of The Rookie have aired, currently in its sixth season.

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	20		October 16, 2018 (2018-10-16)	April 16, 2019 (2019-04-16)
2	20		September 29, 2019 (2019-09-29)	May 10, 2020 (2020-05-10)
3	14		January 3, 2021 (2021-01-03)	May 16, 2021 (2021-05-16)
4	22		September 26, 2021 (2021-09-26)	May 15, 2022 (2022-05-15)
5	22		September 25, 2022 (2022-09-25)	May 2, 2023 (2023-05-02)
6	10		February 20, 2024 (2024-02-20)	TBA

Episodes

Season 1 (2018–19)

Main article: The Rookie season 1

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Pilot"	Liz Friedlander	Alexi Hawley	October 16, 2018 (2018-10-16)	101	5.43
2	2	"Crash Course"	Adam Davidson	Alexi Hawley	October 23, 2018 (2018-10-23)	102	4.54
3	3	"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"	Greg Beeman	Liz Alper & Ally Seibert	October 30, 2018 (2018-10-30)	103	4.53
4	4	"The Switch"	Toa Fraser	Vincent Angell	November 13, 2018 (2018-11-13)	104	4.01
5	5	"The Roundup"	Nelson McCormick	Elizabeth Davis Beall	November 20, 2018 (2018-11-20)	106	4.10
6	6	"The Hawke"	Timothy Busfield	Fredrick Kotto	November 27, 2018 (2018-11-27)	105	4.38
7	7	"The Ride Along"	Cherie Nowlan	Robert Bella	December 4, 2018 (2018-12-04)	107	4.20
8	8	"Time of Death"	Mike Goi	Brynn Malone	December 11, 2018 (2018-12-11)	108	4.27
9	9	"Standoff"	John Terlesky	Alexi Hawley	January 8, 2019 (2019-01-08)	109	3.95
10	10	"Flesh and Blood"	Jessica Yu	Inda Craig-Galvan	January 15, 2019 (2019-01-15)	110	3.83
11	11	"Redwood"	Sylvain White	Ally Seibert & Liz Alper	January 22, 2019 (2019-01-22)	111	3.84
12	12	"Heartbreak"	Carol Banker	Vincent Angell	February 12, 2019 (2019-02-12)	113	3.64
13	13	"Caught Stealing"	Omar Madha	David Radcliff	February 19, 2019 (2019-02-19)	112	3.54
14	14	"Plain Clothes Day"	Mike Goi	Terence Paul Winter	February 26, 2019 (2019-02-26)	114	3.89
15	15	"Manhunt"	Bill Johnson	Robert Bella	March 5, 2019 (2019-03-05)	115	4.51
16	16	"Greenlight"	Valerie Weiss	Brynn Malone	March 19, 2019 (2019-03-19)	116	4.24
17	17	"The Shake Up"	Steve Robin	Alexi Hawley	March 26, 2019 (2019-03-26)	117	4.24
18	18	"Homefront"	April Mullen	Bill Rinier & Natalie Callaghan	April 2, 2019 (2019-04-02)	118	3.91
19	19	"The Checklist"	John Fortenberry	Elizabeth Davis Beall & Fredrick Kotto	April 9, 2019 (2019-04-09)	119	3.63
20	20	"Free Fall"	Mike Goi	Alexi Hawley	April 16, 2019 (2019-04-16)	120	4.06

Season 2 (2019–20)

Main article: The Rookie season 2

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
21	1	"Impact"	Mike Goi	Alexi Hawley	September 29, 2019 (2019-09-29)	201	4.11
22	2	"The Night General"	Rob Bowman	Fredrick Kotto	October 6, 2019 (2019-10-06)	202	3.83
23	3	"The Bet"	Barbara Brown	Corey Miller	October 13, 2019 (2019-10-13)	203	3.60
24	4	"Warriors and Guardians"	Lisa Demaine	Brynn Malone	October 20, 2019 (2019-10-20)	204	3.76
25	5	"Tough Love"	Rachel Feldman	Vincent Angell	October 27, 2019 (2019-10-27)	205	3.24
26	6	"Fallout"	Bill Johnson	Robert Bella	November 3, 2019 (2019-11-03)	206	3.50
27	7	"Safety"	Sylvain White	Terence Paul Winter	November 10, 2019 (2019-11-10)	207	3.73
28	8	"Clean Cut"	Toa Fraser	Mary Trahan	November 17, 2019 (2019-11-17)	208	3.61
29	9	"Breaking Point"	Leslie Libman	Alexi Hawley & Corey Miller	December 1, 2019 (2019-12-01)	209	3.36
30	10	"The Dark Side"	Bill Roe	Alexi Hawley	December 8, 2019 (2019-12-08)	210	3.70
31	11	"Day of Death"	David McWhirter	Brynn Malone & Fredrick Kotto	February 23, 2020 (2020-02-23)	211	4.92
32	12	"Now and Then"	C. Chi-Yoon Chung	Robert Bella	March 1, 2020 (2020-03-01)	212	4.55
33	13	"Follow-Up Day"	Liz Friedlander	Alexi Hawley	March 8, 2020 (2020-03-08)	213	5.12
34	14	"Casualties"	Sylvain White	Bill Rinier	March 15, 2020 (2020-03-15)	214	5.17
35	15	"Hand-Off"	Michael Goi	Vincent Angell & Mary Trahan	March 22, 2020 (2020-03-22)	215	5.18
36	16	"The Overnight"	Stephanie Marquardt	Corey Miller & Rachael Seymour	April 5, 2020 (2020-04-05)	216	5.87
37	17	"Control"	Marcus Stokes	Alexi Hawley & Robert Bella	April 12, 2020 (2020-04-12)	217	4.57
38	18	"Under the Gun"	Tori Garrett	Terence Paul Winter & Elizabeth Davis Beall	April 26, 2020 (2020-04-26)	218	4.96
39	19	"The Q Word"	David McWhirter	Natalie Callaghan & Nick Hurwitz	May 3, 2020 (2020-05-03)	219	5.00
40	20	"The Hunt"	Bill Roe	Alexi Hawley	May 10, 2020 (2020-05-10)	220	4.66

