Now that he's officially back at the precinct and desperate to solve a real case, Jake finds a loophole to get out of his temporarily designated desk duty. Unfortunately, that loophole rests on his ability to pass an official evaluation performed by Holt. While Charles provides Jake with moral support, Terry and Amy help Rosa, who believes Pimento may be cheating on her.
Tropes:
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
- The montage of Pimento doing "regular Pimento stuff" includes him screaming in a gym, screaming while waving a sword, and screaming while playing hopscotch.
- Holt gets angry at Jake for letting a suspect go, failing his evaluation and not retrieving his father's pencil.
- Insult Backfire:Jake: "There is no pleasing you."Holt: "There is not."
- Literal Metaphor: Jake tells Holt that he hopes Holt is wearing his evaluating pants. Turns out that Holt actually has a special pair of evaluating pants.
- Loophole Abuse:
- Jake tries this to get off the desk and back into field work, but eventually decides he's not actually ready for it.
- Terry can't give Rosa police surveillance equipment due to the NYPD not allowing it for personal use. So Rosa uses Hitchcock's "Creep Kit". Let's just say he's done this before.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Pimento is not in fact cheating on Rosa — the woman she sees him with is his Spanish teacher; he was learning it to impress her father. However, Rosa realizes that she was so ready to jump to the conclusion that he was cheating on her because she was looking for an excuse to end the relationship, so she breaks up with him afterwards.
- Oh, Crap!: Jake has one when he finds out Morris Richman, who he arrested for a grand larceny case before releasing him after after suspecting he was innocent, was guilty after all.
- Shout-Out:
- Jake breaks down the cardboard "wall" to the sneaker shop with a Hadouken.
- While undercover, Jake and Charles are compared to Jay and Silent Bob.
- Tempting Fate: Subverted; when Rosa breaks up with Pimento, he initially takes it quite calmly, and Rosa comments to her friends that things have gone surprisingly well... a mere second before Pimento starts beating on the window of the precinct office tearfully screaming for Rosa and weeping uncontrollably. However:Rosa: [Matter-of-factly] Honestly, this is the best I could have asked for.
- That Came Out Wrong: Holt notes that Jake & Boyle's suggestive "loophole high five" is "highly inappropriate".
