Rookie Blue recap: A look back at all the drama of season 6

The time has come for season six of Rookie Blue to draw to a close. This season has been one wild ride. Relationships were broken, formed, rekindled. Several officers were attacked in different situations. The division was rocked by scandal. There were callbacks to previous story lines. Secrets were kept and spilled. Some of the newer faces of 15 Division were featured more prominently than ever before. The cases each week ranged from missing persons to prison transfers to drive-by shootings.

There really was a little bit of everything and though at times it seemed random, chaotic or it was frustrating that story lines were seemingly dropped — everything came together and worked well to create a thrilling Rookie Blue summer. Based on how things have been so far, the finale, featuring Sam and Andy's wedding, promises to be nothing short of crazy.

Since I wasn't able to recap the last few episodes and since so much has happened leading up to the finale, I decided it was best to recap all the drama — the romances, cases and more.

Let's start with the...

Regular cases

Episode 2, Perfect Family: A teenage girl goes missing and her high-strung dad is furious to find out the suspect is an older boy who works at a gas station near their house. Turns out she she'd run away to the boy because her dad is allegedly abusive. The officers eventually learn her father has forced her to spend nights in their cold garage, which is stocked with cages and hunting gear — she's even had to sleep in an empty freezer. It takes a lot of convincing but eventually the feeble, frightened mom agrees to get herself and her kids away from her husband.

Episode 3, Uprising: The officers must help conduct a prison transfer at an understaffed jail. Before they get the prisoners out, however, a fight breaks out and the jail goes on lockdown. The prisoner, Kenzie, despite being wounded, ends up holding Juliette at knifepoint and demanding they take her to the infirmary so she can see her friend and cellmate J-Bird to find out why she accused her of attacking her. When they find J-Bird, she starts to flat-line and Andy and Juliette struggle to save her while being threatened by Kenzie. Meanwhile the seemingly model prisoner Nick was helping transport to a less-secure facility turns out to be a manipulative sociopath and J-Bird's real attacker. Rochelle threatened to kill Kenzie if J-Bird didn't blame Kenzie. After giving Nick the slip and making her way to the infirmary, Rochelle tries to kill J-Bird while Andy and Juliette are distracted by another problem. Backup arrives just in time.

Episode 6, Home Run: The police hold a softball game between them and members of a troubled neighborhood, as part of a community outreach program. The game is interrupted by a drive-by shooting that wounds two people. The prime suspect is Boz Shepherd, the man who became leader of the Jameson gang after events in an episode last season. However, Gail thinks Michie, the girl who eventually testifies it was Boz, is hiding something. She soon learns that Michie's boyfriend Boris, who was one of the victims, had sent a sex video of him and Michie out to all their classmates. Gail then deduces Michie's brother stole Boz's car and shot Boris in retaliation for what he did to Michie. Michie eventually admits it and her brother is arrested, which means Boz is off the hook, to Steve's disgust.

Episode 7, Best Man: An autistic boy goes missing and his parents are terrified. At first foul play is suspected, but eventually, Oliver and Nick find him in a junkyard, passed out in a wardrobe that had been picked up from his neighborhood earlier that day. They return him safely home.

Episode 9, Ninety Degrees: At Marlo's support group for psychiatric conditions like her bipolar disorder, someone is murdered, seemingly in a robbery scenario. Later, another patient has a drug-related seizure in the bathroom. It's soon learned that one of Sam's previous informants who occasionally attends the meetings was selling drugs to patients of the facility.
During the chaos, one patient disappeared. Marlo is worried about her because she'd seemed particularly unstable. After speaking with Sylvia's ex-husband, Marlo realizes Sylvia might harm herself so they head to Sylvia's home. There, they find her ready to jump from her balcony. Marlo talks her down and back inside. But soon Sylvia locks herself in the bathroom with a knife. Before Marlo can help her she goes into labor. Hearing Marlo's labor pains, Sylvia eventually calms down and helps Andy deliver the baby.

