- Director
- Joe Lo Truglio
- Writers
- Paul Welsh, Madeline Walter
- Rating
- TV-14
- Running Time
- 22 minutes
- Airs
- Thursdays
- Channel
- 8:30 (CityTV), 9pm (NBC)
Overall Score
Rating Summary
For our review of the last episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, click here.
Synopsis: Holt and Jake investigate a case at Kevin’s university. Back at the precinct, Terry and Amy take the squad out for lunch. (IMDB)
The cold open was of Jake missing the morning meeting. Holt’s creative and painful punishment was to leave him out of a series of intricate high-fives he devised with everybody else.
Kevin made a visit to the precinct to share a case with Jake about the theft of antique coins from his university department. He did not want to involve Holt because of how emotional he gets when a case involved him. Keeping this a secret from Holt will prove tough but it wouldn’t stay a secret for long as he saw through their lie. In reality, Holt was just feeling insecure next to his more academic husband and saw himself as a bimbo. Jake brought Holt in to take the lead on the case and also prove himself to Kevin’s academic circle (where Holt was the Jake of the group and Jake was the Hitchcock of the group).
Holt did not have the best start with the case as he was uncharacteristically speechless when questioning the dean. As soon as they had a promising lead, a janitor just happened to stumble onto one of the missing coins in another professor’s office. While the case appeared to be solved, Holt believed that the dean planted that coin in a bid to eliminate one of his biggest rivals. All their evidence would be for naught after following the dean (and getting themselves in a Harry Potter themed cappella circle). However, instead of thinking like a smart person, their suspicions shifted to the janitor.
Meanwhile, the precinct refrigerator broke and Terry and Amy competed to raise morale, each buying half the precinct increasingly extravagant lunches and experiences. The others would get tired of being in the middle of Terry and Amy’s competition. In the end, the two would come together and create a lunch zone for the precinct where they could eat their lunches in privacy.
The episode ended with Holt and Jake confronting the dean with their discovery. The janitor admitted to stealing the coins. When the dean continued to not take Holt seriously, Kevin would make a scene similar to Holt made previously, touchingly standing up to the dean for his husband and his wet and squishy brain (Jake wanted him to say rock hard since the other way sounded gross) before holding hands (which would PDA for them).
At the end of the day, we should all be like Holt and Kevin.
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