![]() ![]() Of course, he still owes Gina, Boyle, and Rosa another $5,575.32, so there’s plenty of debt-related thread left on that plot spool. (I would not trust this man to wash my humping-crazed dogs, let alone be the backup parent to my unborn child.) But Peralta does have to sacrifice for his sins, selling his beloved car to pay off his $2,437 debt to the sergeant. I wish the show had been unafraid to let Terry sit with his hurt at Jake’s incompetence a little longer it would have been well-deserved, and possibly even fodder for a couple more episodes, and it seems cheap to let Peralta not only be forgiven so quickly but promoted to godfather. ![]() This makes it all the more heartbreaking when Jake inevitably screws it up, as he’s wont to do (and via an accidental reply-all, no less). (Even the press materials for the episode focused on the payback element, rather than Terry’s big news.) It’s a daring plotline for a show that usually plays it beyond safe in terms of raising the emotional stakes - we know that this is something that can genuinely hurt Terry and Sharon, with an impact that transcends Peralta’s usual shenanigans. ![]() It seemed inevitable that the impecunious Jake Peralta would eventually have a reckoning in the Nine-Nine that had to do with money, but even I was surprised that the show only used that as a framework to take a flyer on having him be the keeper of a very grown-up secret: the news of Terry’s wife’s second pregnancy, at a time when that really is the kind of thing that’s best kept under wraps. ![]()
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