“Our dinners are never about the food,” proclaims NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) near the end of Blue Bloods‘ final episode. “You know, we’ve got a lot to be thankful for, and looking around this table, I gotta say, I couldn’t be more proud, or grateful,” the patriarch adds before the family bows their heads to pray like the good Catholics they are.

In the end, as it was when the Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess created CBS series debuted on September 24, 2010, Blue Bloods remains all about family – the fictional multi-generational cop family of the Reagans, the fraternity of the police, plus the District Attorney’s office, City Hall, and New York City itself. With a guest appearance by Edward James Olmos as an incarcerated ganglord Lorenzo Batista, who has a long sit-down with Frank, hoping to stop his vengeful son, find the guilty shooters and end the war.

Starting with a dead New York Supreme Court judge, a wounded Mayor, and the killing of Officer Eddie Jacko-Reagan’s partner of three seasons Officer Luis Badillo (Ian Quinlan) the end of Blue Bloods is much bloodier than the primetime NYPD family drama goes. Yet, with the Big Apple turned into a gangland war zone as a ruthless banger tries to get his daughter back and Commissioner Reagan given” the keys to the city” by Mayor Peter Chase (Dylan Walsh) from a hospital bed, the Siobhan Byrne O’Connor and Kevin Wade co-penned and Alex Zakrzewski directed “End of Tour” is putting pedal to the metal to get over the finish line.