Episode 10, Breaking up the Band: Dov and Andy are patrolling a music festival when they encounter a girl who ends up passing out from a drug overdose. While investigating what happened to her, they learn other girls have also been getting sick from drugs. After some detective work the suspect becomes one of the bands performing, as they were caught some years ago with under-age girls in their trailer. The band insists they've cleaned up their act. Eventually it's learned that one of the girls they were caught with was the festival promoter's sister and it becomes clear he's been drugging girls to pin it on the band for revenge. As Chloe arrests him in his trailer, the boyfriend of the initial victim, who has died from the drugs, locks them in the trailer and lights it on fire in a fit of grief and rage. Chloe and the promoter are rescued and both the boyfriend and the promoter are arrested.

Cases personally involving officers

In the first episode of the season, Andy gets attacked when she arrives at Traci's house one night to crash there while Traci is out. The masked man gets the jump on her but she manages to fight him off and he flees. It's soon realized that Traci was the intended target and the man had entered through an open window — he did it to a neighbor recently, and raped her. Assuming the guy is a serial rapist, Sex Crimes comes in and takes over the case. They tell the officers to lay low because if the guy finds out police are on to him, he'll go to ground. The officers don't listen and sure enough, they screw up and the real rapist disappears.

It's not until episode 5 that the storyline is revisited. Just before she's about to lead her first raid, Traci is kidnapped after responding to a fake call about her son. The suspect is a guy named Adrian Clark. His alibi is flimsy and Andy is certain when she looks in his eyes that he's the guy who attacked her. However, they don't find Traci anywhere in Clark's house so they realize there might be a partner involved. Juliette uses her hacker skills to discover that Clark met another person on a deep web chat room for essentially, kinky, bad people. It's Corey, the coffee shop employee whom police initially suspected of attacking Andy but was cleared.

Meanwhile, Corey has Traci bound to a chair in his basement. She tries to get him to free her by first pretending she's into him, then by daring him to do the act himself — it turns out Clark actually rapes the girls but Corey picks them out and watches footage of the attacks. Corey decides to take action, and once she's freed, Traci fights him off and escapes to a laundry room. Just after Corey breaks into the room, find Traci and is about to hurt her, the officers arrive and Andy gets the honors of decking Corey and arresting him. Traci escapes virtually unharmed.

Nick's nefarious act

Nick got an entire episode about his past, and it showed a darker side to him than anyone thought possible. He ditches Chloe one morning to meet with a mysterious man in a wheelchair who is revealed to be his brother. His brother tells him that he's found a man they've been looking for for quite some time so it's time for Nick to carry out their plan.

Turns out this man is the man they believe responsible for the car accident that killed their parents and paralyzed Nick's brother. Nick finds the man at a bar and strikes up a casual conversation with him. They eventually start talking about bad things they've done and Nick coaxes him into mentioning the accident, when he was driving drunk, hit a family and fled the scene. Hearing the confession irks Nick but he keeps his cool. They eventually end up on a rooftop and when it finally comes out who Nick really is and what he wants with the man, the man isn't surprised. He says he's been so guilty since that day that it's ruined his life. But during their confrontation, the man tells Nick that even though he was drunk driving, it was Nick's brother, who was behind the wheel, though Nick had always thought it'd been his father, who drove into the opposite lane, causing the crash. This infuriates Nick and he ends up almost knocking the man off the roof. He saves him at the last second but then points a gun at him. Juliette — who had been tracking Nick down since her, Chloe and Andy realized he may be up to something fishy — arrives on the roof at that point, though. Nick lowers his weapon, tells her to arrest him and walks away. That's that.

The station bombing

All season long Dov and Marlo work on the bombing case, even after Inspector Jarvis and Commissioner Santana mysteriously tell them the case is closed. At some point they make a breakthrough, learning of a man named Chris Klem who sells bombs to police, but he has mysteriously vanished.

