Tear Jerker / Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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Season 1

• In "The Party", we find out why Kevin forbids cop stories at his and Holt's house — it's not the stories, it's the cops. As Holt's longtime partner, he's been forced to watch his husband deal with the endless crap being piled on him for his race and sexuality by the NYPD, to the point where he's grown to resent the police.
• A bit of Fridge Sadness, but when Amy tells Holt of Jake punching Brogan for calling Holt "a homo", it's likely Brogan said a much harsher slur but Santiago refrained from saying it to her captain.

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Season 2

• While the whole thing is Played for Laughs, Holt and Wuntch's bitter rivalry can be seen as rather tragic. They were initially good friends and co-workers, with Wuntch even falling for Holt somewhere down the line. However, around the time Holt was being considered for a promotion, Wuntch came onto him only to be informed that he was gay, and shortly after he was denied the promotion. Under the reasonable assumption that Wuntch made him look bad in her Letter of Recommendation, he started treating her coldly, which upset Wuntch to the point that she tried to shoot him, prompting Holt to try and get her kicked off the force, kick starting their current relationship of pettily trying to one-up and ruin the other. Even when Amy reveals that Wuntch never badmouthed him, actually recommending him highly despite his rejection of her, the two are still unable to reconcile and return to their previous relationship, with her apparent Offscreen Death in Season 7 making sure they'll never get the chance.
• Terry telling Jake they're not "friend friends", just "work friends" is rather harsh, because clearly Jake thought of Terry as the former.
• Sophia breaking up with Jake in "The Defense Rests".
• Jake realizing that his father is a selfish jerk who doesn't care about being a dad in "Captain Peralta".
• The reason why Jake's a workaholic explored in "AC/DC." During his second year in the NYPD, Jake was tracking a drug dealer for months. Suddenly, the drug dealer disappeared before his time off. While he was taking his time off, the dealer resurfaced, got into a shootout with another drug dealer and two civilians were shot. Jake blames himself for the two civilians getting injured and swears to never take time off during a case.
• The main plot of "The Wednesday Incident" is surprisingly sad for this show. Jake briefly views Holt fighting three muggers as a Moment of Awesome. However, the incident, and Holt's reaction, only led to Raymond lying to his husband, taking his frustration out on the squad, and Kevin having no idea what is going on, and getting very upset when he finds out the truth.
• In the Season 2 finale, Captain Holt is forced to take the promotion given by Wuntch to prevent his precinct's best detectives from being reassigned into different locations, thereby making the Nine-Nine even more miserable. When everybody hears Holt's announcement that he is leaving...
  Jake: "Oh no. This is new."
  Holt: "And I know that every one of you gave me everything you had. And I will never forget it."
  Jake: [shaken] "Go back to being Robot Captain."
  Holt: [chuckles] "Meep morp. Zeep."
  • Even worse? When Holt chuckles, his breath is audibly shaking and his eyes are a bit watery. Raymond Holt is on the verge of tears.
  • Gina would not stand for this outrage and decided to go wherever Captain Holt goes as well.
  • Jake's reaction to Holt leaving is pretty heartbreaking too.
    Jake: (after Amy asked how's he taking the news) "I'm basically handling it the way I dealt with my dad leaving: just repressing the hell out of it."

