Line #17 Recap/BrooklynNineNineS6E07TheHoneypot


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4	"The Honeypot" is the seventh episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'''s sixth season.
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6	Captain Holt is looking for a new assistant to replace Gina, and Jake helps out by finding someone (played by ''Film/Deadpool2016'''s Karan Soni). At first he seems perfect, but Holt reveals that the new hire was hitting on him (in a very Holt-like fashion), and is later discovered to be a plant working for Commissioner Kelly.
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8	Meanwhile, with the first floor closed and the fourth floor bullpen being overcrowded, Amy leads the rest of the squad in an attempt to organize the place.
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11	!!This episode provides examples of:
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13	* ArrowsOnFire: Courtesy of Rosa at the VikingFuneral.
14	* BaitAndSwitch: Gordon tries to pull one by pretending to be a double agent for Holt, when really he was only pretending to switch sides to Holt in order to make it look like Holt was spying on the Commissioner. However, Holt then reveals that he had bugged the rest of the restaurant and put in cameras beforehand, so Gordon and Commissioner Kelly were caught revealing their entire plan.
15	* BatmanGambit: Holt, who figured he still might not be able to trust Gordon, planted bugs and cameras in the restaurant beforehand, just in case Gordon turned on them.
16	* CallBack: Jake once again refers to Holt (as well as Kevin, this time) as his "dad".
17	* FakeDefector: Gordon, who pretends to switch sides.
18	* FauxAffablyEvil: Commissioner Kelly, as always, even when asking for Holt's resignation. However, his "affable" charade quickly falls away when Holt reveals he caught Kelly on tape admitting he planted a spy in the Nine-Nine.
19	* ForYourOwnGood: Amy's reasoning when forcing her co-workers to throw away all their personal belongings.
20	* FunWithAcronyms: Jake runs through several examples of this as OperationBlank codenames. Holt follows his lead by naming the final plan TRIPLE DRAGON: '''T'''wo '''R'''ighteous '''I'''ndividuals '''P'''erforming '''L'''aw '''E'''nforcement '''D'''irectives '''R'''apidly '''A'''gainst '''G'''ordon '''O'''ur '''N'''emesis.
21	* GeekyTurnOn: Holt considers it scandalous when Gordon suggests they go to an exhibit of historic wooden barrels. While their tour seems dry and academic, they both insist that it was an "erotically-charged atmosphere". In the end, Jake takes Amy to the same exhibit, who very clearly shares that opinion.
22	* HeelFaceTurn: Gordon appears to have one, but it's revealed to have been an act in order to frame Holt for spying on the Commissioner (who was doing just that to Holt).
23	* HiddenDepths: Rosa, as usual. This time, she reveals that she's an archer and has six bows in her car.
24	* HoneyTrap: The whole premise of the plot. Unlike other famous honey traps, Gordon is stiff, uptight and not conventionally hot by any means. However, Kelly had done his research, as this is actually [[HasAType his target's type]].
25	* IncrediblyLameFun: As a cover to get to Gordon's laptop, Holt takes him to a barrel exhibit at the Museum of American Industry. Holt is thoroughly enjoying it, even going through the history of one particular barrel for an hour, then going to another barrel and talking about as long on how it's ''identical'' to the previous one.
26	* InsistentTerminology: Holt refers to Creator/TomCruise as Thomas Cruise.
27	* LaserGuidedKarma: Commissioner Kelly gets what has been a long time coming, when Holt catches him spying on the Nine-Nine.
28	* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Holt rejects his latest assistant candidate for abbreviating a one-syllable word.
29	* MookFaceTurn: Gordon pretends to have one.
30	* NotSoAboveItAll: At first, Holt criticizes Jake's attempts to catch Gordon with tactics taken from spy movies. However, when Jake's plan to secretly record Gordon's confession fails due to Gordon being a triple agent, Holt saves the day by revealing that he'd been recording Gordon ''and'' Commissioner Kelly all along--because he'd followed Jake's example and watched a few spy movies himself. He even gives his plan a cool OperationBlank[=/=]FunWithAcronyms name, just like Jake.
31	* OhCrap: Jake and Holt, when they realize Gordon was a triple agent. And then Commissioner Kelly and Gordon when they realize Holt expected it, and planted bugs and cameras all throughout the restaurant.
32	* ResetButton: With Commissioner Kelly defeated, floor one of the Nine-Nine is reopened, and the bullpen is restored to its usual, non-crowded state.
33	* RuleOfThree: Jake saying "What did I miss?".
34	* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: "Are you literally saying hem and haw?"
35	* SeriousBusiness: Amy, as usual, about organizing the office. When the Marie Kondo "Tidying Up" method fails, she switches to a radical Scandinavian organizer methodology called [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign Munkensmat]] where they're only allowed to keep one thing and burn the rest. Turns out the inventor even gave up the clothes on his back and froze to death in a snowstorm.
36	* StimulantSpeedtalk: Exaggerated, when Jake, Rosa, and Holt accidentally drink too much [[KlatchianCoffee cold brew]] from the new machine. This causes them to [[BulletTime see everyone else as moving too slow]], while to everyone else they are talking way too fast (particularly notable since Rosa and Holt are generally TheStoic).
37	--->'''Jake:''' ''[rapidly]'' If you're not going slow, that means we're going fast. Are we going fast? Can anyone tell if we're going fast?
38	---> '''Rosa:''' ''[rapidly]'' I don't think we're going fast at all in any way whatsoever. I feel like we're going slow in ''every'' way whatsoever.
39	* TragicKeepsake: During Amy's cleanup campaign, Terry is reluctant to throw out a pair of unopened suspenders because they represent the lieutenant exam he once failed, but still intends to pass. Amy gets him to dispose of them anyway but comes to regret it, so she buys him a new pair because “Some things are worth clinging to”.
40	* VikingFuneral: Amy and her friends conduct one in the Nine-Nine's parking lot for all the stuff they're throwing away.
41	* XanatosGambit: Holt, anticipating Gordon's triple-cross, has the entire restaurant bugged in advance. That way, if Gordon was being honest, he'd bring them the evidence they needed, if Kelly figured out he was being watched, then at least he'd lose his mole, and if (as happened), Gordon and Kelly tried to use their own operation against them, he'd have ''that'' on tape, which would provide him with even more leverage against Kelly.

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