S07.E11: Speed

[Snazzy Daisy]

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John and Celina find themselves in a hostage situation while undercover for a public safety initiative.

While Angela and Nyla investigate the suspects, Tim challenges Lucy’s decision-making skills.

Air Date: Mar 25, 2025

 

Edited Wednesday at 06:48 AM by Snazzy Daisy

[Sandman]

Oh, Jesus. I give up! The show needs to quit it with the Ridonkulous Redhead. 

Edited Wednesday at 04:02 AM by Sandman

[Msample]

Ugh, Zero Dark Bailey is back.

[EtheltoTillie]

I thought this was a great episode until Bailey came to save the day and then worse when our red headed friend showed up ugh. Still well done hostage situation, even though this was the fourth one in about three weeks ( 2 FBIs and SVU).  

[Raja]

Sorry Sandra The Rookie's Speed 2 was better than yours.

Did anyone really expect a medic of the week would show up? That would be like some other detective breaking the case or a supervisor from another LAPD division running the operation.

With Sergeant Bradford bounced from Metro I guess we won't see them being mini SWAT anymore. In the situation where the main team was playing pop quiz and transferring people to the main hostage bus they had the opportunity for a B- team Metro platoon going to back up our detectives, who of course disobeyed the incident commanding Lieutenant and walked into a robot firing a machine gun.

[Snazzy Daisy]

This is actually a decent episode until Monica appears. I am so over her — a caricature villain who overstays her welcome. 😣

Celina is great in her first undercover assignment. And her concern for Nolan is so sweet.

I also like the newly developed bond between Lt. Grey and Miles. Will we get to see their rib cook-off?

I cannot believe Miles manage to put his ring up for sale while being occupied in the bus/bomb fiasco. A good multitasker? 🤔

[meira.hand]

Cannot believe they did not even search the ground & garbage for anything the "pregnant" lady may have thrown away just before they arrested her. She was standing next to her phone on the ground & the stolen wallet on top of the garbage.

[shapeshifter]

14 minutes ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

This is actually a decent episode until Monica appears. I am so over her — a caricature villain who overstays her welcome. 😣

Ugh. Yes. This! So over it/her.

3 minutes ago, meira.hand said:

Cannot believe they did not even search the ground & garbage for anything the "pregnant" lady may have thrown away just before they arrested her. She was standing next to her phone on the ground & the stolen wallet on top of the garbage.

Maybe they had a tidy bit of evidence recovery planned, and then someone from the network ordered them to bring back the Big Bad?

 

[tv echo]

I'm sick of Monica - and I happen to like Bridget Regan. I'm also sick of Super Bailey.

Loved Speed, so I enjoyed the rest of this episode.

[Zaffy]

So...you want to take that government guy's card... and the simplest way is to orchestrate a whole "highjack a bus" operation where a bazillion of things could go wrong? Instead of ... I dunno hire some competent hacker or something.
Lol!
And yes, Monica has started to annoy me more than Elijah.. although I have to admit she dresses much better.
And Bailey Bond has become simply ridiculous. 

Otherwise, this could had been a decent episode, well for the recent Rookie's standards, that is.

EDITED: to add one of the funniest things I read on Reddit for this show: 

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You know, Nolan and Bailey could just adopt Celina

 

Edited Wednesday at 02:28 PM by Zaffy

[Netfoot]

Congrats to @MSterling for sniffing out Monica from a week away! Please tell me she won't be monopolizing all remaining episodes this season? There are only two remaining but that would be two too many!

Otherwise a pretty good episode. SuperBaily naturally had to do heroic deeds - she is like a meme now. Surprised she didn't race over and dodge bullets from the machine gun! (M249, I think.)

It's a pity they didn't have air-time to show a few more criminals getting busted for simple bus-crime before the hostage taking/bomb wielding/arms dealer/multi-million dollar/crypto/super-villain/secure access compromising sub-plot showed up.

