What happened in the Boston Blue Season 1 finale?

In order for Danny to complete his transfer from NYPD to Boston PD, he was required to spend some time on patrol, so in what she saw as a “fun” move, Sarah assigned Danny and Sean to patrol duty together while Jonah was working with Mae on testimony for an upcoming trial.

Rodgers requested help from Major Crimes for a case that involved smuggling drugs, phones, and other sundries into prison, and since Sarah knew Danny was on patrol, she assigned Lena to help him. Sean and Danny joined them, and when Lena and Danny went to do a door knock, Lena was shot through the door, and it went through her vest.

In the hospital, Lena, who had planned to visit her biological father that night, received a visit from him in the hospital. She also met her half-sister.

Maria showed up in Boston to give Danny support with his new partner in the hospital, and they had a serious talk about their relationship. Danny told her that he never stopped fighting for them, and he’s thinking of moving into a command position so he can get a bigger place, and Maria, her daughter, and mother can move in with him. The first step is to take the sergeant’s test.

“In our minds, that is a serious promise,” Sonnier said. “When he says they’ve taken it slow enough for too long, he means it. They know that this is a relationship they want to be in and they’re going to do everything they can to make it work.”

“But that does require steps,” Margolis added. “You can’t wave the magic wand and suddenly it’s happy home, so there will be a continuation of that story in an evolution of their relationship going on in Season 2. The takeaway is that we did not want to end this season on a down note with them because we love Danny and Baez so much.”

Judge Elijah Robinson (Harry Lennix) and Mae did a press conference to take their relationship public to stay off any conflict of interest claims that might come up in her bid for re-election now that she’s being challenged by Thad Longfellow (Ward Horton).

“We loved introducing Thad at the end of our season as a great foil for Mae, and we can’t wait for the two of them to get down and dirty in an election,” Margolis said. “The judge will come back. Harry Lennix is a gentleman and we love having him on the show and we’d love to keep writing for him, so we look forward to exploring that relationship and seeing what kind of pressure dirty politics can put on that relationship.”

Shabbat dinner was a big event with Joe Hill (Will Hochman) coming down from NYC to talk to Lena about what it was like for him when he discovered as an adult that the Reagans were his family.

“It was such a great parallel,” Sonnier said of bringing Joe into the mix. “I don’t know that we always knew, but when it became available, when the story came up, when the idea was floated, we jumped at the chance because what a great sounding board for Lena to have a conversation with someone who found themselves in this situation of learning they had this whole other family as an adult. The way Joe was integrated into the Reagans is a really beautiful thing that they did on the previous show that we would like to embrace. There should be more stories of this family growing, there should be more stories of Lena getting to know this part of herself and her family that she never knew before.”

Also attending the Shabbat dinner were Judge Robinson and Lena’s bio father Chris Williams (Erik King) and half-sister Christina (Alisha Wainwright).

“Just because they have one dinner together does not mean their relationship is healed,” Sonnier said. “As Lena says in the episode, ‘That’s a start.’”

The only person missing from Shabbat dinner was Rodgers, who was on his way after stopping at the florist for flowers, when his vehicle was T-boned and pushed into the bay.