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Episodes 001–112
Last episode aired Sunday May 20, 2018
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Contents
Season 1 1
1 Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 The Tagger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3 The Slump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4 M.E. Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5 The Vulture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6 Halloween . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7 48 Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
8 Old School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
9 Sal’s Pizza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
10 Thanksgiving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
11 Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
12 Pontiac Bandit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
13 The Bet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
14 The Ebony Falcon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
15 Operation: Broken Feather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
16 The Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
17 Full Boyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
18 The Apartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
19 Tactical Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
20 Fancy Brugdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
21 Unsolvable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
22 Charges and Specs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Season 2 47
1 Undercover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2 Chocolate Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3 The Jimmy Jab Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4 Halloween II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
5 The Mole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6 Jake and Sophia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
7 Lockdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
8 USPIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
9 The Road Trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
10 The Pontiac Bandit Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
11 Stakeout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
12 Beach House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
13 Payback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
14 Defense Rests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
15 Windbreaker City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
16 The Wednesday Incident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
17 Boyle-Linetti Wedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
18 Captain Peralta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
19 Sabotage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
20 AC/DC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
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1 New Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
2 The Funeral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
3 Boyle’s Hunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
4 The Oolong Slayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
5 Halloween III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
6 Into the Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
7 The Mattress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
8 Ava . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
9 The Swedes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
10 Yippie Kayak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
11 Hostage Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
12 9 Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
13 The Cruise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
14 Karen Peralta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
15 The 9-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
16 House Mouses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
17 Adrian Pimento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
18 Cheddar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
19 Terry Kitties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
20 Paranoia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
21 Maximum Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
22 Bureau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
23 Greg and Larry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Season 4 143
1 Coral Palms, Pt.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
2 Coral Palms, Pt.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
3 Coral Palms, Pt.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
4 The Night Shift (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
5 Halloween IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
6 Monster in the Closet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
7 Mr. Santiago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
8 Skyfire Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
9 The Overmining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
10 Captain Latvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
11 The Fugitive Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
12 The Fugitive Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
13 The Audit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
14 Serve & Protect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
15 The Last Ride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
16 Moo Moo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
17 Cop-Con . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
18 Chasing Amy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
19 Your Honor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
20 The Slaughterhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
21 The Bank Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
22 Crime & Punishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
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Season 5 193
1 The Big House Pt.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
2 The Big House Pt.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
3 Kicks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
4 HalloVeen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
5 Bad Beat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
6 The Venue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
7 Two Turkeys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
8 Return to Skyfire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
9 99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
10 Game Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
11 The Favor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
12 Safe House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
13 The Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
14 The Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
15 The Puzzle Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
16 NutriBoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
17 DFW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
18 Gray Star Mutual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
19 Bachelor/ette Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
20 Show Me Going . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
21 White Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
22 Jake & Emy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
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Season One
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Pilot
Season 1
Episode Number: 1
Season Episode: 1
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to wrangle a movie date with her, mentioning her opinionated nature leads to a brisk cancellation.
She does, however, reimburse him for the plethora of movie tickets he purchased, and admit she
likes his company. Jake and Amy have a back and forth as partners, and everything becomes a
competition - especially their crime-solving competition, which Jake is currently winning. Jake
also has an interesting relationship with Captain Holt, first ignoring his authority, then gradually
coming to respect him more, especially as he learns the challenges he’s put up with as a gay
police officer. And then of course, there’s Gina vs. everyone else.
Door duty serves as a brief glimpse into the quirky characters that inhabit the city, including
a young weed-smoker pretending that someone broke into his apartment and left both the weed
smell and a bong, Fred Armisen as an accented man who spells his name with the letter ”clay,”
and an old man whom Amy bet was going to be a bachelor. Another victory for Jake.
Although Jake is clearly one of the best at his job, he still has room to grow emotionally. And
that he does as he’s standing face to face with a murderer in a storage unit, realizing that the
reason Holt demanded a tie was as part of a uniform, because they’re a ”team.” And then together
as a team, they all take down the bad guy.
But rarely can a comedy just end on such a straight note, and following the arrest of the ham
thief/murderer, Jake informs Holt that the Speedo is now inside of him. Note to all you detectives
out there: remove the speedo BEFORE going to catch the bad guy. Alright, now that’s all sorted.
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The Tagger
Season 1
Episode Number: 2
Season Episode: 2
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Peralta runs the prints on the graffiti artist and finds out he is the son of the Deputy Com-
missioner. He pleads with Holt to let it go, but Holt insists he must see it through. Peralta briefs
the other officers on it and debates his options. He tries to get a vote.
The Deputy Commissioner arrives and asks for his son. He orders Peralta to let it slide and
takes his son away.
Rosa finds Charles in a chair, which he won’t leave because the psychic said he would be hurt
if he left it. Rosa punches him and tells him to make his own destiny.
Peralta shows his report to Holt, frustrated that he can’t touch this kid, who has a long, long
record. Holt says his father is doing no favors letting him get away with everything, and Peralta
understands suddenly why he is being so hard on him.
They go to arrest him. The Commissioner threatens him, and Holt, as they take his son away.
Holt begins the next briefing — and Peralta is right on time, since he slept in a tent in the
room.
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The Slump
Season 1
Episode Number: 3
Season Episode: 3
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Peralta busts into the dealer’s apartment, but it’s just an old man playing the flute surrounded
by parrots.
Hitchcock comes in. A criminal came up to confess to him while he was on the street, and
turned in all his accomplices!
Peralta is peeing at the urinal when Gina comes in to tell him that evidence was mishandled,
and his last two cases were dismissed. She tells him he seems to be cursed, and the urinal sprays
him with water. He goes to speak with Holt, telling him he believes he is cursed. Holt pulls him
from casework until the superstition blows over, remembering a friend in the force who had a
similar problem.
Amy and Rosa debate over how to get the kids to listen to them. They settle on asking Gina
for help.
Peralta snores over paperwork, and tries to get himself onto Hitchcock’s murder case, but
Hitchcock won’t let him touch the folder. Holt brings over a rabbit’s foot that his friend who also
believed he was cursed had recommended.
Terry has been defeated by the princess castle for his daughter. It doesn’t help that Peralta
ran into it and knocked it over.
As Peralta types in data, he gets an idea. He’s not allowed to work on cases, so he makes
Charles meet him in the bathroom. He asks him to make calls for him.
Gina talks to the at-risk children and tells them they just need to find their passion. She
found hers. Gina dances for them, but it doesn’t reach. She tells them they never have to stop
at a red light and they can carry a gun. Eight kids sign up. Gina tells the ladies she took the
program as a kid and it doesn’t work.
Peralta brings the family of Helen into the bathroom. He accuses them of lying for insurance
fraud, and notes they’ve done the same thing in five different states. There is no Helen.
Holt praises Amy and Rosa, but Amy admits it was Gina. Holt makes her his personal assis-
tant. Gina isn’t thrilled by Holt’s praise, but Amy is clearly longing for it.
Peralta is pleased to have broken his slump, and realizes that sitting and letting his mind rest
rebooted it, and that was Holt’s plan all along.
Charles builds the castle for Terry, and tells him not to put so much pressure on himself. He’s
a good dad.
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M.E. Time
Season 1
Episode Number: 4
Season Episode: 4
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The Vulture
Season 1
Episode Number: 5
Season Episode: 5
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recertified to carry a gun. If he makes 8/10 shots he can once more. He has shot seven times.
He tries to calm himself to take his final shot, but panics and forgets how to breathe.
The winning idea for the revenge plan is to cover The Vulture’s motorcycle with plastic wrap
and then melt it with a hair dryer. They go to his house and wrap the bike, but Peralta is surprised
to find the girls don’t just carry hair dryers around with them. Jake calls Gina, who does have
one.
Holt overhears, and tells Perlata it’s his fault. If he’s upset, next time solve the case. Peralta
decides that is the perfect revenge plan. They need to band together and go solve the case before
The Vulture can.
Since they’re drunk, they take the bus. Peralta goes over the facts - the husband was having
affairs, it was clearly the wife who killed him. Peralta admits he wanted to be the best, and he
should have involved the rest of the team.
Terry still can’t take a shot.
Peralta goes over the apartment and explains what happened for the murder, and they look
for the corkscrew murder weapon. They role-play trying to decide where the corkscrew went. Amy
wonders if the corkscrew was magnetic... and stuck when it was thrown down the trash shoot.
They try to lower Charles down, but another police team comes in.
Holt gets the call for that little fiasco. He tells Terry he has to get the team straightened out.
Holt is taking heat, and Terry goes to step in, but Peralta admits it was his fault and goes to talk
to The Vulture.
Luckily... Charles has the corkscrew. Peralta takes it in to the detective and pretends that The
Vulture solved the case... thereby making him stop chewing everyone out.
Holt writes up everyone on the team... except Peralta says he was the only one there. Holt is
at least pleased that Jake is starting to be part of the team.
Terry has been recertified... Gina inspired him with her talk of staying in the office all day and
being her bestie.
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Halloween
Season 1
Episode Number: 6
Season Episode: 6
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Holt calls someone to fix his ceiling, and notices feathers coming in through his vent. He finds
Peralta trying to shove pigeons into his air conditioning vent.
Amy pays Hitchcock to hide in her costume and replace her for the rest of the night. Charles
confronts her, upset that she wanted to get out of working with him. He wanted this opportunity
to get closer to her as a friend.
Peralta tries a confusion tactic to get Holt’s keys, and manages to get them, but Holt finds
him in the office and demands them back.
Terry calls Rosa’s school and finds out Rosa transferred on her own violation. She admits she
went to ballet school; she was a classical dancer. She got kicked out, however, for beating up
other ballerinas.
Amy comes in and tells Holt that Peralta has been arrested, he was spotted scaling the side of
the building with a blowtorch. Holt goes to talk to him in the interrogation room. He is disgusted
by Peralta’s failure... or is it?
Peralta rewinds back through the day’s events, revealing that his team was on his side the
entire time, and assisted him in an elaborate crime to steal the medal. Holt opens the door to
find Charles holding the medal, with twenty seconds to spare.
Jake admits that he bribed his friends, with a promise to do all of their paperwork... because
in losing the bet, the Captain now has to do all Perlata’s paperwork.
Charles is called into one of the rooms, where everyone is in costume, including Amy, who
apologizes for being terrible to him. They’re going to the bar to celebrate Halloween. Holt reluc-
tantly fulfills the rest of his bet, and announces to the room that Jake is an amazing detective.
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48 Hours
Season 1
Episode Number: 7
Season Episode: 7
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Gina comes in with a pie from each place she and Rosa debated, for Charles to test. Terry
joins.
Making fun of Amy for her thick glasses, Peralta suddenly thinks he has the key to solving the
case. He points out that Whitman’s debit card was used right near the jewelry store right before
the robbery. Whitman says it was his wife on their joint account.
Dressed back up for her date, Amy finds out it won’t be happening. Then she sits in pie.
Holt cannot get Terry to go home, so he orders that he take a nap. Terry confesses his giant
brother-in-law is staying with them and makes him feel small and weak.
The lawyer has been called in, and is also furious to be called in on a weekend. He tells Peralta
that Whitman has an alibi - he was in a night club in Jersey all evening.
Charles admits to Gina that her pie is better, but he wants Rosa to like him. Amy and Peralta
go over video footage from the scene, but can only find a random guy with a soul patch. Peralta
decides that’s Amy’s future husband.
Scully returns from the nightclub in Jersey, with proof that Whitman was there all night.
The deadline is closer, and nothing is going well. Holt admits they’re on their way to a lawsuit.
Feeling bad, Jake calls Amy’s date and convinces him to go out with her again. Amy says
something about being locked in together for 48 hours, and Peralta runs into the office where
Whitman is threatening a lawsuit.
Peralta remembered the face of a guy walking past the jewelry store on footage as the cellmate
of Whitman. He and his cellmate planned the heist while in prison.
Charles brings in the best pie in NYC after finally admitting to Rosa that he lied. She and Gina
try the pie and admit is is amazing.
Case solved, Peralta offers drinks on everyone but they want to go home. He offers instead to
pick up one shift for each of them.
As Terry is insulted by his brother-in-law, Holt overhears and makes up an excuse for him to
get away that leaves the huge man in awe. Terry, grateful, goes to sleep on Holt’s couch.
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Old School
Season 1
Episode Number: 8
Season Episode: 8
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Feeling moderately better, Peralta manages to track the stolen card numbers. They go to
the man, who leaps out the window. Amy chases him down and takes him out. Peralta is too
hungover to do much. Brogan notes he is ”old school,” and he has lots of quotes about Holt to
put in his article.
Santiago wonders what he has done.
Diaz goes on the stand. Charles and Terry try to coach her, but it doesn’t end well.
Peralta gets e-mailed the list of quotes he said, and he realizes he said terrible things about
Holt. Amy tells him to fix it. He goes to find Brogan and asks him not to print it. Brogan refuses.
Peralta goes back to Amy and says he punched Brogan and made it much worse.
Rosa is being destroyed on the stand. She finally takes Terry and Charles’ advice to not be
nervous - go to her ”happy place.”
Holt calls Santiago in to congratulate her on catching the ID perp, but she admits Peralta
figured it out. She ends up telling him what happened between Brogan and Peralta. She reveals
Peralta asked Brogan nicely, and he agreed to not print the quotes. However, then he insulted
the ”homo” Holt, and that is how he got punched.
Rosa has done well on the stand. She reveals her happy place - a cabin, where she can beat
the crap out of the D.A. She invites Charles to a thank you dinner... and mentions her boyfriend
is coming as well.
Santiago reads the article that Brogan wrote about Peralta. Holt tells him to ignore that
garbage. He is a good cop.
They blow up a copy of ”The Squad” outside.
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Sal’s Pizza
Season 1
Episode Number: 9
Season Episode: 9
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To distract the firefighters, Charles goes tell the men guarding the pizza joint and tells them
his cat is up a tree. Peralta breaks in and finds Boone awaiting him. Boone tells him Sal did it,
and the two argue about it. A fight breaks out between police and firefighters.
Holt has to go and apologize to the department. Boone demands he fire Peralta. Jake won’t
give up on Sal’s. He admits that when he was a kid, his father used to take him to Sal’s after
little league, and then when he left the family, he couldn’t go there with his father anymore.
Boone starts crying, also having been abandoned by his dad. He hugs Peralta and insists
they’ll solve it all together.
Rosa takes Amy to Ropesburg, the city that offered her the captainship. She introduces her
to the department. It turns out Ropesburg is the most boring place on Earth. Amy admits she is
competitive. She and Rosa agree to have each other’s backs.
Terry brings IT suggestions to Holt, but Gina reveals her bad behavior was a test and all
applicants failed. She tells him to hire the kid, Savant, who hacked into the system originally.
Charles, Jake and Boone go through the files on Sal’s. Peralta notes a cabinet was opened
with a crowbar. He says he knows who did it.
They go to confront one of the pizza joint owners, whose pizza is much improved lately, ac-
cording to the discerning palate of foodie Charles. He burned down the restaurant and stole Sal’s
secret sauce recipe.
The competition between police and fire goes back to normal.
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Thanksgiving
Season 1
Episode Number: 10
Season Episode: 10
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Holt and Peralta go to each of the perps to have them sign a form, since the perp on the video
was left-handed.
They find him - a brother who came to pick up his brother from jail that day, who threw a
roll left-handed. He admits his bookie has all the cash. They go to find the bookie at a Chinese
restaurant.
The squad group goes to the bar. Amy is told to act out, so she throws her shot glass, and
breaks all the bottles at the bar. They get kicked out.
Terry is getting desperately hungry. Scully finally admits he has a secret stash of food, and
they open a ceiling time to find it. Rats fall out.
Charles is determined to save Thanksgiving.
Holt and Jake break into a back room and fight with the bookies. Case solved. Holt says they
can go back to Amy’s, but Jake refuses. He hates Thanksgiving, his parents left him alone and
he only would watch the football game. Holt says as adults they can make new family.
Amy tries to talk to Holt, but fails. He, however, has a copy of Amy’s speech, given to him by
Gina. She is thrilled by his mild mentorship. She thanks Gina for helping.
Charles brings in Ethiopian food, and everyone sits and eats. Jake comes in, dressed nicely.
He toasts to his family. Charles cries and Jake gets bingo.
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Christmas
Season 1
Episode Number: 11
Season Episode: 11
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Gina helps Amy make a Christmas card on the computer, putting everyone’s face on orna-
ments on the tree. The only problem is they don’t have a picture of Rosa smiling. Hitchcock tries
to help by tickling her, but gets damaged.
Jake makes Holt hang out with him, but there is a knock on the door. It’s Charles. Holt texted
him requesting him to bring him to his old precinct. Jake realizes he was planning to investigate
the threats on his own. Charles panics and handcuffs himself to Holt’s other hand.
The go over the threats. Jake gets a theme of swimming from the threats, and Holt realizes it
is the Freestyle Killer, who once killed a whole swim team. Holt insists he finds this guy, Haims,
alone. He was a brash, rude detective back in the day, and he taunted the Killer. He doesn’t want
anyone else to get hurt for his foolishness.
Rosa realizes that Amy and Gina are trying to get a picture of her smiling.
Everyone gets involved in the Haims case. They track him to the rail yard. They go there, and
flush out the killer, Charles missing his flight. There are gun shots heard, and Jake and Holt run
toward them.
The Killer corners Holt and Peralta, but is tackled by Terry.
They get a call on the radio. Charles is down; he took a shot in the butt to save Rosa.
At the hospital, the nurse lets them know Charles will be fine. Amy says she’s so glad Terry
was cleared, but he admits that Gina pulled him out of the room before he was cleared, and he
went off to help Holt. Holt thanks everyone for saving him.
Charles tells everyone he’s happy to spend Christmas with them, and Amy gets a photo of
Rosa smiling.
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Pontiac Bandit
Season 1
Episode Number: 12
Season Episode: 12
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Holt finds everyone hiding in the Boyle-free zone and yells at them. They decide to give Charles
the puppies since he’s been so lonely.
Jake asks Rosa to join the case against Doug Judy, and does his push-ups. They find him at
901 the next morning.
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The Bet
Season 1
Episode Number: 13
Season Episode: 13
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Jake comes in to announce his date. Amy goes to the bathroom and Jake explains his plan to
Charles — the absolute worst date ever. Charles tells him that this elaborate teasing is because
he likes Amy. He suggests he sit down and have a conversation with her.
Gina finds Rosa avoiding Charles. She’s trying to get away from his truth bombs, but she
knows she has to be nice to him since he took a bullet for her.
Jake makes Amy do an unprepared jig with her. Holt calls him aside... he got a call and he
needs Jake to go on stake out. Not negotiable. Jake says he’ll have to bring Amy.
Terry tries to placate his wife and tells her it was an impulse... as Holt comes up and tells her
he’s sorry, but it wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment decision. She storms off. Charles comes in and
manages to smooth things out with his truths.
Jake and Amy change back into normal clothes and go on the stake-out. Jake wants to get
their bust done soon so they can get back to their terrible date. The two go on a roof to watch
their mark, and Jake explains that the reason he loves the car so much was that it was the car
he caught his first perp against. They talk bad dates, and throw snack nuts at each other.
Holt calls and tells Jake he is relieved, but Jake decides to stay. The truck they’re waiting for
pulls up and they go down to the street. They pretend to be a disgruntled couple to get close, pull
guns, and manage to get their perps.
Charles finally corners Rosa and tells her he didn’t know who he was protecting when he took
the bullet. He only saw a fellow officer. So stop being so nice to him.
Amy gets praised by Holt for turning down the relief team... which she did not realize. A
stripper Jake forgot to cancel comes to ”thank” Amy for the date.
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Terry is fine, however. Brandon comes into the locker room to talk with Terry, asking about
his regular gym and wondering why he hasn’t seen him there before. Jake jumps the gun and
pulls a gun on Brandon.
Gina hires a private investigator, Leo Sporm, to solve her case. Terry comes into the precinct
furious at Jake. They arrested Brandon with no evidence, and the likelihood of him turning on
his cohorts is now very low.
Jake and Charles use Charles’ new organization system from the gym to pinpoint a suspicious
trainer who trains Brandon late at night at random times.
Holt informs Rosa and Amy the reason Gina hired a P.I. is because she is scared. They feel
bad about how they’ve been handling the case. They find her working late and apologize for
not having found her guy. They take her home and install extra locks and timed lights in her
apartment.
Jake and Charles go to perform a sting at the gym, without informing Terry. Terry finds out
about it and shows up, yelling at Jake for leaving him out. He and Jake box in the ring while he
demands to know why he was left out. Jake admits he was worried about Terry getting hurt.
The criminals come in to talk to Terry. Jake changes his nickname to the Ebony Antelope...
brave enough to drink at the lake but wise enough to run from the lions. Terry makes the deal
and busts the guys.
Jake tells Holt how well Terry did, and Terry gives him a card the girls made Jake for keeping
their dad safe... which has him in frantic tears.
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near the bathroom, thus keeping those afraid of her from taking as many bathroom breaks. They
sabotage her computer and she flips out, scaring everyone off.
Jake tries to make Amy enjoy her field work, which unfortunately takes them dumpster diving.
However he tells her she’s free to do whatever she wants, when she asks why he wants her to
stay. They find the coat of someone impersonating a bellhop and speak with hotel staff, realizing
that he is scouting a silent auction for targets.
Terry goes over more problems. Charles has ”thin skin” and gets cold, and will wear clothing
from the lost and found. Gina will then make fun of him and basically become useless. Terry
empties lost and found, but Charles has still found a ridiculous coat. Terry uses a mirror to
distract Gina with her own reflection.
Jake borrows a suit and goes up as the auctioneer of the antiquities auction.
The office is becoming more efficient. The arrest files should be completed on time... but Holt
is unsatisfied. Terry urges him to quit but Holt wants more.
Jake annoys the guests at the auction so much that Adam Sandler goes on stage and auctions
off a chance to put a sock in Jake’s mouth. Jake tackles their suspect and inadvertantly, Joe
Theissman, breaking Theissman’s leg.
Amy and Jake have their perp, at least. Amy tells Jake she is still interviewing for the job,
angering him. He calls her a bad partner.
Jake goes back to the office and finds Scully in his desk, forced to move. Jake tells Holt to
stop Amy, but Holt knows Amy wants to make Captain one day and he supports her decisions.
Scully, moved to the breakroom, manages to set the toaster on fire. Charles attempts to put it
out and sets his fringe jacket on fire. Terry puts him out. Holt wants to keep going and try again,
but Gina catches them. She points out that Terry and Holt have been the least productive.
Before her interview, Jake tells Amy that he is sorry and that he supports her. She tells him
she already turned down the job. The Vulture comes out to scold Amy, and Jake pulls teargas
on him as he and Amy run.
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The Party
Season 1
Episode Number: 16
Season Episode: 16
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Charles approaches a woman at the food table and strikes up a clever conversation. He finds
out she is a well-known food author.
Terry finds Amy in the kitchen taking notes with her phone and comparing her items to Holt’s,
doing recon work to get to know him better.
Rosa approaches a group of professors and asks them what they study. She finds out one
studies Abnormal Psych, and brings over Gina, who she has been charged with watching. He
finds Gina fascinating.
Jake goes to the library seeking out a copy of the magazine so he can read the article. Holt
catches him. He tells him not to try so hard to impress Kevin.
Scully sings opera, his one strength, and Hitchcock accidentally speaks as if they are a gay
couple.
Terry finds Jake still panicking about the magazine. He tells him the first two paragraphs are
on the free site, and he can look them up but that’s all.
Jake finds Kevin and attempts to talk to him about the article on human trafficking, and Jake
flubs it and excuses himself.
Charles continues to do well with the food lady, and she asks if he’s single. He says yes, and
they make out in the closet. Gina, meanwhile, is stunning a collections of psychologists and
Rosa can stand quietly alone as she would prefer. Amy attempts to connect with Holt over the
things she noticed in his house but as usually cannot bond with him. She decides she needs to
go deeper.
Terry notices Amy and Jake sneak upstairs, which has been marked off. He finds them rifling
through Holt’s bedroom. They hear Holt coming, and hide in the bathroom.
