Everyone in the building knows her as Emily Goldfinch, who is apparently chatty and smiles all the time. But the episode mostly plays it slow-pitch, taking lots of time to linger on jokes about the realism of Grey’s Anatomy (Terry: “That show is surprisingly accurate.” Jake: “Yeah, the one episode I watched, there was a bomb in the guy’s butt!”) and Hitchcock’s propensity for sticking any unusual substance on the walls straight into his mouth.Įventually, everyone manages to break free and get into Rosa’s apartment, where it’s revealed that Rosa lives a complete double life - her place looks like it belongs in a home-decor magazine, complete with jars of lemons for a “pop f color” and basil-scented candles. There could have been a lot of tension and action in these scenes, especially since calling for backup is off the table, given Figgis’s moles in the NYPD and FBI. Once they find and capture Bob (with a surprise assist from Terry and Gina), then they have to wander around some more in the guise of doctors and nurses to get around Jimmy Figgis’s men. Most of that central plot is leaden way-finding around a hospital, as Jake, Rosa, Scully, and Hitchcock try to figure out where Bob has taken Holt. They’re a cute duo (especially when they order sundaes and talk about their fears for the rest of the squad), but they suck much-needed time and tension out of the main story. So instead, the episode stalls for time, sticking Amy and Charles on a plane home where she has to continue the pregnancy ruse to keep the sympathy seats she managed to score in first class. Melissa Fumero remains very pregnant, and that means incorporating her into any action scenes requires a contrived reason for Amy to wear a fake belly. Part of the problem is that “Greg and Larry” is in a corner when it comes to Amy and Charles, who are still undercover in a women’s prison in Texas, when it comes to light that Bob betrayed the precinct. The jokes are great - B99’s problem is rarely that they aren’t - but it’s more a whimper than a bang of a season-ender, aside from the series’ standard last-30-seconds introduction of a game-changing plot line for the next season. But given how much plot “Greg and Larry” has to wind down in 22 minutes, it moves like one of B99’s pokier installments, more concerned with delivering jokes than building any real tension. Andy Samberg as Jake, Stephanie Beatriz as Rosa.Ĭonsidering last week’s “ Bureau” ended with a genuinely chilling scene of Holt being held at gunpoint, I was hopeful that the season finale would continue along the action-comedy route it established, offering a snappier pace.

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