While many are settling in to watch the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers, the new episode of Boston Blue (Fridays at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT on CTV in Canada, CBS in the U.S.) also started with a little baseball. Episode 2 begins with Danny Reagan, played by Donnie Wahlberg, leaving Fenway Park with his son Sean (Mika Amonsen), after the New York Mets beat the Boston Red Sox.

This comes just as Sean and his friend Jonah Silver (Marcus Scribner) are a day away from being partnered Boston PD officers. While Danny tells his son he needs to assert some dominance in the partnership, Jonah’s sister, detective Lena (Sonequa Martin-Green), is doing the same with her brother. Danny and Lena both specifically discuss how the person who drives, picks the music and decides where to eat lunch has control.

Sean and Jonah aren’t worried because they’ve been best friends since the police academy, but Danny and Lena correctly identify that friendship gets complicated when you’re partnered officers.

While Sean and Danny are heading away from Fenway, they hear gunshots and see a man on the ground, covered in blood, with tape over his mouth and his hands tied. Danny is still on loan to the Boston PD, so he works with Lena on the case, as he was the first to arrive at the scene. One witness says he saw the man jump out of a blue van and run to the park before the gunshots went off.

In an unexpected surprise, Lena’s mom, Mae (Gloria Reuben), the district attorney, arrives at the crime scene. The victim is a man named Winston Ballard, who walked away from a fortune to be a whistleblower in a Ponzi scheme case Mae was working on, involving someone named Lou Malakov (Paul Miller).

The first person Danny, Lena and Mae talk to is Winston’s wife, Naomi (Anastasia Barzee), who says masked individuals crashed into her home, tied Winston’s hands and started hitting him with a gun, before pushing him into a blue van. She’s particularly upset because Winston was meant to have police protection at all times, but that wasn’t the case.

While Danny and Lena are at Malakov’s home to get more details, a shooter in a blue van fires through the window and hits Malakov. Just before he dies, Malakov says the word “win” to Danny.

This results in police superintendent Sarah Silver (Maggie Lawson), Jonah and Lena’s sister, and Mae’s daughter, having to talk to her former partner, Sylvia Min (Laura Kai Chen). Sylvia was one of the officers responsible for Winston’s protection detail. But the officer meant to relieve her was late, and she had gotten a call from her daughter’s school that she had fractured her wrist and was being taken to the ER. So Sylvia left her post early.

Hoping to lessen Sylvia’s punishment, Sarah finds her grandfather, Rev. Edwin Peters (Ernie Hudson), to ask if he could put in a good word for Sylvia with the civilian review board. But when he talks to his daughter, Mae, about Sarah’s request, they reminisce about when Sarah was in high school and she wanted to run for student council at 15. Mae and Lena spent weeks helping her with the campaign, so Sarah could win. It was a moment that really brought this blended family together.

“I raised a warrior, and I’m hoping that she finds a way to help herself,” Mae says.

As the core case of the episode wraps up, it turns out a man named Harold Baca (Chad Camilleri) paid for the officer to be late to his post to protect Winston. Baca’s life savings were caught up in Malakov’s Ponzi scheme. But Baca had a partner, Winston’s wife Naomi, and Baca’s sister. She hated that Winston was a whistleblower and wanted him to keep his mouth shut.

‘Feel like a Reagan’

We also see the carryover of the beloved Blue Bloods dinner scenes to Boston Blue, where the Silvers and the Reagans come together and discuss the increased tension between Jonah and Sean.

Mae also talks to Sarah about Sylvia, and what Sarah asked her grandpa to do. Sarah says she knows that her cops are overworked and stressed at home, and cops like Sylvia need “help” instead of harsh punishments. But Mae and Edwin tell her she still has to do her job, and Danny shares that his father had a difficult time becoming the boss in New York, but he knew that he was the best person for the position. Lena adds that the fact that Sarah even cares about their well-being matters.

With Mae’s help, Sarah tells Sylvia that if she resigns, a job as an investigator with the district attorney will be waiting for her.

While we ultimately know that Danny is going to stay in Boston, he makes the decision after Sean says that even in his early days with Boston PD, he’s starting to “feel like a Reagan,” with Danny responding by saying that being a Reagan means there’s always someone at the department who has your back, which Sean doesn’t currently have.

Danny identifies that they haven’t been as close as they should be, and they can work on that if he transfers to the Boston PD.

That’s when Sean asks about the family and what will happen with Danny’s relationship to Maria, confirming he’s still with Detective Maria Baez (Marisa Ramirez), but Danny has everyone’s support back home to make the move.

Boston Blue co-creators Brandon Sonnier and Brandon Margolis confirmed to TV Line that Danny’s relationship with Baez is a topic for “multiple episodes” this season. 

The episode ends at another baseball game, where Lena puts a Red Sox jersey on Danny.