Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 6 gives Hitchcock and Scully the perfect origin story

On the latest episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, fans were given a unique look at Hitchcock and Scully’s lives. It explained why they’re considered the best detectives in the Nine-Nine and much more.

Over the past five seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the series has dropped small cues towards the long-convoluted past of Hitchcock (Dirk Blocker) and Scully (Joel McKinnon Miller). Nothing too revealing has come up and Jake (Andy Samberg) has repeatedly inquired into their past. They’ve evaded all of Jake’s advances thus far but they’re forced to deal with the past anyway.

In their very own episode entitled “Hitchcock and Scully”, Brooklyn’s finest go back to 1986. They don’t time-travel or anything like that, we just get to see a younger version of them. These particular versions of Hitch and Scully are very different from the desk jockeys we’re familiar with.

The young versions of Hitchcock and Scully are played by Wyatt Nash and Alan Ritchson—who are much trimmer than their older selves. They also appear to be much more active and on top of their game. Their opening scene even shows Hitchcock and Scully taking down a major drug syndicate of New York.

During this particular scene, Detectives Hitchcock (Nash) and Scully (Ritchson) are undercover as buyers in a drug deal. They’ve approached a well-known crime lord of New York, intent on bringing his entire drug ring down. Scully convinces the dealer to do business and they arrest him once the agreement is made.

What’s great about their intro is that the audience has no idea these two ace detectives are Hitchcock and Scully—that is until they reveal their identities to the camera. They kind of remind us of Jake and Charles (Joe Lo Truglio) in the present.

After the flashback into Hitchcock and Scully’s past, the scene shifts forward to the present day. Here, the Nine-Nine’s senior detectives come to the realization that the past doesn’t always stay buried. In fact, their big drug bust of 1986 comes back to bite them.

When an anonymous call comes in, inquiring about Scully and Hitchcock’s cases, Jake digs into their biggest bust. He goes through all the evidence and discovers that an additional bag of money was never accounted for. Hitchcock and Scully attempt to feign ignorance despite knowing they had something to do with it.

Immediately, Jake begins to suspect that Hitchcock and Scully might be on the take. They’ve never shown any sign of being crooked before but a missing pile of cash changes things. Luckily, financial statements clear them of any wrongdoing.

Despite all of that, Jake keeps digging into his suspects’ financial records. He discovers Hitchcock pays for a monthly parking spot but doesn’t own a car. Jake insinuates that a fancy sports car is sitting in the spot but they arrive to find something completely unexpected in the parking garage.

What they discover is a van—it’s not just any van—it’s the Beaver Trap. Yes, folks, Hitchcock owns a van with the words “beaver trap” on the side. Not only that, but the side windows are all blacked out—making the vehicle slightly creepier. Then there are the piles of trash stinking up the Beaver Trap.

While Jake and Charles sort through the mess, Hitchcock and Scully lock them in. The two then head over to Wing Slutz for lunch. It doesn’t take Charles and Jake long for them to track their rogues down, arriving at Wing Slutz a short while later.

At the restaurant, Hitchcock and Scully are casually having lunch. Everything seems to be well with them until Jake arrives. He wants Hitchcock and Scully in cuffs because they’re guilty of stealing evidence. Jake is about to book them when Hitch and Scully finally come clean.

Apparently, Hitchcock and Scully did take the money, but rather than spend it on themselves, they gave the money to their confidential informant. The Captain of the Nine-Nine wouldn’t place their informant into protective custody so the only thing Hitchcock and Scully could do is hide Marissa (Donna D’Errico) themselves.

Hitchcock and Scully’s explanation gives Jake a chance to reconsider but their meet is interrupted by the drug dealers they helped put behind bars. The crime boss leading the drug syndicate used Hitchcock and Scully to draw out their informant from hiding.

With armed drug dealers now surrounding the restaurant, Jake, Charles, Scully, and Hitchcock barricade themselves in the kitchen. They prepare to escape but every entrance is blocked off, leaving them with one option—fight their way out.

Hitchcock and Scully prepare to lead the charge, strapping tubs of wing sauce to their chests in place of bulletproof vests. The two of them run outside, ready for the ensuing gunfight. But with some luck, they don’t have to.

Captain Holt and the team arrive just in time to stop the slaughter. They book the dealers but one of them wrestles a gun from a patrolman. The dealer fires at Marissa, hoping to hit her before going to jail. Lucky for Marissa, Hitch and Scully are still the heroes who rescued her back in 1986.

Seeing bullets flying, they stand in front of Marissa to protect her. Scully and Hitchcock both take one to the stomach but the wing sauce taped to their bodies stops the bullets.

As surprising as it sounds, their belief in the sauce’s thickness proves true. The sauce can stop a bullet from feet away, which proves Scully and Hitchcock weren’t exaggerating over the sauce. But more importantly, they’re the heroes that all the case files portray them as.

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