Holt takes Kevin to task for being snobby and rude to his guests. In the bathroom, they find
Holt’s dog, which begins to set off Amy’s terrible allergies as Holt is telling Kevin that he likes his
guests. He finds them.
They get kicked out. At work, Amy and Jake mourn their failure. Amy notes Kevin is probably
just sick of hearing cop stories, and Jake rushes to Columbia. He has solved the case of why
Kevin hates cop talk. He hates cops. Kevin agrees that Holt has been put through hell for being
gay by all the police they’ve known. Jake wants to make it up to them.
They bring Holt to a restaurant and sit him down with Kevin, making a perfect dinner for him.
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Full Boyle
Season 1
Episode Number: 17
Season Episode: 17
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what he can and cannot discuss on his date. Later, they meet Vivian and her friend for Jake,
who is surprisingly attractive.
Gina gets information on Brian, the man running against Holt and they work out a game
plan. Gina wants to dazzle it up with dancing, but Holt wants to stick to a dry speech.
On the date, Jake is increasingly distracted by how much he likes the girl he has been set
up with. He is losing hold of keeping Charles constrained. Charles panics and leaves, with Jake
to make an excuse. Jake lies and starts to hustle the girls out, but finds Charles, who has now
bought an engagement ring. Jake grabs it and there’s a showdown, ending in both getting pepper
sprayed.
Gina and Holt listen to Brian’s speech, and Gina notes he has good points and could bring
a lot to the organization Holt built. Holt goes up and withdraws his name from consideration,
giving Brian the presidency.
Rosa and Amy bring in Super Dan and take a statement from him regarding a drug dealer he
saw. It cements the arrest they made and Amy admits they were wrong.
Jake and Charles discuss what to do about Vivian, and find their cab driver. They bring him
in.
Jake brings Charles into the interrogation room, which is set up in a romantic fashion. He
admits he checked Charles’ phone and found that Vivian is just as obsessive as Charles is. He
gives Charles the engagement ring back.
He proposes to Vivian, who says yes.
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The Apartment
Season 1
Episode Number: 18
Season Episode: 18
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with letters, but can’t seem to locate it. He decides his only option is to go speak with a loan
shark he knows.
Amy goes in for her evaluation, kissing butt as always, and Holt asks her what she thinks her
biggest flaw is. She’s thrown.
Charles and Rosa catch her desk buddy shaving. Boyle decides they need to teach him a
lesson. They fill his locker with shaving cream and a bag of hair.
Gina and Jake go to the loan shark, who won’t give Jake the full amount, but gives him
$20,000 as a downpayment. Gina tries to talk Jake out of signing but is not successful.
Jake brings the money, but is too late. He needs to be out by Friday. Gina offers to help him
look for a new place, but can’t find anything fitting.
Amy, having given considerable thought to her flaws, goes back to Holt with a list. It doesn’t
seem to be what Holt is looking for, and Amy runs off to try again.
Charles and Rosa go to her desk buddy to find out when he will go to his locker, and he begins
to talk about his major marital issues and tragic life. They feel terrible. They go to the locker to
try to clean it out, but are found by Holt and Terry who yell at them.
Jake enjoys his last few moments in the apartment, but Gina has an idea. She offers to buy
the place and then rent it to him. Jake is actually horrified by the idea and kicks her out. He
talks to Amy about it and realizes that Gina is only trying to help.
Charles and Rosa get the locker cleaned up, and she invites him out for a drink. He has plans
with his fiancee, but apologizes for not being fun since he had been in love with Rosa. Rosa
admits he’s fun to hang out with now that he’s in love with someone else.
Terry goes to yell at Holt for being too hard on his team. Holt admits that Terry is a good
leader and that his team has improved.
Jake goes to apologize to Gina for taking it out on her that she is more responsible than him.
He has an idea — he suggests Gina take Nana’s apartment, and he can sublease Gina’s. She’ll
have a nicer place and make a profit.
After speaking to Jake, Amy has realized that her biggest flaw is caring too much what Holt
thinks of her. She goes to tell him this.
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Tactical Village
Season 1
Episode Number: 19
Season Episode: 19
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Jake wants to take everyone out for drinks, but Amy has a date with Teddy.
On the bus home, Charles talks to Vivian and gets Rosa invited to the wedding. At the bar,
Charles speaks with Jake, who is upset that Amy is out with Teddy. Charles tells Jake the reason
Amy went out with Teddy and not Jake is because Teddy actually asked her out. Rosa thanks
Vivian for inviting her, and finds out that Charles was the one who didn’t want her to come in
the first place.
Jake goes to Amy to ask her something, but realizes she is wearing lipstick and is planning
to go out with Teddy again. He holds off on asking her out.
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Fancy Brugdom
Season 1
Episode Number: 20
Season Episode: 20
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Jake tracks down Charles, encouraged by Amy, and tells him he can’t hand in retirement
papers until he tells Vivian how he feels. He brings him to Vivian. Charles does talk to her, for
hours, and says they have a lot to still work out, but she didn’t dump him.
Terry admits that he is doing the diet because his wife is, and he hasn’t been there to support
her lately. As he reaches for a milkshake, Amy and Gina handcuff him to the desk to keep him
away from food.
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Unsolvable
Season 1
Episode Number: 21
Season Episode: 21
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Amy goes to speak with Holt about the weekend, and tells him she’ll be unable to help out.
She panics and lies about a dental emergency. His brother-in-law of course is a dental surgeon,
and calls in a favor. Amy is trapped in her lie.
Terry and Jake go to the prison to interrogate the suspects from the case, and speak with
someone who was shanked. They offer him a better cell for information, and get their first break
in the case in eight years.
Hitchcock and Scully confront Charles and demand to know where the secret bathroom is.
Terry and Jake put one of the suspect’s wives under the lie detector. She passes when she
says she hasn’t seen her husband in eight years but she knows he didn’t kill the victim. Jake
insists on taking the polygraph to see if it’s working correctly.
Amy goes to her dental exam and finally confesses that she lied to Holt.
Gina finds Scully and Hitchcock ruining their nice bathroom. Gina declares she will have her
vengeance. Finally, she negotiates with the men to keep them out of bathroom.
The next morning Terry finds a sleep-deprived Jake, who thinks he is onto something. He
brings Terry to the interogation room, where the ”victim,” Nate Dexter, is alive and well. Jake
realized that the wife was not lying about certain things... but he hadn’t been asking the right
questions. They murdered her husband and made the body look like Nate Dexter.
At the bar, Amy and Teddy congratulate Jake for solving the unsolvable case. Amy apologizes
to Holt, and gets the next weekend off to go to the cabin with Teddy.
Terry tells Jake he needs to deal with whatever is bothering him, rather than solving cases.
Terry realizes Jake has feelings for Amy.
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Rosa tries to help Charles by having him burn Vivian’s things, but Charles just burns himself.
Terry tries to get him to break plates but he hits himself in the balls with a plate.
Jake, Holt, and Amy stake out the charitable location where they think the drug laundering is
going on, and note a ballroom competition is going on. They hit the thrift store for outfits. They’re
cutting it close with time, since Peralta has to be at his hearing.
Terry, Charles, and Gina go to the trial and try to stall as much as possible.
Jake and Amy dance (she’s terrible) as they stake out a door they need to get upstairs. Jake
shows Amy how to actually dance. She distracts the guard by pretending to hurt her ankle and
Jake runs upstairs to take pictures of the account books. He goes off to present the evidence,
but Holt asks him to do something that will sound strange.
Jake goes to his trial. He says he has no evidence on his behalf. Jake gets rowdy and gets
fired.
Holt explains that the FBI has been after Wint, and they needed to fire Jake for real so he
could go undercover. It’s a 6-month assignment. He pretends to storm out. As he gets his stuff
and loads it up, he talks to Amy. He tells her he would like something to happen between them.
He leaves before she can say anything.
After a night of drinking, Charles wakes up next to Gina.
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Undercover
Season 2
Episode Number: 23
Season Episode: 1
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The case of the romantic and sexual cliffhangers: As Nine-Nine’s way too on the nose camera
points out during Jake’s conversation with Captain Holt, he’s not really worried about Freddie.
He’s doesn’t like being told that (ZOOM ON: Amy shuffling through files in the background),
”some things are just out of control.” Season 1, after all, ended with Jake admitting to Amy that
he had feelings for her.
”Undercover” continues to dodge the typical romantic arc, where we’d expect a few more
sparks in the reunion. Season 2 begins with Amy telling Jake she’s still with Teddy. Jake covers
his tracks and tries to play his confession off as pre-undercover jitters, but after chasing Freddie,
he’s back to telling Amy he’s got some romantic feelings for her. ”As long as we’re clear that I’m
with someone,” Amy responds, and Melissa Fumero sells the rare TV rejection that feels like an
honest attempt to be friends. ”Nothing’s going to happen.”
In other news, Boyle and Gina are caught in a sexual Groundhog Day. Okay, we don’t realize
that until the end of the episode, where the two wake up in bed, screaming, just as they did
in the first season finale. Until then, it’s all about not letting anyone know about their tryst.
Gina wants to maintain her standard of ”bike messengers and above.” Boyle can’t be known as
the office slut. But just as Boyle can’t tell a lie, the two can’t avoid jumping back in bed. Their
sputtering sexual fireworks play great counterpoint to Jake and Amy’s slow-burn friendship. But
mostly, can we see Chelsea Peretti wear more naked mole rat clothing?
The case of the too-good supporting cast: Highlights from Jake’s time undercover, according
to Diaz: Terry chipped a tooth, Amy and Boyle showed up in the same outfit (which weirdly does
look better on Boyle), and Gina once zoned out on her headphones in the middle of a brawl.
Like Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine suffers from a supporting cast so strong, it’s
hard for its B-plots not to pull attention. This week, Terry got to be a confused old woman,
an unattended backpack, an angry prostitute, and a 7-year-old boy as scripted by Captain Holt
(roles ranked in order of believability), while Diaz was relegated to playing with him in her generic
deadpan. Amy built a stunning Lego castle and was nearly buried in a bounce house. Hitchcock
and Scully briefly chatted with Gina, who’s now a perspective member of their massage chain.
The plot itself circles around Captain Holt’s new obsession with running drills, which stems
from the news that the NYPD has appointed a new commissioner. He doesn’t know what’s going
on at headquarters, he tells Terry, and the Nine-Nine are going to be under a lot more scrutiny.
Terry convinces Holt to let everyone know about the changes, and the captain thanks him, ”you
helped me find my smile.” Andre Braugher, never stop.
Like all of life, ”Undercover” could’ve used more Stephanie Beatriz, and it’s a pity that Amy
was mostly defined by her (lack of) relationship to Jake. But Nine-Nine proved, once again, that
it has more potential than it can manage to use each week.
Other investigations:
• The case of Joe Uterus: Killed a bunch of stray dogs.
• The case of how to spell the word ”awesome”: Jake thinks it’s with an O.
• The case of what Boyle’s been fermenting in his desk: ”Beans?” ”Beans.”
• The case of Terry, the confused old lady: She confessed to a 40-year-old murder in Rhode
Island.
• The case of when Kyra Sedgwick will show up: She is Holt’s nemesis, so it better be soon.
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Chocolate Milk
Season 2
Episode Number: 24
Season Episode: 2
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him. ”I’m not a man of unlimited cajoling,” Holt admits. But Amy, dreading a bad grade and the
possibility of losing her captain, turns the tables on Holt and demands he grovel. So, to the tune
of sexy background music, Captain Holt admits to Wuntch that the Derek Jeter incident was on
him and begs for her to take pity. The precinct gets a mediocre grade, but passes.
The case of the tube tying: Not to go for cheap puns, but this plot wasn’t as potent as it
could have been. Part of that comes from Nine-Nine’s attempt to run two stories at once: Terry’s
vasectomy, and Jake and Terry’s investigation into a stabbing at the haute-hipster DRK MLK
(pronounced ”dark milk”).
Terry’s first attempt at a vasectomy (there wasn’t enough anesthetic to knock him out) pro-
vides its mass of sperm jokes and reveals his drugged thoughts on Captain Holt, ”he needs to
smoke some weed.” Still, it doesn’t reveal much about Jake and Terry’s relationship. Terry thinks
of Jake as a work friend, Jake thinks of himself as any kind of friend—from Rachel to Phoebe
to ”the dinosaur guy.” But by the end of the episode, they realize they might be friend friends.
Given the way Terry Crews brings darkness and even pain to his portrayal of the Sarge, having
such a simple, even superficial, story (sober Terry wants to tie his tubes, drugged Terry doesn’t;
we switch between the two, until end of episode Terry decides he has to talk it over with his wife)
felt like wasted space.
This is especially true as the other half of Jake and Terry’s case featured Nine-Nine’s first
foray into hipster Brooklyn. The map on the precinct wall covers Park Slope, which is pretty
much stroller and yoga central in real life, but unlike, say, Parks and Rec’s Pawnee or The
Simpsons’s Springfield, Nine-Nine hasn’t developed much a personality for its precinct. So even
if tonight’s trip to a milk bar felt like skimming, it was a good first step: We meet an insufferable
flannel-wearing hipster owner and a douchey yuppie business partner. We’re just a struggling
writer away from an episode of Girls. Nine-Nine doesn’t need to go full Brooklyn, but it’s great
to know that there are quirky people out on its streets, and that Nine-Nine can go back to mine
them for comedy.
The case of the wedding invitation: Boyle needs a plus one for his ex-fiancé’s Jamaican-themed
engagement party. He asks Diaz; she has a date. He asks Gina (via a terrifying pop-up message);
she points out that ”just because we have secret, shameful sex does not mean we are friends.”
She also slaps him for saying ”bone bros.” Boyle gets cornrows in a last-ditch attempt to get a
date. It looks like he’s going to have to wear his Jamaican flag suit all alone. And then Diaz shows
up in a tropical dress. She’s canceled her date and will go to the party with him. The whole story
wants to celebrate Diaz and Boyle’s friendship, but it veers dangerously close to romance. Diaz
hasn’t appeared in enough scenes this season, and it’d be terrible if she had to spend the rest as
the object of Boyle’s affections.
Other open investigations:
• The case of Amy Santiago’s second grade gym class grade (”teachers need breaks, too”)
• The case of Jake’s dad (the couples counselor tells Jake that Terry’s walking out, ”just like
your father did”)
• The case of what Boyle means by ”trunk to skunk” (that whole area was numb after his
vasectomy)
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Halloween II
Season 2
Episode Number: 26
Season Episode: 4
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• In last year’s Halloween episode, Amy hated Halloween. Has that changed? Is she now on
board with ”Christmas for jerks”?
• Was Terry’s gladiator outfit just a chance to show off Terry Crews’ abs?
• Boyle’s Halloween outfits (and the precinct’s reaction): An kumquat (Ms. Pac-Man’s nipple),
Hamlet (”not to be”), He-Man (Gay Robin Hood)
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The Mole
Season 2
Episode Number: 27
Season Episode: 5
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dance group rehearsal (”Dancy Reagan, the first ladies of movement”), Jake and Amy break in to
discover Gina and Boyle engaged in pretty intense movement. Cue shocked faces, screams. Cut
to commercial.
The second rule of secrets is that when they get out, you tend to lose control. Gina and Boyle
reveal they’ve been ”casual lovers” (or, as Boyle puts it, in orgasm city). They’ve been lying to
everyone, hiding their trysts. Jake’s furious his friend betrayed him. Boyle tries to prove that
he’s just the same: ”I’m still Charles. I just have four extra sex moves. Five! I forgot boy on top.”
Corollary to the second rule of secrets: Don’t try to fight it when they get out, that just leads
to more confusion. Gina plans forward for her and Boyle: first termination. Then containment.
Boyle will beg Jake not to tell anyone. Gina will take care of Amy—”but how to make it look like
an accident?” she muses. Eventually, she decides on a better plan, trying to befriend Amy and
get her to reveal her own secrets. Gina’s not great at it. Afterward, Amy reveals that she knows
Gina was trying to get dirt on her. And the only secret we get about Amy is that her relationship
with Teddy isn’t going great. He has weird mesh-lined underwear, and Amy doesn’t know what
to say about it.
While Gina and Boyle are spiraling out of control, Holt finds himself similarly lost in the world.
In this case, it’s because Lieutenant Miller has taken over his office. Wuntch is back, and she’s
making fun of him for having lost control of his precinct. Oh, and Diaz and Terry’s task force has
yet to discover any major Giggle Pig dealers. To quote Holt, in conversation with Hitchock and
Scully: ”I am buffeted by the winds of my foe’s enmity, and cast about the towering waves of cruel
fate. Yet I, a captain, am no longer able to command my vessel, my precinct, from my customary
helm, my office. And you ask, is everything okay?” Wuntch is right. Poetry is his calling.
Meanwhile, Jake’s attempt at covering up his secret has started to spiral out as well. Miller
catches him as he’s returning the files to the precinct and tells him that he’ll be put on suspen-
sion. Jake shows up at Holt’s house to beg for help—well, first he has to deal with Holt’s husband
Kevin, who asks him to take off his shoes; ”neither of us want that,” Jake replies. Holt and Jake
spend the night in bathrobes trying to deduce the identity of the mole (and playing with Holt’s
corgi!). Having worked through all of the other options, Holt accuses Jake. Jake accuses Holt in
return. Holt kicks Jake out.
The fourth rule of secret: They always have a way of getting out (call it the Scandal rule). The
next morning, Jake tells Holt he’s figured out who the mole is—it’s Lieutenant Miller. Wuntch
has gotten him to come in and pretend to shake up the precinct. Jake plans a sting operation.
He gives Miller a USB containing secrets about Holt. Back in her office, Wuntch and Miller watch
the video. ”And the big secret about Captain Holt is...” Jake says on the video. ”THAT I HAVE
A FLAIR FOR THE DRAMATIC,” Holt appears onscreen and finishes. Suddenly, Jake and Holt
show up in person. They’ve gotten Wuntch and Miller on tape. Holt demands that she leave him
and his precinct alone. ”Or else, you’re Wuntch meat,” Holt says. He may be a poet, but puns
aren’t his forte.
The fifth, and most important, rule of secrets, however, is that they don’t usually matter—at
least not to everyone else. You might think your own flaw is deeply embarrassing, and worry that
it will ruin your reputation, but it doesn’t matter that much. Gina learns this by the end of the
episode. She decides she has to ”Olivia Pope this sitch.” She gets up on her desk and reveals
that she and Boyle had sex 16 and 1/3 times—”Don’t ask. Can’t explain.” As predicted, no one
in the precinct really cares that much, though Gina does want everyone to know her sexual
history averages higher than Boyle. It even includes an underwear model and a man who looked
like Tywin Lannister, which, good for her I guess? Jake congratulates Boyle on his first casual
relationship (he never asked Gina to get engaged!), and Holt reveals his middle name: It’s Jacob.
Other open investigations:
• The mole story occupied the A- and B-plots tonight, leaving Diaz’s investigation into Giggle
Pig back in the C-plot.
• Terry projects his anxieties about his twins’ schooling onto a girl who seemed nice at first
(and had gone to the same preschool) and who then turns out to be a Giggle Pig dealer.
• Diaz spends more time looking angry in neon headphones than your average German DJ.
After cracking into the dealer’s calls, the two seem to be onto a big supplier.
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people are really big into booking nonrefundable ”lovebird” trips. As they each vie for the room
their tricky tactics result in both Nine-Niners pulling overnight shifts, while their respective par-
ents to enjoy the swanky getaway together. It was fun to see Boyle and Gina manipulate each
other so well – it’s clear that even though their relationship was brief, they really know the things
that would make the other’s day. And then use that to trick him/her into relinquishing a fancy
hotel room. Boyle’s clearly gained some self-confidence and moxie from their time as ”poke pals”
(ew, Boyle), as he holds his own against Gina no problem, instead of allowing her to steamroll
him.
Rosa tries to get Amy to run for union rep over Scully, who’s really just into it for the sand-
wiches. (Honestly, I totally understand that.) Although Amy keeps pointing out that she can’t
take the job because she wants to be captain one day, and doesn’t want to ”clash with the
brass,” all the organizational aspects of the position seem right up her alley. Not only that, but
she’s got more than enough poster board at home. So, you know where to turn if you’re in need.
Of course Amy was going to run for the position in the end, even if it does threaten Scully’s best
friendship with her (?!), but the Captain relenting on his non-involvement with union matters
in order to encourage her was really sweet. Sure, her constant brown-nosing is probably a lit-
tle grating, but Holt knows how much she admires him, and he wants what’s best for her, and
the precinct. Which is probably not Scully going to union meetings and eating subs. The Cap-
tain, while working on ignoring the trivialities continually heaped upon him by his employees,
perfected his powerful chair swivel. Congratulations Captain – even Gina’s impressed.
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Lockdown
Season 2
Episode Number: 29
Season Episode: 7
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in the precinct to host a Thanksgiving feast, and giving out confiscated knockoff designer coats
to keep everyone warm (”I wasn’t able to find any heat because it’s more of a concept”). But
nobody has time for quirky, but lovable antics from their police force. When Jake admits to one
lawyer (Jeff Lewis, who some might recognize from The Guild) that the powder could be toxic,
everything starts to fall apart. The lawyer rallies everyone against the cops, revealing the truth
about the powder, and demanding freedom. Everyone starts shouting. Someone sets Hitchcock’s
snack couch on fire.
Here, finally, Jake learns to take a more serious approach. Well, first he tries to pass off
control to Amy, but she tells him he has to learn to stop playing nice cop (not literally, Brooklyn
Nine-Nine’s above that bad of a pun). But with her encouragement, Jake finally admits that
he’s the captain now—and also realizes that’s a Captain Phillips reference. He reorganizes the
other members of the precinct, intimidates the civilians into obeying him, and has Boyle look
for evidence on the origin of the powder. By the time Holt arrives, Jake has managed to put
everything back in working order and solve the mystery of the powder: It was sent by an angry
former IT guy and it was some random thing that Jake can’t pronounce, but at least isn’t toxic.
While Jake discovers that managing a police station isn’t the same as running a summer
camp, the rest of the cast spun through several minor life lessons. Gina freaked out about the
possibility of dying and wrote up her will. Diaz made fun of Gina and did nothing to calm her
down: ”with anthrax, the last things you’ll see will be: doctor, blood, doctor, puss, scab, nothing.”
Boyle tried to be Jake’s second-in-command (or as he would put it, his Tinker Bell) and celebrated
when Jake lifted the precinct-wide ban on letting him say ”succulent.” Hitchcock got locked on
the balcony, and Scully tried to get people to pay attention to his plight. These weren’t as much
plots as vignettes. The best bottle episodes manage to weave everything together, and here the
conclusion comes abruptly: As soon as Jake turns on the authority, everyone drops their petty
feuds. Too bad, a fuller dive into Gina’s living will would have made for a great tag.
In life outside the precinct, Holt and Terry monitor the situation from Terry’s house, or as
his brother-in-law Zeke calls it ”Tiny Terry’s Hobbit Hole.” Zeke’s gigantic (seriously, how did
the casting directors find someone that large?), and Terry’s terrified of his bullying ways, but he
eventually buys Zeke’s friendship by pretending that Holt’s a terrible boss and therefore earning
some sympathy. Meanwhile, Holt provides Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s requisite, and typically on-point,
amount of Andre Braugher being silly. In this episode, he tries to decode the emojis in Jake’s texts
without having downloaded emojis on his own phone (”and then another box with a question
mark... ”) and bounces on Terry’s core-strengthening fitness ball. This plot, too, ends without
major incident. When Terry reveals that he’s been telling Zeke that Holt’s a terrible boss, Holt
happily plays along, and even agrees to make it seem as if he ate an entire pie: ”Fine. Crumb
me up.” Braugher and Crews prove, once again, that they can make pretty much anything into
comedy.
Other open investigations:
• Amy’s boyfriend Teddy is becoming more insufferably hipster by the episode. This week, she
reveals that she planned to take Thanksgiving off because he’s bottling his pilsner.
• Jake’s two options for entertainment are a surveillance video of Amy soliciting drugs with
perfect grammar (”It’s not weird to say, ’May I have some cocaine?’” she argues) and a boot-
leg copy of Something’s Gotta Give, which Diaz loves. Does Diaz have a thing for romantic
comedies? Is she a big fan of Diane Keaton? Clearly, Brooklyn Nine-Nine needs to spend
more time exploring her favorite movies. First question: Does she prefer Godfather Keaton
or Annie Hall Keaton?
