'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Recap: Season 1 Episode 6 'Halloween'

Hot on the heels of being given a full season order by FOX Brooklyn Nine-Nine dropped another solid but unspectacular episode in “Halloween.” Brooklyn Nine-Nine has yet to hit its comic high but it still remains a very enjoyable watch from week-to-week.

The strength of “Halloween” was definitely in the Peralta and Holt storyline as it both utilized Peralta’s silliness within the context of the plot and allowed Holt to have a little fun with the precincts proceedings. Peralta makes a bet with Holt at the beginning of the episode that he could steal Holt’s medal by midnight. If Peralta was able to pull it off Holt had to announce to the precinct that Peralta was a great detective and genius and do all of Peralta’s paperwork. If Peralta lost he agreed to work several weekends without filing for overtime. Clearly hijinks would be afoot.

With every progressive ridiculous Peralta failure – whether it was the ceiling collapsing in Holt’s office from Peralta’s weight or dressing up as a janitor to get into the office – it seemed Holt had Peralta’s number yet again. Just as Peralta seemed to gain the upper hand with a hilariously choreographed dance featuring men dressed as royal British babies Holt again thwarted him. However, everything paid off by the end of the episode as Peralta purposefully got himself locked in the interrogation room and made sure to intricately explain his entire plan to Holt so that Boyle could extract the medal from Holt’s safe.

While Holt is usually used as the robotic straight man to Peralta’s silliness it seems the best episodes are when Holt partakes in the buffoonery. Holt never reaches the level of Peralta but when he is allowed to have a little fun it makes the Peralta and Holt odd coupling work much better. This particular plot, as well as the “Halloween” setting also allowed Peralta’s goofiness to be on display and actually enhance the plot in a somewhat believable way.

The other plot with Boyle and Santiago was much more of a snoozefest as Boyle half-heartedly tried to make Santiago see how fun Halloween could actually be. While this plot did highlight some of the more disgusting aspects of the holiday Boyle’s reasoning for liking it wasn’t revealed until the end of the episode where he tells Santiago that he loves it because of the stories and camaraderie that blossoms from it. It is a cute idea that makes sense in the context of Boyle’s character but it definitely felt tacked on.

The C story involved Jeffords trying to find why Diaz always acted so tough. This wasn’t given as much time in the episode as the other two story threads but did offer some insight into Diaz’s character while providing some predictable laughs that Diaz transferred out of Catholic school to go to a dance school before becoming a cop. Jeffords and Diaz had some interesting non-romantic chemistry, which could be parlayed into future hilarity.

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