Somebody within the Reagan household goes to must order new enterprise playing cards as soon as Season 13 of CBS’ Blue Bloods will get underway.
Kevin Wade, the showrunner for what throughout the TV season is frequently Friday’s most watched program, let slip some “promotion” information when fielding an Inside Line reader query about any characters rising within the ranks throughout Season 13, which premieres Friday, Oct. 7 (now main out of the brand new firefighter drama Hearth Nation).
What’s extra, the upcoming job change will repair a little bit of drawback the crime drama has been kinda-sorta ignoring.
“It was introduced up when Jamie and Eddie (performed by Will Estes and Vanessa Ray) acquired married, that although there is no such thing as a regulation on the books, is it’s towards the rule of customized for spouses to work collectively in a precinct,” Wade reminded. “However they’ve a brand new commanding officer this season (Stephanie Kurtzuba’s Sgt. McNichols), who as quickly as she sees them says, ‘Certainly one of you goes to switch by the tip of the day.’”
However — plot twist! — neither Jamie nor Eddie will really must bid the twenty ninth precinct adieu. Cease studying now, should you don’t wish to know the way they keep away from the “split-up.”
Sgt. McNichols really “finds one other method” to unravel the issue, “which is to raise Jamie to Area Data Officer for that precinct,” Wade previewed. “Which means he’s not in uniform and he’s not on the morning rollout and all that stuff, however it’s a really actual job on the NYPD.”
Merely stated, it’s the Area Data Officer’s job to “take the same old perp who’s introduced in for no matter he’s introduced in for” and assess his potential worth as a confidential informant earlier than he’s processed out to the DA, Wade defined. “If he seems to be like a possible ‘treasure chest,’ the Area Data Officer sits them down and says, ‘I feel we will most likely minimize you a break on this, relying on what you can provide us….’
For Jamie, the job of FIO can be “an fascinating little bit of diplomacy and hard-nosed policing, and a fishing expedition,” Wade stated — plus, it lets him work on the similar precinct the place he’s been solidifying his lawman profession, whereas spouse Eddie does similar.
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