Geekscape Recap: Grimm “Revelation”

Grimm is back, and it picks up right where it left off (to refresh your memory, this was before Polar Vortexes or #sochiproblems)—Monroe’s parents, already freaked out by the whole marrying-a-Fuchsbau-thing, went full thermo-nuclear when they saw Nick—a Grimm.

Parents Just Don’t Understand

Nick manages to fend off Papa Monroe—a ruggedly confused Chris Mulkey—and the elder Monroes spout off some fairly cliché we’re-so-disappointed-we-don’t-know-you-anymore and storm out.

Monroe and Nick have a mini-fight (a bro-row? Or bro-tiff?) and Nick leaves without telling Monroe about the whole scalping-seriel-killer.

Rosalee goes back to the spice shop to have a little crying jag, Monroe stares morosely at cuckoo clocks, and Nick ends up telling Juliette all about the cop-killing-spree. To which she appropriately replies ‘wow.’

Wow is right, oh she-of-the-slightly-getting-better-plot-points. Wow is right.

We leave the stunned Juliette, befuddled Nick, crying Rosalee and glum Monroe to a remote campfire, where our raging serial killer performs some sort of ritual involving a fire and flowing red ember, which he eats, causing his eyes to go all Wesen-red. Spooky. Definitely not a good guy.

To Europe!

Next is Vienna, where Prince Viktor (full name: Viktor Albert Wilhelm George Beckendorf, thank you IMDB!) played by Alexis Denisof (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse) trying his best to be Evil–most of his scenes feel like they should end with him twirling his mustache and putting a bwa- in front of his cackles—anyway, Prince Viktor is watching a pregnant Adalind via remote camera and having secret meetings with Stefania. Not good. Very nefarious. We’re pretty sure Viktor and Stefania aren’t meeting to discuss nursery furniture.

The two agree that they need to move Adalind into the castle soon so that the baby is born there. No idea why this is important but it clearly is.  Also, Stefania has Adalind eating mandrake to hold off labor. Isn’t that poison??

Sebastian calls up Renard and tells him all about the happenings in the palace—including Adalind’s impending labor—and Renard starts snapping out orders. Call this person, talk to this person, get Adalind out of there! Fake your own death!

He’s interrupted by Hank and Sgt. Wu coming in to tell him that a student film caught our bad guy on tape—our first genuinely funny moment of the night. The rolled-eyes look Renard gives Hank is priceless as he sees the student film (zombies, ha!) and the muttered ‘seriously?’ is a tiny moment that shows why this show is so good.

Don’t Worry, Baby

Monroe finds Rosalee at the Spice Shop and convinces her that she’s more important than his parents, despite her misgivings, and then decides to go have one final conversation with them, basically to say: ‘accept me or this is good-bye.’ While all of this feels a little ‘parent-drama-101’ it is a quiet subplot, beating a counterpoint—an almost-normal-type-of-life-situation–to the other events boiling up around them.

Back at the campfire, a Park Ranger pulls up to investigate crazy-scalper-man’s campsite. It’s deserted just long enough for the Ranger to call in the license plate and figure out he really shouldn’t be out in the woods alone when Scalper-man shows up. And his friend. Who knew he had a friend?? Can’t be good. The two voge and fall on the Ranger in a pride-of-lions sort of way. Not a good night for our Ranger.

The next morning, Monroe and Rosalie wake up to the sun and have a little Monroe-and-Rosalee-for-cutest-couple-ever moment before Monroe calls his mom (after he tells Rosalee ‘no one talks to you that way.’ Awww, Monroe!). Monroe tells his mother he’s coming over to ‘talk.’

At Nick’s and Juliette’s, Juliette stayed up all night being research-girl (does anyone else want Giles to show up and give a master class in how to properly research and hand out information??) and informs Nick about a how in 44 BC the Scythians considered hair to have mystical powers (think Samson and Delilah)—more scalps = more power on battlefield. Which we kind of already knew, didn’t we?

Juliette than lectures Nick on how serious it is that these super-powered Wesen are coming after him, and Nick gets called to the Ranger’s murder scene.

We Don’t Even Know You Anymore

Monroe gets to his parents hotel room and has it out with them about Rosalee and Nick. It ends with a ‘if you do this, you’re not our son anymore’ and Monroe leaves (a lovely bit of acting here by Silas Weir Mitchell—understated and heartfelt).

In Vienna, Adalind is woken up by Renard calling her to say that he’s sent people to take her someplace safe, as Viktor and Stefania have sent Verrat agents for her. He tells her he thinks the child is his, and that she needs to choose a side. The phone call is interrupted by a knocking at the door—it’s Sebastian and Meisner. The Verrat are also in the building so Sebastian goes to see if he can delay them while Meisner gets Adalind ready.

Sebastian calls Meisner to tell him the Verrat are on their way up, almost instantly there’s a knock on the door (fastest elevator ever).

Meisner takes off his shirt (hello!) and climbs into the bed (because illicit lover of a pregnant woman is preferable to Resistance-leader). The Verrat look ready to get violent and then—and this is where the episode got exciting—the baby killed them. The unborn baby hurled things (a pen…and something else, we weren’t sure what) through the air into their chest (Verrat #1) and eye (Verrat #2) and killed them.

Spooky.