Edited Wednesday at 04:05 PM by Netfoot

[milkyaqua]

Yeah, even with Super Bailey I was fine with this Speed knock off episode until Monica appeared.

I'm guessing they didn't search the area was fake pregnant lady was because I suspect she tossed the phone down that drain.  I didn't need to see Monica ever again and I do like the actress and I'm not looking to whatever time her plot is going to monopolize.  Why wouldn't she just stay out of the country, ugh!  Also, she couldn't have just hired a good pick pocket and skipped the rest of it?

I did like Lt. Grey and Miles bonding.  Celina did well and I figured she'd be worried about Nolan until she saw him in person.

On 3/26/2025 at 7:21 AM, Zaffy said:

You know, Nolan and Bailey could just adopt Celina

Ha!  This is so true.  At least Celina has a job and can feed and take care of herself.

Edited Thursday at 09:27 PM by milkyaqua

[Sandman]

39 minutes ago, milkyaqua said:

Yeah, even with Super Bailey I was fine with this Speed knock off episode until Monica appeared.

Same here. It did bug me that the writers made Chen tell us how much of a badass Super Bailey is. Yeah, sure, Chen only holds Bailey’s beer now. Whatever. The thing is, if you have to tell your audience how awesome a character is, you clearly don’t trust that you’ve shown us that character being awesome. It’s lazy writing. 

It also bugs me that Bailey’s capital murder conspiracy participation and the subsequent turmoil in her marriage to Nolan is just being swept under the rug (?) now. Did Nolan hit his head and forget the last moth?

I want Lopez to be the one to take down the redhead for good, with the assistance of Chen and Juarez and maybe Nolan. Bailey can do an awesome job at patching them all up after. You know, as in her actual job. 

[EtheltoTillie]

Here's a question:  since Monica had planned everything, did she already know that Nolan and Celina were going to be on that bus?  She kept talking about LAPD playbook.  I'm not sure I missed something there or they weren't clear about it. 

[shapeshifter]

2 hours ago, Netfoot said:

SuperBaily naturally had to do heroic deeds - she is like a meme now.

Yes. And Meme Bailey is tolerable
…in small doses.

2 hours ago, milkyaqua said:

Yeah, even with Super Bailey I was fine with this Speed knock off episode until Monica appeared.

Yeah, this reminds me of the current overpopulation of villains in real life. 
It's like they (both "they" IRL and fictional "they") exist only to make us hate one villain less in comparison to the other.

1 hour ago, Sandman said:

Yeah, sure, Chen only holds Bailey’s beer now. Whatever. The thing is, if you have to tell your audience how awesome a character is, you clearly don’t trust that you’ve shown us that character being awesome. It’s lazy writing. 

Or, it's the writers breaking the 4th wall a little?
But they do need to make it a little more humorous if they're trying to joke with the audience about [Not]Super Bailey.

But…
ugh…
you just know they replayed Bailey doing the Speed jump onto the bus 3 frickin times while Nolan asks:

• "Those, uh, social workers who are gonna come evaluate us, do you think they'll think that's badass or reckless?"

…so they can get denied for adoption because both of them live dangerous lives and Bailey is reckless.

I get that writing a baby into the lead character's life is off the table.
But sheesh. 
They just really like to drag stuff out. 
Why can't they just have them be like Hart to Hart and some of those other detective couple shows with no kids even mentioned if they aren't going to give NF a cute baby to coo at?

[Raja]

1 hour ago, EtheltoTillie said:

Here's a question:  since Monica had planned everything, did she already know that Nolan and Celina were going to be on that bus?  She kept talking about LAPD playbook.  I'm not sure I missed something there or they weren't clear about it. 

Obviously the evil AI saw it coming and told her.

[Sandman]

3 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Or, it's the writers breaking the 4th wall a little?
But they do need to make it a little more humorous if they're trying to joke with the audience about [Not]Super Bailey.

