The Rookie

- What does Tim wanna show us?

- He'll kill me if I ruin the surprise.

It's not a waffle truck.

I asked. - Oh.

Welcome.

Wanted you guys be the first to see my new office.

Look, if I'm gonna be a more "out on the street"

watch commander, I need to take my office with me.

- Is this the new interceptor utility vehicle?

- It is, 700 horsepower, 8,000-pound towing capacity,

Level 4 ballistic door panels, dark mode,

and 270-degree monitoring to analyze moving objects

for potential threat levels.

He calls it a Super Shop.

- That's a working title. -

- You see, we got hats and bats, infrared camera,

breaching tools.

Oh, yeah.

- Two 32-inch screens. - Whoo.

Wow.

Can I be watch commander?

- No, but you are riding with me today.

- Yes. - Oh, hey, show them Droney.

- Oh, yeah. Check this out.

Isn't he cute?

- She. - Really?

- Yeah. - Oh.

- Super Shop makes the Batmobile look

like a kiddie toy.

And I can control it all right here from my phone.

See?

Damn it.

Whoa, whoa, damn it.

Playing Tim's Pump Up Jams.

Stop, stop, stop.

- It's not gonna be as easy as you think.

- Based on this morning's demonstration, I'm well aware.

- It's not just that you're taking

the watch commander duties on patrol.

You're also exposing yourself to chain-of-command confusion

when you land at a scene, even if you stay in the SUV.

Super Shop.

It's a working name.

Good morning.

- Good morning. - Good morning.

- All right, listen up, we're gonna do things

a little different today.

There'll be two supervisors out on the street,

Sergeant Chen and myself.

I know. I know.

No one wants the boss showing up to their calls,

second-guessing their every move.

That is not my intention, okay? Nothing has to change.

I just put wheels on my office.

And while we work out the details,

Officer Nolan will be riding with me to help

facilitate the transition.

Any questions?

Can I pick the playlist?

It's a dumb question.

- All right, second order of business, Officer Juarez

will be on temporary duty assignment

with the Detectives Bureau.

Did you choose your focus?

Yes, Missing Persons.

Oof.

- Are you sure about that? - Yeah.

Your call.

All right, I have some updates from the night shift.

- Is Missing Persons really that bad?

- Detective Desmond has a reputation.

Like a Harper reputation?

No, opposite.

Last day at the DA's office.

Excited? - I'm relieved.

When the DA had one foot in retirement,

now that Vivian's DA-elect, she's gonna have free reign.

- Well, none of that will matter

once you quit and open a private practice in Malibu

with a view of the ocean.

- Uh, with that commute, you'd never see me again.

- Well, in my dream, I also work in Malibu.

I have a robot helicopter that flies

the kids to school and a pony.

- Well, sorry to kill another one of your dreams.

But I already reached out to my old landlord,

and the only view from that office

is the Ethiopian place on the first floor.

- Oh, before you go, make sure you pass off my cases

to the right prosecutors.

Daniels doesn't touch homicide.

- Give mine to Cosgrove. He is solid.

That might be an issue.

Cosgrove just quit.

I gotta go. - Good luck.

- Wesley, it's so good to see you.

Yeah, right.

- I'm serious. No hard feelings on my end.

- Yeah, because you destroyed me.

Well, exactly.

I made good on the promise I made you when you

threw your hat in the ring. It's nothing personal.

In fact, I agree with you on a lot of the issues.

And I know that together, we can take the DA's office

in a positive direction.

- Mm-hmm. - Mm-hmm.

- You're not gonna fall for that, are you?

No.

I was about to hand in my resignation letter.

Well, she won't accept it.

With Cosgrove, Garcia, and Martin

already out, she can't afford to lose anyone else.

- Martin quit? - Keyed her car on the way out.

- A hero to us all. -

Come on.

- Hey, sorry about the election.

That should have been me facing Vivian.

You were handed a poison chalice.

I drank from it willingly.

How's Logan?

He's good.

He just got another chip.

He's been clean now almost four months.

That's great.

What about you?

You gonna do the Rothwell and Pierce thing?

No, I'm--

I'm gonna stay here.

And you should too.

Hmm.

- Come on, Wes, you joined this place to change the culture

from within, to ensure that justice,

not punishment, was our paramount virtue, remember?

- It's a very inspirational message

that just lost by 23 points.

Look, Vivian ran on tough on crime.

She's gonna deliver.

- Yeah, which is why the city needs people like us here

now more than ever.

Look, we still can make a difference.

- Sean. - You're here already.

Let's work together, one last time.

If at the end of the day, you still wanna quit,

I won't stay in your way.

- This job is where ambition goes to die.

Wait, what?

Missing Persons.

It's not a real department.

It's a halfway house for cases on the way to real departments.

- That's a lot of reports for a fake department.

- 90% of these cases will solve themselves.

Teenager just needed to blow off steam.

A wife went on a bender, came home when she sobered up.

Kid fell asleep playing hide-and-seek.

- I've been on patrol for three years.

I know most missing persons reports go nowhere,

but there are people in this stack

who are victims of real crimes.

- Crimes with their own departments,

like Trafficking or Homicide.

Sorry to interrupt.

Homicide wants the McGrath case.

Fisherman found the body.

Looks like murder. - Rest in peace.

- Okay, obviously, you know the job

way better than I do, but wouldn't hurt

to look through the case files,

see if there's anyone we can help?

Knock yourself out.

- This thing drives like a dream--

and these seats.

Ten minutes in a regular shop, my ass is barking.

Well, don't get used to it.

You're just here while I work out the kinks.

Once Penn is back from training,

you're back in the shop, and I'm on my own.

- I have a 4-15 at 5th and Western.

RP reports two shirtless men circling each other.

7-Adam-100 two blocks away.

Show us responding.

Are you sure?

Sounds like your basic alcohol-fueled slugfest.

- Yeah, I have to test response times on even

the most basic of calls.

Captain's calling.

Bradford.

Can you hold?

Yeah, I'll hold.

I'll be right there. - I got this one.

LAPD. You guys, break it up.

Come on.

- Sorry, he was called into a meeting.

Can you hold just a minute longer?

Thanks. - No, I'm out on--

Hey.

- Hey, keep your hands where I can see them.

Just stay right there.

- Sorry to keep you waiting. - No problem, sir.

We're getting a lot of complaints

about vagrants in Stoner Park.