![]() Meanwhile, Amy’s confederacy of dunces are given pedometers and offered seven days of overtime for the ones who actually walk the beat. In the end, despite Boyle revealing that he has a hall pass for Dianne Wiest, it’s no big deal. We will never see these characters in their 90s, hunting down criminals in a retirement home. Finality is seeping into these episodes a bit. He will never get to see Nikolaj grow up or see what kind of man he becomes. Will Boyle be alive when she does? Poor Charles is in the emotional tailspin that comes while one waits for test results, saying things like, “Life is a cruel prank played on the living.” Later, he’s on a stakeout with Jake but can’t concentrate because he’s too busy feeling the lyrics to “I’ll Be” in a new way. (There are even Reddit threads devoted to theories on what it might be.) Will Rosa finally get to the bottom of one of the biggest mysteries of Brooklyn Nine-Nine? Holt’s secret tramp stamp has been referenced before. She will get Jake to pay her for a photo of Holt’s secret tattoo, the one that no one can ever know about. Imagine all the slight variations on the two lovable morons of the Nine-Nine that could have been rich sources of humor beyond the thin “these dudes are lazy” jokes in this episode.įinally, there’s Rosa, who knows that Holt can’t pay her to investigate fellow officers. They send their versions of Hitchcock and Scully, which is a comedically rich idea, but too little is done with it here. She convinces the other precincts to send two people each. He tries to power through because of some macho-toughness concern, but it eventually derails him, leaving Amy to figure out how to police with no police officers. Meanwhile, Terry has an upset stomach that’s distracting from his work on his prong. ![]() It sends Boyle into a tailspin, out into the street in his hospital gown. And it’s got a funny shape, color, texture, and temperature. But the doc also notices that Boyle’s left testicle is enormous. Jake and Charles discover that one doctor diagnosed mono in all the missing cops, but Charles is immune because he got it as a child - all those afternoons playing “Hide the Yam” with his cousin will finally pay off. Finally, Holt goes outside the precinct to Rosa, asking her to prove that the mouse in the burrito was planted.Īt least two of the prongs are derailed by physical conditions. The second, and strongest, is handed to Terry and Amy, tasked with figuring out how to stop crime from rising in a precinct with no officers. The first goes to Peralta and Boyle - go to the doctor and prove the sick notes from the officers are fraudulent. Time to get out the prongs of Holt’s trident. Crime goes up, as O’Sullivan uses the moment to fire up #BlueLivesMatter sympathy. The incident is a minor annoyance, or, as Peralta would say, “No big whoop,” at least until the officers stage a walkout (or blue flu) in support of the fabricated burrito story. Holt compares the approach to a trident, nearly driving DCEU fan Jake Peralta insane (though the tridents in Aquaman and Justice League, which Holt has clearly never seen, have five prongs instead of the correct three). The effort to do so leads to a three-pronged attack. Once again leaning into a season that clearly wants to dismantle this show’s role in copaganda, the writers make it clear that their officers would never put a mouse in a burrito - they’d catch the guy who did. Of course, the Vermin Burrito story is supposed to recall similar cases of police officers making up stories - like the Shake Shack Milkshake or the nonsense about an officer having the word “pig” written on a cup from McDonald’s - hoping to gain some viral support. It opens with a news report of an NYPD officer who finds a dead mouse in his burrito, which Frank O’Sullivan calls an act of “political violence.” Holt points out that the to-go order was placed without the restaurant knowing the customer was a cop, which made the whole thing suspicious. ![]() If the series premiere was about the “bad apples” concept, the third episode is about how often officers band together to protect their rotten fruit. Let’s hope the pattern doesn’t continue for a third week. They both contain enough moments of humor and insight to work reasonably well on their own terms, but they’re also both in the shadow of superior outings from just a week ago. The result is a pair of episodes that kind of feel like an echo of last week rather than pushing forward any sort of season momentum. The creative team behind Brooklyn Nine-Nine has trotted out the same formula as the show’s premiere week for its sophomore double feature, once again chaining an episode that tackles real-world concerns with one more centered on the personal lives of the members of the Nine-Nine.
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