"Johnny and Dora" is the 23rd and final episode of Season Two in the Brooklyn Nine-Nine television series. It originally aired on May 17, 2015 to 2.35 million viewers. Viewers give it a 9 out of 10 on IMDb.
Episode Synopsis
Jake Peralta and Amy Santiago go undercover to catch Brooklyn’s most notorious identity thief, Micheal Augustine. The case brings them closer together. Meanwhile, the entire precinct is caught off-guard when one of Raymond Holt says goodbye to the Nine-Nine.
The vending machine meets its fate.
The episode begins with Scully shouting and Hitchcock consoling him, saying he has to be strong for her right now. Terry questions what's going on. The worker says the vending machine's being replaced, followed by disappointment by the squad. Jake says the machine is part of the force, and asks them to take Scully instead. Scully pleads "Take me to the land of vending machines." Jake asks for 5 minutes to say goodbye. He then plays "Amazing Grace" played by a bagpipe while the squad salutes. The vending machine tips over, and the squad runs to grab free candy.
At the Morning Briefing, Jake introduces Michael Augustine, Brooklyn's most prolific identity thief.
He says last week Augustine walked into a government building and stole a computer containing over 100,000 Social Security numbers. Jake's CI says tonight Augustine will hand off the laptop to a buyer from China, aka the "Land of Dragons". Holt urges Peralta to make sure he doesn't include that phrase in the official report. Jake then corrects it to "The Country of Dragons". Holt wants him and Santiago to tail Augustine and arrest him and the buyer, but Jake insists on taking Boyle. Holt then announces that Boyle and Diaz will join them in the surveillance van. Later Amy asks Peralta if she did something to him, to which he replies "Remember when you told me that you didn't want to date cops?", which he says that really bummed him out, because he wanted to ask her out. They agree to keep their relationship strictly professional and non-awkward.
Meanwhile Holt calls Gina and Terry to his office. He has news, and tells them to keep it a secret. He says Wuntch is making him Head of Public Relations for the NYPD, that he's being forced out of the Nine-Nine. Holt informs them about a letter that before their current police commissioner, before he was hired, Wuntch had written a letter to the mayor stating that it was a mistake. She called her now-boss a "simpering buffoon". Holt tells them a copy of that letter exists in the mayor's archives, and because he can't snoop around without alerting Madeline, he asks Gina and Terry to find that letter.
Charles walks up to Rosa, saying that he knows she doesn't like anyone wishing her a Happy Birthday, so he wishes her a crappy birthday. He states that he assumes that she wasn't going to celebrate tonight, so since she's free, he asks her to help him move a Ms. Pac-Man machine from a bar. Rosa quickly realizes that he wants her to go to a surprise party and asks if Marcus put him up to this. Charles denies the fact, saying they just need to be there at 9:45, and there's an exact door he wants her to go through.
Jake, Amy, Charles and Rosa follow Augustine to a restaurant, where he has the laptop with him. Charles says this place has an amazing bone marrow custard. Amy says she and Jake look too much like cops, so she unbuttons her shirt and wears Rosa's jacket, and Jake puts on Scully's coat.
When they enter the restaurant, it is fully booked up, until Amy claims that she and "Johnny" (Peralta) just got engaged, and this was where they had their first date. Johnny agrees and says he would've booked a reservation sooner, but he didn't know if Dora (Amy) was going to say yes. The hostess tries to find them a table. They sit next to Augustine and his date, who asks them many questions about their relationship.
When all else fails.
Meanwhile Gina and Terry reach the 4th floor Archives. According to Gina's sources, the letter is in cabinet J-13. Their plan is Terry sneaks in and grabs the letter, and Gina distracts the file clerk, who's into bird watching. Terry struggles to find the letter and Gina is desperately trying to distract the file clerk. They find the letter and show it to Holt.
First time to maintain their cover.
At the restaurant, Augustine tells his date to wait in the car, while he talks to the chef. Amy and Jake follow him, thinking that the chef is the buyer from China. After being spotted by Augustine, they kiss in order to keep their cover.
When they tell Charles and Rosa, Charles instantly freaks out happily and Augustine leaves the package at a park, so Amy and Jake follow him and hide by a tree.
Holt shows Wuntch the letter, and he asks her if she wants to give him his precinct back, but she tells him it's not that simple, she can't just reverse his promotion.
Second time to maintain their cover.
