The Rookie Stars Tease ‘Bumpy’ Romantic Roads Ahead, Hype ‘Cop Moms’ Spinoff

Uh-oh, it sounds like The Rookie‘s #Chenford might not be the only relationship to worry about when Season 7 of the light ABC procedural rolls around… sometime in the year 2025.

Speaking with TVLine’s Keisha Hatchett on Saturday night at Entertainment Weekly‘s annual Comic-Con party in San Diego, Alyssa Diaz (who plays Angela Lopez) was quick to out herself as a #Chenford ‘shipper by wondering aloud, “I want to see what happens with Lucy and Tim!” in Season 7, especially given how Chen saved estranged beau Bradford’s life during that truck chase.

All told in the TVLine video above, Diaz and co-stars Mekia Cox (who plays Nyla Harper) and Melissa O’Neil (Lucy Chen) shared that Season 7 of The Rookie will “delve into relationships a lot more” — though that will include “some bumpy roads,” Diaz warned.

The ladies also said that Season 7 will spend more time at home with the officers and detectives of the LAPD’s Mid-Wilshire Division. “We’re going to see everybody’s houses, see how the family life is going…,” said O’Neil.

Showrunner Alexi Hawley previously told TVLine that, coming out of a lean-and-mean, strikes-shortened Season 6 and looking ahead to an 18-episode Season 7, “I do think we’ll go back to being more of a standalone show with serialized elements, because it’s going to be a longer season and I think people really do like that.

“Also, there are the many different ways we tell stories — whether it’s the big event-type episodes, the more rom-com episodes, or with a big guest star,” he said, “so it’ll be fun to go back to that.”

The Rookie closed out last season with a finale that brought back several characters from the series’ spinoff, The Rookie: Feds. But Cox, Diaz and O’Neil shared that, when working Comic-Con autograph lines, they heard fans clamoring for an offshoot about badass Nyla and Angela.

“It’s called Cop Moms,” Cox proposed, after which Diaz served up a winning tagline: “[It’s about] them being moms, being cops — which one is more dangerous?!”

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