Caleb Wright

**Caleb Wright** was a guest character and antagonist on *The Rookie*. He was the protege of convicted serial killer Rosalind Dyer. He was portrayed by Michael Cassidy.

## Biography

Wright is first seen in "The Dark Side" when Lucy Chen meets him at bar called Las Torres while she is there with John Nolan, Nick Armstrong, and Jackson West. Chen is immediately attracted to him, but their interaction is cut short when Chen spots a man stealing money out of the pockets of other customers.

Later, Wright arrives at the station to give Chen his phone number, but Tim Bradford is suspicious of him. Bradford eventually relents and allows Chen to get his number.

As Chen and Bradford are on patrol, Bradford witnesses Chen viewing a photo of Wright on her phone. Later, as Chen and Bradford are heading down the elevator to the medical examiner's room, they both watch a video of Wright on her phone.

Nolan and Harper later find a cabin at an abandoned zoo and rescue Nora Valdez, Wright's intended third victim. Wright, who is wearing a mask over his face, witnesses this and escapes into a storm drain. He attempts to drown Nolan in a vat of water, but is interrupted by Harper's arrival. He then escapes through a door and locks it.

In the briefing room, the officers believe Bryan Coleman is behind the murders, not knowing that Wright had stolen his identity. Bradford tells Chen that she should go out for a drink "with another human". Chen then meets Wright at the bar for a drink. At the station, Grey reveals that Bryan Coleman was found dead under the cabin, and Wright abducts Chen after slipping something into her drink, revealing himself to be the actual killer.

Picking up in "Day of Death", Chen wakes up to find Wright tattooing her day of death onto her abdomen. West then tells the other officers about Chen's disappearance after failing to find her at the apartment that they have together.

Bradford, West, and Armstrong discover that the video Bradford had viewed earlier had been deleted, along with the rest of Wright's social media pages. Chen wakes up to find herself tied to a chair in a house. Wright enters the room and tells Chen that his intended victim was Armstrong, but that he had abducted her instead, seeing a crime of opportunity. Wright then gets angry at Chen when she correctly profiles him, and tells her that he "was going to enjoy" killing her.

Later, Chen breaks free of her restraints and attempts to escape, but Wright catches up to her. The two struggle briefly, until he kicks her in the head and drags her away by her leg. He then leads her to her gravesite, bounding her wrists with zip ties. He also pokes her repeatedly with a knife and mocks her. They reach the gravesite, and Wright tells her that given the setbacks, he was going to have to bury her alive, unlike the first two victims.

When Chen protests, Wright threatens her with a gun, forcing her to get in the barrel. He then further humiliates her by taking her picture and showing her the camera on the bottom of the barrel's lid. He then locks the barrel's lid into place and then kicks the barrel into the pre-dug hole. He buries Chen alive and leaves.

He is next seen stalking Armstrong at the graveyard, where Armstrong's wife is buried. Armstrong was about to answer a call from Nolan until Wright confronts him. Seeing him, Armstrong reached for his gun until Wright shows him the video feed of Chen, and tells him he must come with him to save Chen. Wright takes Armstrong's gun and leaves the photo of Chen on the ground next to Armstrong's phone with the caption "Now I Have 2 Cops". The photo is later found by Angela Lopez.

Wright takes Armstrong to the house. There is a barrel in the house and Armstrong runs towards it, believing Chen is inside. He finds the barrel empty and realizes he has been tricked, but it is too late, as Wright points Armstrong's own gun at him and reveals Chen is buried inside of a different barrel. He then tells Armstrong that Rosalind felt bad that he had missed his wife's death and was giving him Chen's death to watch instead. Wright then proposes that they will watch Chen's death together and then he will suffocate Armstrong as well.

Later, Nolan and Harper find the house after Lopez discovers where it is. Nolan breaches the front door of the house and Harper fatally shoots Wright through the window after he points Armstrong's gun at Nolan. Armstrong is distraught, as Wright is the only one who knows where Chen is buried. They try in vain to revive Wright, but he dies of his injuries before he can tell them anything.

The other officers arrive, and Bradford finds Chen after spotting her ring on the ground near the burial site. The other officers then rush over to help Bradford dig up the site. Bradford eventually removes the lid, and they find Chen unconscious, but she is revived after Bradford performs CPR on her.

Nolan later reveals to Rosalind that they had recovered Wright's notes about her, meaning that they now knew everything about her murderous past, and that she no longer has any secrets.

## Trivia

* All of the following were victims or intended victims of Wright:
	+ Two unnamed women (he kidnapped them and suffocated them in a barrel and then buried their bodies at Rosalind's grave sites in Griffith Park).
	+ Nora Valdez (he kidnapped her and then she was rescued by Nolan and Harper at the abandoned zoo).
	+ John Nolan (he attempted to drown him in a vat of water in a storm drain).
	+ Lucy Chen (he kidnapped her and attempted to suffocate her in a barrel).
	+ Nick Armstrong (he took him hostage in a graveyard, and would have suffocated him in a barrel if Nolan and Harper hadn't arrived to save him).