‘Grimm’ Recap: There Will Be Blood
Warning: This recap of the “Blood Magic” episode of Grimm contains spoilers.
Eve is dead set on hunting down ol’ green eyes behind Nick’s back while he’s otherwise engaged trying to solve a couple of mauling cases and a mysterious death in an assisted care facility.
Safety First
While covering all the mirrors in their house so that Eve can safely stay with them, Monroe voices his concern. He knows they are doing the right thing by letting her stay but is worried that they will literally get killed because of their kindness, or that their house guests’ skinless stalker will harm the triplets. Rosalee is already going all mama bear and says she will rip his beady eyes out if he makes an appearance.
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All About Eve
Eve drops in on Adalind and tries to enlist her hexy help behind Nick’s back. She says she doesn’t want to bother Nick with anything “until she has a better handle” on what’s happening and she think Adalind’s mom’s spell books might have an answer. “There might be something in them that can help us fight this thing,” Eve justifies.
Adalind is still not convinced, arguing that the books might be just as dangerous. When she senses her hesitation, she pulls out all the stops and mentions that the beady-eyed baddie might also be after Nick and Diana because she can also see the symbols. Her frenemy relents and loads her down with three books that look straight out of Hot Topic’s goth section. She immediately returns to the space shop and starts skimming.
When Nick gets back to the loft, his new girlfriend is waiting up to tell him that she is worried about his old girlfriend. She explained that she wants her to “help her find a hexenbiest way to go through the mirror to the other place.” She says, “I think she is looking for redemption,” before adding that she is afraid that Eve will try to do it on her own. She urges Nick to chat with her, but he gets called to work.
By the time he tracks her down, she has started on the second book and has yet to find anything super useful and she sort of shrugs him off. “I’m very worried about you,” Nick stresses.
“If we don’t find a way to get to it,” Eve counters, “it will find a way to get to us.”
The argument makes sense but Nick demands that she not do anything alone. She says she has no intention of doing so. He also suggests that she get some sleep, but when he is called back to the precinct, she resumes her research. Eventually she finds a chapter on blood magic and remembers biting the bad guy and that the blood covered the mirror and kept him on the other side. She calls Adalind to ask if she knows anything abut sanguine spells. The books say that it can be used as currency. She hypothesizes, “What if it could be used as currency to get to the other side?”
It’s possible, but Adalind warns that she doesn’t know very much and what if Eve were to cross over but didn’t know how to get back. Apparently, she didn’t bother heeding Adalind’s warning because she returned to MonRosalee’s house to share what she’d learned, but when she founds the house empty, she decided to fool around with the powerful magic. She took the covering off the mirror, cut her hand, wiped blood across it, and eventually it turned all stormy and portal-y. She threw caution to the wind and walked through. (Did she learn nothing about the buddy system in school or from watching 127 Hours? You always at least leave a note and let people know where you are going. Duh.)
Two Cases, One Cop
A woman is attacked when she goes around the corner to get the car after eating dinner with her friend. Given that nothing was stolen from the scene, that the friend was visibly shaken and had no blood on her, and she was mauled animal-atyle, they deduce that it must be wesen related. They discover another unexplained mauling happened several days earlier in a neighborhood not that far away.
While Wu is searching surveillance tapes from both scenes, they get called to an assisted living facility where an old woman with dementia has died just after a nurse witnesses one of her caretakers assaulting her. She is convinced the orderly killed her, but the doctor who was on call has no reason to believe there was foul play. He also explains that she had been restless in the last few weeks and that patients with advanced dementia can get violent.
Mason has no record and considers the patient a friend, but he does run when Nick and Hank show up to chat with him. His interrogation reveals that the patient was talking crazy — “I want to run through the woods again.; I remember the sweet taste of blood in my mouth”) — before she woged and attacked him. He can hardly believe the luck that Nick and Hank believe his account of the attack. Hank says, “She woged and he freaked.“
But she can’t testify and there’s no evidence to clear him so Nick knows if they don’t find something, Mason is headed straight for jail. The medical examiner provides the hint he needs. Again, no signs point to Mason killing her and she also weirdly found a high amount of a assassin bug’s toxin in her system. (It was previously shown to the audience that a bug man had taken her life.)
Bug Off
When Nick explains the situation to MonRosalee, they identify the Godfather of death and suggest that he “let this one go.” Turns out this wesen is called in to peacefully terminate wesen with dementia because the disease takes a greater toll on them than humans ,and uncontrolled woges could expose them to the world. Even MonRosalee admits they already have a pact to call him if either of them starts having issues. They have a contact number and agree to call him for Nick as long as he promises not to arrest him.
While Nick is at the precinct seeing footage from both of the other crime scenes that shows a man with a cane minutes before the murders, the death dealer calls back and Rosalee tells him that her husband is suffering and she needs help. Monroe calls Nick. “Rosalee told him it was me she was worried about, so he’s on his way to kill me.”
It turns out to be the doctor they interviewed earlier and he agrees to talk to a grimm after Monroe vouches for him. He agrees to try to convince the nurse that Mason didn’t do it and testify if necessary if they agree not to get in his way when he is providing a service that protects the creature community. Just then, he gets a call from another concerned wife whose husband has been sneaking out and threatened her. She’s afraid he’s doing bad thing while wandering the streets. It turns out to be a longtime client of the spice shop, and her husband is Nick’s murderer with a cane.
They all head over to the house and manage to collect the senior citizen before he kills anyone else. What follows is a super touching scene about a wife letting go and agreeing to let the doctor do his thing. MonRosalee stay to comfort her, which is why they are not home when Eve shows up.
Daddy Issues
Renard calls Adalind and demands that she tell him “about the stuff [their] daughter has been drawing.” She claims she doesn’t know what they mean and he says he deserves to know more if their “daughter is at the center of something big.” She says he has to take up his request to see the tunnel with Nick.
Later he calls Nick into his office and says he wants to see the tunnels where these dangerous symbols are that his daughter is drawing over and over again. Nick want sto know who told him it was dangerous. He refuses and so Nick refuses too. “Share what you know and I will do the same,” Nick offers before storming out.
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