Given the situations Monica (Bridget Regan) had been able to escape up until the penultimate episode of The Rookie Season 8, it was a shock to see her killed off — and very much dead, with a lingering shot of her body. (“Alexi wanted to be like, ‘She’s dead, dead. She’s dead. Dead, capital D, Dead, period,'” Regan told us with a laugh.)

But why did that happen? When TV Insider spoke with showrunner Alexi Hawley recently, we had to find out.

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