It’s the end of an era. After fourteen seasons on the air, the CBS police procedural “Blue Bloods” has ended. How did it all wrap up in the series finale? With a death and a birth.Spoilers ahead for the series finale, “End of Tour.” “Blue Bloods” premiered in 2010.
The police procedural follows the Reagan family, including NYPD Commissioner Frank (Tom Selleck) and his son, NYPD detective Danny (Donnie Wahlberg).The cast also includes Len Cariou (PC Henry), Will Estes (Sgt.
Jamie Reagan), Vanessa Ray (Officer Eddie Janko) and Bridget Moynahan (ADA Erin Reagan).After a 14-year TV reign, the network announced last year that the successful show would end this fall. Selleck has been vocal about his unhappiness that CBS ended the show.The series finale aired Friday, Dec.
13, at 10 p.m.on CBS. Wahlberg told The Post that the final scene made everyone cry, partly because Selleck spoke some words to the rest of the cast.
“He said a poem.He kind of did that from time to time.
He would have these old poems,” Wahlberg recalled.Selleck read the poem “The Man in the Arena,” originally written by Theodore Roosevelt, Wahlberg shared. He said it became “tradition” for Selleck to read the poem “every now and again.”So, “of course, he did it” after filming the final “Blue Bloods” scene, Wahlberg said. During the episode, several high-profile New York City figures, including the Mayor (Dylan Walsh), get attacked.
He survives the shooting, and when Frank goes to visit him in the hospital, he tells Frank to ignore the usual chain of command of who should take over when the Mayor is out of commission. “I’m handing you the keys; you’re driving.Get us out of this,” he tells Frank. Meanwhile, Eddie Janko (Vanessa Ray) is distraught after her partner, Luis Badillo (Ian Quinlan), who has been with the show since Season 12, gets killed. In the aftermath, Danny tells Eddie that she needs to take care of herself, but she snaps at him ...