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Season 3

• Holt's Despair Speech in "The Funeral" counts.
  Holt: Everything is garbage. You find something you care about and it's taken from you; your colleagues, your dream job, your mango yogurt—
  Terry: [roaring drunk] WOO!
  Holt: Never love anything. That's the lesson.
• Jake's dream since he was a little kid has been to catch a serial killer, but he gives all the credit away to get Holt his job back.
• Rosa tearfully confessing to Holt that she's genuinely scared she might never find love after breaking up with Marcus in "Into the Woods".
• When Holt's sister Debbie reveals that the reason she showed up isn't just to have someone to vent to in her typical 'drama queen' fashion, but because her husband left her after she found him sleeping around. Holt's face just falls as he realises how inadvertently selfish he's been by trying to push his little sister away out of his own desire for stoicism.
  • Debbie herself is tearjerkingly subdued as she explains the blow she's suffered, before visibly perking herself up to tell him everything's okay and she'll deal with her problems by herself.
  • It's in passing and somewhat played for laughs (due to Holt's customary stilted delivery) but when he unloads all his drama on Debbie, one of the things stressing him out is obviously not made up for the moment: he and Kevin fought about Kevin's sabbatical to Paris and he misses him.
• The reason behind Adrian's odd behavior in his first episode — he has to get a burner phone because disappearing for 12 years means that his credit's shot, and the items he's been sneaking around with are photos of his family that he had to hide when he went undercover.
• Rosa and Adrian's goodbye in "Paranoia."
• Jake removing himself from the case as Amy's undercover handler in "Maximum Security", after realising that he can't be objective when she's unarmed and in danger, is a combination of this and a Heartwarming Moment. Even though it's ultimately due to the fact that he cares about her too much, there are quite a few sad consequences: Jake leaves believing that he's a weaker person than he thought; he and Amy realise that they may not be able to work cases together any more; and Jake having to leave Amy in Texas while he returns to New York, so that if anything does go wrong in the case he won't know, are all worthy Tear Jerkers.
• While played for Black Comedy, pretty much the entire character of Adrian Pimento. He spent 12 years undercover working for one of the most vicious mobsters in New York, and all the horrible things he's been forced to do and had done to him has pretty much destroyed him, giving him extreme levels of PTSD you usually only see in veteran soldiers or war refugees.

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Season 4

• All throughout the episode "Coral Palms, Pt. 1", Holt is insistent on making the best of his and Jake's placement in Florida under Witness Protection while Jake is still breaking protocol and trying to solve the Figgis case so that they can go home. But at the end of the episode, Holt joins Jake in breaking protocol because he realized that the only time he really felt alive during their entire six month stay in Florida was when they were trying to stop the video of them from being uploaded so that they can still maintain their covers, since that was the closest thing they'd done to actual police work since they arrived in Florida. Seeing Jake breaking protocol in his desperation to get back home is sad but expected, since this is Jake, after all. But seeing Holt becoming so desperate that he resorts to breaking protocol, too? That is a real Tear Jerker.
  • In the same episode, Jake's reaction to Holt yelling at him after Holt thinks he failed to stop the viral video from being uploaded, Holt saying they'll have to relocate, and that he's going to insist on being sent to a different city than Jake. And when Jake reveals he did manage to stop it, he throws Holt the phone and mutters, "I won't bother you anymore." Holt watches him go, clearly regretting the things he said.
  • The whole episode honestly has a very depressing undertone to it. It's still hilarious and delivers many jokes, but Jake's and Holt's desperation to get back home to the people they care about, like the squad and their significant others, is still very easily felt.
  • As funny as his deadpan attempts to play straight are while undercover, it's still quite painful to see Holt effectively back in the closet and separated from his husband.
• Rosa crying over Pimento's whereabouts in "The Night Shift."
• Gertie getting torn apart in a chop shop in front of Captain Holt. Remember, this isn't just a car to him. This is a beloved part of his life, being the vehicle that allowed him to stay together with Kevin during the most difficult parts of their relationship. Sure, Doug Judy gets him an identical copy, but it won't have the same emotional resonance.
• In "Moo Moo," Terry's rant to Holt about why, despite the potential political consequences, he has to file a report against the racist officer that stopped him.
  Terry: When I got stopped the other day, I wasn't a cop. I wasn't a guy who lived in a neighborhood looking for his daughter's toy. I was a black man, a dangerous black man. That's all he could see: a threat. And I couldn't stop thinking about my daughters. And their future. And how years from now, they could be walking down the street, looking for their kids' Moo Moo, and get stopped by a bad cop. And they probably won't get to play the police card to get out of trouble. I don't like that thought, and I'm gonna do something about it. So I don't care if it might hurt my career. I'm filing that report. Even if I have to go over your head to do it.
  • A little girl saying "we're black. Are we gonna get in trouble like Daddy?" is hard to watch, the fact that she's asking the question in a rather matter-of-fact way makes it possibly even worse.
• "The Last Ride." All of it. The Nine-Nine has a possibility of closing down and you feel the dread that this is it. This is goodbye.
  • Jake and Charles crying in the car when it occurs to them that the case they're working on is possibly their last case together.
    Jake: Every case with you is the best case ever.
  • On the same note, Jake and Charles talking about their hypothetical cool new partners before crying in the car.
    Charles: You're gonna get a new partner. His name is gonna be Heath or Ryan, he's gonna know everything about Die Hard and he's gonna be super cool — jean jacket cool.
    Jake: You're gonna get a cool new partner too, right? They'll love fine dining, and musical theatre, and hearing every explicit detail about your sex life over and over and over.
    Charles: Just like you.
    Jake: Yeah. Just like me.
    Charles: Yep. You're right. It's fine. I'm gonna be totally fine without you. *starts to cry*
• There's something REALLY sad about Jake yelling out, in confusion and desperation, that him and Rosa are innocent as the police arrest them in "The Bank Job".
• The fact that Jake's and Rosa's lives and careers got destroyed so quickly by Hawkins, their idol, is heartbreaking.
• Rosa about to flee the country and Holt confronting her in "Crime and Punishment".
  Holt: Your family is going to miss you.
  Rosa: I don't care. I don't talk to them anyway.
  Holt: I wasn't talking about them. I was talking about the Nine-Nine.
• Jake and Rosa talking about their academy days before their trial.
  Jake: You know, if you had asked me back at the academy where I wanted to be in 12 years, I definitely would have said right here.
  Rosa: (gives a sad smile) Same.
  Jake: (sadly) Great. So it all worked out. End of story.
• Jake getting a Heroic BSoD when he and Rosa are deemed guilty during their trial.
  Jake: coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool.
  • The trial in general. It feels like a big Hope Spot until the end.

