"99" is the 9th episode of Season Five and the 99th episode overall in the Brooklyn Nine-Nine television series. It aired on December 5, 2017 to 1.94 million viewers. Viewers give it 8.6 out of 10 on IMDb.
Episode Synopsis[]
This is the episode when Jake gets to visit the building from Die Hard. While the entire precinct attends a funeral in LA, Holt learns that he is in the running to become Chief Commissioner of the NYPD - his dream job. But after missing their flight back to New York, Jake must devise a variety of ways to get Holt back in time for the interview. Forced to stay with some estranged members of the Boyle family, Amy tries to convince everyone that she can be laid back, Terry panics about losing his first-class flight and Charles uncovers some new information about Rosa's personal life.
The squad's old commanding officer Captain McGintley passed away, and the precinct attends the funeral in LA. At the funeral, Amy decides to be more loose after seeing pictures of her looking high strung, while Boyle decides to play matchmaker for Rosa, only for her to reveal that she is already seeing someone. Chief Aggerton approaches Holt and tells him that the commissioner is retiring and that he's on the short list with three other people. While everybody is excited about the news, Holt seems rather disinterested.
The next day, the squad drives to the airport to catch their flight, with Terry excited that he is going in the first-class section. However, Jake notices the Nakatomi Plaza from Die Hard, and convinces everybody to tour the place and take pictures. After, they find that the doors are locked, and by the time security lets them out, they missed their flight. To make matters worse, a storm in the mid west has caused all other fights to cancel. Knowing that the commissioner interview is on Monday, Jake tells the squad that they'll have to take a 48 hour road trip from LA to Brooklyn in order to make it. Despite Holt announcing that there were no cars available, Jake manages to rent a cheap RV for them to use.
During the trip, Terry uses hot paper towels in order to get his first-class experience that he missed, and Boyle tries to pry Rosa on who her new boyfriend is. When Jake realizes that they are going slower than expected, he announces that they had to make less stops and use the bathroom in the RV. However, after Scully goes first, Jake rescinds his decision, but an attempt to punch it stalls the RV. After Jake checks the RV, it blows up, leaving the squad stranded with no vehicle, food, or clothes. However, Boyle realizes that they're close to his cousin's cow ranch, and they allow them to stay the night.
During the night, Boyle catches Rosa on a call, and it turns out that her new date is a girl and reveals that she's bisexual. While the rest struggle to sleep due to the cow moans, Jake tells Holt that the reason he's determined to get him back to Brooklyn is because he changed his life since becoming the 99's captain, but Holt says that his dream would never happen. The next day, Jake tells the group that they passed a city on the way called Jacksboro, a place he recognized due to buying beef jerky from a company located there. There's a cargo plane they can stow away in to get to Philadelphia. After changing into Boyle's cousins clothes, the squad rides in a cattle trailer to Jacksboro. They're soon pulled over by the police as someone tipped them that there were drugs in a "Grey Bovine Transport Unit". Jake thinks over what he heard, and realizes that Holt called the cops on them, with his phone history confirming it.
Jake deduces that Holt has been sabotaging them from the start; driving by Nakatomi Plaza intentionally, locking them long enough so they missed their flights, breaking the speedometer, getting Scully to stink up the place by having him eat three corn dogs, and putting cheese puffs into the gas tank to stall the RV (although Holt admitted that the explosion was unintentional). An angry Jake asks Holt if the commissioner job offer is real, and Holt says it is, but reveals that the reason he was trying to sabotage them was because he got compromised with a deal he made months ago. This leads Amy to realize that Holt took the deal with Seamus Murphy months ago, and Jake is stunned that Holt put his entire career in jeopardy to rescue him and Rosa out of prison. Despite Holt saying that he did not want anybody entangled in his mistake, Jake reminds him that they're a team, and that they will work through this. Despite that, Holt says that it's too late as they missed the cargo plane, but Jake tells Amy to go back to her high strungness. Using loopholes and careful scheduling, Amy manages to get everybody back to Brooklyn and in time for Holt's interview.
At the bar, Rosa tells Boyle that while she did not tell anybody about her bisexuality, she is happy that the first person she told was him. Soon, Holt comes in and tells them that while he is in a good standing for the commissioner job, he's still concerned about what to do with Murphy. However, Jake tells him that they will deal with it when the time comes.
- Charles Boyle
- Rosa Diaz
- Charles Boyle
- Rosa Diaz
- Jake Peralta
- Rosa Diaz
- Jake Peralta
Take my picture with it!
