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-->'''Terry''': Look, the funeral's almost over. We basically pulled it off. All you gotta do is give a convincing eulogy.
-->'''Rosa''': Roger that.
-->''[Cuts to Rosa standing in front of a casket.]''
-->'''Rosa''': Pimento's dead. Thanks for coming.
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-->'''Holt''': ''[to his squad]'' No, I can turn it on when it's called for. "''Series/TheBachelor'' is a television show, hmm? Andre Agassi's at it again. I, too, avoid gluten."
-->'''Holt''': [''to an officer in uniform''] ''The Bachelor'' is a television show. Andre Agassi's at it again. I, too, am avoiding gluten.

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-->'''Holt''': ''[to his squad]'' No, I can turn it on when it's called for. "''Series/TheBachelor'' is a television show, hmm? Andre Agassi's Creator/AndreAgassi's at it again. I, too, avoid gluten."
-->'''Holt''': [''to an officer in uniform''] ''The Bachelor'' is a television show. Andre Agassi's Creator/AndreAgassi's at it again. I, too, am avoiding gluten.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Even while infiltrating prison as a hardcore inmate, Amy somehow manages to pull this off -- she threatens to "split you like a sundae with Grandpa" and makes threats that not only involve tracheotomies, but which actually use the word 'tracheotomy'.
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* CreditsGag: In the Dr. Goor Productions VanityPlate, the "shh" after the "Notadoctor" is replaced by a prison door slamming.
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* ConspicuousGloves: The squad are looking for a man with a scar on his hand, Adrian's would-be-murderer. Captain Holt has a lead because one guy at the funeral is wearing gloves. It turns out he's a pickpocket.

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* ConspicuousGloves: The squad are looking for a man with a scar on his hand, Adrian's would-be-murderer.hand who is a dirty FBI agent who hired Adrian Pimento's would-be murderer. Captain Holt has a lead because one guy at the funeral is wearing gloves. It turns out he's a pickpocket.
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* GirlsBehindBars: The setting of Amy's plotline. Jake lampshades that it won't be like it is in the movies.

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* GirlsBehindBars: The setting of Amy's plotline. plotline as she goes undercover as an inmate to get information on a mafia boss. Jake lampshades that it won't be like it is in the movies.movies... or soft porn.

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'''''Maximum Security''''' is the twenty-first episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'''s third season.

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'''''Maximum Security''''' "Maximum Security" is the twenty-first episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'''s third season.



** Eventually he realises that he just can't handle seeing her in danger and takes himself off the surveillance so that she can be left alone to do her job.

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** Eventually ::Eventually he realises that he just can't handle seeing her in danger and takes himself off the surveillance so that she can be left alone to do her job.



* ConspicuousGloves: The squad are looking for a man with a scar on his hand, Adrian's would-be-murderer. Captain Holt has a lead because one guy at the funeral is wearing gloves. It turns out he's a pickpocket.



* HatesSmallTalk: Played for laughs in that Holt really does hate small talk, but he thinks he's good at pretending that he doesn't:
-->'''Holt''': No, I can turn it on when it's called for. "''Series/TheBachelor'' is a television show, hmm? Andre Agassi's at it again. I, too, avoid gluten."
** Later, Holt claims that he "started chatting, you know, breezy stuff":
--->'''Holt''': [''to a random funeral attendee''] ''The Bachelor'' is a television show. Andre Agassi's at it again. I, too, am avoiding gluten.
* HideYourPregnancy: This episode is where the show stops trying to hide Melissa Fumero's pregnancy and have Amy go undercover as a pregnant woman. Thoroughly lampshaded.

