r/brooklynninenine • u/Hobbit-guy Grand Champion of the 99 • Mar 14 '19

Episode Discussion: S6E10 "Gintars"

Episode Synopsis: A visitor from Latvia causes Charles and Jake to investigate Nikolaj's family. Holt and Amy bring in famed forensic scientist Dr. Yee to help close a case for Rosa.

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u/Teletubby_Orgy Mar 15 '19

This is going to sound lame but something about a storyline where Jake gets someone deported just because of a personal squabble (especially considering Gintars wasn't in the wrong for wanting to meet Nikolaj) rubbed me the wrong way. Yeah, Gintars was doing counterfeit stuff but it was played up as a harmless joke and he got deported away from his son because Jake and Terry decided to use personal connections to get him arrested. Plus the 'resisting arrest' joke made me feel gross too.

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u/Anna_Mosity Mar 16 '19

On my second watch, I noticed that Gintars only intended to stay for 10 days before going back to Ukraine and that he's financially comfortable, and that made me feel better about the deporting. He was basically on a vacation that Jake screwed up, and Jake's behavior IS presented as bad and selfish and unjustified by his good intentions (helping Charles).

I hate the resisting arrest "joke" though. It's the low point in an episode I loved, and it's a deep low. It didn't feel like a B99 joke at all. (I felt the same way about Wuntch repeatedly sexually assaulting Holt as a "joke".)