Here we go episode 4 let's see what antics Uzi and co get into.
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Gotham 99 Season 1 Ep 4 Part 1
M.E. Time
We open at a restaurant where J was out on a date with a male drone known as Thad. She smiles as she sits across from him and they enjoy their meal. She was wearing a nice evening dress and Thad wore a suit with a baseball like cap helmet on his head
"I'm so glad we could finally do this." J said to Thad with a smile.
"I know, Tenko says you're always stuck at the precinct." Thad said to J smiling
"Yeah." J said nodding and then her phone on the table rings and as she checks it see it was Uzi calling "Speaking of, this is work. Sorry." Thad nods understanding and continues to eat his energon salad while she answers the phone "What's up, Uzi?"
"Captain called. He needs everybody back. There's a lead on the Honchkrow strangler." Uzi said on the phone and J sighs disappointed "We're looking for a drone male, Worker drone average height, green LED eyes, blond hair, baseball cap on his hardhat head."
"Okay." J said smiling as that description fits Thad exactly.
"His M.O. is he finds lonely women with no friends, poisons their food, and then guts 'em in his van. It's pretty gnarly." Uzi said and it was revealed she was sitting in a booth behind J grinning with a mischievous look. "Last seen wearing a salmon shirt, stripped tie, and witnesses have said he has trouble fitting energon lettuce in his mouth."
"Okay. Where are you?" J said annoyed figuring out she was messing with her.
"Apparently has the world's smallest rod and doesn't know how to use it..." Uzi said as she got out the booth and approaches the table. He got off the phone and said to Thad "Hi, there, I'm Uzi Doorman, J's boss." She shakes Thad's hand.
"That's not true" J said to Thad quickly then asked Uzi "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here on a date." Uzi said proudly and looks to see her date Braden was leaving now "Who is now leaving." She looks back at the table "Worth it. Have a great night." She then quickly takes off after Braden.
"Your boss seems really nice." Thad said to J smiling
"She's not my boss." J told him annoyed.
"Yes, I am!" Uzi calls out as she runs out the restaurant.
We come to the Briefing room the next day, Uzi was updating the score board for her and J's bet which read 'Uzi: 46 J: 50' chainging it to read 'Uzi: 51 J: 50'
"And with a record five felonies solved in one week, Uzi pulls ahead." Uzi said looking proud while J looks on annoyed at losing the lead. "Did you guys hear that I solved five felonies in a week?"
"We heard." J said annoyed.
"Really? How?" Uzi asked a bit sarcastically.
We flash back to some time earlier before to day.
Uzi stands on a desk and announces "Five felonies in one week! Light 'em up, N."
N has two large soda bottles on the ground and adds mentos to both and they erupt soda up to the air and hitting the ceiling as everyone applauds and cheers.
Back in the present, Uzi goes to her seat and licks her fingers as they had some soda still on them and said smiling "That's the sweet taste of triumph."
"You should shower more." Vaggie told her.
"Yep." Uzi said to that.
Moxxie then comes into the briefing room and said as he approches the podium "Updates on open cases."
"I just got a DOA on Shronda street." N reports.
"You're the primary, you're in charge. Take Vaggie and Doorman." Moxxie tells him.
"Yes. My fantasy threesome." N said smiling but then sees the odd looks Uzi and Vaggie gave him and quickly added "Of cops on a case."
Vrak then comes in and goes to the front while saying "Detectives, our monthly crime statistics are due. I want all paperwork on your closed cases by tomorrow." He then looks to Griff and told him "Griff, you can just write 'I didn't close any' on a piece of paper."
"You got it." Griff said with a nod.
"I already got my paperwork in, Captain." J said with a smile.
"Then I guess this little reminder isn't for you." Vrak said to her with a neutral tone.
Uzi with a grin said to J "Wow, looks like he hates you even more than me."
"No, he doesn't." J told her and added "We have a good relationship. We're on the same page."
"Something to share with the rest of us, J?" Vrak asked looking at J.
"No, sir, I wasn't... Uzi was the one that was talking." J said in response.
"Robot God, you must have been the worst fourth grader ever." Uzi said to that surprised.
"Joke's on you. I skipped fourth grade." J told her proudly.
"J, anything else?" Vrak asked firmly.
"No." J said meekly.
"No?" Vrak asked.
"Uh-uh." J said while Uzi looks on grinning.
"Dismissed." Vrak tells everyone.
As they were entering the bullpen J then says to N "Hey, N. I know you haven't had Uzi as a secondary in a while. Be careful. It can be rough."