Season 3 (2021)

Main article: The Rookie season 3

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
41	1	"Consequences"	Bill Roe	Alexi Hawley	January 3, 2021 (2021-01-03)	301	3.44
42	2	"In Justice"	Michael Goi	Brynn Malone & Fredrick Kotto	January 10, 2021 (2021-01-10)	302	3.15
43	3	"La Fiera"	Sylvain White	Terence Paul Winter & Natalie Callaghan	January 17, 2021 (2021-01-17)	303	3.76
44	4	"Sabotage"	Daniel Willis	Vincent Angell & Diana Mendez Boucher	January 24, 2021 (2021-01-24)	304	3.39
45	5	"Lockdown"	Anna Mastro	Elizabeth Davis Beall & Robert Bella	February 14, 2021 (2021-02-14)	305	4.08
46	6	"Revelations"	C. Chi-Yoon Chung	Corey Miller & Fredrick Kotto	February 21, 2021 (2021-02-21)	307	4.11
47	7	"True Crime"	Bill Roe	Alexi Hawley & Zoe Cheng	February 28, 2021 (2021-02-28)	312	3.45
48	8	"Bad Blood"	Sylvain White	Paula Puryear & Bill Rinier	March 28, 2021 (2021-03-28)	306	3.87
49	9	"Amber"	Bill Roe	Brynn Malone & Natalie Callaghan	April 4, 2021 (2021-04-04)	308	3.80
50	10	"Man of Honor"	Sylvain White	Elizabeth Davis Beall & Diana Mendez Boucher	April 11, 2021 (2021-04-11)	309	3.70
51	11	"New Blood"	Bill Roe	Corey Miller & Zoe Cheng	April 18, 2021 (2021-04-18)	310	3.81
52	12	"Brave Heart"	Lisa Demaine	Vincent Angell & Paula Puryear	May 2, 2021 (2021-05-02)	311	4.00
53	13	"Triple Duty"	Bill Johnson	Teleplay by : Natalie Callaghan & Zoe Cheng & Paula Puryear Story by : Bill Rinier	May 9, 2021 (2021-05-09)	313	3.91
54	14	"Threshold"	Lisa Demaine	Alexi Hawley	May 16, 2021 (2021-05-16)	314	3.77

Season 4 (2021–22)

Main article: The Rookie season 4

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
55	1	"Life and Death"	Bill Roe	Alexi Hawley	September 26, 2021 (2021-09-26)	401	3.03
56	2	"Five Minutes"	Lisa Demaine	Brynn Malone	October 3, 2021 (2021-10-03)	402	3.09
57	3	"In the Line of Fire"	Daniel Willis	Robert Bella	October 10, 2021 (2021-10-10)	403	2.69
58	4	"Red Hot"	Lisa Demaine	Diana Mendez Boucher	October 17, 2021 (2021-10-17)	404	2.83
59	5	"A.C.H."	Daniel Willis	Zoe Cheng & Paula Puryear	October 31, 2021 (2021-10-31)	405	2.64
60	6	"Poetic Justice"	C. Chi Yoon Chung	Bill Rinier & Natalie Callaghan	November 7, 2021 (2021-11-07)	406	2.72
61	7	"Fire Fight"	Tori Garrett	Corey Miller	November 14, 2021 (2021-11-14)	407	2.59
62	8	"Hit and Run"	Bill Roe	Vincent Angell	December 5, 2021 (2021-12-05)	408	2.78
63	9	"Breakdown"	C. Chi-Yoon Chung	Alexi Hawley	December 12, 2021 (2021-12-12)	409	2.66
64	10	"Heart Beat"	SJ Main Muñoz	Fredrick Kotto	January 2, 2022 (2022-01-02)	410	2.84
65	11	"End Game"	Tori Garrett	Terence Paul Winter	January 9, 2022 (2022-01-09)	411	2.85
66	12	"The Knock"	Charissa Sanja- rernsuithikul	Zoe Cheng	January 23, 2022 (2022-01-23)	412	2.83
67	13	"Fight or Flight"	Lanre Olabisi	Brynn Malone	January 30, 2022 (2022-01-30)	413	3.19
68	14	"Long Shot"	Fernando Sariñana	Natalie Callaghan	February 27, 2022 (2022-02-27)	414	3.67
69	15	"Hit List"	Robert Bella	Elizabeth Davis Beall	March 6, 2022 (2022-03-06)	415	3.88
70	16	"Real Crime"	Rob Seidenglanz	Bill Rinier & Paula Puryear	March 13, 2022 (2022-03-13)	416	3.29
71	17	"Coding"	Bill Roe	Nick Hurwitz & Sylvia Franklin	April 3, 2022 (2022-04-03)	417	3.50
72	18	"Backstabbers"	Tori Garrett	Vincent Angell	April 10, 2022 (2022-04-10)	418	3.53
73	19	"Simone"	Liz Friedlander	Alexi Hawley & Terence Paul Winter	April 24, 2022 (2022-04-24)	419	3.95
74	20	"Enervo"	Bill Roe	Alexi Hawley & Terence Paul Winter	May 1, 2022 (2022-05-01)	420	4.17
75	21	"Mother's Day"	Lisa Demaine	Fredrick Kotto & Diana Mendez Boucher	May 8, 2022 (2022-05-08)	421	3.68
76	22	"Day in the Hole"	Alexi Hawley	Alexi Hawley	May 15, 2022 (2022-05-15)	422	3.65

