SPOILER ALERT: This publish incorporates spoilers from “Finish of Tour,” the Dec. 13 collection finale of “Blue Bloods.”

After 14 seasons and 293 episodes, CBS’ “Blue Bloods” formally got here to an finish on Friday evening, airing its remaining episode.

The final hour didn’t exit with a bang; in reality, it felt a bit like the conventional episodes that followers have grown to like for the final decade and a half — with a number of huge moments. The Reagan household was compelled to take care of an assault on the town and on police particularly. Each Eddie (Vanessa Ray) and Mayor Chase (Dylan Walsh) had been shot however survived; Eddie’s associate, Luis Badillo (Ian Quinlan), nevertheless, did not, being shot throughout a name along with her, leaving the Reagan household devastated.

Fortunately, the finale ended with a number of huge, pleased moments for the members of the Reagan household. Erin (Bridget Moynahan) determined to quietly remarry her ex-husband (Peter Hermann). Moments earlier than she was planning to share the information with the household, Eddie and Jamie (Will Estes) introduced they had been anticipating their first little one.

In the meantime, Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) dipped his toe again into the courting world for the primary time, after recommendation from Grandpa (Len Cariou), asking his associate Baez (Marisa Ramirez) out for pizza. In fact, some longtime viewers — myself included — had been curious if the present would convey again his former associate Jackie (Jennifer Esposito) for a romance between them.

Wahlberg tells Selection that that chance “may need been thought of,” however he wasn’t a part of that dialog.

“It was vital to [producer] Kevin Wade to not have each partnership flip right into a relationship. And I revered that, and I agreed with it. I believe it was simply most likely vital for me personally that Danny grows,” mentioned Wahlberg. “Because the viewers began type of clamoring for a relationship with Danny and Baez, I believed, it’s extra vital for them to develop and for her to begin making an affect on him, and him to actually respect her in a approach that he hasn’t all the time revered sure folks within the present.”

He felt it was crucial that the viewers understand how a lot love — “not at the same time as a pair, simply as human beings” — there was between the 2 characters.

“I believe that was lots of me actually pushing. I pushed rather a lot for some closure with that. I went to [writer] Siobhan O’Connor, and I used to be like, ‘Hear, you’ve acquired to do one thing. They don’t have to go get married, however one thing can be good, simply to point out that there could also be a future for them, or that their relationship has actually developed,’” he defined.

O’Connor got here up with the scene between Danny and his grandfather and needed to shock the actor with it. “I did the scene with Len, and it was simply gold. You perceive he’s taking Grandpa’s recommendation. And I believed it was performed magically,” he recalled. “I believed it was performed with respect to the present. It wasn’t ‘Let’s tie this up with a pleasant bow.’ It’s just a bit nod to what might occur sooner or later for them.”

Tom Selleck, who performs Commissioner Frank Reagan and serves as an government producer on the collection, “wasn’t a part of any of the discussions concerning the finale” storylines, and was shocked by every part that unfolded.

“Someplace alongside the road, I got here to welcome [the surprises] as a result of Frank doesn’t know what’s coming to him,” he instructed Selection.

Over the course of the ultimate season, many puzzled if Frank would retire from his function as commissioner. When requested whether or not or not Selleck is pleased he didn’t, the actor was stumped.

“I don’t know. I used to be by no means confronted with it. I believe there’s a narrative there. I do know that he hated the job. He hated the duty, the burden on the shoulders. He didn’t need it. He didn’t audition for it when it initially got here up. So, it will have been attention-grabbing,” mentioned Selleck. “He couldn’t give up. I believe he must get himself fired. One factor he was blessed or cursed with was this hyperactive sense of duty that he tried to implant on everyone at that dinner desk.”

Wahlberg says that Frank’s emotions about his job added to the household dynamic via the years.

“It’s simply so vital that the patriarch of the household hates the job, however has the integrity and sense of duty to do it to the perfect of his potential always,” he says. “And all of his youngsters have completely different emotions about it.”