"Hey, saboteur, that's not true. I happen to be a very good secondary." Uzi tells her and J thinks back to when she had Uzi as a secondary.
We flashback to J in the interrogation room with a suspect.
"So, you were just borrowing those cars?" J asked the suspect.
"Ask about his bank account." Uzi called out from the other side of the glass in the interrogation room and she repeats banging on the glass "Ask about his bank account! Ask him about his bank..." The glass breaks completely. "…account. You should ask him about his bank account." She then leaves while calling out "Captain, J broke the glass."
Back in the present J says to Uzi "You can't give up control, you're terrible at taking your primary's orders, you just do whatever you want. I could go on and on and on."
"Is something no lover of yours has ever said." Uzi said with a smirk.
"Blammo." N said to that smiling.
"Look, I can be an amazing secondary and I'll prove it." Uzi said to both N and J.
"I know you will, Uzi-in-the-box." N said to Uzi smiling.
"Okay, don't ever call me that again. I'm driving. We should leave now. Carry my bag." Uzi told N but then notices J grinning at her and knew she was already botching proving she was a good secondary and said "But you should pick the music, primary."
We then come to Uzi and N in the car, music playing that Uzi didn't like but N enjoys it as he sings along.
N: Consider yourself part of the furniture
There isn't a lot to spare
Who cares
Whatever we've got we share
Back at the precinct Vrak was looking at a picture of himself on the wall.
J approaches him and said smiling "It's a great picture, sir."
"I hate it." Vrak told her.
"Me too." J said to that, Vrak takes the picture and dropped it into the bin below. She then tells him "So I have an eyewitness in the purse-snatcher case. Only problem is, the sketch artist is out sick. How do you want me to proceed?"
"Figure it out, Santiago. It's your case." Vrak told her firmly.
"Yes. I will do that." J said to that and bows to him "Thank you."
Vrak raises a confused eyebrow and asked "Are you bowing?"
"No. This is how I walk." J said and while still bowing moves away backwards. Vrak walks away and the female drone moves to be near Vaggie.
Vaggie notices her and asked "What do you need, QuasiDrodo? I gotta go meet with N and Uzi."
"Is there something wrong with the Captain? It seems like he's in a bad mood." J asked her.
"I don't know. Who can tell?" Vaggie said shrugging.
We then flashback to a time when Vaggie brings a report to Vrak in his office. She noticed he was looking distant.
"You all right, Captain? Tough weekend?" Vaggie asked placing the report on the desk.
"I went to Aloha with my wife." Vrak tells her in a neutral tone "We wove hats out of Palm fronds and swam with the Mantines. I've never been happier."
Vaggie stands their puzzled.
Back in the present Vaggie tells J "Guy's impossible to read. Don't even try."
The two then see Vrak on the phone saying in the same neutral tone "That is, without question, the funniest story I've ever heard." With that J nods in agreement.
DOA's Apartment, 11:23 AM
N, Uzi and Vaggie enter the apartment and find the police officers working the scene. They see the victim in a white body bag on the floor and one notable obvious thing they can see is the man is very large in body weight or as Uzi sees it the man was very fat.
"Wow. This guy must have weighed 500 pounds. I think we have an idea what killed him. Spoiler alert: It was not starvation." Uzi said looking at the body and cracking a joke.
"What do we got?" Both N and Uzi said at the same time.
"Sorry, sorry. You're the primary, you're in charge." Uzi said to N.
"Hifumi Yamada, 58 years old, married, no children. Wife found him this morning and called it in." An officer Eddie said reading from his notes while N takes a look at the body.
"Any signs of forced entry or a struggle?" N asked Eddie.
"No." Eddie said shaking his head.
"You sure about that? Looks like maybe his belt had a pretty epic struggle with his stomach." Uzi said grinning and Eddie laughs at that fat joke.
"What are you thinking, N?" Vaggie asked.
N was about to speak but then Uzi cuts him off taking charge and said "I'm calling natural causes. We got heart medicine over here, home defibrillator. And a frequent customer gift basket from the cardiac wing of Gotham General Hospital. This case is open and shut. Just like his mouth was, constantly. That was my last fat joke. Okay?" She grins amused by her humor and then said "Vaggie, check and see if there's any more meds in the bathroom. N, see what you can find in the bedroom. I'll take the kitchen." She leaves for the kitchen.
"Yep, that's exactly what I was gonna say. It's... it's so weird. He's so good at knowing what I'm gonna tell him to do, he just does it. It's weird." N said and Vaggie rolls her eyes clearly seeing that Uzi was proving how bad a secondary she is.
