‘Grimm’ Recap: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Warning: This recap of “The Son Also Rises” episode of Grimm contains spoilers.
Nick battles a resurgence of feelings after Eve is attacked, while Hank and Wu take on an ode to Frankenstein in this week’s Grimm.
Stick Theory
Hard at work in the spice shop, Eve and Rosalee determine that the event the cloth’s pictograms likely represent will happen near the March equinox. Whether it’s a plague, rain of frogs, locusts, or something far worse, they have no idea. Eve is a little glass half empty about the whole thing. “We haven’t exactly had a lot of good coming our way,” she bemoans, earning an award for this week’s champion of stating the obvious.
Monroe suggests something weirder. He found a rendering of the constellations and their associated creatures online that was commissioned by a pope for an ancient ceiling in 1575, and he wonders if the artist might have been a Grimm: “What if what they assumed were mythological pagan creatures were artistic interpretations of wesen from the universe or multiverse?”
Nick announces he needs to get home, as they are unlikely to solve the riddle that evening, but Eve decides to stay on because staying with Nick and his new girlfriend and their child is not “great” for her. “You guys need your space and so do I,” she explains. It seems she is becoming more human by the minute with all this talk of feelings. Monroe and Rosalee offer her the cot at the shop, and she continues to research into the night.
During a break, she looks into a hand mirror and asks, “Who were you? Who are you now?” It is unclear if she is wondering about herself or the creepy skull man who appeared in the mirror last week, but as if on cue, ol’ green eyes and his stormy background appear. Instinctively, she slams the mirror down on the table and it shatters. As she goes to sweep up, the pieces reform and he reaches his arm through the mirror and begins to choke her. Her survival instinct kicks in, she goes all witchy woman, and bites the arm until it lets go. But she hits her head and passes out in the process.
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Ex Communication
Monroe and Rosalee find her unconscious when they return to the shop the next morning and have her rushed to the hospital. They call Nick at work and tell him what has happened. He leaves a crime scene where a university researcher has been brutally assaulted and murdered to be by Juliette’s side. Hank and Wu both notice that he naturally slips back into Eve’s pre-witch name.
Nick comes clean with his friends about the man in the mirror, and they return home to lock up the mirror, which is covered in blood. He remains by her side until she awakes, all the while running through old memories with his original gal pal. The greatest hits include his aunt telling him to end all ties, his mom saying his aunt gave bad advice, his mother’s death, Juliette’s betrayal and death, and so on. (Those early-years shots are a fun parade of changing hairstyles and colors.)
When Eve finally stirs, she is ready to go home: “I don’t want to stay here. Something is starting, and we don’t have a lot of time left before it gets here.”
Monster Mash
With Nick sidelined at the hospital, Hank and Wu team up to solve the case of the dead doctor, who was part of a team working on cutting edge stem cell-tissue regeneration research. Their investigation turns up three other doctors, including one who walks with crutches but was the last person to see her alive and one who was the last person to talk to her on the phone, as well as two sets of prints that belong to dead criminals who were supposedly cremated. They head over to the cemetery, which is manned by a trio of bizarre looking David Lynchian dudes (Keep Portland weird!), and discover that one of the doctors bought six dead bodies under the table. Two match the prints.
Turns out one of the researchers was in a car accident with a drunk driver and his son was killed. Unable to let go, and with his fair share of expertise, he convinced his team to Frankenstein his son back to life. Unfortunately, the part they used belonged to a wesen, and they got a true monster when they lit up the cadaver with electricity. Dr. Shelley was supposed to kill his son but couldn’t pull the trigger, so the monster was roaming Portland. He ends up killing another doctor who was shredding evidence of their experiment and comes for his dad and the fourth coworker, but Hank and Wu arrive in time. In the end, the father has to kill his creation.
Russian Intelligence
Renard is privately becoming obsessed with Diana’s drawings and calls a mysterious source in Siberia for answers. The woman, who seems to possibly be an old fling, as she is surprised to hear from him and even more shocked that he has a daughter, agrees to look into it. Not sure who this woman is, but she seems to get information much more quickly than the Scooby gang has been able to. She warns the captain that Diana is seemingly connected to an ancient prophecy and that he should watch her carefully. She also mentions that she’s scared and the outcome is most likely bad news…
Grimm airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on NBC.
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