'The Rookie' Season 7 Episode 15 "A Deadly Secret" Review
- Val
- Apr 23
- 4 min read
In last night’s episode of The Rookie (Season 7, Episode 15 "A Deadly Secret"), a character we haven’t cared about in a long time makes a return in the most bizarre way. It was one of those documentary style episodes, which I’m not always a fan of because they don’t add to the storytelling in my opinion. What I can say is, this episode did add to the storytelling, but it made the already distorted storyline a lot more confusing.
Abigail Tierney is John Nolan’s son’s ex-fiancé. That alone should be the reason why we don’t care what happened to her, but let’s be fair, when she didn’t show up with Henry for John’s wedding (S6E2), some people did wonder what happened to her. The episode starts off with the fact that she’s been missing for six months. Great - why are we talking about it now?
Abigail sent a pitch video to a production company and they decided to work with her. That was until she kept changing directions with the project and they were no longer interested. That’s when John took the project and sent it to Angela (yes, Lopez) who thought it would be a great idea to use Wesley’s money to “support the arts” (I laughed hysterically at this).
I get it - Rodge does music, but can he please go away? I know it’s not meant to be taken seriously in this particular episode, but I don’t see what he adds to any of the storylines besides random music. Was it meant to be comic relief? Because if that’s the case, it was funny when he performed “Daddy Cop”, but what’s that thing when you keep doing the same thing as a joke? It stops being funny. Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with the actor portraying Rodge, it has everything to do with the character of Rodge.
Her horror movie was going nowhere, and after talking with Angela about a psych ward, Abigail decided to shift her story into a documentary about Westview Psychiatric Hospital. It focused mainly on the fact that it produced two serial killers (that we know of): Liam Glasser and Harrison Novak. Abigail goes missing while investigating the hospital. She worked with a security guard, Carl Ditweiler, to gain unauthorized access to the hospital and he becomes the number one suspect.
While still doing a deep dive, things are starting to get a bit creepy; Abigail swore she heard voices in the building. She went to investigate and that’s when she disappeared. Now John, Celina, Lucy and Tim enter Westview to investigate her disappearance and yeah, things got interesting for Tim and Lucy.
Before we even go there, the way they tried to connect the story was, meh. It turns out one of the lying girls from a previous episode (S7E10) had a nanny that was a patient at Westview, which is how they may or may not have gotten the idea to stab their friend. It was a lot and somehow Zuzu came back (an AI that knows everything and everyone).
Now back to Tim and Lucy; they saw liquid dripping from the walls and the two of them decided “yes, let’s touch it with our bare hands”. This liquid that they thought might’ve been water turned out to be sodium pentothal also known as “truth serum”. The episode finally got interesting at this point – I couldn’t help but laugh. At first I thought I was laughing because it was hilarious (because it was) but, after some time I was laughing because what do you mean this is how the writers thought it was best to make Tim and Lucy have their serious conversation after the break up. Really? While on drugs? It was one of those laughs you do in order to not lose your mind. What are we doing with them this season and when will it start to make sense?
Celina and John find Abigail and it turns out she was sipping on some weird water that made her hallucinate – she made friends with a corpse named Bob who had power bars apparently. I’m glad she was found safe and was still determined to complete her documentary.
I can only be honest, this episode was a disappointment. The documentary episodes typically are, but at least they’re interesting with a compelling case (I’m lying, I think the last one I cared for was the one involving a cult). Now, a filler episode is okay here and there, but with a growing cast and characters whose lives we could explore a bit more, this episode felt very unnecessary. I vote we get rid of the documentary style episode for the next season. Let’s focus on character depth maybe?
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