To say The Rookie Season 6 wasn’t an easy one for Tim Bradford ( Eric Winter ) would be an understatement, but he certainly comes out of it in a better place. Not only did Tim get a blast from his past, the fallout of which included him breaking up with Lucy ( Melissa O’Neil ), but his time at Metro was cut short as well (also as a result of the aforementioned history). He’s back at patrol, but as the actor tells us, it’s not like he doesn’t enjoy that work.

Below, Winter takes a look back at Tim’s journey in Season 6 and shares his hopes for the future. Plus, watch what he had to say about Chenford here . What do you know about what next season holds for Tim? Eric Winter: I don’t know a whole lot.

I do know Tim is going to be back in his good old-fashioned training officer style, doing what fans I think loved early on and the way that Bradford does it with new rookies, and I think that’ll be very fun. I’m excited to get back in the field in that sort of role as a true training officer, not just to partner with Aaron [ Tru Valentino ] or with Lucy or whoever, but he’s out there to try to train and make the next generation of police better. So I think that’s going to be exciting to see him out there in that element.

Tim did finally go to therapy this season, and he tells Lucy that Blair ( Danielle Campbell ) opened the door on some stuff he didn’t know was in there. How is he feeling about therapy after everything that went down when he actually did giv.