{"id":359852,"date":"2025-12-20T11:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359852\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T11:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T11:39:12","slug":"boston-blue-bosses-talk-danny-giving-up-nypd-badge-baez-relationship-and-more-blue-bloods-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/359852\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Boston Blue’ Bosses Talk Danny Giving up NYPD Badge, Baez Relationship and More ‘Blue Bloods’ Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for\u00a0Boston Blue<\/a> Season 1 Episode 9, \u201cCollateral Damage.\u201d]<\/p>\n

We figured that Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg<\/a> would have to make a decision about staying in Boston ever since he showed up in the Blue Blood spinoff premiere to be with his son Sean (Mika Amonsen<\/a>), a rookie Boston cop who was badly injured in a fire. But when Superintendent Sarah Silver (Maggie Lawson<\/a>) says to him as the Boston Blue midseason finale opens, \u201cHaving you on loan from NYPD is great,\u201d Danny interjects with, \u201cWhy do I feel you are breaking up with me?\u201d She replies, \u201cIt\u2019s the opposite. I want to make you official.\u201d And she offers him the Boston Police Department detective badge.<\/p>\n

Despite the possibility of losing his long-distance girlfriend, NYPD Det. Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez<\/a>), and leaving the force he and his clan had been a part of for four generations, Danny seems to be seriously considering Sarah\u2019s invitation \u2014 especially as he begins to create a found family with the Silvers, who include his super competent partner, Sarah\u2019s detective stepsister Lena (Sonequa Martin-Green<\/a>), Sean\u2019s beat partner (and Sarah\u2019s half-brother) Jonah (Marcus), and Lena and Jonah\u2019s mother and Sarah\u2019s stepmother, the district attorney Mae (Gloria Reuben<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Danny\u2019s decision is cemented at the end of the episode, when a hot-headed Jonah gets himself in deep trouble after he goes off on his own, following and threatening a mobster named Flaherty, who was released from prison on technical reasons, even though he was found guilty of murdering his father, Judge Ben Silver. Found with blood on his shirt near Flaherty\u2019s body, a stunned Jonah will have a tough road ahead, since he wasn\u2019t on official police business and had been seen harassing the perp before the violent incident. Knowing he\u2019s the one that will have to find out what happened and why, Danny finally delivers his choice at the episode\u2019s end: \u201cI guess I\u2019m going to need that Boston badge after all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Below,\u00a0Boston Blue cocreators and showrunners Brandon Margolis<\/a> and Brandon Sonnier<\/a> share more about the midseason finale and what\u2019s to come when the show returns on February 27, 2026.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk about the final episodes of 2025, starting with Danny\u2019s decision to give up his NYPD shield \u2014 he\u2019s been on loan from the department \u2014 and take on a BPD badge. What\u2019s behind the decision and how will that affect his life?<\/p>\n

Brandon Sonnier: Through the course of the episode, we see Danny struggle with fully removing himself from the NYPD and joining BPD. That\u2019s a huge deal. He has been an NYPD cop his whole career. His family are all NYPD cops; he\u2019s got two commissioners that came before him. So, it\u2019s almost like we needed to orchestrate a family decision that he needed to make. And so we come to the end of this episode and we find Jonah Silver in this particular situation, we know that his family can\u2019t investigate this crime because it involves one of their own.<\/p>\n

\"Ernie<\/p>\n

Michael Gibson\/CBS<\/p>\n

But in order to take lead on this, as we\u2019ve established, he\u2019s gotta take that badge. We wanted to really drive it from an emotional place, from a family place, more so even than the procedure of it. In the second half of the season, we do back into the procedure of him becoming a full Boston PD cop and walking away from the NYPD. But for this moment, it is an emotional decision that he comes to in order to be there for his found family, to be there for the Silvers.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a cliffhanger. Did Flaherty raise a gun on the rookie cop, Jonah, who was unofficially following him? Was he shot by another party, perhaps by the Irish mob, the Red Saints, to shut him up. There\u2019s blood on Jonah\u2019s shirt, but what happened is not yet clear\u2026<\/p>\n

Sonnier: Those are all fantastic questions that Danny is going to have to investigate in the winter premiere. We will return to the crime scene moments where we left at the end of the midseason finale. So those questions are very much at the center of what Episode 10 is going to be about. We\u2019re not, by our nature, a serialized show; the emotional stories carry through, but very rarely do our cases continue over, right? This, in fact, is the only time this season where we do that, and we\u2019re treating it as sort of a two-hour case in that we\u2019re seeing the first half in [Episode] 9, and then in 10, we\u2019ll continue with Danny leading the investigation. So the events that went on in that room that we did not see we will discover, and in doing so, it will inform a lot of bigger questions in terms of the death of Sarah, Lena, and Jonah\u2019s father, Ben Silver. The motives behind that are all going to be thrown into question. So it\u2019s a chance for us to really explore that mystery and give some final answers.<\/p>\n

You already had the murdered Judge Silver in the show. Did you always decide to cover that more, even though this killer was put away for the crime?<\/p>\n