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Season 5

• Most of "The Big House, Pt. 1," since Rosa and Jake are both in jail and are miserable.
  • Rosa admits to Terry and Holt that she is completely miserable in prison and it's just so hard to watch someone so tough look so vulnerable and upset, and that it's only Terry's and Holt's visits that were keeping her sane.
    Rosa: Look, prison is awful. I'm lonely, I'm scared. I just want to be back home. And I was happy you guys were coming to visit, but then you [Holt] started calling me by my first name, and you [Terry] kept making that crazy crying face. The only one that is acting like himself is Hitchcock. If I'm gonna get through this, I need to feel like my old life isn't gone. I need normal interactions. So I need you guys to fight with me, and be honest with me.
  • The fact that Jake was willing to resort to getting a contraband phone and consorting with known troublemakers in the prison in order to get it. Since he's an ex-cop, he's already in serious danger in prison, and since he wants to prove his innocence, him getting caught doing anything illegal would be really bad. So the most sensible, logical thing for him to do would be to keep his head down, follow the rules, and avoid engaging with the other prisoners whenever possible. But he throws it all on the line — his safety, what little remains of his credibility — just to hear Amy's voice again.
    Jake: No, everything's fine. I'm talking to you.
• Jake realizing that prison has deeply traumatized him and changed his outlook on himself and his job in "Kicks."
  Jake: It just feels a lot harder for me to put another human being in prison after experiencing it myself. Look, I wanted to be back on the field because I wanted to be the old me. But the truth is: I'm not the old me yet. Maybe I never will be.
• Holt's gambling addiction in 'Bad Beat' isn't exactly Played for Drama. When Jake tells Holt to back off the gambling and threatens to tell Holt's husband what he's been up to, you think it's just another joke. Until Holt grows very serious.
  Holt: I can't do that to Kevin again.
• Rosa's parents have an exceptionally hard time accepting her bisexuality. Although her father later says that he loves her and will try his best to try and understand her desires and choices, he also asks that, at least for the time being, she stop coming over for game night because it will upset her mother. The normally stoic Rosa can't help but shed a tear.
  Rosa: I am attracted to both men and women. I've known this about myself for a really long time, and I didn't want to tell you because I was afraid you were gonna react exactly like you are.
  Oscar: What do you want us to say?
  Rosa: That you accept me for who I am.
  (Oscar and Julia stay silent and look aside awkwardly.)
  Rosa: (crestfallen) Wow.
  • Rosa finding out that her parents were more okay with the idea of her dating Jake while he's engaged to Amy than they would be with her dating a woman during the dinner with her parents is also quite heartbreaking.
    Oscar: Mijita, when you called this dinner, you were so nervous, we were worried you were gonna tell us you were gay.
    Rosa: So you would rather me be some dude's mistress than be in a loving relationship with a woman? Well, Jake and I aren't dating. But guess what? Your worst fears are real. I'm not straight. I'm bisexual.
  • Made even sadder by the fact that three episodes prior ("Two Turkeys") Rosa was excited to spend more time with her family after her stay in prison. Just as they were reconnecting, they hit a stumbling block.
  • The ending is a crowning moment of heartwarming, but people who've been rejected for their sexuality (or are otherwise estranged from their bio-family) might cry anyways. When Rosa is devastated by her parents' reaction, the 99 shows up for family game night. And Captain Holt, who knows what Rosa's going through all-too-well, gives a heartfelt speech about how he's proud of her, how things will get better, and gives her a hug.
    Holt: I know things aren't exactly where you want them to be right now, but I promise you, they will improve. Every time someone steps up and says who they are the world becomes a better, more interesting place. So thank you.
  • Stephanie Beatriz’s performance really sells it. Seeing The Stoic nervous and on the verge of tears with a vulnerability Rosa has never really shown before is hard to stay dry-eyed through.
• Holt's excessively paranoid behavior during 'Safe House'. While the rules themselves (no standing except in a single square, windows can only be open for an hour) are played for laughs, the tension they create between Holt and Kevin is portrayed very seriously. Right down to Holt implying Kevin's death might drive him to suicide, and Kevin saying that Holt's behavior might result in a divorce.
• Jake's sadness at Doug Judy betraying him yet again by running off with the diamonds instead of turning himself in after he helped Jake catch his boss. The scene itself also overlaps with Funny Moment due to how dramatic Jake is being, but he also just seems genuinely distraught that Doug has not in fact stopped his life of crime.
  Doug Judy: (over the phone) I guess Rosa was right. I'm a scorpion. Scorpions gonna scorp. Sorry I can't be the man you want me to be.
  Jake: Damn it! Stop being so romantic. Now turn around and come back to me, you fool! Hello? Hello? He's gone. He broke my heart.
• When Holt gives his Calling the Old Man Out speech in 'The Puzzle Master', the camera lingers on Olivia Crawford's face when Holt says that she was never actually considered for the position. To have thought your hard work paid off, that you'd succeeded in breaking through the glass ceiling... Crawford's expression is subtle, but she's clearly shaken up.

