Characters / Rookie Blue

Rookies

Andy McNally

A down-to-earth girl who is somewhat overwhelmed by the big city of Toronto, and attempts to retain her idealism.

Played by: Missy Peregrym

• Action Girl: Played reasonably realistically. Expect Andy to lose as often as she wins in a fight.

• Country Mouse: Spent her childhood roaming the woods and looking for seashells on the beach with her father.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • She suffers this at the end of episode 7 in Season 1, having killed a criminal in self-defense.
  • Another when she sees a mother implied to be suffering from PTSD almost kill herself after her daughter dies.
• Love Epiphany: Has one after Sam gets shot, causing her to break up with Nick.
• Missing Mom: Her mom ran out on her in her teens. They eventually reconnect.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's played by Missy Peregrym, of course the show is going to exploit her beauty from time to time.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Her real name is Andrea, but everyone, and the official site, formally calls her as Andy. Her mother shows up early in Season 3 and calls her Andrea, confirming that it's her real first name. She doesn't like it, though.
• That Came Out Wrong: Has a habit of this, especially when talking to Sam
  Andy (talking about her uniform, metaphorically): I have no problems taking it off. (Beat). You know what I mean.
• Undercover as Lovers: With Nick in the beginning of season four.

Dov Epstein

A witty, charming, impulsive young man.

Played by: Gregory Smith

• Badass Bookworm: Is a savvy cop, and a decent hacker.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Dov is a pretty nice guy overall, but in the Season 2 episode A Little Faith, he befriends an old drug dealing pal from his brother's life and rode around with him, then when the drug dealer went to an arranged deal, Dov loots him of all of his drugs and money. When asked about this, he mentions he played nice before "stabbing" the dealer in the back.
• Embarrassing First Name: Averted. One would think a boy named Dov would feel more self-conscious about it, but he isn't. But it turns out that in Hebrew his name means "bear".

• Survivor Guilt: After shooting a teenager, Dov is suffering from this as he had never killed someone before.
• That Came Out Wrong: Says this to Gail after saying he thinks of her and Holly (Gail's new girlfriend) a lot. Gail responds with, "You came out wrong."

Traci Nash

Level-headed and pragmatic, with more confidence than Andy and a young son. Later become a detective during Season 3.

Played by: Enuka Okuma

• Rank Up: Became a detective in Season 3.
• Struggling Single Mother: Traci has difficulty at times juggling her police career and motherhood (especially since it started when she was just seventeen). Her mom helps, but her son's dad is mostly useless.
• Teen Pregnancy: She gave birth to her son at seventeen. He's in primary school by the time she graduates from the police academy.

Chris Diaz

A earnest rookie who knows the manual by heart and refuses to deviate from it.

Played by: Travis Milne

• Abusive Parents: His mother once had him stand still on a chair for three hours straight as a punishment for spilling some spaghetti on the floor. It is implied she had serious mental issues.
• The Big Guy: Is easily the tallest among the rookies.

• Fair Cop: And the department openly recognizes this, using him in their campaign, because he's handsome and looks good in a uniform. Something that makes him very uncomfortable, after Noelle gently informs him that the Department is using him as a commodity just as much as she is being used as Female Officer of Color.
• Gentle Giant: As shown when he rescues a stolen puppy and takes it in until its owners are found.

Gail Peck

The ambitious, driven daughter of a family full of officers.

Played by: Charlotte Sullivan.

• Ambiguously Bi: She never puts a label on her sexuality, but Holly was the first and only woman she dated. So it's up in the air if she's gay, bi, or pan.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Steals someone's credit without a second glance and eagerly shuffles cases to another department when possible, yet can memorize a license plate number with a glance at a speeding car.
• Coming-Out Story: A low-key one, while having exclusively dated men all her life, over the course of Season 4 she finds herself falling in love with her friend Holly.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Traci actually calls her Frosty. But as time rolls on, she comes to be her closest friend.
• Heroic BSoD: Gail is suffering from the after effects of being kidnapped, even to the point of joking how she wants to be taken captive by a psychotic killer again in front of her father no less.

• Important Haircut: Cuts off her hair while freaking out in the season 5 premiere.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Unapologetic about her bitchy tendency, but once you befriend her, she'll have your back through whatever life and the job throws at you.

• Opposites Attract: Had a past history with Chris, and attracted the attention of Dov as well. Nick and Holly also qualifies. She tends to date nice guys and girls, despite being a bitch most of the time.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Underneath her caustic, impassive exterior is a rather vulnerable young woman.
• Well Done Daughter Girl:
  • She gets terrible stage fright when asked to speak in public, especially with her mother in the audience, and ends up pretending to be home sick both times.
  • She feels intense pressure to be a better cop thanks to her family background. Not helped by the fact that the fellow rookies are under the impression that she uses her family connections to get along in her career.

