SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the Season 8 finale of ABC’s The Rookie .

Another Rookie season finale, another Chenford cliffhanger. But what a difference a year makes.

The Season 7 finale ended with Tim ( Eric Winter ) asking Lucy (Melissa O’Neil) to move in with him but he didn’t get an answer as she had dozed off. At the end of the Season 8 finale, Tim popped a different question, asking Lucy to marry him, and we didn’t have to wait until next season to find out her answer — she said yes.

But only seconds after the romantic sunset beach proposal, Tim and Lucy were abducted, with one of the perpetrators delivering a message to them, “Heath Everett says payback is a bitch.”

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Everett is the super rich warlord who had had a grudge on Tim even since the latter refused a $10M bribe to let him go earlier in the season.…