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Season 6

• Yank the Dog's Chain occurs when Holt thinks he got the position of commissioner . . . only to read the email more closely and see the "not", and the job went to a mediocre white dude who wants to reinforce "search and frisk". Holt's Heroic BSoD sends him to a Mexican resort without any luggage, where he buys novelty t-shirts and wallows in self-pity. When Jake and Amy sacrifice their couple time to cheer him up, he decides to quit the force and pursue life because he can't do more good than he has. Amy has to tie him spread-eagled to a bed and yell at him to make him reconsider, and so he decides to get rid of the search and frisk procedure by complaining to the mayor. Which makes the new commissioner declare war on the 99.
• Boyle finds out that his dad and Gina's mother are divorcing; then his face crumples under the mask he made of Gina when he learns that she told her mother to initiate the divorce. To top it all off, Gina reveals that her mother was cheating on Papa Boyle, and that was why she told her mother to make a clean break. She wasn't lying when she said it was to protect both Boyles.
• Luanne in "The Crime Scene" being told that her son's death has no leads. The poor woman's anguish over losing her son and not getting justice drives even Rosa to tears. It gets worse when she admits she hadn't spoken to her son in nearly a year, due to them having an awful fight.
  • Jake being forced to sit Luanne down and admit the case probably won't ever be solved. You can just feel the guilt. The fact that Luanne is completely understanding, and is in fact grateful that they tried as hard and as long as they did makes it so much worse.
  • The revelation that, even after a year, Rosa hasn't talked to her mother Julia since coming out as bi. The reason she promised Luanne she and Jake would solve it (after spending the whole episode reprimanding Jake for doing just that) is because Luanne reminded her of her own mother.
• The episode “He Said, She Said”. It’s competing with “Moo Moo” and “Game Night” as the saddest episode of the entire series.
  • There's Amy's reason why she is determined to see the victim get the win. When she was in her old precinct, the 64, she had a mentor that helped her throughout her journey until she made detective. Then, during dinner, her captain tried to kiss her because he felt he deserved it for helping her out. All Amy could do was run out of the restaurant and transfer to the 99. Even worse, she still felt that she did not truly deserve the promotion due to that event.
    • It puts a very different light on her previously comic desperation for Holt’s approval.
  • Amy then tells Jake every single woman she knows has a story like that. And for many women watching, it's dead-accurate.
  • Jake's line, "Every time I think I understand how bad it is, it is just way worse than I imagined."
• "The Golden Child" is mainly a comedy episode, but it has a few sobering bits:
  • When Amy hits her Rage Breaking Point and calls out David for his bragging. David doesn't help by saying Amy is jealous of him because she could never measure up. It quickly segues into Mood Whiplash when they begin a dance-off and believe they need to use their forearms, but Jake is pretty horrified.
  • David's two Jerkass Realization moments; one where Amy fakes a fall to secure the evidence needed to clear his name, and suffers a minor concussion. He's tending to her and looks guilty as Jake lets them into the secret room. Then when the Brazilian mob enforcers catch Jake and stuff him into a car to kill at a remote location, David immediately surrenders his gun to Amy to shoot. She makes him take the shot because she has a concussion and he's the better marksman. By the end of the episode, David sincerely thanks Amy for helping him considering she and her husband risked their lives to save his butt.