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* HatesSmallTalk: Played for laughs in that Holt really does hate small talk, but he thinks he's good at pretending that he doesn't:
doesn't. Holt shows the squad how good at small talk he is, and then immediately tries it on a police officer who walks in on their secret meeting. He claims that they all came in there separately and then started chatting, you know, breezy stuff.
-->'''Holt''': ''[to his squad]'' No, I can turn it on when it's called for. "''Series/TheBachelor'' is a television show, hmm? Andre Agassi's at it again. I, too, avoid gluten."
** Later, Holt claims that he "started chatting, you know, breezy stuff":
--->'''Holt''':
-->'''Holt''': [''to a random funeral attendee''] an officer in uniform''] ''The Bachelor'' is a television show. Andre Agassi's at it again. I, too, am avoiding gluten. \n* HideYourPregnancy: This episode is where the show stops trying to hide Melissa Fumero's pregnancy and have Amy go undercover as a pregnant woman. Thoroughly lampshaded.



* PregnantBadass: Amy is one.
-->'''Maura Figgis''': [''who has just been thrown against the wall by Amy''] What the hell do you think you're doing?!
-->'''Amy''': Showing my unborn baby how an ass gets kicked!
** Also a meta-example, because Melissa Fumero really was that pregnant; they'd been hiding it with increasing degrees of ridiculousness all season, and they finally got to go with it. Lampshaded by Amy, looking down at her "fake" pregnant belly:
--->'''Amy''': Is anyone gonna buy it? I mean, do I ''look'' pregnant?
--->'''Jake''': I mean, I guess I can see it.

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* PregnantBadass: Amy is one.
Amy, though not actually pregnant, plays one. She goes undercover as a pregnant inmate and threatens tough murderers. And beats up Jake to save her cover.
-->'''Maura Figgis''': Figgis:''' [''who has just been thrown against the wall by Amy''] What the hell do you think you're doing?!
-->'''Amy''': -->'''Amy:''' Showing my unborn baby how an ass gets kicked!
** Also a meta-example, because Melissa Fumero really was that pregnant; they'd been hiding it with increasing degrees of ridiculousness all season, and they finally got to go with it. Lampshaded by Amy, looking down at her "fake" pregnant belly:
--->'''Amy''': Is anyone gonna buy it? I mean, do I ''look'' pregnant?
--->'''Jake''': I mean, I guess I can see it.
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* GirlsBehindBars: The setting of Amy's plotline. Jake lampshades that it won't be like it is in the movies.

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-->'''Rosa''': Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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-->'''Rosa''': UhhhhhhhhhhhhhUhhhhhhhhhhhhh.



--->'''Amy''': Is anyone gonna buy it? I mean, do I ''look'' pregnant? I mean I guess I can see it.

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--->'''Amy''': Is anyone gonna buy it? I mean, do I ''look'' pregnant? pregnant?
--->'''Jake''':
I mean mean, I guess I can see it.
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-->'''Rosa''': [''eye roll'']

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-->'''Rosa''': [''eye roll'']Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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* {{Adorkable}}: Even while infiltrating prison as a hardcore inmate, Amy somehow manages to pull this off -- she threatens to "split you like a sundae with Grandpa" and makes threats that not only involve tracheotomies, but which actually use the word 'tracheotomy'.
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* TheInfiltration: Parodied with Rosa, who is disguised as a pregnant convict and given a name (Isabel Cortez) and a backstory (she stabbed a guy on the subway 46 times) so that she can go undercover in a Texas prison. Within ''seconds'' of Rosa/Isabel entering the prison, this happens:

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* TheInfiltration: Parodied Played straight with Amy, but only after it's been parodied with Rosa, who is disguised as a pregnant convict and given a name (Isabel Cortez) and a backstory (she stabbed a guy on the subway 46 times) so that she can go undercover in a Texas prison. Within ''seconds'' of Rosa/Isabel entering the prison, this happens:
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-->'''Jake''': [''in genuine pain''] Ow! Ahh! Ow! [[LampshadeHanging You're so tough and I'm just a beautiful intellectual]]

