In the interrogation room, Boyle gets a confession from Patterson’s wife, who reveals that she killed her husband because he was a cheater (and leaves room for Jake to make one last fat joke). At a bar over beers, Jake apologizes for being a bad secondary and agrees to do all the files. He asks his partners to never mention the weird dead body sex games.
In a secondary plot, Santiago gets her chance to suck up to Captain Holt again after seeing him discard his own portrait from the precinct wall. She asks Diaz if there’s anything “wrong” with the Captain, and this questioning begins a run of gags that show the cops’ inability to read Holt’s emotions.
Meanwhile, Santiago asks Sergeant Jeffords to do a suspect drawing for her purse-snatching case, and Jeffords fastidiously works on a portrait (when Santiago rushes him, he loses his cool: “Questions like that that made Van Gogh cut off his ear.”) Santiago nabs a suspect with Jeffords’ detailed art, and begs him to paint a portrait to replace the photo of the Captain Holt.
When Santiago presents Holt with the painting, he scolds her for misreading his intentions for taking down the photo (he thinks that he hasn’t earned a spot on the wall). Santiago figures out that Captain Holt is worried about closed case stats. She reminds him that most precinct’s numbers get worse under new leadership, but theirs have stayed the same and that he’s improved morale overall. Captain Holt thanks Santiago, and takes home the painting of himself to his husband, telling Jeffords, “He’ll like that you made me look happy.” (“I was trying to make him look serious,” Jeffords laments.)
Final notes: the writers still seem to be exploring character chemistry combinations (say that three times fast), and while I think this episode found interesting new ones (Santiago’s obsessive sucking up and Jeffords’ obsessive, well, everything), I’m still all for seeing more of the Jake-Captain Holt dynamic. I’m also thinking that the slow development between Boyle and Diaz works (for now) in small doses.
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