I like the look on Badger’s face when Nolan disarms him and safes the weapon. It’s almost like up to that point he thought he still had a chance, and then it hit that he wasn’t even trusted to walk across the bull pen with a holstered gun and he realized he was done.
Ok he might not be good for patrol duty but I am sure he is good for desk duty and with maybe a couple more mouths of trigger discipline and gun safety he will hopefully be ready for patrol duty
@@awkwardfreakinperson7936 considering bradford was training the other rookie and lopez is not around, I would hazard a guess that it would have been harper. I mean we see in season 4 that Harper had a new rookie called aaron. So that means most likely she was assigned to badger. Nolan at this point is more flexible and can work with other t.o
She's an Army vet fresh from Afghanistan with recent combat experience. That's a huge part of her story on the show, and she really could've used a few weeks without having to draw her weapon, given what she was dealing with.
@@Cailus3542 yes. I do agree. It was a shame to see her go so early on. Tim Bradford started his career with a very similar problem as he said. He was the perfect fto for her.
2 small details. 1 I love how nolan is the one who disarms badger after all this and 2 how the other rookie has drawn her weapon but actually follows trigger displine
What sucks is even though Nolan had nothing to do with this, I’m sure other people put it on him because this is exactly what Grey was worried about: a bunch of Middle aged washouts who have no business wearing a badge or carrying a gun deciding to turn being a cop into their path towards reinvention. Nolan has proven time and again that he is genuine police but the same can not be said of the dorks swimming in his wake
@@duck5304 really cool detail. I loved the way she changed Bradford as a TO, because he (being former military), understood she needed a different kind of guidance then Chen.
No. Badger doesn't deserve that distinction. Nolan never messed up that badly. Badger is what Grey saw in Nolan when he first met him and what he was afraid of what was to come following Nolan.
There is a jump cut, then she had weapon in hand. She didn't do it immediately, just like everyone else. But being new she didn't realize it wasn't a real threat
I have no idea how he managed that accidental discharge. The trigger is covered in most police holsters, so someone can't walk up behind you and put a round down your leg without even drawing the gun.
Poor weapon maintenance and handling. He was in a daily staff meeting, his hands should have been front and centre. Not on his holster, and if the gun discharged, he had the safety off.
@@TheOmegaRiddler no…if he’s carrying a Glock, they have a trigger safety , so the gun doesn’t go off unless you’re squeezing the trigger, and police holsters are required to cover the trigger, slide, and hammer! Now if he was carrying an FN, then yeah, it probably did go off in his holster!
A nice detail that’s pointed out later: Due to Barns’s military experience before becoming a police officer, she instinctively got down and sat at a tactical stance with her gun drawn and almost pointed ready to fire, most likely out of habit
I haven’t seen anybody mention this yet but they foreshadow Badger’s leave in the beginning of the clap. While he’s talking to Barns, he moves his belt and it wobbles his gun, Barns even reaches out instinctively thinking it was going to fall.
Not sure who noticed, but barnes was ready to open fire after badger "misfired". Kind of a sign her former employment(or deployment) involved being ready to kill
I'm wondering if the show will ever reveal the truth about Larry Macer because in New Blood (this clip) he got fired on his first day as a rookie. But then in Season 4's Backstabbers Larry claims that he's a Police Sergeant which I recall other characters being skeptical of Larry being a Sergeant. Even I looked it up myself in order to be a first-rank Sergeant in Los Angeles you need to be on the force for five years. With at least three years of experience as a police officer, going through police academy training, and passing an examination to prove your knowledge of the position besides obviously having a high school diploma. There is no way that Larry became a Sergeant within a year at another division in L.A. just by having intensive re-training I think that he's really a rookie and is embarrassed to admit it.
Rookie meet Star Wars. Well, sort of. Guy is from that fanfic "trilogy" that's not really Star Wars. And there is moff Gideon's assistant from Mandalorian.
