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.