• Boyle insists on calling Thanksgiving ”Turkey Day” in another callback to last year’s ”Thanks-
giving,” where Turkey Day was an item on Boyle bingo. It’s also a reminder of a time when
Nine-Nine made Boyle play really broad, like butt-of-almost-every joke broad. Maybe it’s the
”Single Ladies” dance, or maybe it’s his relationship with Gina, but Boyle’s gotten a little
more dignity.
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USPIS
Season 2
Episode Number: 30
Season Episode: 8
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Gina leads Amy on a guided meditation to help her quit smoking (Gina’s past addiction was
shopping, big shock). It also fails. Holt tells Amy to just stop being such a perfectionist and
stressing herself out, and tries to set an example by speaking incorrect grammar.
Jake goes to apologize to Danger and suck up to him, to try to get the Gigglepig task force
back on track. Danger lets them have the case back and admits he needs help anyway. The dealer
won’t talk to them and his books are in code. Together they realize the numbers (zip codes) stand
for street names. Jake apologizes to Rosa and they raid the drug drop.
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that’s won’t stop Jake from making fun of Amy for having liked him—or stop Amy from making
big doe eyes when she looks over at Jake. Then she tries to crash the car to get Jake to stop with
the jokes. The moment’s gone.
In affairs notably less high school, Holt asks Boyle to teach him how to cook because he
wants to make Kevin breakfast for their anniversary. Boyle’s super excited to teach Holt the ways
of gastronomy, but Holt’s not interested in food at all. ”If it were feasible, my diet would consist
entirely of flavorless beige smoothies containing all the nutrients required by the human animal,”
Andre Braugher intones with glee.
Boyle is usually Jake’s sidekick in Jake-and-Holt plots, but here he gets his own time with the
captain. The pairing works. To try a cooking analogy, Joe Lo Truglio’s buttery mania plays well
with Braugher’s flinty wit. We have Boyle’s description of how rotisserie chicken makes him want
to crawl into his mother’s womb (in parody of the best scene in Ratatouille). We get Braugher on
what it feels like to eat a PB&J: ”I want a sandwich. I make a sandwich. I eat... a sandwich.”
The two try to make scrambled eggs. They fight. Holt gives up. Finally, we have the resolution:
After a night of reading Boyle’s blog for the purposes of scoffing, the captain sees meaning in his
lessons. He decides to cook Kevin a croque monsieur in honor of an old anniversary trip to Paris
and gives Boyle a spare, by way of apology. Boyle tries the sandwich. It’s perfect. ”Now I know
how Salieri felt.”
While everyone else is trying to deal with their feelings for other people and/or cook breakfast,
Diaz tries to get a confession from a perp to nail down a possible Giggle Pig lead. Unfortunately,
her terrible cold makes that nearly impossible, even if she claims that ”Diazes don’t get sick.”
Terry and Gina try to intervene, but she ignores them, relying instead on the feel-good high from
an entire bottle of non-drowsy cold medicine.
There isn’t much to this plot—eventually, Terry gets a confession from the perp and Gina
forces a get-well kit on Diaz—but it deserves recognition for sending Diaz zipping across the
precinct floor in a cold medicine-induce haze. Stephanie Beatriz is game for pretty much any-
thing, and her end-of-episode smile (”my immune system is too weak to fight off my smile mus-
cles”) just made me want to watch Diaz get accidentally high again as soon as possible.
Other open investigations:
• Hitchcock’s first name is Michael. When she’s drugged up, Diaz thinks that’s a great name
and that he’s a great detective.
• What we know about Sophia: She’s a defense attorney, she’s dating Jake, she sends nude
photos and ”doesn’t care about the cloud at all,” her idea of ”pulling out all the stops” is
slapping Jake at the dinner table. Also, she might have a thing for mid-2000s network
dramas.
• What we know about Teddy: ”All he wants to do right now is make and bottle pilsners.”
”That guy is obsessed with yeast.”
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It’s a simple enough A-plot, with an ending that’s just as predictable as ”Halloween II,” but
there’s something electric in Andy Samberg and Craig Robinson’s chemistry. Jake Peralta might
seem like an overgrown man-child, but he’s surrounded by people who have little patience for his
schemes. Doug’s openness—about everything from his own schemes to Jake’s father issues—is
therapeutic. He has the same magic effect on Rosa, who loosens up just enough to joke around
with him. Doug: ”Let’s make out.” Rosa: ”Not yet.” The cops can say whatever they want around
Doug, because whatever happens, he’s not in a position to judge.
The real moment of Christmas magic in ”The Pontiac Bandit Returns,” however, comes be-
tween Jake and Rosa. Jake rags on Rosa for a lot of the episode—for good reason, it seems, she
might be letting the Pontiac Bandit get away—and when Doug does get away, Jake could easily
get back at her with an ”I told you so.” At the bar, after their mission, things seem to tend in that
direction. Jake shows Rosa Doug’s video, which reveals how he used Kyle the waiter in the hotel
to stage a getaway. Rosa apologizes and promises that they’ll get the Pontiac Bandit next time.
Jake could easily make this about him (as he often does), but instead, he puts his friend’s goals
ahead of his own. And then Diaz’s heart grew three sizes that day.
The B- and C-plots this week were decidedly slimmer than the grand Christmas epic of Jake,
Rosa, and Doug Judy, but they were still pretty great. In Boyle-and-Gina news, Boyle discovers
a present from his dad to Gina’s mom. The two freak out over the possibility that their parents
are getting serious, until they break open the present and discover that it’s just an electric scale.
Then, to hasten the apparent end of their parent’s relationship, Gina and Boyle decide to arrange
a gift swap so they can see Gina’s mom’s disappointment when she opens the gift. Instead, she’s
thrilled (the happy couple’s getting serious), which grosses Gina out (she steals a bottle of wine
and leaves the restaurant) but also gives her a new sense of purpose. The next day, she tells
Boyle that they need to break up their parents ”for their sake, for our sake, and for the sake of
this great nation.” For some reason, I was suddenly very sad that Chelsea Peretti never made a
cameo in Lincoln.
Amy, Holt, and Terry ended up together in the third plot this week, as Amy struggled to make
a Christmas gift—a scrapbook about Holt’s professional highlights ”from RAY to Z”—without
spending any money (”my time is worth nothing!”). Amy runs into a problem when she discovers
that Holt may have charged an arsonist with one-too-many counts of murder back in the ’70s,
but Holt actually treats her research as a present. He’s thankful that she pointed out one of
his errors, and he assigns her the job of figuring out who really did commit those crimes. ”Oh,
more work!” Amy says, and then tries to explain herself ”I know that sounded sarcastic...” Terry
corrects her: ”Nobody thought that.”
Other open investigations:
• Holt continues to appreciate bad puns. This week, he’s amused by Amy’s attempt to make
entering a room more seasonal by saying ”nog, nog.”
• Hitchcock has a terrible hand wound, but insists he only needs scotch tape to fix it. Also,
he leaves the scene without seeming to get any tape.
• Scully’s a master detective. When Holt announces a holiday party at 9 o’clock, he asks ”AM
or PM?” Holt: ”I’m going to let you figure that out.”
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Stakeout
Season 2
Episode Number: 33
Season Episode: 11
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they lied and said no. Amy and Gina tell Terry they read his book, and Amy tells him she isn’t a
pushover and Gina says she isn’t a bitch. Terry tells them that the story is nonsense and it isn’t
real life. Holt tells Marcus to join him and Kevin at breakfast, but then they see Rosa coming
down the stairs, too, making everything very awkward. Day 7 of the stakeout, and the only food
left is Boyle’s herring. Boyle and Jake start fighting, and they end up deciding that they aren’t
friends. Boyle, in turn, throws the basketball at Jake, breaking the window and blowing their
operation.
Jake and Boyle are back at the precinct. Holt tells Jake that they blew the chance to catch the
perp. Jake requests a new partner for door duty, but Holt forces Boyle and him to work together.
Amy tells Terry that the book bothered her because she can be a push over, and Gina tells him
that she learned she’s perfect the way she is and she should never change. Holt calls Rosa into
his office, and he gives her back her ”brassiere” that she left in his room. He also tells her that
she and Marcus should continue to see each other if they want, and to not let him stop her. She
says she will, and they both agree to never talk about this again. Jake and Boyle catch their perp
during door duty, and make up in the process.
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Beach House
Season 2
Episode Number: 34
Season Episode: 12
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parties alternate between Holt’s boring stories and the fun party playing quarters. Gina finds out
that 6th drink Amy is just sad. Holt comes downstairs and finds out that they are having a party
without him, so he walks out.
Boyle tells Rosa it’s her turn to text Marcus back, and she tells him how she doesn’t want to
screw their relationship up. She gets a shirtless picture back, proving she did a good job. Amy is
super drunk and Gina takes care of her. Jake goes to talk to Holt, who is in the hot tub, but Jake
points out that maybe it’s time for Holt to stoop down to their level. The squad ends up playing
”Real Ray or Fake Ray,” where Jake reads out quotes and they have to decide if Holt said it or
not.
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Payback
Season 2
Episode Number: 35
Season Episode: 13
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to use a restroom due to what the street meat did to him. Jake accidentally hit reply-all on an
email about Terry being pregnant, so the whole office knows! Oops!
ake tells everyone that Terry can’t know the secret is out, but Gina points out he got the
reply-all email, too. Jake tells them they need to delete the email from Terry’s computer. Jake
goes to distract Terry at the gym, and asks him to take him through his workout. Jake struggles
to keep up with the workout, while the squad upstairs tries to guess Terry’s password. Boyle
guesses Terry’s password, which is yogurt, so all is well.
Terry’s wife comes to meet him, and Holt, back early from the stakeout, spills the beans to
Terry that Jake sent the email to everyone, which obviously angers Terry and his wife. Jake
makes Scully fake a heart attack in order to distract from the situation, unsuccessfully. Jake
apologizes to Terry, but he is still upset. Amy goes in to talk to Holt and apologizes, telling him
how she just wanted to be a great partner. Holt tells her that they can laugh about this situation
one day, and then he laughs!! Jake pays back Terry the rest of what he owes him, selling his car
to do so. Terry offers Jake the role of godfather, which excites Jake into quoting ”The Godfather.”
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Defense Rests
Season 2
Episode Number: 36
Season Episode: 14
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Jake has to arrest Sophia’s boss because he caught him doing cocaine. At the precinct, Holt
tells Rosa that he took the high-road and gave her a good recommendaion. Gina goes into the
interrgation room to talk to Boyle’s dad. He answers all of her questions with honesty, and she
gives him her blessing. Jake is processing Jeffrey, and Sophia shows up, as Jeffrey’s attorney.
She and Jake start fighting and she breaks up with him.
Jake ran to stop Sophia from leaving, and tries to change her mind. She tells him that she
doesn’t think she loves him back. She says she’s sorry and leaves. Holt visits Wuntch and she
tells him that she used the Boston offer as leverage and now she has a promotion job at the
NYPD, so she has more power over him. She kisses him and then leaves. Leaving Holt stunned.
At the bar, Boyle and Gina thank Amy for helping them out. Jake and Holt are grieving their
failures. Instead of trying to cheer up, Holt, Jake, and Terry take shots to feel better!
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Windbreaker City
Season 2
Episode Number: 37
Season Episode: 15
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and ends up shooting him first. However, Jake is ok with the results, because he is feeling a little
bit better and he realizes he was able to ”cathart.”
Back at the precinct, Holt apologizes to Gina for trying to get her out of his category, and
he realizes that his actions were not very nice. To show Gina he believes in her abilities, he
puts her in charge of scheduling and budget tracking. Amy tells Rosa she is going to take the
Saturday shift, and Rosa tells her the reason she is going to dinner with her parents is because
she is introducing them to Marcus. The episode ends with Jake dropping off Sophia’s things and
running into her and them having one final ending conversation.
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Jake tracks down one of the muggers, and brings Holt to the apartment so he can make the
arrest. Holt admits that he is upset because he acted foolishly, and put himself in danger and
was hurt. The arrest lifts his mood, and overtime is restored.
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Boyle-Linetti Wedding
Season 2
Episode Number: 39
Season Episode: 17
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but as he’s doing it Jake sees Jenny kissing another guy: pain on an emotional and physical
level.
It’s wedding time! Holt sees Kevin and is able to give a great speech. The ceremony goes
off without a hitch, and it made Holt realize he wants a real wedding. Marcus congratulates
Boyle, who didn’t realize he was coming.Rosa tells Marcus she hadn’t asked him to the wedding
because she was a coward. She then tells him she loves him, and he returns the sentiment. Jake
is reliving his middle school dance watching Jenny dance with another man. Amy tries to cheer
him up by asking him to dance, with Gina’s great aunt Susan.
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Captain Peralta
Season 2
Episode Number: 40
Season Episode: 18
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Jake got a cleaning spray bottle with her fingerprints on them, so he can see if she’s a match.
Rosa and Gina realize, due to the pictures Gina took, that Holt doesn’t have the solution to the
puzzle himself, and he needed it to impress his superior. Jake, his dad, and Boyle return to
Brooklyn. Jake finds out that his dad’s ”side piece” framed him. Unfortunately, Jake’s dad bails
on the plans his made with him and the Jake tells Boyle he was right about his dad. Jake goes
to see Roger, and tells him that he’s finally starting to see him for the man he is, a pretty crappy
father. At the bar, Amy and Terry give props to Gina and Rosa. Holt comes up and gives Gina
the Beyonce tickets. Holt tells Jake he’s proud of him for the work he did in Canada. See, Jake
doesn’t need his dad, he has Holt!
We finally got to me the infamous Roger Peralta, Jake’s dad. Unfortunately, he’s not a good
guy. The only saving grace is that he’s played by Bradley Whitford, who is one of my all-time
favorite TV actors. I love seeing him on the show, but I only wish he had a nicer/longer lasting
role! I do have to say, too, that he and Samberg have great father/son chemistry. Speaking of
Samberg, I am very proud of Jake for finally standing up to his dad, and for taking his captain
hat! Jake deserves a much better father, but thankfully he has Holt to serve as a pseudo-father. I
just hope that Jake’s speech to his dad changes him in the future, so that he becomes the father
Jake deserves.
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Sabotage
Season 2
Episode Number: 41
Season Episode: 19
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Scully and Hitchcock tell Boyle that they solved his case and prove to him that they aren’t
incompetent. Back at the ice cream truck, Hoytsman forces Jake to make a video confessing to
all of the things Hoytsman did, like father two children with his cleaning lady. At the end of the
confession, Hoytsman writes for Jake to say he’s taking his own life, oh no!
Jake headbuts Hoytsman, but falls out of the ice cream truck and can’t get up because he’s
still tied to the chair! Holt talks to Gina, and tells her she is a professional dancer because he’s
paying her dance team to perform two shows. Back in the ice cream truck, Hoytsman ties Jake
back up. Amy and Rosa come to Jake’s rescue, though, arresting Hoytsman. Jake apologizes for
acting like a jack-ass, too. Back at the 99, Boyle tells Scully and Hitchcock that they are actually
good cops and apologizes for calling them useless. The next day, Holt lifts Jake’s suspension!
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AC/DC
Season 2
Episode Number: 42
Season Episode: 20
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Meanwhile, at the stakeout, no movement, but Boyle called Terry and he shows up and tells
him he called in backup for the stake out and doesn’t let Jake out of his sight. Jake spots his
perp outside and plan on observing him before the Atlantic City PD shows up, but when Olson
sees them and runs, Jake goes after him against Terry’s orders, but gets hit by a car. Terry is
upset that Jake never listens to him, but Jake tells him that the one time he took time off during
a case, civilians got hurt so he vowed to never take time off during a case again.
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doing. Jake, Amy, and Majors are back at the 99, and when Majors goes to get coffee, Jake is
about to ask Amy out again, but he solves the case. Which means, Majors is going to ask Amy
out—oh no!
Jake is upset eating Mexican candy, because he solved the case before he could ask Amy
out. Rosa tells Jake to show Amy he cares, and show up to her date with Majors and ruin her
night. Gina and Boyle tell Terry they finished his files for him so that he can have her date night
with his wife. When Holt finds out that they digitized his files for Terry, he makes Terry digitize
2000-2005, making him have to cancel his plans, AGAIN. Over at the speakeasy, Jake tries to
get in, but doesn’t know the password. He can’t get in, so he tries to read other guests lips to
get in, but doesn’t get it right still. Instead, Jake just sneaks in through the fire exit door, but he
sees that Amy really likes Majors before getting kicked out.
The next morning, Terry tells Gina and Boyle that he declined the offer. Holt tricked Terry by
making him digitize files that reminded him of the great work they do at the 99, which made him
want to stay. Majors comes by, and tells Jake that Amy wasn’t into it and it didn’t go well. Jake
is confused why this happened, and goes to ask her. Amy tells Jake she has a new rule: ”I don’t
date cops.” Ouch.
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The Chopper
Season 2
Episode Number: 44
Season Episode: 22
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The guys are on the chopper, and they assign themselves code name, Jake being ”Death
Blade,” Boyle being ”Side Winder,” and Holt being ”Wet Blanket.” Holt is upset, becuase if they
don’t catch DeAngelo, Wuntch will make sure his career is over. Back at the 9-9, Amy apologizes
to the prinicpal of the school, and point out the kids did teach alot. Meanwhile, the chopper lands
and the guys strut out in typical movie fashion. They find DeAngelo, and he’s dead. Jake calls to
see if the other guy, Bloodzo, is still in custody, and he finds out that he escaped the hospital.
Jake goes to talk to Holt, and he points out how they are working an epic murder and all he
can think about is Wuntch. Holt realizes Jake is right, and decides they need to solve this case.
He even gives himself a code name, ”Valvant Thunder.” Back at the precinct, Terry thanks the
girls because his kids are off of the wait-list, and he also tells Gina she was named ”Spring Dance
Princess.”
Jake, Holt, and Boyle find Bloodzo, and the money! In the words of Holt, ”bing-pot!” Back at
the precinct, Wuntch tells Holt she wanted him to succeed so that she has a reason to promote
him, so he has to leave the 99, because she’s making him head of NYPD Public Relations!!!!
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Holt is about to confront Wuntch, but Wuntch, making sure he isn’t bugged, gives him a
very uncomfortable pat-down. Back at the restaurant, Augustin says he’s going in the back to
talk to the chef, and as they are watching him, he notices, so Jake kisses Amy to make it less
suspicious.
Back in the van, they tell Boyle and Rosa they kissed, much to Boyle’s excitement. They follow
Augustin to where he is leaving the package, and Jake tells Boyle and Rosa to follow Augustin
while Amy and he stay with the package. Meanwhile, Holt shows Wuntch the letter, and he tells
her she has until tomorrow to reverse his promotion. Jake and Amy notice that the guy with the
package is looking at them, so Amy kisses Jake, making them look harmless, and when he picks
up the package, they arrest him!
Back at the 99, Amy and Jake are signing the arrest report, and thinks are a little awkward.
They both agree they don’t want things to change, so they will just stay partners. Boo. Meanwhile,
at the restaurant, Rosa walks into what she thinks is a surprise party, but is actually Marcus
who rented out the bar so that they could have her birthday dinner in peace. After another weird
pat-down, Wuntch tells Holt that she’d transfer all of his team if he doesn’t accept the transfer.
He decides to take the transfer, and unsuprisingly, the 99 is very upset, INCLUDING HOLT. Gina
decides to go with Holt. Later, Jake finds Amy in the evidence room, and they talk about the
transfer and all the change, which leads to Jake kissing Amy! However, they are interrupted by
Boyle who lets them know the new captain is here...
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New Captain
Season 3
Episode Number: 46
Season Episode: 1
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Speaking of Holt, he and Gina got screen time over at his new NYPD Public Relations post,
where he has eight-point plans and big ideas for community engagement but Wuntch says he
can’t start anything until they finish the work already in progress — like naming the NYPD’s new
pigeon mascot (they settle on Paulie, though Pepper really is the best option). He knows he can
do good work there, but Wuntch won’t let him. As Gina puts it, ”This man is a Timberlake and
you need to stop treating him like a Fatone.”
There was one other nice scene between Gina and Holt, where she says she followed him to
PR because he makes things better (and because she thought it would help launch her reality
show Linetti, Set, Go — not to be confused with her fragrance line, Gina in a Bottle). Turns out,
these two make a nice team, and not just when Holt is wearing the Paulie the Pigeon costume in
an elementary school.
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The Funeral
Season 3
Episode Number: 47
Season Episode: 2
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Boyle’s Hunch
Season 3
Episode Number: 48
Season Episode: 3
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Halloween III
Season 3
Episode Number: 50
Season Episode: 5
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while Holt sneaks in through the window, unscrews the back of his set of drawers, snatches the
crown, and photobombs Jake. Unfortunately Team Holt’s plan hits a snag when a cackling witch
decoration gives away his location in the breakroom, forcing Holt to hastily ditch the crown in
the trash, and drink a soda. Which honestly seems like the more horrifying thing to Holt.
Later the crown disappears from the trash, and both teams think the other team has pos-
session, until they realize neither of them do. Team Jake checks the surveillance tapes and sees
that one of the trash collectors, named Al, came and took the trash already. Both Jake and Holt
try to suck up to Amy, as they realize that she’s the only one who would have the address of
every employee of the Nine-Nine (in order to send them Christmas cards of course). She resents
their brownnosing, but sends them both the address so neither has an advantage.
oth teams arrive at the apartment building to find the elevator out of order, and they run up
to his apartment on the 16th floor. There they find out that Al’s actually on the roof smoking,
another fifteen floors up. They all make it up (though Jake’s a little worse for the wear), only to
find that Al is actually... AMY SANTIAGO? Jake tries to play it off like they schemed together,
but she quickly pushes him back to the losing side and explains her grand plan. She could tell
that Holt had a listening device because he jumped when Jake passed by the freaky witch earlier
– even though his door was completely closed. Amy read Holt’s lips to figure out his twin plan,
and then moved the witch to draw attention to him, forcing him to throw away the crown so that
she could come and collect it. She left the crown at the bar, and the Nine-Nine all head over to
attend her coronation. Queen Amy, an amazing detective/genius, congratulations.
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The Mattress
Season 3
Episode Number: 52
Season Episode: 7
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Ava
Season 3
Episode Number: 53
Season Episode: 8
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The Swedes
Season 3
Episode Number: 54
Season Episode: 9
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Yippie Kayak
Season 3
Episode Number: 55
Season Episode: 10
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Meanwhile, Terry, who considers himself more Lori Greiner than Barbara Corcoran, but also
is kind of a Mr. Wonderful with all of his third-person references to himself, was just trying to
get some peace and quiet — isn’t he always? — for the holiday but sprang back into action after
receiving a call from Jake that was part ”Help!” but mostly ”Oh my god, the coolest thing is
happening right now!” This begot a series of amusing exchanges between Terry (as McClane’s
man-on-the-outside Al Powell) and the perpetual glory hound that is the Vulture (as cocksure
deputy chief Dwayne T. Robinson), who was itching to send the SWAT team in for the kill, despite
Terry’s rational pleas to let Jake advise from the inside. (One offensive comment too many finally
landed the Vulture in a garbage can.) Alas, the other story line — which featured Holt and Rosa
going for a polar plunge and Amy desperate to prove that she could ”dunk her junk” — fell a bit
flat and felt disjointed from the rest of the episode. It’s Christmas — your wish is to see the whole
gang together as much as possible. Yes, having Holt, Rosa, and Amy off on their own chill thrill
allowed Terry to demonstrate that he had captain characteristics (minus the trash-can stuffing);
Holt would urge him at the end of the episode to take the lieutenant’s test as a stepping stone.
But it would’ve been nice if these three could have been tied more into the department store
adventure.
Anyway, what’s a brother named Charles got to do to get a wet wipe around here? Let’s tell
Ramon to stop farting, go to town on Daddy’s nog, make a toast to the sea with a glass of heart
attack soda, take a dip in Lake Cocytus, liberally apply some Canyon Stank, shut our dumb
poem mouths, and revisit the best lines of ”Yippie Kayak.”