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-->'''Jake''': [''in genuine pain''] Ow! Ahh! Ow! [[LampshadeHanging You're so tough and I'm just a beautiful intellectual]]intellectual!]]
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* ComedicSociopathy: In order to quell any suspicions that Amy and Jake might be collaborating, to boost Amy's reputation as a violent prisoner, and to find an excuse to take Jake out of the prison after his recognition that he can't stop himself from interfering with Amy's job, they resort to this.[[note]]This doesn't qualify as DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale because there's a legitimate reason for it, and because both Amy and Jake have already been established as competent at fighting; Jake is deliberately taking a dive as part of the deception.[[/note]]
-->'''Jake''': [''takes Amy's arm in a corridor''] All right, Cortez, you're late for your appointment.
-->'''Amy''': Quit touching me! [''knocks Jake over and starts kicking the crap out of him''] I don't need checkups every two seconds, you dimple-chinned freak!
-->'''Jake''': [''in genuine pain''] Ow! Ahh! Ow! [[LampshadeHanging You're so tough and I'm just a beautiful intellectual]]
-->'''Convict''': [''looking at Amy with respect''] Hey, I love beating up doctors. Can I get in there?
-->'''Amy''': No! He's mine! All of you, back off! I'm kicking for two.
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* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Jake massively pisses Amy off by using his cover as her OB-GYN to constantly extract her from any situation in the prison where he thinks she might be in danger, over the course of a montage:
-->'''Amy''': [''entering clinic''] Seriously? She was at lunch. She didn't have a weapon.
-->'''Jake''': She had a fork. That's like four tiny shivs on a stick. [''cut to:'']
-->'''Amy''': [''entering clinic''] [[WhatTheHellHero What the hell?]]
-->'''Jake''': Socks are just a noose waiting to be braided. [''cut to:'']
-->'''Amy''': [''entering clinic''] We were playing Hearts!
-->'''Jake''': In the wrong hands, every playing card is like a throwing star. [''cut to'':]
-->'''Amy''': [''entering clinic, DeathGlare''] We were alone, her hands were empty, and I think she was napping.




* PregnantBadass: Amy is one. Also a meta-example, because Melissa Fumero really was that pregnant; they'd been hiding it with increasing degrees of ridiculousness all season, and they finally got to go with it. Lampshaded by Amy, looking down at her "fake" pregnant belly:
-->'''Amy''': Is anyone gonna buy it? I mean, do I ''look'' pregnant? I mean I guess I can see it.

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* PregnantBadass: Amy is one. Also
-->'''Maura Figgis''': [''who has just been thrown against the wall by Amy''] What the hell do you think you're doing?!
-->'''Amy''': Showing my unborn baby how an ass gets kicked!
**Also
a meta-example, because Melissa Fumero really was that pregnant; they'd been hiding it with increasing degrees of ridiculousness all season, and they finally got to go with it. Lampshaded by Amy, looking down at her "fake" pregnant belly:
-->'''Amy''': --->'''Amy''': Is anyone gonna buy it? I mean, do I ''look'' pregnant? I mean I guess I can see it.
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* HatesSmallTalk: Played for laughs in that Holt really does hate small talk, but he thinks he's good at pretending that he doesn't:
-->'''Holt''': No, I can turn it on when it's called for. "''Series/TheBachelor'' is a television show, hmm? Andre Agassi's at it again. I, too, avoid gluten."
** Later, Holt claims that he "started chatting, you know, breezy stuff":
--->'''Holt''': [''to a random funeral attendee''] ''The Bachelor'' is a television show. Andre Agassi's at it again. I, too, am avoiding gluten.

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* PregnantBadass: Amy is one.

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* PregnantBadass: Amy is one. Also a meta-example, because Melissa Fumero really was that pregnant; they'd been hiding it with increasing degrees of ridiculousness all season, and they finally got to go with it. Lampshaded by Amy, looking down at her "fake" pregnant belly:
-->'''Amy''': Is anyone gonna buy it? I mean, do I ''look'' pregnant? I mean I guess I can see it.
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* TheInfiltration: Parodied with Rosa, who is disguised as a pregnant convict and given a name (Isabel Cortez) and a backstory (she stabbed a guy on the subway 46 times) so that she can go undercover in a Texas prison. Within ''seconds'' of Rosa/Isabel entering the prison, this happens:
-->'''Convict''': [''walks up to her''] Hey. You're that cop who arrested me three years in Brooklyn.
-->'''Rosa''': [''eye roll'']
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* PregnantBadass: Amy is one.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm gonna split you like a sundae with Grandpa... bitch."'']]



