‘Boston Blue’ Will Return for Season 2 With Time Jump After Shocking Finale Cliffhanger

In the Season 1 finale of Boston Blue, Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) went on patrol with his son Sean (Mika Amonsen), while Lena (Sonequa Martin-Green) got shot while conducting a door knock for an investigation. Luckily, she survived and was home for Shabbat dinner by the end of the episode. But the cliffhanger came in the last 60 seconds when Lena’s boyfriend, Detective Brian Rodgers (Ryan Broussard), was getting back in his vehicle after buying flowers on the way to dinner when his car was T-boned and pushed into the bay, leaving viewers with a cliffhanger as to whether or not he survived, and who was driving the offending truck.

“There will be a time jump when we come back, but we will pick up that story, so we will work through what happened that night,” executive producer Brandon Sonnier told Parade. “We will work through where they are in the case moving forward, but in order to get Danny and Lena back up on the street, on her feet, we’re going past the leave of absence that Lena had to take in order to physically heal before she gets back on the job.”

And executive producer Brandon Margolis added, “We will not leave audiences hanging for very long as to what happened to Rodgers, what the BPD’s interest is in the driver of that truck and that will have a lot of momentum coming into this season.”

Here’s everything we know about Boston Blue Season 2.

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When will Boston Blue Season 2 be released?

Boston Blue will return with all new episodes for its second season this fall. CBS has not yet revealed premiere dates.

When does Boston Blue come?

Boston Blue will continue to air on Friday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT timeslot.

Who is in the Boston Blue cast?

Donnie Wahlberg as Danny Reagan

Danny Reagan made the move from NYPD to Boston PD so he could oversee his son Sean’s career.

Sonequa Martin-Green as Lena Silver

Lena Peters is the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family, who was partnered with Danny Reagan when he made the move from the NYPD to the Boston PD.

Maggie Lawson as Sarah Silver

Sarah Silver is the Superintendent in the Boston Police Department who is Lena’s stepsister.

Marcus Scribner as Jonas Silver

Jonah is the youngest member of the Silver family and Sean Reagan’s partner on the Boston PD.

Mika Amonsen as Sean Reagan

Sean decided to pursue his family’s legacy but wanted to do so in a police department outside of New York.

Gloria Reuben as Mae Silver

Mae Silver, the widow of a judge who was murdered on the courthouse steps, is Boston’s District Attorney and the matriarch of a blended family of law enforcement professionals.

Ernie Hudson as Reverend Edwin Peters

Reverend Peters is a renowned pastor of an historic Baptist church in Boston.

Will we get any Blue Bloods cameos in Boston Blue Season 2?

As they did in Season 1, members of the Reagan clan will make timely visits to Boston in Season 2 of the cop drama, but Wahlberg will continue as the only Blue Blood series regular.

“We are huge Blue Bloodsfans, and so every opportunity that we get to check in with those characters to remind our audience that that universe is where we live, that those stories are still ongoing in another city, we just aren’t seeing them all the time we sort of [love] that,” Sonnier said. “So, we love when we have the legacy cast pop in just to check in on where they are and also to further their relationship with Danny and Sean and to weigh in on Danny’s growth as a Boston police officer.”

What is the plot of Boston Blue Season 2?

Donnie Wahlberg reprises his role as NYPD Detective Danny Reagan in the Blue Bloods’ spinoff Boston Blue. In this new series, Reagan takes a position with the Boston Police Department and is paired with Detective Lena Silver, the eldest daughter of a prominent law enforcement family. The Silver family is comprised of Boston District Attorney Mae Silver, Boston PD Detective Lena Silver, Police Superintendent Sarah Silver, rookie cop Jonah Silver and renowned Baptist pastor Reverend Edwin Peters. As Reagan settles into his new job on the Boston PD, he also reconnects with his youngest son, Sean, who is beginning his own career in Boston.

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.

Are there spoilers for Boston Blue Season 2?

“There’s going to be a deeper test of the strength of this found family of Danny and Lena, the Silvers and the Reagans, as not just the ripple effect of this attack on Rodgers, but the election, the pressure of Sarah and Seth’s (Mike Vogel) wedding colliding essentially at that time, and the growth of Jonah and Sean as no longer rookie patrolman, but year two cops,” Margolis said.“That’s the year where you kind of declare what kind of police officer you’re going to be, and exploring the growth of those two potentially outside the looming shadow of their families, and what kinds of decisions and mistakes they’ll make when there’s a little more rope, when they’re a little bit a little more on their own, so there’s lots of stress for the family to try to combat against.”

As for how getting shot will affect Lena, Sonnier said, “We have spoken to many police officers about this. We actually have one on our writing staff and we’ve spoken extensively about once you experience this sort of trauma on the job, it does change you. Now, it can change you for better or for worse, and sometimes there’s a decision that needs to be made to point yourself in one direction or the other. We’re very interested in telling those stories.

“We understand that the audience knows that Lena will be a good cop — that is the premise of the show. We’re not going to upend that. We’re not going to change that, but is there a difference in the way she approaches the job? Is there a difference in her physicality and her mentality and in the way she and Danny relate to each other? Those are things that we get to explore when we come back for Season 2. Often these sorts of traumas, these sorts of events, can drive you to being an even stronger, even better cop — an even stronger, even better whatever it is that you happen to be.  That’s really the world that we want to put Lena into.”

As for Jonah and Sean, Sonnier said, “We left Jonah at the end of Season 1 questioning how much good they were truly doing in the community. They know they’re chasing bad guys, but am I doing enough for the people who need help?  It’s not always about chasing bad guys. So, there’s this idea of am I going to be a hard-charging cop who just runs after the biggest status crimes all the time, or am I going to be a community police officer who gets cats out of trees and helps little old ladies across the street? Somewhere in the middle is where we want all of our cops to be. We want them to be there to lend a hand, and we also want them to be there to take out bad guys. Sort of that push and pull, that struggle of where am I going to put my energy, where do I lean is where we find Sean and Jonah in Season 2.”

Is there a trailer for Boston Blue Season 2?

It’s too soon. Scripts have yet to be written for the second season.

How can I watch Boston Blue?

Boston Blue will be available on CBS and stream next day on Paramount+. All episodes of Season 1 are streaming now on Paramount+.

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