Grimm: 3x07 “Cold Blooded”

“But for the pit confounders, let them go, 

and find as little mercy as they show!”

Nick: “Decapitare. I kinda like that.”

I had all sorts of good old days Angel flashbacks watching this one…. sewer tunnels, medieval weapon, Wesley …. Oh, well! Back to Grimm!

An alligator-like Wesen came to Portland and that’s not even the best part of this episode’s villain. There were three of them! But that’s not the best part either. The best part and the interesting bit was that they were what Monroe called Gelumcaedus, one of the oldest known wesen, who served in the Praetorian Guard during Caligula's reign. Is that the farthest back into history we’ve got? I think it is.

Gelumcaedus job was to protect the newly built aqueducts. When Rome fell, they retreated to the underground waterways to avoid execution. Nowadays they clean out houses and retreat to storm drains to hide out during dormant period. What a huge step back, from Caligula’s guard to petty robbers / murderers. I feel like they could have done something better with wesen of such background. Something other than usual case of the week, which was rather simple and boring. Hank’s kidnapping didn’t bring out anything even remotely resembling a concern, since we know, nothing bad would happen to him. The highlight of the walk in the sewers was sergeant Wu’s phobia of confined spaces and very obvious fear of all things that hide in the dark. I can’t wait for his reaction to wesen world, if there ever will be one.

Things in Austria aren’t progressing very fast, but at least there is some movement. We finally met Prince Victor, played by wonderful Alexis Denisof from Buffy and Angel. Prince Victor is not crowned yet, so I was wrong last week. However the family (which one?) want him to take Eric’s place. Sebastian mentioned that Eric never trusted his cousin Victor, all the more interesting it is to see why would Victor be so eager to find those responsible for Eric’s death. Whatever his reasoning is he sure is smart and he figured out who the perfect person to deliver him all necessary information is. Adalind’s status as a lawyer for Royal Family has been reconfirmed. Victor might not have the official status yet to do so but he sure has a nerve to act like he has one. He asked all the right questions, made all the right connections and he even had Adalind under surveillance. I can’t decide if it’s good or bad for her. I think it could be horribly bad the second he realizes she’s carrying royal blood.

We also got to meet another member of the Resistance Claude Frenay, nice fella who doesn’t shy away from torturing and executing ex-friends. Was that a demonstration for Sean? Maybe not, after all, he apparently saved Sean’s mother onсe. Still bits and pieces but it’s better than no information at all.

Some observations  

The robber in the opening scene looked hell of a lot like one of William’s minions from Haven and I thought I somehow supernaturally accidentally switched to a wrong show.

It made a beautifully perfect sense that Gelumcaedus spoke Latin to Nick.

I am still amazed at Nick’s fighting technique. We don’t see him training much, but he does fight better and better with every episode. I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised, this being a 3^rd season, but I wish they’ve included few training sessions here and there. Like the ones in some of the previous episodes with him “training” in the woods with Monroe. Possibilities are endless. I still feel like we don’t get nearly enough of Monroe and Nick.

Nick was flashing back to that knife fight in the premiere episode, where he accidentally killed a man. The flashback was brief, but it was there to remind us, we yet to see the consequences of that act. At least Nick doesn’t have those death-like stupors anymore.

Was the whole point of that dinner to just give Juliette something to do?

Sol’s rating: 3 out of 5.