Season 5 (2022–23)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
77	1	"Double Down"	Tori Garrett	Alexi Hawley	September 25, 2022 (2022-09-25)	501	3.36
As a reward for his heroic stand down at the border, Nolan is offered a "Golden Ticket", his choice of assignment in the LAPD. His fellow officers (and Bailey) all have suggestions for him but the chief urges him to think it over before deciding. While Tim and Lucy continue their undercover assignment with Roy's crew, Nolan and Grey assist with securing the courthouse for the trial of Rosalind Dyer. With the help of her attorney, Rosalind escapes. Grey gathers the loved ones of his officers at the station for protection while he, Nolan and Harper help with the manhunt. Tim and Lucy learn of the escape while en route to Las Vegas but Lucy insists on continuing with the assignment. They rendezvous with Lopez and Aaron at a casino and make a plan to take down Roy's crew and their employer but their cover is blown by an ex of Tim's doppelganger, Jake. Fortunately, Lucy manages to subdue and arrest the crew. Rosalind is able to escape LA after robbing and murdering her attorney's parents and then slitting Chris' wrists and leaving him for dead in Lucy's apartment, where she and Tim find him before they can confront their feelings for each other.
78	2	"Labor Day"	Rob Seidenglanz	Elizabeth Davis Beall	October 2, 2022 (2022-10-02)	502	2.93
Chris recovers from his injuries. Lucy is offered to go to undercover school, but is hesitant despite encouragement from those closest to her. Nolan passes his TO exam and is scheduled to attend a certification course, and Grey allows him to be Aaron's TO as a trial run. The two respond to a welfare check and discover the corpse of a deputy sheriff. The ensuing investigation reveals that the deputy and a group of his colleagues worked undercover against drug dealers, but instead took the cash from the ones they were meant to arrest. The deputy who died left recordings of his interactions with his colleagues, which proves their corruption. Harper is in maternity leave and is due to give birth, but becomes suspicious of her and James' neighbors. Once gun shots are heard, Smitty arrives and investigates, but doesn't find any evidence of her claims. Harper later sees the neighbors putting a corpse in a car trunk and reports her suspicions to Grey. The night she is due to give birth, the neighbors break into her house and one of them figures James just as Grey arrives. Harper manages to tackle the second man on her own and gives birth to a baby girl. Due to the deputy investigation, Nolan expresses that he didn't feel he taught Aaron much, but he assures Nolan that his tactic was beneficial.
79	3	"Dye Hard"	Bethany Rooney	Natalie Callaghan	October 9, 2022 (2022-10-09)	503	3.12
One month later, Nolan has finished his TO certification, Lucy has finished her undercover course and Harper has returned to work. Nolan is assigned rookie Celina Juarez, and the two come off to a rocky start after a traffic stop gone awry. The vehicle is revealed to contain a blood stained carpet, but since the evidence was obtained illegally, it can't hold up in court. The carpet is also revealed to be linked to the disappearance of Jill Baskin, whose case Harper has taken on. Together with Lopez and Harper, Nolan and Celina work undercover to follow Jill's suspected abductor Tyler Harvin, but he escapes. While looking through evidence, Celina has a dream about where Jill could possibly be held. Nolan decides to give her a chance after refreshing their working relationship, and the two search a property in the woods, where they find Jill. Celina pursues Tyler and ends up in a fight with him before Nolan locates her and arrests Tyler. Lucy patrols solo and is locked inside an old warehouse while conducting a welfare check. She has an epiphany after looking through a document from the Dye Hards, an online group Chris joined looking into Rosalind Dyer. After Tim and Aaron finds her, she and Chris approach the FBI with the suspicion of Rosalind being a user in the group, which they track to an address in Seattle. Lucy joins the team to the city and find a blood written message from Rosalind on a wall at the address, saying "Better luck next time". Britt Robertson (Laura Stensen) and Felix Solis (Matt Garza) are credited as Special Guest Stars.
80	4	"The Choice"	Bill Roe	Fredrick Kotto	October 16, 2022 (2022-10-16)	504	3.08
While responding to a supposed medical emergency, Bailey falls into a booby trap in the floor of an old house. Her entrapment leads to a more challenging rescue mission for the fire and police departments, all the while Nolan receives a call from Rosalind. She asks him to come and meet her one last time, and if he tries anything, Bailey will get hurt. The rescue team discover obstacles at every turn in order to rescue Bailey, and the tank begins to fill up with water. Nolan leaves clues for his colleagues, but his trail ends after he is asked to drive a van to Rosalind's location. Harper, Lopez and Aaron, together with Laura Stensen and Brandon Acres from the LA FBI office, investigate a warehouse where an acolyte of Rosalind, Jeffrey Boyle, has stored materials for building booby traps for her victims. The former three spot Jeffrey and chase him, but he triggers explosives which detonate the warehouse. Luckily all of them make it out in time. With notes of how the traps work, the rescue team manage to disarm other traps while activating a last one before Bailey is finally recovered from the tank. Nolan arrives at Rosalind's meet up location and the two have a last supper before he is meant to kill her. But living up to his moral, Nolan doesn't kill her and decides to bring her in. However, as he calls it in, a sniper shoots and kills Rosalind. This episode begins a crossover event that concludes on The Rookie: Feds season 1 episode 4. Britt Robertson (Laura Stenson) and Kevin Zegers (Brendon Acres) are credited as Special Guest Stars. This episode also marks the final appearance of Rosalind Dyer and the last appearance of actress Annie Wersching, who died from cancer on January 29, 2023, at the age of 45.
