“He Stripped off his skin and tossed it into the fire and he was human form again.”
Time for the penultimate episode of Grimm! Let’s see if
they start tying up threads of the long neglected story otherwise I may have to
break out the snark.
We start with fools walking in the woods at night looking
for Bigfoot. I believe that a Wesen eating him may actually improve the
intelligence of humanity so here’s hoping. Or a bear, a bear would do, I’m not
fussy. Then we get screaming, running, lots of those horrible shaky camera
effects that the Blair Witch made so annoyingly popular, and a guy getting
thrown pretty impressively against a tree.
Meanwhile Tom Curson calls out vet Juliette because
something big and furry attacked one of his horses. And it was very very big and very very strong
and very very hairy and leaves large, bare feet – that is wounded from Tom’s
gunshot. Naturally they go wandering in the wood, at night, after the savage,
clawed, wounded, angry beastie. As you do. And they find a large number of dead
bodies.
In comes Nick, Hank and Wu (who has the perfect snarky
lines and there really needs to be more of him) and they find the video camera
and a survivor. She’s covered in blood, hysterical and blames it on Big Foot.
The video shows a man wearing clothes though but also massive strength
Eddie is woken in the middle by Larry, a Wildermann, who
has been shot in the leg. Naturally Eddie calls Nick. He can’t take Larry to a
hospital because he can’t Voga – retract his monstery-ness, every would see him
for what he is, not just Grimm and other Wesen. Eddie is also extremely
doubtful that Larry is violent and he’s part of Eddie’s support group to
control their issues and impulse controls.
The police have call in police dogs who come near Eddie’s house – but not in because Eddie marks his territory and the dogs know better. Eddie puts on Larry’s shirt and runs through the woods, leading the dogs away. Ok, so they’d track Larry’s scent, but we’ve already established that the dogs are afraid of Blutbaden and won’t enter their territory – but they’re willing to chase one? At least when they corner him Eddie gives a fantastic roar (that Hank hears) and the dogs go running. To escape, Eddie knocks Hank over while looking all Blutbadey.
At that point Larry wakes up and rips something out of
his own neck – and dies. Eddie does an amazing job of portraying restrained grief
here – that’s some stellar acting. Eddie and Nick dump Larry’s body in the
woods – but Eddie still doesn’t agree that Larry could have killed normally.
So Nick goes to speak to Larry’s therapist – Brinkerhoff.
Who instantly starts asking Nick about being a Grimm and who knows, not that
Nick answers. He had twice weekly therapy sessions, that helps with identity
issues. Brinkerhoff has “creepy” and “villain” written all over him
The police find Larry’s body – though Hank is still
shaken since he saw something different (a fuzzy Eddie) and the mechanical drug
dispenser that was in his hand that he tore from his neck
Then some homeless people are attacked by another fuzzy
Wesen – one man is ripped apart the same as Larry’s victims, but the other man
manages to kill the attacker (causing him to Voga in death as Wesen do) and he
also has an implant site on the back of his neck.
Eddie talks to some of his friends – and it seems Larry
found a “fool proof” way to cure their impulse control issues with Brinkerhoff.
A quick, fool proof way to control their urges. And 2 others have also got the
same cure – including the latest wild Wesen who went rampaging and the other
died tearing his house apart and jumping out a third storey window. But 4 drug
pumps were ordered by Brinkerhoff, not just 3.
The last one was for himself. And Eddie is most annoyed
and goes to confront him – and Brinkerhoff loses it and fights Eddie – just before
Nick and Hank arrives and the good doctor runs for it and goes on a rampage ending
with Brinkerhoff being shot – and Hank seeing him Voga back from Wesen to human…
Juliette does her own investigating with the hair she
found – taking DNA samples. And her results don’t make any sense at all –
pointing to parahumans (human/animal hybrids).
So we have the whole secret falling apart – both Juliette
and Hank now staring the supernatural world in the face.
Nick was playing with his key – that special
key that we all forgot about for many many many episodes of monster the
week – and superimposing it over maps.
While I can understand and agree with Eddie explaining
why it’s important Wesen stay hidden from humanity since humanity has a habit
of killing things that are other – appropriating cross burning that way was
grossly unacceptable and appropriative. Grimm
is making a habit of this and needs to stop
I’ve said for a while that the secret needed to finally
be revealed – and I am beyond happy that it’s finally breaking and, in the same
way, allowing hank and Juliette to play a larger role in Grimm./ but I have a
whine – the pacing. You could have had weeks of slow revelations rather than a
single incident to open their eyes, it would have worked better and be easier
to pull off and look realistic. I’m curious to see how they manage this,
whether they both become ardent believers after one issue and how Nick works
with it – but Grimm’s pacing is truly awful – either ridiculously slow or
sprinting
