They’ll just pull a rookie blue and make the rookies training officers

According to the creator, he would be a rookie to any place within the department.

what is this season 3? in real life they throw you out if you couldnt be trusted to be by yourself after 6 months

Or just by adding new rookies every season

maybe the show will end with him being promoted

Yeah but he screwed himself over in the process. Lets hope it doesn't hamper him too much.

He's got promotion now since he pass the sargent exam. Position opened up for him in north hollywood but, he's not interested moving up just yet. Because he hasn't finish his training yet with chen.

Agreed. Bradford is by far my favorite.

They teased that Grey is going to retire so maybe Bradford is going to replace him as the sergeant there.

Yeah, but John hoped to become a detective when he was eligible, so it still kinda stinks.

No he hasn't the only reason he was still a patrolman when Nolan arrived was because he had served in the Army

It s all true he said that cause. Harper has a habit of doing what she wants and going against the rules. It was only a matter of time before it caught up with her.

To be fair Internal Affairs has a looong history of treating cops like shit and failing to go after the real crooked police.

I've seen good IA people and bad. I have seen them screw over officers for nothing while protecting people who should be (and eventually were) fired. I have also seen them pass on BIs on people who shouldn't be on the job. I generally liked having a competent and fair IA unit as a cop. They fulfill a needed purpose, and neutral fact finders can really cover your ass down the line if you did something right but controversial. In the end, I spent a lot of my career as a supervisor. I wanted a good IA unit. I never felt the need to be fearful of them.

The problem here is the context of the situation which he is dismissing. One of the reasons why people see departments like IA or QA as the enemy is because it is their job to find the problems which nowadays are what get focused on rather than evaluating the individual in question as a whole. In this situation you'd have the word of a 40+ rookie with some marks on his record accusing a well respected and highly decorated detective of framing him for being an informant for criminal elements as well as possessing copious amounts of drugs in his house in a hidden compartment Nolan knew nothing about. 2+2 means that there will be unconscious bias in the detectives favor no matter how you justify Percy's outrage. Plus people have a natural belligerence for any figure with a significant civil authority, you can't expect people to have an even greater degree of caution around the watchers who watch the watchers without watchers watching them. It's just human nature to be wary of others since power to humans is just as dangerously addictive to abuse as cocaine.

I mean IRL officers who tried to stop corruption were run out from the force, killed or left to die.

good cops either become crooked, get ground into apathetic clock punchers or become politicians that's what we mean by ACAB

the "real" criminal was investigated as well.@@SendarSlayer

It wouldn't be the first hand wave it's a tv show moment they did when they inevitably disregard this later in the series.

the key word here is ALMOST, my guess is something will come about which will redeem Nolan's name, and if not oh well, some people are fine with being career Patrol

It depends I suppose, the easiest way I can see would to be to give him a big enough "Hero" moment which dwarves his LOR. Saying that, I'd like to see them be more creative.

Or the object of this is to keep him as a street cop throughout the series - to explain why a guy as good as he is never gets promoted.

To be honest I can see a character offering Nolan a shot at detective and when they find out about the letter of reprimand say “Well Grey’s always had a flair for the dramatic. I mean sure it isn’t easy to advance but it’s definitely not impossible.”

You mean if chen and west move up to getting promotions but, not nolan. Yeah it sucks for now I'm sure something good will come along with him this season.

@@qwentingreer6793 west is behind too he got in trouble earlier

Yeah maybe in this season you're right.

I think since she went to court and she got custody of her daughter.

Like Bradford!❤

For what he was doing his job any cop would've done the same. If they found out there's a mold inside the department and we can't trust anybody else. Especially if there are high ranking and leaders are involved and have no idea how high this goes.

We don't know yet but, I'm sure something good for nolan will come along this season when things calm down finally.

No it can't. At least not in the real world. The most that can be done is accomplish something extraordinary to over shadow it. Which I have a feeling is what is going to happen.