• While there is a lot of humor and both are somewhat honorable in this episode, there is a rather sad tone to the episode "Hitchcock & Scully" S 06 E 02. The titular characters were similar to stereotypical action heroes who were extraordinarily competent, attractive , and cool even develop a serious eating disorder (which is treated as a joke by everyone around them). They were also addicted to cocaine (very common nowadays, even more so in the 80s). They gained a lot of excess weight, a barrage of health problems and their minds degraded to the point where they were almost mentally challenged most of the time. Even the main characters, who have known them intimately for many years, don't respect them, don't want them around and perhaps don't even consider them friends—at best, friendly acquaintances. Their wives have left them and their families don't seem to want them around (Scully mentioned having two kids that cut him out of their lives). The Nine-Nine folks didn't even seem aware of the fact that they were super-cops who literally look like they're straight out of an action movie. That would explain why they're so inseparable: after many years of wild adventures, they've all abandoned them and they're ALL that's left of each other (both to keep each other company and also why they both genuinely admire each other and can see yourself as all that's left are your old selves). His extraordinary lost potential and fall from grace are strikingly similar to real-life people affected by his addictions and life issues and the episode itself and the characters treating him like "Wow, what a surprise" and never talking about it again only serves to show how people, even those closest to the two and extremely impressed with how awesome they used to be, care little about it, already finding them hopelessly pathetic and unpleasant. This puts MANY of his lines in a different light, especially those that imply serious mental illness and complete resignation to their horrible, lonely, bankrupt, aimless lives. Undoubtedly a serious and extremely accurate real-life Tear Jerker and Nightmare Fuel case of how people change over time and that's not always (if not rarely) a good thing!

Season 7

• Jimmy Jab Games II, Rosa reveals that Jocelyn broke up with her. Holt assumes she's just playing mind games, until she breaks down crying, and it's obvious that her pain is very real. For someone as stoic as Rosa, it's a huge deal.
• Trying. Seeing Jake and Amy struggle to conceive a baby despite their best efforts can hit hard to couples who went through the same turmoils.
  • Especially the end of the episode where it seems like Jake and Amy are finally going to be pregnant, then the last scene happens.
  Amy: (holding up a pregnancy test) Nope.
• Ding Dong: After spending the entire episode celebrating her death, Holt is actually moved to tears as he realizes that he will miss Wuntch and their rivalry.
  Holt: As many of you know, Madeline and I were bitter rivals, but I've come to realize she held a special place in my life. No one challenged me like she did or made me feel as alive. Our relationship was like an epic chess match. And it's hard to believe that... She'll never make another move.
  • Antagonist or not, Wuntch's situation is a tearjeaker in itself. She knew she was dying. She might've had family she's close to, if her nephew is any indication, but she kept the fact she was sick from becoming general knowledge. Whatever the illness that took her, she seems to have largely dealt with it on her own. Was she in physical pain? Or did she just have to deal with all the emotional turmoil coming she would die soon entailed? Some part of her might have still been in love with Holt, but she choose not to risk vulnerability by revealing her situation to him. And whatever this says about her and their relationship, she decided to make sure she remained a rival in his mind even after her death.
• Ransom: Holt and Kevin, who are usually very reserved and unflappable, spend the majority of the episode in a state of pure anguish over Cheddar's kidnapping, leading them to act uncharacteristically and irrationally and forcing Jake to be the voice of reason:
  • Holt's impotent rage over the kidnapping of his fluffy boy causes him to lash out violently, such as punching a hole through a wall, stocking up on grenades and engaging in a brutal fight with the kidnapper.
  • Kevin is in a state of utter despair through the entire ordeal. In particular, he is unable to retrace his and Cheddar's steps at the park without breaking down into tears and reminiscing about Cheddar's favorite activities and even refers to Cheddar in the past tense, clearly afraid that the worst has happened. He also uncharacteristically becomes just as overprotective as his husband, to the point of buying trackers to put on Cheddar as soon as he is found.
  • Really, their entire arc in the episode could basically be boiled down to two parents being faced by the kidnapping and endangerment of their child.

