Thank you, again.
I had suspected that Jamie stayed a beat cop so the show could have someone from the family at all levels of the legal system.
Your information about active plotlines really helps me understand the situation better.
I appreciate it.

By having active plotlines that could easily explain a character being written out,they are telling the actors they are not essential.They
will give raises to the actors they think they really need and pay for it out of letting others go,if the total salary demands add up to more than their budget.

As for Jamie’s lack of career progression,I think it’s a case of their insisting on having a beat cop character no matter how unrealistic it is for him not to be promoted.

I’m not familiar with entertainment “politics”. Please give me an example of what kind of options the studio might be suggesting to cast members if the studio thinks the cast is asking for too much in the renegotiations. Thank you.

With the “DeHavilland Rule” limiting the length of employment by the studios to 7 years,and this being the 7th season of Blue Bloods,the cast are entitled to renegotiate…and the studio may be trying to make cast members feel there are other options in case they ask for too much.

However, Eddie was in only the hospital scene. Instead of portraying their great teamwork, the writers chose to focus on how Jamie basically should be a detective, even though he once again re-emphasized to a family member that he is happy as a beat cop.

Evidently, the writers are waiting until the last episode of this season to provide any resolution of the Jamie/Eddie relationship. I’m beginning to wish that the “Personal Business” episode would have been now, instead of last November. It certainly makes things drag out. I’m getting tired of this long drawn out process.

If Blue Bloods does not resolve this by the end of the season, they will have lost me, and I have been a FAITHFUL viewer since Season 1, Episode 1.

(Rather garbled presentation of that case…the arrested woman was the partner/lover of an EMT whose wife died because she took an overdose of medication the lover had given the husband to give the wife,before not letting the husband respond to the distress call).