History Recap / BrooklynNineNineS6E08HeSaidSheSaid

Captain Holt assigns Jake to investigate when finance consultant Seth Haggerty presses charges against Keri, a female co-worker who has broken his penis. Jake thinks the incident is hilarious until Keri tells him that she was retaliating against Seth because he sexually assaulted her. And when Amy joins the case for personal reasons, she takes actions that might hurt both Keri and herself.

* CallingCard: Holt insists that a piece of string found where the transport van crashed is actually a yo-yo cord, which is what the Disco Strangler used to kill his victims. Despite Terry and Boyle's skepticism, that's actually what it is.

Meanwhile, Holt learns that an old nemesis of his, the "Disco Strangler", has supposedly died during a prison transfer. However, Holt suspects that the notoriously elusive murderer has faked his death and escaped, despite evidence to the contrary. When the captain tries to prove that the Disco Strangler is still alive, Terry and Boyle fear that he's gone off the deep end in an attempt to relive his glory days.

* HystericalWoman: This is Seth's explanation for what happened: Keri randomly went crazy and attacked him. The firm runs with this, claiming that the settlement money was to get her psychological help.

* WhamEpisode: Amy reveals that she transferred to the Nine-Nine after her first captain and [[EvilMentor mentor]] sexually assaulted her. The scene where she discusses this is PlayedForDrama, with no humor until the very end.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Jake cites ''Film/TheWolfOfWallStreet'' when hearing about the broken penis case, but misses that the story also had serious domestic and sexual abuse and focuses on how the rich can do ridiculous stunts out of bordeom. To be fair, Rosa and Hitchcock make the same assumption.

* ManOnFire: How the Disco Killer supposedly died when the police van he was being transported in crashed and burst into flames.

* CallBack:
** Holt capturing the Disco Strangler was seen via flashback all the way back in the [[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS1E01Pilot Pilot]] episode.

* AmusingInjuries: What Jake thinks of Seth's broken penis before learning how it happened.

** The ''Series/SesameStreet'' references noted in ICallHimMrHappy.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Jake cites ''Wolf of Wall Street'' when hearing about the broken penis case, but misses that the story also had serious domestic and sexual abuse and focuses on how the rich can do ridiculous stunts out of bordeom. To be fair, Rosa and Hitchcock make the same assumption.

-->'''Amy:'''We can be different and still have the same cause!

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: PlayedForLaughs darkly when Holt reveals the details of the case after Jake, Rosa and Hitchcock start joking that whoever has the broken penis must have been engaged in ''Wolf of Wall Street'' shenanigans. Jake asks why Holt didn't cut in immediately to stop the jokes, and Holt points out that the officers didn't have to make tasteless jokes.

* ChekhovsGunman: Steven, or "Beefer", who shows texts to Jake and Amy that prove that Seth assaulted Keri. At first they think it's because he's a secret feminist, but it turns out he just wanted Seth's job.

* MoralPragmatist: Rosa, at the beginning of the episode. She believes Amy shouldn't have talked Keri out of pressing charges, because she'll lose her job, they won't find enough evidence to charge Seth, and even if they do, her name will be dragged through the mud, especially at the trial (two steps forward, one step back). Her reasoning was that if she signed the NDA, then at least she gets money and can keep her job. She ends up being half right; Keri leaves her job and will likely be blacklisted in the industry, but they find enough evidence to press charges against Seth, and a coworker at the firm steps forward.

* OhCrap: Jake, when he realizes that not only was Amy sexually assaulted, but that its something most women go through.

* RedHerring: The burned body, which the Disco Strangler had the van driver plant in order to make everyone think he was dead. Apparently it would've worked, had Captain Holt not seen right through it despite the evidence.

** A minor one, to "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS6E06TheCrimeScene The Crime Scene]]". Amy, like Jake in that episode, has been constantly awake for days, ignoring personal hygiene, in order to solve a seemingly unsolvable case for very personal reasons. Holt also becomes obsessive about the Disco Strangler affair, although not to the extent of Amy or Jake.

