What To Know
- Serial killer Liam Glasser remains free on The Rookie going into Season 9.
- Showrunner Alexi Hawley addresses what’s next with him.
Of the recurring baddies that the officers of The Rookie have to deal with when the series returns for Season 9 in 2027, serial killer Liam Glasser (Seth Gabel) is, admittedly, not at the top of the list. After all, it was international crime boss Heath Everett (Jeffrey Vincent Parise) who orchestrated the abductions of Tim (Eric Winter) and Lucy (Melissa O’Neil) — right after they finally got engaged!
However, Liam should be behind bars but is instead free, thanks to Novak (Noel Fisher) confessing to his crimes, using details that hadn’t been released to the public. Furthermore, the LAPD even ended up having to protect the killer when a family member of one of his victims came after him, all while he fought his ex-wife for custody of their kids in court.
The plan is to bring him back, showrunner Alexi Hawley told TV Insider at San Diego Comic-Con in July.
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“He’s such a great actor, and so we’re dying to get him back. I think, ultimately, in my mind, he’s laying a little low at first. Our hands are a little tied because he won against us, so we can’t be overt in anything we do to keep an eye on him, but he’ll definitely be back,” he said. “I just haven’t quite landed how I want to do it yet.”
When we spoke with Hawley after the Season 8 finale, he called Glasser “a ticking bomb.” Everyone wants him taken care of, especially Nyla (Mekia Cox), whose words to the killer were used against her and by his lawyer, Malcolm (Sean Patrick Thomas).
She’s not doing “well” with Glasser still out there, Cox previously told us. “She’s also had to deal with this litigation with the lawyers and she’s trying to figure out — she’s also had to deal with the fact that she got demoted for a little while and that was hard for her and so he’s causing a lot of roughness in her life that she wasn’t expecting and so I think she’s at this point where she’s like, ‘I would like him behind bars forever.’”
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The Rookie, Season 9, 2027, ABC
—Additional reporting by Erin Maxwell