The Season 7 finale, “Silence of the Night,” will see Atwater going undercover to investigate a drug-trafficking ring.
Things get quite troublesome when he realizes the ring has another undercover cop in its ranks, and it just so happens to be Mickey O’Sullivan’s Tim Doyle, one of the cops who pulled Atwater and Daryl over during that fatal display of racial profiling from last season.
But showrunner Rick Eid says that even though Atwater figures Doyle to be a “racist asshole,” it turns out the guy may actually be sincerely apologetic about what happened.