The last season of Blue Bloods premiered on CBS on Friday, February 16, signaling the start of the show’s finale. A large portion of the Blue Bloods Season 14 premiere’s plot featured cop show fodder, including arguments within the Reagan family about when and how to administer justice, among other things.
However, two storylines will remain as some of the primary problems the police family faces in the show’s last few episodes. Throughout the course of the episodes, Jamie (Will Estes) will be engaged in a risky undercover operation within a sex trafficking organization.
Watchers spotted him escorting abducted women to a place that was kept secret in the first episode. Jamie brushes heads with the despicable Hader (guest actor Aaron Abrams) while the criminal is imprisoning the women in a covert warehouse, trying to stop him from sexually abusing one of the women.
Later, their scheme is exposed, and Jamie surreptitiously arrests Hader after framing him as a spy. The ring leader then determines that burning the women alive is the only way to kill them, but Jamie persuades him otherwise. At the end of the episode, Jamie suddenly returns home for family dinner after a three-week absence, but he soon needs to return to hiding.
Recap
In another scene, Mayor Peter Chase (Dylan Walsh), who is deciding to suspend the right-to-shelter law in response to a busload of immigrants seeking sanctuary in New York City, calls in a favor for Frank (Tom Selleck). The mayor claims that instead of being for the homeless, it’s being utilized as a “catch-all” that will cost the city $5 billion to manage.
Frank criticizes the politician and his intentions, saying, “This is coming from the guy who a minute ago was greeting those buses with hot coffee and handshakes.” Chase claims that since suspending the law would be divisive, he needs Frank’s backing.
Frank says, “This is not a cop thing.” When the mayor requests that Frank “work up some numbers” to support this policy decision, he is demonstrating his preference for politics over people. Chase continues, “You can talk about the crime wave,” to which Frank responds, “This influx isn’t the cause of the crime wave.”
Chase responds, “I’ve seen you cook the book for your cops like you have four Michelin stars,” as Frank presses him more. Frank confides in his inner circle in his office, saying, “I don’t disagree with the mayor’s position—not to leave this room.”
He contends that while the right to shelter was intended to serve as a safety net, the influx of newcomers has overloaded it. “It becomes a liability, a hazard, and it defeats the whole point if you overload the safety net.”By secretly arranging a meeting with Eddie’s (Vanessa Ray) colleague, Badillo (Ian Quinlan), a Latino police whose parents were immigrants, Detective Abigail Baker (Abigail Hawk) questions Frank’s viewpoint.
He learned a lot from the officer, who said that when police take a political stand, it allows criminals to portray themselves as “the opposition” party. At first, Frank informs the mayor that he is unable to officially back this political action.