Donnie Wahlberg's Danny Reagan finds himself in a hostage situation in the latest episode of Boston Blue
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In the Friday, April 24, episode, Danny and Lena Silver (Sonequa Martin-Green) are tasked with saving an entire emergency room from a bomb threat
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Boston Blue airs on CBS Fridays at 10 p.m. ET and streams the next day on Paramount+
Danny Reagan and Lena Silver just stumbled upon one of their most intense cases yet.
On the Friday, April 24, episode ofBoston Blue, Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) and Lena (Sonequa Martin-Green) found themselves in a hostage situation at a Boston hospital when a man in the emergency room threatened to bomb the building. And it took a bit of patience for the duo to save the day.
The episode, "Anatomy of a Bomb," marks the latest in theBlue Bloodsspinoff and kicked off with the partners handling some other business in the hospital, before learning that they're in danger themselves. As the duo prepares to leave the ER, they learn that a man named Greg is holding the entire facility hostage and threatening to set off a bomb if his daughter, Sophie, doesn't get her promised liver transplant.
While Lena tries to persuade Greg not to set off the explosive, he doesn't budge. A vehicle parked outside the ER explodes, right as Lena's brother Jonah Silver (Marcus Scribner) and Danny's son Sean Reagan (Mika Amonsen) walk by.
The rookie BPD cops survive the bombing, but according to Greg, it was just a warning and the "next one levels the hospital."
As it turns out, the bomber's daughter has Wilson's disease. He tells Danny and Lena that he got a call to visit the hospital and prepare Sophie for surgery, only to be told moments later that her match didn't exist and there was an "administrative" error. "I don't have a reason to live if she dies," Greg says, threatening to kill the dozens of patients — as well as Danny and Lena — if his daughter doesn't get a new liver ASAP.
As Sarah Silver (Maggie Lawson) runs command outside the ER with a SWAT team, Danny and Lena try to deescalate the situation inside with the help of a doctor on duty, Troy. Also outside of the hospital, a shady death takes place that's connected to the organ mix-up, all while Sean and Jonah discover that Greg has 50 to 60 kilograms of dynamite on him. Some of it, they learn, is tucked away in the hospital's morgue.
A bomb squad is then called in, Sophie undergoes emergency surgery and Greg sets off a timer for the bomb once his daughter flatlines. Danny and Lena then have just three minutes to convince Greg to turn off the bomb as Danny uses his experience as a dad, and as a veteran, to relate to Greg. It seems to work.
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"Don't die saying you loved her," Danny says, while still facing death himself. "Live, proving it."
Things turn out relatively well for the crew when all is said and done. Lena saves the day by running to the morgue to manually turn off the bomb (with one second to spare), Greg is arrested, Sophie survives, another man behind the whole organ switch-up is taken into custody and fans get to see heart-to-heart moments between both Danny and Sean and Lena and her man, Detective Brian Rogers (Ryan Broussard). The latest brush with death brings Sean and Danny even closer.
"A father's job is to protect his kids. And honestly son, some stories, you don't want to know," Danny tells Sean of his time serving in Iraq.
"I'm not a kid anymore, I want to know about you," Sean says. "I know I might not say it enough, but I love you dad."
"I love you, too," Danny responds.
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Boston Blueairs on CBS Fridays at 10 p.m. ET and streams the next day on Paramount+.
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