Into The Woods

In the woods outside of Portland, Nick, Sgt. Wu and Hank find the poor Ranger (in many bits—Grimm is really amping up the blood and gore) and realize there’s now two serial killers. Good times.

In the woods outside of Vienna (sensing a theme??) Sebastian, Meisner and Adalind speed along a highway, where the reveal they all (and Renard) work for the Resistance (which is soooo cool. We can’t decide whether to hum “Do You Hear the People Sing?” or “Vive La Resistance”). Meisner stops the car in the middle of nowhere, and he and Adalind hike into the woods. Clearly these people have never actually read any of the Grimm Fairy Tales.

Juliette stops by the Spice Shop to check in on Rosalee, ostensibly to offer moral support, but she also makes Monroe and Rosalee know about the case Nick is working on (though she does say multiple times that was not why she came…). The whole scalping-people-and-making-cloaks things gets Monroe’s hackles up (sorry, couldn’t resist the turn of phrase) because apparently it’s really serious. More than just people-getting-killed-en-masse-serious.

Monroe rushes out to get Nick, talking about the Caccia Morta, telling Nick to meet him at Monroe’s house—but not to bring Hank. Apparently it’s too dangerous for just normal, non-Wesen/non-Grimm types.

Meisner brings Adalind to a cabin in the middle of the woods (apparently it’s been in Meisner’s family for a long time…WHO IS MEISNER?? He’s rapidly becoming the most interesting thing in the show…and is it just us, or is there a Adalind/Meisner romance vibe happening??).

Something Rotten in House of Prince Viktor

Back at their hotel, Mama Monroe (Dee Wallace) surprises Papa Monroe (but not really any of us) by refusing to leave with him. She wants to try and understand Monroe, and doesn’t want to lose him.

Viktor drags Stefania to his Royal Plotting Room and blames her for Adalind escaping. She convinces him it was someone close to him who did the betrayal…and then they both stared menacingly into the air for a beat.

Mama Monroe (her name is Alice, apparently) goes to the Spice Shop and tries to befriend (kind of…) Rosalee. She eventually asks Rosalee if she would mind doing a Vertrautheiten (German for intimate, familiar), which apparently means doing a full Voge and sniffing each other…and it must have worked because they were both purring at the end.

Monroe gets home to meet Hank, only it’s Papa Monroe waiting for him on his porch (who’s name, IMDB tells us, is Bart), looking kind of lost and concerned. The two have it out over being friends with a Grimm for a little bit (including random, awkward flashback to the pilot episode—did Nick’s hair really look like that??) before Nick shows up.

Monroe tells Bart what they are up against—the Wildesheer—and Bart reacts by telling Monroe to run.

Time to Weapon Up

Nicks shows up, and he and Bart warily circle each other (literally) until Bart leaves, and then Monroe fills in Nick on the Wildesheer—or the Wild Hunt (including a great little moment where Monroe shows Nick his favorite story from childhood—the one where the Wildesheer tear a Grimm apart). The Wildesheer come on the heels of thunder and wind, as if ‘blown from the gates of Hell,’ and they gain strength from killing great warriors—and Monroe thinks they’re in Portland specifically for Nick.

Which means they use Nick as bait and pick a fight somewhere of their choosing. So, off Nick and Monroe go to the trailer to weapon up, as Bart watches from the woods.

At the trailer, Nick’s books offer a never-tried hypothesis on how to kill the Wildesheer—cut their hair. Monroe and Nick weapon up just as thunder crashes and the wind picks up.

Nick and Monroe go outside—and are attacked by two cloak-of-scalp wearing Wesen who are impervious to weapons of any kind.

It’s almost a draw, but then a third Wildesheer shows up, and it’s all going down hill—until Papa Monroe shows up. Nick is able to cut the bad guys hair while Monroe and Papa Monroe fight with them, which instantly kills the Wildesheer (though it looked like Nick scalped them–lots of blood–to which we say, doesn’t scalping kill everybody?).

Bad Moon Rising

Papa Monroe begrudgingly accepts Monroe’s friendship with Nick, and then Papa Monroe tells them that the story he heard from his Grandfather: that if the Wildesheers ever came back, something really bad would happen next. Something that would change the world.

Back to Adalind…warm, fed, flirting with Meisner a little. Suddenly gripped in terrible, terrible pain.

“I think it’s coming.” She says, before screaming.

Back to Monroe’s hosue, where Rosalee, Monroe, Mama & Papa Monroe and Nick and Julieette are having a very uncomfortable dinner. Nicks cutting up a ham and serving it. Juliette brings up the wedding (like she didn’t know it was sore point) and everyone Voges—causing Nick to stand up, knife in hand, and declare: “Everybody just calm down.” (The third best moment of the night. Grimm as family counselor….ha).

Best Lines of the Episode:

1.  Renard: “Seriously?”

2. Monroe: Not in that book, they’re supposed to win. (responding to Nick: Is there anything in here on how to kill them?)

3. Monroe: Ogre Gun.

Grimm airs on NBC on Friday nights at 10 p.m. Catch up on recent Grimm episodes on NBC.com or Hulu.

Would do you think, fellow Grimms? What is up with Adalind’s baby? And what is the terrible thing that’s going to happen? And what, exactly, is the Resistance?? What do you think of next week’s trailer (you can watch below)? Comment below and let us know!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOdty2mp4uY