Eric Winter Teases Chenford’s First ‘Rookie’ Valentine’s Day

Cease within the identify of affection! After 4 seasons of flirting, the LAPD’s most arresting new couple has lastly paired up in The Rookie. And so they’re commemorating their first Valentine’s Day within the Tuesday, February 21 episode (airing at 8/7c on ABC).

“They’re fairly a power to be reckoned with,” Eric Winter (above proper) says of the #Chenford fandom that has championed the love match of his stern Sgt. Tim Bradford and Melissa O’Neil’s (above left) extra emotional cop Lucy Chen since he was assigned to be her coaching officer.

Nonetheless, it’s not “all cotton sweet and rainbows” now that the 2 are collectively, Winter says. Living proof: Their first Valentine’s Day.

“It’s not a simple one,” he previews of the episode, postponed from February 14 by the State of the Union.

Any hope of an ideal romantic day is placed on maintain when Tim discovers early on that Lucy did one thing behind his again, which, for rule stickler Tim, “ruffles his feathers fairly a bit” — a lot in order that the strain between them threatens to derail their plans.

Issues are simply as tough for the precinct’s different lovebirds. Count on points to come up for seasoned officer Nolan (Nathan Fillion) and firefighter Bailey (Jenna Dewan) as effectively, although Winter hints issues will resolve within the basic comedy-infused Rookie method.

“It’s not what you’d anticipate,” he teases of the end result. Hey, nobody ever stated love was straightforward!

On the much less romantic facet of issues to return in Season 5 Episode 16, “Uncovered,” the crew should cease a militia from detonating a extremely flamable truck of their possession, and Nolan, Thorson, Juarez, and Detective Harper seek for three males who might have been uncovered to Ebola and detain them for quarantine.

The Rookie is sitting fairly in its new Tuesday timeslot. After switching from Sundays at 10/9c on ABC in January, the sequence raked in its highest viewership in two years. Let’s hope the constructive scores and #Chenford each stick round for some time.

The Rookie, Tuesdays, 8/7c, ABC