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Hostage Situation
Season 3
Episode Number: 56
Season Episode: 11
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9 Days
Season 3
Episode Number: 57
Season Episode: 12
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The Cruise
Season 3
Episode Number: 58
Season Episode: 13
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State Room. But it was the state of their relationship that they would truly upgrade as Amy said
”I love you” to Jake, which he did reciprocate (well, after trying the more non-committal response
of ”Noice! Smort!”) That they took their relationship to the next level in a dance class for widows
felt tonally appropriate for this kind of moment on this kind of show.
While Jake ran around the ship with his two lovers, Holt sought solace in seltzer as his sister,
Hurricane Debbie, blew into town for a six-week visit. While our buttoned-up exec captain’s ex-
boyfriend Frederick was introduced as a foil with a similar temperament, Debbie was much more
of an ”I-can’t-even” emotional force. In truth, she wasn’t any more difficult than the messes he
cleans up in the precinct every week, but her drama was magnified through his distorted lens
of pathological stoicism. First, Holt rebuffed her attempts at bonding in front of his underlings,
denying her claims that he was ”fun” as a child. Then, wanting her to do an about-face and
leave town again, he took Gina’s ill-conceived advice to fight drama with drama, which begat
several amusing line deliveries (”Everything in my life is a hot mess right now,” Holt told Debbie
in a semi-stilted manner). But in the end, after he learned that she had been cheated on and
dumped, he surprised her by building a childhood call-back fort in his office, where he invited
her in literally and metaphorically. As the episode went on, I worried that this plot wouldn’t really
pay off, but when Holt sat under that shrimp-free tarp and said, ”I would love to be all up in your
life,” we had our burst of B-story emotion.
And over in a perfectly adequate C-story plot, Charles and Gina squared off while they inves-
tigated the death of an 89-year-old woman, who had left behind an apartment boasting 1,800
square feet of space, exposed brick, and a gas range. Their intense contest to see who could but-
ter up the landlord and be chosen as the apartment’s next tenant ended in a no-win tie, which
seemed... fitting, if predictable, as they should have been more focused on figuring out that the
landlord had poisoned the old lady so he could release those rent-control handcuffs. But there
was a bit of extra fun in seeing Charles flex his normally weak backbone while butting heads
with Rosa.
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Karen Peralta
Season 3
Episode Number: 59
Season Episode: 14
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a tricky one, to run more comedy through those (very topical) body cameras; perhaps a future
episode will be told strictly through the lens(es) of the body cameras when the squad is forced
to participate in a documentary or maybe there’s a story to unspool through different points of
view, literally.
Meanwhile, in C-story land, Holt found himself trapped in a team-building exercise with the
B-team — Hitchcock, Scully, and Gina. (Loved the revelation that Scully had to communicate
with his father, a prisoner-of-war, via morse code; there’s a challenged father-son relationship.)
But as this plot headed toward its conclusion — they found the four keys before the deadline-to-
apocalypse expired, thus ending their incarceration.
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The 9-8
Season 3
Episode Number: 60
Season Episode: 15
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The episode’s related story lines involved the rest of the staff bemoaning and bitching about
the invasion of the Nine-Eight staff on their turf, which led Amy, Rosa, Hitchcock, Scully — and,
once his full-fat Greek yogurt had been violated, Terry, in a well-sold speech — to create a secret
satellite office/society on the roof. From Rosa’s seething hatred of a nut named Ellen who likes to
talk about juicing nuts, to Amy’s red-eyed irritation over her counterpart’s questionable therapy
dog (”Fraud dog! Fraud dog!”), the vitriol was bubbling over in all sorts of amusing ways. Even
Holt, who exhibited tremendous patience in being a gracious host by letting the other captain use
and abuse his office, right down to the critical lumbar settings on his chair, finally had enough.
During the inter-precinct throwdown, he surreptitiously sabotaged the radiator, rendering the
Nine-Nine inhospitable, and forcing the Nine-Eight to seek alternate housing arrangements and
the Nine-Nine to work in freezing conditions. Who would act so coldly? A man who secretly sent
a precious wooden duck tumbling to its death, that’s who.
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House Mouses
Season 3
Episode Number: 61
Season Episode: 16
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to wear both the hats of police captain and starstruck fanboy, with latter firmly covering up the
former. It was also fun to watch Charles mix it up as the voice of reason and frustration while
his boss careened off the rails: Holt initially handed the case to him, then partnered himself with
Charles, then all but removed Charles from the case when he started asking the hard questions.
(And, just like last week, he was right as rain on someone else’s parade: He sniffed out that
Weichelbraun was lying about the theft.)
What about Amy, Rosa, and Gina, you ask? Well, they made a pact to face their fears for
womankind: Gina feared talking to businessmen, Rosa was terrified of needles, and Amy wasn’t
so great in confined spaces.
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Adrian Pimento
Season 3
Episode Number: 62
Season Episode: 17
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trust — Adrian? Will Adrian and Rosa get into a weird-ass flirtation/romance?), but a promising
one that is injecting some seriously dark, off-kilter energy into the Nine-Nine.
Let’s also touch on the B-story, which kicked off with a shocking moment, one maybe even
more jarringly funny than when Terry felled Holt’s office by slamming the door. The pressure
cooker that Charles was using to make a Turkmenistani stew for Pimento exploded, shattering
windows and leaving everyone dripping wet in goat gunk. Seeking a clean-up crew, Charles
ran into an administrative buzzsaw named Marge (The Office’s Kate Flannery), which resulted
in a janitorial boycott of their floor and a garbage pile-up before they learned her last name
and renamed the break room after her, which Charles promptly soiled again. The other story
line — Holt tasked an overambitious Gina with making a video to win a grant from the MC
Guffin Foundation (McGuffin, anyone?) to improve the Nine-Nine facilities — contained a twist
that amused: Gina replaced Holt with a look-alike who created a pill-popping backstory for his
character. In the end, semi-Sgt. Linetti impressed the foundation — and Holt — by eschewing
Hollywood pizzazz and served up the precinct’s mangy, wonk-eyed underdog truth.
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Cheddar
Season 3
Episode Number: 63
Season Episode: 18
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Gina’s assignment when it comes to Operation: Find Cheddar is to pick up Holt from the
airport, and do whatever she can to delay his return. Naturally this prompts her to take Jake’s
car and run it over the spikes at the entrance to the airport parking garage. This pops all four
of the tires, leaving Gina feeling quite triumphant, and Holt quite annoyed. (My personal favorite
moment in this story is Gina talking like a computer/robot when she tells her phone to call Jake).
After a trip to the garage to get the tires fixed, Gina tries to mess with the car again by pulling
out a bunch of wires. Turns out that those wires are not essential to the car function and Holt
drives back to his house to find his employees wearing his clothing.
Holt immediately figures out that they’ve lost Cheddar and sends them home. But Jake re-
alizes that Cheddar chewed up Kevin’s sweaters because he misses Kevin, so he’s probably off
somewhere that they would go to together. After a consult with the binder, Jake, Amy, and Boyle
find Holt and make their way to a park where Kevin would take Cheddar for walks – and Ched-
dar’s there! Holt confesses that he didn’t cancel his trip because he was afraid Jake would burn
his house down, he cancelled it because he and Kevin keep fighting when they talk on the phone,
and he was worried what would happen if he goes to Paris and they fight. Jake reassures Holt
that they can work it out, because they’re the best couple he knows, and Holt’s the strongest
person he knows.
Following up on last week’s attraction, Rosa can’t seem to stay away from Pimento. And vice
versa. The two turn everything into an intense flirting match. Everything from signing forms to
hole-punching papers becomes a sexy back-and-forth. Terry can’t stand it. Jake assigns the three
of them to work together to hang posters for Cheddar around the neighborhood, and Pimento and
Rosa continue to drive Terry crazy with their flirting. Then Rosa proposes taking it a step further,
and Pimento freaks out and runs down the road. He ambushes Terry in the bathroom to have
a private conversation about his ”weird headspace.” Pimento admits to Terry that flirting’s one
thing, but he’s not sure he’s ready for a relationship or that he deserves to be happy after the
things he’s done. Terry reassures him with a simply ”Sure you do,” and Pimento excitedly thanks
him for the life-changing perspective. In an attempt to smooth things over with Rosa, Pimento
proposes to her. She obviously rejects, but asks him out for a drink instead. He accepts. ...
And then Rosa grabs him and they start making out hard against Terry’s car. Clearly Pimento’s
still adjusting back to normal life after a long period undercover, and it might take a while for
him to figure out how to react in normal situations, but maybe Rosa can help him through the
transition. And maybe his involvement with her will be too much too soon and throw him even
further out of whack – who knows?
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Terry Kitties
Season 3
Episode Number: 64
Season Episode: 19
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diabolical mastermind — the way Jake viewed Cheddar — with occasional cutaways of this cat
frolicking to happy Cheddar music.)
Speaking of beaten-down betas, Charles had his hands full this week. Full of weird and lack-
ing a home, Adrian took advantage of Charles’ hospitality/meekness, becoming his new incon-
siderate, deer-skinning roommate. Gina tried to help Charles just say no to bullying, but that
did not go well, and the plot seemed resolved as Gina stepped in, out-intimidated Adrian, and
made him pay one night’s rent and apologize to Charles. Then came the cunning twist: When
Gina cocksuredly explained to Charles that Adrian just needed to be ”alpha’d,” Charlies slyly
and rhetorically asked, ”Is that what happened, or did I just beta you into protecting me,” leaving
Gina checkmated. Charles Boyle: You beta believe he knows himself.
The other story line involved a bomb-diffusing class that pitted Amy and Rosa against each
other. While Holt scolded the pair for their petty competitiveness, he ultimately showed himself to
be more competitive than both of them combined in a surge of I-win-and-you-can-both-suck-it
juvenile behavior that felt incongruous with his stoic, oversensible character, a man who just
recently wished that the sky were tan.
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Paranoia
Season 3
Episode Number: 65
Season Episode: 20
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The episode split the gang in two for most of the episode without feeling disjointed (an oc-
casional problem on Brooklyn), the action flipping smoothly back and forth between the two
parties — or make that four, counting Rosa’s three parties. To kick off the boys’ night out, Jake
hired a party bus, which Adrian promptly hijacked as he was convinced that someone was out
to murder him, a theory that, like Adrian’s proposal, Terry was not a fan of. Adrian’s suspicion
was debunked at first when he took the boys on a wild bus chase that dead-ended at a vacant
building but later was validated when the waiter at dinner tried to draw a gun on him. ”Just be-
cause you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you” is not just a saying; it’s a Pimento
mantra.
Meanwhile, the girls — including Charles, who was totally fine with having been named a
co-maid of honor with watered-down ice cubes, Amy, and Gina — had their own flurry of fun,
throwing Rosa competing parties when they couldn’t agree on a a single theme. Gina took the
group to play paintball, which meant viciously paint-murdering her nephew and his friends. Amy
hosted a trivia game that ended with a drink penalty for every question about Rosa answered
incorrectly, resulting in everyone getting blotto, given that her life is a question mark dipped in
dry ice. And they saved the best for last, as Charles hosted a demolition party at the restaurant
La Petite Colon, where the girls smashed plates and sledgehammered through the walls while
Charles lost himself in a container of food. Rosa would declare him the bachelorette party victor,
making Charles an unexpected winner in back-to-back episodes.
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Maximum Security
Season 3
Episode Number: 66
Season Episode: 21
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terrified Amy will get hurt, and keeps yanking her out of situations where she’s about to step to
Maura, reminding her that prison isn’t High School Musical. (Or High School Musical 2. Or High
School Musical 3: Senior Year.) His fear for her ends up being a nice way for the show to play into
their romantic relationship, which has been as back-burnered for most of the season as their
will-they-or-won’t-they arc was.
In a particularly sweet scene, both of them admit to being more freaked-out than they thought
they’d be about dating a fellow cop, each worrying that the other might be in real danger. Of
course, this is Brooklyn Nine-Nine, so the conversation is had with hopeless romantic Charles
in the background, getting increasingly frustrated as to why they won’t go to comfort each other.
Needless to say, he’s over the moon about the pair’s nonexistent baby.
Slightly less successful, but still pretty funny, is the department’s attempt to create the rest
of the frills around Pimento’s ”death,” namely forging a death certificate and a case file — with
Hitchcock as the ”bloated” corpse — and throwing a fake funeral. The show’s already been to the
goofing-off-at-a-funeral well this season, with the sendoff for Bill Hader’s extremely short-lived
Capt. Dozerman, but the conceit of high-fiving people in order to find the double agent’s telltale
scar is amusing, as is Rosa’s complete and utter failure at playing the role of grieving widow.
(”Ugh, this church is so quiet.” Terry: ”I think that’s pretty normal for a moment of silence.”)
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Bureau
Season 3
Episode Number: 67
Season Episode: 22
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you don’t think Andre Braugher describing himself as ”such a Samantha” after making a double
entendre and being shocked by Miranda choosing Steve over Blake Underwood is funny, then
you have no soul.
In any case, the heist goes off swimmingly: Jake gets the case file, and Anderson saves the
day by vouching for him and Holt after the guard gets suspicious about Jake’s pass. With the
information in hand, they have enough to arrest Whealon (or, as Rosa would prefer, ”groin-stomp”
him), but they end up finding him shot on his living room floor, having apparently been burned
by Figgis. Luckily, Whealon survives, and they’re confident they’ll be able to get him to testify
against Figgis when he emerges from his coma.
Meanwhile, in prison in Texas, Amy and Charles are still struggling to get any useful info out
of Maura, who’s accepted Amy into her gang but isn’t the most emotionally forthcoming person.
Charles, who’s posing as a doctor, is particularly anxious because he and Genevieve, after not
lucking out with fertility treatments, are waiting for an adoption to go through. Unfortunately,
Maura mistakes Amy’s congratulatory hug about Charles becoming a dad for the two of them
carrying on a relationship, and immediately insists on being given full access to the ”sensitive”
new prison OB-GYN and his bubble butt. (Charles: ”Curse this perfect butt!”) It goes about as
well as you’d imagine, with her more or less sexually assaulting him — only to lose her shit when
Genevieve calls and informs Charles that the adoption has gone through.
Finding out that Charles is taken is enough to send Maura into an emotional tailspin, and she
details all her failed relationships with her brother’s pals to Amy — which, apparently, includes
Ryan Whealon. The bad news is that her list of exes also, apparently, includes Bob Anderson. As
it turns out, Holt’s doppelgänger was actually a double agent all along, and ”Bureau” ends with
a credibly tense scene in which he’s apparently smothered Whealon in his hospital bed, and now
has a gun trained on Holt. While Peralta would have mugged and grinned his way through such
a situation, Braugher and Haysbert’s dramatic skills really make it pop.
The missing link in the episode, unfortunately, is the Gina and Terry plot, which gets way
too much time for something that’s completely unrelated to the larger Pimento case. Basically,
someone’s leaked the department’s arrest numbers, and Terry is hell-bent on smoking them out
and punishing them. After rejecting the obvious choice — the idiocy of Scully and Hitchcock —
Terry’s scrutiny turns to Gina, and in a bit of real talk that’s unusual for B99, accuses her of
not taking her job seriously. (Gina: ”We’re about to have our first fight, Terrence.”) Of course,
Gina is actually one of the precinct’s better detectives, despite not actually being employed as
one, and she quickly deduces that Terry was the source of the leak, via a #yogurtlife selfie in
front of the whiteboard with the relevant stats. It’s a subplot that could have worked well in a
more chopped-up episode, but in terms of supporting the larger plot of this arc, I wish a different
choice had been made, even if it meant sidelining Terry and Gina to their personal-trainer and
SATC coach duties.
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After some more fooling around with each member of the squad failing to adequately question
Bob, the episode finally picks up the pace a bit with a sniper scene that involves some ducking
and dodging. But once Holt, Bob, Scully, and Hitchcock are ensconced in a panic room, the rest
of the tension quickly drops out — the whole sniper thing is immediately revealed as a ruse, and
most of the denouement is spent explaining how the squad pulled it off. While we do get to see
Amy and Charles pulling the fake sniper operation off via flashback, most of the other action
occurs offscreen, adding to the episode’s already flabby pace.
By minute 19, everything is wrapped up and the squad is celebrating at the bar, where Jake
and Amy, in a continuation of television’s most underplayed romance, decide to move in together
in the space of about three sentences. I appreciate that the show doesn’t want to throw unneces-
sary roadblocks in this couple’s path, but it’s still unbelievably timid about foregrounding their
romance in an appropriate place like a finale. Presumably, the season-four finale will wrap up
with 20 seconds of the most low-key proposal in sitcom history.
Then, the big closing reversal: Although the Nine-Nine’s detective work brought in dozens of
members of Figgis’s operation, Figgis himself is still nowhere to be found (which means Pimento
can’t come home). Suddenly, Jake receives a voice-modulated phone call from Figgis himself,
saying he plans to kill Holt and Jake in retribution for bringing down his operation.
Cut to a month later, in Florida. Holt and Jake are now next-door neighbors, and they’re
calling each other Greg and Larry, which means they’re in witness protection. The end.
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confronts Jake, he instructs him to get a job, to which Jake usurps Holt at the arcade chain and
gets hired as the Assistant Manager.
Now that the tables have turned in their working relationship, Holt can’t stand Jake’s new
authority (or his threat of taking over his walking group). As the two bicker out on the go-kart
track with Holt in a hot dog costume, a go-kart rider runs him over while another takes out Jake.
Unfortunately for them, an on-looker happens to capture a video of it on her smart phone, which
could possibly blow their cover. Using their detective skills, they’re able to track her down.
Locating the woman to her job at a local school, Jake poses as a pest control specialist who
ends up taking care of the school’s snake problem. Holt meanwhile is able to sneak in and
identifies the woman as Jordan Carfton from the school’s computer system. Upon confronting
Jordan at her home, she reveals she hasn’t shared the photo online yet (ran out of data from
too much porn browsing). Jake and Holt arrange for a bribery exchange despite not having the
funds.
Jake comes up with the cash... sort of. He tries to disguise 15 grand with some twenties on top
of corn dog coupons. During the exchange, Jordon hands over the phone as she sorts through
the cash. Before Jake could delete the video, Jordan discovers the trickery and kicks her phone
out from Jake. As she takes off, Jake is able to save the day (and earn a little bit of respect from
Holt) by revealing he swapped her phone with his own.
Jake has now relinquished his job as Assistant Manager while Holt assumes the role. Despite
being career driven in any line of work, Holt becomes disillusioned upon learning that it could
take years before being promoted to Night Manager. Jake on the other hand got the job of selling
ATVs while trying to make the best of his situation.
Unhappy, Holt realizes that finding Figgis is their best chance to returning to their old lives.
Upon giving Jake back his files on the case, Holt figures the only way to capture the crime lord is
to make themselves the bait. The video was never deleted from the phone and Holt hopes upon
uploading it to the internet, Figgis will be forced to come looking for them.
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Amy meets with the others in secret in hoping to draft a letter to the head of the police union
asking to have Capt. C.J. replaced. However, Gina is finally in work bliss and wants C.J. to stay
simply to ”keep the gravy train rolling.” As office administrator, Gina convinces all but Amy to get
them what they want in terms of office resources as C.J. would say yes to anything. Rosa gets
a cubicle around her desk while Boyle gets to walk on a treadmill under his work station. And
poor Terry was easily manipulated with his own yogurt fridge.
At the police station, Sheriff Reynolds uses his law enforcement skills to get to the bottom
of these two armed men. ”Everything I learned about interrogation I learned from The Dating
Game,” Sheriff Reynolds says as he tries to see if Jake and Holt’s answers match up during
questioning. Unable to keep their story straight, Jake and Holt are locked up.
Hoping to get out, Jake and Holt reveal their identities as police detectives and their mission to
bring down Figgis while remaining in witness protection. This certainly doesn’t fly with Reynolds
as he bursts out laughing to their ”story.” He further can’t believe their U.S. Marshals contact
is a woman. Wanting to play along, Reynolds calls the U.S. Marshals office and informs the two
the person on the other line is a man. Jake takes hold of the phone and it’s Figgis. He’s captured
Haas and now he’s after them.
Still in jail as sitting ducks, Jake proposes they form their own ”suicide squad” of other
inmates to organize a prison break. Unfortunately none of the others possess any special skills
except for urinating in public and smoking crystal meth. As they’re able to get two officers away
from their desk, Jake and Holt stage a prison fight much to the sheriff’s delight. In a last ditch
attempt, Jake kisses Holt and the homophobic sheriff won’t allow that at his station. Trying to
break them apart, Jake and Holt successfully lock him inside.
Now on the outside, Jake keeps insisting they contact the Nine-Nine for assistance. Holt
remains steadfast in solving the case on his own. Sensing that something’s up, Jake gets Holt
to admit that he doesn’t want the Nine-Nine to bail him out a second time. Feeling embarrassed
over not apprehending crooked F.B.I. agent Bob Annderson last season by himself, Holt wants to
clean up his own mess for once.
While Amy had sent in her letter on her own, Gina and her new assistant Emily sent in a
hundred more asking for C.J. to stay. Gina finally found happiness in her work as Emily is
basically her own ”mini-me.” The two even take great pleasure in mocking Amy. Fed up, Amy
has to remind everyone of the leadership role Holt had and his effect on making the rest of the
precinct better detectives.
Feeling guilty, the Nine-Nine detectives admit they were taking advantage of the clueless C.J.
and return their new toys. But reforming their boss came at the worse time. Once Capt. Holt
agreed to ask for the Nine-Nine’s assistance, Terry gets the call. Alerting the rest of the detectives,
they ask for 72 hours off to go to Florida. Unfortunately C.J. has learned to say ”no” to his
subordinates and does not allow them time off. For Amy, she can’t help but feel bad over the
monster she created.
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Terry’s van. Diaz is squished between Hitchcock and Scully. Amy tries to lighten the mood with
useless trivia and Gina is not having any of it up front with her lack of traveling luxuries.
After going out for some food, a customer recognizes Jake from somewhere so he bolts it out
of there. Upon warning Holt their cover might be blown back at the storage center, the door
begins to open. Fearing it’s Figgis, Jake takes charge with a knife but to his surprise it’s Amy,
who instantly punches him in the throat as a reactionary defense. After greetings are done, Jake
forms a plan to go on the offensive against Figgis. Holt is still in a lot of pain so Gina, the only
civilian of the group volunteers to stay behind. After being denied Terry’s gun for protection, she
pulls out her own gun, which she got from a rest-stop vending machine.
The detectives establish The Fun Zone as their home base of operations. Terry and Boyle
compete for the most loving video goodbyes to their kids if in the event they don’t make it out
alive. But things remain awkward between Jake and Amy. Sexual signals are being crossed and
they can’t even communicate how they really feel about each other. For now, they decide to carry
out their mission. Jake calls Figgis to lure him in. Just as Figgis is in the mood to kill tonight,
Jake makes it clear he’s at the Fun Zone as the gang simulates noises in the background.
Prepping for the possibility of getting killed on duty, Jake and Amy try to kiss but again is
interrupted, this time by Jake who for some odd reason decided to spill that he previously kissed
Holt to get out of jail. As their life or death situation grows imminent, Jake can’t seem to focus on
his real emotions and before he knows it, Figgis is pulling into the parking lot. As Figgis’s men
make their way inside, they’re picked off one-by-one as the detectives strike from behind.
Figgis makes his way outside to the mini-golf course but Jake is quick to draw his gun on him
from behind. Blaming Figgis for ruining his life (at least in terms of making him live in Florida for
six months), Jake is just about to make his long-awaited capture. That is until Sheriff Reynolds
surprises him from behind at gunpoint. After Jake is forced to drop his weapon, Figgis shoots
Reynolds and takes Jake hostage.
The rest of the Nine-Nine are holed up inside as a local officer has them held. After some quick
maneuvering thanks to Diaz, Amy makes her way outside to confront Figgis. Jake gives her a
look and she interprets it as shooting Jake in the leg. After she makes the shot, Jake screams in
pain but admits it was his intention. Basing the idea from a scene in the movie Speed (but not
as good as Die Hard), Jake instructs Amy to follow Figgis to which she corners him in his car.