@@napalmstickylikeglue I hope we're right

I don't recall what this was about, but I never worried about petty discipline stuff like that. Some agencies may have a policy to expunge them after a period of time. You drive on. You establish a service reputation, and it doesn't matter. So long as you don't make the same kind of mistake again, it's no big deal. I was written up right before I was promoted to sergeant. A lieutenant gave me a stupid but legal order. I griped about it a lot. When he gave me the counseling statement, he gave me some advice about how writing cops up was good for them. I thought it was a bunch of BS. Writing people up is something I needed to do sometimes, but if you're doing it too much, you're probably failing as a leader.

The lead-up to the operation, where Nolan and Harper did their own investigation, was NOT sanctioned. They were not sanctioned to investigation crooked cops. They should have reported it ASAP. And that they didn't is what got Nolan framed as a dirty cop. If Armstrong hadn't been killed, the two of them would have all but handed the jury reasonable doubt.

it is in the script.

Nyla has a GOLDEN TICKET & is a UC Detective w yrs of experience @ she PUT A LOT of dangerous criminals behind bars in the 4 yrs she was UC so FIRING her was NEVER gonna happen!! Nolan got his GOLDEN TICKET & used it to become a TO, so it ALL worked out!!

They didntreport the investigation into the bad detective, they infact did an off book IAD investigation when enither of them were IAD... basically everything they did after the other rook was killed at the ball field allowed the mess they were in

@@frances3064 ahhh ok! Understood

Sshhh. I watch it on look movie with a vpn....

Thank u. Your not the only one who feels that way.

He was doing is job and they underestimate Armstrong and the criminal who was involved of all of this. He made not just the department but, the rest of California law enforcement look bad. And nolan couldn't trust anybody inside the department who was dirty expect grey, chan, bradford, west, harper and lopez.

The black guy I missed him when he was on judging Amy a lot of people didn't like that show because he was always with a white woman but that was just a professional relationship in the courtroom but in the season finale the final season of judging Amy him and the actress that played Amy they finally got together after many huddles and trial and tribulation the brother finally got the white woman she was happy and he was happy

Hopefully he's able to move on up. Graduate.

Amen to that he did the right thing

This prediction was almost on point he had a golden ticket and didn’t use it to be detective he had a different path he wanted to take but could of

There is a reason I didn’t follow-through after passing the recruit trooper exams with the Oregon State Police. Dealing with that level of corruption would drive me insane. I’d love to see Nolan stick it out a couple years, then move to a small town, get voted in as Sheriff, and any time the LAPD wanted his cooperation in his county, he could call the CHP and tell Grey to pound sand.

But his former employer could tell his new one about the Letter of Reprimand.

Bigger paycheck, not forced to wear a uniform...bigger paycheck.

@@Kerorofan1990 and bigger paycheck

Solve crime after it happens. Unfortunately the results are tragic many times. But closure.is very powerful.

yes, there are a billion, but none with Fillion

@@jamesnicholson3658 Castle?

@@sothyt2162 Castle wasn’t a detective he was writer (Basically a pseudo detective though)

*SPOILERS:* He becomes one in S5

@@justjoannak I figured based on the finale of S4. Hope it's not the last season

s3 e1

What episode

Yes this is the start of the new season

@@moseskuria1234 I’m from Ireland and they don’t show it on tv so u have to watch it online and I never knew they made a new season I just remember the last episode ending

gamgaming oh I didn't know

Feel the exact same, we didn't get S2 in the UK until it finished airing over in the US probably going to be around the same timeline as last year for us both lol...

@@Badge-bt3uk sadly it’s more than likely :(

@@Badge-bt3uk I watch it on look movie with a vpn. Better than waiting for it come out here.

Criminals need to be held accountable

Not anytime soon tho

@@jeramiahbyrd5229 they can do a time jump and explain it like that

I agree I hated that as well and I have a feeling that its just gonna get worse through out the season.

@@Wyr_111 its stupid because from his actions we know he is not racist. There is a more complex story they could have gone with. They could have shown how he deals with other officers that are racist. And also how he would deal with being accused of being racist just because he's a white person. It's a complicated situation ( three dimensional) that they are making one-dimensional and too simplistic.

