The WORST episodes of Rookie Blue
Every episode of Rookie Blue ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Rookie Blue!
The stakes are high for five young cops fresh out of the Academy and ready for their first day with one of the most elite units in the city. Under the watchful guidance of their officers, Andy McNally and her four fellow rookies quickly learn that no amount of training could prepare them for this new world where every day is a first. Each case they tackle and choice they make will impact their lives, but it's their personal relationships that may play an even greater role in defining the cops they become.
#1 - Fresh Paint
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/24/2010
Andy McNally’s first shift on the job turns into mayhem when shots are fired in a downtown rooming house. In the midst of the chaos, Andy triumphantly makes her first big arrest – a suspected drug dealer – who turns out to be Sam Swarek, an undercover officer from her own division. She makes up for her grave mistake by going face to face with a dangerous gunman who already has one man’s blood on his hands.
#2 - Fite Nite
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/8/2010
While working on a high-stakes gun raid, Andy and Gail stumble upon a victim of domestic abuse whose brutal experience in the system has taught her not to trust the police. When Andy promises to protect the woman from her abuser, she soon learns that it takes more than just following protocol to be good at her job. Meanwhile, the other rookies get caught up in the annual police retirement boxing match – a fundraising event known as “Fite Nite.”
#3 - Mercury Retrograde
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/1/2010
As the other rookies hunt down a dangerous escaped convict, Swarek drags Andy through his undercover haunts on a mission he won’t explain. At first, Andy assumes Swarek is a rogue cop trying to settle scores from his undercover days. Then she realizes two things: he’s actually trying to track down a missing informant whose life is in danger now that his cover has been blown; and, that there is an undeniable attraction between them.
#4 - Big Nickel
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/26/2010
Andy’s attempt to avoid Swarek is thwarted when both are assigned to a prisoner transport. When things go awry and the inmate breaks loose, the two officers are led on a cat-and-mouse foot chase through the meandering woods. Meanwhile, Chris and Traci help Jerry reconstruct the missing notes of a vital court case, and Dov and Gail piece together the mystery behind an amnesiac John Doe.
#5 - Messy Houses
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/5/2012
Andy answers a domestic disturbance call to find the social worker on the scene is her estranged mother; Sam, Nick, Chris and Gail search for a mother and her two children; a stash of guns recovered by Detective Barber turns up on the streets.
#6 - In Blue
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/9/2010
There’s a nervous tension in the air on Judgment Day for all the rookies at 15 Division who will have to undergo make-or-break assessments by Staff Sergeant Frank. But after the death of an unidentified girl at a house party – an emotionally harrowing experience that pushes all of her buttons – Andy begins to question whether she has what it takes to be a copper and contemplates handing in her badge.
#7 - The Rules
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/23/2012
Andy and Nick investigate when a neighborhood drug lord threatens a priest's life; a young drug-runner's refusal to turn informant leads Traci to make a decision about her career; Chris and Swarek butt heads; Dov's relationship takes a dark turn.
#8 - Perfect Family
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/28/2015
Andy contemplates her future with Sam after learning heartbreaking news; Andy meets a teen in need of protection.
#9 - A Real Gentleman
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/18/2015
When Traci is a no-show for her first raid, 15 Division fears the notorious gun dealer they’re after has kidnapped her. But when Andy realizes that the serial rapist who was never caught is back, it’s all hands on deck to find Traci – while Traci faces off with her captor and tries to escape before it’s too late.
#10 - Letting Go
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/11/2015
When Nick’s estranged older brother emerges with new information on someone from their tragic past, Nick goes off the grid to track the man down. But Juliet is hot on his heels, and Nick is forced to let her into the secrets of his past.
#11 - Bullet Proof
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/29/2010
Andy’s romance with Det. Luke Callaghan gets complicated when he chooses her for a special assignment - serving a search warrant for a bullet lodged in the head of a witness to murder. When the witness escapes, Andy risks her life to apprehend him, but later finds herself at odds with Luke over the next steps in the case. Meanwhile, the other rookies discover the shocking truth behind evidence from a fatal traffic accident.
#12 - You Are Here
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/22/2013
A routine drug bust turns into Traci's first murder case; Swarek, Oliver, Chris and Dov spend a weekend at Oliver's cabin; Andy and Sam both have confessions to make.