Nick Collins

Former soldier who served in Afghanistan for four years before becoming a cop. Once engaged to Gail and was readied to marry in Las Vegas before enlisting.

Played by: Peter Mooney.

• Amicable Exes: With Andy
• Amusing Injury: Repeatedly gets hit in the face in the season 4 premiere (first by a fellow undercover officer to make their exchange look more believable, then by a kidnapped Andy who doesn't realize Nick's there, and finally by Gail, who's lashing out that Nick disappeared to go undercover), played for laughs.
• Becoming the Mask: He begins to form genuine feelings for Andy, after the two played a couple while undercover for a couple of months.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Serves as this to Chloe at times.
• Dark and Troubled Past: His parents were killed and his older brother paralyzed in a car accident, leaving Nick in foster care. Didn't have the easiest time as a soldier in Afghanistan, either.
• Drowning My Sorrows: As shown in "Every Man", he had done this once a year in order to remember after one of his teammates was killed in action when he took his place. He decided to stop on the day when Andy found him drunk, saying he would do something else other then drink.
• New Old Flame: To Gail when he shows up in season 3.

• Nice Guys Finish Last: For an extremely nice (and handsome) guy, he's very unlucky in love.
• Retired Badass: Well, he is a marine after-all.
• Romantic Runner-Up: To both Gail and Andy.
• Romantic Wingman: Chloe enlists him as this.

• Undercover as Lovers: With Andy in the beginning of season four.

Chloe Price

A transfer to fifteen with a secretive past

Played by: Priscilla Faia

• Cloudcuckoolander: And how...
• Motor Mouth
• Post-Injury Desk Job: When she first returns to duty after getting shot in the neck.

Duncan Moore

A new rookie in season five, trained by Andy.

Played by: Matt Murray

• Clueless Deputy: Really bad at basically everything related to the job.

Old Guard/ Detectives

Sam Swarek

Undercover cop, exposed when McNally arrested him on her first day. Takes the job as her T.O.

Played by: Ben Bass

• Badass in Distress: In the season 2 finale.

• Cop/Criminal Family: His father is in prison.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With both Oliver and Jerry

Oliver Shaw

Good guy all over. The most laid back of the T.O.'s.

Played by: Matt Gordon

• Happily Married: Subverted in season 3, when we find out that he's been kicked of of the house by his wife after spending too much time at work.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Sam

• Papa Wolf: AND how. Not only was he about to kill a suspect in a case, but said suspect was someone who hooked Shaw's daughter with drugs and beat her, as well who knows what else given the rap sheet.
• Team Mom: To all the rookies, but also basically everyone at the precinct...

Noelle Williams

Only female T.O.. Tried for the sergeant position but got beaten by Best.

Played by: Melanie Nicholls-King

Staff Sgt. Boyko

Staff Sergeant for the first half of the first season.

Played by: Aidan Devine.

• Da Chief: Formerly.

Staff Sgt. Frank Best

T.O. for the first episode, is promoted to staff sergeant by the 8th one.

Played by: Lyriq Bent.

• Da Chief: Currently.

• Honorary Uncle: To Chloe (she's his goddaughter).

Luke Callahan

Homicide detective. Got assigned to 15th division over the murder case of a rookie 3 years before the start of the series.

Played by: Eric Johnson.

• Perma-Stubble: By mid Season 3, he shaved off his beard into a stubble.

• Put on a Bus: At the start of Season 3
  • The Bus Came Back: After the death of Jerry Barber in mid Season 3, he came back.

Jerry Barber

Detective of the 15th. Was one of the rookies' academy instructors. Nash's love interest.

Played by: Noam Jenkins.

• Chekhov's Gun: His new cellphone. He couldn't figure out how to use it, even accidentally sending risque photos to friends. After being mortally wounded, he figures out how to work it, and manages to slip his cellphone onto Gail, allowing the others to locate her.
• Cowboy Cop: Shades of this happened in Season 3.
• My Greatest Failure: Weapons that he himself was suppose to have signed over for for destruction ended up being re-sold on the street because he allowed someone else to file the paper work while he was with his mistress.

Jo Rosati

Homicide detective. Gets called from another division to help in the season 2 premiere, and chooses to stay. She has history with Luke Callahan.

Played by: Camille Sullivan

• Kicked Up Stairs: Transferred to another division

Steve Peck

Guns and Gangs detective. Brother of Gail, eventual boyfriend of Traci.

Played by: Adam MacDonald

• Detective Mole
• Dirty Cop: Revealed to be one in the final season.