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Blue Bloods Season 12 Spoilers: Will Maria Baez Be Back?


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You've probably heard that Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 10 will be the first of 2022, airing on Friday, Jan, 7. But there is something we must address – and fast.

Outside of the Regans, one of the series' most popular characters in recent seasons has been Detective Maria Baez, played by Marisa Ramirez. Fans first met Baez in Season 3 when she joined the force as Danny Reagan's (Donnie Wahlberg) partner. Since then, the two have worked, and viewers are accustomed to seeing them both on most episodes of Blue Bloods.

For the past two weeks, we've been wondering whether Baez will appear in Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 10. So, do we have an assurance that she'll be showing up now?

Will Baez Return for Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 10?

In a sense, yes! There’s a new still from Friday night's upcoming Old Friends episode, and we admit that we wondered if CBS made a mistake when we first saw it. Did they post an image from an earlier episode and pretend it was from this one?

While we'd love to see Baez in some capacity in this story, don't be surprised if she's absent for a while. Remember how the character was shot in the last episode? This sort of injury does take a certain length of rehabilitation, and it does feel partly accountable for the officials at the NYPD to throw her back out into the field too soon.

When Will Baez Be Back?

The absence of Marisa Ramirez is of course intriguing, but it also raises the question of when this episode will be aired. After being shot, she definitely required at least a respectable length of time to heal!

We hope the writers at least nod to this, rather than simply jumping in and if nothing happened. Because Blue Bloods is really a procedural, we know that there are moments when they skim over long-term plotlines in order to offer us something that serves as a standalone entity.

However, neither Marisa nor CBS has made any announcements indicating that she is quitting Blue Bloods. Marisa has been steadily working on the series since 2013, but there is always the prospect of a break. We, along with many others, hope she does not leave.

Only time will tell if Baez will decide to quit the force. It'll be fascinating to see if Blue Bloods leaves fans hanging until Friday's return.

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