Cops, crooks, politics and family drama; all elements in a typical Blue Bloods promo. This time, the slow-burning love affair between Eddie and Jamie had to make an appearance. Across the 11 episodes from the second half of Season 8, their moments start small, a look here, a disgruntled boyfriend there, tension everywhere, with Eddie being welcomed into the family by the end of the season.
In a 40 (or 20) second promo, you don’t have the luxury to linger on those moments, so the trick was finding them within the action. There’s a great sequence where Jamie’s about to get taken out by a not-so-great assassin, but Eddie’s spidey senses can feel her partner under threat, firing back with a burst of gunfire that sends the guy driving into the support ballast of the elevated trains.
The visuals are a level up from the typical action scene in Blue Bloods, the iconic elevated train tracks, shot on gorgeous long lenses that stretch the space and give the moment an unexpected jolt of production value. It’s the kind of scene that feels like it wandered in from a feature, and as we end with Eddie and Jamie embracing with a NY cop car screeching to a halt behind them, we know they’re going to be together.
It was fun to end the promo with a short parallel edit, combining sequences of Jamie and Danny both dealing with the threat of a bomb. Jamie in a city bus staring down a rucksack bomb, and Danny storming into a booby-trapped apartment, ending on a cliffhanger as the apartment blows up.