The Rookie Season 7 Episode 9 Recap: The Kiss

This is a scene-by-scene recap of The Rookie Season 7 Episode 9. We open with James bloodied and in the ambulance.

Celina calls paramedics and cops and tells them that James has been shot.

Harper and Lopez are in the locker room talking when Grey comes in to tell them that James has been shot.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, James is fighting for his life in the ER. He has multiple gunshot wounds, and the bullets are still lodged inside.

Harper races to James’ side while Celina tells Lopez, Bradford, and Chen that the gunshot wound is bad.

While Nyla is trying to figure out about Kylie and the fact that she’s been shot as well, Nolan looks guilty and hesitant to share that he saw the two of them kissing. When he gets a moment with Harper, she expresses that James’ wounds look bad, and she hasn’t seen anyone survive those type of injuries.

Nolan tells Harper that Angela is the lead investigator. He wants to tell her more, and she can tell he’s holding back, but he doesn’t.

Wesley shows up and hugs Harper, and he’s off to figure out more information. Meanwhile, Lopez figures out who the shooter is.

As Angela is giving Grey the rundown, Wesley and Nolan walk in, and Wesley says there is another motive, jealousy. Angela doesn’t buy it, but Nolan told Wesley about the kiss he saw, and Angela is still in denial.

She asks Nolan how long he knew about the kiss, and she’s frustrated that he withheld this information for a few hours during the wildfire.

Grey tells Nolan that he cannot tell Harper what he saw because Harper is a suspect because of the jealousy motive.

Bailey shows up to ask about James and check in on Harper, but she passes out, and now she has to have medical assistance at the hospital.

Grey talks to Harper about how protocols her being a suspect, and she accepts that. She’s struggling and tells Grey about how they’ve been having a hard time, and they barely even saw each other the past few weeks. Grey supports and comforts her.

Nolan tasks Celina with looking after Bailey, who passed out from dehydration.

Bailey takes the opportunity to check in on Celina to see how she’s feeling after witnessing the shooting.

Bradford and Chen have sights on their suspect and chase him down. They end up in a high speed chase with the suspect.

They nearly get in an accident and lose visual of the suspect, and they narrowly miss running into a senior aged lady and a crowd of people. The suspect ran over an older lady and kept going. They have to stop to help.

Bradford and Lucy feel guilty that they missed the driver because they had to take care of the lady.

Meanwhile, Grey and Nolan have to search through Harper’s home as part of the investigation. Nolan finds evidence that James was friends with an anti-cop activist/extremist named Leonard who has a warrant for burning police cars and other things.

It’s a bigger problem for Harper because she had the man in her home.

They tell Angela, but she cannot tell Harper about it, which she’s not happy about.

They’re trying to make it seem like Harper and Connor have a relationship of some sort because she arrested him at some point.

Grey faces his superior who talks about how compromised the department could be because of all of this.

While talking to fellow patients at the hospital, Bailey realizes that the two men have smoke and burn injuries from acid, and she warns they may have a drug operation or something. Celina is excited she may make her first big bust off of rookie probation.

The department lead goes to speak to Harper, shows her the photo of James with Leonard, and throws out her suspicions about James’ involvement with this criminal and things he may have kept from Harper. Harper tells her that she can ask James all of that when he wakes up and that she’s still under the impression tha the was an innocent bystander and the shooter was really after Kylie.

She also asks for her union rep, Nolan, but the woman tells her that Nolan is the one who also saw James and Kylie kissing and reported it, shocking Harper.

Grey walks in on Vivian talking to Harper and pulls Vivian out of the room. He goes off on her for violating the rules with speaking to Harper without reading her rights and other things.

Vivian claims after the scandal with corrupt cops, they have to be proactive and tells Grey that he has to put Harper on administrative leave.

Harper overhears and hands in her badge and gun. She asks Grey about James having an affair, and he honestly answers that he doesn’t know anything more about that beyond the kiss Nolan saw.

Chen and Bradford have a hard time with the case and Chen speaks about the woman dying. She sympathizes with the daughter.

But then a woman comes in claiming that she’s the woman’s daughter, and her only daughter. They go into the room where they thought the other daughter was, and the real daughter says that it’s her mother’s maid. The maid is stealing the woman’s jewelry.

Celina walks in to talk to the guys in the hospital. She has lab reports confirming the meth. She says she’s going to arrest them. But the one collapses out of the bed, while the other says they didn’t make meth, they just stole it from someone else.

Wesley comes in to speak to Harper and check in with her. He encourages her to have faith since a lot of things keep happening with James.

She asks Wesley if James was cheating on her.

She knew they had bro code, but he’s her friend, too. He comforts her, and tells her that James was devoted to her, and he didn’t hear anything about him cheating. James never mentioned much about Kyle, and he’s not surprised about the photo because that’s exactly who James is, helping people.

Nolan finds out more information about the white supremacist anti-cop guys related to the case with Connor. They plan to pick him up.

The guys’ story about stealing from a meth lab tracks. They put the money in their butts when they heard sirens, and they only got exposure to the meth because of the lab.

Nolan has the arsonist arrested at the hospital after misleading him into thinking his father was there.

Angela speaks to one of the gang leaders about Connor and taking out the competition. He gives them a location for him.

Bradford, Nolan, and Chen head to the location, which appears to be a film lot in search of Connor. Nolan happens across Connor who is on the run. He starts shooting at them, and they engage in gunfire and a footchase.

Bradford manages to tackle Connor, and they arrest him.

Nyla hears news about James. He woke from surgery, and she goes in to speak to him.

She breaks down crying. She tells him about his surgeries and how optimistic they are about his recovery. He apologizes for putting through all of the stress from the shooting. He tells her he has to tell her about Kylie. He realizes she knows about the kiss.

He tells her the truth about the Kylie kiss and what really happened. He tells her how much he loves her, apologizes, and says he would never hurt her. She knows that.

Vivian isn’t pressing charges against Harper, and Grey is reinstating her.

Nolan is proud of Celina for making a big bust.

Nolan speaks to Harper about the kiss, and he was feeling guilty. He hated that he has to lie to her and tells her that she is his hero. They hug.

Nolan takes Bailey home.