Grimm: 5x18 “Good to the Bone”

Hank: “We're associating with some very unsavory characters.”

Wow, what a convoluted, disjointed and inconsistent episode with a very yak case of the week.  I’m not entirely sure I liked any of it.

It is getting difficult to track who knows what. Adalind, who never had a single friend in a world, trusted Rosalee with her secret, and not aware that she spilled it already to Nick. When she finds out, she will be furious. I’m not thrilled to see this wall rising up, separating Adalind and Sean from the rest of the team.

There was some amount of sharing between Adalind and Nick. She told him about meeting with Sean. Not THE big secret, but at least something. In return Nick told her they know Renard is working with Black Claw. This could come back and bite him in the ass, if Adalind chooses to stay on the other side of the wall. Eve sensed Rosalee and Monroe were in the tunnel and Adalind didn’t, so she is not fully ‘hexebiested’ yet. That gives me hope.

What I also didn’t like was another heavy hint that Eve might not be totally over Juliette. She still cares about Nick, enough to threaten Adalind. So she is not the coldhearted and senseless robot she’s trying to appear. I really really hope they aren’t getting back there, to Juliette and Nick, I mean. Eve is so much more interesting, and I want Nick with Adalind. Pretty please.

When Adalind dropped Kelly off at Spice Shop, there was something dramatically final; like this is the last time she was seeing her son. I got worried. Then, when Sean kidnapped her, I got really worried, but he did it so she could meet Diana. Would Adalind be free to leave? Not physically, because they obviously wouldn’t want to keep her there as prisoner, but they might leave her no choice if she wants to be with Diana.

Let’s talk about Diana for a minute here, because I’m confused. Last we saw her she was in the helicopter with Meisner, who later confirmed handing her over to Resistance. Let’s assume Meisner and Resistance are on the same side and the HR is on that same side as well. So, Diana must have been their prisoner, or the ‘asset x3’ and Black Claw got her out. At least, that is what I took from that heavily redacted files flashing on Eve’s screen.

What I don’t understand is why a girl, who is so powerful, didn’t escape? Why is she continuing to a pawn in everyone else’s game? Or am I wrong? Is it her game?

The case of the week was somewhat inconsistent and gross. The flat people, liquefied bones and because there were no cliffs nearby, we had to witness victims being run over by a truck, numerous times. Like the first one wasn’t enough.

Monroe said Barbatus Ossifrage aren’t killers, they only take the bones of mortally wounded. But as the case went along we learned that Wu wasn’t mortally wounded, he hurt his head badly but he wasn’t dying. He was fine. As any other victims would have been, had they been taken to ER on time. So, technically it was murder. Also, according to Monroe, these creatures used to scavenge the battle fields and prevent the spread of the diseases. But the diseases aren’t spread through the bones; the flat flesh they leave behind is much more likely to spread it, with or without bones. Oh, well.

The whole reasoning behind the murders (since I decided to call it that) was son feeding his parents, who at the end ended up eating him. I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe Nick and Hank just stood by and did nothing. Like I said, Yak!

Hank’s girlfriend is back. I’m not sure what to think about it yet. I couldn’t help but feel Hank was cautious and nervous, not because he met again the woman he fell for, but rather worried because she is Wesen. I was equally suspicious of her. She felt really off. Like asking Hank about Nick and all, it all was very strange. Their dinner date didn’t feel romantic at all. Bad vibes. I’m ready to jump to the conclusion that she’s with Black Claw.

Wu’s transformations continue and he is keeping it quiet. In any other case, that would be a smart thing to do. But when you know about Wesen and you’re friends with Grimm, you go to him when you wake up with fur in your mouth and turn into a dog-like something. You don’t keep that a secret, because chances are next time it will be something human and not animal.

Some observations  

Episode’s opening quote “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones” is by William Shakespeare from Julius Caesar.

Kelly seemed very preoccupied the entire episode. Maybe he is worried about his parents lying to each other, or perhaps he keeps flashing back to his mom turning into beast.

Glad the dog got away from Wu, who definitely needs to work on his motion coordination skills.

No Trubel. Again. It’s been awhile now.

Memorable Quotes:

Rosalee: “You said if she did anything to Nick, you'd go after her.”
Eve: “You have a problem with that?”
Rosalee: “It's what I would have said... If I was Juliette.”

Wu: “I know I've said, "This is a really weird one," before, but this is a really weird one.”
Nick: “Is there more than one piece?”
Wu: “No.”
Hank: “Bite marks?”
Wu: “Not that I could tell.”
Nick: “Is there something missing?”
Wu: “Uh, I believe there is. I don't think there's a bone left in this guy's body.”
Everyday’s work. LOL

Sol’s rating: just barely a 2.

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