At the end of episode 6, we learn Juliette has been suspicious because she's the Internal Affairs agent Sam asked Noelle to send in to investigate who planted the bomb, since it seems it was an inside job. Juliette tells Noelle her prime suspect is Oliver because his key card was used to enter the evidence room twenty minutes before the explosion.

In episode 7, Andy, Sam and Dov try to figure out who was really responsible to clear Oliver's name. They manage to track down Chris Klem who has been on the run with his daughter, fearing for his life that police officers were trying to kill him. However, instead of giving them a different suspect, he tells them that the person who bought a bomb from him before the evidence room explosion went by the name of Oliver Shaw. BUT... at the end of the episode when Klem is in Traci's car on their way to a safe spot, Traci gets a call from Steve. Klem sees the picture ID on the phone — Steve's picture — and says "that's Oliver Shaw."

In episode 8 Traci keeps what she's learned about Steve to herself, instead trying to follow him and discover for herself whether he's dirty. Meanwhile, Juliette helps Dov, Andy and Sam try to prove Santana is the real man responsible for the bomb by teaching them how to set up an "Integrity Test" — feeding Santana false info that would make a guilty man panic and seeing what he does. They use Duncan as bait, telling him about supposed backups of the evidence incriminating corrupt police that was blown up in the bomb. As expected, Duncan tells Santana. When Gail and Nick, who were waiting at the warehouse, have to leave to respond to a call, Andy goes there instead. She's soon surprised to see Steve Peck arriving in search of the data drives. At first she thinks he's been let in on the sting, so she reveals herself, but then she realizes he's doing Santana's dirty work. Steve eventually confesses he got involved with Santana and the mob bosses Santana works with and has struggled to escape their clutches. The scene is intense, with a tone that suggests Steve might attack Andy. He doesn't but he turns his back to her and walks out of the building, convinced Andy won't shoot him. But Gail and Nick are waiting outside, so he surrenders. Nick arrests him while a stunned Gail looks on.

In episode 9 the ramifications of the scandal has led to Oliver being cleared and back on duty, but as a regular officer again, with Jarvis temporarily handling staff sergeant duties. In episode 10, Traci is still reeling from finding out someone she trusted and loved was bad. She wants nothing to do with Steve, while Gail feels some sympathy and loyalty to her brother. She's due to testify about him in Court. Her father wants her to lie to give Steve an alibi for the bombing. As she's about to tell the court the lie or the truth, Steve saves her from the decision. He takes a plea deal, agreeing to testify against Santana in exchange for less time. So ends the bomb saga.

Now for the juicy parts... the relationships/personal drama

Chris

At the start of the season, Chris is sleeping around with a married woman he met in drug rehab — though he's at least clean and sober. The woman turns out to be Jarvis' wife. Eventually, he learns Jarvis knows about them, but doesn't care because he's only stayed with her to make sure she doesn't go off the rails. Now that she's found someone else to keep her happy and sane, he can go off with his girlfriend. Chris sure can pick them.

Traci and Steve

They started the season being on the outs but they rekindled their romance. With his criminal behavior revealed, it's safe to say she's going to have trust issues in the future.

Gail

All season long Gail was working toward adopting Sophie, the girl who's mother was shot in a case last season. But in Episode 10, after she's missed two appointments, the social worker tells her there's another family interested in Sophie. Gail is devastated at first but at the end of the episode decides to consider the idea and asks the social worker for details on the family. Will she fight for Sophie or let her go because she thinks it's in her best interest?

Chloe and Dov

Chloe was desperate to get Dov's forgiveness and get back with him throughout the beginning of the season. She eventually gives up but then when Dov says they can be friends, she says she can't. So though there's flirty, happy moments, they are mostly cold all season. Until...

At the end of episode 9 Chloe confronts Dov in the station garage. She asks why he suddenly wants to be friends. He says he doesn't. She urges him to get mad at her instead of keeping it to himself like he has since learning she lied to him about Wes and everything. He finally lets it out. He says their entire relationship was a lie and he couldn't even get mad at her when he found out because she got shot. And he's annoyed she can get away with it by being her bubbly self. Then he says what's really bothered him: that she was married and he'll never be married to her first. With that said, they stare in intense silence and Chloe whispers "do it." He takes a hit of his inhaler, which makes her giggle, then grabs her for a passionate kiss.

