Favorite Grimm Episodes from Season 2

by B Condon 12:21 AM

Warning: Spoilers Included

Bad Moon Rising

(Season 2, Episode 3)

When Hank decides to quit his job, his Coyotl high school friend's daughter (and Hank's God-daughter) is kidnapped by her mother's side of the family for an Aseveracion (mating incest ritual) now that she has turned sixteen. Nick decides to bring Hank into the Wesen loop. Juliette is released from the hospital and Nick sleeps on the couch.

Literature Used: The Old Woman in the Wood

Wesen featured: Blutblad (werewolf), Coyotl (coyote)

Best Quotes: 

Monroe: "Well Nick, when a mother coyotl and a father coyotl love each other very much..."

Carly: I'm sorry Hank. I didn't mean for that to happen. I just... I thought he was going to kill me.

Hank: Why?

Carly: He's a Grimm. It's... what they do.

Hank (to Nick): A what?

Nick: A Grimm. It's sort of a family problem. Look, I promise I'll explain it better later. But right now you just have to trust me.

Best Moments: The gratifying moment when Nick tells Hank what he is.  

The Good Shepherd

(Season 2, Episode 5)

When an accountant to a church organization gets thrown into a wood chipper, Hank and Nick find out this has happened before to the last accountant in another state. The church organization is led by a Blutblad who just happens to be romantically involved with a Seelengut woman who has been married to the two prior accountants as both of them extort money from the church. Monroe goes undercover at the church. Nick and Juliette start to lay ground rules as strictly room mates.

Wesen featured: Blutblad (werewolf), Eisbiber (beaver), Seelengut (sheep), Nuckelavee (horse)

Literature Used: The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Best Quotes: 

Monroe: Yeah, well, he is definitely working his charms on his assistant Megan. I think they have something romantic going on and I gotta tell you, that's totally weird. A Blutblad with a Seelengut, I mean, Darwin would have a field day with this relationship. And I'm not saying I'm prejudiced. It's just like the wolf getting into a sheep's clothing, if you know what I mean.

Hank: Last thing you want to do is put any pressure on her. That'll just push her away. Not that I'm an expert. Well, I guess I am the expert.

Best Moments: Monroe bemoaning the use of digital clocks in the church room. When the Seelengut go after Monroe after attacking and killing Calvin. (That's bad to say it's the best moment but the herd mentality is so ridiculous you just have to laugh and start quoting Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

La Llorona 

(Season 2, Episode 9)

It's Halloween and Monroe is decorating and having way too much fun -- until some delinquency happens which results in his window being broke. Nick and Hank get caught up in the disappearance of three children according to the La Llorona myth where a ghost of a woman tries to replace three living children for the three dead children she drowned in the river to be with a man who would not accept her children. Juliette is brought on by Nick to act as translator for a Spanish family whose son has disappeared. Juliette is confronted by a woman who can sense the effects the cat scratch had on her.

Wesen featured: Blutblad (werewolf), Balam (jaguar)

Literature Used: La Llorona myth

Best Quotes: 

Monroe: Halloween for us, come on. That's like, bigger than Christmas. There's a long Wesen tradition of All Hallows' Eve Midnight Woge running through the woods, scaring the crap out of the villagers. Literally, sometimes.

Monroe: What a bevy of great costumes. Oh, love the wolf man. Looks like my Uncle Herman before they chopped his head off. 

Best Moments: Monroe's decoration of a reaper with an activated mace before all hell breaks lose.

One Angry Fuchsbau

(Season 2, Episode 17)

Monroe takes Juliette to the trailer with Nick's blessing but only causes Juliette's memories to come back more erratic and hectic. Juliette caves and finally asks Pilar to help. While serving jury duty, Rosalee becomes victim to a lawyer Ziegevolk bending the court to his client's advantage as Monroe, Nick and Hank go all Scooby Doo on the case. Slapstick ensues. Eric notices there is something different about Adalind as he tells her he best have a visit with his brother, Sean on getting the key back.

Literature Used: The Garden of Paradise

Wesen Featured: Ziegevolk (goat), Blutblad (werewolf), Lowen (lion), Fuchsbau (fox), Eisbiber (beaver), Mauzhertz (mouse)

Best Quotes: 

Monroe: "Oh, I get it, so if I'm crazy no big deal." 

