“’Wait!’ the troll said, jumping in front of him. “This is my toll bridge. You have to pay a penny to go across.”
So we begin with Eddie and Nick wrestling around in the
wood and Nick not wanting to be eaten. It’s a Grimm training session! (Shouldn’t
they have done this several episodes ago?) And a chance for Eddie to play with
the Grimmy toys – I think this is supposed to show that Nick and Eddie spend a
lot more time together than we have seen.
To the actual crime there’s a deal between 2 Wesen , an
Eisbiber and some kind of troll (I guess), the Eisbiber is going to the DA and
not giving troll the money he expects. Bye bye Mousey. But another beaver
witness escapes – and goes to yet another Eisbiber.
In come the police – Nick, Hank and Sgt Wu to see the
cement covered dead Eisbiber (and owner of a construction company). Checking up
on the witness they find him missing – but Nick recognises a picture of him
with the
Eisbiber he knows - the one who starting making him food and fixing his door.
Following some police work they find the only enemy he
had was someone at the planning commission, Mr. Butrell (the murderer) - time
for more interviewing. He has an alibi but it gives Nick
a chance to see his trolly Wesen nature. And lets Butrell
and his cronies know there’s a Grimm involved.
Nick, meanwhile, follows
up with the Eisbiber he met before – apparently most the construction firms
in town are owned by Eisbibers but when building bridges you have to pay a cut
to the trolls because they consider them to be their property by tradition –
and are willing to extort it if they can. He leaves his number in case the
Eisbiber gets in touch with the witness.
Bud (Nick’s Eisbiber) goes to talk to Arnold (the
witness) to convince him to come forward to Nick since he’s a Grimm and on
their side. Since the result could affect all Eisbiber they decide to take it
to the lodge
Bud decides to take Nick to the Lodge meeting to make
inspiring speeches to a large crowd of Eisbibers – encouraging to help put an
end to the troll’s exploiting them. Unfortunately the majority are too afraid
of the trolls. Bud claims that the Eisbiber are just not a courageous people –
despite Bud’s willingness to work with a Grimm. But Bud’s shame for his people’s
cowardice is heard by Arnold and he is driven to come forward.
Meanwhile Butrell is meeting with his fellow trolls and
decided the only way to be safe is to kill Nick, the Grimm – and the only way
to deal with a Grimm is with Reapers. And we learn a bit about Reapers – that they’re
considered a “nuclear option” and that one becomes a Reaper – a Reaper can be
any kind of Wesen
At yet another meeting this time with Reapers (you can
tell, they’re speaking in French. All Reapers are European it seems), planning to
send 2 Reapers to Portland to find Nick – hoping 2 will get under Captain Renard’s
radar. They arrive and talk to Butrell –
and by talk we, of course, mean brutally beat. They are Reapers, after all
(though they’re usually more civilised with their gratuitous violence). I’m not
even sure why the Reapers are beating him – funsies I think.
So Burtrell is arrested, Arnold does his witnessessing
bit – and the Reapers see Nick and follow – time for a fight scene! And when did
Nick get those martial arts moves? Nick, of course, calls Eddie his friendly
side-kick for some help in body disposal – and the sure knowledge that the
Reapers are going to keep coming until they get Nick. So they send a 2 headed
message back (I love Eddie, did I mention this?) And that is a great great
package to send an enemy.
Of course, Nick has helped an Eisbiber. And in Eisbiber
fashion they drown him in their generosity – and food, and handicrafts.
Back at home, Juliette wants to invite Eddie to dinner – since
he did save her life and all – but Nick tries to put her off. She isn’t
easily shifted so Grimm and Nick have to try and develop a full backstory to
explain everything they do together, how they met and everything else – so little
of their interactions can be explained because their friendship is all based on
the Wesen and Grimminess.
We have the most painfully awkward dinner ever with their
fake backstory containing many many many many holes. Maybe this could develop
into the big reveal? Please?
I’m not sure why, but I really like Bud as a character,
he’s simple yet sincere. I don’t know why, he’s appealing. Sadly, hank and Wu
barely counted as extras this time and Juliette has her usual sterling role. Rosalie
has, alas, fallen into the plot box.
We got some more Reaper information but after rapid
revelations of the past few weeks we seem to have derailed back into monster of
the week – can we see more from Captain Renard please? And did we ever find out
what the key was? And what about the Reapers who were dying in Europe? And the
Verrat? Remember the Verrat? Come on, don't stop the meta now!