81	5	"The Fugitive"	Cherie Nowlan	Diana Mendez Boucher	October 23, 2022 (2022-10-23)	505	3.40
Lopez finds her mother at the door, who explains that she was attacked by someone claiming that one of her sons should be cautious. Harper takes the case, and Lopez calls in all of her brothers all but one who is studying in New York. Neither of them admits to having any knowledge to their mother's assailant, but Lopez later learns that one of them, Damian, cheated with the wife of a former gang member working at his church. She and Harper also discovers that another one of her brothers, Benny, was in debt after putting money into the stock exchange and a loan shark came after him. They head out and arrest the loan shark for attacking Lopez's mother. Nolan and Celina respond to a car accident, but the driver escapes from the ambulance upon arriving at the hospital. The driver, revealed to be Rob Lukasey, burgled a house and was shot by a man in self defense. The hospital is put on lockdown as Rob tries to find a way to heal himself. He disguises himself as a medical officer and then a doctor before taking Celina hostage. She however manages to subdue him with morphine under the guise of treating his injuries. While helping at the hospital, Tim is hospitalized with after effects of a previous bullet wound. He has a surgery and successfully recovers, but his girlfriend Ashley breaks up with him. Grey is also hospitalized with food poisoning after eating at a restaurant with colleagues, leaving Smitty and Lucy in charge of the station with Lucy managing to successfully keep everything running despite the station being down on half of its personnel.
82	6	"The Reckoning"	Lanre Olabisi	Leland Jay Anderson	October 30, 2022 (2022-10-30)	506	3.52
Nolan and Celina respond to a money dispute at a bank, which is later revealed to have been burned following a robbery. Celina herself suspects that the money is cursed after the woman, Macy Tompkins, they met at the bank, is found dead at a luxury flat. This is after Harper and Lopez launch an investigation in cooperation with the DEA after it's revealed that the money once belonged to drug smuggler Winslow Harris. Celina has another dream where she gathers that Winslow would depart by boat, which the DEA agent confirms from his older cases. Together with Nolan and Celina, they apprehend Winslow at the marina, who also explains that he killed the agent's partner by accident. While helping a movie director with some props, Tim loses his radio. The director returns it to Lucy, who puts Tim and Aaron out on a hunt for it. She eventually returns it, hoping it would help him move on from the breakup with Ashley. Wesley and Sean Del Monte proceed with the case against Elijah Stone, and Wesley is surprised to learn that his ex-girlfriend Monica is Elijah's defense attorney. She tries to portray both Wesley and the LAPD as incompetent and goes out of her way to make the case personal for Wesley. Despite his warnings to her that Elijah is manipulative, she also blackmails Del Monte into dropping the case. Elijah later meets Wesley outside the office and warns that he hasn't seen the last of him yet.
83	7	"Crossfire"	Jon Huertas	Glen Mazzara	November 6, 2022 (2022-11-06)	507	3.02
Elijah launches a lawsuit against the LAPD, specifically targeting Wesley, Lopez, Nolan, Grey and Harper for their participation in freeing Lopez from La Fiera. He also files a restraining order against Wesley and orders him to publicly apologize in front of a press corps. Nolan and Celina investigate the murder of doctor Alvin Mitchelsen, who was already dead when he was shot by a former patient. Initially they discover that he was stabbed, but medical examination further adds that he was poisoned. His former patient reveals that she shot Alvin due to his mistreatment of her father's drugs, while his wife reveals he had heart problems before his death. Nolan and Celina deduce this as a cover-up of her actually having killed him with poisoning. Aaron connects with a young boy, Tabin Cordon, after he and Bradford respond to a noise complaint, but Tabin is later revealed to be the brother of Vina Cordon, a member of the female gang Double R led by Shana Quelli, who Harper, Lopez and Lucy are investigating for a murder. Lucy goes in undercover and makes connections with Shana, while Tabin is temporarily reunited with his sister. During debt collecting, Shana alludes to Vina having murdered the victim Harper and Lopez were investigating, and Vina is later arrested at her family's doorstep.
84	8	"The Collar"	Robert Bella	Paula Puryear	December 4, 2022 (2022-12-04)	508	3.75
Aaron gets to tag along with Harper and Lopez as a part of following his desire to become a detective. The two gives him an old case to solve and limits him to ask them five questions. Nolan and Celina attempt to stop a speeding driver, Pam Winfield, but she is revealed to have a collar around her neck. The police guide Pam to a secure spot and the bomb squad attempts to rid her of the collar, but the bomb goes off after she tries to open her door, killing her. Tim and Lucy discover another driver, Creighton Mitchell, also with a collar around his neck. However, he panics, grabs some garden shears, and manages to get the collar off. He later identifies the assailant as Richard Dormer, a colleague at an oil company they both work for. He also reveals Richard's motives stems from his sister Susan dying in captivity abroad and the company unsuccessfully negotiated her release. Nolan, Celina, Harper, Lopez and Aaron arrest Richard at his home without resistance. His last target is the company CEO Henry Parsons, who he wants to livestream an apology. The police evacuate the company building and Nolan works to disarm Henry's collar. Henry delivers an apology, but Celina deduces that Richard wants to see him dead despite the apology; and instructs Nolan to cut the collar's red cable, disarming the bomb. Chris proposes house hunting to Lucy, which takes her aback and she struggles with keeping up with him and sorting out her feelings for Tim.
