I'm just saying it's kind of boring.
Baseball is boring. Seriously?
Yeah, the games are like nine hours long. Nothing actually happens.
Baseball is a metaphor for life.
Yeah, and I'm not going to spend my lunch watching a bunch of grown men in pajamas…
We having company or something kid?
[Eddie enters the room and holds Jamie's hand]
Actually not "just Eddie" today.
Well since this morning, the future Mrs Jameson Reagan.
Oh my goodness! Congratulations!
[Reagan family cheers]
[Erin gives Danny a look]
Well at least I know one wedding present you're getting. Your choice of precincts to transfer to.
Well gee Dad every bride's dream
Actually, uh, we both really like the house that we're already in.
But you know that you can't work together anymore.
Well, that's what we thought, too, Pop.
But I looked it up. And there's nothing in the Patrol Guide-- or any of the books, for that matter-- says married cops can't be partners on the job.
But I knew that you and Dad would be for that rule, even if it wasn't actually a rule.
But the rule does make enormous sense.
Well, a couple partnered together on the job can create conflicts.
Hear us out. Consider if two people willing to swear the following to each other could still be good partners on the job.
Swear the following what?
Vows that we wrote to each other
You wrote vows already? - Okay.
Turns out she's been working on 'em for a while, so I just
I will always have your back.
If you fall behind, I'll wait up.
I'll earn your respect, and pay you respect every day we have.
I'll be your scout, your night watchman, your cavalry.
Your medic, your chaplain in our army of two.
No retreat, no surrender.
No retreat, no surrender. [chuckles]
Welcome to our family, Eddie.
There is no way, no way, you are saying couples riding together is a good idea.
There’s a lot of valid reasoning in forbidding it.
But maybe to Jamie’s side, there’s also no data or evidence, much less an actual rule. It’s just a tradition.
Some traditions are born of common sense.
Yes, like Catholic priests being forbidden to marry because common sense tells us you couldn’t possibly tend the flock unless your personal life was utterly devoid of the comfort of human touch and companionship.
Not the same thing, Abigail.
No, it’s not the same thing but it’s not that distant a cousin either.
Your Dad clearly has a problem with us riding together.
You can’t just cave every time you don’t agree with somebody in my family.
And you can’t ignore it like this is going to go away. Do you really want to hide the fact that we’re engaged from the department and fight with your Dad just to ride together?
I thought that’s what we both wanted.
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! I’m glad you’re all very excited but this is my wedding, ours, and we’re going to make all the decisions. The flowers, the guest list, dress, band, menu, all of it. Your job, all due respect, is to show up and have a blast. If anybody can’t live with that, I’ll send you pictures. Okay?
This place was created in the wake of 9/11.
We’ve been asking ourselves the same thing.
I am getting to that. Look, I was assuming that all three of you would be in my office at the same time. You were delayed so you were deleted from the drill.
Yeah, I felt pretty deleted.
You made that very clear but there wasn’t an option. No one talks of this place outside of this place. This facility was designed for only the most indispensable men and woman of the NYPD. I have come to realize that title and rank are not the only things that go into indispensable. You are. You are. You are.
In a few days you’re going to be gone from this place, starting out in the world on your own. Make the world your own. Take what is useful from your time with us, your years around this table, but don’t think you have to become us.
You do. If you don’t, you don’t. It’s your life, not ours. And I like to think that your Dad, and your Aunt, and your Uncle, do what they do because they were drawn to it not because they were pushed.