“But if I stand at the sick person’s feet,
he is mine.”
We left off with a whole lot happening last season – with
Renard’s evil brother and Baron Samedi preparing their own zombie apocalypse
and kidnapping Nick.
And we start “15 minutes ago”, with something of a recap
of the major events
of last season’s finale. Evil Brother Eric Renard drives off, watched by
good brother Captain Sean Renard. At the container storage Monroe and Rosalee
hurry Juliette into their car while being chased by hordes of zombies (Juliette
being more focused on the missing Nick).
They drive off surrounded by hordes of zombies while Nick pursues Baron
Samedi across the tops of the containers.
To 5 minutes ago, with Monroe & co driving recklessly
to lose as many of the zombies as possible - and Eric arrives at the container
park, Nick finds the fake documents with his picture and gets gooed by Baron
Samedi. Renard arrives to spy on Eric, he follows him to the container where he
pauses to gloat over Nick’s comatose body.
Monroe, dodging zombies, gets the car stuck on a
barricade, forcing them to leave the car and climb up the containers for safety.
Sean Renard moves through the containers and sees Samedi loading up a box (Nick’s
body) but is attacked by zombies – at the
same time as the zombies moving up to Monroe, Juliette and Rosalie. Lots of
zombie fighting and no-one has a shotgun!
To more peaceful climes – Hank, now walking again, and Wu
comment on how quiet everything is; before Juliette calls Hank asking for help
while fending off zombies. And he was just about to catch up on his paperwork,
how inconsiderate! Hank gets Wu to call out the cavalry to the container yard.
And Monroe really needs to start ripping off limbs. They’ve really depowered
him since the first season.
As the police arrive both Renard and Monroe woge to help
fight off their attackers. Hank orders the riot police to round up as many as
they can and lock them in a container until they can get an antidote to them. He
calls Renard and they both quickly fill each other in. While the police fight
the zombies, Renard loads up Hank, Juliette, Rosaelie and Monroe and they hurry
to the airport to save Nick. Renard tells everyone else about the plan to get
nick out of the country and how all the chaos has been a distraction – and Rosalie
adds that Nick, as a Grimm, may not react the same way to the toxin.
Hank calls ahead to have police ground the plane – which
gets them all gooed. Renard, Juliette et al arrive to see the police
unconscious – and the plane already taking off. Juliette slaps Renard which
seems rather unfair. She blames his family (ok, that’s fair but it’s not like
he has influence over them) and demands he bring Nick back. Renard will track
their flight plan, in the meantime they’ve got a whole load of zombies to cure
Midflight, Nick starts banging in his box which Samedi
finds rather curious but not alarming. Then nick starts denting the metal box
he’s in. You can see clear imprints of his fists. Angry Grimm is very very
angry. He bursts out – and Samedi goos him again. This sends him asleep. For 5
seconds. Then Angry Zombie Grimm attacks with new improved super-strength and
the ability to throw Samedi the full length of the plain. Nick also does NOT
look good – which is rather impressive given how good looking Nick is. Nick
goes on an unstoppable rampage with Samedi and the 2 pilots in his path.
The plane begins to crash as Samedi yells at Nick to obey his master and Nick hits him in the face. They crash into the woods.
Back to Rosalie, Juliette and Monroe who are mass
producing cure – but Juliette and Rosalie worry that they won’t be able to get
the cure to everyone in time and people will die. Monroe wants to head to
Austria to save Nick – especially since he’s not Renard’s biggest fan, since he’s
royal as well. Rosalie is more sensible, the Royal family is too powerful for
the three of them to just charge in and attack. Monroe has the idea of
gathering all the people Nick has helped to help get him back. Meanwhile
Juliette and Rosalie put their combined medical knowledge together to have the
cure be delivered as a gas that all the zombies can inhale together.
Renard has his own plans – he calls his contact in Eric’s
household and tells him that since Eric has gone so far, it’s time to get Miesner
involved, this is apparently a big, serious deal by the way his mole reacts but
Renard is clear – Eric started it, so he gets to pay the consequences. The call ends and Hank enters Renard’s office
revealing that the plane is going straight to Vienna and they can’t stop it.
Renard assures Hank he will handle it, it’s between him and his brother. Hank’s
not ok with Renard turning Nick’s abduction into a family feud – Nick needs
help.
Actually not so much. In the wreckage of the crashed
plane we see Baron Samedi, dead or unconscious. We see one of the pilots dead
or unconscious. And another pilot trying to climb from the wreckage – until Nick
grabs his feet. Wild Nick emerges and moves into the forest
It also gives Hank the chance to interrupt Renard’s plans
again with news of Nick’s plane crash.
At the container yard, Wu and the police have managed to round up the rest of the zombies into a container in time for Juliette, Rosalie and Monroe to arrive with their cure. They throw in the bottles and wait for the gas to take effect. The open the container and everyone is fine – the cure worked. And Hank calls to let them all know the plane crashed.
They hurry to the location – and Nick finds civilisation
and still isn’t in a reasonable frame of mind. Hank and Renard find the plane
crash and the dead Baron Samedi (and wounded pilots). They also find Nick’s
coffin – and the damage he managed to do from the inside.
Nick enters the bar he found and smacks down some poor fool who tries to pick a fight. The bar man hurriedly calls 911 as Nick begins ploughing through his customers.
Juliette, Monroe and Rosalie join Hank and Renard at the
plane crash in time for Hank to be told about the 911 call and Nick taking on
all comers in the bar. By the time they arrive, everyone has left, is
unconscious or dead – just the barman fleeing to tell them of the guy inside.
Monroe and Rosalie both smell Nick – but Rosalie says there’s something
different in his scent.
They go into the bar filled with wounded. Monroe tracks
his scent to where he left via the backdoor. And Nick finds a home with a
family in it
Time for a break over to Austria and Adalind’s quest to
get her powers back in exchange for her royal baby. Last time we were with
them, Frau Pech just got herself well and truly outsmarted; and we now join
Stefania removing Pech’s still beating heart and putting it in a pretty box and
sealing it with blood.
She calls Adalind while lamenting the fate of the rug,
for the next stage of the ritual. Cutting off Frau Pech’s hands, feet and eyes.
Messy. She really should have invested in some plastic sheeting. Next is a walk
in the woods and Adalind doesn’t even get to clean up – because there’s no
point. More gore to follow!
They go out into the woods and a beautiful clearing full
of flowers – poppies I think – to find the special spot where Adalind must dig
with her bony claw hammer. Adalind finds all the tests tiresome but it’s not
Stefania doing the testing.
Adalind buries the body parts and the heart in a box with
her hands (getting steadily more stroppy) and stands. Darkness spreads from the
put she dug, killing the grass and the field of flowers. Spiritual energy rises
from the box and touches Adalind’s eyes that glow green. She has been accepted –now
she has a lot dead flowers to gather.
Well that was pretty action packed. I don’t know entirely
how I feel about the first episode containing so much of the last episode and
then kind of derailing the big cliffhanger – Nick was going to be taken to
Europe but… not. But still, they replaced it with a new plot line that worked.
I can’t say it really introduced anything for the story
though. There’s no new developments, no hints of what’s to come, (unless Nick
is going to be a zombie for the next 6 episodes). An opening episode really
needs season hooks and this didn’t – except for Adalind, I guess. Still there
was so much unresolved last season that I’m excited about this one – especially
with everyone in the know and working together.
I loved Adalind’s stroppiness. This holy, evil, powerful
ritual and she’s flouncing her way through it “really? Really? Now I’ve got to
do WHAT?!”
