Over the course of her eight seasons on duty, The Rookie‘s LAPD Sgt. Lucy Chen (Melissa O’Neil) has had her share of on-the-job jeopardy. She’s been drugged, kidnapped, and buried alive in a metal barrel by a serial killer’s accomplice; suffered PTSD-triggered panic attacks; and, just recently, endured a car bomb explosion that tore apart the precinct.
“We’ve seen Lucy go through [so much], obviously there’s the barrel episode, which we alluded to back in Episode 3 of this season,” says showrunner Alexi Hawley, admitting that callback was to plant a reminder of her abduction and what she survived. “Sadly, she’s not new to surviving trauma, so, I thought it was important to keep that in mind as we did [this week’s] episode that Lucy’s been through stuff before, but nothing quite like this.”
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