Grimm: 6x04 “El Cuegle”

Monroe: “We live in a world full of, you know, people with shoes.”

Last week I asked – “What’s next?” Apparently (and logically) the next one must be a filler episode and it was. But it was a very good one.

The entire premise is somewhere there next to ‘going back in time and kill Hitler discourse’ and was built on the eternal question. Well, at least one of them. If you could, would you? And more importantly “Should you?” Is killing a baby a right choice if you know about all of the monstrosities he will do later? Not only know, but vividly experience. The Wesen of the week was a very tortured soul, I mean, imagine living with something like this is the literal hell.

I kind of liked that our heroes didn’t wonder much about ‘whats’ and ‘ifs’ and just did what they were supposed to do… for the time being, hoping things will turn out differently. Hoping is the key word here. We only had one example of a bad outcome. Part of me wished that jerk of a husband would see the monster too and realize his wife wasn’t crazy. If he did maybe that could’ve saved the entire family later. Who knows… I for one love think that future is not set in stone, that we do have some resemblance of a choice. Or maybe fake Harry was right on The Flash this week and “Future’s fixed.”

Moving on…

Diana was having an accommodation shock, forced to live in a loft where lots of people died and not in daddy’s mansion. Loved that Nick and Adalind are slowly starting to talk about what her abilities are, because it is unsettling – so much power in a hands of a little girl. The conversation was rather short and more about stating the obvious rather than trying to figure it out, but it’s a start. I loved Diana bonding with her father. She was sweet and chatty and on the way to being daddy’s spy. I was disappointed in Sean, who was manipulating her daughter and didn’t even hide it. Bad Captain, no biscuit.

I didn’t really get the appeal of Eve sitting this one out in the tunnels... until I figured out that she wasn’t just sitting there, but actually trying to understand the centuries old mystery that everyone else are so eager to dismiss as something just healing and magical. However she should be more careful with opening that door. Now she looks mad writing all this stuff on the walls. I hope it is temporary. Oh yeah, and Nick can feel the stick for miles away. This can’t be good.

Some observations  

Episode’s opening quote was: “Foretold our fate, by the gods’ decree, all heard and non believed the prophecy.” That is what Vergil wrote about Cassandra. The things I learn watching Grimm.  

Yep, unfortunately Meisner IS dead. I knew it, but you never know…

So Rosalle is expecting twins? Or triplets? One Fuchsbau, one Blutbad, one human… That “more than one” sounded tiny bit creepy.

El Cuegle had three eyes, which we got an explanation for - one eye sees the past, the other sees the present and the third one – the future, but why three hands? Sure it comes in handy when you need to hold a baby  …. but there was no explanation …  

Memorable Quotes:

Sean: “It's an ancient Hexenbiest shapeshifting spell called the Verfluchte Zwillingsschwester.

You have a lot of experience with the Verfluchte Zwillingsschwester?”

Seriously it can’t get any harder to pronounce… I really wonder who many takes it took Sasha to say it twice … I bet there is a gag reel somewhere.  

Nick: “"The Evil El Cuegle stalks mothers "and kidnaps their newborn babes. He keeps them for the Hours of Dread."

Monroe: “ What are the Hours of Dread?”

Rosalee: “And how many are there?”

Hank: “Well, how many babies can one guy eat?”

Wu: “Is that a real question or a riddle?”

Rosalee: “You know that saying, "Waiting for the other shoe to drop"?”

Monroe: “I do. It surfaced in the late 19th century when people started moving to big cities and living on top of each other in these massive apartment buildings, where night after night after night they had this shared experience where the tenants would hear their neighbors, like, by the thousands, come home after work, sit down, take off one shoe, drop it on the floor, right? Then there'd be this pause between the first shoe and the second, where the downstairs neighbor would cover their ears... Waiting... For the other shoe to drop. We live in a world full of, you know, people with shoes.  I mean, several pairs each, and so we can't go through life with our ears covered or our eyes. We have to just be prepared for that... other shoe. No matter where we are.”

How come Monroe always knows what to say?

Hank: “Anything you say or eat will be used against you in the court of law.”

LOL

Sol’s rating:  I loved it - solid 4 and a half!