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🎞️ S1 E5 🚫 Hard pass

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5. The Vulture

📺 Where to watch

Netflix, HBO or Disney+ — catalogs differ by country.

🛒 Where to buy

Digital seasons or a box set to keep.

Content guide

👊 Violence
💋 Sex
🙊 Language
⭐ Overall

Skip for under 13

brooklyn-nine-nine S1 E5, “5. The Vulture”, scores 3/5 for violence, 4/5 for sex and 2/5 for language, for an overall kid-rating of 4/5 — Skip for under 13.

Across the episode we counted 26 flagged moments in 5 themes: Sex & hookups (6); Nudity & bodies (2); Affairs / cheating (3); Violence & injury (12); Alcohol & drugs (3). Every moment below is either a direct quote from the episode transcript or a short description of what happens on screen, so you can decide before you press play.

Watch for — every moment, theme by theme

Sex & hookups 6 moments

How Sex & hookups shows up in brooklyn-nine-nine S1 E5:

  • Yeah, oldest arrest God, you had sex with a 68-year-old when you were in your 20s? You know how it is.
  • It was like having sex with a transformer.
  • I appreciate the offer, but I work best alone Except when it comes to sex.
  • What's up, little man? What's up? Feeling sexy? Huh? Yeah, I feel sexy.
  • Yeah, you look sexy, man.
  • Ultimately, it was our raw sexual chemistry that helped him overcome his crippling fear.

Nudity & bodies 2 moments

How Nudity & bodies shows up in brooklyn-nine-nine S1 E5:

  • Explicit body / sex-act language appears in dialogue.
  • All right, you want to hear it again? Idea for a novel A mild-mannered doorman gets bitten on the penis by a radioactive spider and becomes the world's greatest lover.

Affairs / cheating 3 moments

How Affairs / cheating shows up in brooklyn-nine-nine S1 E5:

  • I spent eight years in the public affairs office, so my tactical skills are a little rusty.
  • Apparently he was having an affair, and it was not the first time.
  • The husband had the affair.

Violence & injury 12 moments

How Violence & injury shows up in brooklyn-nine-nine S1 E5:

  • Peralta Where are we on the Lincoln place murder? Well, like I told Captain Holt earlier this week, we are at the one-yard line.
  • Meet Fred Gorman Prominent citizen, lawyer, corpse.
  • I just need to find the murder weapon.
  • Oh, yeah? Did Nancy Drew solve a lot of murders? Yeah, she did Murder on Ice, Recipe for Murder.
  • wife goes down to the doorman, says a guy murdered her husband and then ran off.
  • Stab, stab, stab.
  • won't move forward with the arrest until we find the knife she used.
  • Terry, I'd like you to accompany me to a gun range.
  • You mean drive you there and wait outside Far away from the guns.
  • Blam! Blam, blam! Gun range.
  • Is there anywhere you can think of in that hallway where a knife could be hidden? Well, since I've already told you, like, three times, no, why don't I just record it? Then I don't have to say it again.
  • We would've seen a bloody corkscrew.

Alcohol & drugs 3 moments

How Alcohol & drugs shows up in brooklyn-nine-nine S1 E5:

  • Hey, you guys see the dude I brought in today The drug dealer? I think it's the oldest collar of my entire career.
  • Apparently, our Detective squad has gotten drunk, compromised the crime scene, and an officer has gotten stuck in a trash chute.
  • They were publicly drunk.

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