Johnny and Dora spot the buyer from China waiting for the perfect time to take the laptop. They kiss to keep their cover, and the buyer tries to take the laptop, but Santiago and Peralta raise their guns and arrest him. Back at the precinct, they tell each other they don't want anything to change; to keep their relationship professional.
The big surprise.
When Rosa and Charles arrive at the bar, she sees that Marcus rented the entire bar just for the two of them, rather than holding a whole party for her, knowing that she would hate it. She thanks Charles before he leaves.
Back at the precinct, Madeline tells Holt that he can show the letter to the commissioner, but it will take months to authenticate. She threatens to make some personnel changes: transfer Rosa to Brighton Beach, Charles to Long Island, Amy to Pelham Bay and Peralta to Staten Island. Holt then announces that he is leaving the precinct, effective immediately, to work at the public relations office. The squad, especially Santiago, is upset, and Jake asks him to be robot captain again.
For real this time.
Jake finds Amy, who is still processing the information. They share a real kiss, before Charles calls them to see who the new Captain is. The squad is speculating on who the new Captain will be. The elevator doors open.
Television Shows
Miami Vice
- Jake's undercover character, Johnny, is based off the main character whose nickname was Sonny
- Johnny dating a speedboat model is a reference Miami Vice was based in Miami, speedboats were used heavily in the show
- Since the only sports coat they have available is much too large, Charles suggests that Jake should “Don Johnson it.” Don Johnson is an actor, whose character on Miami Vice would wear sports jackets with the sleeves pushed up.
- It is revealed that Rosa is upset with the way the show Gilmore Girls ended.
- Amy, as Dora, says that she and Johnny are going on their honeymoon in Waco, Texas. Amy then reveals to Jake that she just saw the town on Dateline NBC. Waco, Texas is infamous for the 1993 ATF siege of a religious commune where a fire killed 76 people.
Games
- Trying to lure Rosa to a surprise birthday party, Charles mentions that he needs her to help him transport a Ms. Pac-Man game he has recently purchased. Ms. Pac-Man is an arcade video game released in the 1980s.
Movies
- Prepared to take down Deputy Chief Wuntch, Holt asks for a bucket of water in order to melt a witch. This is referencing The Wizard of Oz, where the Wicked Witch of the West is defeated using the same method.
- Teasing Amy about how long it takes her to write her signature, Jake says he’s going to watch the film Braveheart while he waits. The runtime for Braveheart is nearly 3 hours.
- Gina leaving the Nine-Nine with Captain Holt is slightly similar to an iconic scene in the film Jerry Maguire.
Musicals
- Charles said he played Daddy Warbucks in his high school's production of Annie, and made out with the the girl who played the title character. In the play, Daddy Warbucks is Annie’s adoptive father.
Athletes
- Madeline Wuntch tells Holt she feels like Jackie Joyner-Kersee, a famous American athlete who won 6 Olympic medals.
Music
- Jake says he's certain Amy said she had hella open cases and follows it with "No diggity No Doubt" which is the lyrics of the song No Diggity by Blackstreet that was released in 2009 (music video below}
- Gina asks the file clerk if a bird they are discussing sounds like Rihanna. The “eh, eh,” sound is prominent in Rihanna’s popular song Umbrella.
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[Everyone rushes into the bullpen]
Scully: No! No, no, no! You can't take her from me, you b*st*rd!
Hitchcock: Don't do this, Scully. You have to be strong for her right now.
Terry: What's going on?
Greg Gerg: Unit's being replaced.
[together] Come on! No!
Jake: That machine's been here forever. It's basically part of the force. Take Scully instead.
Scully: Yes, please, take me to the land of vending machines.
Jake: Can we at least have five minutes to say a proper good-bye?
Greg: Whatever.
Jake: Let me just start by saying that this machine is the best restaurant in Brooklyn, and it always had a table for me.
Rosa: I knew just where to punch it to get free food. Now I have to go back to punching Hitchcock.
Terry: Look, she still has the bags of baby carrots I requested they put in. They're black now, but they're there.
Jake: Good-bye, beautiful machine. Thank you for your service. Okay, squad salute.
(bagpipes playing Amazing Grace) ♪ ♪
Jake: You can take her away now. Well, I think we handled that with dignity.
[Vending machine crashes onto the ground]
Jake: Free candy!
