Meanwhile, it’s time for Cagney & Lacey’s annual school candy drive, but Terry has competition this year for his No. Jake learns from Holt that they have already arrested a suspect who has confessed. Of course, he’s innocent, an ordinary dude who was just cutting through the lot. He spots a guy near the buses and takes him in, leading the suspect to lose his job. Jake goes to the lot to investigate, against Holt’s orders, and everything starts to unravel. Whoever planted the bomb also left fingerprints everywhere, but Jake is unwilling to give up on his Speed - after all, the film notoriously had a second bomb! What if the bomb was intended to go off in the middle of the night? What if there was a different target than a group of Rachel Brosna-fans? Maisel set to go off at 12 a.m., but the FBI agent presumes this was just an error and the criminal intended to set it for noon and not midnight. It would seem the show is done with giving Jake too many easy arrests or good times.Īt first, it appears that Jake is just going to be pushed aside by the FBI’s quick resolution of a lackluster case: Someone left a bomb on a tour bus for The Marvelous Mrs.
It’s funny that the writers don’t actually give him one last action-adventure like they did when they gave him his Die Hard “Yippie Kayak” moment in season three. When a bomb is found on a bus in Downtown Brooklyn, Jake Peralta thinks he’s finally getting his Speed moment, but he’s disappointed when the whole situation gets handled without him. It’s an episode a bit light on laughs but sharper and tighter in terms of writing and character than the last couple of adventures in the 9-9. Yes, the Peralta stuff this week really hits that nail with a blunt hammer, but the Boyle and Terry subplot nearly says more about officers’ microaggressions and personalities and being a part of a broken system that is supposed to serve and protect. Generally, the show prefers putting its overzealous officers and their passionate ineptitude on a pedestal. “The Setup” is one of the better episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s season eight and, arguably, would have made a stronger season premiere, or at least second episode of its premiere night, in that it more subtly highlights the failures of copaganda than other episodes this season.
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