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Although every episode is absolutely brilliant (as Monroe's one-liners are scattered everywhere) there are some solid Grimm episodes that are just grandly epic with images that will stick with you. Off the top off of my head, the "Rapunzel" teenager's hideaway, Monroe saving Hank's life, Renard and his sexy German stoicism-ness, Monroe's sexy beard, Wesen-Hitler, Monroe's slash-y relationship with Nick -- OK mostly Monroe but Nick has his cute moments as well.
Warning: Spoilers are included.
Danse Macabre
(Season 1, Episode 5)
A music teacher from the Von Hamelin Music Institute is found in his car eaten completely by rats by the instruction by an angsty outcast teenage violinist/DJ known as Retchid Cat (reference to Deadmau5). Nick thinks Monroe could get through to Geiger resulting in attempting to kill his ex-girlfriend and her friends for bullying him. Nick discovers the impact of being a Grimm on other Wesen.
Wesen Featured: Reinigen (rat), Hexenbiest (witch), Blutblad (werewolf), Eisbiber (beaver)
Fairy Tale Used: The Pied Piper
Best Quote(s):
Hank: I haven't had that much fun since that drunk threw up on me at the Christmas Party."
Nick: Wasn't that Sergeant Wu?
Monroe: Last time I protected someone for you, it was not a pleasant experience. How is that guy, by the way, were they able to sew his arm back on?
Monroe: You were kicking some butt on that Brahms concerto, man!
Best Moment(s):
Fake rat in the pizza box and Hank's reaction. Roddy playing "Danse Macabre" with the rats coming out of the shadows. Monroe playing the cello (we need more of this!). Wu and Hank having a drink together.
Let Down Your Hair
(Season 1, Episode 7)
Holly Clark has gone missing for over nine years until the case reopens after an attack on drug dealers who frequent the woods in Portland. Clark has been dealing with her Blutblad transition and is terrified, so terrified she cannot trust Nick once he and Monroe find her in her tree house hideaway injured by fellow drug Lords. She does trust Monroe who shows his Wesen side to her. She returns back to civilization, picks out her kidnapper (her adopted family's neighbor) in the line-up. Monroe decorates for Christmas.
Wesen Featured: Blutblad (werewolf), Eisbiber (beaver)
Fairy Tale Used: Rapunzel
Best Quote(s):
Nick: Wait a minute, you're telling me that Santa Claus is...
Monroe: Well, think about it, I mean who else could live up there?
Best Moment(s):
Monroe and his Christmas trains. Everything from the Christmas/train scene. Monroe hugging Holly. Hank going to Holly's adopted mother to tell her the case has been reopened. Holly using her long hair as a weapon.
Game Ogre
(Season 1, Episode 8)
Hank's past comes back to haunt him when Oleg Stark, a Siegbarste and convict for killing a family, escapes prison. Now he is on a mission to kill everyone who have assisted with putting him in jail, including Hank who was the arresting officer. Nick becomes apart of that list and ends up in the hospital while Hank decides to confront and kill Stark. In place of Nick, Monroe is instructed to use Siegbarste Gift poison to kill Stark in some way. Monroe shoots Stark with the poison in a elephant gun which stumps Hank and Renard in the process.
Wesen Featured: Blutblad (werewolf), Siegbarste (ogre)
Fairy Tale Used: Jack and the Beanstalk
Best Quote(s):
Monroe: Um... OK, he said tenuously.
Monroe: This watch is broken! I want to weep!
Best Moment(s): The fight between Nick and Stark. The whole showdown at the end between Hank and Stark, literally held breath!
Organ Ginder
(Season 1, Episode 10)
A young adult washes ashore with his eyeballs plucked out and puncture wounds in his neck which leads to the realization that Geiers have been harvesting human body parts and organs for medicinal use for Wesen. The victim, Steven leads the detectives to a homeless brother-sister pair who sell puka necklaces and end up at the Geier's harvest "ranch" Steven escaped from by the free clinic's manager who is pissed off that Nick is a Grimm. Hanson drops puka shells from his sister's necklaces to lead the SWAT Team to them.
Fairy Tale Used: Hansel and Gretl
Monroe: What's my favorite color?
