Brooklyn Nine-Nine Pushes Captain Holt Far Enough To Use A Sports Analogy

We've seen the 9-9 squad pull together under some pretty trying circumstances over the years, but this week, they're confronted by what is surely among the top five challenges they've ever faced: absorbing the 9-8. When their fellow officers can't use their station house due to a burst pipe, our heroes from the 9-9 have to make accommodations, which might be easier if their new neighbours weren't a bunch of dicks. Sgt. Terry gets first his mouse and then his whole computer commandeered by a 9-8 detective. Amy's allergies go on tilt when her deskmate brings in his "service dog."

Diaz is paired with a collector of porcelain figurines: "She also likes to look up recipes online and go, 'Who's got the time?!" And Boyle's got his own problems being jealous of Schillens, Peralta's old partner, who you would probably already assume is cooler than Boyle -- because everyone is -- before I even note that he's played by Damon Wayans Jr. (not that differently from the way he played a detective in The Other Guys).

But no one's got it harder than Captain Holt, who must share his office with Deputy Inspector Flynt. Holt is not a person who likes his routine unsettled in any way -- who can forget his rock painting series? -- but since Flynt outranks him, Holt has to let it go when Flynt adjusts the settings on his desk chair, puts his feet up on Holt's desk, and, eventually, locks Holt out of the office entirely. Holt is trying to be a good host, but why bother when Flynt has so little interest in being a good guest -- or, for that matter, a decent human being? I mean, messing with a man's chair settings? WHERE DOES HE GET THE NERVE.

Given Holt's travails, one would think he'd embrace the 9-8 encroachment solution that Terry, Amy, and Diaz have devised (with an accidental assist from Scully and Hitchcock -- is there any other kind?). Since the 9-8's file boxes are blocking the windows, none of them can see that the 9-9 has set up a temporary office outside; Amy's even rigged up the printer, which she's never heard sound so happy: "I feel like it knows." When Holt and Gina come out and see what's happened, Gina thinks she speaks for them both: "We love it. We're proud of you. We want in." But Holt -- the most poorly treated member of the 9-9 -- can't agree, and is so incensed that he tries to speak to his squad in a language they'll understand.

Nailed it, Holt. Nothing but bucket.