Grimm: 2x04 "Quill"

“Death stood behind him, and said: Follow me,

the hour of your departure from this world has come.’ ”

Hank: “How do you do this? How do you know “who’s who” and “what’s what”?”

Yellow plague, horrible rash, giant porcupine, crazy cat out of the cage and walking on the ceiling, yet another Wesen killer sent after the key, but for some reason I couldn’t stop smiling throughout the episode.

From awkward adorable romance of Monroe and Rosalee to Juliette questioning Bud with Hank in between so eager to catch Wesen of this world with all of the best quotes this time it made this episode a fun ride and I couldn’t for the life of me take it too seriously.

 

There were some serious bits in this one, the first being Juliette’s quest for her lost memory of Nick. Juliette’s main concern this episode besides remembering Nick was to figure out why she doesn’t remember him and him alone. The first thing that comes to her mind is that she’s been a victim of home abuse and her memory is blocked due to some trauma. Who could blame her? A broken window, Bud’s suspicious comments and Monroe’s reluctance to say anything other that “You were happy”, all that does indeed indicate some sort of violent situation. All the flashbacks she’s got so far were one-sided so to speak, since Nick is not present in those flashbacks, so all she gets is half-conversation. Of course all these are very easy to explain and all are related to Nick being a Grimm, but unfortunately for Juliette she doesn’t know that. It must be pretty scary for her to share a house with a complete stranger especially when you have thoughts that something is vey off.

The other sort of serious bit is this new Wesen (a Nuckelavee) sent after the key and/or Nick. I will say very little about him since all we got is him following our heroes throughout the episode and not even hiding much. I guess we’ll see more of him in the next episode. I'd like to mention that even though he is described in Grimm's universe as a horse-type Wesen he did not look like a horse-like to me. All I saw was pretty hot guy turn into horrible something.

Meanwhile Renard is following up on the clue left for him by Kimura about existence of a second Grimm. We saw him looking up an obituary of Kelly specifically, which could only mean he knew Nick’s mother was a Grimm (or did we know that already?) and [correctly] assumed she was alive. We got the name of Nick’s father - Reed (I don’t think we knew that before).   

All of the scenes in the spice shop were just hilarious: Rosalee hitting on Monroe that way,  Hank finding out that Monroe and Rosalee are Wesen, Nick hunting down Rosalee and Monro’s reaction to her unconscious body. It was so nice for Monroe to tell Hank the truth about scaring him in the woods awhile back. It must have been so tempting to hide that little fact and it was so much in his character to be honest about it. And it made for a fun scene which is always a plus.

Some observations  

The opening credits lost a voice over. That was a wise choice. It is much much better now.  

That poor sick guy (Stanton) looked awful even before morphing into a disgusting rat.

How could Nick ever touch that body!? Where’s his common sense? He’s Grimm, he’s not invincible (or is he?)

Captain Renard has a picture of a baby in his office on the desk behind his. Just noticed it. Who is that? Seems like a strange choice of photo for someone who doesn’t have kids, not to mention is half-Wesen.

Renard and his friend spoke French like always and then all of a sudden switched to English in the middle of conversation?

That picnic scene for some reason made me think of Buffy.  

Hank’s is doing so much better, like he’s himself again. That’s what sanity does to you. Good. Another episode of him going crazy would have been too much.

I didn’t catch the number of the episode anywhere in the episode this time. Did any of you?

 

Memorable Quotes:

Rosalee: “There was a time I used to love to run through the woods.”

Monroe: “Oh, man, me too, usually chasing someone...thing.”

Hank: “Then it's not contagious?

Dr. Harper: “Probably not. Since you were exposed last night and you look reasonably healthy”

Bud: “Well, you know, him being a Grimm.”

Juliette: “A what?”
Bud: “A Grimm.”
Juliette: “What's a Grimm?”
Bud: “You don't know what a Grimm is. Uh... Uh, uh, uh...Well, a Grimm is kind of a term
for a, uh... A-a good cop, a guy, a person who helps people in need...you know, the needy.
Uh, helpless people. Oh, gosh, look at the time”.
(I just love Bud!)

Monroe: “I-I was actually looking for this old camera I inherited from my great-grandfather.

He had a camera shop in Berlin. Anyway, I saw this old rocking chair that used to belong
to my grandmother on my mother's side, which reminded me of my grandmother,
who used to take us for picnics when I was a kid. And then I remembered the picnic basket,
and I sort of forgot about the camera and started looking for the basket. I get sidetracked sometimes.”
(No kidding!)

Monroe: “You didn’t have to kill her!”

Nick: “She’s unconscious”
(Of course Monroe knew Nick would never have killed her, but he was in such a state worrying about Rosalee that he delivered that line and made it totally believable)

Rosalee: “Um... Did we, um, kiss?”

Monroe: “Sort of like there was no tomorrow."
Rosalee: “I thought it was a dream."
Monroe: “Actually, I think it was just the fluvus pestilentia.”
Rosalee: “I don't know about that.”

Sol’s Rating: 4 out of 4