Just as Figgis is about to drive away, Holt and Gina come to the rescue after they lifted a de-
livery truck from the storage center. Upon crashing into Figgis’s car, the Nine-Nine finally make
their capture. Jake gets stitched up in the back of an ambulance where Amy finally has the
chance to have their long-overdue talk. After another successful bust with adrenaline-fueled ac-
tion, the two finally feel in sync together like their Brooklyn days. They finally kiss and exchange
”I Love You’s.”
With Figgis in jail, all seems right in the world. The gang is back in Brooklyn and Jake can
finally get rid of those frosted tips. However, the detectives’ excursion down south comes with
consequences. As they report back and ask for forgiveness, Captain C.J. can’t help but discipline
them for the insubordination. He has re-assigned them all to... the night shift! As Terry screams
out in terror, we can’t help but wonder if this will carry out to the remainder of the season.
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Amy isn’t making the transition well, either. Even her favorite task of paperwork seems more
tiresome when done at night. As she tries to adjust with Rosa by her side, Amy becomes annoyed
with Rosa leaving to a secret location. Gone multiple times during the night, Amy won’t let up
in getting her to crack. During a walk in the park on her break with Scully and Hitchcock, Amy
spots Rosa sitting on a bench and snaps a photo of her without being seen.
After their shift is over Amy confronts Rosa but surprised as Rosa displays a rare form of
emotion as she gets teary-eyed. The reason she left so many times was that the bench is the
designated meeting place for her and fiancé Officer Adrian Pimento, who went into hiding to
avoid Figgis. Now with Figgis behind bars, Rosa is getting worried Adrian is in danger after losing
contact with him so long ago.
Amy apologizes and tries to reassure Rosa that Adrian is still very much safe and will even-
tually return. After Amy volunteers to take on Rosa’s paperwork, Rosa can’t help but reminisce
over her and Adrien’s weird sexual fetishes, much to Amy’s disgust.
Jake and Boyle catch a break as they identify the suspect as Dave Smith. Yet their productivity
remains at a standstill as multiple precincts they visit to file the evidence takes up too much of
their time. Before they know it the sun comes up and thus the end of their shift. Boyle returns
home to his son Nikolaj but Jake stops by after learning one of Smith’s last known addresses is
only two blocks away.
Determined to capture his suspect as soon as possible, Jake is forced to go it alone as Boyle
wants to spend time with Nikolaj. Upon reaching the front door, Smith spots Jake, makes a run
for it and hops on his motorcycle. Poor Jake and his limited mobility is forced to commandeer
the first car on the street. And who happens to be driving that car? Why, it’s Jess Day from New
Girl on Fox. ”It’s a crossover... it’s a Crossover SUV and you can’t have it,” Jess exclaims to him
in a meta-turn for the series.
Finally complying, Jess moves to the passenger seat as Jake speeds through traffic to catch
his perp. In typical tourist fashion, Jess is overwhelmed by the mean streets of New York City.
However, her top priority remains the protection of her soup. After swerving away from a garbage
truck, Jake crashes into a newspaper stand and the suspect gets away. ”Well, I spilled my soup.
You tell me which is worse,” an annoyed Jess says much to Jake’s bewilderment.
Feeling defeated, Jake gets a talk from Detective Lohank who has reinvigorated his own out-
look now that he’s on the day shift (Lohank’s previous night shift assignment made his life pa-
thetic). Lohank determines that Jake would feel more fulfilled if he got more involved in Boyle’s
life, especially now that he has a son. So Jake makes the first step by gifting Nikolaj with a toy
truck, which obviously fills Boyle with all the feels.
Amy and the rest of the crew resolve that the best way to boost morale is the determination
for them all to get transferred back to the day shift. After handing Holt a beverage to toast, Holt’s
mood is already improving as he requests someone to crank up the Sousa in order for him to
”get wild.”
The episode will conclude in New Girls S06E04 titled “Homecoming”.
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Halloween IV
Season 4
Episode Number: 73
Season Episode: 5
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As a new round begins, fingers start pointing as dozens of pizza delivery people show up with
an order for Holt. During the melee, everyone gets lost in the shuffle around the plaque locked
back in the caboodle. Once Jake successfully gets the delivery people to leave, the plaque has
been taken. The mood in the precinct turns toxic as everyone is distrusting each other. Even
Terry is accused of taking it while Hitchcock and Scully have suspected him since the beginning.
As Amy and Rosa regroup in the bathroom, we learn it was Rosa who stole the plaque under
the guise of a pizza delivery person during the kerfuffle. For the time being Amy stashes the
plaque into an air vent next to her pack of cigarettes (a rare indulgent for her). Knowing of Amy’s
secret habit, Holt deduces that her team obtained the plaque and it’s now in her hiding place. Holt
then unleashes Cheddar, his plaque-retrieving Corgi small enough to navigate through vents.
Saddened over his replacement by Cheddar, Boyle lets it slip to Jake where Holt is hiding the
plaque.
Now with Jake in possession, a guilt-ridden Boyle tells Holt he informed Jake. However, Holt
fed Boyle false information which leaves Jake confused as he already swiped it. This leads to
everyone realizing they all have a cloned plaque. Soon, the ceiling lights go off with a black light
flooding the precinct. A discreet word is written on all three plaques which put together read,
”Heists are dumb.”
The three realize Terry would be the only one to sabotage their beloved competition. When
they go to confront him in the interrogation room, Terry maintains his innocence. Soon the lights
go out and Gina returns to reveal she has the original plaque. She masterminded the entire
ordeal including the skating accident (she’s always had missing teeth from a childhood accident
but covered it with a false pair).
As everyone lay dumbfounded to their oversight against Gina during the entire heist, Gina’s
ultimate goal was purely to stroke her own ego. As one of the few non-detectives in the precinct,
she wanted to prove her worth by besting them all. I suppose wearing a ”Gina Knows Best” sweat-
shirt should have given it away. So, she had the plaque changed to the ”Gina Linetti Ultimate
Human/Genius Award.” All is forgiven in the end as everyone concludes the day with a round of
drinks at the bar. Gina even complies with a ”take out your teeth” chant much to everyone’s glee.
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Gina to join them as she’s up to the task. However, upon arriving at the pawn shop, they’re
shocked to see the place boarded up from fire damage. With the failure to retrieve the earrings,
Pimento calls off the wedding.
Finding this as a sign from the universe that he shouldn’t marry Rosa, Pimento is joined
by Gina in declaring this a curse. Jake on the other hand is determined to see the nuptials go
through and vows to use his detective skills to unearth the earrings. Sure enough, he finds the
name of the pawn store owner on his phone. When they meet with the owner Mara Ciprioni, she
insists the earring didn’t survive the fire.
Convinced she still has the earring (based on seeing her wearing a necklace he also sold
her), Pimento climbs her roof for some sneaking in. Once inside, Pimento, Jake and Gina find
a roomful of merchandise, including the earrings. Yet Gina can’t keep the noise down as she’s
fascinated with a rain stick. Soon enough Mara walks in on them and calls for her husband
Dino to attack. Pimento jacked up on adrenaline promises to burn the house down as Dino is
equipped with a Katana sword.
The three rush out the window and make it to their car. With the earrings in hand, Pimento is
convinced now that the universe is granting him and Rosa their wedding. With just enough time
to drive back, Jake considers it a miracle but unfortunately his car breaks down.
As Pimento and Gina continually finding signs from the universe for the big day on the side of
the road, Jake remains determined to get Pimento back to Brooklyn. Of course, there’s a literal
sign behind them indicating a nearby airport. With Pimento’s experience in piloting prop planes,
the day is saved again!
The wedding deadline approaching, Amy’s last-ditch effort of sobering up her so-called work-
ers is with a blast to the face of a fire extinguisher. Jake, Gina and Pimento arrive just in time
(how did they land the plane?). Amy complains about Rosa getting drunk. Jake relays that Pi-
mento kept calling off the wedding. The two finally realize the would-be bride and groom have
been sabotaging themselves because they don’t actually want to get married.
Jake and Amy still proceed with prepping the ceremony unsure if they should stop it before
Rosa and Pimento make it official. Jake approaches Pimento while Amy sees Rosa. The two lovers
realize they were rushing things and call off the wedding. They rather take things slow by going
on an actual date for once. The following day, Rosa approaches Holt with her appreciation of his
efforts. Upon sensing he’s hiding something, she soon finds his balloon arch over his desk. She’s
in total awe of the creation, to which Holt screams out ”vindication!” for his passion.
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Mr. Santiago
Season 4
Episode Number: 75
Season Episode: 7
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Pimento isn’t actually the most astute gambler, as his bookie is a college freshman working
out of his dorm room. The money had already been placed online and currently sitting in the
Caribbean and Holt refuses to travel abroad to get it back. Hope is not loss though, as the terrier
has advanced to the top three and could possibly win Pimento and Holt their money back. The
two make it to a sports bar to tune into the end and as the entire bar becomes entranced in the
event, the terrier wins Best in Show, thus saving Pimento from financial ruin.
The day is going off without a hitch even though Jake has to make repeated excuses to leave
the party so that he can sneak a peek at his binder for reference. Unfortunately, Jake finds the
binder missing from its place and looks up to see Victor browsing through it. While first playing
dumb, it turns out Victor is impressed with the amount of work Jake would do in preparation.
In particular, Victor makes a note about one of his previous unsolved cases regarding a bank
heist before its grand opening. Jake had written a note claiming the contractor Russo & Sons
must have pulled it off. While the contractor had an alibi during the initial investigation, Jake
deduces that one of the sons did it. Still reeling from the unsolved case, Victor and Jake team up
to finally nab the robbers.
The two make their way to the Russo family as they themselves are about to sit down for
Thanksgiving. While Jake is ready to put them in a trap, the sons points to the evidence in their
favor putting them at a baseball tournament out of state at the time of the robbery, complete
with trophies, pictures, and a newspaper article. They had all that evidence handy because they
were previously questioned by Victor, to which surprises Jake.
The suggestion to go investigate was a set-up by Victor to prove that Jake was sloppy in his
detective work. All along Victor had his own binder of research on Jake and knew about Jake’s
history of sloppy detective work and weak personal and financial responsibilities. In a tense car
ride back, Jake phones Amy to let her know the situation. Amy on the other hand unleashes
her disappointment in both Jake and her dad, feeling like she has no say in the matter of their
relationship.
As Amy is making her case that she shouldn’t be a sheltered and protected daughter, both
Victor and Jake have an epiphany and realize it was the contractor’s daughter who pulled the
heist. When they pay her a visit, she instantly confesses and thus closes the 20-year unsolved
case.
As the big day arrives, the crew gets disgusted when they learn Boyle will be butchering a
live turkey. Boyle preps the bird slaughter but before he can do it, the precinct is divided. Gina
objects as she doesn’t want to eat a cooked animal after already seeing it alive. She even names
the turkey Nikolaj after Boyle’s son in hopes of dissuading him. Rosa on the other hand doesn’t
think it’s a fair fight between Boyle and the turkey. So the two make a break for it with the turkey
and lock themselves inside Amy’s bedroom.
Once Amy is able to unhinge the door and gets in, Gina lets the bird out of its cage, to which it
proceeds to chase the group around the apartment. Now everyone trapped in the bathroom, Boyle
steps up to take the turkey on. Putting on every piece of fabric he could find in the bathroom, he
puts a wastebasket on his head and arms himself with an electric toothbrush and straightening
iron.
After an intense battle (resulting in Boyle getting his back scratched up), he was able to calm
the bird by feeding it Gouda cheese. Just as the day had been saved, Jake and Victor return
with the good news of solving the case. Impressed on how her dad and boyfriend were able to get
along, Jake isn’t 100% approved but Victor insists it’s not up to him as a father. As long as Amy
is happy, he is happy.
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Skyfire Cycle
Season 4
Episode Number: 76
Season Episode: 8
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Using her powers of manipulation, Gina has taken Charles’s Cousin Sam for a meal and
convinced him to go to Aruba. With one cousin down, Gina still has 32 more Boyles to go to
switch their votes. The rest of the cousins congregate at a local bar where Charles and Gina spar
off with their cases.
Turns out the Boyle family is quite swayed by both arguments. However, they promise to sleep
on it and make their decision the following morning. Sam later calls in to let them know they’ve
picked Aruba. Gloating in her success, Gina compares herself to the ”Temple Grandin of hurting
Boyles.” Charles however believes he ultimately won, suggesting that Gina is now truly a member
of the Boyle family and destined to join the rest of them in a mass grave upon her eventual death.
Capt. Holt and his husband Kevin come to Amy and Rosa to help settle a petty argument
they’re engaged in. With limited time together thanks to Holt’s night shift, the two were hoping
for some intimacy but Kevin brings up a math query: a Monty Hall-type game show with three
doors. Behind one door is a new car. One door is empty leaving two doors to choose, which one
has the car behind it? The two bicker over the correct probability but Amy sides with Kevin.
The married couple remain in a bitter standstill over the problem. Amy believes she has to
convince Holt that Kevin’s right in order to save their marriage. Rosa on the other hand just
believes they need to ”bone” to eliminate their frustration. ”What? Gross! Rosa, those are our
dads!” Amy says in disgust. ”I mean, that’s not what I think. Captain Dad is just my boss.”
Despite Amy’s father appearing in last week’s episode, I suppose she still needs a father figure in
her daily life.
Amy tries out the math problem with a mock three-door setup and presents it to Holt. As
he initially dismisses her attempts to intervene, Holt is enraged when Rosa bluntly tells him
he needs to ”bone” with Kevin. What followed was a 40-minute lecture over his private life and
discussing such matters with a superior officer. Rosa however it worked as Holt is now aware of
the problem. At their next shift, Holt returns with a smile on his face and informs Amy the fight
is over. By mincing words, Amy and Rosa realize they Holt and Kevin did in fact ”bone.” This
leaves an ugly image for Amy of her ”work dad.”
Believing they have their suspect, Jake makes the discovery that Parlov’s handwriting from
the note to young Terry matches the threatening letter. Terry is in complete denial while Jake
surmises that Parlov needed the publicity to get back on the best-sellers list. The two visit Parlov’s
hotel room, which surprisingly he also has three young gorgeous women in Skyfire cosplay on his
bed. Parlov denies he was behind it but reveals the inscription Terry received was from Parlov’s
assistant.
Parlov is being targeted on account of his former assistant Edmund Grail’s hatred of him.
This of course is a result of Parlov firing him after sleeping with his wife (I guess their work
relationship would be too awkward). Though his favorite author was not behind it for publicity,
Terry is still heartbroken now that he knows his hero didn’t actually write to him. Jake tries to
cheer him up by suggesting a message Terry got as a kid didn’t make him who he is today.
Jake tracks down Grail at his apartment. When he informs Grail he’s there on account of
Parlov, Grail tries to make a break for it. As he slips by Jake outside his front door, Terry comes
around and clotheslines Grail, placing him under arrest. In a sense of professional and personal
renewal, Terry wants to ”write his own stories,” thus creating the ”Terry Chronicles.”
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The Overmining
Season 4
Episode Number: 77
Season Episode: 9
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Holt and Jake meet up with a Flaco associate named Severino at his restaurant and pose as
potential buyers while C.J. remains in a van. Connected with an earpiece, C.J. begins to drone
on and on endlessly with gibberish while Jake and Holt try to play it cool. The blabbering takes
its toll and the two break their cover by yelling at C.J. and ultimately have to arrest Severino.
With no evidence of drugs found at the restaurant and Severino remaining quiet, Jake and
Holt have little time before they have to release him. After suggesting leaving C.J. out of their
investigation, Jake admits that he actually wants to solve it but still give credit to C.J. Holt
believes he’s still undermining the captain but Jake counters with ”overming.” The two agree to
at least have C.J. nearby during the ultimate arrest just so he could claim credit.
Jake and Holt lead a SWAT team to bust into Flaco’s warehouse. There they spot plenty of
cocaine being packaged while Flaco makes a run for it. As Jake chases him through the streets,
Flaco is knocked out cold as C.J. inadvertently opens his car’s door into the fleeing suspect. This
of course gives C.J. more credit for capturing Flaco but it was only due from freaking out over a
spider in the car.
Terry is leading an eco-friendly initiative around the office by reducing unnecessary energy
usage. That means no more laminating machine for Amy, despite how much laminating she
loves. It also means no more space heater for Gina under her desk. Gina relents, as she could
never give up her precious ”Giacinta.” Gina vows to fight for her right to keep it and isn’t afraid
to go toe-to-toe with Terry. ”Not to brag, but I was name-checked in my kindergarten teacher’s
suicide note.”
The green initiative isn’t going so well as Amy is caught laminating again. When Terry spots
her, he admits he recently failed the lieutenant’s exam. Not succeeding in the eco-friendly project
only worsens his depression. Amy is encouraging so she agrees to help him get Gina to give up
her heater. Easier said than done, though, as Gina hides her heater underneath a gigantic skirt
which of course catches fire.
Gina doubles down with three space heaters at her desk and a portable air conditioner. Amy
begs Gina to give up but Gina reveals she knows about Terry’s failing grade. She has no intention
of exasperating Terry’s depression but assures her that she’s got a plan. Later Terry informs Gina
that now everyone gets a space heater, including a shirtless Hitchcock. A disgusted Gina admits
defeat but Amy knows she did so just for Terry to have his moment of glory.
As Rosa is trying to enjoy a snack break, Boyle waltzes in wih a snappy mood. He suggests
that to help ease through their night shift is to stop by a 24-hour foot massage parlor. Rosa isn’t
exactly thrilled with the idea as Boyle propped his bare foot on the table hoping that would entice
her.
Boyle takes Rosa out on a run to track down a suspect but he admits it’s a ruse to get her
to come to the massage parlor. ”Let me make it better by paying a strong-handed woman milk
the stress away from your feet.” Rosa ultimately laments and all doubt is instantly tossed aside
as the two are enjoying the relaxing massage. However their pedial bliss is cut short after Rosa
walks into a possible money laundering scheme going on at the parlor.
She discovers the parlor reported over $7 million in profit the previous year (that would involve
A LOT of foot massages). An arrest has to be made but the two try to justify keeping the parlor
open. But alas they know they have to do their job and end up shutting down the parlor, much
to their chagrin. Overmining the Captain
C.J.’s transfer is approved but he turns it down. The thrill of capturing a drug supplier proved
that he’s got what it takes for the job, despite the car door doing most of the work. It’s a further
dagger in their hearts as Jake and Holt have to watch C.J. get commemorated for this arrest at
a press ceremony. However he begins to blow it as he dodges reporters’ questions on his plans
for battling other drug rings in the city. C.J. even admits the investigation started after losing
crucial evidence.
The event becomes a train wreck for C.J. but Holt admits to Jake that it was he who recom-
mended the recognition and invited the press. Knowing C.J. would screw up when put on the
spot, the transfer is ensured. Holt has now taken C.J.’s place and his first act is taking his entire
crew back on the day shift, much to everyone’s excitement.
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Captain Latvia
Season 4
Episode Number: 78
Season Episode: 10
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skills. For a brief moment Gina rallies the troops and motivates them. However, when she learns
the event is that night, she bails. She’s got Hamilton tickets! You can’t pass that up.
Just as the rest is about to quit, they hear the angelic voice of a stranger upstairs. Turns out
that angel is just a criminal sitting in the drunk tank. He’s got the singing chops, but the inability
to keep his vomit down. Holt tries to justify using Patrick the drunk to win the competition (it can
go towards his community service!). Once he’s sobered up, the team makes their way backstage
of the competition. As they come out, Patrick gets stage fright and bolts backstage.
Jake and Boyle infiltrate a club that’s fronted by the Latvian mob. Donning questionable
apparel, Boyle is able to get in after telling an anti-Estonian joke to the bouncers. Inside Boyle
puts on the charm and dances with a woman who happens to have a key to the back room. After
successfully swiping it, Jake and Boyle make it back there but can’t find any clue to where the
package is.
Just as Boyle finds a tablet, a security guard walks in on them. After throwing Jake up
against a locker, the security guard takes a beating from Boyle. In a delightful surprise, Boyle is
really stepping it up this episode. Determined to get his son the doll, he successfully infiltrates
the Latvian mob and takes down a bouncer. Jacked up on adrenaline, he even drove through a
yellow light! ”I proceeded with caution,” Boyle remarks as he learns of another mob location in
Crown Heights after cracking the tablet.
They wait outside the new warehouse after calling for back-up. Yet for Charles he can’t stand
idly by and rushes in to be the hero. Unfortunately that means first wiggling out of his pants
when parking the car too close to a van as he struggled to get out. Once inside, Boyle spots a
group of men packing up illegal guns and burning unwanted packages. However Jake can’t let
his best buddy go it alone so he knocks him out and waits for the SWAT team to arrive.
”The best gift you can give Nikolaj is not Captain Latvia. It’s you, being there with him alive,”
Jake tells Boyle in a caring moment for the two. The arrest is successful with a dozen baddies
behind bars and confiscated automatic weapons. Unfortunately, Jake delivers Boyle’s Captain
Latvia... burnt to a crisp. Boyle on the one hand is grateful and realizes Christmas isn’t about
presents. ”Forget that crap, presents rule,” Jake counters as he gives Boyle a pre-wrapped gift to
give to Nikolaj. It’s a policeman doll, which delights Nikolaj as it represents his hero father.
Patrick’s secret to his excellent singing was of course booze. In an intoxicated state he has the
courage to sing in public. As the MTA is killing it on the stage, Holt scrambles for a new singer.
Even after Terry suggests they drop out, Amy saves the day by bringing back Patrick. Well, a
completely inebriated Patrick.
When they return to the stage, things go off without a hitch. Patrick gracefully launches into
Joy to the World. Their chance of winning is quickly dashed as the drunk Patrick makes a crude
remark, declares his love for his hometown of Hoboken, and then falls off the stage. After the
MTA has taken the trophy, the Nine-Nine remain bitter afterwards at the bar.
With each one suggesting to exact revenge against the MTA back through pranks and vandal-
ism, Scully has become the voice of reason. In the true spirit of Christmas, he would rather go
caroling than plotting revenge. Over at Boyle’s apartment, he and Jake hear Scully singing out-
side. Soon enough he’s joined by the rest of the carolers. Despite good intentions, the Nine-Nine
truly are horrible singers.
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Homeland Security. Soon enough, it’s Jake and Terry with 4 and Amy and Boyle with three. Soon
enough the game is tied.
Holt informs Rosa that one of the witnesses was Marshawn Lynch. Rosa is instantly excited
while Holt has no idea who he is. ”We’re not getting anything out of him. He’s always getting
fined for refusing to talk to the press. He’s kind of one of my heroes,” a slightly aroused Rosa
remarks. Unfortunately, she was right as Lynch only rambles on about his love for Mexican food
and his theories on Santa Claus. A now annoyed Rosa is left with him to record the rest of his
nonsensical statement.
Another witness was an older woman from a foreign country but she’s of no use without
speaking any English. Luckily they catch a break as they determined that a drawing she had
made was of a manhole cover, meaning the last of the convicts went underground. As both sets
make their way through the sewer, they both encounter the convict at the same time. Amy and
Jake rush through the Miranda rights to determine a winner but Jake gives up.
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Still suspecting Doug of helping his brother, Holt ultimately goes undercover as a foreign
millionaire looking to buy back his car as Doug takes them to an illegal chop shop. Holt finally
spots George working on a car outside and when they confront him, he sets a fiery trap. Holt’s
suspicions are proved correct when George hops into a convertible driven by Doug and they make
their escape.
Disappointed over the manipulation, Jake now has to arrest Doug as well. They’re able to
track them down to a residence as Jake had Doug’s phone location inputted into a ”Find My
Friend” app. Doug and George corner them in the house with guns drawn. Fearing they could
die any moment, Doug saves the day as he had given George his unloaded gun and then knocks
him out.