[Opening credits]
♪ ♪ Opening tune plays
[Briefing Room Meeting]
Jake: Okay, Nine-Nine, say hello to Michael Augustine, Brooklyn's most prolific identity thief. Last week, he walked into a government building and stole a computer containing over 100,000 social security numbers. My C.I. says that tonight Augustine will be handing off the laptop to a buyer from China, AKA the Land of Dragons.
Holt: Make sure that phrase is not in your official report.
Jake: Okay, sorry, The Country of Dragons.
Holt: I want you and Santiago to tail Augustine until he makes the drop, and then arrest him and the buyer.
Jake: Sounds good, although I could probably just take Boyle. I know Amy has a ton of work, so... Amy: No, I don't.
Jake: Really? I could have sworn I overheard you telling Rosa, "Girlfriend, please. I got hella open cases." Amy: That's something you think I said?
Jake: Word for word. No diggity, no doubt.
Holt: That's enough. Peralta and Santiago will tail Augustine. Boyle and Diaz will join them in a surveillance van unless you have a problem with that.
Jake: Sounds great. In the immortal words of Amy Santiago, "Girlfriend, please."
[Amy approaches Jake who is buying something from the vending machine in the break room]
Amy: Hey, did I do something to you? Are you mad? Is this because I brushed all the crumbs off your desk?
Jake: What? No, I don't care about that. Do you know where they are?
Amy: In the trash. All right, if it's not that, then why are you trying to keep me off this case?
Jake: Oh, that. All right, look, the reason that I didn't want to work with you is... should I do this in an accent so that I can undercut some of the awkwardness I'm feeling?
Amy: No.
Jake: Good call. Remember when you told me that you didn't want to date cops? [in Jamaican accent] That really bummed me out, man.
Amy:Jamaican?
Jake:Yeah, it was a bad choice. I'm much better at German. [sighs] All right, fine. I was kind of thinking about asking you out.
Amy: Oh, okay.
Jake: But I know that that's not what you want, and I totally get it. I think it just took me a while to totally-totally get it, and now I totally get it.
Amy: Jake, this is weird. The whole point of me not dating cops is so it wouldn't be weird at work
Jake: Okay, so let's just make it not weird, right? This is a case; we work cases together all the time, and we're really good at it, so, you know, we're professionals.
Amy: That's all I want, for us to be professional.
Jake: We're in agreement. [in German accent] It will be good and professional.
[Gina and Terry enter Captain Holt's Office]
Holt: Come in and shut the door. I have some news, which you must promise to keep secret. Madeline Wuntch is making me head of public relations for the NYPD. I'm being forced out of the Nine-Nine. I don't wish to make a big deal of it, so please limit your reactions to one second; go.
Terry: What in the world?
Gina: Are you kidding?
Holt: That's plenty.
Gina: You can't leave us.
Holt: I'm not going anywhere. Madeline's not some invincible succubus. She's a regular succubus, and she can be defeated. We just need to find the letter.
Terry: What letter?
Holt: Before our current police commissioner was hired, a mutual friend told me Madeline wrote a letter to the mayor telling him it was a mistake. She apparently called her now-boss a "simpering buffoon".
Gina: Amateur; always say your insults to someone's face. No paper trail.
Holt: A copy of that letter exists in the mayor's archives. I can't go snooping around without alerting Madeline, so it won't be easy, and we don't have much time, but I need you to find that letter. Are you with me?
Terry: Oh, hell yeah.
Gina: I'm turning my phone into airplane mode.
Terry: Oh, my God, she doesn't even do that on airplanes.
[Charles approaching Rosa's desk]
Charles: Rosa, I know you don't like anyone wishing you a happy birthday, so crappy day to you.
Rosa: Still too much.
Charles: I assume you're not doing anything to celebrate tonight.
Rosa: Anyone over the age of six celebrating a birthday should go to hell.
Charles: So since you're free, I need your help moving this old Ms. Pac-Man machine I just bought.
Rosa: Why are you so obsessed with that game?
Charles: Because it's the sexiest video game ever. She's insatiable, Rosa. Insatiable. Insatiab...
Rosa: Stop saying "insatiable."
Charles: Anyway, I bought this old machine from a bar, and I was hoping you'd help me move it.
Rosa: You want me to go to a bar?
Charles: Mm-hmm.
Rosa: You are obviously trying to get me to go to a surprise party. Did Marcus put you up to this?
