The Therapist

"The Therapist" is the 11th episode of Season Six of the NBC television show Brooklyn Nine-Nine. It aired on March 21, 2019.

Episode Description[]

Charles brings Jake into a case when a therapist reports one of his patients missing. Holt finds out Rosa has a new girlfriend that everyone else has met. Amy believes she has accidentally received a package meant for Terry.^[1]

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
David Paymer	...	Dr. William Tate
Cameron Esposito	...	Jocelyn
Fran Gillespie	...	Sheena
Anna Khaja	...	Dr. Theresa Moore
Kimberly Condict	...	Wendy Polm
Sonje Fortag	...	Tanya Grubvic

Running Gags[]

Title of Your Sex Tape[]

Charles Boyle
Sorry, my partner doesn’t believe in therapy.
Dr.Tate
Oh, that’s fine, it’s hard for some people.
Jake Peralta
Title of your sex tape.
[Jake and Charles high five]

Terry Referring to Himself in Third Person[]

Terry Jeffords
It’s not mine! Terry doesn’t order books online! He supports local bookstores. They’re dying Amy!

Jake's Psycho-sexual Issues Regarding His Mother[]

Jake Peralta
Okay doc, we’re not in your office. You don’t have to use words like triggered or in denial.
Dr. Tate
I didn’t say in denial. Are you in denial?
Jake Peralta
No, I am not. And before you say anything I don’t want to sleep with my mom either.
Dr. Tate
Now why would you bring that up unprompted?
Jake Peralta
What? You prompted it!
Charles Boyle
Jake! There’s a body over here!
Jake Peralta
Oh thank god. I mean, oh no! Death! I don’t want to sleep with my mom, okay?

Trivia[]

Andy Samberg had revealed earlier in the year that Jake will do his best impression of James McAvoy in Split.^[2]
- James McAvoy is the actor who portrayed a man with dissociative identity disorder in the film Split. The film follows his character who kidnaps and imprisons three teenage girls in an isolated underground facility.
In the cold open, every single word started with the letter b, except for three words said by Terry.

Cultural References[]

Sheena said she "was in an episode of SVU", as in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
- The show is a long-running police police-crime drama that airs on NBC, actually on the same night (Thurs.) as Brooklyn Nine-Nine when the episode aired.
- Mariska Hargitay who is the longtime leading actress on Law & Order: SVU.
In Jake's attempt to be a 7-year-old British girl, he said she's from "Wussex". There's no such place in England, and Jake is possibly combining West Sussex into one word.
Jake impersonates Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, who was Morgan Freeman's character in the film The Shawshank Redemption.
Jake refers to Dr. Tate as 'Hannibal' throughout the episode. This is in reference to Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a character famously known as a [forensic] psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer from the film The Silence of the Lambs.Hannibal Lecter was originally introduced in a series of thriller novels by Thomas Harris; starting with Red Dragon and followed with its sequel The Silence of the Lambs. Other novels include Hannibal and Hannibal Rising.
- NBC had ran a TV adaptation, titled Hannibal, that ran for 3 seasons.

Filming Locations[]

Scenes set inside the precinct were filmed at Stage 12 that is located at CBS Studio Center.
Scenes set outside were filmed in the New York Street backlots of the same studio center.
Establishing shots used to represent the 99th precinct were filmed at The 78th Precinct in Brooklyn, New York.

Goofs[]

Throughout the episode, Charles and Jake all say David Paymer's character's name is "Dr. William Tate". Even the name tag on the character's office door was "Dr. William Tate". In the credits, though, the character's name was written as "Dr. Frederick Tate". In addition, Jake and Charles discuss Tate as a "psychiatrist" in the opening scene, but the office door reads "psychologist."

In the scene where Terry calls his wife to confirm to Amy that their sex life is going fine, you can see Terry pretending to dial his wife's phone number while the screen already shows he is in a call.