Nick and Juliette

When Nick sees Juliette, who is his mystery girl from the end of season five, at the station and learns she's an officer he's annoyed she didn't tell him when they first met. She said she doesn't date officers — in the prison episode she tells Andy she fell for a bad guy during an undercover operation so now she keeps her distance from men related to her work world. But Nick is charmingly persistent and Juliette slowly caves. Eventually they have sex and initiate a clandestine relationship. When he finds out that she's an Internal Affairs agent and has been spying on Nick and his colleagues, he is furious. She asks for forgiveness but he doesn't budge, even when she tells him she's going back to Vancouver. However, toward the end of episode 10, Oliver encourages him to take the chance to get to know the real Juliette. So when she's on her way to the airport he pulls up behind her cab in his squad car, approaches her window and grants the forgiveness. They kiss and he suggests going with her to Vancouver, to which she happily agrees.

Marlo, Sam & Andy

In the first episode of the season, Sam finds out about Marlo's pregnancy. He is shocked and panicked. He tries to tell Andy shortly after, though he knows it will be hard, but before he can, she gets attacked. So it's not until the next episode that she finds out. At the end of it, after Andy's taken some time to process and freak out, she joins Sam in his car outside the station. He tells her she deserves the perfect family and he wanted to have that with her. She says she wanted that too, but just because a hitch has been thrown in that plan, doesn't mean she gives up. She says she doesn't know how to handle their situation but she loves him so she promises there will never be a day where his child doesn't feel loved by her. With that they share a moment of silence and a simple kiss.

In episode six, while everyone else participates in the softball game, Sam and Andy head to Oliver's cabin for a weekend getaway. Things go horribly awry, first by Andy obsessing over her suspicions of Juliette, then by possibly hitting an animal and getting poison ivy while looking around in the woods for it, and then, they arrive at the cabin to find it ransacked by some animal. So they have to spend the day cleaning the place. Sam stays unusually optimistic throughout it but eventually, as they're down by the lake, he expresses his disappointment that all he wanted was the perfect weekend but instead it's been like their last six months together: the best of intentions but a disaster. Then he commends her for still being there and Andy assures him she's happy, kisses him and turns to go up to the cabin. When she looks back at him he's on his knees, holding out a ring. He asks her to marry him and when she recovers from the shock, she accepts and they kiss passionately.

They celebrate with the gang in the next episode.

But they still have Marlo to deal with. In an early episode of the season Sam attended a doctor's meeting with Marlo about the baby. It was awkward but they found some closeness when they talked about their pasts and realized they vacationed at the same beach town. It's sweet and it helps calm tensions. But although Sam was with her in the steps leading up to the birth, he missed that.

Instead, Andy was there. In fact, she had to deliver the baby herself in episode 9. It's hard to say whether that's a ridiculous, weird story line, or ingenious because it brought the women together. But if it did bond them, it didn't last. In episode 10 Andy becomes distraught when she comes home to find Marlo resting in Sam's bed and he's not even there. It leads to a confrontation between them in which Andy said she doesn't know if they can make it work and she's considering taking Juliette up on an offer to do an undercover assignment in Vancouver for six months, so Sam has time to get used to being a dad. Sam says that she's running away when things get hard.

At the end of the episode they have it out again but this time it ends well. Andy says she misses him and is sad about him having a family with someone else but he tells her she is his family and he wants more babies with her. "We both tried running away, we tried being with other people, but we keep finding our way back to each other, so let's please Andy try the one thing we haven't, let's stay together," said Andy. She agrees, they share "I love yous," kiss and then in walks a dog Sam got for them. Sam asks to get married sooner than planned.

So tonight is the wedding. Of course there will be drama, the question is... how much?

Tune in tonight at 10 p.m. on ABC.