Chasing Amy is the 18th episode of the Season Four in the Brooklyn Nine-Nine television series. It premiered on May 9, 2017 to 1.61 million viewers.
Episode Synopsis[]
Amy Santiago suddenly vanishes hours before taking the Sergeant Exam, and it's up to Jake Peralta and Rosa Diaz to find her before it's too late. Meanwhile, Terry Jeffords and Raymond Holt devise a plan to spruce up the soft room by adding in model trains for children who come into the precinct. Gina Linetti and Charles Boyle debate over who gets the Mother Dough left by Great Nana Boyle after she died.
Amy’s stressed because she’s taking the Sargent’s exam that only happens once every 3 years. To help her to calm down Jake creates an environment full of distractions for Amy to take a practice test in hopes she’d see how prepared she already is.
Terry notices the “soft room” for kids in the precinct is lacking in activities for the children. When bringing it up to Holt they discover they’re both fans of model trains and plan to create a model train set for the kids to play with.
Charles gives Gina the Boyle family sourdough starter that Great Nana Boyle accidentally left Gina in her will. Gina then extorts Charles for $10,000 after seeing his desperation for it.
Instead of calming her down it does the opposite and she freaks out and leaves without anyone noticing, leaving a note telling Jake she isn’t taking the Sargent’s Exam. Rosa and Jake begin a hunt for her.
Charles pays Gina $12,000 and more for the Mother Dough and Gina reveals that she left it beneath her desk near Jacinta, her space heater, burnt it to a crisp.
Jake role plays as Amy which leads them to the library.
While building the train set Terry and Holt disagree if model trains are for imagination or recreating the world in miniature form. They agree to make separate train sets which the child can choose from.
The librarian tells them Amy called a car service from her phone. From there they follow Amy’s trail to the Department of Records where Amy’s best and only friend, Kylie, works. Due to Jake’s dismal participation as a Trivia Newton John team mate, Kylie reluctantly helps them. She finds a file that was accessed that tips Jake off to where Amy is.
A child, Dylan, arrives at the precinct and Holt and Terry try to win him over with each of their different train sets. He asks to play video games and informs them that trains are lame and nobody plays with them.
Two Boyle cousins, Tina and Sam, arrive at the precinct with an Officer of the Court to collect the Mother Dough just as Charles is explaining to Gina that she will be kicked out of the family for burning it. When she tells them what happened Sam banishes them both from the family.
Jake finds Amy at the rooftop of 397 Barton Street, which is where he and Santiago conducted surveillance in the Season One episode, The Bet. Amy explains that she didn’t mess up the test, but because she realized things could change between her and Jake. He calms her fears by telling her she can’t be afraid to be successful and that he’s always known she’d be his boss. They go to leave and learn the door to the rooftop is locked.
They can’t get a hold of Rosa and have only 20 minutes left until the test starts. Jake fulfills a Die Hard fantasy and jumps off the side of the roof with a fire hose tied to him only to discover he can’t burst through the windows because they have bars on them.
Terry and Holt discuss how nobody likes model trains and Terry tries to swoon Holt into recognizing how lucky they are they found one other person they can share their love of model trains with. Holt plays cool only to coalesce and the two combine their train sets to play together.
Rosa comes to the rooftop looking for Jake and Amy to find Jake hanging off the side of the building. She takes care of Jake while Amy goes to take the test.
While Charles is longingly going through family vacation photos Christina and Sam show up back at the precinct. Gina invited them there to show them the new Mother Dough she made as an attempt to get Boyle back into the family. After agreeing to give them full access to her apartment they agree.
Jake and Rosa meet up with Amy after she takes her test. As a thank you for chasing her down and getting her to the test she takes Jake to a Transformers trivia night only to have him freeze under the trivia pressure.
- Amy sings songs from the Great American Songbook when she is at Level 2 of her panic scale
- Amy states that a child could pass the Medical College Admission Test in the briefing room
- Terry says that all the toys in the soft room are from the movie Kazaam
- Jake asks Rosa if he should give a TED Talk
- Jake guessed "Winter is Coming" at trivia. This is from Game of Thrones
- The correct answer was The British are coming! said by Paul Revere
- Jake guessed Jesse Eisenberg came up with the Theory of relativity
- Jake brags that he knows the names of all the The Transformers including the Dinobots and the character Grimlock
- Jake jumps off the roof attached to a fire hose like
- "See you in hell, kiddo" is a quote from Die Hard
- The final trivia night is based around [[Wikipedia:Transformers (film series}|The Transformers movies]]
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 |
| Sarah Baker | ... | Kylie |
| Seth Carr | ... | Young Holt |
| John Franklin | ... | Tina Boyle |
| Christopher Gehrman | ... | Sam Boyle |
| Jim Senti | ... | Trivia Host |
| Carole Gutierrez | ... | Beth Nurmenstein (Librarian) |
| Cornell Adams | ... | Ray (Driver) |
| AJ Hudson | ... | Dylan (Witness' Child) |
Trivia[]
- Jake mentions that he and Amy conducted their surveillance at 397 Barton Street on January 14, 2014. This appeared in The Bet which originally aired on the same date.
- Amy's only friend Kylie appears for the first time, after being mentioned several times in earlier episodes.
- Amy planned on being the youngest captain in the history of the NYPD
- Amy has a life calendar that hangs over her and Jake’s bed
- Jake hadn’t successfully boiled an egg until a week prior to this episode
- Amy got a 102% on the Sergeant's Exam practice test. She found a spelling error in one question and gave herself extra credit.
- Amy finished the Sergeant’s exam 45 minutes early.
- Jake and Amy have a joint account at Brooklyn Town Cars.
The chalkboard in the break room reads
Train 5927 leaves ... This is a reference to the train used to represent the Hogwarts Express in the Harry Potter films and at the theme parks.
Running Gags Mentioned[]
Merchandise[]
In September 2024 NBC partnered with Funko Pop! to release an Amy Santiago Funko Pop! figure based on Amy Santiago with stress braids in her hair. They were sold wherever Funk Pop! figurines were available.
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Behind The Scenes[]
| 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 | |
| The Studios At Paramount | Los Angeles, California | New York Street[1] 1. Brooklyn Set 2. Financial District Set |
1. Tracking Amy to library 2. Drop off 2. Dept. of Records |
| 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 | Street Entrance from Precinct when tracking Amy Establishing shots meant to represent Shaw's Bar |
- ↑ Paramount Studios, Stages & Backlot, New York Backlot