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Season 8

• The Good Ones:
  • Rosa quitting the force following the murder of George Floyd and distancing herself from her former squadmates.
    • Jake getting nothing but hostility from the public when he tries to ask questions concerning his latest case. The trust between the cops and the city is completely broken.
    • Jake helps Rosa find bodycam footage of two officers abusing their power, and while it gets the charges dropped against Rosa's client, the officers are not fired or even reprimanded because it'd be too much of a hassle for the Precinct's captain or the Police Union.
    • Jake's sad, resigned "...Yeah" at the end of the episode. He and the 99 (and by extension the showrunners) can do what they can to combat racial injustice and police brutality, but it's a much bigger issue that doesn't have an easy answer.
  • Jake nearly jeopardizes his friendship with Rosa by insisting that her resigning is hurting him and their years in the Academy. Rosa has to point out she didn't make this decision to hurt him, and things change. When they were in the Academy, they knew nothing about the corruption within the system. She also may be a Blood Knight but that's way different from beating up or murdering an innocent person. It's not until Jake apologizes for being a selfish jerk that Rosa forgives him.
  • Holt revealing to Amy that he and Kevin have separated due to the extreme stress Holt is feeling from the year’s events.
• Blue Flu
  • Boyle's reaction to his testicular cancer sounds like him acknowledging that the show is going to end soon.
  Boyle: No more stakeouts or drinks after a long shift or midnight calls when you've had a breakthrough in a case. I've always had this image of us in our 90s hunting down criminals at the retirement home. But I guess that was just a dumb fantasy... because soon I won't be here anymore... because I'll be dead and gone forever.
• PB and J
  • Jake is horrified when he finds out that Doug Judy has been arrested again. He goes to visit his former frenemy. This time it wasn't even Doug's fault: he explains that he got rear-ended and the cops arrested him because they had an outstanding warrant for a theft he committed in another state. Doug had legitimately gone straight for his wife's sake, but Heel–Face Door-Slam was in place. Jake even admits that if Doug had called him for help, the evidence left at the scene of the crime implicated Doug Judy. Not helping is the increased racial tensions, and it was only a matter of time before cops would arrest the Pontiac Bandit.
  • In the end, despite their history and wanting to nab the Pontiac Bandit, Jake ultimately can't let Doug go to prison. He hugs Doug Judy goodbye and seemingly washes his hands of him. Doug calls from the Netherlands, saying that someone slipped Jake's pen into his pockets and Jake knew that Doug Judy could unlock handcuffs with a pen. With a bittersweet expression, Jake goes for Plausible Deniability but wishes the man and his wife good luck.
  • Jake sounds ready to cry when he and Doug share one last “tigers and toucs”.
  • Doug is now officially a fugitive and can't ever come back to the United States without risking being arrested. Given how unlikely it is that Jake will find himself in Amsterdam, it's very likely that, after eight years of friendship, he and Doug will never see each other again. They have plenty of good memories and the knowledge that Doug's new life is thanks to Jake sticking his neck out for him (more than once), but it's still so freaking sad.
  • On top of all this, Jake seems like he maybe feels guilty. He crossed a line he never would have thought he'd cross, and he's got to live with the knowledge of that.
• The Last Day
  • Really, the entire finale.
  • While it's very heartwarming that Jake is retiring from being a detective so he can take care of Mac and be a good father to him, it's still sad to see Jake retiring from the job he had dreamed about doing ever since he was a kid.
  • Charles' reaction to Jake leaving the NYPD.
  • Holt saying that if Jake were his son, he'd be a proud father. And Jake tearing up over hearing it.

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