@@BS-ne5cr I one hundred percent agree with you. I was okay with westly saying it because he's kinda always been like that. But its started to happen with the other characters in the second episode and im not happy about it.

Yeah, makes me worry for the future of the show. Bad place to put that stuff anyway. They want to talk about racial injustice because of cops, in a show where the original captain was a woman of ethnic backround, the long standing sergeant is black, two out of three of the main rookies are colored, two out of three of the TOs are colored, the head of IA is black, the head detective was black for 2 seasons, the task force they worked with using Bradford's wife as a ci was led by a black man, if you want to have a talk about racial issues in America I'm all for it, but in a show where 80% of the fucking cast and lead characters and people in charge are people of color... that is NOT the time or place, have fun tanking your show into the dust. Poor Nathan, caught up in this shit and if it keeps going it will burn his entire name to the ground with it.

@@Wyr_111I honestly think the Wesley line was more of a surprise than the other stuff throughout season 3. Jackson getting paired with Stanton led to more direct racism in the episodes, and Nolan and Harper getting assigned to the community center both led to more situations that involved the topic of racism. Even Harper’s “white savior” line in the beginning of the season was done sort of well, not calling him one, but saying that despite his good intentions some of his actions gave the wrong impression. But, the show made it a point to show he was still doing good. He connected with people, helped a man who needed work, and then saved his life, it was a way to include the topic without criticizing the character. Meanwhile, when Wesley is talking to Nolan in the station after he was arrested, he goes off about how if Nolan wasn’t a white male cop then he wouldn’t be receiving this level of treatment. I mean yeah, you’re technically right, but he is caught up in a police corruption cover up and is being framed by another cop, who is his close friend, all of which is happening right after two people he went to the academy with were killed. So it just doesn’t feel like the place or the time to even try to bring up a racial element, but he does so anyways, because season 3 focuses on racism, so they need to mention it in the first episode, no matter how weird it feels.

In the real LAPD they call it "Thursday."

Because he did not bring it to internal affairs

I thought that too, but I think the whole season is going to be a kind of ''redemption'' arc for Nolan. So yeah he may have his job back in the first episode but I think the whole season could be hell for him.

This episode was to wrap up season 2. The preview shows that season 3 will mostly be about BLM and working in that type of environment

@@1inamillion367 I'm aware what it's purpose is. But it just feeds into the cliche that everything gets solved in 40 minutes or less. Just like the cliche that the bad guy always loses in most tv shows and movies.

@@napalmstickylikeglue I get what you’re saying

There's a reason why they call it 'Noble Cause corruption'. Their off the books investigation would have sabotaged any case against Armstrong, as any half skilled defense attorney could have used what happened to seed reasonable doubt.

Or is Nolan playing Nathan drake 🤔

He broke protocol and started up his own investigation with his T.O which is causing him to be held back and and loosing his chances to move up in the job

To uphold the law they went around the law and the standard operating procedures and regulations of the LAPD. As a Rookie, you are held to an even higher standard. You’re attempting to prove to your colleagues and superiors that you are capable of being trusted to follow the law, procedures and orders given to you by the chain of command which you are expected to follow. You have the power to use deadly force in the course of your duties and make arrests which can result in someone going to prison for the rest of their lives or even face execution. That is not a power given out lightly, nor should it. I think because of “Plot Armor” and dependent on the continued ratings success of the show, you will see Nolan earn the trust back for eventual advancement.

He will always ve a rookie as that's what the show u s about... being a pp Athol officer uvgave less work and lk ess danger then being in swat or dectitive

@@name2.040 He was doing his job plus they couldn't trust anybody in the department who was dirty and the mole. There's too much corruption with every law enforcement who's on criminals payroll these days even all the way to top of the highest leader worst of all.

@@cheekypeteski7545 well whatever happens for nolan something good will get him back on track in no time this season.

What did it do wrong in 10 minutes

Why?

probably a racist then

Given rookie has been staged to just take actual incidents from the news and change the names to make its episode…if you think it’s woke, that might be a sign your beginning to resize world aint so great for anyone not white. So good on you

Good