Nick: What?
Monroe: You know, you never ask me about anything else. Like sports or music or who the hottest Bond babe was. You know, like normal conversation. Just sayig. Be nice to switch it up once and awhile, you know.
Nick Well what's your favorite color?
Monroe: You don't mean that.
Nick: No, really, I want to know.
Monroe: Red
Nick: Well, I feel so much closer to you now.
Monroe: Fine.
Monroe: This might be a little awkward, but for example, you probably didn't know that your testicles... I mean, not your testicles specifically. But that part of the human male anatomy has kind of a Viagra-like effect on a certain species. Not that I ever had need to.. I mean... everything works great.
Nick: Oh, no. That wasn't awkward at all.
Best Moment(s): Nick and Monroe's back and forth. The relationship between Gracie/Freddy, Gracie/Hanson. FREDDY! The meal with Gracie, Hanson, Nick and Juliette.
Last Grimm Standing
(Season 1, Episode 12)
Juliette finds Nick's engagement ring and struggles with her conscience whether to say yes as Nick misses their anniversary meal while on a case. A Skalenzahne murders an older couple while on the run from a fight club organization called Lowen Games who kill their surviving members. Monroe goes undercover for Nick but ends up in the Lowen Games himself but keeps his moral code to not attack... or eat meat he is served until Nick shows up before the rest of the cops and fights in Monroe's place.
Fairy Tale Used: Androcles and the Lion
Monroe: You're gonna have to dig deep within yourself and, like, pull up the history of your ancestors, and all of them man, to bring it.
Monroe: Wait a minute, what kind of meat has a tattoo?
Best Moment(s): The whole concluding fight scene. Monroe and Nick double-teaming. The first showing of Captain Renard's royal badassery.
Three Coins in a Fuchsbau
(Season 1, Episode 13)
A jewelry store is broke into and the jeweler was already dead having swallowed the Coins of Zakynthos -- coins that contain power all the way back to the ancient Greeks and have been attained throughout history, including Nazi Germany. It turns out that Nick's parents were the ones protecting the coins until they died. Nick hides them for safekeeping after Renard attains them and transforms into a strange version of Hitler, complete with Nazi-inspired dreams. Nick discovers the robbers of the jewelry store also assisted in killing his parents, also receiving a fourth name, Kimura who will be the last person alive who could give him answers about the death of his mother and father. Aunt Marie's Steinhadler ex-boyfriend comes to town, fueling Nick's anger even further about his family.
Fairy Tale Used: The Master Thief
Monroe: Ooh, these are some bad schakal this, uh, relative of yours is writing about. Whoa, look out, they ate a baby. That's rude.
Monroe: Just a second, this is interesting. Steinadlers seem to be involved with the military. Like heroic, noble. Apparently with very large ... sausage? I don't think I'm translating that correctly.
Best Moment(s): Renard's Hitler-esque dream. The confrontation between Nick and Farley Kolt who may or may not know details about Nick's parents' deaths. Nick finally unleashing Grimm anger out on Kolt.
AND THIS!
Happily Ever Aftermath
(Season 1, Episode 20)
A rich family is close to financial ruin when Bernard Aidkoff's ponzi scheme goes public and Aidkoff commits suicide leaving one of his investors, Arthur Jarvis, in a complete panic and broke. Jarvis finds his wife is spending even more money on dresses and her step-mother won't help them with assisting his wife's lavish lifestyle. It turns out Lucinda is a loose cannon when she cannot get her way and morphs into her heritage of a Murcielago, killing her step-mother and her two step-sisters. Nick and Hank are on the case but Nick has to go to Grimm levels to take out Lucinda after Jarvis's friend and Lucinda's god-father tries to go down for the murders. Juliette probes deeper into the mystery of Nick's parents' deaths.
Fairy Tale Used: Cinderella
Monroe: It's a legendary liminal being.
Nick: And that means what?
Monroe: Well its two distinct states of existence simultaneous within one physical body. The duality of humanity. The yin an the yang. The Ike and Tina Turner of it all.
Monroe: I got it! I got the device! Am I too late? Oh, no, I can't be late, you're still alive. That's a good thing.
Love it! Totally agree with you on these.
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