Monica Stevens is a recurring character on The Rookie. She is a corrupt lawyer who serves as Elijah Stone's defense attorney and was previously engaged to Wesley Evers. She has also served as a defense attorney for Skip Tracer Randy, Boyd Taylor, and Oscar Hutchinson. She is portrayed by Bridget Regan.
Biography[]
In "The Reckoning", Wesley Evers goes to the deposition for his actions in representing Elijah Stone. However, he is dismayed that Stone's lawyer is his ex-fiancé Monica who he broke up with after cheating on her. It becomes clear that there is still some animosity between the two and Monica even disrupts his evening with Angela Lopez. As a result, Evers is forced to tell Lopez about his history with Monica.
In "The Con," Monica is arrested for bribery of a federal judge, influencing him to favor her cases in relation to Elijah Stone, and the potential cause of the judge's own death. Monica's home and office are seized and searched, along with her current case files.
In "The Enemy Within", Elijah threatens to throw Monica into a woodchipper if she does not tell him what he wants to hear from her. Monica then convinces Elijah to follow her plan, which is to show up to the district attorney office injured, where she claims that she was attacked by Elijah. Monica then offers the LAPD an opportunity to finally arrest Elijah, which they do not trust her to follow through with. Sure enough, Monica does not go through with the LAPD's plan, lying to them about where Elijah is meeting with associates of Abril Rodas. At the last minute, Monica tells them where they are now meeting, but the LAPD is already at the new location. The LAPD then interrupts the drug deal, and Monica is shot during the ensuing shootout, but survives. Elijah is later arrested by Lopez and Nyla Harper after getting into a fight with them. At the hospital, Harper tells Monica that she will be arrested if she interferes in any future investigations. However, after Harper leaves, Monica is seen calling Abril, offering her legal services and warning her about the authorities being on the lookout for her.
In "S.T.R.", she appears as Skip Tracer Randy's lawyer after he is arrested twice for interfering with two murder scenes.
In "Strike Back", she appears as the lawyer for heist crew leader Boyd Taylor and is implied to be involved in criminal activities.
She also appears in "The Hammer" as the lawyer for Oscar Hutchinson when Oscar sues John Nolan regarding Nolan's treatment of him in "Death Notice".
In "Punch Card", Stevens is on the phone with Wesley discussing a deal regarding one of her clients . However, she is alerted by a noise and tells Wesley to call the cops while she goes to confront the burglar. She is attacked but subdues the attacker, faking an injury herself in order to keep an eye on the attacker in the hospital. Because of a gang riot in the hospital, Stevens takes advantage of the ensuing chaos to confront her assailant. During the process of identifying and tracking down the person responsible for the assault, Stevens ends up killing her attacker in his hospital bed, telling him she'll see him in hell. Stevens then returns to her room, pretending to be hiding and scared from the violence going on. Lopez and Harper are skeptical that she stayed put after her attacker flatlined.
As of "The Squeeze", she makes a deal with a local gang lord, tortures her attacker's associate, and bargains with Oscar Hutchinson to provide information about the attacker's employer. Oscar agrees to help her but only if she provides him the thing he wants most: escaping from prison. Stevens accepts his terms.
During "Escape Plan", Stevens arranges a meet with someone who will exact revenge on said employer, and kidnaps Blair London. Once Oscar comes through with info, Stevens is pleased and tells him all the necessary needs for his escape will be made. She and her bodyguard are later confronted by one of her colleagues who was paid to assassinate her, although he knows that Stevens is resourceful enough to top the offer, and she agrees to pay him. However, Stevens truly has no intention of honoring the deal and arranges an attack on him. After flying across the country with Blair to dispose of her to a Swiss trafficker, things go awry when Nolan, Harper, and the FBI show up; they retrieve London and cause mayhem in the trafficker's camp. Realizing the heat is on, Stevens promptly flees, briefly chased by John Nolan, who is shot in the side to impede his efforts. Stevens is last seen running away from the melee into the Argentinian countryside. Once the LAPD and FBI have extracted London, the latter reveals some of her dealings with Stevens, who is then marked a fugitive. Stevens' actions also allow Oscar and Jason Wyler to escape prison.
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Appearances[]
| The Rookie: Season 5 | ||||||||||
| "Double Down": | "Labor Day": | "Dye Hard": | "The Choice": | "The Fugitive": | "The Reckoning": | "Crossfire": | "The Collar": | |||
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| "Take Back": | "The List": | "The Naked and The Dead": | "Death Notice": | "Daddy Cop": | "Death Sentence": | "The Con": | "Exposed": | |||
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| "The Enemy Within": | "Double Trouble": | "A Hole In The World": | "S.T.R.": | "Going Under": | "Under Siege": | |||||
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| The Rookie: Season 6 | ||||||||||
| "Strike Back": | "The Hammer": | "Trouble in Paradise": | "Training Day": | "The Vow": | ||||||
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| "Secrets and Lies": | "Crushed": | "Punch Card": | "The Squeeze": | "Escape Plan": | ||||||
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Trivia[]
- Stevens uses a Google Pixel 6 Pro mobile phone.