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 and tells him not to “baby” her.
Erin Reagan (Bridget Moynahan) reconciles with her ex, Jack Boyle (Peter Hermann), and she decides they should get married again.
“Everything would be different this time. Party of two, city hall? Tell everybody about it after the fact?” she says.
Meanwhile, Danny meets with his grandfather, who reminds Danny that he always used to tell him not to bring his job home, but “the problem now is, you have no one not to bring it home to…promise me when this case is over, you’ll find that someone.”
By the end of the episode, after Danny heroically saves a little girl from having her criminal dad kill himself, Danny turns to his work partner, Det. Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez), and says, “I was thinking about something my grandfather said to me. You wanna get a pizza?”
So, his love life ends on a hopeful note.
After they catch the culprit, everyone attends Luis’ funeral. They present the department flag to his mother, and Frank tells Luis’ surviving family, “Take a good look around you, Luis’ whole family is here with you today,” gesturing to all the cops who came to pay their respects.
At the end of the episode, the Reagans sit down to one of their famous family dinners at their long table. Someone comments that these dinners are more about the company, and Frank agrees, saying, “It’s never about the food.”
Eddie and her husband, Jamie Reagan (Will Estes), announce her pregnancy.
Danny jokes, “Who is the father?”
Eddie tells everyone that she’s glad to have announced the news because “we’re gonna need all the parenting advice you can get,” as everyone expresses how thrilled they are to have “a little one running around” and how “lucky” a kid is to be part of this family.
Before Eddie spoke, Erin had said she also had an announcement – it’s implied that she was going to tell everyone she remarried Jack. But after Eddie’s news, Danny asks Erin what she had to say, and she downplays it, responding, “It’s nothing.”
The episode ends with Frank looking around the table and saying, “You know, we’ve got a lot to be thankful for. And looking around this table, I’ve gotta say, I couldn’t be more proud or grateful.”
