“Now squint your eyes…and look at Hitchcock”) and staged a fake funeral for Adrian, which led Holt and Gina on a fruitless search for the FBI bad apple, which led some very awkward high-fiving at the funeral (Gina: “I’m very sorry for your loss. So they found a stand-in corpse for the case-file photos (“If I may, imagine Pimento’s dirty pale body being pulled out of manhole after a couple days’ sewer bloat,” said Gina.
In the end, it was Jake who couldn’t handle the heat in jail, and he had to remove himself as her handler/OB-GYN his overworrying about Amy being near Maura and common household items was jeopardizing the mission (“Socks are just a noose waiting to be braided.” “In the wrong hands every card is like a throwing star.”).īack on the outside, Holt, Gina, Terry, and Rosa needed to help sell the notion that Adrian was dead while trying to draw out the FBI guy with a scar on his hand. While tone can be a tricky issue for this clever-yet-goofy cop comedy when the plot calls for things to turn dangerously serious, this episode was stocked with sharp-as-a-shiv one-liners (many of them brandished by Gina and Holt), and laughs flowed from the assumption that cold-as-dry-ice Diaz would be the only logical choice to play pregnant prisoner with Jake and Charles as their doctors from Amy’s frustration at being overlooked as a potential badass from that plan falling apart when Diaz’s cover was immediately blown and Amy being called in as the expectant replacement (fitting as Melissa Fumero just gave birth in real life) and from her kinda nailing the role after a rocky rehearsal and gaining Maura’s trust.
The point is that s- is getting deep on the show. How did a Brooklyn precinct captain get the interstate permission (without involving the FBI) to pull off this mission? Never you mind that. (Also not good: He had a man inside the FBI helping him with said dastardly deed.) With Jimmy operating under the assumption that he has killed Pimento - and with Holt operating with the knowledge that Jimmy has a sister, Maura, who is locked up in a Texas prison for multiple murders and knows his operation well - Holt commenced a top-secret mission to take down Jimmy by sending a detective undercover as an inmate to get close to Maura. Tuesday’s episode, “Maximum Security,” continued our increasingly serialized adventure that stemmed from the introduction (and now rapid exit) of the loose-screwed detective Adrian Pimento, who faked his own death with ketchup and SpaghettiOs and went into hiding after his paranoid fears that Jimmy “the Butcher” Figgis was trying to kill him were confirmed.