‘Grimm’ Recap: Love at First Fight
Warning: This recap of the “Blind Love” episode of Grimm contains spoilers.
This week’s Grimm episode didn’t do much to further the stick and symbols story, but instead concentrated on highlighting the silly side of the series through a group vacay gone horribly awry.
Man in the Mirror
Diana wakes up Eve and asks her if her tummy hurts because she wishes Nick were still her boyfriend. Apparently, Diana gets a stomachache when she is sad, like when she misses her other mommy Kelly (aka Nick’s Grimm mom). She questions if Eve knows what happened to her, which is awkward since she, in her evil phase, was the one who lured Kelly to her death by beheading, and there is no telling what the magic wunderkind would do if she knew that little morsel.
Luckily for her, Adalind enters the room and instructs Diana to get ready for her weekend with her dad. While she is off delivering Diana, Eve hops in the shower. While combing her hair in the bathroom, a small black-cloud swirl starts to develop in the mirror. Eve pokes at it, and it widens to reveal thunder, lightening, and a red-and-black skeletal floating head with beady green eyes. She summons Nick with a scream and he sees what looks like “a window” too, before it suddenly vanishes. “It looked a lot like what I saw with death-grip guy except skull man wasn’t there,” she recalls.
Nick thinks they should not tell Monroe and Rosalee about the head until they have a better handle on what they saw.
Suite Revenge
The gang is headed to the gorgeous and historic Columbia Gorge Hotel for the weekend to celebrate Monroe’s birthday. Upon arrival, Nick and Adalind are helped by a guy who seems shady from the get-go. When Nick asks how long he’s worked there, he hesitates and says a couple of years. (Yeah, sure. That’s 100 percent a lie.) After depositing them at their room, the vesen calls his mom and urges her to have his dad call him because “that son of a bitch Burkhardt” has just checked in. When his dad returns the call from the prison Nick apparently put him in, the bellboy vows to make Nick pay for taking his old man down with a triple dose of a nasty love spell his Pops is sure will cause Nick and friends to “[tear] each other apart with their bare hands.”
He collects hair from their rooms and then mixes up his spit-hair-champagne cocktails while the gang is at the bar reminiscing about Monroe and Nick’s first meeting way back in the pilot. The flashbacks continue at dinner when Monroe remembers that he fell in love the minute Rosalee saved his life by bashing a bad guy on the head. On the guys’ way to the table with the dosed drinks, a waitress runs into him and one of her hairs falls in. Rosalee passes on the champagne because she’s pregnant, but Hank offers to double fist. Just before bed, Nick tells Adalind that the waiter looked familiar but wasn’t sure why.
Everyone who drank the contaminated champagne awakens the next morning feeling off and needing coffee. Wu sees the waitress whose hair fell in the flute and immediately becomes enamored. He tells her she is really beautiful and then follows her into the kitchen. He starts spewing corny lines about love at first sight and Cupid. It was sweet at first, but then she starts getting annoyed as he won’t leave her alone.
Hank apparently got his own hair as he can’t stop staring at his reflection in the mirror. “I hate to admit it, but you are one damn fine-looking man,” he compliments himself. (Can only imagine that this was a difficult line to say with a straight face.) It gets more embarrassing when he serenades himself with “Let’s Get It On.”
Monroe sees Eve walking the grounds, which causes his eyes to glow and he heads off to find her. He starts ranting about her exuberant hair and welcoming voice. “Here’s something I never told you. I admire you so much for everything you’ve been through for losing Nick, losing yourself,” he coos grabbing her hand. “Do you feel the tingling of like souls? That’s love. Forget Rosalee.”
Nick runs into Rosalee on his way back to the room, and it is obvious that he got her hair as he drops the coffee and follows her to the patio. He claims he’s always known they were meant to be and declares his love for her.
“I don’t know what has gotten into you, but please stop. You are starting to freak me out,” she warns before storming off. That’s when Eve finds Nick and pulls him in for a kiss. “To think we almost threw it all away,” she murmurs.
Adalind falls for Monroe, and Rosalee walks in on them kissing. He tells her that he is done “living a lie” and that he’s “in love with Eve.” Adalind slaps him upon hearing that declaration. Now everyone has gathered in the hall, fighting over who belongs together and how much they love that person. Eve yells at Adalind, “It wasn’t enough to steal Nick from me and have the baby that should have been ours.” (While most of the comments are ridiculous, you can’t help but feel that everything Eve says about Nick comes from a place of honesty and brokenhearted regret.)
Hank overhears the fighting and goes out to break it up, but he catches a glimpse of himself in another mirror. Rosalee suddenly realizes that they are all under the spell and hunts down the waiter. She demands that he make it stop. “Ain’t gonna happen. They’re all gonna die,” he spits.
He is about to learn that nobody messes with Rosalee’s happy ending. She snarls back, “Not if you die first.”
She chases him to the terrace on the cliff, where Wu is threatening to kill himself if Holly doesn’t reciprocate his feelings and accept his devotion. The waiter takes Holly hostage and her fear forces Wu to woge.
Rosalee and the waiter follow suit, and poor Holly passes out. Wu jumps to action to save his love and flings the guy over the cliff. As soon as he lands splat, everyone comes to their senses. Hank wonders, “Why am I crying? Why am I in my underwear?”
Nick realizes he arrested his dad a year before he was a Grimm, which is why he didn’t know the guy was wesen and the guy had no idea Nick’s friends were too. Nick apologizes that the revenge plot spoiled Monroe’s birthday.
“It’s going to take a lot more than that to break up this group,” Monroe reassures him.
Something tells me we might soon find out just how much the squad can tolerate.
Child’s Play
Before dropping her off at Renard’s, Adalind instructs Diana to keep the symbols that Eve drew in the tunnel a secret from everyone, including her dad, because they might be dangerous. Once at her dad’s, she immediately starts making cookies and doodling the cloth’s “calendar.” While cooking, it becomes clear that Renard and his daughter are being watched.
When Renard asks about the pictographs, she explains that she can’t tell him about what she saw in the tunnel or where the tunnel is located. But her verbal slip piques his interest. She allows him to take a photo on his phone, and he mumbles suspiciously that her mom must have thought they were important if she asked her to keep them secret.
A knock at the door brings a special delivery of two trees as a housewarming gift from the precinct, but it turns out it was misdirection meant to distract Renard while someone kidnapped his daughter. At first, he freaks out and starts to call the police, but then he smirks, hangs up the phone, and goes back to chowing down on cookies. Guess he knows Diana can take care of herself.
The kidnapper turns out to be the officer who killed the blackmailer for Renard after being promised a promotion to captain when Renard became mayor. But obviously that promotion did not pan out after Nick foiled that plan by morphing into the captain’s body and threatened this cop. He snarled over the phone, “You stabbed me in the back. You threatened to have me arrested for a murder you had me commit. You owe me. You are going to keep your end of the bargain. Make me captain of that precinct or your little girl dies.”
Diana wakes up and wants to go home. She even said, “Please,” but the policeman barks, “You’re not going home until I get what I want.” He woges to drive the point home, but Diana remains unruffled. In fact, now he’s just made her mad. Her eyes go purple and with the flick of her wrist, the guy goes flying across the room. She does it over and over again, enjoying every minute of it. Eventually, the cop sneaks off and calls Renard back, begging him to come help. When she finds him, she chastises his hiding spot and the torture continues. When her dad bothers to show up, he acts like it is a playdate and warns that he could easily schedule another one.
Grimm airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on NBC.
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