The Rookie's Monica Stevens: A Fair End to an Epic Run

0:00On April 29th, the rookie Jessica renewed for season 9, dodging cancellation, and dropped a bombshell in its penultimate episode, Dead Ringer. Monica Stevens, the shady lawyer, finally met her match while trying to bolt from Los Angeles and her chaotic life and witness protection. She was dodging a task force and thugs like Cooper Johnson, but a fake rideshare driver caught up and shot her point blank. No escape this time, even as she begged not in the face. As an actress Bridget Regan sought coming after Monica's wild forces and streak, surviving assassinations, prison bids, and near death scrapes, like a wood chipper. Regan called it a fair end to an epic run. What hit Regan hard was the sadness, not the death itself, but Monica's failure to flip back from her dark path. Even in her last chat with Wes, who urged her to choose better, she was too deep in. With Monica gone, the show's building hype for the finale, leaving us pondering those what if paths she never took.

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