Blue Bloods SADDEST Deaths RANKED…..

When you watch a long-running police procedural like “Blue Bloods,” you end up learning that death is always around the corner. These deaths can come from anywhere, whether it’s a minor cameo, a single-episode guest star, a recurring character, or even a series regular. Nothing is off the table when a show is centered around the dedicated lawmen working the streets of one of the world’s biggest cities and confronting its most dangerous criminals.

For “Blue Bloods,” though, these deaths can often be truly tragic, as the series isn’t just focused on a group of any old detectives and beat cops, but a tight-knit family. Led by Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck), the family has members littered throughout the law enforcement community, both in the NYPD and in the city’s courthouse. Between the victims of violent crime that they encounter in their cases and the sudden and unexpected deaths of those close to the family — and sometimes within it — things get downright tragic. These are the saddest deaths in the history of “Blue Bloods,” ranked.

12. Detective Sonny Malevsky

Listen, he’s last on this list for a reason. As the man who is discovered to have killed Joseph Reagan, it’s hard to call the death of Sonny Malevsky (Michael T. Weiss) all that sad, because we all know he had it coming. Yet there’s something heartbreaking about the way it goes down — not because we wish he’d lived, but because he doesn’t deserve to go out on his own terms.

Revealed as Joe’s killer in the heartbreaking Season 1 finale “The Blue Templar,” Sonny is perhaps the most devilishly evil baddie the show ever features. To make matters worse, he’s one of their own: a New York City police detective. Part of a secret order of corrupt cops, he kills Joe to stop him from exposing the truth about him and his other Blue Templars. So when he’s found out and discovered by Frank Reagan (Selleck), he knows they won’t go easy on him, and he could be facing a lifetime in prison — the last place a cop ever wants to be.

Rather than risk being taken alive, Malevsky takes his own life, robbing the Reagans of justice for Joseph. That emotional gut punch, as Malevsky gets off “easy” for the murder of their son and brother, is exactly what makes it a tragedy, even if he doesn’t deserve to live.

11. Officer Vinny Cruz

“Blue Bloods” may mostly be about family and the Reagans’ fight to keep New York safe. Still, some of the best characters on the show are those who surround them, including the partners who follow Danny and Jamie Reagan into the streets, catching perps and investigating the most grisly murders. Vinny Cruz (Sebastian Sozzi) is one of these dedicated sidekicks, and his death in Season 3’s “The Bitter End” is the most tear-inducing moment of that season.

Opening with a soul-crushing scene, “The Bitter End” sees Jamie and Vinny arriving at the Bitterman Housing Projects, a notorious complex brimming with criminal activity and beset by ruthless gang violence. Shaken after witnessing a mother’s suicide and the death of a child, the pair are still dealing with trauma when they find themselves chasing down a purse snatcher who flees back into the housing projects. After losing him on foot, they realize they’ve been set up, and are ambushed in broad daylight.

Shot in the neck, Cruz dies in his partner’s arms while smiling, reassuring Jamie that his death was pre-ordained. It’s a shocking and emotional scene that doubles down on the episode’s tragedy. After his death, he’s posthumously promoted to detective first grade, with Commissioner Frank Reagan and the rest of the force left reeling.

10. Linda Reagan

We don’t get to see the death of Linda Reagan (Amy Carlson) on-screen, so, like Sonny Malevsky, the sad nature of her demise is more about its aftermath and what it means to the surviving characters. After all, Linda is a member of the Reagan family, even if she isn’t one of the series regulars out on the streets protecting the city from its worst criminals. But she’s married to one who is: Danny Reagan (Donnie Wahlberg). Her death may hit him harder than any other death in the series, even his brother Joe’s.

In the wake of her accidental death in a helicopter crash, Danny is shaken with grief and his home life is left in ruins. He becomes a single father overnight and struggles to keep it together, even considering leaving the force altogether. Things get even more intense when it’s discovered that Linda’s death may not have been an accident at all, and was likely orchestrated by a drug cartel led by Jose Rojas (Danny Trejo).

The saddest part of Linda’s demise may be that we don’t get to see it. Feeling the weight of her loss through others is utterly gut-wrenching.

9. Corporal John Russell

Some of the most unnerving deaths on “Blue Bloods” don’t involve series regulars or even longtime recurring characters. Often, they’re the death of a guest star — someone whose gripping story pulls us in and makes us feel the true desperation of their situation. Such is the case in the Season 4 installment “Unfinished Business,” in which Danny is struck by the story of John Russell (Chad Michael Collins), an accused domestic abuser and kidnapping suspect he comes to believe may not be the diabolical villain he’s been painted out to be. Russell is a military veteran, like Danny himself, and may be suffering from PTSD.

Danny decides to pull double duty, hoping to stop a kidnapper and get him help at the same time. But the effort isn’t as easy as he’d like it to be, and though he’s able to rescue the child from his father’s misguided grasp and return him to his mother’s custody, Russell’s internal battle is far more complicated. Unable to reach his fellow former serviceman, Danny can only watch as the troubled man he’s trying to save takes his own life.

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