Charles: What? No, that's crazy talking. We just need to be there at exactly 9:45 p.m. and not a minute earlier. Also, there's a particular door I want us to enter through.
[Rosa driving a surveillance vehicle, Charles in the passenger seat, Amy and Jake in the back]
Amy: Why is he getting out here? I thought your C.I. said the drop was happening in a park.
Rosa: Maybe he's having dinner with his sidepiece first.
Amy: Augustine has the laptop with him. We should just arrest him right here.
Jake: No, the buyer's the bigger collar. We've got to follow him in and wait for the hand off.
Charles: Okay, if you're going in, I've heard this place has an amazing bone marrow custard. [laughs] Not that I've ever had a bad one.
Jake: No. All right, let's go.
Amy: No, wait, we look like cops. We're never gonna blend in dressed like this. Okay, there, how's that?
Jake: Uh, I don't know. All I see is clothes hanging off of a genderless blob.
Rosa: You look fine. Here, wear this. Jake, you need a jacket or something.
Charles: Well, Scully left his sports coat back there. Oh, but it will never fit Jake's athletic body. Unless...
Jake: No, I don't want to do that.
Charles: You have to.
Jake: I'm not gonna do it.
Charles: You're doing it.
Amy: What? What do you have to do?
Jake: Don Johnson it.
Charles: Don Johnson it!
[Jan Hammer's Miami Vice Theme] ♪ ♪
[Jake and Amy enter restaurant]
Jake: I look like an idiot. I didn't even have time to lotion my forearms.
Amy: It's so weird wearing Rosa's jacket. There's a piece of barbed wire in the pocket.
Jake: Cool. All right, do you have a visual on... the hostess stand? Hi. Table for two, please.
Hostess: I'm so sorry. There's nothing available. We're totally booked up.
Amy: Oh, no, that's horrible. Tonight's a really important night for us. Johnny and I just got engaged, and this is where our first date was.
Jake: Oh, yeah, it would mean so much to Dora and me. I would have made a reservation, but I didn't know if she was gonna say yes, so...
Amy: Oh, I love how nervous you were, you little goose.
Hostess: You are just so sweet together. You know, I'm sure I can find room for two young lovers.
Jake: Yeah, we are lovers... together... in beds.
Amy: Okay.
[Jake and Amy in restaurant lobby area]
Hostess: Thank you so much for waiting. Your table is almost ready.
Jake: Great.
Amy: Sorry about springing the engagement and romantic stuff on you.
Jake: No, no, no. That was great. I mean, it's what got us in here. Cheek kiss was a bit much. Very wet.
Amy: Well, I don't know what to tell you. Dora's sloppy.
Hostess:Okay, and if you'll just follow me.
Jake: Well, the honeymoon's over, Dora. We're back to being Jake and Amy, two normal cops working a job.
Hostess: All right, there you go.
Jake: Thanks.
Lexie: You're the couple that just got engaged.
Jake: That's us, Johnny and Dora, a couple for sure.
[Hallway of the Mayor's Offices]
Gina: Okay, according to my sources in the assistant community, the letter is right here in the fourth-floor archives, cabinet J-13.
Terry: Nice job. What's the plan?
Gina: You sneak in and get the letter. I'll distract the file clerk. Apparently, he's very into bird watching, so talking to a woman should blow his mind. And talking to this woman, it could kill him.
[Gina walking up to the File Clerk (Wayne)'s desk]
Gina: Here, can you look at this map of a park and tell me where them hot birds hang out?
Wayne: Well, you're gonna want to, uh, avoid the, uh, great lawn, because it's basically just grackles.
Gina: Ugh, grackles?
Wayne: Yeah.
Gina: I hate grackles. They're the worst.
Wayne: Well, a lot of people think grackles are just a common bird up here, but you know what? On the West Coast they don't get grackles.
Gina: Can you give some more info for a novice bird watcher such as myself?
Wayne: You have got to know the difference between your water birds. I mean, so many people don't know the difference between an anhinga and a snake bird and a swamp hawk. A lot of people don't know they're all the same bird.
Gina: Are those the ones that sound like Rihanna kind of when they sing?
Wayne: I'm not familiar with who that is.
Gina: They're like, "Eh, eh."
Wayne: That sounds like that might be a crested woodpecker.
Gina: Or is it more like [whistles]
Wayne: Well, that's a crested titmouse maybe?
