"Captain Kim" is the second episode of Season Seven of Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The new captain of the 99, Captain Kim, invites the squad to her home for a dinner party in an attempt to ingratiate herself with them. However, Jake and Holt are convinced that she's hiding something and set out to prove what it is.
Meanwhile, Charles gets Rosa's leather jacket and it turns him into "Cool Charles" who is ultra-confident and well-respected by everyone.
Finally, one of the caterers at Captain Kim's party is an ex-convict whom Terry put away, and Terry's worried that he might be out for revenge.
This episode provides examples of:
- Angry Guard Dog: Subverted. Captain Kim's pit bull was locked in her room because he gets skittish around crowds. He was a rescue from a dog-fighting ring.
- Broken Pedestal: Captain Kim chose to come to the Nine-Nine because she idolized Holt and wanted to work with him. She ends up transferring out of the precinct partly because Holt's extreme distrust of her made her feel unwelcome.
- Big "WHAT?!": From Amy at the end of the episode when Jake reveals that he had to pay Captain Kim $3200 in damages resulting from him letting her Rescue Dog out of the bedroom.
- Call-Back: The second half of the episodes serves as one to Season One's "The Party." Jake once again sneaks around his captain's house to prove they have an ulterior motive for inviting the 99 Squad, and he once again finds where said captain is hiding their dog from the party-goers.
- Freudian Excuse: Jake and Holt both have one for not trusting Captain Kim.
- Jake has a large degree of residual daddy and step-daddy issues. He sees Captain Holt as his one true Captain Dad so he doesn't trust Captain Kim at all.
- Holt is still bitter about being demoted and feels like Captain Kim is trying to usurp him as commanding officer of the Nine-Nine.
- Fun with Acronyms: Amy is proud to call herself a Nationally Accredited and Registered Chaperone.
- Good All Along:
- Many people from Nine-Nine don't trust Captain Kim because she's too good to be true. They all think she's faking it and suspect she might be in cahoots with Holt's nemesis Wunch. Peralta and Holt try to find evidence of it even when others start to think that Kim is honestly a good policewoman. It's revealed that Kim really is as good as she appeared.
- The caterer who is an ex-convict whom Terry put away years ago. He talks about how he spent years thinking about encountering Terry again and offers him a snack with "something special" in it. Turns out he wanted to see Terry was to prove how much he had turned his life around, and the "something special" was "love" and the reason he came across as creepy and threatening was that spending ten years in a prison cell with limited social interaction caused his interpersonal skills to severely atrophy.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Holt is nakedly jealous of Captain Kim taking his place as the Commanding Officer of the Nine-Nine.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Charles spends most of the episode wearing a leather jacket that Rosa gave him. It transforms him into "Cool Charles" who's super-confident and respected by everyone.
- I Call It "Vera": Scully names the chair he's sitting in "The Chair".
- Magic Feather: Rosa's leather jacket works like magic on Charles. When he gives it to a man at the party, that guy goes on to become more confident and even helps subdue Kim's dog. Charles claims that the jacket bought out the cool guy inside them, although without it he quickly reverts to his normal self.
- Nice Girl: Captain Kim. She's selfless, kind, and does everything she can to make the Nine-Nine warm up to her, such as offering Jake a position as an FBI liaison, putting Terry in contact with the principal of the best Elementary School in the state, and providing Hitchcock and Scully with "The most comfortable chairs in the world" to sit in at her party. However, everyone is too devoted to Holt to accept her.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jake and Holt become convinced that the generosity of Captain Kim is Too Good to Be True through a combination of all the previous poor replacements for Captain Holt and due to residual issues with Holt getting demoted. Turns out she was really nice after all but she ends up transferring at the end of the episode because of Jake's actions.
- Poke the Poodle: Holt's attempts at faking a drunken scene, including mentioning how his body temperature has risen and combining the wrong canapes "like an animal."
- Poor Communication Kills:
- A lot of Holt and Jake's suspicions towards Kim could have been avoided if she had just been upfront and told everyone about why she picked the 99 and was honest about Wuntch contacting her. As a result, Jake accidentally releases her dog and wrecks her party, and she feels so unwelcome that she decides to transfer out of the 99.
- When Terry meets an ex-convict he put away who's working as a caterer at Kim's party, he expresses joy at seeing Terry, saying he thought about him every day and what'd he do when they meet again, immediately offering him some food after. As a result, Terry is extremely paranoid that he's trying to poison him and ends up putting all the food he gives him in his suit pocket. When the ex-con explains that he was trying to show Terry how much he changed, Terry immediately Lampshades how misleading the way the con phrased it was, only for the ex-con to point out that he spent the past few years with the a brick wall as his only conversation companion, so he ended up having No Social Skills. Terry admits that that's a fair point.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: It's implied that Terry hasn't seen any of The Fast and the Furious movies, since he doesn't seem to know whether the name of Dwayne Johnson's character is Hobbs or Shawnote .
- Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: Captain Kim is exactly as good-hearted as she initially seems.
- Suspicion Aesop: Although Captin Kim appears to be a perfectly nice person and capable replacement, Jake and Holt are suspicious of her due to the precinct's horrible experiences with past replacement captains, and spend the entire episode trying to dig up dirt on her. It turns out that Kim is exactly as nice as she seems to be, and she's so upset by their unfounded suspicions that she quits at the end of the episode.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Scully's reaction when Jake letting Kim's dog out causes the "most comfortable chairs in the world" to be destroyed. He actually has to be held back to prevent him from throwing hands at Jake.
- Too Good to Be True: Captain Kim appears to be this, Subverted, however, as it turns out that she's just as kind and selfless as she appears to be.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Captain Kim transfers out of the Nine-Nine at the end of the episode due to Jake's and Holt's actions driving her away.
- We Need a Distraction: In order to get the key from Captain Kim, Jake has Holt make a scene by pretending to go on a drunken rage. His first attempts are typically lame, but then he manages to make the perfect distraction by tumbling down the stairs.
- Written-In Absence: Rosa says that she's taking some time off, explaining why she's not present in the episode after the Cold Opennote .