Back at the Precinct, Moxxie was at his desk drawing some images.
J apporches him and said "Hey, sergeant. You know how you're really good at doodling?" She looks at his work.
"I know you think you're complimenting me, but calling them doodles is an insult." Moxxie said insulted "You a big fan of Picasso's doodles?"
"Sorry." J said to him then asked "Can you please draw a perp for me? The sketch artist is out sick and the Captain wants this done right away. He's in a bad mood."
"Is he? I can never read him." Moxxie said confused.
We flashback to an example of in the bullpen where Moxxie sees Vrak come into work.
"You look chipper, Captain. You have a fun weekend?" Moxxie asked smiling.
"There was a small fire in my home." Vrak told him in the same neutral tone "I lost many photo albums of treasured memories. I'm devastated." Moxxie stares at him confused.
Back in the precent J tells Moxxie "I'm telling you, he and I have a connection and there is something bothering him. Can you help me out?" Moxxie nods and gets his drawing pad while J brings the lady who's purse was stolen and tells her "Great. Ma'am, can you please describe the perp to sergeant Moxxie?"
"Yeah, he had, um, dark, curly hair, and a neck tattoo..." The lady begins to recount.
"Wait, wait, wait. Slow down. Let's start with the eyes. Were they desperate? Lonely? Did they betray heartache?" Moxxie asked her.
"They were brown." The lady said confused.
"Do you even want your purse back?" Moxxie asked her annoyed.
Back at the DOA's apartment, Uzi was looking in the kitchen, an annoyed Vaggie approaches her.
"So far you've managed to tell three fat jokes and completely bulldoze N." Vaggie told the purple haired drone. "Is that your idea of being a good secondary?"
"First off, I've told four. And second, I'm helping. I mean, I started cataloguing the contents of the fridge, but it turns out there's not enough paper on earth. Five fat jokes." Uzi said grinning as Eddie passes by and chuckles "Thanks, Eddie. See, Eddie thinks I'm doing great."
"Eddie, shut up." Vaggie said firmly then looks at Uzi saying "Uzi, for once, just hang back and let N do his job."
Uzi groans and said "Fine. Unless I get a direct order from N I will stand here motionless like a wise, old oak tree." She then makes a silly pose and face and stands motionless.
"You look like an idiot." Vaggie told her and leaves to continue working.
Meanwhile N was talking to a woman with long read hair wearing a white dress with a long pink see through scarf. She was Dahlia Hawthorne-Yamada, the wife of Hifumi.
"I'm so sorry for your loss, Mrs. Hawthrone. Can you talk about what happened after breakfast?" N asks her.
"I took the dog for a walk. When I came back, he was dead." Dahlia said upset "I'm just in shock. We were going on a cruise together next week. He had pre-purchased the unlimited Anime and soda package."
"I'm sure the soft drink and Anime industry mourns his passing." N tells her softly.
Just then a beautiful woman with white hair tied with a black gold rimmed bow enters the room, she was wearing a police badge and she kneels down to check the body. Her presence was immediately noticed by Uzi who liked what she saw.
"Motion reactivated." Uzi moves and goes to be by the woman and said to her "Hey. Detective Uzi Doorman."
"Dr. Maria Gorey." The woman said to her as she puts on blue medical gloves "I'm the new medical examiner. Don't let me get in your way. I'm sure you have a lot to do."
"Actually, I've been given a direct order to do nothing, so. What brings you here..." Uzi said trying to be smooth and lean on the body but slips and nearly falls on top of it "Okay. All right. Sorry. Sorry." She recovers.
"You all, right?" Maria asked with an amused smile.
"What's up?" Uzi said and Maria smiles at her.
Back at the precinct Vrak approaches N and asks him "How's the Yamada case looking?"
"It looks like natural causes, but I'll know for sure once I get the autopsy results tomorrow." N explains to him and adds smiling "Uzi volunteered to follow up with the M.E. My drone buddy is all over it."
We then come to Uzi not doing that but instead out on a dinner date with Maria.
"I'm really glad you could sneak away from your case." Maria said with a smile.
"Well, it's technically not really my case, but on the plus side, I have all the time in the world." Uzi said with a smile.
"Oh." Maria said.
Uzi then holds up her glass of water and said "To you. And to the ginormous, dead fat man who brought us together." The two cheers their glasses and go on to enjoy their date.
Well Uzi isn't proving she is good at being a secondary, how will this relationship with the M.E. go?
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