Gina: Oh, my God, that's it. Wayne, you are a damn treasure trove.
[ Terry slams the letter onto Holt's Desk]
Terry: We got the letter.
Holt : Well done. Now get me Madeline and a bucket of water. It's time to melt a witch.
[Charles and Rosa in Surveillance Vehicle]
Rosa: Who else is going?
Charles: Rosa, listen to me, there is no party. Just get off my doughnut already.
Rosa: Don't lie to me, Boyle, or you will be eating your bone marrow custard through a straw.
Charles: That's exactly how you're supposed to eat bone marrow
Rosa: - Charles! -
Charles: Ah! All right, there's a party. I can't give you details. All I can say is I know you, and I know you'll have a good time.
Rosa: If you knew me, you'd know I hate surprise parties, so clearly you don't know me at all.
Charles: What? We're friends. I was building up to calling you "Ro-ro" one of these days.
Rosa: That will never happen. In fact, you just lost "Rosa" privileges. From now on, you can call me "Diaz" or "Hey, you."
Charles: Come on, Rosa. Come on, hey, you.
[Amy and Jake in the restaurant]
Jake: Wow, champagne and oysters. You really shouldn't have, guys.
Michael Augustine: Well, it's a special night.
Lexi: So when did you guys meet?
[Jake and Amy reply at the same time]
Jake: - Last year.
Amy: - Five years ago.
Jake: We first met five years ago, but we don't count it, because I was dating a speedboat model at the time.
Amy: And I was dating a super handsome comptroller of a major U.S. city.
Jake: Anyways, about a year ago, we bumped into each other at a bar, and we haven't been able to keep our hands off each other since.
Amy: Mm.
Lexi: So how did you know she was the one?
Jake: I'd love to answer that. Um, you know, just whenever I look at her face and the attached physique.
Lexi: And you?
Amy: Uh He makes me laugh.
Jake: And, you know, there's really no one else's opinion who I care about more than hers, so
Lexi: Okay, so enough chitchat Let's see the ring.
[Jake and Amy at the same time]
Amy: I don't have it on me.
Jake: She has gigantic fingers.
Jake: What I meant to say is that the ring I got would never have fit on her fingers, because they are that of a giant, behemoth person.
[Precinct Interrogation Room]
Holt: Madeline, thank you for coming.
Madeline: Raymond, always a pleasure to call on a vanquished foe. I feel like Jackie Joyner-Kersee congratulating one of the other slower runners.
[Gina and Terry behind the one-way mirror]
Terry: Buckle up. It's gonna be a hell of a ride.
[Holt and Wunch sitting across from one another at the table in Interrogation Room]
Holt: Care to sit? I'm sure you'd like to take some weight off your cloven hooves.
Madeline: Calling me the devil? How original, Raymond.
Holt: Actually I was calling you a goat, you goat.
[Gina and Terry behind the one-way mirror]
Gina: Oh!
Terry: Oh.
[Holt and Wunch sitting across from one another at the table in Interrogation Room]
Holt: I'd like to talk about my promotion.
Madeline: Very well, but first, how do I know you're not wearing a wire? I need to pat you down.
Raymond: If you must.
Madeline seductively pats Holt down[Gina and Terry behind the one-way mirror in the Interrogation Room]
Terry: What is going on?
Gina: Shh. I'm watching something.
[Jake and Amy at restaurant]
Michael Augustine: Can you get the car from the valet, babe? I'm gonna in the back and say hi to the chef.
Lexi: Good luck on your wedding, guys. Oh, have fun on your honeymoon.
Jake: We will.
Amy: We're going to Waco, Texas!
Lexi: Huh. Okay, bye.
Jake: Bye.
Jake: - Waco, Texas?
Amy: - I don't know. It was just on Dateline.
Jake: All right, well, Augustine took the laptop case with him. He's gonna make the drop.
Amy: Let's go.
[Jake and Amy standing in the hallway outside of the restaurant kitchen]
Amy: Look, there's the buyer. Or maybe he's just actually saying hi to the chef? Why isn't he making the handoff?
Jake: Oh, crap, he saw us. Uhh
[Jake begins kissing Amy]
Michael Augustine: Excuse me.
Jake: Oh, hey.
Jake: We were just looking for a place to, uh
Amy: Boink.
Jake: Yep. Boink. That's my preferred term for it as well.
