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There was never much certainty about what a morning at Brooklyn 18 would look like. By the time the precinct is properly awake, someone has usually already turned their desk into a disaster zone. Sometimes Peralta has decided that an ordinary investigation needs a little more enthusiasm than the situation calls for. Surprising? That was just Brooklyn 18 for you. 🚔 (9-AM-Menace!)

A fresh case can arrive in the middle of an ordinary morning and change the mood of the entire squad. Someone gets up from their desk and a conversation stops halfway through. Detective Peralta is already convinced he knows where the case is going, although it looks like Detective Santiago has three reasons to disagree with him. You’ve got to wonder if even Captain Holt would want to step in during moments like that.

                     Latest remark from
              Detective Emilien’s ⓘ report:

We’ve busted murderers; we’ve taken down cartels. But today we face the worst New York has to offer: the fire department. 📇🗯️

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Work eventually resumed, though not before the remark earns its place in whatever unofficial collection of things that should probably never have been said inside a police precinct. It was bound to come up again eventually. Well, most things did.

CODENAME: His Dimple  ⌞ ꗃ ⌝  Last-second breakthroughs seem to be his specialty, with every case magically falling into place just before the clock runs out, as if the entire investigation was planned that way. The rest of the time is spent sipping a coffee mug suspiciously full of milk and dropping a joke between meetings that absolutely did not belong there: YOUR CASE AWAITS, DETECTIVE EMILIEN DUCLAIR. 🕵🏻🪪

By the end of the day, nobody was in much of a rush to leave—unless they already had plans, just like Detective Santiago’s not-so-secret date. 📂 ⌕ (18.18)
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