Soon after Doug is granted full immunity and Holt offers an apology for doubting the reformed
criminal. As a thank you, Doug gifts Holt the same make and model as Gertie. He assures Holt
it wasn’t stolen and bought it for cheap at a used car lot. The one caveat is that the car would
be christened ”Sex-o-rella,” which surprisingly impresses Holt. However, Doug admits to Jake he
has to fall back on what he does best: stealing cars. Despite their bromance, Jake vows to take
Doug down if he catches him in the act.
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The Audit
Season 4
Episode Number: 81
Season Episode: 13
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Meanwhile, Teddy is recording all his thoughts on his phone as he examines the conference
room. Terry asks him how the other precincts did, but Teddy isn’t giving up the information.
Instead, he says they are just trying to clear up waste... like the $2,100 copy machine the precinct
just bought that is now broken.
Holt and Terry join Amy and Jake in the cramped closet because they are all freaking out.
Holt is so freaked out that he’s using pointless acronyms like ”BRB.” Then, Boyle and Diaz join
because Teddy just found out about the rats. Boyle doesn’t want to be split from Jake because
he’s afraid Jake will forget about him. He’s like a goldfish!
Boyle blames Amy for all this because she slept with Teddy, and Holt agrees. ”Your libido has
endangered us all,” Holt tells her. Then, Gina joins them all in the closet and they decide they
need to use the evidence room.
There, Holt tells Amy that she has to patch things up with Teddy. She decides that they just
have to pretend that he’s not boring. Holt agrees that this is a good idea and tells them to make
Teddy feel like the most interesting man in the world.
After Amy and Jake head off, Holt orders everyone else to make sure that the copy machine is
fixed before Teddy finds out it doesn’t work. Terry is assigned to work on that, since the manual
is in Japanese and he spent a year abroad there. They also have to fix the rat problem. Boyle
thinks his case of wolf urine to scare off rats. Gina wants to help out, and Terry lets her help
with the copier.
At the stake-out, Teddy arrives, so Amy and Jake explain that they think two gangs are
meeting to merge. Since they’re going to be awhile, Jake tries to become friends with Teddy by
talking drinks. He pretends that he likes pilsners. Teddy then presses Jake with some really
specific pilsner questions, and catches him in a lie. He knows they still think he’s boring.
After the break, Holt finds Terry trying to put the copier back together, with pieces all over the
table. Terry thinks he might have found out how to turn it on and could have this done quicker...
if only Gina wasn’t making things difficult. Maybe Boyle and Diaz have made more progress with
the rats?
Nope. They have made no progress with the rats. Scully keeps eating the peanut-butter from
the rat traps. Still, the plan is to use the wolf urine to guide the rats into the traps. ”And that’s
where I come in,” Boyle says, wearing a full bodysuit from a sexy cat costume for better mobility.
(”There is nothing gendered about a sexy cat.”)
At the stake-out, Jake and Amy try to convince Teddy that they’re too boring for pilsners.
Teddy surprises them by agreeing that pilsners are boring and doesn’t drink them any more! In
fact, after he broke up with Amy, he also realized that he’s too boring. In fact, he has a girlfriend
and they spent two weeks in San Diego last year. He said that at the precinct, he was joking.
”Humor is the tool of the interesting.”
But slowly, Teddy reveals that his life still can be considered boring. Who goes to ”jazz
brunches”? The three of them laugh, but it’s clear that Amy and Jake aren’t really excited about
going to a jazz brunch. Teddy will even email the invite to the two of them.
The situations at the precinct are not going well. Terry doesn’t really know Japanese and the
rats are now being redirected to the evidence room. (Gina needs the break room for meditation
and plotting her revenge on NYC buses.) Also, Boyle is stuck.
Teddy can’t stop talking about jazz brunch. He takes a bathroom break, so Amy and Jake talk
about how boring Teddy still is. Jake can’t even believe Amy would ever date this guy, unless
he has a big wiener. Jake starts spiraling, but during his crisis, one of the gangsters leaves the
building across the street. Amy runs to take a picture and Jake declares this a successful stake-
out. Teddy comes back. He forgot his phone... which recorded Jake and Amy’s entire conversation
about how boring he is!
When Jake and Amy arrive at the boring jazz brunch, they find Teddy and his girlfriend Rachel
(Jama Williamson) already there. They decided to go to get Teddy’s phone so they could delete
the recording and save the Nine-Nine. The plan is to stage a fight, during which Jake will flip
over the table and grab Teddy’s phone.
Amy is a little too good at convincing Teddy and Rachel that she has reasons to fight with
Jake. The two argue over why they were late to the brunch. They then ask their friends how they
met and it’s as boring as you can guess. They met on an elevator. That’s the whole story. Amy
then says that their relationship is now going stale.
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”OK, you want some action, Jackson? Well how about I make a scene?” Jake says. He tries
to flip the table, but it’s bolted down. ”Oh what a shock! You tried something and it failed,” Amy
says. So, Jake decides to swipe everything off the table instead. This was enough to get the phone
on the floor and Teddy offers to help. But Amy insists that he keep his eyes on her while she
makes a sincere apology.
When Jake returns from the floor, he claims that Teddy’s phone fell precisely inside a glass of
orange juice. Amy then gets up and storms away. The two storm off at the same time instead!
Back at the precinct, Terry thinks he’s fixed the copier machine. Holt tells Terry that he’s
never been more prouder of anything Terry has ever done in his life. Diaz then arrives with more
good news: they caught all the rats.
When Holt, Diaz and Terry arrive at the evidence locker, they find blood and rat footprints all
over the floor. They chewed themselves free and ate the purest cocaine in the history of the city
that was left in an evidence box! ”They know no fear or pain!” Terry says. They then spot one of
the rats going up, inside a wall. ”Boyle!”
The rats start attacking Boyle, who is still stuck in the ceiling. He crashes through the ceiling,
right onto the copier in the break room! ”They survived the fall!” Boyle screams as we hear rats
squeaking. ”RUN!”
Outside, Jake and Amy praise each other for their performances at the brunch. But then
Jake realizes that there might have been some truth about what Amy said. She really doesn’t
care about his sneakers.
Teddy suddenly climbs out of a taxi, so Amy and Jake resume their ”fake” fight. Teddy inter-
rupts their fight to tell them that he’s still in love with Amy. Rachel is right behind him and is
shocked to hear this. ”This is super uncomfortable,” Jake says.
Jake tries to diffuse the situation, but Teddy tells Amy that he’s still not over her (even with
his new girlfriend standing right next to him). He assumed that after the fake fight, Jake and
Amy weren’t as perfect together as he thought and there might be an opportunity for him to win
Amy back. Teddy insists that they are perfect, so he drops to one knee and proposes marriage!
Amy tells him point-blank, ”I don’t want to be with you.” Teddy is stumped, because he sees
how different the two of them are. But Amy says that’s what she loves about Jake. Amy then tries
to tell Teddy the truth about the fight, but Jake stops her. ”Amy is dying. She has one month
to live. Marrying her would be a waste of time,” Jake says. Amy still tells Teddy the truth about
that recording. Teddy then tells Amy that he still loves her, and asks Rachel if she wants to go to
a museum with him. ”No!” the other three yell.
Holt called NYPD facilities to ask if they could get an emergency crew to fix the mess, but he
was just laughed at. Diaz blames Boyle for not letting the rats eat him. But Terry blames Diaz for
giving the rats access to cocaine. And then Diaz reminds them all that it’s Gina’s fault because
no one can say no to her.
This gives Holt an idea. He takes Gina to NYPD facilities and the guy who runs the department
can’t say no to someone who got hit by a bus.
Six hours later, Jake and Amy finally arrive at the precinct and it looks amazing. They catch
everyone else up on the events of the past day with Teddy. Teddy later arrives at the precinct,
disheveled. Although he has come to terms with being incredibly boring, he still won’t give them
a fair evaluation. Instead, he decided to recuse himself. When Amy tells him that he appreciates
his decision, he tries to propose again!
Teddy tells them that the new auditor will be Lt. Hopkins. ”Veronica Hopkins?” a concerned
Terry asks. Hopkins (Kimberly Herbert Gregory of Vice Principals) is Terry’s ex-girlfriend. ”Why
can’t any of you keep it in your pants?” Boyle asks.
Hopkins arrives and hugs Terry. ”I am shutting down the Nine-Nine and there is nothing you
can do about it,” she whispers in his ear.
”This place is fantastic,” Hopkins tells everyone. ”This is going to be fun!”
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on her and didn’t date one of her friends. So, Amy thinks she can engage in some ”girl talk” with
Hopkins to figure this out.
Amy goes up to Hopkins, telling her, ”It’s time for some girl talk.” She’s immediately met by
someone who does not want to small talk. ”Let me see that bra!” ”Excuse me?”
”It didn’t work,” Amy says as she walks back into the break room. ”What else we got?”
At the set of Serve & Protect, Jake and Diaz meet Sinclair, who is instantly impressed with
the way Jake wears his badge around his neck. He then gives her some acting tips that are
useless. The conversation turns to the case at hand then. Executive Producer Gary Lurmax
(Greg Germann) then shows up, and is surprised to see that Sinclair brought detectives in. This
immediately raises Diaz’s suspicions, but Jake is impressed.
Back at the precinct, Boyle requests a conversation with Holt in the bathroom, even though
he’s steadfastly against bathroom chats. Boyle doesn’t want Hopkins to hear what he has to say.
He thinks he knows what she’s going through since he’s been broken up with six — no, wait,
210 — times. ”My point is, I’m worried that Veronica will never forgive Terry.” He wants to know
who is above Hopkins on the command chain that Holt can appeal to. Sadly, that person is on
vacation in the Poconos. Boyle suggests they go out there, pretend to run into him and have a
little conversation about the Nine-Nine.
At first, Holt doesn’t think this is a good idea since it’s not protocol, but he thinks it might
work. ”You know Boyle, you’re a bad influence on me.”
”I’ve never been a bad influence on anyone!” Boyle say. ”Should I bring my leather jacket? It’s
ankle-length and fitted. I won’t bring it. It’s too nice.”
At the movie set, Diaz and Jake learn that the thief had to have broken Sinclair’s briefcase in
order to steal it from her trailer. Then, co-star Mark Devereaux (Nathan Fillion) walks in and the
two real detectives freak out about meeting the man who plays a fake one. Devereaux apparently
thinks he can act like a TV cop while investigating a case in real life (on a fictional TV sitcom...
WOAH!). Sinclair said her co-star thinks he’s really a detective because he’s been playing one for
15 years.
Sinclair has to get to work, but Devereaux stays behind and picks up the laptop case with his
bare hands, getting his fingerprints all over it! ”Never wear gloves on the show. Fans loves to see
my fingers... almost as much as they love to see my feet. Google it.”
Later, Jake freaks out about Devereaux giving him his business card and telling him to call
the actor if there’s anything else. The executive producer then comes up and tells the two real
detectives that they have great chemistry. He asks them if they’d be interested in becoming
consulting producers and Jake agrees to it. But something smells really fishy to Diaz, who thinks
Lurmax is trying to buy them off. Jake insists that it would take more than a job offer to make
him compromise the integrity of the badge, just as Lurmax offers some chicken fingers. Diaz rolls
her eyes.
After the break, Diaz and Jake meet up. Diaz is sure that Lurmax is up to something, but
Jake say that this is just how showbiz works. Jake still isn’t buying this. After all, Lurmax is
rich. Why would he need to steal a laptop. It’s for leverage, Diaz explains. He’s been fighting with
Sinclair over her contract. Diaz says that all of this has been a ploy to keep them off the trail,
but Jake thinks it’s real because he knows Hollywood. He knows Hollywood so well that he can’t
tell a real door from a fake.
Back at the precinct, Amy and Gina ask Terry to walk through his relationship with Hopkins.
He still thinks he didn’t do anything wrong because he respects women. (”I want to pay for a
sandwich with a $10 Ellen DeGeneres.”) He says he took her out for the perfect break-up dinner
and said all the right words. It was such a good break-up that the other guests at the restaurant
applauded! Gina doesn’t believe him, so she and Amy still want to keep grilling him.
In the Poconos, Holt and Boyle run over their plan to ambush Deputy Commissioner Grayson
to get him to make sure Hopkins doesn’t recommend the Nine-Nine be shut down. To make sure
they were on the right floor of the hotel, Boyle called the desk and pretended to be Grayson’s
mother. Grayson then walks up to the elevator and does not want to talk about this while on
vacation. He tells them to bring up their problems with their auditor. A young woman then walks
up and calls Grayson ”lover.” Grayson pretends that the woman is his goddaughter.
In their hotel room, Boyle thinks he can use this to his advantage. Like Bugs Bunny, he wants
to blackmail Grayson. Holt thinks this is a really bad idea. ”I am no Bugs.” Rather than break
the law though, Boyle suggests they insinuate that they can blackmail him by letting Grayson
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know that they figured out what’s going on. They can ask him how his wife is, and then Grayson
can think that they’re going to blackmail him. Boyle and Holt go back and forth about how he
will ask Grayson how his wife is.
At the set, Sarah (Sujata Day), a production assistant, tells Jake and Diaz that she doesn’t
think anyone would steal Cassidy’s laptop. Devereaux stops by and does his detective schtick,
pretending to grill Sarah before Diaz stops him. ”Sometimes, I wonder why I do this job,” the
actor says. ”You don’t,” Diaz reminds him. She asks Sarah were Lurmax was last night and
Sarah remembers that he asked her to tell him when Sinclair left her trailer. ”Hm. Interesting,”
Diaz says. Jake then asks if the donuts are free.
In Lurmax’s office, he comes up with an excuse for going through Sinclair’s trailer. Diaz tries
her best to interview the producer, but he keeps avoiding questions by tossing bait at Jake.
When Lurmax leaves to get the writers, Diaz tells Jake to focus. Diaz tells Jake that he’s being
manipulated by the prime suspect. Jake just thinks she’s seeing the worst in everyone. But Diaz
tells him that he’s being a bad cop.
After another break, Jake shows the writers and Sinclair how he’d take down a cannibal. He
did find out that all of the writers have an alibi, so none of them are thieves. While he was off in
Fantasyland, Diaz says she solved the case. She found security footage that shows Lurmax going
into Sinclair’s trailer to get the laptop.
Gina offers Terry a yogurt, but then throws it at the wall. She and Amy still want the truth
about Hopkins and Terry’s break-up. Terry says he did everything right, even waiting 18 months
after her mom died to break up with her. ”Seriously?” Amy and Gina ask. Terry then tells them
that he got his break-up gift for Hopkins when he was first planning on breaking up with her.
The gift receipt revealed when he really wanted to break-up with her.
At the hotel, Holt begins to try to ”insinuate” to Grayson, but Boyle stops him. Boyle says that
one of the reasons why he likes working at the Nine-Nine is because of Holt and his unwavering
morals. He doesn’t want to see his boss sacrifice that to save the precinct. ”I’d rather we split
up than compromise who we are.” Holt then tells Boyle that he’s happy that they won’t lower
themselves to blackmail. ”I agree. From now on, the only black male I want anything to do with
is you,” Boyle says. Eek.
Later, Diaz and Jake present Lurmax with an arrest warrant. Diaz then finds the backpack
they saw him with on the security footage. Sadly, all that’s in the bag is painkillers. Lurmax says
that Sinclair has a pain killer problem and the show has been trying to help her. That’s why he
was surprised that she called the cops. Sadly, Jake already told Lurmax that he hates the show
and the job offer was rescinded.
At the precinct, Jake is watching the show on his computer. Diaz asks him if he’s going OK,
but he’s really angry that all his Hollywood hopes fell apart. Now, Jake agrees with Diaz that
everything is awful and they’ll never solve the case. However, he does reassure her that they will
still be friends, even if the Nine-Nine is broken up. When she tells him to get his hands off her,
he thinks he’s solved the case.
They bring in Devereaux to show him that one scene where the actor once wore gloves on
the show, even though he said he never does. They realize that Devereaux wanted them to see
him put his fingerprints on the backpack because he’d already touched it. Jake theorizes that
Devereaux was going to post the compromising photos online to derail Sinclair’s career. The actor
denies it, but Diaz throws the laptop on the table. They found it in the trunk of his car. ”I stand
corrected. Yeah, you got me. I did it,” Devereaux says. ”Good job.”
Later, Terry heads over to Hopkins and apologizes for how he handled the break-up. He’s
realized that being nice to someone also means being honest, even if it hurts their feelings.
However, he says she doesn’t have to accept his apology. He just wants her to give the precinct a
shot. Sadly, she already turned in her report and it was real bad.
During the closing credits, a scene from Serve & Protect plays, showing a criminal named
”Jake Peralta, the grossest pervert of all time!” Sinclair’s character then repeatedly shoots him.
”They used my name!” Jake yells.
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Holt reveals to the entire squad that Jake and Charles aren’t going to make the hearing, but
says he is proud of them for choosing to be loyal to the city and its citizens, and not just the
precinct. Later, the captain announces that Brooklyn Nine-Nine is safe and isn’t shutting down
thanks to Gina. She live streamed Holt’s speech, which received massive online support.
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Moo Moo
Season 4
Episode Number: 84
Season Episode: 16
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captain reasons that it’s the wrong thing to do and that the complainant is usually the one who
gets besmirched for blowing the whistle on fellow police officers.
The next day, Holt realises that Terry deserves his justice and files the sergeant’s complaint.
The captain invites Terry for a drink at his office and tells him that he didn’t get the liaison
position. Holt says that they should drink anyway for ”doing the right thing.”
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Cop-Con
Season 4
Episode Number: 85
Season Episode: 17
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Chasing Amy
Season 4
Episode Number: 86
Season Episode: 18
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Your Honor
Season 4
Episode Number: 87
Season Episode: 19
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Amy is disappointed to learn that Gina doesn’t know how to change tires. She offers to teach
her how to do the job, but Holt’s assistant never looks at Amy while she’s doing the work. Later,
Amy slashes a tire of what she thinks is Gina’s car, only to find out it belongs to a fellow officer.
Before she gets to tell the car owner about the accident, Amy finds out that the tire has been
replaced. Gina appears and takes credit for the repair, although she admits that she learned
to do so by watching a tutorial video. Gina also discloses that she used Amy’s tire for the job,
rendering the latter’s car unusable.
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The Slaughterhouse
Season 4
Episode Number: 88
Season Episode: 20
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They then start discussing the case only for Jake to learn that they are no further forward on
this at all as Hawkins has covered her tracks very well.
All of a sudden, with only ten minutes into visiting time an incident occurs creating a ’lock-
down’ and an early ending to visiting an hour. This upsets Jake greatly as he is marched back to
his cell but it is Boyle who is more depressed as it means he gets no ’touching time’ at all now.
This incident turns Jake to take drastic steps, he enlists the help and wisdom of Caleb the
Cannibal to help him get a phone. Caleb puts him in touch with an inmate called Romero, a gang
leader and smuggler in the Gen Pop vicinity of the prison.
Jake and Romero agree on a standard prison rate fee for the phone of one hundred Picante
beef-flavoured ramen soups, because that is what prison currency is now. Jake, with the aid of
Boyle, manage to get this acquired amount, along with a little extra for himself and succeeds in
acquiring a phone so he can talk to the outside world.
After that, however, everything goes wrong for Jake.
The warden discovers that he has brought contraband, a.k.a ramen soup, into the prison.
This results in him and Caleb being transferred from protective custody to Gen Pop. Caleb, who
is initially scared of this transfer, quickly learns that everyone hates Jake more than him.
This new turn of events leads Jake to try and get himself some protection, which means he
has to join a gang. He seeks them out and conducts an interview-style presentation to try and
win them over, he even interviews for a gang named ISIS.
However, he is not too successful and in his last-ditch attempt seeks out Romero again to join
his gang. Thankfully, due to Jake giving some fine culinary advice on how to eat ramen soup
earlier, he is accepted, but only if he kills a prison guard by the name of Wilson.
Jake convinces him to only get him fired and that is all that needs to be done which they
agree on and give him the nickname, ’Beef Baby’.
’Beef Baby’ then enlists the help of Caleb to get Wilson fired. With the use of the contraband
phone, Caleb videos Wilson beating up ’Beef Baby’. Once again the Warden catches them in the
act. He comes clean to the Warden on what he was trying to do only for the warden to agree to
fire Wilson but only if he snitches for the warden.
Of course, Jake has no other real choice and agrees to this. Wilson is then fired and Jake is
accepted into Romero’s gang, but in the last moments of the episode, Romero gives him a stern
warning.
”I know you used to be a cop,” he says. ”If you screw me over, I will cut your testicles off and
watch you bleed to death in the dirt.”
It’s not a great start for Jake/’Beef Baby’ this season, hopefully, the Nine-Nine can get him
free as soon as possible.
Rosa, however, is having a different experience altogether. She is currently in solitary confine-
ment after initiating a few riots of sorts so as to gain the other prisoners trust.
Captain Holt and Terry are frequent visitors who, in their own way, are concerned for her.
Holt is scared she will become a victim of the prison dehumanization process and forget who she
is so repeatedly repeats her name, Rosa, every other word.
Terry, on the other hand, doesn’t want to get all emotional and upset her so has a permanent
smile stuck on his face making him look like he is in desperate need of the bathroom.
They both offer to help her as much as possible on the outside. This leads to Rosa providing
them with a huge list of tasks including moving her furniture to storage, filing her taxes, Terry
riding her motorbike and e-mailing love letters to Pimento.
This goes on for quite some time with the list getting bigger and crazier with both Holt and
Terry unable to say no until after they were giving what appeared to be the easiest and simplest
of tasks, cancelling her cable.
This led to a really great scene of both Holt and Terry attempting to cancel her cable for more
than 6 hours only for them to end up upgrading her package and locking her in for another 2
years.
In the end, Rosa is just messing with them really and wanted to see how much they would
actually do for her.
She reveals that she is truly scared, lonely and wants to get out of prison and return to normal
life as soon as possible.
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Jake is not exactly in a great position, so he turns to his one true friend in prison for advice,
Caleb the cannibal. They agree that if Jake learns where the drugs are and tells the warden,
Romero will know he is a snitch and will get castrated and killed. If he doesn’t find the drugs,
the warden will tell everyone he is a snitch and he will end up castrated and killed.
So not very good options.
However, Caleb comes to the rescue while discussing his past of eating 9 and a half people,
giving Jake a light bulb moment; stick to what you are good at, which in this case is being a
detective. Jake decides to work the case and find the drugs himself.
Jake then starts to tail Romero on his activities with Caleb for support. Caleb can’t help but
notice it’s a lot like being at summer camp with the endless waiting and watching; how a cannibal
ended up as a camp councillor baffles Jake.
They eventually get a breakthrough when they notice Romero goes into the showers for the
second time that day. Jake finds this pretty odd as no one likes prison showers and it is the most
stressful thing about prison.
So they both investigate the showers later and discover a melon baller; bit of a strange thing to
have until Jake clicks that this is what Romero uses to make the Bliss balls and that the reason
he uses the showers is not just because there are no cameras in the shower but also because
the soap is the drug.
The drug is made to look like bars of soap, smuggled in and then turned into Blizz balls with
a melon baller.
Jake is super excited as he cracked the case and no one will find out he is a snitch now.
There is only one problem, he rubbed the soap all over his body and is ridiculously high now.
This makes it difficult for him to tell the warden what he has learned but he manages in the
end and all looks good until Romero decides he can trust Jake and tells him about his drug
operation.
Definitely not good for Jake as once the Warden starts rounding up all the drugs Romero goes
after Jake. In a shocking twist, however, Caleb saves the day by taking the knife to the stomach
and saving Jake, for now anyway.
So it looks like all Caleb did was postpone the inevitable, that was until the warden appeared
to release him, as the Nine-Nine had arrested Lt. Hawkins. Jake both amazed and confused
happily leaves but not before he thanks, Caleb for what he did.
The show cuts to the Nine-Nine’s favorite drinking hole where they are all finally reunited
together again.
While this all played out the rest of the Nine-Nine were still desperately trying to prove that it
was Lt. Hawkins that was the criminal mastermind and get Jake and Rosa exonerated.
Things had certainly not been going to plan so far but an unlikely ally with important infor-
mation could be the key to what they needed to crack this case. While reorganizing the library,
because sane people do this you know, Amy is approached by criminal crime boss Seamus Mur-
phy, played by former Prison Break star Paul Adelstein.
