If you watched the last episode of The Rookie on T.V. you will remember the introduction of the racoon and the shock Smitty got when he first discovered it in the precinct. 

I knew there and then that the raccoon was going to play a big part in the TV episode. It was a well developed ploy to get Smitty to find the mammal and then for this same mammal to end up indirectly saving Smitty's life at the end of the story.

Would you have done it differently?