Sonnier: You know, we always look for the best emotional story to build our seasons around. And we realized as we were getting to know the Silvers in the front half of the season when we\u2019re introduced to them, a lot of it was centered around the recent passing of their father and the grief about that. So we knew that while it wasn\u2019t a story we wanted to tell forever over the course of a series, we did want to give it enough time to really explore it and mine it for the drama and the emotion that came with it, and then move on from there. So we were excited to get to tell that story as our midseason finale and premiere and allow the second half of the season to sort of turn the page and move forward with new emotional stories that aren\u2019t necessarily about Ben or the grief around losing him.<\/p>\n

Jonah will be suspended from the force when the show returns for his actions, correct?<\/p>\n

Sonnier: Yes. His gun and badge must be taken away, so we will have to deal with the fallout from Jonah\u2019s actions. Unfortunately for Jonah, there are rules to follows and they will be implemented by his big sister Sarah, the superintendent in charge. So it is what we find our show doing at its best, a huge family conflict, but completely wrapped up in police procedure. We determine what Jonah did, to what degree he was wrong, and how to solve the case. It will be a galvanizing event for the Silver family and the Reagans.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Reagans, will Sean be okay?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brandon Margolis: I\u2019d like to note that at the last of last episode, Sean was already at the scene of the crime with Jonah when Danny and Lena arrive. So what Sean witnessed ahead of Danny\u2019s getting there will have to be looked into as well.<\/p>\n

Will Sean have a temporary partner? Who will that be?<\/p>\n

Margolis:\u00a0Sean will essentially be riding along with his father as Danny leads the investigation!<\/p>\n

That should be interesting. How protective will Danny be?<\/p>\n

Margolis: You\u2019ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

Are they going after the Red Saints?<\/p>\n

Sonnier: Yes. Danny, as Danny does, throws himself in to the investigation and the perpetrators behind the full extent of what happened in the murder of Ben Silver. As you recall, Sarah and Mae recognized that there is a large play going on around that.<\/p>\n

Will Sean\u2019s sort of girlfriend Penny (Xochitl Gomez<\/a>) return?<\/p>\n

Sonnier: Yes, Penny will return. It\u2019s a juicy relationship when your dad doesn\u2019t necessarily approve of who you\u2019re dating.<\/p>\n

Penny, of course, was in jail for a bit.<\/p>\n

Margolis: Yeah. She\u2019s not exactly someone that the Reagans would welcome. But I\u2019ll say, on Blue Bloods<\/a>, Eddie [Vanessa Ray<\/a>] has a criminal father, so they\u2019ve been down this path before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where does the relationship between Danny and Baez stand, especially since he\u2019s staying in Boston? Is it officially over?<\/p>\n

Sonnier: I can\u2019t tell you how or where it continues, but no. Relationships take different forms; they are in a relationship.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s good. Some fans don\u2019t like them together, of course, but many\u2026<\/p>\n

Margolis: We happen to be fans that do like them together, so we\u2019ll continue to tell those stories.<\/p>\n

\"Marisa<\/p>\n

Michael Gibson \/ CBS<\/p>\n

How will Danny adjust to his new reality in Boston? There was a hint that he doesn\u2019t hate it. He actually liked a slice of Boston pizza.<\/p>\n

Margolis: There are a great many things that he has to get used to, understand, or reject. Part of what\u2019s fun about this show is that he\u2019s a fish out of water in this city that he had decided to stay in. Just because you stay somewhere doesn\u2019t mean you have to love every aspect of it all the time. I can tell you as a New Yorker who\u2019s lived in Los Angeles for almost 20 years, you never entirely let go of New York, no matter how long you\u2019re anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Will there be any more visits from the Blue Bloods cast?\u00a0Starting with Erin (Bridget Moynahan<\/a>) and Baez.<\/p>\n

Sonnier: We can tell you that Erin will not be the only one, but that\u2019s all we\u2019re allowed to say.<\/p>\n

Are any new characters upcoming, perhaps recurring, you can share?<\/p>\n

Margolis: There are new characters that will show up.. We will meet more members of the Silver family, and we will see members of the Reagan family we have not yet seen.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s something to look forward to.<\/p>\n

Margolis: We\u2019re still a fairly new show and so our world is still growing and expanding as we get deeper into the characters\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

Sonnier: We now have a good handle on the characters we\u2019ve introduced \u2014 drawing a full picture of who the Silver family is and how the Reagans have integrated into that family. Now that the groundwork has been laid, the second half of this season is just a full-on exciting exploration of how these relationship grow. How does this family adapt to the environment that\u2019s sort of changing around them as the Reagan have come in? The back half of this season has been some of the most exciting television that I\u2019ve ever been a part of.<\/p>\n

Boston Blue, Midseason Return, Friday, February 27, 2026, 10\/9c, CBS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for\u00a0Boston Blue Season 1 Episode 9, \u201cCollateral Damage.\u201d] We figured that Danny…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-359852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}