Murphy offers Amy information that could see both Jake and Rosa released in exchange for
a favour. This information relates to Lt. Hawkins moving a huge shipment of diamonds in a few
days time that can prove that she is the one who has been behind these crimes all along.
Amy takes this offer back to the rest of the Nine-Nine, who are concerned on what accept-
ing this offer could mean for Amy and her career. They decide to work the case on the new
information of the diamond movement and try to solve it themselves.
To do this they need access to Lt. Hawkins phone as she uses Snapchat to coordinate her
movements and relay messages. Somehow, and nobody wants to ask why Scully is aware of
exactly how Snapchat works and what they need to do in order to get access.
But in order to do so, a distraction is required. Rosa then steps in and calls Hawkins to prison
to talk, while this goes on Captain Holt distracts a security guard with his entertaining tale of
his female lover all while Amy and Boyle break into Hawkins car, steals her phone, and installs
a mirror app to spy on her.
All goes well and they get the breakthrough they need, as Hawkins sends a message of time
and place for pick up. They stage a sting op and everything goes to plan but sadly it’s all for
nothing, Hawkins is one step ahead again and Jake and Rosa are still behind bars.
Things start to get pretty desperate back in the bullpen. Amy starts to consider contacting
Murphy for the information, despite the advice of everyone else but it is Captain Holt and his
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knowledge of pigs who saves the day when we realise that one of Hawkins henchman has pigs;
pigs that are far too big and are being force-fed when they are already fit for slaughter. The
reason, Hawkins is using the pigs to smuggle the diamonds.
Holt’s suspicion turns out to be right and they recover the diamonds. Hawkins man confesses,
Hawkins is arrested and Jake and Rosa are freed.
A happy ending in the end for the Nine-Nine, who celebrate back at the bar, but in last second
twist we learn that Holt has been keeping a pretty big secret. He owes Murphy. We find out in the
last few seconds of the episode that Holt contacted Murphy for the information he had, which led
to the pigs and ultimately led to Jake and Rosa being freed, meaning Holt is now in a criminal
bosses debt.
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Kicks
Season 5
Episode Number: 93
Season Episode: 3
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in question. Although this line would gradually move, the blue pop up tent that was part of it did
not.
That was because they were not interested in the moving down the line, but keeping that
exact spot. It covered a manhole cover, which enabled the thief to break into the storage room
of the sneaker store. Holt points out that they may have figured out how the thief did it but not
who. There is just no pleasing the man.
Jake does eventually manage to track down the thief and when they go to confront him it’s
made even easier with the fact that he is wearing a set of the stolen sneakers. He is arrested and
charged with the crime and Holt congratulates Jake in passing his assessment.
Boyle is over the moon and Jake is ecstatic and everything looks good for the two partners.
But no, Brooklyn Nine-Nine did not make it that straightforward. That would be a crime!
Jake awakes in the middle of the night with the sudden realization that he has gotten the
wrong man and has arrested an innocent person. Jake rushes over to Boyle’s apartment to get
his help, only for Boyle to answer the door completely naked.
They discuss what Jake has done and that if Holt finds out he will fail the evaluation and be
suspended. The two hatch a plan by putting out an advert to buy some of the stolen shoes on
the dark web. They get a hit and go undercover, dressed in some pretty questionable kit to find
their man.
The sting goes down only for the man in question to do a runner. They quickly catch up with
him and he confesses pretty quickly to everything that happened and to Boyle’s delight it turns
out that the original man they arrested is the actual thief.
Pity Jake released him earlier that day.
They both come clean to Holt. who is not exactly pleased with either of them. He now has no
choice but to suspend Jake.
In a surprising twist, Jake actually agrees and accepts what Holt says. He reveals that his
time in prison has actually affected him more than he thought; that because he was imprisoned
for something that he didn’t do he has become ineffective at his job and that is why he doubted
himself and freed the thief. He hands over his gun and badge with no regrets.
As the episode draws to a close Holt comes over to see Jake, who is packing his things. Holt
informs Jake that they managed to catch the thief because of Jake’s details on him, including
known alliances, hideouts etc.
Holt goes on to explain that because Jake had this revelation on his time in prison Holt is not
going to suspend him. In fact Jake passes his evaluation. Jake questioning the arrest makes him
more of an effective detective.
Rosa’s story — Rosa’s story couldn’t be any more different from Jake. She too has been confined
to desk duty, but instead of trying to get out of it she has just gotten on with it.
But Rosa had much more to deal with this week as her boyfriend Pimento is back from
Argentina and she suspects that he is cheating on her. She recruits both Amy and Terry to help
her out. Terry is more than happy to help, as he has his own experience with being cheated on
by a former Japanese girlfriend.
Rosa discovers receipts to a fancy restaurant that Pimento has been going to with whoever he
has been meeting. She decides on a stakeout, but she needs equipment first. Amy and Terry are
unable to lend her any kit as it’s against regulations, but Hitchcock is there to save the day. He
has his own stash of spy gear to lend out; we won’t ask why he has so much gear.
So she starts tailing Pimento on his movements. Everything seems normal at first (think sword
fighting, boxing and hopscotch) but her patience pays off and she witnesses him meeting another
woman outside the restaurant.
At this point, Pimento might want to run, just as Amy and Terry did when they saw her with
the whopping big knife. She confronts him and he comes clean. He has been learning Spanish
secretly so he could impress her father.
It’s not the answer Rosa thought she was about to get and it made her realise that she actually
wanted a reason to leave Pimento; that him not cheating on her was worse than him actually
cheating because she then had no reason to break up with him.
With the help of Amy’s awesome advice;
Rosa decides to call it off with Pimento and a touching exchange of blood being returned they
break up on the Nine-Nine balcony. Pimento decides to stay outside for a few moments to gather
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HalloVeen
Season 5
Episode Number: 94
Season Episode: 4
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While Boyle, Rosa and Terry are now confident that they have won, both Holt and Detective
Amy Santiago are working on their own master plan. Holt inconspicuously looks like he is doing
nothing and is just working at his desk. But, he has rigged a pulley system beneath his desk
so that he can lift up the server only Terry can lift. Holt’s well-trained dog, Cheddar, retrieves
the cummberbund/belt and brings it to him. But, someone has already beaten him to it and the
item that Cheddar brings is not what Holt sought after.
Even worse, this dog is not Cheddar. Someone has stolen the real Cheddar. Needless to say
Holt is filled with rage and threatens to neuter the one responsible for stealing his dog.
By this point, Jake has become free by agreeing to invest in Boyle’s cousin’s pyramid scheme
involving health supplements. He watched the entire scene playout from the security cameras
and realized that Amy is the dog snatcher. She had switched Holt’s dog with a fake and has the
cummberbund/belt locked in her safe under her desk.
As time begins to run out smoke begins to come from the break room. Everyone begins to
panic when handmaidens from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaids Tale come marching out
dressed in full handmaiden outfits and begin circling Amy’s desk.
Amy sees right through this plan however and reveals Jake, or should we say Ofamy, as the
mastermind behind this little stunt. She goes to check the safe knowing that Jake would have
attempted to break into it. But the safe is empty; someone has already broken into it. Once again
the chase is on as everyone goes their separate way in search of the cummberbund/belt.
Jake heads to the evidence room but Amy has already beaten him to it. She worked out
exactly what Jake’s plan was and headed straight to where the cummberbund/belt would have
been hidden. She discovers its exact hiding place thanks to dust patterns not being the same on
one box compared to all the rest.
But Jake looks anything but disappointed and he tells her to read what the engraving says
on it.
”Amy Santiago will you marry me?”
Amy turns around to see Jake down on one knee and making the funniest proposal ever to
Amy.
She says yes and they embrace in a warm hug. Boyle then walks in on them and realizes what
has happened. The emotion is too much for him and faints.
The Halloween Heist comes to an end and the Nine-Nine meet for drinks. Toasts are given by
everyone to Jake and Amy, congratulating them on their engagement.
The best toast award goes to Holt however as he congratulated them and pointing out that no
one won the Halloween Heist at the same time since the cummberbund/belt had been changed
and was no longer the real one.
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Bad Beat
Season 5
Episode Number: 95
Season Episode: 5
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ever. They threaten to tell his husband and that seems to do the trick. Jake and Terry pull him
off the case so he can recover and they go it alone.
VIP night has arrived and Jake has his target in sight. But just as he is about to get going, a
familiar sound rings out across the floor. Holt is gambling and is now officially a liability. Jake
excuses himself and he, along with Terry, confronts Holt in the bathroom.
Holt makes the savage point that it is his own time. He is not a cop right now and can do
what he wants. Jake and Terry are not too pleased with this but leave him be as they still have
a job to do. Unbeknown to them a pooper was lurking. As soon as Holt is alone, an associate of
the arms dealer exits one of the stalls and outs a gun in Holt’s back.
He is now in a dangerous position as he is forced into a limo along with the arms dealer. They
drive out of town and Holt attempts to talk them down but it looks like this could be the end as
they plan to kill him and dump his body in the river.
But, Jake and Terry to the rescue. They tracked Holt via his mobile and rescued Holt and
arrested their arms dealer. How did they know he needed saving? Holt’s tell is the use of con-
tractions and during a phone call with Jake in the limo Holt used a double contraction.
Charles has always been known for food. He has his own blog and regularly acts as a food
critic along with making his own dishes. He is going to the next level by starting his own food
van business with Amy being a chief investor.
Their van, however, has a bit of a dodgy past. Charles bought it from an NYPD auction house
and it turns out that this van was involved in a string of murders. Victims had actually been cut
up and dismembered inside of it. They even found a knee in the fryer.
This makes Amy start panicking but Charles is as cool as day. In fact, he wants to call it the
murder van. It gets even worse as Charles tries to put Amy’s mind at ease by showing her the
van but when they get there it has been completely trashed with all the contents being thrown
out. Shame Charles didn’t get the insurance to be valid until the next day.
Turns out the previous owners had left several kilos of cocaine inside and they had come back
to get it. This is a bit of good news officially for Amy as it’s a crime scene again and it means they
can get their money back.
This doesn’t help Charles who is just disappointed. It wasn’t about the money for him but the
dream and that dream had just slipped away. Amy, in an attempt to put things right, gets the
money back and immediately reinvests it back to Charles on the conditions they do not get any
murder vans and insurance that is valid on the day of purchase.
Charles’ dream lives on.
Hitchcock and Scully Miller) are well-known for being sat on their butts throughout Brooklyn
Nine-Nine. You hardly ever see them out their chairs and Rosa can’t help but get a few digs in
over this.
This prompts them to both challenge her to the Butt’lympics. The rules are simple, both
cheeks on the chair at all times and if you come off your out. Toilet breaks are allowed but only
for a couple of minutes and at a set time and your chair goes in the stall with you.
Fast forward over 24 hours later and they are all still going. No one has left their seat and it’s
taking their toll. Rosa can’t feel her legs anymore and is getting butt cramps while Scully misses
his home chair. Hitchcock really wants to go get a hot dog but can’t leave.
They all suddenly have a realisation that they can get that hot dog; that only society is stop-
ping them. They then start wheeling themselves to the hot dog stand outside and get that hot
dog.
This moment is the beginning of the end of the Butt’lympics as Scully drops his napkin.
Hitchcock reaches for it but ends up coming out of his chair. His time is over. Rosa and Scully
then make the decision to come up together and they too leave their own seats.
Rosa is proud of them but Scully starts tipping as he has lost all of his feeling in his legs.
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The Venue
Season 5
Episode Number: 96
Season Episode: 6
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They realize they have no choice. They need to get that venue back. They do some digging on
The Vulture, they still don’t believe he has turned good and that something is going on. That’s
when they discover his fiancée is super rich and he must be after her money. They then realize,
with the aid of Hitchcock, that he is cheating on her with the use of a dating app.
And just like that Jake and Amy put on their savior hats. They must save this poor girl from
The Vulture and break them up. And just by chance get the venue for the wedding back...
They set up fake profiles on the dating site and contact him. Floods of penis pictures then fill
their inbox. He has taken the bait, they set up a date and confront him.
An ultimatum is then given: Tell her the truth and break it off or we give her all the informa-
tion. The Vulture refuses, he pleads with the both, tries in vain to convince them that he does
truly love her but he is just weak.
He offers the venue. He will give them it if they keep quiet and act cool. They agree to it just
as the fiancée sits down to join them. Both Jake and Amy remain cool for a whole ten seconds
before her niceness breaks Amy.
She can’t lie to this wonderful lady. She shows her the penis photos, which were very confus-
ing as Amy probably should have told her what she was doing first before showing them.
The Vulture gets exactly what he deserves. Jake and Amy sadly don’t get the venue back but
the pair is ok with it as they happily carry each other in a dumpster.
Sgt Peanut Butter has gone missing. The famous NYPD horse (and Charles’ arch nemesis) is
suspected of being abducted by a former NYPD cop who was recently let go.
Boyle is tasked with finding him, which he is not pleased about. The two have a history after
Peanut Butter stole all the glory from Charles as they were each award the Medal of Valor. The
ever-professional Boyle sets out to locate him with the aid of Rosa.
It doesn’t take them very long to find Peanut Butter along with the disgruntled ex-cop in an
abandoned warehouse. In his attempt to escape he sets the place on fire. Rosa chases after the
suspect while Boyle tries to save Peanut Butter.
Unfortunately, Peanut Butter refuses to move and once he does get her going he ends up
being dragged out of the warehouse himself. Once again humiliation for Boyle.
It gets worse though as someone caught it on film and leaked it to the press. News stories are
running everywhere that a police horse saved a Buffon. Charles tries to set the record straight
that he saved the horse but it is good PR for the force so they won’t change it.
It is just one big nightmare for Boyle. Thankfully one press site did manage to get the real
news story out there though. Someone, *cough cough Diaz*, leaked the true story at least one
news outlet got it right.
Terry loves to be loved. He loves talking about himself and does it repeatedly in third person.
Unfortunately, that lands him with a bit of bother this week. While talking about himself
another officer thinks he is talking about her. It’s understandable really. She is also called Terry
and our Terry likes talking in the third person, so sounds it would sound like he was talking
about her.
Terry manages to smooth it all over but it leaves him in an uncomfortable place. She doesn’t
like him. Terry likes being liked. He goes out of his way to please others, something Captain Holt
picks up on.
He tries to convince Terry to not let it bother him and to stop being so image conscious. Terry
tries and he succeeds, for a whole two seconds.
Terry then desperately tries to win the affection of this officer. He plans a mini party. Unsure
of what ice cream she would like he orders over 100 different flavors, gets yogurt in case she
doesn’t like ice cream and other foods including tacos and vegan options.
It’s getting out of hand and Holt convinces Terry of the hard truth; that not everyone will
love you and like you and that is okay; that he wasn’t popular in his youth and is now a police
captain; that the popular kid in school is only a sociologist. A sociologist!
Once again Captain Holt is the true teacher and master of wisdom in the Nine-Nine.
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Two Turkeys
Season 5
Episode Number: 97
Season Episode: 7
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moment happens and all the events that had happened earlier in the day are put aside. Jake and
Amy’s dad embrace in a weird dad hug which gets weirder with Jakes dad private bits falling out
his hospital gown.
While Jake and Amy were doing all that back at the precinct a whole different chain of events
was happening.Captain Holt had brought to the station house a Thanksgiving pie which he
intended on taking with to his partner Kevin to a Thanksgiving party. But, it goes missing. Holt
marks everyone as a suspect but in particular, Hitchcock and Scully.
That is, after completing a thorough forensic examination of his office realises that whoever
committed this crime was no fool and indeed a master criminal. Hitchcock and Scully are cleared
as suspects.
Holt turns his attention to Rosa, Boyle and Terry and begins tense interrogations on each of
them to discover which of them stole the pie. Holt doesn’t get very far.
After failing to break them Holt takes desperate steps and recruits the best detectives for a
job like this. Hitchcock and Scully, this case was made for them, they both know food and have
skills like no other, they are the best possible detectives for the job.While Hitchcock and Scully
begin their own investigation Holt runs through each of his suspects alibis.
Holt pulls them all into the briefing room and calls them out. None of their alibis checks out.
All three of them, Rosa, Boyle and Terry break down and begin confessing their secrets, but none
of their confessions is about the pie. Holt is no further forward in finding out the truth.
Hitchcock and Scully interrupt to bring news to Holt. They found the pie. Uneaten and aban-
doned in the trash. The discovery of the pies whereabouts leads Holt in putting this case together.
He pulls all of his suspects in just as Kevin is arriving to learn the news that the pie was taken
and thrown out.
He looks stunned at the news, that is until Holt accuses him of being the culprit. He knows
that it was Kevin as he placed the pie in the trash delicately with two hands. Exactly how he
disposes of trash normally. Kevin comes clean and confesses that he had to. It’s a horrible pie.
That they would both be embarrassed if they had brought it to the Thanksgiving dinner party
and he didn’t want that to happen to Holt, he was protecting him.
Thanks to the brave efforts of Hitchcock and Scully the case of the missing pie is solved and
everyone moves on and Holt and Kevin agree to try and put this behind them.
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Return to Skyfire
Season 5
Episode Number: 98
Season Episode: 8
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Both of the victims slept with his wife Jessica so the motive is pretty obvious except Miles is
not aware of his wife infidelity. That is until Jake and Terry mention it leading to a very awkward
moment between the couple and their son who happens to look nothing like daddy.
Fresh out of leads Jake, Terry and Rosa advise them to pay the ransom. That way they can
go undercover and catch the person in the act. Queue a shirtless Terry, an elfish like Jake and
Rosa, looking exactly as she normally does but with the addition of welding goggles. The perfect
disguises in a fan convention.
As they wait Terry can’t help but take his frustration out on Jake after learning that he found
his book terrible and now, because of him, his hero DC Parlov will see how terrible of a writer
Terry is and Terry will be embarrassed.
Rosa stops them from arguing and just in time. The mark approaches, dressed exactly like
Jake is. The perp snatches the case and makes a break for it. Jake pursues him but can’t make
him out anymore. A costume competition has just ended and everyone is dressed in the same
elvish costume. Now they know why he chose this particular time.
With the money gone and the criminal still wandering free, it’s not looking good. DC Parlov
isn’t too concerned though. Paying the ransom has stopped his book being released and his
insurance will cover the loss. Terry looks defeated and leans in to talk but Parlov gets the first
word in. I liked your book.
Terry’s grin couldn’t be any bigger and he cant help but rub it into Jake’s’ face. Jake admits
that he was wrong and apologizes to Terry. As Terry leaves Jake turns to Rosa. Yeah, Parlov is
lying.
Back at the percent Rosa and Jake talk it out. Rosa is not sure that Jake is right on this
one. That is until she reads the first line of Terry’s book. Parlov is definitely lying and is up to
something, but how do they tell Terry?
Just as they are wondering what to do Terry comes in and lays it out for them. He figured it
out. He had a gut feeling and investigated it further. Parlov was lying to him, both he and his
rival planned it out as a publicity stunt to get more excitement for their story and that they were
just buttering Terry up by sending him gifts and telling him his book was good.
Feeling bad, Jake has a heart to heart with Terry over how he will get better at writing. That
he may never be a famous author but he will get better. Like his police work. Terry clicks that
Jake is right. He was not a good Police officer at first but got better with more practice.
The two, friendship repaired, skip off together arm in arm to read the next book that is
conveniently on the laptops that they had just confiscated earlier.
While Jake, Terry and Rosa were hunting for a manuscript, Holt, Amy and Boyle were hosting
a forensic course in the hope to get certified. Boyle being Boyle is a liability. He can often share
and talk too much and puts others off.
Holt and Amy try and keep him as quiet as possible but it is not an easy task.That is until
plaster moulds of the face are required during the course. They use Boyle as the subject and
plaster his entire head making him unable to talk. Unfortunately, due to their haste, they forget
to Vaseline his head so now the plaster is stuck, for five days.
It’s an instant fail and board certification is a no longer a possibility. That is of course if they
get caught.They hide Boyle in the evidence locker with Hitchcock and Scully as babysitters and
conduct the rest of the course without him.
Unfortunately, Hitchcock and Scully had to go really bad and at the same time and while they
went Boyle escaped. Walking around the precinct plastered and unable to see it’s a sorry mess
that if the forensic doctor finds out they are defiantly not getting that field lab.
Trying desperately to hide Boyle he tells them that he is trying to help in his own way. That
he realises how much the certification means to them both. Overcome by this selfless act Holt
realises that the lab is not the most important thing in the world.
He brings Boyle back to the course. Board certification is a big no no but Holt and Amy don’t
care. They are very happy to listen to Boyle ramble on in his plaster cast head. After all, he is
one of the nine-nine.
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deal he agreed to in order to protect Jake and Rosa. In response, Jake accidentally blurted out,
”I love you, Dad.” (Aww... )
Ultimately, Peralta convinced Holt to go through with the interview, promising on behalf of
the entire precinct that they’d find a way to deal with Murphy if he ever became an issue. It was
then up to ”super chill” Amy to find them a way back home. To motivate his fiancée, Jake had
her think back to the ”time we went to the deli for cold cuts and the ticket machine was broken,
so you found out what time everyone arrived and made them get in a single-file line from earliest
to latest” — and by golly, it worked! Figuring out a route involving an ambulance, an airplane,
a train and a taxicab, the high-strung detective got Holt to One Police Plaza just in the nick of
time.
The other major development in the episode involved Rosa, who after trying and failing to hide
her new relationship with a woman from Charles, came out as bisexual. At first hesitant to talk
about it at all, Diaz later acknowledged that she was glad she was able to confide in Boyle, adding
that it felt great to tell a member of her work family.
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Game Night
Season 5
Episode Number: 100
Season Episode: 10
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The Favor
Season 5
Episode Number: 101
Season Episode: 11
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Safe House
Season 5
Episode Number: 102
Season Episode: 12
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Once they get there, Jake refuses to let Kevin go inside and advises him to go back to the
safe house. The detective is then almost immediately spotted by Murphy’s right-hand man and
brought in to join a tied-up Holt. Before the mobster gets a chance to kill either of them, though,
Kevin comes crashing with his car, hitting the hired hand in the process. He then gets out and
proceeds to give Murphy a laryngeal fracture.
We then cut to our final scene, where Jake is returning to the precinct for the first time in nine
weeks. Holt is delighted to inform him that Murphy’s in prison, and his entire organization have
been toppled by the FBI. Jake and Kevin then exchange pleasantries, and just when it seems
like they’ve become friends, the detective goes and ruins it by revealing he failed to screen two
of Nic Cage’s better films back at the safe house: Period piece Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and the
Oscar-winning Leaving Las Vegas.
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The Negotiation
Season 5
Episode Number: 103
Season Episode: 13
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Even Hitchcock thinks this is a terrible idea and can’t believe that Holt and Terry allowed this
to happen. It’s too late, however, so they give Hitchcock a complete makeover and a crash course
in interview training. Basically, a big list of what he can’t and can say.
It all goes surprisingly well and Hitchcock doesn’t put a foot wrong. Holt and Terry are more
than surprised and make the suggestion that maybe Hitchcock should be like this more often.
Hitchcock doesn’t think that will be a good idea, too much work and goes back to being normal,
gross Hitchcock.
As Jake waits to see what his punishment will be, a coupon for a karaoke session arrives.
There is only one person who could have sent that to him, Doug Judy.
Doug is waiting for him in the karaoke booth, a prerecorded version anyway, telling him that
he is sorry how things went down. Jake is still annoyed at everything until recorded Doug points
out the wedding present he has left for Jake and inside: the diamonds.
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The Box
Season 5
Episode Number: 104
Season Episode: 14
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Captain Holt proceeds to ask Davidson. He questioned why the cleaners cleaned the medical
room in a way that an industrial facility would. Holt claims that because of that, traces of blood
and DNA were wiped out in the process.
As a medical practitioner, Davidson defends himself by saying that the clinic should always
stay sterile since it is a medical room. Peralta follows up the question with another question. But
of course, who would admit to a crime they committed?
Captain Holt leaves the interrogation to Peralta. He and Kevin are off to see the show. Peralta
intimidates Davidson by saying that he is the real criminal. Peralta still questions Davidson’s
phone that wasn’t with him during the night the crime happened.
