'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Recap: Season 3, Episode 17: 'Adrian Pimento'

The nine-nine has a new member: Adrian Pimento, who has been deep undercover for a long time and is now returning after working as a bag guy for mobster Jimmy the Butcher.

Jake finds him fascinating and wants to partner with him. Holt is hesitant, since Pimento is unstable, but gives in.

Charles tries to cook a stew to welcome Pimento to the squad but it blows up, and he's forced to go speak with Mean Marge in janitorial about helping. She refuses, and stops their trash service. The entire precinct is filthy. Worse, they can't clean it up themselves because then they are infringing on the Union. Finally they name the break room in Marge's honor and she agrees to go back to work.

Jake establishes trust with the weapon-crazed, suspicious Pimento, and the two work a B & E together. Rosa warns Jake that she's attracted to Pimento and therefore there's definitely something wrong with him.

Jake goes home to find Pimento has broken into his apartment. Pimento admits he's not sure he's ready to be back in the real world, and Jake offers to help him transition. Pimento keeps calling himself "Paul Sneed," his alias. Something is definitely off.

When they go to investigate the B & E at an electronics store, Pimento buys himself a burner phone. Jake is suspicious and tails him. Pimento puts on a ski mask and breaks into an abandoned warehouse. Then he goes home and does Tai Chi shirtless in the window. Jake uses this opportunity to check the back of his car to see what he picked up in the warehouse, but finds Pimento with a gun on him (he's hired a look-alike for the window). Jake finds pictures and personal items in the trunk, items he had to hide when he went undercover. After twelve years undercover he also has no credit, hence the burner phone. Pimento seems legit, but Jake has lost his trust.

Pimento resigns and goes back to his pre-cop life as a bag boy. Jake finds him and apologizes and admits he has no idea what he is going through. He invites him to come check out a suspect on the B & E but Pimento won't.

Later, he shows up for the bust, still a little unhinged but ready to try and get back to normal. He says he trusts Jake to help him through.