The Rookie Caleb Wright
Caleb Wright was a guest character and antagonist on The Rookie. He was the protégé of convicted serial killer Rosiland Dyer. He was portrayed by Michael Cassidy. Wright is first seen in the opening sequence of 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 witnessed 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 Wade 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 actually 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 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. After a short time Chen is able to break free of her restraints and she attempts to escape only to realize that the house and the property that surrounds it is completely abandoned much to her dismay. Wright is able to catch up to her and the two struggle briefly until Wright incapacitates Chen and drags her back towards the house. Several hours later Wright begins to lead Chen towards her gravesite with her wrists bound with zip ties. He also pokes her several times with a knife and mocks her. They reach the gravesite snd Wright tells Chen that given the setbacks he was going to have to bury her alive which he did not do with his first two victims. When Chen protests Wright threatens her with a gun forcing her to get in the barrel. She was smart by taking off her ring and tossing it to the ground next to her gravesite. He then further humiliates her by taking a picture of her and showing her the camera on the bottom of the barrel’s lid. He then locks the barrel’s lid into the place and then kicks the barrel into the pre-dug hole. He hurries 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 gum until Wright shows him the video feed of Chen. Wright then taunts Armstrong about the death of his wife and explains that Armstrong needs to come with him or else Chen will die. Wright then takes Armstrong’s gun and they both leave the graveyard with Wright leaving both the photo of Chen and Armstrong’s phone behind. The photo has the caption now I have two cops on it is later found by Angela Lopez and Sargent Grey. Wright then takes Armstrong to the house where he is holding Chen captive. 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 gun at him and reveals that Chen is buried inside of different barrel. He then tells Armstrong that Rosiland 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 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 spreading out over the property to find Chen and Bradford finds Chen after spotting her ring on the ground near her 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. As Chen recovers from her ordeal in the hospital Nolan goes to visit Rosiland at the prison and reveals to her that they had recovered Wright’s notes about her crimes from the abandoned house meaning that they now knew everything about her murderous past and that she now longer has secrets.