EPISODE

12. In Blue

It's judgment day for the rookies, who soon will learn whether or not they've passed their evaluations and can keep their badges. Before she hears her fate from Staff Sgt. Frank Best, Andy has a harrowing experience involving the suspicious death of an unidentified girl that causes her to consider leaving the force.

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During her evaluation, McNally confides in Best about her fears of ruining her life because of the job. It is revealed in her most recent shift, McNally had informed a mother of her daughter's death. The shock of the news and the realization of the part she played in her daughter's death drives the mother to try and commit suicide until Williams intervenes preventing her death. The pain that McNally felt she caused mirrored that of one of her father's cases ( To Serve or Protect ). Best tells McNally to bury her father's skeletons and make a fresh start. All the rookies pass their evaluation and become fully fledged officers.

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