85	9	"Take Back"	David McWhirter	Alexi Hawley	December 4, 2022 (2022-12-04)	509	3.65
Grey and his wife visit their daughter Dominique in New York but become concerned when she does not meet them and contact the NYPD, who advise that it is too soon to worry. The couple investigate and learn from her room-mate that Dominique has made some possibly dubious new friends. They trace her movements, which lead to a Uber driver who appears helpful but Grey spots his taxi has a broken tail-light, a trick he taught Dominique. They follow him and rescue her from her abductors. Celina fights and apprehends a bank robber, Ryan Davis. Placed in a cell, he is injured in a fight with other prisoners. He later dies in hospital of a ruptured spleen. There is an investigation to determine whether Celina or the prisoners caused his death. Nolan supports her as her union rep during questioning by Wesley and Chris. An autopsy and camera footage proves her innocence. Lucy agonizes and rehearses scenarios with Aaron for her break-up but when the time comes blurts out Tim’s blunt advice and asks Chris to “hand in his playbook”. Nolan assists Tim’s sister, Genny, to recover her lucky-charm bracelet, thrown away by her son Tyler, furious at her divorce. Lucy breaks up with Chris and starts a relationship with Tim.
86	10	"The List"	Robert Bella	Vincent Angell	January 3, 2023 (2023-01-03)	510	4.69
Tim and Lucy go out on their first date, but find themselves tackling a dispute between a cook and chef. Grey warns them against a relationship, and has them separated on duty. While taking out money at a bank, Harper and James find themselves in a middle of a robbery committed by serial robber Todd Shelf and three associates. Harper has an employee trigger the silent alarm and the police arrive. Todd and Roger Armistead escape, but Todd leaves him behind. The FBI are called in, and the LAPD works with Simone Clark (Niecy Nash) and her superior/training FBI Special Agent Carter Hope (James Lesure). They track an unusual money wiring to Taylor Barnes, who reveals he hacked the FBI's undercover agents and informant list to sell to the highest bidder. Taylor is shot by a sniper before he can reveal the buyer's identity. Tim and Lucy and their reinforcements surround Roger taking a hostage in a neighborhood. Bradford hatches a plan to distract him and Roger is subsequently arrested. At a hospital, Todd's third associate, Amy Wright, escapes and reunites with Todd. They push Tim and Aaron's patrol car off a parking garage roof, but the two narrowly escape. Shortly after, Nolan and Celina finds Todd dead in the truck he and Amy stole. This episode begins a crossover event that concludes on The Rookie: Feds season 1 episode 10. Nancy Nash-Betts (Simone Clarke) and James Lesure (Carter Hope) are credited as Special Guest Stars.
87	11	"The Naked and the Dead"	Chi-Yoon Chung	Steph Garcia	January 10, 2023 (2023-01-10)	511	4.03
Lopez is approached by her brother Damian, who asks her to look for a kid gone missing from his local shelter. She and Harper take the case, and learns that the kid, Matteo, was involved with the gang run by Quinlan Wright. They meet with Nolan and Celina and search an abandoned building were Matteo's phone last pinged. In a walk, they discover his body packed liked a cocoon along with other bodies. Harper and Lopez question Moses Warden, Quinlan's rival who denies any wrongdoing. Just then, Quinlan's men arrive and shoot up the workshop. Facing contradicting information, Lopez and Harper has Damian bring in the gang's informant Ricky, who reveals that Elijah Stone told him to inform the police about a drug bust. With this in mind, they conclude that Elijah orchestrated a gang war in order to clear his name. Lucy is tasked with hosting the Citizen Academy at the station. She suspects one of the attendees, Kyra Cook, is facing domestic abuse after she raises a question about it. She convinces her to go to a shelter, but she leaves it after an incident with staff. Kyra calls her again when she again faces abuse from her boyfriend Oliver. Lucy arrives at their house and fights Oliver and arrests him before Kyra holds her at gunpoint. Lucy manages to talk her down before arresting her as well. Tim also acts as a baseball coach for his sister's son, and gets help from Lucy.
88	12	"Death Notice"	Tori Garrett	Brynn Malone	January 17, 2023 (2023-01-17)	512	4.78
Oscar Hutchinson has prison leave to donate a kidney to his estranged daughter, but Nolan and Celina have their hands full trying to protect the ever-manipulative Oscar – whom makes constant attempts to delay the procedure so he can stay out of prison longer – from attempts on his life by past victims of his crimes. Lopez has a tense exchange with Harper while investigating one of Elijah's associates before apologizing and admitting the stress of her unexpected pregnancy weighing on her. Tim and Lucy continue struggle to keep their budding romance from interfering with their work, especially when they're assigned to ride together for a single day, until a transfer opportunity arises for each. Ultimately Tim decides to ask for a transfer. Nolan, Celina, Tim, and Lucy end a plot to block Oscar's surgeon from performing his surgery.
89	13	"Daddy Cop"	Anne Renton	Fredrick Kotto	January 24, 2023 (2023-01-24)	513	4.37
