Season 2 of Grimm wraps up on Tuesday night with the arrival of at least one royal baddie to Portland and lots of action, if the previews are to be trusted. As we wait, here is a recap of the season so far, followed at the end with some...
Season 2 of Grimm wraps up on Tuesday night with the arrival of at least one royal baddie to Portland and lots of action, if the previews are to be trusted. As we wait, here is a recap of the season so far, followed at the end with some speculation on the finale.Season 2 So Far …. We left off at the end of season 1 with Juliette falling into a coma after being scratched by Adalind’s cat, Nick’s dead mom paying him a visit and helping out with a troublesome out-of-town visitor, and Hank thinking he’s going crazy for seeing wesen faces and shooting up empty closets.Mama GrimmAlthough she appeared near the end of last season, we were properly introduced to Kelly Burkhardt in the season premiere, after she jumped into the middle of a fight between Nick and Kimura (a man with ties to the Dragon’s Tongue and the royal families, and who was after the key). Kelly’s appearance surprises Nick, who thought she and his father had both died in a car accident in New York state when Nick was a child. We learn from Kelly that Kimura & associates had tried to kill her because she had the coins of Zakynthos. It was not Kelly, but instead a friend, who had died that night. Because the killer thought he had killed a Grimm, he took the friend’s head, so as a result, the body was never properly identified. Nick’s Aunt Marie, who raised him, knew Kelly was alive.We learn from Kelly that the key Nick’s aunt gave to him is one of seven, and together they mark a place that the holds something so powerful that Nick’s Grimm ancestors had hidden it from the royals during the Crusades. We last see Kelly ditching plans to leave town on a bus with the coins, which she was supposed to destroy, and instead slip off in a direction unknown once Nick was no longer watching her.Wesen LoveMonroe and Rosalee grow closer over the course of the season, and Rosalee becomes quite the apothecary, giving potions and magical cures for any of a host of wesen ailments, including nasty love spells cast by a blonde hexenbiest. One of Monroe and Rosalee’s biggest hurdles come in the form of a near death scare when Monroe is targeted by Mia, a friend of the royals and Renard, because he is a friend of a Grimm. The other hurdle is an annoying lack of privacy when Nick temporarily moves in with Monroe.Juliette’s Cat Scratch FeverA nasty cat scratch from Adalind’s cat goes so far beyond infection when it results in a coma, selective memory loss (only poor Nick is forgotten), and a violent and intense lust for Nick’s boss, Capt. Renard. Rosalee the apothecary comes to the rescue and cures both Juliette and Renard for their lust spell, and sets Juliette back on track on a psychedelic trip down memory lane. She eventually remembers Nick and with some help from Monroe, Rosalee, and Bud, comes to learn what wesen and Grimms are. Nick and Juliette seemed to be taking steps toward reuniting in the last episode, which probably means there’s trouble ahead for the two in the finale.Hank Becomes Cool with the WesenAfter Nick tells Hank that what he’s seeing is real, and that Nick also sees the wesen, Hank adjusts to this new knowledge remarkably well and becomes a productive member of Team Nick. He has a minor setback midseason when Adalind arrives back in town and sends a gang of Verrat to beat him up. Hank, however, recovers, and embraces his new knowledge, and becomes a champion of researching police cases in Aunt Marie’s trailer.Renard & the Royals (sounds like a band, doesn’t it?)Renard never seemed too fond of his European family, but the stakes are upped as we learn Renard is actively plotting against them, and appears to have alliances with the resistance. When Monroe recognizes Renard as the man he saw Juliette kissing in the spice shop, when the two came in for help for their lust spell, he tells Nick the man was Renard, and Nick figures out that Renard is the royal in Portland. The two have a much-too-short fight before they agree to an uneasy alliance. Nick does