* AscendedFridgeHorror: Jake doesn't react well when he learns that his wife was forcibly kissed in her previous precinct, and that ''every woman'' she knows has that story. As he puts it, he doesn't think it could possible get worse.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In-Universe, when Jake finds out that he's being assigned a case involving a wall-street finance broker with a broken penis, he and the rest of the squad think it's hilarious and start coming up with ridiculous scenarios for how it happened. Rosa thinks he got it numbed up with cocaine and hit a croquet ball with it, and Jake thinks he was hit by a goose while urinating out of his car. Then Holt informs them that it was broken by a female coworker who claims he tried to sexually assault her.

* ICallHimMrHappy: According to Keri, Seth called his penis "The Cookie Monster". Jake sarcastically guesses that he calls his testicles Bert and Ernie, and Keri informs him that he's actually correct.

** Amy and Jake are able to prove that Seth did indeed assault Keri. However, she still decides to leave the firm she worked at, although [[IRegretNothing she regrets nothing]]; her colleagues either [[DontYouDarePityMe pity her as a victim]] or continue to exclude her from the company's frat-like "bro" culture. The only person who seems to benefit from the whole mess is Seth's male co-worker "Beefer", who blew the whistle on him in order to take his job. But then we learn that another woman from the firm has been inspired by Keri to tell the Nine-Nine her own story of being assaulted. As Rosa sums it up, "One step forward, two steps back is still one step forward."

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In-Universe, when Jake finds out that he's being assigned a case involving a wall-street finance broker with a broken penis, he and the rest of the squad think it's hilarious and start coming up with ridiculous scenarios for how it happened. Rosa thinks she got it numbed up with cocaine and hit a croquet ball with it, and Jake thinks he was hit by a goose while urinating out of his car. Then Holt informs them that it was broken by a female coworker who claims he tried to sexually assault her.

* MoralPragmatist: Rosa, at the beginning of the episode. She believes Amy shouldn't have talked Keri out of pressing charges, because she'll lose her job, they won't find enough evidence to charge Seth, and even if they do, her name will be dragged through the mud, especially at the trial (one step forward, two steps back). Her reasoning was that if she signed the NDA, then at least she gets money and can keep her job. She ends up being half right; Keri leaves her job and will likely be blacklisted in the industry, but they find enough evidence to press charges against Seth, and a coworker at the firm steps forward.

* ICallHimMrHappy: According to Keri, Seth called his penis "The Cookie Monster".

* CallBack: A minor one, to "[[Recap/BrooklynNineNineS6E06TheCrimeScene The Crime Scene]]". Amy, like Jake in that episode, has been constantly awake for days, ignoring personal hygiene, in order to solve a seemingly unsolvable case for very personal reasons. Holt also becomes obsessive about the Disco Strangler affair, although not to the extent of Amy or Jake.

** Holt re-captures the Disco Strangler--who turns out to be a shriveled old man, so it's not the glorious comeback that he'd been hoping for.

* WhamEpisode: It's revealed that Amy transferred to the Nine-Nine after her first captain and [[EvilMentor mentor]] sexually assaulted her. The scene where she reveals this is PlayedForDrama, with no humor until the very end.

* ItsPersonal: Why is Amy so committed to soling the sexual assault case? Because her old captain at the Six-Four assaulted her, saying that she "owed" him for giving her a promotion.

** Amy and Jake are able to prove that Seth did indeed assault Keri. However, she still decides to leave the firm she worked at, although [[IRegretNothing she regrets nothing]]; her colleagues either [[DontYouDarePityMe pity her as a victim]] or continue to exclude her from the company's frat-like bro culture. The only person who seems to benefit from the whole mess is Seth's male co-worker "Beefer", who blew the whistle on him in order to take his job. But then we learn that another woman from the firm has been inspired by Keri to tell the Nine-Nine her own story of being assaulted. As Rosa sums it up, "One step forward, two steps back is still one step forward."

* BadassGrandpa: ZigZaggedTrope with the Disco Strangler. He's clearly on his last legs, but considering the shape he's in, it's a miracle he got as far as he did.