A heat wave is causing rolling blackouts across the city, but the precinct has a backup generator. Nolan's trainee Celina misses a question from Sgt. Grey, causing him to be her partner for the day. They foil a robbery in progress, and Grey puts her on command post duty. She is overwhelmed, but the assignment was meant to teach her to ask for help, which she does when she can't get in contact with her mother. When the backup generator at the station fails to come on, Nolan and Aaron discover two people pretending to be cops to try and break a friend out of jail. They rat on a ghost gun seller who Lopez takes down in an undercover operation. The gun seller rolls on a fentanyl dealer processing raw product in a home. Surveillance shows there to be a child in the building. Celina is exposed while rescuing her, but resuscitated by a dose of Narcan. Lucy sets dominoes in motion to get Tim transferred to Metro, back on the street where he belongs. Celina carefully checks in with her mother from the hospital, who thinks she only does desk duty. A side story has most of the cast spending time at Nolan's, who installed a backup generator and has air conditioning.
90	14	"Death Sentence"	Faye Brenner	Diana Mendez Boucher	January 31, 2023 (2023-01-31)	514	4.77
Tim starts work with Metro and experiences some initial setbacks during training, but eventually proves himself and is welcomed to his team. Bailey is in an ambulance that gets shot at, the start of a rage killing spree of firefighters and EMT workers. Nolan finds the perpetrator and arrests a fired firefighter. Wesley loses a routine preliminary decision related to Elijah, which makes him suspect that the judge working the case is on the take. He confronts the judge, who hints at the truth and then dies mysteriously. He warns Monica that Elijah could be targeting her next. Tamara is working multiple jobs to try and move out of Lucy's place to give Lucy and Tim privacy. The parents at her babysitting gig act strangely, leading to the police investigating the mother's kidnapping due to the father's illegal activity. Tim participates in the rescue as part of Metro. Over the course of his day, Nolan receives calls from his mother, who wants to be paid for staying away from his wedding. He looks away from her tricks, until finally learning that she was hospitalized and later died.
91	15	"The Con"	Bill Roe	Leland Jay Anderson	February 14, 2023 (2023-02-14)	515	4.10
With help from Matthew Garza's team at the FBI, Lopez puts everything on the line to help Elijah Stone take down Abril Rodas in exchange for her safety as part of an elaborate operation. Garza's team moves to utilise Abril's girlfriend Daylin as bait for Elijah. But the night he arrives to execute her, he withdraws at the last minute due to a unintended distraction caused by Aaron. Unbeknown to both the LAPD and FBI, Elijah approaches Abril and offers to work with her. Nolan and Bailey travel to Nolan's mother's now-vacant home in Foxburg, Pennsylvania, and must deal with the secrets and shady dealings his late mother left behind including someone masquerading as Nolan, drug dealers, and a foreclosed mortgage. Britt Robertson (Laura Stenson), Felix Solis (Matthew Garza) and Kevin Zegers (Brendon Acres) are credited as Special Guest Stars.
92	16	"Exposed"	Ryan Krayser	Paula Puryear	February 21, 2023 (2023-02-21)	516	4.15
The Mid-Wilshire station works with Victorville PD detective Noah Foster to stop a militia group from using sarin gas in a terrorist attack in the city. When a member of the militia turns up dead due to the gas, they bring in his sister for more info, but she plays dumb. However, a tap on her phone reveals that the group is targeting Union Station. A road block with spike strips is set up while Aaron and Harper force the truck with sarin gas towards it. Blocking the truck in, they order the driver out and arrest him. Bailey, Celina and Harper work with the CDC to secure and quarantine three men returning from Nigeria who are suspected to be exposed to Ebola. Though all of them cooperate, the third forces an entire bus into quarantine due to potential exposure. Lucy detects animosity from Tim, which she learns is due to him learning that she was behind his transfer to Metro. She convinces him that it was the best move, despite not informing him beforehand. Lopez and Wesley increase their residential security by hiring a private security specialist. They receive a Valentine's Day "gift" from Elijah Stone – dead roses crawling with insects.
93	17	"The Enemy Within"	Lanre Olabisi	Vincent Angell	February 28, 2023 (2023-02-28)	517	4.11
Elijah begins to question Monica's loyalty, but is convinced after she forms a plan to double play the LAPD on his trail. She approaches them under the guise of finally helping, but Grey and Harper quickly deduce her play. The second time Monica reports on Elijah moves, the police manage to decode the real location at the Port of Los Angeles. A shootout ensues and Elijah subdues Harper, but Lopez wounds him and she and Harper arrest him. Monica contacts Abril and offers her assistance. Nolan re-opens Celina's sister Blanca and with Celina discovers a new lead which fractures the previous alibi. Nolan learns from a witness that Celina's mother that they were taking opioids together while Blanca and Celina were left home alone, during which Blanca disappeared. Her mother is eventually brought in for questioning, and admits the truth to Celina. This episode begins a crossover event that concludes on The Rookie: Feds season 1 episode 17.
94	18	"Double Trouble"	Jon Huertas	Caroline Bible & Glen Mazzara	March 21, 2023 (2023-03-21)	518	3.95
Tim's look-alike Jake Butler is out of prison, so he and his girlfriend Sava go on a new crime spree. Their plan is to take jobs such as handyman or nanny for a rich and/or famous family, then steal from the family. After an initial score on Lance Bass, they move on to the Boudelaire family with a stash of very expensive and often illegal antiquities in a secret room. Jake goes missing and is later found dead, while the family's nanny is also found dead in their garden house. Mid-Wilshire question one of their previous handymen, who admits that had accidentally killed the nanny. Sava receives threats from Turkish dealer, who the CIA had connected with an Iranian weapons deal. A video from Jake and Sava's stolen car leads the police to her friend Lisa Miller, who Jake had an affair with and took a historic gun from the Boudelaires and killed him. Nolan is shot during her arrest, but survived thanks to his bullet-proof vest. The story is told as an in-work documentary, with character interviews interspersing the action.
