Lights Out

Lights Out
Season 7, Episode 13
Air date	April 23, 2020
Production
Written by	Dan Goor & Luke Del Tredici
Directed by	Dan Goor
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"Lights Out" is the 13th and final episode of Season Seven of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine television series. It aired on April 23, 2020 and is the highest rated episode of the season with a rating of 9.1 on IMDb.

Episode Synopsis

A massive blackout hits Brooklyn, leaving the precinct in chaos. Lieutenant Terry Jeffords and Captain Raymond Holt get stuck in the elevator leaving Sergeant Amy Santiago in charge. Except she's nine months pregnant and begins having contractions. With the entire city out on the streets, Charles Boyle and Jake Peralta have to find alternatives to making it to the hospital in time for the birth of Jake's son.

• Cold Open
• Plot
• Cultural References

Amy's Last Shift Before Having Her Baby Cold Open

The episode begins with a simple briefing as Holt mentions that it is Amy’s last day before she goes on maternity leave. As the meeting is dismissed, all the lights in Brooklyn go out. Jake mentions how calm it is, right before gunshots suddenly ring out. Holt and Terry are stuck in the elevator, so Amy is in charge of the precinct. Rosa hesitantly calls the fire department, while Jake and Charles investigate the origin of the blackout.

As Jake and Charles investigate, they find a drunken man named Russ who was seemingly unintentionally responsible for the entire blackout and arrest him. Back in the precinct, the fire department arrives as Amy mentions she needs a pair of sweatpants. When Rosa asks what the sweatpants are for, Amy nonchalantly says that her water broke, much to Rosa’s shock.

Amy denies that she is in active labor and tries to delay going to the hospital for as long as possible. Rosa calls Jake and tells him the Amy’s water broke. Just as Jake is on his way, he and Charles are forced to pick up an elderly woman named Debbie after she requests a ride home, and they end up getting stuck in traffic.

Meanwhile, the fire department tries to get Holt and Terry out of the elevator. Holt mentions that he has a fear of elevators. In response, Terry relates how, whenever his little brother got scared, he would teach him dance moves to distract him and suggests doing to same thing to calm Holt down. Holt, left with no other choice, agrees to it.

Jake, Charles, Russ and Debbie decide to walk to the precinct, but then they hear a woman in a building cry for help. Her neighbor fell down the stairs and suffered a concussion, so Jake and Charles have to bring him along with them. However, when they get out of the building, Debbie is revealed to have shot Russ in the leg because he made a sudden movement (he sneezed). Debbie is promptly arrested, and the group is forced to invade a bachelorette party to use a pedal pub to get back to the precinct.

As they are getting back to the precinct, Russ unintentionally admits that he caused the blackout on purpose, as his friends were going to rob a bank. Jake and Charles are forced to prevent this robbery, but it sets them way back. Jake loses hope of getting back to the precinct in time, but Charles, seeing no other option, hesitantly calls Lieutenant Peanut Butter.

In the precinct, the lights go back on, but Amy is too far into her labor and is forced to give birth in the precinct. Hitchcock and Scully create a makeshift birthing suite for her, while Terry and Holt distract her with the dance moves they learned in the elevator. A firefighter delivers her baby with assistance from Rosa. Jake makes it back to the precinct just in time, and Amy gives birth.

After getting transferred to the hospital, Jake and Amy introduce their friends to their newborn son, McClane “Mac” Peralta.

• Jake refers to the franchise The Purge when the city reacts to the black out
• Scully uses a murder at a Cinnabon as an example of when he'd be useful in an emergency
• Rosa refers to Amy's baby as a half-cuban Jimmy Neutron
• Jake blames the ride share company Uber for the traffic in New York City
• Luis tells Kayla that he's Aquaman
• Boyle plays mean girl with Kayla by pointing out her bangs, like the girls in the movie Mean Girls
• The book Rosa, Jake and Amy are referring to is a parody of What to Expect When You're Expecting
• Jake and Amy named their son Mac, short for McClane after the character, John McClane, from Die Hard
• Charles assumes they named him after Shirley MacLaine
• Charles points out that Shirley MacLaine won an Oscar award from the The Oscars
• Jake says his son is going to play for the New York Knicks

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
Jon Gabrus	...	Fireman Curt
Jill Bassey	...	Dotty
Brendan McNamara		Russ
Ellie Reed	...	Kayla
Lisa Gilroy	...	Briana
Seth Carr	…	Young Holt
Jason Jin	...	Officer Rick
None	...	Walter Beverly
Unnamed Horse	...	Lt. Peanut Butter
Uncredited	...	Luis

Cool Cool Cool Things

Location
99th Precinct

Vehicle
Tipsy Topsy Trolley

Trivia

Jake dreams that Mac will be 6'7 and the number one draft pick for the Knicks while Amy dreams he'll pursue his true passion of library sciences This is one of the only episodes where Rosa Diaz is terrified. Hitchcock and Scully made Amy a birthing suite in the interrogation room The soothing lighting was compliments of Scully's fart candles Terry's dance move instructions are: Mosey forward Name in lights Butt pop Comb your hair Typing motion Pull it back Jump forward Pelvic pump

Charles wanted to be called Uncle Chuck, Unky C or Chee-Chee Jake and Amy referred to him as Uncle Charles Jake and Amy refer to Rosa as Aunt Ro-Ro Holt has a phobia of elevators after reading the municipal code before bed as a child Charles calls Peanut Butter a condescending dick and a four-legged bastard Dotty shot the suspect, Russ, in the leg because he sneezed Briana and her friends at her bachelorette party are from Red Bank, New Jersey Jake doesn't know how to ride a horse A firefighter touched Mac, they washed him off but Jake will always know

Soundtrack

Holt & Jeffords' dance to the song Push It by Salt-n-Peppa

Running Gags Mentioned

• Charles Obsessing Over Jake and Amy’s Relationship
• Charles Boyle's Femininity
• Die Hard
• Hitchcock and Scully Napping on the Job
• Jake's Daddy Issues
• Jake and Amy's Sex Life
• Scully's Health Issues
• Strong Terry

References to Previous Episodes

• Rosa's nickname Ro-Ro originated from Charles in the Season 2 episode Johnny and Dora when he earned the right to call her that after planning her the perfect surprise party.
• The squad's disdain for firefighters was made clear in the Season 1 episode Sal's Pizza when Jake gets in a feud with the fire marshal.
• Terry Jeffords danced with Gina Linetti to the same Salt-N-Peppa song in the Season 2 episode, Halloween II.
  

Videos

This page contains videos from the Season Seven episode Lights Out when Jake Peralta and Amy Santiago have their baby
For images and gifs see here

• Videos

Images

• Episode Stills
• Gifs
• Promos

Behind The Scenes

• Melissa Fumero was 6 months pregnant during the filming of this episode.

• There was some discussion in the writers' room over whether the finale should end with Amy's waters breaking.
• There was also talk that the final scene could be Jake and Amy holding up the kid to the squad and saying, 'And we've named him…,' and then cut to Not a doctor, shh!

Known Filming Locations

Film Location	Details	Scenes
The Studios At Paramount	New York Backlot	Scenes on the streets of Brooklyn
CBS Studio Center	Stage 12	Scenes that take place in the 99th Precinct
	NY Street Backlot	The Gowanus Power Station