Sgt. Terry's Broken Windows Policing Starts With Street Performers

When your boss lives at a baseline level of dourness like that of Captain Ray Holt, even noticing that he's in a worse mood than usual takes some doing. Turning that mood around? Pretty much the whole squad's going to have to get involved. And since Holt's on such a tear that he's suddenly eliminated overtime, they're going to have to do it within normal work hours.

I'd like to say that reasonable people can disagree about which officer does the most to address Holt's grumpy affect. After all, Boyle does apprehend a robber of multiple banks, whether anyone else wants to believe that an octogenarian could be capable of pulling it off. And Gina and Peralta do join forces to convince Holt's husband Kevin to help them walk through Holt's routine to figure out what event might have catalyzed his epic funk -- because it sure as hell wasn't the art class where he's been painting the same rock for...a while.

Guys, I would like to say everyone in the 99 took an equal shot at improving Holt's work environment. And sure, some might note that it's Peralta's actual detective work that forces Holt into admitting that, after being accosted by three muggers in an alley, he was "lightly stabbed." But does any of Peralta's leg work add up to a bigger or more impressive effort than Sgt. Terry's getting a street performer to relocate his act and "loud boom box" by attacking him with dance?!

No. This is Broken Windows policing at its finest and flyest, and if it took Holt getting lightly stabbed to put him in a mood rotten enough to induce Terry to do it, then maybe Holt should get stabbed more often.