95	19	"A Hole in the World"	T.K. Shom	Brynn Malone	March 28, 2023 (2023-03-28)	519	4.47
Celina visits her sister's grave on the anniversary of her abduction. Lopez finds that the abduction fits a pattern of cases dating back years before, all of the abductions happening on the same day of the year and all the victims being from drug-addicted parents. Then Nolan and Celina get a call about a missing child, starting the cycle over again. An older officer shows up at the scene who Celina recognizes from her case, and he makes Nolan suspicious by asking to enter the scene. Grey asks an old investigator about anything that didn't make it into Celina's sister's kidnapping, which leads the team to a serial sex offender suspected, but unable to be tied to the case. Harper asks the police officer about details in the Juarez case, and he's caught in a lie raising suspicions higher. They release him with a tail, but he uses his police skills to break it. Lucy finds a recent case the officer worked on where he cleared a house of squatters just a couple miles from the abduction. The team surrounds the house and talks the officer into letting the victim go, but when the team moves in, the officer raises his gun against Tim, who shoots him. Lucy offers to help Tim get through the experience, and he offers to help her study for her detective exam.
96	20	"S.T.R."	C. Chi-Yoon Chung	Natalie Callaghan	April 18, 2023 (2023-04-18)	520	3.61
Tim's ex Isabel approaches him, asking for assistance in finding a missing girl, Dara Tesca, whom she looked after during a past assignment. Together with Lucy, they determine that Dara fled home and went into hiding in a motel Isabel used to bring her to for safety. Upon securing Dara, Isabel and Lucy are forced to reveal their real identities in order to help her escape hitman sent by her uncle Ed to also kill her father. After securing her, they learn that her father had her uncle killed, and Isabel promises to stay in touch. Grey assigns Aaron to assist Lopez during her day due to her second pregnancy, but he ultimately asks her to stay at home until the baby is born. Harper and Nolan assist skip tracer Randy when he stumbles upon a dead body after breaking in. The victim had a prior history of trolling people online, which Randy had been asked to investigate. His constant interference with their investigation, forces them to take him along, but holding him at bay. Randy deduces that a friend of his with prior history has been cryptically threatening him through emojis, and he decides to row him up in order for Nolan and Harper to arrest him. Meanwhile, Bailey's friend from college, Libby, is crashing with them and is dragging her around L.A. in an attempt to relive their college days and avoid her own problems, culminating in a meet-up with an untrustworthy man that leads to Bailey's arrest when she gets into a fight with the man and then runs away. When all is said and done, Libby decides to return home, but not before accusing Bailey of being an alcoholic, both to continue avoiding her problems and to avoid taking responsibility for her recent actions.
97	21	"Going Under"	Anne Renton	Alexi Hawley & Brynn Malone	April 25, 2023 (2023-04-25)	521	3.55
Lucy goes undercover as a sales agent in order to gain Frank Tesca's interest following his release from prison. Once he approaches her, he asks her to take some under payment in favor for products from her company. Frank learns that his brother's crew is after him, while some of his own men has also turned on him. After a drive-by shooting, he determines a close associate was behind it, but Lucy stops him from killing him as Tim and the police descend on their location. Frank concedes that he has lost control over his crew after his prison time and wishes to reconcile with his daughter, which Lucy encourages him to do. Aaron assists Lopez with detective work while she is at home, and questions a reluctant witness of a robbery, which leads to a vehicle with a dead body and workshop with a decreased suspect. He manages to solve the case in addition to seven other tie-ins. Harper, Nolan and Celina tackle a cold case favor which involves a severed torso. Further searching wounds up a arm belonging to it and two friends of the victim. Video footage in their possession reveals that they accidentally shot their friend and cut his body up and hid the parts. This episode begins a crossover event that concludes on The Rookie: Feds season 1 episode 21.
98	22	"Under Siege"	Bill Roe	Alexi Hawley	May 2, 2023 (2023-05-02)	522	4.33
Aaron and Celina are ambushed by masked assailants after investigating a suspected disturbance, and are seriously wounded. When hospitalized, Celina recounts a riddle to Nolan said to her by one of the assailants. Mid-Wilshire is put on high alert, and even further when Nolan and Bailey are attacked and Harper's child is temporarily abducted. Lopez works with Wesley and Luna Grey in deducing the riddle. The police look into past run-ins, identifying one with a prior record and finding him dead in his boobytrapped house. They further narrow his possible prison encounters, with Tim and Lucy visiting Luke Moran. An army of masked men with police shields pursue them, but they're swiftly taken out with reinforcements on-scene. With Luke caught and surrounded, he makes one last stand before being shot down. As further reinforcements roll in, an unknown man in a passing vehicle praises how well Luke served as a distraction.

