![]() (“I don’t know if it’s realistic,” she says in a winking moment as Andy Samberg fondles her “fake” belly.) To keep her in close contact with her handlers, Jake and Boyle, the operation’s ruse is that she’s seven months pregnant, and they’re her OB-GYNs. The opportunity is a breakout one both for Amy and for Melissa Fumero, who’s been increasingly trapped behind desks and tables as she enters the later months of her pregnancy. So it’s up to nerdy Amy to convincingly simulate a penitentiary-hopping badass. The prison operation is centered around a somewhat obvious but still enjoyable plot line: Even though Rosa is the most logical candidate for an undercover stint in a women’s prison (Holt: “She’s terrifying.” Rosa: “Thank you, sir.”), she’s already a known quantity to Maura Figgis. Neither of these strategies pack a whole lot of logic as investigative tactics (I’m not sure how a woman who’s been in prison in Texas for years would have up-to-the-minute intel on her brother’s illicit activities, or why someone who put a hit out on a cop would attend his funeral), but they both work pretty well as comic premises. ![]() So they decide to take a two-pronged approach: embedding a member of the squad in women’s prison, where they hope she can cozy up to Figgis’s sister and learn more about his operation, and throwing a fake funeral for Pimento, in the hopes that the double agent will show up. ![]() Unfortunately, since Jimmy “The Butcher” Figgis has an FBI agent on the take, the precinct can’t just arrest him-and they also have no clue who the double agent might be, aside from the prominent scar that Jake saw on his hand. But “Maximum Security” is a great installment of the show, keeping up some meaty plot mechanics without sacrificing the quirky, referential humor that makes it such a joy to watch.Īs Holt reminds us in a bit of opening exposition, Adrian Pimento is still on the run, having faked his own death and deserted his engagement to Rosa after the Mob boss he worked for while undercover put a hit on him. ![]() After last week’s relatively joke-light, blisteringly over-plotted episode, I was worried that B99 was going to keep up that grueling pace for the entirety of this closing three-episode finale arc. ![]()
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