Agreed, but maybe they can break the fourth wall at Super-Duper Bailey’s expense, rather than Chen’s? It would help considerably if SDB were shown to have more of a sense of humour about herself. 

To be fair, the indestructible redhead’s snippy comment about the LAPD’s playbook could have been an attempted breaking of the fourth wall, as well. I still refuse to be charmed by her.

[Clanstarling]

Besides being "masterminded" by the obnoxious redhead (who I'd hoped was long gone), it seemed an unbelievably complicated plan just to get one man's information. A house rigged up with an automatic machine gun, a freaking bomb on the bus (I wrongly thought it was fake) I mean, the brothers could just have mugged the guy. Or murdered him and done away with his body. 

What I thought was happening at the first was that they were doing this to get someone released from jail/prison. That would have made  more sense, maybe. The plan made no sense at all. 

It's gotten so when "badass" Bailey gets in her situations, I'm actively hoping she buys it. 

I'm trying to remember if I liked anything about this episode, but the redhead reveal wiped any good thoughts out of my mind.

Edited Thursday at 06:12 PM by Clanstarling

[Red Bridey]

I don't see any reason for a government employee to be carrying around a sim card or PIV card with tons of data on it. Seems like an opsec disaster in the making. As a former fed employee, we had to take annual privacy and security trainings that strongly discouraged carrying around such devices unless you're on official business. Taking the bus to work is not. Also, that stuff would most likely be on a phone or a laptop, not in his wallet...with all the wallets and phones in a big pillowcase at the front of the bus, didn't anyone notice it was gone? Or did Fake Preggo have time to go through all the wallets in the bag to get that one wallet with that one PIV card. And if it did have all the data in the world, there is no way it would be just reported as lost and all the data in it just...left out there. This would be a Big Deal. But of course Evil Mastermind Redhead knows all and sees all and can predict the future seventy steps ahead of the mere mortal world. 

Such silliness. 

[zapper]

fed employee's wallet had his initials on it to make it easier for maternity minion to find it in the bag.

[Sandman]

17 hours ago, Red Bridey said:

As a former fed employee, we had to take annual privacy and security trainings that strongly discouraged carrying around such devices unless you're on official business

It seems like Mr Fed Employee of the Month is a pretty bad security risk anyway. The first chance he gets he’s all “I know people! I can get you whatever you need, just lemme outta here!” 

Did they try, I don’t know, just asking him for the Sooper-Sekrit SIM Card of Doom? 

[shapeshifter]

59 minutes ago, Sandman said:

It seems like Mr Fed Employee of the Month is a pretty bad security risk anyway.

I wonder if the writers are now wishing they'd given the blink-and-you'll-miss-him Fed Employee character a couple of more lines. The episode might've generated a current-topic meme.

[JH Lipton]

On 3/26/2025 at 12:20 PM, shapeshifter said:

you just know they replayed Bailey doing the Speed jump onto the bus 3 frickin times while Nolan asks:

• "Those, uh, social workers who are gonna come evaluate us, do you think they'll think that's badass or reckless?"

…so they can get denied for adoption because both of them live dangerous lives and Bailey is reckless.

They ALMOST did this on 911 Lone Star.  A would-be father who's a firefighter and the other who's a Texas Ranger were told at first that their jobs were too dangerous.  But PLOT took over and of course they got the boy.

22 hours ago, Red Bridey said:

I don't see any reason for a government employee to be carrying around a sim card or PIV card with tons of data on it. Seems like an opsec disaster in the making.

He just got off a SIGNAL chat!

3 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

I wonder if the writers are now wishing they'd given the blink-and-you'll-miss-him Fed Employee character a couple of more lines. The episode might've generated a current-topic meme.

See above

[Raja]

Just saw on the previews 9-1-1 is doing a bus related show just as it had its own pirates and then Doctor Odyssey had more covert pirates. The ABC action comedies seem to be in competition for plot lines.