We’re back! The Rookie Season 7 Episode 4 ‘Darkness Falling’ gives us clues about Chenford’s future while Bailey makes a decision that will haunt her in the future and Wesley faces some decisions from his past. Ready?
Here we go!
Living in a Prison in The Rookie Season 7 Episode 4 ‘Darkness Falling’
We are 100% Team Bailey. In The Rookie Season 7 Episode 4 ‘Darkness Falling,’ John has made her a prisoner in her own life. She can’t go outside, she can’t go to work, she can’t even live in her own house, for God’s sake! And if that wasn’t enough, John has given her a bodyguard who watches her and follows her everywhere, as well as spying on her for him. That’s no life.
Like Bailey, we understand that Nolan’s intentions are good and he just wants to protect her and prevent Jason from getting to her but he forgets that Bailey is a grown woman who knows how to defend herself and doesn’t need him to protect her. She just needs him to be by her side as her husband, not as her babysitter or as her jailer.
Also, Bailey cannot allow Jason to control her life again, she was already his prisoner once and she cannot allow herself to be again. For her, letting Jason be the central point around which her life revolves, being afraid of him again, is like going back in the process of healing and moving on. Bailey needs some normality in her life in The Rookie Season 7 Episode 4 ‘Darkness Falling.’ And that’s the reason why she keeps that phone number.
Bailey knows that unless Jason is dead, there will always be a risk that history will repeat itself, that he will escape again, will come after her, and destroy her life… in short, there will always be a risk that she will be his prisoner again. Only with Jason dead, Bailey be sure that everything is over for good.
Does that mean Bailey is going to help to kill Jason? We think that she will end up regretting the decision she made in The Rookie Season 7 Episode 4 ‘Darkness Falling’ but, honestly, we can’t blame her for making it—we all would have done the same and we even doubt that we wouldn’t have done it through to the end.
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The Right Moment
There’s definitely something off with Seth but we love that Lucy goes straight to Tim to tell him her doubts in The Rookie Season 7 Episode 4 ‘Darkness Falling.’ This is a conversation Lucy could have had with Harper or Angela but instead, Lucy went straight to Tim’s house because that trust from when they were together, the way they knew they could vent without him judging them, that intimacy, is still there.
And while that speaks volumes, what comes next is much better. As Lucy goes to leave, Kojo sees her and goes to her, Lucy has missed him…but it’s Tim who answers. “It’s mutual,” he tells her, and he’s not talking about Kojo. He’s telling her that he misses her, that he wants to be back with her. This is the point where we’re practically melting into the floor, but Tim goes above and beyond by daring to invite her to stay. Lucy knows that if she says yes, she wouldn’t just be saying “yes” to dinner, but to so much more. She’d be saying “yes” to getting back together.
Lucy hesitates for a moment in The Rookie Season 7 Episode 4 ‘Darkness Falling’ because she wants to say “yes,” she wants to get back together with Tim because she loves him madly, she loves him so much it hurts…but she’s not ready—and neither is Tim. Everything that happened is still too fresh, her heart is still broken, she can barely put the pieces back together and Lucy is afraid that if she says “yes” now, if she stays that night with Tim, her heart will break again…and Lucy knows she couldn’t bear for that to happen again.
So she says “no,” rejecting Tim and the possibilities that night could bring for them. And it’s the right decision. They still haven’t talked honestly about what happened or why it happened, nor have we seen an evolution in Tim that makes things different than they were at the time Chenford broke up. If Lucy had said “yes” and they got back together, it would be like putting a band-aid on a still-open, festering wound and hoping it would work.
But it wouldn’t have. For Chenford to have a true future together, that wound must be closed and the problem that separated them solved. Saying “yes” in The Rookie Season 7 Episode 4 ‘Darkness Falling’ would only have put a veil over the problem, so that neither of them could see it, but it wouldn’t have solved it and, therefore, they would have been irremediably doomed to another breakup.
So, as much as we want Chenford together, it’s not the right time yet. It will be at some point, though. We’d rather Lucy say “no” now, because that way, when they get back together, it will be forever. Even if we have to wait some time for that.
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Other Stuff in The Rookie Season 7 Episode 4 ‘Darkness Falling’
- KOJO!!
- It’s normal for Wesley to feel that guilt, he’s not guilty of anything — he just did his job. But in that situation, it’s impossible not to think about what you should have done differently or what more you could have done to prevent what happened.
- Lucy will be ready at some point. That’s a fact.
- And Tim too.
- The moment between Lucy and Kojo is so cute…
- And the way Tim looks at her…we’re on the floor!
- We can’t look at Seth anymore without feeling like there’s something really wrong with him.
- We can’t believe we agree with the DA — who we can’t stand — but he’s right. Wesley has to get over it.
- Grey knows best.
- Angela and Harper’s friendship is EVERYTHING.
- That was really close for Harper and we got really scared…
The Rookie Season 7 airs Tuesdays at 10 pm on ABC.
