Jake gets hurt and refuses to take time off a case and Rosa and Holt bond in the most peculiar way on tonight’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 2, episode 20, “AC/DC.” Check out what happened!
In the cold open, a perp leads Jake and Boyle on a high-action, stunt-packed (for Brooklyn Nine-Nine — this isn’t Fast and Furious) chase through the streets of Brooklyn. Jake finally gets to run over cars, living out his dream until he steps into an open sunroof. The man goes down.
With three cracked ribs, three broken toes, a hairline fracture in “man-kind’s least important finger!” (the thumb) and, according to the limp, some painful nether regions, Jake has been ordered to take some time to rest. Not cleared for duty by his doctor, Jake begs Terry to let him stay on the case, if not out in the field than at least at his desk. Terry gives into his friend, but that turns out to be a mistake.
Four days later, Jake waltzes into the precinct rocking a Hawaiian shirt to pick up Boyle to go to Atlantic City. But instead of a vacation in a fancy hotel, Jake sets up a stakeout in a rundown motel to try to trap his perp — unbeknownst to Boyle. In turn, Boyle tattles on Jake working.
Terry shows up at the motel, pissed as all heck because he could be with his real babies, but he instead has to be with his work babies. The three end up trying to chase the bad guy, but Jake gets hit by a car. Maybe he should try a sidewalk sometime?
In the hospital, Jake admits that he can’t relax with a case open because of a case gone wrong a few years ago. The perp, dormant for a time, resurfaced while Jake was with his buddies, shot two civilians, and got away. The guilt affected Jake in a way that made him so dedicated to his work, he couldn’t take a break.
With ‘the bros’ in Atlantic City, Rosa and Holt are having one of the worst nights of their lives. Kevin, Captain Holt’s husband, had invited Rosa and Marcus over for dinner. The two detectives, worried about the dinner getting too awkward, invite Gina and Amy as buffers.
Side note: Amy is back from hiatus with a new shirt! It’s a print! With no blazer! There are costume gods smiling down on us.
Amy is determined to have fun at the dinner, as she tells Gina while they’re on the slow-moving subway. She wants to impress Holt, so she’ll do the whole ‘act as if she isn’t interested’ thing. Whatevs, man.
The first Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode back from hiatus really belonged to Rosa and Holt. Watching them interacting with each other from the beginning of “AC/DC” until the end was a treat for fans of the characters. Filling eight minutes with small talk will kill them both, but we could go on about how much we adored their scenes.
The four end up eating dinner alone, and despite Holt’s running list of orchid names, Kevin tries to strike up conversation with Rosa. She runs out of the dinner after admitting she has two sisters. She’s acting more tense than usual tonight, and more defensive instead of snarky. Why?
Because she might be pregnant! If we had a GIF of Holt’s response (a long face and even longer “ooh” that sounds fantastic in Andre Braughner’s baritone voice) we’d watch it a dozen and a half times. Even better/more awkward — his question “are your bosoms… tender?” and how it visibly disgusted them both to think about.
She rushes out of the dinner, ending it early much to the dismay of Amy (and Gina), who show up right at that moment, to take a pregnancy test. It comes back negative and the next day, Rosa thanks Holt for his generosity and helping her during her moment of crisis.
Tonight we got a glimpse at how Holt would act if had a daughter. Maybe this is the show’s way of setting up some clues for future episode plots? Marcus is around, but he isn’t present. His and Rosa’s relationship is certainly strong, but Nick Cannon physically is never on screen for more than a minute or so of the show’s episodes. Does anyone else notice that?
All in all, strong return for Brooklyn Nine-Nine with season 2, episode 20, “AC/DC.”
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