In Season 3, Episode 7 ("The Mattress"), characters Amy Santiago and Terry Jeffords spent hours attempting to piece together shredded documents to find evidence against a criminal named Sheamus Murphy. Key Details of the "Paper" Scene The Task : Putting together thousands of tiny paper shreds.
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While Terry and Amy were stuck with the paperwork, the rest of the squad dealt with several other subplots: Jake and Amy's First Case
: After two hours, they only managed to identify three words: "an", "N", and "he".
Gina used a cupcake to trick Holt into realizing he was the one who had parked incorrectly. Rosa and Discipline
Captain Holt warned them not to let their new relationship interfere with work.
: Scully eventually offered to help, claiming he had a "strong Apache vibe" and was naturally gifted at jigsaw puzzles.
💡 : In a later season, a similar "paper-sorting" scene is often confused with this one, where Amy breaks her brain trying to solve a circular bureaucratic loop involving Form 1290 and Form 1021J.