Grimm Episode 02.22 ‘Goodnight Sweet Grimm’
Written by Jim Kouf & David Greenwalt
Directed by Norberto Barba
Airs Tuesday 10.00pm EST on NBC
The makers of Grimm cheekily asked us if we saw the big season finale plot twist coming. Why yes, we did. Nick and Juliette have spent an entire season being kept apart – mainly by her amnesia, but also by the interventions of assorted Wesen – only to be allowed to finally kiss in the second-to-last show. It wasn’t too difficult to predict that something was about to come between them. And, as expected, something did.
It also wasn’t too difficult to predict that this time it wouldn’t be Juliette who has to suffer at the hands of Wesen antics. She has only just arrived in Team Grimm and it would seem cruel to snatch her away again before she has a chance to do more than inject a couple of zombies with zombie-detoxifying-potion and make a few novice blunders about who is and who is not a Wesen.
No Juliette must be allowed to stay in Team Grimm and begin inhabiting her role as a prettier and better acted version of Dr Doolittle. Which leaves only one choice of victim. Nick himself.
Not so surprising then that Nick ended up in a box, presumably to be used as a hostage in return for the key, now safely hidden by Rosalee along with her spare cash and passport. The set up for season 3 is now complete. Team Grimm, now deprived of its leader, is going to spend the time hunting for Nick. New alliances will form between its members as will new skills and knowledge, as Wesen issues have to be dealt with sans Grimm. Meanwhile, David Giuntoli gets to work on his tan until his friends manage to extricate him from whatever dungeon Eric and the rest of his royal family have interred him in.
If this means less screen time for Giuntoli, it does mean more screen time for everyone else, which – with a supporting cast this strong – is a plus. Group dynamics dictate that someone take the role of leader in Nick’s absence. It would be fun if a female character could step up for a change and Juliette as played by Bitsie Tulloch has a hint of steel beneath the Raggedy Annie exterior, but that’s probably a step too far for a show which has trod a pretty traditional path so far. The likeliest candidate for interim-lead is Renard, both because Sasha Roiz has the charisma and because Renard has many family issues to resolve, the first being to wipe the big fat grin off his brother Eric’s face. Now that Hexenbeist Adelind Schade has her powers back (although what these were exactly no one has yet bothered to specify), she’s going to stop sitting around her Viennese hotel room and start blackmailing and torturing again. An alliance between her and Renard is possible, although she’s not likely to want to help Nick, seeing as he removed her precious, unspecified powers in the first place.
So the rough direction of the story is mapped out, but with enough room for some surprises and twists, which is as it should be. Romantically, the main leads are now spoken for, although with Nick absent, it is possible that some rekindling between Renard and Juliette is possible. Hank, despite vying for the title of Portland’s Most Married Man, is currently single. Perhaps an alluring Wesen will tempt him out of marital retirement and back into the fray? We can only hope.
Questions: Will Eric keep Nick in the States, or will he take him back to his ancestral home in Vienna? Why did only Rosalee voge when she and Monroe kissed? As Renard is part-Hexenbeist, does that mean he has those precious powers too?