Michael Augustine: I get it. Newly engaged kids. Enjoy.
Jake: Thanks.
Jake: Good. Good, good, good, good. We kept our cover intact. Nice work.
Amy: Quick, professional thinking out there. Very quick Very professional.
Jake: - Detective.
Amy: - Detective.
Jake: - Let's get back on the case.
Amy: - Yes.
[Rosa driving, Charles in passenger seat, Amy and Jake in back of a surveillance vehicle]
Charles: So how was the restaurant?
Amy: Such a normal time!
Charles:Why are you being weird?
Jake: Amy and I kissed.
Charles: What?!
Jake: To keep our cover from being blown; we didn't have a choice.
Charles: Tell me everything!
Jake: Charles, it was just a kiss, okay? It was for work. It was nothing.
Rosa: Yeah, who cares about a kiss? Call me if you grab each other's asses. He's pulling over. It's going down.
Charles: You guys are so naive. It's never nothing. In high school, I played Daddy Warbucks in Annie, Becca Murse played Annie, and we were supposed to hug onstage. And at first, that seemed like nothing too, but by opening night, we were full-on making out.
Amy: As Daddy Warbucks and Annie?
Charles: Mm-hmm. The audience was not on board. Playwright sued the school.
Rosa: Guys, guys, it's not a handoff. He's leaving the package.
Jake: Okay, you and Rosa follow Augustine.
Charles: Right, and you and Amy follow your hearts.
Jake: No, we're gonna stay with the package.
Charles: And each other forever.
Jake: Come on, man!
[Holt and Wunch sitting across from one another at the table in Interrogation Room]
Madeline: So here's how I see this going down. You plead for your job back. I refuse. You start weeping like a war widow. Does that sound about right?
Holt: Don't count your gross fish babies before they've hatched, Madeline.
[Holt puts file folder container letter on the table]
Madeline: How did you get this?
[Gina over the intercom]
Gina: Gina and Terry got it, you grackle.
Holt: It doesn't matter how I got it.
Gina: Sorry, sir, didn't realize that was how you wanted to play it.
Madeline: I see you've got an audience for this little stunt?
Holt: Yes, well, who wouldn't want to see a man fight a crocodile? Now, Madeline, before one of us starts weeping like a war widow, would you like to give me my precinct back?
Madeline: It's not that simple; I can't just reverse your promotion.
Holt: You have until tomorrow, you grackle.
[Rosa driving and Charles in passenger seat of surveillance vehicle]
Rosa: We can't pull him over this close to the drop site. It'll alert the buyer. I say we follow him for a mile.
Charles: Copy that. How's your mom enjoying the new phone you got her for her birthday on March 16th?
Rosa: Dude, stop saying random facts to try to prove you know me.
Charles: That's not what I'm doing. I'm simply making small talk with my friend Rosa, who went skydiving once.
Rosa: Enough! I'm going to the dumb party but only because I don't want to hurt Marcus. I'm still super mad at you.
Charles: Mm, like how you're still super mad at Gilmore Girls for how the finale went down?
Rosa: Oh, I just want to see Lorelai happy, and shut up!
Charles: Ah, see? I knew you so well, I knew it was co ah!
[Amy and Jake in park]
Jake: Hey, seriously, we're cool, right? Yeah, totally.
Amy: - We're fine.
Jake: - Good.
Jake: Gosh, you know, I'm actually a little bit hungry. I never ended up eating at that dumb fancy restaurant.
Amy: You know what I'm getting on my way home?
Jake: Yeah, you're gonna go to the Polish place and get perogies, potato pancakes, and a cup of hot chocolate.
Amy: That's exactly what I'm gonna get.
Jake: Yeah. I will be having pizza, two slices of meat supreme from Tony's, served display temperature.
Amy: Meat supreme is a million red flags, and eating it cold is just insane.
Jake: No, no, no. It's not cold. - It's display temperature.
Amy: - Jake.
Jake: There's a difference, Amy.
Amy: No, Jake, he's looking at us…
- Well, this is happening.
Jake: - Huh?
[Amy starts kissing Jake]
Amy: NYPD! Freeze! We are police colleagues!
Jake: You're under arrest! This is a work event.
[Precinct Break Room]
Jake: Hey, can you sign this arrest report for Augustine and the buyer?
Amy: Sure.