Season 6 (2024)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
99	1	"Strike Back"	Bill Roe	Alexi Hawley	February 20, 2024 (2024-02-20)	601	3.77
Following Luke Moran's death, the Mid-Wilshire officers soon learn that his attack was a diversion for a professional crew to rob the Federal Reserve Bank. Nolan and the others arrive at the bank and a shootout ensues, forcing the crew to sacrifice three of their own to stall for time to escape. Six weeks later, the officers receive a break in the case when one of the surviving thieves crashes a newly purchased sports car into a tree. He is confronted at the hospital and a brief hostage situation occurs, but Nolan is able to distract him long enough to give Harper a clean shot. A search of the thief's rental house turns up a phone which leads them to the remaining crew, the leader of which, Boyd Taylor, is arrested after a shootout at the airport. Meanwhile, Lucy is obsessively studying for her detective exam and asks Tim to help her by giving her outside the box tests. He lets her take point at a crime scene but she makes a massive mistake that compromises evidence in a murder. Lucy spends the rest of the day trying to find a lead and her self-doubt causes her to question Tim's motives, driving a wedge between them. Aaron returns to duty following his shooting and is assigned to desk duty until the department psychiatrist, Dr. Blair London, signs off on him while Celina obsesses over Nolan's apparent bad luck as he tries to survive his last shift before his wedding to Bailey. At the end of the episode, following "legal advice" from Monica Stevens, who was hired as Boyd's lawyer by an unknown client, Boyd is killed by a sniper while en route to jail.
100	2	"The Hammer"	Alexi Hawley	Alexi Hawley & Brynn Malone	February 27, 2024 (2024-02-27)	602	3.29
Nolan and Bailey's wedding day is just one day away and the couple are excitedly looking forward to their upcoming nuptials but first must contend with a seemingly endless stream of disasters, including a lawsuit being brought against Nolan by Oscar Hutchinson, who has managed to secure Monica as his attorney. Meanwhile, when Skip Tracer Randy accidentally pawns Bailey's ring, Tim and Lucy are recruited to retrieve it from a known criminal called "The Hammer", who has a penchant for fighting. Tim and Lucy also take time to address their own fight over Lucy becoming an undercover detective, which Tim discovers he has more reservations over than he thought. Aaron is still struggling in the aftermath of his shooting and tries to lean on Celina for support. Celina and Harper discover a heroin smuggling ring disguised as a pottery dealer and Celina uses it to try and land her first case. Everything comes to head at the wedding. Grey ends up officiating when the minister gets stuck in traffic and the ceremony goes off well, with Randy filling in as DJ. Tim and Lucy agree to work through their issues but Aaron is gently rebuffed when he tries to kiss Celina and gets drunk as a result. Celina goes to meet an informant and is kidnapped leading the rest of the team to come to her rescue. The next morning, an exhausted Nolan and Bailey finally collapse at home for a nap before leaving for their honeymoon.
101	3	"Trouble in Paradise"	TK Shom	Madeleine Coghlan & Glen Mazzara	March 5, 2024 (2024-03-05)	603	3.49
Nolan and Bailey begin their honeymoon but things start going haywire almost as soon as they arrive, their secluded getaway soon turning into an active crime scene when their housekeeper washes up dead on the beach. Nolan and Bailey suspect a bandaged loner also staying at the resort of being the killer and all efforts to escape and get help prove fruitless before they are abducted. Harper and Lopez soon join the newlyweds to offer backup and use the footage from Nolan's cameras to track them down, arriving just as Nolan escapes and subdues the suspect. Celina is assigned to Tim to atone for her ill-advised actions during the wedding while she also struggles with Aaron kissing her and he struggles with his own feelings. Meanwhile, Lucy continues to prepare for the detectives' exam and Tim cautions her about over preparing. Tim, Celina and Lucy soon get caught up trying to identify an amnesiac shoplifter. While Lucy takes her detectives' exam, Tim and Celina follow a lead on their collar and find his partner stuck in a wall at a diamond exchange, having got stuck there during an attempted heist. Aaron and Celina mend their friendship and Lucy passes her exam but ranks low, meaning her prospects for promotion are practically nonexistent. Nolan and Bailey salvage their honeymoon by having a relaxing staycation back at home.
102	4	"Training Day"	Tori Garrett	Fredrick Kotto & Natalie Callaghan	March 26, 2024 (2024-03-26)	604	3.06
On his first day back after the attack, Thorsen is put through a grueling sequence of high-stress situations to see if he's fit to work. The squad is looking into a homicide case that may be connected to the pentagram killer.
103	5	"The Vow"	C. Chi-Yoon Chung	Vincent Angell & Diana Mendez Boucher	April 2, 2024 (2024-04-02)	605	3.40
Following a crime, John and Bailey have to make decisions about a toddler that they find at the site. Tim vanishes and leaves Lucy in the dark when someone form his military past comes up with seriously compromising trouble
104	6	"Secrets and Lies"	Bill Roe	Elizabeth Davis Beall & Leland Jay Anderson	April 9, 2024 (2024-04-09)	606	3.31
John and Celina are hunting a vindictive escapee, while Bailey is pushing for a baby after fostering even though it brought back traumatic events from her past, meanwhile Tim and Lucy's relationship may take a turn for the worse.
105	7	"Crushed"	TBA	TBA	April 30, 2024 (2024-04-30)	607	TBD
When two teenagers go missing, it is up to the entire team to find the girls and uncover the truth about their disappearance; Lopez and Harper search for the perfect nanny.
106	8	"Punch Card"	TBA	TBA	May 7, 2024 (2024-05-07)	608	TBD
107	9	"The Squeeze"	TBA	TBA	May 14, 2024 (2024-05-14)	609	TBD

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