Nick: "Hey, we can't both be crazy."

Monroe: "It smells good. I didn't know you could cook."

Nick: "I can't. This is take-out."

Monroe: "Oh, he's sweatin'. But I think I pulled a groin muscle."

Best Moments: Monroe injecting the frog only for it to run away from him. Monroe jumping to Rosalee's rescue at the end.  The return of Bud and his role in the great plan to get Kellogg's sweat. Juliette's Memory-Nick with a guitar in his hands, it's strangely sexual.

Volcanalis

(Season 2, Episode 18)

Fumarole is discovered on Mount Hood and a very possessive Fire God will ravage and kill anyone who takes them in, including a employee of EON Industries and an archaeologist-turned-not-so-crazy-as-we-think's wife. The men of the "Grimmy-Doo" gang fix this complete with hosing the mythological character with liquid nitrogen. Juliette's memory continues to strengthen as she faces them head-on. Adalind makes alliances with the Schwarzwald gypsies in Vienna to give up her half-royal unborn child  in exchange for her powers back 

Literature Used: The Devil's Three Golden Hairs

Wesen Featured: Blutblad (werewolf), Esibiber (beaver), Hexenbiest (witch), Taureus-Armenta (minotaur)

Best Quotes: 

Monroe: "Keeping Portland weird."

Monroe: "You got something?"

Nick: "Dead Body"

Monroe: "See? That'll get your mind of her [Juliette]."

Best Moments: Hank being rolled out of the police station by multiple cops with a lei around his head (I must have a .gif of this!). When Juliette delves deep into a memory, the color turns from black and white to gray to colored very very slowly as she fully gains the memory back. (Genius!)

Endangered

(Season 2, Episode 18)

A pair of a rare alien-type of Wesen is on the run from from a Condor who kills and sells parts of Gluhenvolks. The kicker, the girlfriend is pregnant and George Lazur, the Raub Kondor, is after the baby. Jocelyn has to eat cow ovaries in order to go into labor which Rosalee and Monroe help bring her child into the world. Hank is still on vacation in Hawaii, leaving Nick to team up with Wu for this investigation. Nick also learns more about the Seven Keys; the shapes on them forming what could be part of the Black Forest in Germany according to Monroe's grandfather's maps. Juliette's memories become strong enough that she asks Monroe what a Grimm is.

Literature Used: Little Brother and Little Sister

Wesen Featured: Blutblad (werewolf), Fuchsbau (fox), Gluhenvolk (alien), Raub Kondor (condor)

Best Quotes:

Monroe: "Don't you need a warrant for that?"

Nick: "You're right, you open it."

Monroe: "Oh, OK."

Wu: "Nobody was probed...yet."

Monroe: "A Grimm is someone who can see into the heart of darkness. Someone who sees things other people don't understand."

Wu: "What is it about cows and aliens?"

Nick: "I got nothing."

Best Moments: Wu. Just everything Wu. The gratifying moment we can trust Renard. Monroe and Rosalee finally kissing and getting mildly frisky. Monroe attacking the Raub Kondor. 

Kiss of the Muse

(Season 2, Episode 20)

A musai drives men into insanity and attempts to take Nick as her own as he spirals out of control. Only Juliette can save him. Juliette returns to the trailer and starts to remember more of what Nick told her of the Wesen world and finally believes him. Hank comes back from Hawaii on crutches. Rosalee goes to the trailer for the first time.

Literature: The Odyssey

Wesen: Blutblad (werewolf), Fuchsbau (fox), Luisant-Pecheur (otter), Musai (elf)

Best Quotes:

Nick: "Man, what did the doctor say?"

Hank: "Actually, he was very adamant. 'Let your partner do all the work."

Nick: "As if I don't already."

Monroe: "Ring a dinner bell?"

Renard: "Really?"

Best Moments: When Renard got all guard-Zauberbieste-dog on Nick as he threatens Zoe then woges. Most gratifying moment ever! When Juliette finally gets it and although apprehensive, is willing to learn about the new Wesen world.