[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for the Blue Bloods Season 14 Part 1 finale, “The Heart of a Saturday Night.”]
Blue Bloods ended its Season 14 midseason finale on its traditional optimistic observe on the weekly Reagan household dinner. With Season 14 Half 1 now within the rearview mirror, showrunner Kevin Wade is giving a glimpse into what to anticipate within the closing episodes set to premiere this fall on CBS, and he doesn’t suppose it’s possible that they’ll make Tom Selleck‘s Frank Reagan retire from his place as police commissioner.
Some characters this season, just like the mayor, have hinted at a need for a brand new commissioner, elevating questions on whether or not Frank goes to remain within the job that defines his life. Even when he has tough days like in Season 14 Episode 10, which confirmed Frank and his father (Len Cariou) at uncomfortable odds over a deceased cop’s use of the 9/11 Sufferer Compensation Fund, Frank doesn’t need to depart this work behind. And the present’s creators don’t need him to both.
“I’m fairly positive that Frank would keep in his job till the collection ended,” Wade tells TV Insider. “We didn’t actually pursue that avenue as a result of the present is constructed on him being the police commissioner of New York Metropolis. So to take a detour over the past mile, if that is the final mile, I don’t know what he could be doing down on the ironmongery shop or having espresso with outdated buddies throughout the day. I at all times have to take a look at stuff that generates tales. Police Commissioner of New York generates tales. He’s the CEO of 35,000 cops.”
Wade says he doesn’t envision what may occur within the collection past what CBS has determined would be the closing season. “We are able to’t even go” there as a result of their focus is on creating a closing season followers will take pleasure in, he says. Wade has seen the fan marketing campaign hoping to “save Blue Bloods,” and to these followers he says, “God bless them. We take it as nothing however a praise.”
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“The Coronary heart of a Saturday Evening” challenged Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) and Gormley (Robert Clohessy) by placing them in a possible shootout with one other cop, visitor star Aidan Quinn‘s Gus Vanderlip. The detective had gone rogue out of anger {that a} serial rapist he had arrested two weeks prior was strolling free due to the town’s bail reform regulation.
Frank and Henry’s rift over a late cop’s use of the 9/11 fund additionally challenged the household of officers. In Episode 9, an all-out battle broke out between uncle Jamie (Will Estes) and nephew Joe (Will Hochman), who Wade sees extra as “brothers” now. Placing the Reagan relations at odds with one another, after which resolving their battle, will proceed all through Blue Bloods‘ closing season.
“We at all times have tried to strip away one other layer of the characters,” says Wade. “As a result of we’re a closed-end procedural and we don’t have a serialized type of storytelling, the one adjustments we are able to make are within the characters and their precise fears. I’m making an attempt to jot down one of the best tales to place two or extra Reagans in opposition to one another and attempt to resolve it on the finish. And hopefully within the decision, they reveal one thing new about themselves.”
Wade’s love of his forged exhibits in his subsequent assertion: “It’s a band that’s been touring collectively for 14 years, so generally you need to simply go, you understand what? You on the drums, you on the lead guitar. Go at it.”
Wade additionally reveals that he’s simply completed laying out the Blue Bloods collection finale, and he says they’re ensuring there are not any questions left unanswered.
“There received’t be any cliffhangers as a result of there’s no cliff, nevertheless it ends,” Wade says. “Something we’d try this was an open query would by definition by no means be answered, so we’re making an attempt to deliver character tales to a detailed in that one. Clearly, we have now some tales, some plot, however no, it’s designed because the final one.”
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