James Murray is a recurring character on the rookie. He is the husband of Nyla Harper and runs a community center that the mild Wilshire officers frequently visit. He portrayed by Arjay Smith. During end game James talks about doing couple things but is shocks when Nyla discovers she’s six weeks pregnant with his child. Also James fails to respond with anything but a shocked stare. After a talk with Wesley he starts working on ways to apologize. Eventually they meet to talk about it and and after Nyla explains she is having the baby James apologizes and they make up. As of backstabbers Nyla is heavily pregnant and confessed to James that she is tired of being called his baby mama an proposes to him to be called his wife. James was initially accepting but later confides it didn’t seem right to be proposed to since he considered it. James later talks with Nyla and after she accepts his position he proposes to her on the spot and she accepts. They get married at courthouse with all their friends in attendance. James was happy to have a wife and stepdaughter. In coding James talked Nyla to the hospital for a checkup on the baby before they see that her roommate is a child with a head injury. He was concerned when the hospital’s power went out and Nyla got involved in a situation after the boy’s parents didn’t want to get it examined only for Nyla to discover that it was a kidnapping. In labor day he and Nyla have moved into a new house where she is hoping to give birth. Much later James is found by Grey who apprehendeds his attacker. However James was concerned for his wife and runs the rooms where he finds the burglar alive but with a gunshot wound and Nyla who has given birth holding a the baby at the same time the burglar at gunpoint. She casually tells James it’s a girl. After the situation he shares a moment with his family and watches Nyla tell Grey and Lopez that she is officially extending her maternity leave to watch their daughter. James holds her to that as the cop instincts started the situation.