Jake: Great. Man, I forgot how long your signature takes. I'm just gonna watch Braveheart on my phone real quick.
Given the circumstances, I could see how that might have seemed like flirty teasing or something, but I was legit being critical.
You have a problem. No, even that sounded like banter now. All right, there's only one way out of this for me.
I just got to get super cruel. Prepare to have your physical flaws pointed out, Amy.
I'm talking about your tall butt and your weird elbows.
Amy: Jake, it's okay.
Jake: Thank you.
Amy: This whole night was really weird.
Jake: I know.
I just ugh.
I want everything to go back how it was, you know? It's so awkward.
- Yeah.
- And you're right.
We shouldn't date cops, 'cause we're a great team.
We work great together.
I don't want to mess that up.
Jake: Yeah, I don't want everything to change.
Amy: Yeah, me neither. Okay, then that's that, Detective Peralta.
Jake: Detective Santiago. See you around the precinct.
Amy: Yep.
Jake: Tall butt.
Outside of Bar
Charles: Okay, before we go in, remember you have to pretend to be surprised.
Rosa: How's this? Oh, my God. It's so much worse than I imagined.
Charles: The energy was great, but the message was flawed.
Rosa: All right, let's get this over with.
Inside of Bar
Marcus: Surprise.
Rosa: What's going on?
Marcus:I rented this entire bar so you and I could celebrate with no people anywhere near us. I probably should have hired a bartender, though.
I have no idea how to make drinks.
Rosa: This is incredible.
Marcus: It was all Charles' idea.
Charles: I told you I knew you, Ro-ro.
Rosa: Thank you. But never call me "Ro-ro" again.
Charles: Oh, but I will. I've earned this. Happy b-day, Ro-ro. Whoo!
Holt's Office
Raymond: Welcome, Madeline. Have you thought things over?
Madeline: I have, but first, how do I know you're not wearing a wire?
So I've thought it over, and perhaps you should go ahead and show that letter to the commissioner.
Raymond: And let him fire you?
Madeline: I'll deny I wrote it. It will take months to authenticate, which will give me plenty of time to make some personnel changes around here.
There's an opening for a detective down in Brighton Beach.
I think I'll transfer Diaz there.
Detective Boyle I'll send to Long Island City.
Santiago will be a great fit for Pelham Bay.
And Peralta, your little pet project, I'm gonna ship him off to Staten Island.
Hope he likes breaking up tanning salon fistfights.
Looks like you've got a decision to make, Raymond.
What are you gonna do?
Bullpen
Raymond: Squad, if I could have your attention please? I am being transferred to the public relations office.
I'm leaving the Nine-Nine effective immediately.
Amy: - What the hell? -
Jake: I don't understand.
Amy: - What the hell?
- Why are you doing this?
Amy: What the hell?
Raymond: I want to say it has been a pleasure to have worked alongside all of you for the past 21 1/2 months. I'm sorry for getting so emotional.
Jake: A pretty consistent tone, actually.
Raymond: These have been the these have been the best years of my career.
Jake: Oh, no. This is new.
Raymond: And I know that everyone of you gave me everything you had, and I will never forget it.
Jake: Go back to being robot captain.
Raymond: Meep-morp. Zeet.
Dismissed.
Gina: Sir! I'm coming with you.
Raymond: - Thank you, Gina.
Scully:- I'm also coming.
Raymond: Not necessary.
Evidence Locker
Jake: - Hey.
Amy: - Hey.
Jake: Thought I might find you in here.
Amy: I just needed to process the captain's news. I feel so bad for him.
Jake: So how are you holding up?
Amy: I don't know. I'm still in shock. You?
Jake: Um, basically handling it the way I dealt with my dad leaving, just repressing the hell out of it.
Amy: So a lot of change around here, huh?
Boyle: Hey, Jake, the new captain's here.
Bullpen
Who do you think it's gonna be? I have no idea.
Hitchcock: I bet it's me. I just hope I'm ready.
Rosa: Wow.
Terry: Come on, guys. I know you're sad, but let's do our best to make a good first impression here.
Smart.
Good call.
Charles: Jake, you be up front.
Okay, here we go.
