Yes, it’s hard to think that you can’t trust your own superiors but honestly, it was common sense for Nolan and Harper to think exactly that. I mean, they broke the rules but can we understand it? Of course.
Gray, on the other hand, has other plans that collide with Harper’s. He knows what Harper is trying to do and he’s not going to let her do it. She is partly to blame … but not entirely to blame. At the end of the day, Nolan – like Harper – is not expelled but is punished for what was an act of the “end justifies the means.” The punishment is a letter of reprimand on his file and, for a newbie like him, especially at such an age, it usually means that his career is over and Nolan’s dream of being a detective… will not come to pass.
For Nolan, that stain on his file is a dead end, because he could become a patrol officer or a training officer… but he will never be able to remove his uniform to be a detective or enter a specialized unit. All his dreams have simply gone to waste.
We have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, we are happy to see a show punishing a policeman who broke the rules. As we see lately, unfortunately, this is not usually the norm, if not the exception. However, as for the shooting, this was not in cold blood, if not in self-defense, without excessive use of force, we believe that this makes a difference.
As for what happened before the shooting, of course, he deserves punishment for breaking the rules, even for understandable reasons but … doesn’t it seem a bit unfair that after being framed, putting his life at risk and seeing his name and reputation dragged to the ground, does Nolan face the loss of his dreams? We do see it as something unfair if we think about it coldly. So we hope Nolan can recover from that stain on his record, learn from it, and fulfill his dreams