In “The Slump,” Jake hasn’t been able to solve any of his cases in weeks–his pile of open cases is significantly higher than his unsolved case pile, and he’s losing the running competition to Santiago. Although everyone rags on him for being in a slump, Jake is in denial. “I’m in the opposite. I’m in a pmuls [i.e., slump spelled backwards]. I’m pmuls all over this bitch.”
Jake’s in a rush to close his easiest case, a missing grandma, but the old lady he picks up is actually a dementia patient from the nearest senior center. His next plan involves trading an unsolvable murder case with the inept Detective Hitchcock for a seemingly open-shut drug bust, but Jake ends up storming in on a clueless old man obsessed with birds. To add insult to injury, Hitchcock gets a win when the killer returns to the scene of the crime and turns himself in.
After a series of mishaps–bird crap, mishandled evidence and a burst urinal pipe in the face–Gina convinces Jake that he’s cursed. Captain Holt benches Jake from field work, sets him to digitizing old case files, and gives him a rabbit’s foot that belonged to his old colleague, Smitty, who suffered from an unlucky slump back in the day.
Jake has an “aha” moment and asks Boyle to make some secret calls for him (since he’s barred from doing investigations). He closes his case after calling out the couple who reported their missing grandma for insurance fraud and filing a false report. After realizing that Captain Holt gave him tedious data entry work to reset his mind, he believes that they’re becoming homies.
Meanwhile, Captain Holt asks Santiago to head up a junior police officer outreach program, and she recruits a reluctant Detective Diaz to help her with the program. Busybody Gina, who wants to do everything but her actual job, is eager to help, but Santiago turns her down because she’s not a cop. Gina takes the rejection well, stating, “No hard feelings, but I hate you. Not joking. Bye.”
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