'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' season 4 winter finale recap, latest news: Will Gina die?

Fox's "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" wraps its fourth season fall run with a cliffhanger.

To say that the police sitcom's season two-part fall finale was eventful would be a gross understatement. The Nine-Nine squad hunted down nine fugitives, Jake (Andy Samberg) agreed to move in with Amy (Melissa Fumero), and the Pontiac Bandit (Craig Robinson) returned. And in the final moments of the season 4 finale, Gina (Chelsea Peretti) suddenly got hit by a bus.

In the final moments of the episode, Gina, Amy, and Charles (Joe Lo Truglio) were walking when Charles asked Gina to review a message he was about to share to the office group chat. She approved his message before crossing the street. Once she received the text from Charles, she abruptly stopped in the middle of the road and looked back at him with an approving thumbs-up, before getting mowed down by a bus.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Gina actually foreshadowed her own bus collision accident earlier in the episode. During her conversation with Charles, she told him, "You know, honestly, I'd rather get hit by a bus than get one more text from you." This one-liner, as it turns out, served as an inspiration to the shocking ending of season 4.

"We wrote a joke for Gina, in which she tells Charles that she'd rather get hit by a bus than receive another text from him," series executive producer Dan Goor revealed to Entertainment Weekly. "After we wrote it, I thought, 'She should get a text from Charles and then instantly get hit by a bus,'" he added.

Considering how the fall finale ended, many of the show's fans are worried if they would no longer see one of the series' well-loved characters once the season returns in a few months. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Goor was asked whether or not Gina died from the accident, only to respond cryptically.

"Watch and find out!" the showrunner said, adding, "Again, I think another valid question is: did the bus survive? Either way, audiences will see Chelsea again — she is a force of nature and one of the greatest comic minds out there."

"Brooklyn Nine-Nine" is expected to return sometime this spring.