The following contains massive spoilers from The Rookie‘s Season 5 premiere.

This Sunday night in The Rookie‘s Season 5 premiere, what happened in Vegas between “Dim” and “Juicy” did not stay in Vegas for Tim and Lucy.

Afterward, Tim himself even gut-checked Lucy on what she might be feeling — but she shrugged off their convincing “practice” kiss as simply having the understandable effect of an intimate act.

Taking “Chenford” this far in the Season 5 premiere “felt like the organic place to go,” showrunner Alexi Hawley tells TVLine?

The Season 4 finale’s doppelgänger twist, which paved the way for Tim and Lucy to pose as a criminal couple, “allowed us to let some things that the audience completely saw under the surface come up,” Hawley noted, “and now we’re at a place where we can’t ignore it.

“Rosalind was mad at Lucy for not showing up in court and not playing her game…,” Hawley says of Dyer’s agenda.

“Rosalind only chose Chris because of Lucy, so that’s definitely going to have an impact,” says Hawley.

Elsewhere in the Season 5 premiere: Officer John Nolan (Nathan Fillion) was granted a “golden ticket” for his crafty heroics in the Season 4 finale — inviting him to choose any next LAPD post he wanted.

“I do think that Nolan at heart is an empathetic person — he’s a listener, he’s a question-asker — so I don’t think anybody would believe him as a hard-ass like Tim,” says Hawley.