"The Favor" is the 11th episode of Season Five in the Brooklyn Nine-Nine television series. It originally aired on December 12, 2017 to 1.68 million viewers. Viewers give it a 7.8 out of 10 on IMDb.
Episode Synopsis
Seamus Murphy (guest star Paul Adelstein) returns to redeem the favor Holt owes him, the precinct searches for a loophole that will allow Holt to uphold his end of the bargain without breaking the law.
Seamus Murphy returns to request the favor that Captain Holt owes him, after giving him the evidence that allowed Jake and Rosa to be released from prison. Murphy tells Holt that if he refuses, he has evidence that shows Holt asking for intel, threatening to show his bosses. It is revealed that Murphy wants a block party permit. However, Holt believes that Murphy wants to use the permit as a cover for criminal activities. Jake tells Holt that there is a possible way to do the favor without raising suspicion from Seamus, and allow Holt to keep a clean conscience. He comes up with a plan that involves Kyle Murphy, a supposed weak-link in the crime family, believing that they can retrieve information about any plans happening.
Meanwhile, Amy and Rosa go to the Street Activity Permit Office to get the permit required for the service. After failing to get the permit the first time, and finding out that a rule adjuster was incompetent at her job, but they later find a loophole that allows an earlier form that had been written can get the permit.
Terry and Gina discuss her return to the precinct, and she tells him that she needs a place to pump milk for her baby. However, she has been leaving the pump and going back home. She tells Terry that she feels like a failure after not being a good mother. Terry comforts her by telling her that he had felt the same way when raising his twins.
Jake and Charles go undercover as the two mafia members to gain Kyle's trust. He brings them to his apartment, however, they discover that Kyle has been kicked out of the crime family due to being a liability and losing Seamus' car. They come up with an idea that would allow Kyle to bring back the lost car, regaining Seamus' trust and bring him back into the family. They give Kyle the car, who gives the keys back to Seamus, in which they bugged so they can hear any conversations about the plan.
They find out that Seamus was planning to steal $20 million in bonds from a truck. Charles says that Seamus wanted the block permit so that the street would be closed, making for an easier robbery, due to the truck having to use an abandoned alley. Jake says they changed the truck's schedule so that the bonds would not be there to be stolen. However, after listening to the bug after the failed heist, Jake finds out that Seamus would "take care" of Kyle, believing that he told someone about the heist. Jake tells Holt that they have to help Kyle, and they end up "arresting" him for parking violations.
Two days later, Seamus confronts Holt about what had happened and tells him that the arrest had been a cover for Kyle helping them stop the heist of the armored truck. Holt denies any collusion with Kyle, and tells Seamus that his debt has been repaid. Seamus refuses to believe the story and tells Holt that he will go after Kevin.
Television
Movies
- Minority Report
- The Godfather
- Suicide Squad
- Oogie Boogie is the main antagonist in the film Nightmare Before Christmas
Music
- Jake's pun of "That truck is as empty as Jackson Browne's running surface" was in reference to the song, Running on Empty
Politicians
Celebrities
- Dave Coulier is a comedian who is known for his role as Uncle Joey in Full House
- Oprah Winfrey
- Tom Cruise
Product Placement
- Apple
- Iphone
- Medela Breast Pump
- Amy says they'll get a couple shots for the 'gram, meaning Instagram
- Rosa Diaz
- Amy Santiago
- Rosa Diaz
Cast
| Actor | … | Character |
|---|---|---|
| Andy Samberg | ... | Jake Peralta |
| ... | Fabian & Marco | |
| Stephanie Beatriz | ... | Rosa Diaz |
| Terry Crews | ... | Terry Jeffords |
| Melissa Fumero | ... | Amy Santiago |
| Joe Lo Truglio | ... | Charles Boyle |
| ... | Fabian & Marco | |
| Andre Braugher | ... | Raymond Holt |
| Chelsea Peretti | ... | Gina Linetti |
| Dirk Blocker | ... | Michael Hitchcock |
| Joel McKinnon Miller | ... | Norm Scully |
| Paul Adelstein | ... | Seamus Murphy |
| Mike Mitchell | ... | Kyle Murphy |
| Jane Morris | … | Florence Tinj |
| Irene Roseen | ... | Estelle Glour |
| Carlease Burke | ... | Muriel |
Cool Cool Cool Things
99th Precinct
Fabianes Bar
Florence Tinj's Apartment
Kyle's Apartment
S.A.P.O
Two Daughters
Trivia
- Gina is back at the precinct from maternity leave
- Gina refers to her daughter as Iggy
- Holt only eats omelets on vacation
- Jake slept at a pancake restaurant for an entire week
- Scully was upset he wasn't invited
- Seamus Murphy's favorite car is a white 1980 Rolls Royce
- Rosa makes Amy fill out her mileage reimbursement forms
- Florence Tinj designed forms that couldn't be filed out of spite
- Amy was barefoot in the office violating a rule after meeting Florence Tinj
- Rosa believes we all exist in a computer simulation
- Kyle Murphy doesn't know who his birth mother is
- The form Amy and Rosa find as a loophole is Form 8 for the Street Closure Request for the Public Humiliation of Loose Women
- When Terry's twins were born he had Sharon leave the phone on so he could hear them all day
- Gina is good at Capoeira, cabinet renovation, ghost hunting & earring making
- According to their Murphy Family research Charles and Boyle knew who Kyle's birth mother is
Lauren Gadd is the name of a camera operator who worked on the show
Running Gags Mentioned
- Charles Boyle Being Subconsciously Sexual
- Hitchcock and Scully Napping on the Job
- Jake's Action Movie Fantasies
Featured Relationships
Connections to Other Episodes
- Holt's accepted the gangster Seamus Murphy's offer for information about Melanie Hawkins in The Big House Pt. 2. It was revealed that he did this in the episode 99 after he tried to sabotage his meeting that put him in the running for the commissioner position.
- Terry mentions Gina's new business, which is running a sports league for other people's pets. She almost quit the Nine-Nine to work on it in the previous episode, Game Night.
Videos
Images
| 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 |
| The Studios At Paramount | Los Angeles, California | Greenwich Village Set | Where the Rolls Royce was parked, Kyle getting hit by a car |
| Brownstone Set | Driving up and down the street | ||
| Interior of Apartment in Brooklyn Set | Inside Kyle's Apartment | ||
| Lower East Side Set | Jake meets Kyle on his stoop and Charles drives up with the Rolls Royce | ||
| Interior of building on Chicago Set | Seamus Murphy interrupting Holt's breakfast | ||
| Chicago Set | Block Party |