Frank Reagan claims 95% of cops never use their guns, but Danny makes up for them all. Where is this thin line between a professional detective and a serial killer?.
Don’t get us wrong: every family, no matter how picture-perfect, has its fair share of disagreements. But Blue Bloods’ Reagans take it to the next level! Imagine your Police Commissioner father constantly claiming 95% of police officers never use their guns — and then you go out there and exterminate half the New York’s population while on duty just to spite him.
Danny Reagan Has Always Been a Menace
Frank Reagan is right, of course: in the real world, most officers don’t ever get to shoot their guns outside of practice. But in Blue Bloods, there’s good old Danny, and Danny makes up for all his colleagues, fictional and real alike — throughout the show’s many seasons, the detective has shot way, way too many people for comfort.
It’s not like he has a choice, though, as in Blue Bloods, there’s a shootout every other episode, and they just so happen to mostly involve Danny. He’s good for it: once, the man single-handedly took out 14 people in just one episode… For context, some James Bonds killed less folks in their entire Agent 007 careers!
Danny Reagan is a one-man army indeed, and he’s a complete menace for criminals. His body count makes up, we’d say, over 70% of the entire family that predominantly consists of police officers — just far less bloodthirsty ones.
Danny Reagan Isn’t to Blame for the Shootings
But while we acknowledge that Danny is perhaps leaning toward the “serial killer trope” more than most serial killers we’ve seen in Blue Bloods, it’s not his fault. No matter how you look at it, killing a bunch of folks isn’t on the detective himself.
From the plot perspective, it’s always a “you or them” situation, and we can’t blame a police officer for choosing his own life over a criminal’s. If they shoot, you shoot back — that’s just how it is. And from the TV show perspective, Danny Reagan just so happens to be the “action guy” who largely carries the dangerous aspects of Blue Bloods.
The key takeaway here? Don’t blame Danny, but also… Don’t ever stand in his way.