With the case losing on the hands of Peralta, he tried connecting small facts about Davidson
and used it against him. Davidson’s grandfather owns a cabin in the town where hikers found
the dead body of Tupper. Peralta tries to prove his theories and contact Davidson’s grandfather.
But to his surprise, Davidson’s grandfather hasn’t spoken to his grandson in years.
With this discovery, Peralta and Captain Holt start to panic. If they don’t find a new way to
crack Davidson open, they will lose the case. They begin to get ”intimate” with Davidson. But
instead of getting the information they needed, Davidson only played with both of them.
They resort to insinuating guilt on him by asking Davidson to say the name of his ”victim” in
front of its dead body, Peralta and Captain Holt tried to see if he was guilty of what he did. But
it didn’t work. It seems like Davidson is too nonchalant to feel guilty if ever he was the killer.
Feeling disappointed, Captain Holt and Peralta decide to ditch their plans and cheat their
way in. Peralta walks into the chamber and lies to Davidson’s face about his grandfather’s cabin.
He tells him that someone saw Davidson go in it. Claiming that it’s his grandfather’s neighbor,
Peralta fails on the attempt. It was a good try, but the ”neighbor” he’s mentioning has been dead
for three years.
Davidson then calls for his lawyer Claire Daymont. Of course, his lawyer was disappointed
since the two officers spent the entire night trying to frame up her client. Claire decides that it’s
time to leave. She also threatens that the judge will hear about the alleged frame-up that Peralta
and Holt started.
Before they release Davidson, Holt and Peralta argued one last time. The only reason why
Peralta wanted to win the case was to impress Holt. But to a turn of events, his mind thinks of
something that would save the situation.
Peralta grabs a folder and busts through the chamber doors. He starts what he calls a mono-
logue. By mentioning how Davidson was a ”lucky bitch,” he catches his mouth. Peralta said how
Davidson’s murder weapon is one of the Periodontics awards in the clinic. He then connects
how everything happened and pinpointed Davidson as the real killer. But Davidson snapped and
spilled his truth. Peralta solved the case by bringing out Davidson’s temper and insatiable desire
to calm down.
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Being the ”dinosaur” that he is when managing a station, Holt freaks out and proves he can
implement new ways. But Captain Crawford is a younger woman with fresher ideas. Instead of
backing out, Captain Crawford fought Holt with words. It’s safe to say that Captain Crawford
won the small talk since she got to flip her hair away from Holt and Linetti.
Peralta gets more jealous of Stermly as the case draws nearer to a close. His ideas on solving
the case are not working, so Santiago resorts to Stermly for plans. As a puzzle maker, Stermly
is becoming more and more analytical to match all the clues left by the arsonist. Peralta’s plan
to go undercover and go to Stermly’s event didn’t work. He overheard two people in the toilet
talking about someone named ”Sam” who might be the arsonist. When he updated Stermly
and Santiago, they both disagreed with his findings. Instead, they left the event and continued
working on clues.
Back at the station, Santiago tells Peralta about Stermly’s plan. Peralta, being a jealous man,
follows Santiago’s assignments to him just to show that he’s not jealous at all. Then comes
Charles Boyle, who continually reminds Peralta of his jealousy. He declines the allegations and
asks Boyle to stalk Sam Jepson. To his juvenile behavior, the arsonist burned another building
to the ground in the are he patrols on.
After the heated talk with Captain Crawford, Captain Holt eats a plate of grapes in the corner
of the room. Linetti gives Holt a pep talk and says that he shouldn’t give up because Cap-
tain Crawford threatens him. After that, Linetti sees the Head of the Committee, Patrick Faricy
munching on a plate of crab cakes.
Holt approaches Faricy and asks if he can do small talk. But Faricy was quick and addressed
the issues on Crawford. He told Holt that the committee chose Crawford as captain for PR pur-
poses. As Faricy left with his crab cakes, Holt takes a breath in for relief. In his presentation,
Holt drops Faricy in what he said. He exposed the committee for hiring a female captain for a PR
stunt.
Since Peralta failed his mission, Santiago burst and confronts him. The argument turned into
a discussion on why Peralta acts the way that he is. Santiago found out that Peralta was jealous
of Stermly. Peralta says that he’s afraid that Santiago wouldn’t want to marry him because he’s
not as smart as Stermly. But Santiago assures him otherwise. Then Peralta’s mind tells him that
the word the arsonist is spelling through burned buildings is the word ”marry.”
Meanwhile, Captain Crawford dropped by Captain Holt’s office. She thanked him for exposing
the commissioner. Crawford also psyched Holt out by saying she’s more likely to win now since
the committee is not biased anymore.
On the other hand, Santiago and Peralta solved the case. They turned in Helen Gorbelson,
an avid fan of Stermly. She pleaded guilty to the arson in the city. All she wanted to do was to
propose to Stermly through a word formation of the burned buildings’ structure.
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NutriBoom
Season 5
Episode Number: 106
Season Episode: 16
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one talkative policeman. Although he’s new in the team, he acts like he’s someone confident to
talk to anyone. He gives suggestions when Amy pours a glass of water.
Due to Amy’s anxiety, she continued to pour water into her glass. Soon enough, the glass
overflowed. In an attempt to save the meeting, Amy tells everyone that the first task of the squad
is to dry the floors.
Amy comes to where her friends are. Rosa Diaz and Gina Linetti tells Amy what to do. Since
she is dealing with ”herself,” Rosa and Gina suggest doing things that they would do to avoid her.
They hide as fast as they could, and then they try to avoid Amy before she could ask how Rosa
and Gina disappeared without notice.
Amy tried to do what Rosa and Gina suggested. When Gary approached him, she would veer
away from him. Amy would always try to escape Gary. Even if it were impossible, she would still
make a way to be free from Gary’s ideas. But when things got worse, she came to Captain James
Holt.
Amy disclosed everything to Captain Holt. When she finished, Captain Holt only suggested
one thing, and that’s to listen. Amy realized that she never listened to Gary’s suggestion. Captain
Holt added that it wasn’t a job to listen to ”Amy.” It was a pleasure to listen to ”Amy.” Amy solved
a lot of things for the department.
During the next meeting, Amy asked Gary for forgiveness. She admitted everything that she
did to stay clear of Gary. She also tasked Gary to think of a plan for proper filing in the office.
Gary gave Amy five steps and 23 substeps on what they should do. But Amy asked Gary to share
it with him after the meeting.
Jake was right about his speculations. The company NutriBoom is hiding something from
them. According to the files, the company did a cover-up in the past year for them to become free
from the eyes of the law. Jake threatened NutriBoom co-owner Debbie Stovelman for their past
evil deeds. Jake promised that he would go to the FBI to report the illegal act done by NutriBoom.
Jake comes back to the office and greets Amy after her meeting. He wasn’t able to reclaim
his money from the pyramiding scam. Of course, he was sorry because they couldn’t go on a
honeymoon. However, Amy assured him that every day is a honeymoon with her. Amy realizes
that a paparazzi is across the street from them while taking pictures. Jake tells Amy that some-
thing like that would be around them for a while due to his feud with the multi-million company,
NutriBoom.
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DFW
Season 5
Episode Number: 107
Season Episode: 17
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another act. Katie sliced her hand with a broken glass so she could get upgraded to business
class. But someone saw her slit her fingers with a shard. Jake tells the police that he got it from
there. He asked Katie for an apology and sets her free.
Meanwhile, Rosa gets annoyed by Gina. Gina insists that she brews a date for the now-
single Rosa. However, Rosa believes that Gina is no good for this kind of thing. She’s a lousy
matchmaker.
Throughout the day, Gina bugged Rosa about her plans of getting Rosa a date. But Rosa
declines the offer, but not until Gina brings out her synthesizer with recorded vocals of Captain
Ray Holt. As it turns out, Gina recorded Captain Holt’s voice for two years so she could make
any sentence in Captain Holt’s voice.
With the synthesizer, Gina summons Rosa to the briefing room. Gina made a presentation of
the possible dates that Rosa could take. But Rosa is still hesitant about Gina’s skills in match-
making. In the end, Rosa gives Gina a chance. But this is the only chance Gina’s going to get.
Although that’s the case, Gina says she only needs a shot to get things right
Gina sets up Rosa with a blond chick named Irene. When they ordered drinks, Rosa spots the
bartender named Aubrey. In the morning, Rosa comes in late. Gina sees her from a distance and
questions her about time. Gina slips and admits that Irene wasn’t the setup—it was Aubrey.
Caught off-guard, Rosa admits that she and Aubrey had fun. In fact, they will be having dinner
again that night. She also realizes that Gina is an excellent matchmaker, despite all hesitations.
All you have to do is to trust the process. It may be a failure at first, but learn how to go where
it goes. It’s not an overnight solution, but a lifetime answer. Like Jake and Rosa, all you have to
do is give it a chance and decide on whether it is a right choice or not.
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Captain James Holt is up for a new position. It includes a ”popularity contest” where the most
famous one ”wins” the job. Gina Linetti and Terry Jeffords is all for helping Holt. Through social
media, they increased Holt’s popularity over the other candidates.
But Holt, being an old soul, declines the offer. Instead, he sets up his own social media
accounts. These accounts, later on, get banned on Twitter for getting tagged as a bot. Now that
Holt’s profile is still on hold, he manages their dog, Cheddar’s, Instagram account. The page now
has 14 thousand views in a matter of hours.
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Bachelor/ette Party
Season 5
Episode Number: 109
Season Episode: 19
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Jake wanted was to have fun with his friends before he gets married. He promised Charles that
they are still best friends even if Amy now holds a special place in his heart.
Meanwhile, the girls are running their own world back at Amy’s place. But Rosa Diaz says
that Amy’s part is boring. To turn up the party, Rosa invited the girls for a game of Never Have I
Ever. After a few situations, Amy still didn’t drink from her glass.
She later on clarified that the situations were too ”wild” for her experience. She abides the
law as a real law enforcer. Amy even admits that she reads the terms and conditions before she
agrees with it.
But Amy needed to step her game up, so she reveals that she had a one-night stand with a
band member. In fact, it was the band from her friend Kylie’s wedding. Then things got loose
with her and the band member who later on introduced her as his girlfriend to his mother. Kylie
admits that Constantine Kane will play in her wedding along with his band.
Amy goes into panic mode and immediately thinks of cutting the contract with Constantine.
She rushes off to the bar where Constantine plays and demands to cancel the event. But Con-
stantine says he can’t because he plans to win Amy back. He even wrote a song titled ”Amy,
Come Back.” Instead of bargaining, Amy threatens Constantine that she’ll ask Jake to cut the
deal. But Constantine, being smart, made Jake sign a contract. In the agreement, Constantine
asks $15,000 as a kickback for canceling the deal off.
Amy devises a plan to cancel her ex’s performance at her wedding. The group of girls suggested
that she’ll steal the contract and destroy it. However, Amy is a law-abiding citizen. She can’t steal
because that is against the law. So instead, the girls take it from Constantine. But he is smart
and didn’t let that happen. Amy is a little toasted and has enough courage to break the law. She
steals the contract and burns it to the ground.
Now that Amy and Jake’s problems are over, they are off to their much-awaited wedding. As
Amy admits her one-night stand with Constantine, Jake reveals that he knows. It is because
Constantine wrote him a message with vivid details of what happened to him and Amy. But Jake
still loves Amy the same way he did before.
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Show Me Going
Season 5
Episode Number: 110
Season Episode: 20
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Jake, who at first looks as though he is going to ignore Holt, returns bearing what everyone
needs when getting through a crisis. Pizza!
They hunker down and talk out what is going on in their head. All of them are scared for
Rosa, but also scared for themselves. It could easily be one of them in that situation. They keep
talking it out and keeping an eye out on the elevator for Rosa to come out.
The elevator dings and everyone gets excited, the doors open, and out walks Scully, not Rosa.
He gets yelled at, a lot. How dare he use the lift. But while they are all shouting Rosa shouts out
from behind them all to stop it.
They all turn round. Joy on their face and embrace Rosa. Happy to see her.
Everyone wants to talk to her about what happened but she tells them no. She justs wants a
beer and quiet, but first, she has got to pee. That’s when Gina grabs her to show her what Amy
has been doing.
It’s still a bombsight. Amy never fixed it, just made it worse. It doesn’t matter though. The
three hug it out, covered in toilet water.
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White Whale
Season 5
Episode Number: 111
Season Episode: 21
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They think one has to step down to not let Kelly win. Neither is willing, however. Later, Gina and
Charles recommend rumor-mongering to sabotage Olivia’s campaign, but Holt refuses because
it would be dishonorable and against his morals.
Olivia meets Holt again, who had come up with a different option to solve the issue. He
announced that he mailed the committee to step down, realizing he was acting selfishly and Olivia
would make a good commissioner with her intelligence and forward-thinking ways. However, she
says she also sent a similar letter, effectively giving the victory to Kelly. Gina suggests finding
the letters before anyone can read them, and the group heads out to the post office storage. Holt
finds his letter and it is destroyed, but Olivia reveals she, favoring more modern methods, sent an
email instead of a physical letter, therefore eliminating her chances. While they were rivals, she
wanted to help because she would much rather have Holt than Kelly as the next commissioner.
Amy and Rosa think Sergio is back in New York because he is short on money, and notice he
is likely heading to one of his old hideouts. They head there, only to notice he was there but now
gone, taunting them with a message again. Their new approach is to try a connection that they
know without Sergio realizing, and Amy comes up with a plan to meet his grandmother Louise in
a nursing home, whom Sergio met last before vanishing. They go undercover as nurses, trying to
get her to reveal his grandson’s location. However, she does not know when he would see Sergio
next, and hasn’t seen him in the last seven years.
After Rosa gets frustrated at herself for letting Sergio go in the past, Amy admits that it was
her mistake; while the team cornered him in a warehouse and had all exits sealed, Amy heard a
noise and went to check it out, giving Sergio an opportunity to escape. Rosa is upset, but a man
working at the nursing home (knowing they are undercover detectives) tells the two that Louise
was appointed for a therapy session at another building, which was wildly irregular. They go
follow the new lead, and while driving there, another woman from the nursing home calls them
telling that a strange man is searching Louise’s room for something. After confirming that it was
him, they rush back.
Back at the nursing home, Amy and Rosa spot Sergio running away with the money he got
from his stash. He gets away, and Amy injures herself running after him. She and Rosa make
up, and realize Sergio is aided by the man at the nursing home. They go to his apartment to find
Sergio, and finally catch him.
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shows up and it’s a hot girl that Rosa likes, Terry can’t help himself but intervene. The universe
is pulling them together.y
Or it is until they lose the veil. Its no longer ”breezy” and the universe is a dick. They eventually
find the veil again but it is covered in dirt and soaked in urine. Terry is not pleased. Rosa is
though.
Jake decides that the only way to get this wedding back on track is by finding his archnemesis.
If he catches him/her then they can learn where the bomb is. Unfortunately, that doesn’t go to
plan. Jake doesn’t have an archnemesis. Turns out who he thought it died a long time ago and
Jake was probably the reason for that.
It turns out Amy is the one who has the archnemesis. They find a shrine dedicated to her,
making Jake super jealous. They take the suspect back to the bomb squad to tell them where the
bomb is. He tells them he didn’t plant a bomb. Teddy isn’t listening and it just as well because
they really do find a bomb.
This means it’s over for the wedding. The Peralta/Santiago wedding is off.
Back at the Nine-Nine, Jake and Amy look over the events of the day. Disaster is a bit of an
understatement but that is what it was. It doesn’t put them off wanting to get married however
and the two of them agree to head down to city hall tomorrow.
Boyle is having none of it. They are not getting married like that. Needing only 30 minutes,
the Boyle makeover treatment turns the Nine-Nine into the perfect wedding venue. It’s wedding
time!
The wedding finally happens. Captain Holt officiates with a moving speech about how their
immature friendship, went on immature courtship and will no doubt now be an immature mar-
riage. Tears are everywhere, especially Boyle, and the two exchange their beautiful vows.
Amy’s being the most beautiful with; ”there is a bomb; your butt, your butt is the bomb!”
Back at the bar. Holt calls everyone together, he needs to check his e-mail about the commis-
sioner job. Holt has have been scared to open it all day in case all the hard work he has put in
has been for nothing. He needs the Nine-Nine with him for support.
They all wait, it’s a tense few seconds. Holt reads the e-mail. Puts the phone back in his
pocket. Tells them all they can probably tell by the look on his face.
”No! No, we cant!” screams Jake.
Cuts to black.
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A Scott Aukerman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0422 (3rd Hacker)
Marc Abbink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Joseph Aviel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0110 (Bar Patron) 0114 (Vladimir)
Phil Abrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Jack Axelrod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0106 (Uncle Bob) 0313 (Henry Coles)
Ray Abruzzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sean Ayub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0223 (Michael Augustine) 0515 (Bar Patron)
Cornell Adams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Anthony Azizi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
0418 (Ray) 0101 (Ahmed)
Sam Adegoke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0313 (Ship Photographer)
Paul Adelstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
B
0502 (Seamus Murphy); 0511 (Seamus Murphy); Ryan Babcock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
0512 (Seamus Murphy) 0501 (Matthews (Skinhead)); 0502 (Matthews (Skin-
Felipe Alejandro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Head))
0117 (Hector) James Babson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Derick Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0521 (Nurse Ezra)
0201 (Airport Official) Charles Baker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
George Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0411 (George Judy); 0412 (George Judy)
0311 (Jay-Jay) Sarah Baker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Juan Alfonso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0418 (Kylie); 0519 (Kylie)
0404 (Mel Szeriank) Dan Bakkedahl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Jess Allen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 0205 (Lt. Andrew Miller)
0113 (Delivery Guy) Alex Ball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Steven Lee Allen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 0316 (Chad)
0520 (Boban) Peter Banifaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Harvey J. Alperin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 0403 (Rob)
0116 (Joseph) Lloyd Barachina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Bruno Amato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0314 (Tommy Tran)
0109 (Mario) Lance Barber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Stella Angelova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0410 (Patrick)
0122 (Dancer With Holt) Jacquie Barnbrook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Omar Angulo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0105 (Martha)
0305 (Mariachi Criminal); 0308 (Angry Family Mem- Theodore Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
ber) 0408 (Young Terry); 0416 (Little Terry)
Alixandrée Antoine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Robin Bartlett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0323 (Endy) 0307 (Miss Miriam)
Carlos Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chris Bauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0202 (Ernesto); 0410 (Melvin) 0513 (Negotiator)
Perry Anzilotti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Vahe Bejan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0222 (Reggie Bludsoe) 0303 (Osif)
Danny Araujo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Michael James Bell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0416 (Officer Jellison) 0216 (Gerald)
Anthony Aria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Danny Belrose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
0205 (Raver) 0115 (Gus Wimbledon)
Fred Armisen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Stacey Bender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
0101 (Mlepnos); 0115 (Melipnos); 0522 (Mlepnos) 0202 (Detective); 0205 (Detective); 0206 (Detective)
Carrie Armstrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Liz Benoit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0321 (Roena Luesto) 0111 (Elaine)
Nick Armstrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Susan Berger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
0513 (Bob) 0401 (Ruth); 0402 (Ruth)
Michelle Arthur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Rebecca Berman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0412 (Parent / Art Auction Attendee) 0202 (Fran)
Richard Assad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sandra Bernhard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
0316 (Janx Ingram); 0411 (Janx Ingram) 0206 (Darlene Linetti); 0217 (Darlene Linetti)
Danielle Aubuchon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Emily Berry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
0501 (Jenny) 0422 (Temma)
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Clark Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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0501 (Bryce) Ryan Paevey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Brandon Morales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0520 (Cop)
0310 (Ramon) Kat Palardy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Kyle S. More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0106 (Raggedy Ann)
0311 (Steve Henderson) Archie Panjabi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Adrian Moreira-Behrens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0302 (Lieutenant Singh)
0307 (Sam Malone) Jason Parham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Doug Morency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0115 (Perp)
0108 (Sergeant) Travis Parker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Scott Michael Morgan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 0307 (Keyton Marks)
0103 (Judd Sterrino) Chris Parnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Brent Morin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0214 (Geoffrey Hoytsman); 0219 (Geoffrey Hoyts-
0202 (Gregory Phillips) man)
Seth Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dale Pavinski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0215 (Agent Piln) 0415 (Dom)
James Morrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Artemis Pebdani. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
0216 (Dan Yaeger) 0102 (Carlene)
Jan Munroe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Nasim Pedrad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0215 (Dr. Henderson) 0517 (Katie Peralta)
Meghann Murphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Eddie Pepitone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0515 (Helen) 0114 (Leo Sporm)
Mario Perez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
N 0518 (Ted)
Timothy Paul Perez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0121 (Tattooed Con)
Ravi Naidu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Rhea Perlman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0309 (Mitch) 0401 (Estelle)
Niecy Nash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Elisa Perry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0313 (Debbie Holt) 0422 (Nancy Crunder)
Ingo Neuhaus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 S.E. Perry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0121 (Alfonso) 0203 (Chief Fisker)
Margaret Newborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Nicole Pettis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0318 (Pedestrian) 0506 (Teri)
Stephane Nicoli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ryan Phillippe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
0312 (New Yorker) 0421 (Milton)
Nick Nicotera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Lou Diamond Phillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
0106 (Royal Baby 3) 0501 (Romero); 0502 (Romero)
Brendan Norman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Miles Platt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
0111 (Young Haimes) 0106 (Young Jake); 0108 (Young Jake)
Oscar Nuñez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Sean Poolman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0312 (Dr. Porp) 0310 (Michael Lorne)
Esther Povitsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
O 0402 (Emily)
Tim Powell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0302 (Chief Garmin)
Jim O’Heir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Tom Proctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0402 (Sheriff Reynolds); 0403 (Sheriff Reynolds)
0308 (Rake)
John O’Leary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Nicole Pulliam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0311 (Franklin)
0115 (Angela D’Beverly)
Nick Offerman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
0308 (Frederick)
Edelyn Okano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 R
0409 (Kris Lloyd Evert)
Amy Okuda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Ryan Radis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0122 (Chiaki) 0506 (Chip)
Andrew Oliveri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Deep Rai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0319 (Dmitri Kuzkho) 0405 (Andy Chovy)
Heather Olt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Mary Lynn Rajskub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
0121 (Sophia Bunsen) 0303 (Genevieve Mirren-Carter); 0305 (Genevieve
Afsheen Olyaie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Mirren-Carter); 0311 (Genevieve Mirren-Carter);
0303 (Perpetrator); 0316 (Street Guy) 0410 (Genevieve Mirren-Carter)
Arianna Ortiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Andrew Patrick Ralston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
0110 (Rosa’s Sister) 0301 (Bryce)
Malene Ostergaard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gio Randazzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0410 (Svetlana) 0223 (Pizza Guy)
Mike Ostroski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Amanda Rea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0407 (Benji Russo) 0517 (Irene)
Patton Oswalt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Amanda Reed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0109 (Fire Marshal Boone); 0115 (Fire Marshall 0104 (Sue)
Boone); 0116 (Fire Marshal Boone) Joshua Elijah Reese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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Jama Williamson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0413 (Rachel)
Rick Williamson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
0208 (Drug Dealer); 0404 (Janitor); 0408 (Janitor)
Matthew Willig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0114 (Brandon Jacoby)
Cassius Willis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0215 (Agent Mazzarino)
Deron Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0409 (NYPD S.W.A.T.)
Dean Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
0105 (Det. Pembroke); 0115 (Det. Pembroke (The
Vulture)); 0301 (The Vulture); 0302 (The Vul-
ture); 0310 (The Vulture); 0506 (The Vulture)
Phoenix Wong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0110 (Lookout Fred)
David Grant Wright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0217 (Justice of the Peace)
Algerita Wynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0401 (Judy-Jill Lenda)
Y
Cedric Yarbrough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0221 (Steve)
Kelsey Yates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
0305 (Cagney Jeffords); 0416 (Cagney Jeffords)
Skyler Yates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
0305 (Lacey Jeffords); 0416 (Lacey Jeffords)
Harry Yi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0317 (Henderson)
David Yorr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0518 (Waiter)
Z
Ben Zelevansky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0322 (Phil)
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