Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) and Amy Santiago (Melissa Fumero) ship fans are probably still in cloud nine after seeing "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" season 3 episode one.
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The two finally settled what they are to each other. After kissing at least twice in last season's finale, Jake and Amy admitted that they like each other.
They wanted to be discreet but ended up having sex. They tried to stop their relationship because of what happened to the new captain but before the episode ends, Amy confessed that she can't take it and she wants to be with Jake.
While the pilot episode ended on a good note for Jake and Amy, series co-creator Dan Goor warns it will only be temporary.
"Yeah, they're together for the time being," he told Entertainment Weekly in an interview held shortly after airing of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" season 3 episode one.
"But as we did with the courtship, with the relationship, we're feeling it out and trying to keep it as realistic as possible and as fun as possible and as funny as possible. We're playing it by ear."
Goor said Jake and Amy being an odd couple means they will meet some obstacles along the way.
We felt a little bit like anything we engineered to put between them was just going to be frustrating to everyone - to the audience, and to the writers. Because it would feel fake. That's not to say there aren't bumps in the road - and there are bumps in the road.
And that's not to say that work itself isn't a bump in the road, because it's not easy to date someone with whom you work. The elements of comedy are two-fold. One, I think there's a lot of comedy to be mined from dating somebody with whom you work, and how your personal life plays in the professional and vice versa. And two, they're an odd couple. So there's odd-couple type comedy to be played for the two of them.
She's very anal-retentive and he's exactly the opposite of that. And at no time have we said they are star-crossed lovers who can't get in fights or tease each other or poke each other, so I think there's a lot of opportunity for comedy.
Next "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" season 3 episode is called "The Funeral."
Read synopsis below.
"The Nine-Nine gets another personnel change that could put Jake and Amy's budding relationship at risk. Meanwhile, Terry assists Holt with an important public relations matter, and Rosa and Gina try to convince Charles to rethink his affection for a fellow officer."
