Reagan household patriarch Henry arrives in Boston on Friday’s “Boston Blue,” ostensibly to meet up with outdated cop associates. However the true cause for the go to is not revealed till the episode’s ultimate moments.
Len Cariou’s beloved “Blue Bloods” character is first seen early within the hour, however his look takes a backseat to the case of the week, which sees Rev. Peters shot after being caught within the crossfire — to not fear, he pulls by — and the following arrival of Mae’s older sister Jill (performed by Holly Robinson Peete). Whereas sifting by household archives, Mae discovers that their mom, whom she believed had died in a automobile accident, really died by suicide from a drug overdose. Jill was the one who discovered their mother unconscious on the ground, however Rev. Peters selected to defend Mae from the reality, and Jill went together with it. Mae is understandably harm, telling Jill she’ll want time to course of this newfound actuality.
So quickly after receiving closure relating to the homicide of her husband Ben — and even sooner after her father was gunned down exterior his church — Mae is as soon as once more pressured to reckon with profound loss, pouring salt in an outdated wound.
Henry Has a Shock for Danny
Henry’s go to, in the meantime, is much extra lighthearted. He reunites together with his grandson Danny and will get to see his great-grandson Sean on responsibility. Seeing him in uniform for the primary time in individual, he references Tom Selleck’s Frank, telling Sean, “In case your grandfather may see you now….”
However that is not why he is actually on the town. Again on the Silver residence, he reveals that he is there to assist clean Danny’s transition to the BPD.
“I’ve a buddy at Boston HQ who tells me {that a} sure lieutenant with 25 years on the job has the very same quantity as Danny’s outdated defend,” he says. “So I figured that if I gave him a bottle of scotch with 25 years on it, we may make a good commerce.”
As such, Danny might have to show in his NYPD defend, however he’ll get to retain the identical quantity — and the gesture brings him to tears. However earlier than Danny can formally turn out to be a Boston detective, he’ll need to serve a shift in uniform, which, as collection co-creator Brandon Margolis beforehand informed TVLine, “is one thing we positively plan to discover as an episode concept within the again half of the season.”
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