'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Season 1, Episode 9: 'Sal's Pizza' Recap
by Shannon KeirnanA virus on the computer printed out everyone's search histories.
Peralta gets a call from his friend Sal. He gathers up Boyle, and they go to find that Sal's Pizza Place has burned down.
Fire Marshall Boone shows up, an old enemy (Patton Oswalt). He refuses to let the police onto his scene to check for arson.
Amy and Rosa compare searches. Amy finds out Rosa was offered a job as a police captain.
Back at the station, Peralta plots how to get onto the scene of Sal's. Two fireman come in saying Boone reconsidered, and giving Jake the file - but it's a squashed donut.
Terry brings in the kid who hacked their system. Holt tells Terry to use Gina and find an IT guy to beef up their computers.
Peralta talks to Sal. He tells them that the fire department thinks he set fire to his own restaurant.
Amy fights with her jealousy of Rosa for being considered and contacted for a captain position.
Peralta and Charles go to a competing pizza joints to interview them. Dead ends. Peralta is determined to check out the crime scene.
Terry and Gina interview IT specialists. Of course, Gina complicates the interview process.
Fed up with Amy's attitude, Rosa drags her into her car.
To distract the firefighters, Charles goes tell the men guarding the pizza joint and tells them his cat is up a tree. Peralta breaks in and finds Boone awaiting him. Boone tells him Sal did it, and the two argue about it. A fight breaks out between police and firefighters.
Holt has to go and apologize to the department. Boone demands he fire Peralta. Jake won't give up on Sal's. He admits that when he was a kid, his father used to take him to Sal's after little league, and then when he left the family, he couldn't go there with his father anymore.
Boone starts crying, also having been abandoned by his dad. He hugs Peralta and insists they'll solve it all together.
Rosa takes Amy to Ropesburg, the city that offered her the captainship. She introduces her to the department. It turns out Ropesburg is the most boring place on Earth. Amy admits she is competitive. She and Rosa agree to have each other's backs.
Terry brings IT suggestions to Holt, but Gina reveals her bad behavior was a test and all applicants failed. She tells him to hire the kid, Savant, who hacked into the system originally.
Charles, Jake and Boone go through the files on Sal's. Peralta notes a cabinet was opened with a crowbar. He says he knows who did it.
They go to confront one of the pizza joint owners, whose pizza is much improved lately, according to the discerning palate of foodie Charles. He burned down the restaurant and stole Sal's secret sauce recipe.
The competition between police and fire goes back to normal.