Each member of the core cast gets a fitting sendoff.
WARNING: This article contains spoilers for theBlue Bloodsseries finale, “End of Tour.”
Blue Bloodshas reached the end of the line.
Marisa Ramirez as Maria Baez, Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan, Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan Boyle, and Steve Schirripa as Anthony Abetemarco on ‘Blue Bloods’.Michael Parmelee/CBS
Get us out of this."
Janko awakens in the hospital and asks where her partner is.
Jamie (Will Estes) remains awkwardly silent as another officer says, “He’s not here.”
Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan and Marisa Ramirez as Maria Baez on ‘Blue Bloods’.Michael Parmelee/CBS
Janko pushes further: “Not here in this hospital?
Or not here anymore?”
Jamie shakes his head.
An earlier family dinner from ‘Blue Bloods’ season 14.CBS
Janko freaks out and demands to see the shooter face to face, jumping out of bed.
“I have every right to see him!”
she yells as the hospital staff sedates her.
“Maybe we should do something about that… despite our best efforts, we’re still right here.
One foot in and one foot out.
Maybe we try both feet.”
Tell everybody about it after the fact."
After a long bout of gruff banter, Frank gets personal, invoking his dead son, Joseph.
“If someone were to say to me before it happened, ‘Here’s your choice.
And I’d be thrilled to be there.
And eternally grateful for the chance, because I know the cold dark the other choice brings.”
“I always told you not to bring the job home,” Henry says.
“As far as I can see, you’ve done a good job with that.
But the problem now is, you have no onenotto bring it home to.
I have no doubt that you’ll get these guys and go onto another case and another case.
The problem is…”
“That I don’t have anyonenotto bring it home to?”
“Promise me that when this case is over, you’ll find that someone,” Henry responds.
Danny then joins Baez in a raid on Ramirez’s house.
Upon seeing Amelia, he tries to appeal to the gangster’s paternal sensibilities.
This could go bad," Danny says.
Ramirez tells his daughter to go upstairs, then pulls a gun on his own head.
Danny implores him not to take his own life: “You could still be her father.
You could still give her advice.
C’mon, she already lost her mother, don’t let her lose her father too.”
Ramirez drops the gun and surrenders.
In Danny’s last scene in the precinct, Amelia thanks him for saving her.
After Badillo’s nearly wordless funeral, the finale fittingly ends with one last family dinner.
“This is my high chair from when I was a baby,” she says.
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“We’re gonna use it when the baby’s born,” Jamie adds.
“Oh, just trust your gut,” Frank responds.
“Can’t think of anyone who would make better parents than you two,” Danny adds.
Erin ultimately backtracks on her announcement, pivoting the conversation to work.
Frank ends the episode and thus, the season and the series with a note of appreciation.
“You know, we’ve got a lot to be thankful for,” he says.
All 14 seasons ofBlue Bloodsare streaming now on Paramount+.