Cast
| Actor | Character | |
|---|---|---|
| Andy Samberg | ... | Jake Peralta |
| ... | Johnny | |
| Stephanie Beatriz | ... | Rosa Diaz |
| Terry Crews | ... | Terry Jeffords |
| Melissa Fumero | ... | Amy Santiago |
| ... | Dora | |
| Joe Lo Truglio | ... | Charles Boyle |
| Chelsea Peretti | ... | Gina Linetti |
| Andre Braugher | ... | Captain Ray Holt |
| Dirk Blocker | ... | Michael Hitchcock |
| Joel McKinnon Miller | ... | Norm Scully |
| Kyra Sedgwick | ... | Madeline Wuntch |
| Nick Cannon | ... | Marcus |
| Billy Merritt | ... | Wayne Tercell |
| Ray Abruzzo | ... | Michael Augustine |
| Kelvin Brown | ... | Greg Gerg |
| Ilana Guralnik | ... | Lexi |
| Lyric Lewis | ... | Alice the Hostess |
Cool Cool Cool Things
Trivia
- Charles mentions playing Daddy Warbucks in a high school play. While in elementary school Andy Samberg played the same role in a school play. His classmate Chelsea Peretti also had a role.[1]
- Jake tells Amy he was going to ask her out
- Jake & Amy share their first kiss(es)
- Gina doesn't turn her phone on airplane mode when in an airplane
- Rosa doesn't like anyone wishing her a happy birthday
- Boyle thinks Ms. Pac-Man is the sexiest video game ever
- Rosa's jacket has a piece of barbwire in the pocket
- Julia Diaz's birthday is March 16th
- Rosa got her a phone for her birthday in 2015
- Rosa went skydiving once
- Rosa's unhappy with how Gilmore Girls ended
- Amy shouts when she is lying about how normal the restaurant was
- Amy was going to go to the Polish Place and order perogies, potato pancakes and a cup of hot chocolate
- Jake was going to Tony's getting 2 slices of Meat Supreme pizza at display temperature
- Holt had been at the precinct for 21 and a half months, which were the best years of his career
- Wuntch made Holt head of NYPD Public Relations
- Hitchcock thought he would be the new captain
- Wuntch was going to send:
- Diaz to Bright Beach
- Boyle to Long Island City
- Santiago to Pelham Bay
- Pearlta to Staten Island
Soundtrack
- Amazing Grace is played by a bagpipe while the detectives salute the vending machine
- The theme song from Miami Vice plays as Jake and Amy enter the restaurant
- Cool by Le Youth plays while Jake & Amy are in the restaurant
Running Gags Mentioned
Featured Relationships
- Jake Peralta & Amy Santiago
- Jake Peralta & Charles Boyle & Amy Santiago
- Charles Boyle & Rosa Diaz
- Rosa Diaz & Marcus
- Raymond Holt & Madeline Wuntch
- Raymond Holt & Gina Linetti
Connections to Other Episodes
- Amy told Jake she didn't want to date cops in Det. Dave Majors.
- Gina uses her resources in the assistant community to find the exact location of Wuntch's letter. She taps into her assistant network again in The Wednesday Incident to discover that Holt had missed a meeting.
- Charles tells Rosa he was building up to calling her Ro-Ro and then claims he earned it and calls her Ro-Ro. The nickname comes up again in the season 7 episode The Jimmy Jab Games II and Lights Out when she gets to be Aunt Ro-Ro.
- Holt's "promotion" to public relations was revealed by Wuntch at the end of the episode The Chopper after he, Jake and Charles recovered $21 million from The Fulton Street Four.
- Jake tells Captain Holt to go back to being a robot and Holt repeats the same words Jake did in the Pilot, "meep morp zeep." The line is repeated by Jake again in the show's 99th episode, 99.
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Behind The Scenes
- At the end of the episode, there is actually no one standing in the elevator, as the new Captain had not been cast yet.[2]
- Gina going with Holt was to make it as clear as possible that Holt wasn't leaving the show[3]
| 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 |
| Black Market Liquor Bar | Studio City, California | Restaurant & Bar | Charles takes Rosa to empty bar, Marcus in bar |
References
- ↑ NBC Bay Area, 02/10/2015 Andy Samberg's High School Teacher Told SNL Star's Father, "Your Son Is the Funniest Guy I've Ever Met"
- ↑ The Hollywood Reporter, 05/17/2015, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Boss on Those Surprising Exits - and the Big Kiss
- ↑ The Hollywood Reporter, 05/17/2015, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Boss on Those Surprising Exits - and the Big Kiss