- Jake Peralta
- Charles Boyle
- Rosa Diaz
- Terry Jeffords
- Steve Boyle
- Jake Peralta
- Tommy Boyle
Cast[]
| Actor | … | Character |
|---|---|---|
| Andy Samberg | ... | Jake Peralta |
| Stephanie Beatriz | ... | Rosa Diaz |
| Terry Crews | ... | Terry Jeffords |
| Melissa Fumero | ... | Amy Santiago |
| Joe Lo Truglio | ... | Charles Boyle |
| Andre Braugher | ... | Captain Ray Holt |
| Dirk Blocker | ... | Michael Hitchcock |
| Joel McKinnon Miller | ... | Norm Scully |
| John Deignan | ... | Trooper Clint |
| Mike Hagerty | ... | Captain McGintley |
| Galen Howard | ... | Tommy Boyle |
| Frederick Koehler | ... | Becca Boyle |
| Joe Roche | ... | Steve Boyle |
| Rocky McMurray | … | Chief Aggerton |
| Bernardo Verdugo | ... | Al |
| Alexander Harris | ... | Arlo |
Cool Cool Cool Things[]
The American Creeper
Mr. Mint
Gray Bovine Transport Unit
99th Episode Celebration
Soundtrack[]
Trivia[]
- Rosa comes out to Charles as bi
- Terry told Jake he was too old to do the worm on December 4, 2013
- It took Jake 4 years to be able to do the worm
- Captain McGintley passed away
- His funeral was in Los Angeles
- Amy is high-strung
- Holt doesn't believe in jinxes
- Boyle believes sadness is a powerful aphrodisiac because everyone cries during sex
- Charles took 600 pictures of Jake at Nakatomi Plaza
- Charles and Lynn Boyle took a road trip every summer
- There is a Boyle in every state.
- The Texas Boyles are the cow-insemination kings of Central Texas
- Rosa is dating a woman
- Charles' cousin called him babe and Rosa told him that relatives shouldn't do that
- Holt calls the farm a bovine brothel
- Holt only has 1 dream a year that is on Tax Day and he has to file an extension
- Hitchcock has a step-sister
- Jake orders a lot of beef jerky online
- Holt blew up the American Creeper by putting a couple cheese puffs in the gas tank
- During the Dr. Goor production card, a cow's moo, is heard instead of the usual shh
Running Gags Mentioned[]
- Boyle Family
- Charles Boyle Being Subconsciously Sexual
- Charles Boyle's Femininity
- Die Hard
- Jake's Daddy Issues
- Mervyn's
- Robot Captain
- Scully's Health Issues
Featured Relationships[]
Connections to Other Episodes[]
- Holt sabotages the trip because of the deal he made with Seamus Murphy. Seamus Murphy approached Amy in the episode The Big House Pt. 2 and Holt advised her not to get involved with him and put her career at risk. He later comes to cash in his favor in the episode The Favor. Seamus then seeks revenge on Holt in the episode Safe House.
- Rosa broke up with Adrian Pimento in the episode Kicks.
- Captain McGintley was introduced as the preceding captain of the 99th precinct before Holt arrived in the Pilot episode.
- When Jake connects the tip called into the police with Captain Holt's robot-like vernacular he uses the same line he said in the Pilot when they first met, "meep-morp-zeep."
- Charles' connection with funerals being a meat market was shown in the Season 2 episode The Funeral that he had a woman he slept with at funerals.
Videos[]
Images[]
Behind The Scenes[]
- The character, Rosa Diaz, coming out as bisexual was inspired[1] by the actor, Stephanie Beatriz's coming out as bisexual in July 2016.[2]
- Dan Goor is responsible for the sounds of the cows in this episode, including the vanity card [3]
- Chelsea Peretti is not in this episode because she was on maternity leave[4]
| Filming Location | City, State | Details | Scenes |
|---|---|---|---|
| NYPD 78th Precinct | Brooklyn, New York | Building exterior | Establishing shots meant to represent the 99th Precinct |
| South 5th Street | Next to river, beneath Williamsburg Bridge | Ensemble walking down the street in the Title Sequence | |
| CBS Studio Center | Studio City, California | Stage 12 | Scenes that take place in the 99th Precinct |
| Stage 10 | Scenes that take place inside Shaw's Bar | ||
| NY Street Backlot | Establishing shots meant to represent Shaw's Bar |
References[]
- ↑ Variety, 12/05/2017, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Team on Rosa's Coming Out and Hitting 99 Episodes, "That idea was definitely generated by the real life fact that Beatriz came out recently as bisexual,” series executive producer Dan Goor tells Variety."
- ↑ Stephanie Beatriz Twitter Post, 07/16/2006, Stephanie Beatriz's Coming Out as Bisexual
- ↑ Brooklyn 99 Podcast
- ↑ Variety, 09/26/2017, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Boss on Season 5: Jake and Rosa in Jail and the Milestone 99th Episode,"Chelsea and Gina are both on maternity leave, so Chelsea’s not in at least the first eight or nine episodes. We saw a little bit of it at the end of last year, but Chelsea would kill me if I made her put on a pregnancy suit."
