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Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which The Rookie Character Are You? Nolan · Chen · Bradford · Lopez Answer eight quick questions and we will tell you which one you are. Eight seasons in, the Mid-Wilshire shift has turned into one of the best ensembles on network television, and these four are the ones everybody argues about. 🚔John Nolan(Nathan Fillion) 🎭Lucy Chen(Melissa O'Neil) 🏅Tim Bradford(Eric Winter) 🕵Angela Lopez(Alyssa Diaz) FIND YOUR CHARACTER → 01 Why would you join up in the first place? Pick the one that sounds most like you. AA complete change of career. BTo be the best at something. CBecause the job needs doing properly. DTo work the cases that matter. NEXT QUESTION → 02 How would your friends describe you? Be honest. AOptimistic and a bit too nice. BDriven and very capable. CStrict, and softer than I look. DBlunt and completely reliable. NEXT QUESTION → 03 What would you be like as a training officer? One answer only. AEncouraging, possibly too encouraging. BI remember what it felt like. CHard on you, and for a reason. DStraight to the point. NEXT QUESTION → 04 How do you handle authority? Pick the closest answer. AI ask a lot of questions. BI work with it until I outrank it. CI am the authority. DI say my piece, then do the job. NEXT QUESTION → 05 Pick a shift. No wrong answers here. ADays, with a proper lunch. BWhatever gets me the most experience. CEarly. I will be there first. DWhatever gets the case closed. NEXT QUESTION → 06 What is your relationship with the rules? Pick the closest answer. AThere is usually a kinder way. BLearn them, then use them. CThe rules are there for a reason. DI bend them when people need it. NEXT QUESTION → 07 How do you handle a bad day at work? Think about the last one. ATalk it through with somebody. BGo again tomorrow, better. CTrain until it goes away. DGo home to my family. NEXT QUESTION → 08 What do you want out of the job? Last one. This is the one that decides it. ATo prove it is never too late. BTo go as far as I possibly can. CTo make everybody around me better. DTo get the right result. REVEAL MY CHARACTER → Roll Call, Mid-Wilshire You Are…The Rookie started as a show about a man starting over at forty-five and turned into a proper ensemble drama somewhere around season three. Here is which of them you are, and the case for yours being the best of the four. John NolanYou started late and you are not embarrassed about it. Nolan walks into the academy at forty-five surrounded by people half his age, and the show is honest that this is both his biggest disadvantage and the only reason he is any good at the job. You are relentlessly decent, and people keep underestimating how far that gets you. The series was inspired by William Norcross, who really did join the LAPD in his forties. Nathan Fillion has played him for eight seasons and the show has outlasted most of what ABC launched alongside it. Your flaw is wanting to solve the human problem when somebody just needs you to do the police work. Lucy ChenYou are better at this than people expect and you intend to keep proving it. Chen goes from rookie to the best undercover officer in the division, which works because she is genuinely good at becoming somebody else and genuinely bad at pretending she does not care. You are ambitious in a way that lifts the people around you rather than stepping over them. Her undercover episodes are the ones the fandom rewatches, and the show knows it. Chenford has carried more internet discourse than any other relationship on network television this decade. Your risk is taking on the hardest version of every assignment just to see if you can. Tim BradfordYou are hard on people because you have decided that is what caring looks like. Bradford is introduced as the worst training officer in the building and slowly revealed as the one who takes the job most seriously, which are the same fact seen from two angles. You hold a high standard and the people who meet it would follow you anywhere. The shop talk and the tests he sets his rookies became the show's most imitated running bit. Eric Winter has said the character works because the audience is allowed to find him annoying first. Your weakness is that discipline is easier to give people than warmth, and you know which one they need. Angela LopezYou said what you wanted and then you went and got it. Lopez wanted detective from the first episode, said so out loud, and got there by being better at the work than the people who were quieter about wanting it. You are direct, which some people find abrupt and the rest find enormously restful. She is the character the show most often trusts with the actual detective plotting. Her storyline with Wesley gave the series its best running argument about what the job costs at home. Your flaw is that being right quickly is not the same as bringing everybody with you. ↻ RETAKE THE QUIZ