History Recap / BrooklynNineNineS5E14TheBox

* NearVillainVictory: Davidson was fifteen minutes away from getting away with the perfect crime and even planned to use the fact that they lied against him in the interrogation during the trial, but Jake figures out how to trick him into confessing the murder by attacking his ego which works too well.

-->'''Holt:''' I know we live in a world where "anything can mean anything", and nobody even ''cares'' about ''ETYMOLO-'' '''(smash cut)''' Apparently that's a trigger for me.
** Davidson's is being called sloppy or impulsive, as Jake realizes… then steps all over to get him to confess.

* BluffingTheMurderer: Jake proposes that they claim a witness saw Davidson dump the body. Holt dismisses the plan, pointing out that if Davidson doesn't fall for it, they'd lose all credibility. Jake tries it anyway, and it goes exactly as Holt feared.

* MotiveRant: Davidson gets an epic one… [[ExplainExplainOhCrap then realizes he just confessed to murder]]. The event also qualifies as a VillainousBreakdown.
--> '''Davidson:''' No. I knew ''exactly'' where I was driving, I left my phone in the office on ''purpose'', I was in the surgical suite by ''design'', and I didn't use some glass award that any '''idiot''' would clearly see was missing. I made a rod out of a special dental polymer, killed him with it, then melted it back down. It's already in a patient's mouth... '''''son'''''!

'''Jake:''' ...OK, maybe say his ''full'' name.\\

'''[[OverlyLongGag Jake:]]''' [[OverlyLongGag His wife called him "Rob". Work that in.]]\\

'''Davidson:''' (''frowning'') Robert "Rob" Henry Tupper.\\

'''Davidson:''' (''with his eyes as open as possible'') Robert "Rob" Henry Tupper.\\
[''SmashCut of Jake and Holt in the observation room'']\\

---> "I'm Gomez, you're Morticia\\
I feel so happy when I'm wit'cha."

* ThePerfectCrime: Davidson had carefully devised a plan to kill his business partner Robert while making sure there's no sufficient evidence for him to caught and convicted. He chose a location where the DNA of the crime scene could easily be cleaned off, killed him using a murder weapon made of a special polymer that he can melt back down so that no one can figure out what it is and find it, got rid of his dead body without any evidence pointing to him by driving Robert's car and leaving his phone in the office so he wouldn't be traced while driving, and chose a place to dump the body where there are no nearby witnesses. After that, he constructed a perfect alibi that can't be proven false because he of how many truthful details he had in ig and then he prepared answers to every possible question the detectives could throw at him. However, Davidson's primary failing is that he took pride in all of this and when Jake realizes it, he tells Davidson the version of events he formulated where Davidson left so many things to chance and was just a lucky criminal which angers Davidson into smugly explaining how the plan actually went down and only realizing that he was tricked into confessing after he fully explained his plan to Jake.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first time we see a crack in Davidson's cool demeanor is at the beginning of the interrogation. When Jake says it's lucky that there wasn't anybody else at the office to witness anything, Davidson quickly responds with "It wasn't lucky" and then follows it up with a slower, more controlled "because there was nothing to witness." On [[RewatchBonus repeat viewings]], it's easy to see that Davidson is reflexively defending his planning and then trying to pass it off as another clever dodge. Later, it cracks again when Holt mocks the idea of dentists calling themselves 'doctor'. It doesn't go anywhere, as Davidson manages to turn it around on Holt, but it shows that poking at his prestige actually works. Davidson's {{pride}} turns out to be the key to getting him to confess.

* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The first time we see a crack in Davidson's cool demeanor is at the beginning of the interrogation. When Jake says it's lucky that there wasn't anybody else at the office to witness anything, Davidson quickly responds with "It wasn't lucky" and then follows it up with a slower, more controlled "because there was nothing to witness." On [[RewatchBonus repeat viewings]], it's easy to see that Davidson is reflexively defending his planning and then trying to pass it off as another clever dodge. Later, it cracks again when Holt mocks the idea of dentists calling themselves 'doctor'. It doesn't go anywhere, as Davidson manages to turn it around on Holt, but it shows that poking at his prestige actually works. Davidson's {{pride}} turns out to be the key to getting him to confess.

--->'''Holt:''' I know we live in a world where "anything can mean anything", and nobody even ''cares'' about ''ETYMOLO-''-''(smash cut)''- Apparently that's a trigger for me.

--->
'''Holt:''' I know we live in a world where "anything can mean anything", and nobody even ''cares'' about ''ETYMOLO-''-''(smash cut)''- Apparently that's a trigger for me.

--->'''Holt:''' Apparently that's a trigger for me.

[[OverlyLongGag '''Jake:''' His wife called him "Rob". Work that in.]]\\

[''SmashCut of Jake and Holt in the observation room'']]\\

'''Davidson:''' Robert Tupper.

* BerserkButton: Assuming College Professors aren't real Doctors is apparently a HUGE one for Holt, being married to one. Holt even lampshaded it after.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Captain Holt spelling his own four-letter surname to his beloved significant other (presumedly of at least four decades) when explaining that he won't be able to make it to the opera.

** The ''first'' crack is actually much earlier, at

** The first time we see a crack in Davidson's cool demeanor is when Holt mocks the idea of dentists calling themselves 'doctor'. It doesn't go anywhere, as Davidson manages to turn it around on Holt, but it shows that poking at his prestige actually works. Davidson's {{pride}} turns out to be the key to getting him to confess.
** The ''first'' crack is actually much earlier, at the beginning of the interrogation. When Jake says it's lucky that there wasn't anybody else at the office to witness anything, Davidson quickly responds with "It wasn't lucky" and then follows it up with a slower, more controlled "because there was nothing to witness." On [[RewatchBonus repeat viewings]], it's easy to see that Davidson is reflexively defending his planning and then trying to pass it off as another clever dodge.

* AbsenteeActor: Like In "Coral Palms Part 1", Only Jake and Holt are present for the majority of the episode. Gina and Boyle only get appearances in the cold opening and ending respectively. [[note]] Scully also made a brief appearance, but his scene got cut. [[/note]]

* MotiveRant: Davidson gets an epic one… [[ExplainExplainOhCrap then realizes he just confessed to murder]].
---> '''Davidson:''' No. I knew ''exactly'' where I was driving, I left my phone in the office on ''purpose'', I was in the surgical suite by ''design'', and I didn't use some glass award that any '''idiot''' would clearly see was missing. I made a rod out of a special dental polymer, killed him with it, then melted it back down. It's already in a patient's mouth... '''''son'''''!

* MotiveRant: Davidson gets an epic one.