-->"I grew up forging report cards. If people knew how smart I was, it would've been harder to control them."

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-->"I grew up forging report cards. If people knew how smart I was, it would've been harder to control them.""
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* HideYourPregnancy: This episode is where the show stops trying to hide Melissa Fumero's pregnancy and have Amy go undercover as a pregnant woman. Thoroughly lampshaded.

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* HideYourPregnancy: This episode is where the show stops trying to hide Melissa Fumero's pregnancy and have Amy go undercover as a pregnant woman. Thoroughly lampshaded.lampshaded.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Gina claims she did this as a child when Terry notes how good she is at forging signatures:
-->"I grew up forging report cards. If people knew how smart I was, it would've been harder to control them."
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First up, getting close to Maura Figgis, Jimmy's sister, to try and get information about Jimmy's whereabouts. Making things more complicated is the fact that Maura is currently imprisoned in Texas for several murders. The initial plan is to have Rosa go undercover as a pregnant inmate with Jake and Charles posing as her [=OB/GYNs=]. Unfortunately, Rosa is immediately outed by a prisoner she'd previously arrested, forcing Jake to [[RealLifeWritesThePlot ask Amy to don a fake pregnancy belly]] and go undercover to get close to a violent felon.

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First up, Jake and Charles work on getting close to Maura Figgis, Jimmy's sister, to try and get information about Jimmy's whereabouts. Making things more complicated is the fact that Maura is currently imprisoned in Texas for several murders. The initial plan is to have Rosa go undercover as a pregnant inmate with Jake and Charles posing as her [=OB/GYNs=]. Unfortunately, Rosa is immediately outed by a prisoner she'd previously arrested, forcing Jake to [[RealLifeWritesThePlot ask Amy to don a fake pregnancy belly]] and go undercover to get close to a violent felon.
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* FunInFuneral: Holt and Gina have to examine mourners' hands at Pimento's fake funeral in order to see if any of them have the tell-tale palm scar that Jake saw in "Paranoia". Handshakes don't provide a clear enough view so they are forced to ask for high-fives instead.

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* FunInFuneral: TheFunInFuneral: Holt and Gina have to examine mourners' hands at Pimento's fake funeral in order to see if any of them have the tell-tale palm scar that Jake saw in "Paranoia". Handshakes don't provide a clear enough view so they are forced to ask for high-fives instead.
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'''''Maximum Security''''' is the twenty-first episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'''s third season.

With Adrian Pimento forced to go into hiding after Jimmy "The Butcher" Figgis put a price on his head, the Nine-Nine set to work building a case against the mob boss.

First up, getting close to Maura Figgis, Jimmy's sister, to try and get information about Jimmy's whereabouts. Making things more complicated is the fact that Maura is currently imprisoned in Texas for several murders. The initial plan is to have Rosa go undercover as a pregnant inmate with Jake and Charles posing as her [=OB/GYNs=]. Unfortunately, Rosa is immediately outed by a prisoner she'd previously arrested, forcing Jake to [[RealLifeWritesThePlot ask Amy to don a fake pregnancy belly]] and go undercover to get close to a violent felon.

Back in New York, the rest of the Nine-Nine decide to try and draw out the crooked FBI agent Jake met in the previous episode by staging a fake funeral for Pimento. As they put that together, Terry tries to get Rosa to confront her emotions over her fiance having to go into hiding.
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* FunInFuneral: Holt and Gina have to examine mourners' hands at Pimento's fake funeral in order to see if any of them have the tell-tale palm scar that Jake saw in "Paranoia". Handshakes don't provide a clear enough view so they are forced to ask for high-fives instead.
* HideYourPregnancy: This episode is where the show stops trying to hide Melissa Fumero's pregnancy and have Amy go undercover as a pregnant woman. Thoroughly lampshaded.

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