Jake comes back to the precinct, but is everything the way he left it? Check out our Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 2 premiere, “Undercover” recap!

We open the season on Jake, giving a speech at the wedding of Angie and Marco, with a terrible hairline and scary looking men around. He’s clearly loved and has done a good job at going deep undercover for the FBI.

No matter who they are, even scary mafia men are not immune to Jake’s affable personality. When he presents Angie’s father, Tony, presumably with a check for his daughter, he shoos him away and instead plants a big kiss on the lips. The three other men go around doing the same. Jake looks visibly shaken for a moment, but then mentions the “dry meatballs.” Cut to Holt in a stakeout van giving the single to bust the party. The FBI goes in, people run for the hills, and Jake is taken into custody (wink, wink). After being thrown into Holt’s van, he gives him a big hug and sighs contentedly.

Jake walks into the precinct for the first time in months, and Boyle, unable to contain his excitement, shrieks out of happiness. The others barely look up from their work.

The three things that happened when Jake was away, according to Rosa Diaz:

  • Terry chipped his tooth and has a humorous lisp that rendered him unable to scare perps.
  • Santiago and Boyle wore the same outfit to work one day — grey business suit and coral top.
  • Captain Holt banned headphones from headphones due to the ‘Gina incident’ — her failure to hear any commotion going on around her.

    • Holt gives Peralta two minutes to catch everyone up on what he was up to the past few months, which started when he walked through the door. So, we present:

    Undercover highlights in 12 seconds: Jake fixed a boxing match, smoked a whole cigar without vomiting, was once in a room with 10 guys named Sal and missed everyone in the precinct “so very much.”

    Once they disperse, Peralta approaches Amy, formally greeting her. She reciprocates, but oh, it is so awkward you could cut the tension with a knife. He asks to talk with her in private, but instead of broaching the real subject, Jake asks if she really arrested someone named “Joe Uterus.” She apologizes for not telling him right away — it’s obviously going in the Perp Name Hall of Fame, and then they get to the point.

    Amy is still with Teddy, “romantic stylez,” and Jake says that saying he liked her was a mistake, he was “nervous” about going undercover and she was nearby. He didn’t mean it. (Now, everyone scoff and roll your eyes at the lie.)

    The Drills: Something new to the Nine-Nine since Jake left are role-playing drills. Terry walks in wearing a whiteboard of titles and descriptions under Captain’s orders to report various crimes. Today, he is a Confused Old Woman and Lost Seven-Year-Old Boy, but there’s also been Angry Prostitute, and Unattended Backpack.

    Really, the drills are so the squad is ready to be put under a microscope. With a new NYPD Commissioner coming on board, Holt has been so stressed, he hasn’t smiled in weeks.

    Now that Jake is back, Gina is worried Boyle will tell him about their night together during the season 1 finale. Rightfully so, as he tells Jake everything. She shames herself the entire episode for sleeping with Boyle, sitting with Hitchcock and Sully during lunch and wearing a naked mole rat sweater. Her funniest line of the night was telling Boyle that every time he talks, she hears the sound that plays when Pac-Man dies.

    Later, Jake is debriefed about the undercover operation by a special FBI agent, he learns one target got away. Unfortunately, it’s the worst one, Freddy with bad breath and murderous tendencies, and he decides to go back undercover, this time with Boyle as police backup. After questioning one of Freddy’s girlfriends, Bianca (guest star Jenny Slate), they race to stop Freddy from leaving the country, but it’s too late, he’s gone. The mission is over — but is Jake out of danger?

    In the end, Boyle lets it slip that everyone is waiting for Jake at the bar for his surprise party. Amid the list of rules — two drink maximum, valet parking not included, the morning meeting will begin 15 minutes early tomorrow — Holt does concede he is happy to have Jake back and that he did good work. Later, Jake re-admits to Amy that he lied about lying about liking her. But the understanding is that nothing will ever happen between them. Right.

    Meanwhile, Boyle and Gina get drunk and sleep together again. And we’re back!

    What did you think of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine season 2 premiere?