Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Top Moments From “Cop Con” and “Chasing Amy” (Season 4 Episodes 17 and 18)
The Nine-Nine has had a rough year, as Jake points out in Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 4 Episode 17, “Cop Con.”
It started off with Jake and Holt in witness protection in Florida, then the gang got put on the night shift, and most recently, they were worried that the entire precinct was going to be shut down. Also, Gina got hit by a bus.
“Cop Con” and Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 4 Episode 18, “Chasing Amy,” both return to the standalone format that usually makes up the majority of Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s season, and it’s a welcome return.
The night shift storyline did allow for some fun stories, and the threat of the precinct possibly being shut down gave us some nice moments between the characters — like Rosa and Jake in “Serve & Protect” and Amy and Holt in “The Last Ride.” But Brooklyn Nine-Nine is often at its best during standalone episodes, and “Cop Con” and “Chasing Amy” are no exception.
Here are some of the top moments from Episodes 17 and 18.
Amy questions her dream job because of how it will affect her relationship with Jake
Amy: Things are so good right now. I don’t want to screw that up by getting transferred or becoming your boss.
Jake: Ames, I’ve always known you were gonna be my boss. This is your dream, from before we were dating. And yeah, things might change a little, but for the better, right?
The second episode in the double feature, “Chasing Amy,” takes us back to a familiar rooftop — the same one where Jake and Amy sat during a stake-out in the Season 1 episode “The Bet.”
“This is where we came the night I won our bet, and you fell in love with me,” Jake says. After Amy rolls her eyes, he corrects himself. “The night that you flirted with me for 20 seconds and I became obsessed with you forever.”
Amy goes there to think after she aces the practice sergeant’s exam, and she admits to Jake that she’s having second thoughts because of how it could affect their relationship.
The Brooklyn Nine-Nine writers have done such an excellent job with the pacing of Jake and Amy’s relationship, and this moment is another perfectly timed step in their path.
Amy’s ambition is one of the reasons Jake loves her, and one of the reasons fans love her, too, so to see her considering changing her life goals for their relationship shows just how serious this relationship is.
Of course, Jake is wonderfully supportive, saying Amy is too good to be afraid to be successful, and his immediate, unwavering support is just another reason this relationship has been so strong over the past few seasons.
Jake channels Amy as he searches for her
Jake: It’s 78 degrees and yet somehow, I’m still cold. Better walk on the sunny side of the street! Wait! Did I remember to put on sunscreen? Pause to think, pause to think. Yes, I did put on sunscreen, and I bragged about it all morning!
Before Jake finds Amy back on that rooftop, he takes Rosa’s advice and channels Amy in an attempt to find her, talking in a chipper tone of voice and saying things like “gosh darn it to heck!”
It’s not a spot-on impression, but it’s still fun to watch him and Rosa try to imitate Amy’s way of thinking, following her trail from a paper-supply store to the public library and department of records.
Jake, Terry and Boyle piece together a drunken night
Jake: We’re unraveling the mystery. It’s like we’re detectives!
Boyle: We are detectives!
Jake: Right! Another thing we remembered!
We’ve seen the Nine-Nine get drunk before, but the party they throw while at a cop convention (aka “Cop Con”) is on a whole other level.
The next morning, Jake, Terry and Boyle try to remember what happened the night before as they search for Holt’s missing laptop. There have been storylines like this on TV before — Psych’s “Last Night Gus” comes to mind — but it’s still highly entertaining.
There are flashbacks to some ridiculous moments during the party, but the absolute highlight is Boyle’s drunken, jealous rant to the robot Jake keeps referring to as his new partner, which ends with Boyle shoving the robot off the balcony.
The ending to this episode is a little bit of a letdown only because it’s so similar to the plot of the Season 2 episode “Beach House.”
In that episode, Jake invites Holt on the gang’s annual detectives-only beach house trip after Holt laments that he was never invited to bond with his fellow detectives when he was younger. His presence makes the trip pretty uncomfortable until they figure out how to let loose and have fun in a way the captain enjoys, too.
Here, Holt again feels left out when he finds out that the detectives had a wild, fun party without him, and the gang ends up going to a boring museum that Holt thought sounded exciting.
The moral of both stories: don’t leave out Holt just because he’s uptight and the captain! Figure out how to enjoy his particular kind of fun!
Still, the resolution falling a bit flat doesn’t ruin all the fun that came beforehand.
Scully meets his soul mate
Gina: Don’t talk about your foot fungus. Don’t talk about your eye fungus. Let’s just say fungus is off the table.
…
Scully: Hey Cindy! So guess what my eye and foot have in common?
Cindy: What?
Scully: Uh… I can’t say.
Scully and Hitchcock are the butt of many jokes on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and they’re clearly the least competent detectives at the precinct. But in this “Cop Con” B-plot, you actually root for Scully for once.
Scully isn’t nearly as bad as Hitchcock, who’s all too eager to have an excuse to look in the ladies’ bathroom and apparently once asked out a breast-feeding mother, so it’s kind of cute, in a weird way, to watch Scully try to connect with a woman who is basically his female counterpart, and you’re happy for him when he gets the girl in the end.
The Boyle cousins return
Cousin Sam: First of all, Gina, I love you. Secondly, you’re banished from the family.
One of my favorite recurring subplots on the show is Gina being pulled into ridiculous Boyle family matters since her mom and Boyle’s father got married.
There have been a few episodes with Boyle cousin appearances, and two cousins return for a subplot in “Chasing Amy” where Gina uses a mistake she makes as an excuse to get away from the family — and their constant “I love yous” and their sleep apnea and their general weirdness — for good.
She’s “banished” from the family, but when the cousins also “banish” Charles, she fixes her mistake and offers to let the cousins come to her apartment whenever they want, as long as they let Charles back into the family.
Charles says she doesn’t have to do this, but she responds, “Yes I do. Because you’re my brother.”
Awww.
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Katie Houlis
Katie is a recent college graduate who spent most of her free time at school binge-watching shows like Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fringe, and Hannibal. She has watched every single episode of Lost at least ten times each (yes, even “Stranger In A Strange Land”). Current favorites include a bunch of comedies, lots of superhero shows, and a few shows with quite a bit of murder in them.