#13 - Stung
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/21/2011
A local car dealership is the backdrop for a Division 15 sting operation to crack down on suspects with outstanding warrants. However, when one of the captured criminals tries to bargain for a lighter sentence by offering insider information to Dov and Chris, it puts them in peril in a booby-trapped meth house. Meanwhile, Jo convinces Luke to help her on a high-stakes surveillance job. Trapped together in a hotel room, the two detectives finally have it out over their past, raising the question of whether they are really finished
#14 - Open Windows
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/21/2015
Andy and Sam return to work; Andy is attacked at Traci's place and Sex Crimes Unit tries to take over the case
#15 - Home Run
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/24/2015
After a community-outreach baseball game erupts in a drive-by shooting, Gail’s relationship with her brother, Steve Peck, is put to the test in the search for the shooter. Meanwhile, Sam plans a getaway with Andy up to Oliver’s cabin, which goes off the rails in every possible way – except one.
#16 - To Serve or Protect
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/2/2010
What was to be a routine day for Andy is abruptly put on hold when her ex-copper father, Tommy, confesses that he might have committed a serious crime during one of his alcohol-induced blackouts while settling a score that has tortured him for years. As she and Swarek try to piece together what happened, little by little she begins to uncover the truth about the case that sent her father over the edge – evidence that could possibly send him to prison.
#17 - Friday the 13th
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/1/2013
When a missing persons case is reopened, Swarek teams with his training officer to solve it; Chloe and Dov deal with a witch and her client.
#18 - Uprising
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/4/2015
A riot breaks out at a women’s correctional institute while Andy, Juliet, Nick, and Gail are there to transfer prisoners. They end up separated and in a lock-down situation that finds Andy and Juliet trapped with a woman desperate to prove her innocence.
#19 - Girlfriend of the Year
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/19/2010
After a routine speed trap leads to a messy accident on a city highway, Chris and Gail find one of the cars mysteriously empty and quickly realize that its license plate matches the one being broadcast in a citywide “Amber Alert” – a nine-year old girl has been abducted and the driver of the vehicle is the prime suspect. A whirlwind manhunt ensues involving a complex interrogation of the missing child’s parents. As always, everyone has a secret.
#20 - Leap of Faith
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/19/2012
After losing a key witness in an upcoming trial, officers from 15 Division must turn to a man who claims to be psychic.
#21 - Going Under
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/16/2014
After tracking a gun found at a frat house, Division 15 goes under cover at a bar that is supplying illegal firearms; Dov becomes suspicious of Chris' behavior; Andy helps Sam with a missing person case.
#22 - Heart & Sparks
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/14/2011
The torching of a Laundromat is the latest in a series of arsons which the 15th Division must work. The list of suspects is long so Chris and Gail take to the streets while Traci interrogates a person found at the scene. Andy is left to deal with the widow who insists on entering the burnt-out building which ends with the two of them trapped inside.
#23 - Breaking Up the Band
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/22/2015
Now that Sam and Marlo’s baby girl has arrived, it’s clear nothing could have prepared Andy for this moment. So when Juliet offers Andy an opportunity to leave town for 4 months on an undercover project, Andy starts to consider it. Meanwhile, Jarvis reveals the shocking news that 15 Division will be restructured following the corruption scandal.
#24 - Might Have Been
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/30/2011
Andy and Gail go undercover as cocktail waitresses to clean up a drug-infested club, but get more than they bargained for when their fellow waitress turns out to be involved with a vicious criminal. Meanwhile, Traci wrestles with feelings for her old flame, Detective Barber, Dov tries to weather the storm when a young woman files a complaint against him, and Andy unwittingly opens up to Sam about her commitment to Luke.
#25 - Signals Crossed
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/15/2010
Andy’s undercover skills are tested – and found to be lacking – during a citywide campaign to clean up the streets, when she’s tapped to pose as a prostitute in order to arrest unsuspecting johns. But the real test comes when Andy and Dov inadvertently put a vulnerable street informant’s life in danger, and it’s up to the two rookies to infiltrate a dangerous gun deal in order to save the trapped woman from a group of ruthless criminals.