Angela Lopez

**Angela Lopez** is a main character on *The Rookie*. In season 1 and 2, she was a Police Officer III assigned to the Mid-Wilshire Division as the training officer for Jackson West. They usually worked the 7-Adam-07 beat. In Season 3, Lopez is promoted to Police Detective I. Lopez's badge number is 29842 in Seasons 1-2. Following her promotion to detective in Season 3, her badge number changed to 1777. She is portrayed by Alyssa Diaz.

## Biography

### Season 1

Lopez has mentioned a few things about her past:

* I grew up with four brothers in a two-bedroom. (Pilot)
* I was raised by a single mom. Everything I own was a hand-me-down from my four brothers, so I care about what I wear and how I look. (The Switch)
* NOLAN : Let me guess. Your dad was M.I.A., show up when it's convenient, bring a toy, act like a savior. LOPEZ : It was a stuffed animal. Last one he brought, I fed to the garbage disposal. And then he got cancer. (The Switch)

* Lopez danced with her grandfather (abuelo) at her quinceañera. (The Switch)
* In episode 8, "Time of Death", Lopez says that she has had to take a life while on the job.

In "Flesh and Blood", Lopez butts heads with a lawyer from the Public Defender's Office, Wesley Evers, but at the end of the episode Wesley asks her out. After several clashes and misunderstandings, they seem to be back together in "Homefront", flirting in the break room and playing footsie under the table in Interrogation.

### Season 2

In Season 2, Evers moves into Lopez' place and they clash over their wildly differing housekeeping styles. Lopez finally gets to meet Evers' mother Patrice, thereby discovering that Evers' family is wealthy. Nolan is assigned to ride with Lopez in "The Bet", as he is without a training officer and West is assigned to ride with Officer Smitty. In "Warriors and Guardians", Nolan is assigned to returning patrol officer Nyla Harper, and Lopez and West go back to being partnered together.

In "Hand-Off", it is revealed that Lopez and her training officer were the first on the scene after Wade Grey and his partner Dennis Rowland were shot by Russell Scanlin. Grey was seriously injured and Rowland died in Lopez's arms. It was Lopez's first shift on the job as a rookie, and the incident occurred 10 years prior to the events of the series. She also has nightmares about that day although during the episode, she mentions they are less frequent now.

In "The Overnight", Evers proposes to Lopez, and she happily accepts the proposal.

### Season 3

In the season 3 premiere ("Consequences"), Lopez is revealed to be pregnant and also is informed by Grey that she has been promoted to Police Detective I.

In "La Fiera", Lopez's unborn child receives a gift from drug queen pin Sandra de La Cruz, nicknamed "La Fiera".

In "Sabotage", Evers reveals he has a genetic predisposition for Fragile X syndrome that could affect their unborn child. In the next episode ("Lockdown"), Lopez has an amniocentesis a week before scheduled so she can know the results before Evers. Lopez rationalizes that Evers knew about his genetic disposition for weeks without telling her.

On Jackson West's last day as a rookie, Lopez temporarily returns to her original position as Training Officer. She rides with him, saying, "We started this journey together. I think we should finish it together."

In "Man of Honor", Lopez enlists Tim Bradford as her "man of honor", as he is determined to help her have the wedding she really wants.

Lopez and La Fiera remain on friendly terms until La Fiera's son is killed in "Brave Heart" by Cesar Madrigal's hitman after La Fiera takes over his father's cartel following his father's death.

In "Threshold", after a series of unfortunate events interfere with her wedding plans, she gives up on her plans and tasks Bradford and friends with setting up a wedding in two days. Bradford and friends accomplish the setup beautifully - Bradford says, "You could save my life three times and you would still owe me". After La Fiera is arrested, Lopez visits her in her cell prior to the ceremony, and Lopez blames her for her son's death, causing an enraged La Fiera to orchestrate her release from a prison transport while the cartel who had freed her kidnapped Lopez just as she was preparing to walk down the aisle.

### Season 4

In "Life and Death", Lopez is abducted and along with Jackson, who is shot and killed while trying to save her. Lopez held hostage by La Fiera, who plans to take Lopez's baby once it's born and kill Lopez. Once her LAPD colleagues rescue her, Lopez's shot is the one that kills La Fiera during their escape. After a brief time jump or "Three months later", we see that Lopez has safely given birth to a baby boy and named the baby Jackson, after her former rookie. She pays respect to Jackson's grave and wishes he could be around to see her son.

In "Mother's Day", she is robbed while on an outing with Patrice. She personally promised to arrest the robbing couple, who dared her to try. At the end, she acted on her promise and reclaimed her item from the thieves.

### Season 5

In "The Fugitive", she was horrified to find her mother beaten and bloodied on the porch. She later questioned her and learn the attack is because of one of her brothers and had them all brought in. Angela was annoyed when Wesley represented all three, in an effort to get them to like him. She later found out it was because Benny was in debt to a loan shark and with Harper, she arrested the loan shark's enforcer. At the end, she and her siblings reconciled, with Angela happy they accepted Wesley.

In "Death Notice", Lopez finds out she is pregnant again, and in "Under Siege" she gives birth to a girl.

## Memorable Quotes

* "You're in for a hard fall if you can't see the difference between righteous and rigid." (Season 1 Episode 13 "Caught Stealing")

## Trivia

* Like Talia Bishop, she wanted to make detective. She accomplishes this goal by being promoted to detective in the episode "Consequences".
* Lopez tells hit and run victim Katrin Arnoux in "Warriors and Guardians" that after getting into a fight with her ex-boyfriend, he then drove drunk and died in a car crash. Lopez then "entered into a dark place", as she described it.
* She attended engineering classes at college, but she dropped it because she realized she didn't like it.
* Lopez's mother had 5 children while working two jobs.
* She mentions that her mother made her promise not to arrest her brother Cruz.
* She became close friends with Harper, due to their similar tough personalities.
* She has a cousin named Isabella, who she appears to be close to by calling her Izzy.
* On Season 1 Episode 5 at the end of the episode, she is seen wearing a jacket with the 1st Armored Division's Combat Service Identification Flag. She may have possibly served in the US military.

## Confirmed Kills

* Sandra De La Cruz, serial killer and cartel leader responsible for much of the drug trade in Southern California. Cause of death: Shot with a Glock 17