Grimm: 4x12 “Maréchaussée”

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”

Victor: “Well, we've broken the ice. Let's have lunch.”

The mummy, sorry, the Manticore slash bounty hunter was tracking and killing Wesen who violated the rules of the Wesen Council. There goes the case of the week.

The Wesen Council isn’t that discreet. Wouldn’t it better to send someone who will attract less attention, especially if you send them to a Grimm’s territory. Unless they did it on purpose, knowing all well that the detective in Grimm will try and catch the killer and it’s exactly the excuse they needed to set a price on his head. Or probably Rosalee’s call made them more determined.

The Wesen Council is now openly declared Grimm an enemy, along with Rosalee is she keeps helping him. Part of me thinks they should have pushed this confrontation with a Council a bit. There are so many things going on right now, we still have so many opened questions, like the key, the mothers, the Royals, Diane and “What’s up with Juliette?” and “What’s up with Sean?”, that there is literally no place for anyone else.

There is was, my weekly dose of complaining; moving on…

Our honeymooners were back and were asked to help with a wesen related investigation before they could even unpack. Like Rosalee said: “It didn’t take long”.  

Rosalee and Monroe went on their honeymoon and got back. How long was the honeymoon? A week? Two weeks? However long it was, it took Victor and Adalind equally as long to arrive to Portland. They are moving with a speed of a turtle. It almost as if they don’t really want to find Diane!

Victor has offered Sean a sort of truce. I don’t suppose Sean is so stupid to even entertain the idea of ever trusting him, but Victor made an interesting point of how different royal family is now and how everyone who wanted Sean dead are dead. It opens some interesting possibilities for Sean, especially with him being a father of such a powerful baby. It could have gone this way if the series were set in Austria, but since Grimm is in Portland, no throne for Sean. 

The most interesting part of the episode was Juliette. Tell me again, when did that happen? Her journey of becoming her true self is fascinating. Loved how she was trying to get a grip on her woger and learning about her powers, that include some cool tricks - the scene with a pepper mill was a hoot.  

At first she was desperately trying to reset things, to remove this beast part of her. By the end, Juliette accepted who she is now, or at least is starting too. She is also probably realizing that it isn’t such a bad thing to be able to protect herself in this wesen world, especially when you’re living with a Grimm. Being so powerful she is a certain advantage in a fight, but until she learns how to control it she is a certain threat.

Also, I think Hexenbiest part of Juliette is changing the Juliette we now. At the end, when she was staring at the body of a person (he still was a person, even if he was a killer), the calm and resolve on her face were chilling.

Where were you deduction skills, Mr. Burkhardt? It is one thing is Manticore missed, but killing himself in a process? Come one!

Some observations  

Usually when Nick and Hank show up at a crime scene, Wu gives them a summary of the murder, now thanks to his sleepless nights in the trailer, he is also giving them the wesen-identity of a killer. I say it again – they should have done it earlier!

I didn’t understand much the ritual that Henrietta performed, but judging by how freaked she was by the results, Juliette might be even more deadly than we think. How very awesome!

The bounty on Laszlo and Mabel was 20 000 Euros (I assume for both of them), for Casey Darewell it was also 20 000. Is it a standard price for a head of a Wesen? The reward for killing a Grimm however was understandably higher - 100 000 Euros.

Kelly Burkhardt was last seen driving a 2008 Ford F-250 Crew Cab, Oregon DOV 412, registered to Juliette Silverton. Here is the hidden number. I missed few numbers before, maybe I should pay more attention to words not just frames.

Closet full of goodness to please a woman’s eye. Victor knows how to make piece. If you want to be forgiven for holding a Hexenbiest in a cell and playing with her mind, that is the way to do it.

They are covering Claire Coffee’s pregnancy well with loose clothes and her spending a lot of time in bed or at a dinner table.

Had Nick known that Juliette is now quite capable to stand up for herself, he would worry less. On a second though, he would maybe worry more, knowing that she can kill someone that easily.

Fadó is not a spirit that connects to the world of the dead (obviously!), but the word itself  interestingly enough comes from the Latin word fatum, i.e fate or destiny.

If we to believe Mr. De Groot ‘eigenverantwortung’ translates as ‘authority to kill’. Only it is not. German is not one of my languages, so I looked it up: the literal translation is “personal responsibility/liability”. Hmmm…

According to their passports Victor was born in Wien on February 25th 1966 and Adalind was born in Portland on October 16th 1985.

Memorable Quotes:

Wu: “So thanks to my quality late-night, caffeine-fueled trailer time, I would suggest we're dealing with a Manticore”

Sol’s rating: 4 out of 5!