BWW Recap: Thanks for the Memories; GRIMM is Back!

Picking up right where season three left off, the new season of GRIMM is off and running. We find Nick, Juliette, Hank, and Trubel discussing the events of the day, Sean about to undergo emergency surgery, and Wu staring at the Grimm 101 books he found during the investigation.

Oh, and we also meet a man whose head is an octopus... but I digress.

As Nick and company head home, he and Juliette fill Hank in on what happened with Adalind and her little bait-and-switch trick. Juliette expresses her displeasure and Trubel blames herself for breaking the antidote Sean brought for Nick, and as they arrive at the cop-infested Casa de Grimm they realize that there are going to be a lot of questions to answer. They decide to stick with the old self-defense routine and Trubel prepares to walk the police through what happened, but then the FBI arrives. Considering what happened to the last federal agent that wandered in - I believe I saw his head near an end table - they have some questions of their own.

Meanwhile, we meet a nice fellow named Henry Slocombe. He's just a guy who misses his vacationing girlfriend and has the misfortune of answering the door when a traveling squid-face comes to call. The Wesen in question is masquerading as a friend of a friend, and once he's invited inside he attacks Slocombe with some truly fantastic facial tentacles that apparently pull out the victim's memories. Octopus Face is on his way out when Alexandra, Henry's unfortunate girlfriend, returns from Paris early. She's alarmed to find Henry bleeding and clueless on the floor, and probably even more so when she finds a heavy bookend careening toward her skull. With the witness no longer a problem, Octohead takes off in Henry's Porsche.

While the attack is taking place we see Trubel explaining to the feds how Sean's shooting and Weston Steward's subsequent beheading went down. Her memory of the event is pretty detailed, and it doesn't look like the female agent is buying it. Could be that beheading a man isn't the most common form of self-defense, or that most young ladies don't have a machete lying about in their bedrooms. Or, you know, it could be the fact that said agent is actually a Wesen and that she got a good look at one of the Grimm books everyone's been checking out, particularly a page featuring a beheading. You decide. Either way, she knows everything isn't on the up and up and Trubel goes down to the station for further questioning.

Poor Wu is still traumatized by everything he's seen and he starts asking some questions about the book he found, but Nick doesn't give him much and he later brings it up at the hospital with Hank, telling him it reminded him a lot of the monsters he thought he saw. Although Hank initially tries to brush him off, Wu's confession of recurring nightmares seems to change his mind - but before he can share what he knows with Wu, the surgeon emerges to tell the men that Sean's next of kin should be notified. That's never what you want to hear. They aren't really going to let him die, right?

When the police have finally cleared out of their home Juliette surveys the mess left behind, including the lingerie worn by Adalind. A knock at the door reveals our good friends and newlyweds, Monroe and Rosalee. They discuss what happened that night with Juliette until Nick and Trubel return, and when they fill Monrosalee in on Adalind's scheme, Rosalee knows exactly what happened - of course she does - and she and her new husband head right over to the spice shop - of course they do - to get to work. Seriously, does anyone else ever wish they had a person in their life to operate as a plot device? I need my own Rosalee to provide answers to life's difficult questions in 60 minutes or less.

The police check out Slocombe's house the next day, noting the dead girlfriend and the missing car. Once they've seen poor confused Henry in the hospital, Nick and Hank make their way to the trailer, where Trubel is studying up on all things Grimm. They describe the head wounds and memory loss Slocombe is experiencing and Trubel points out the Gedachtnis Esser, which is clearly the Octopus Man in question.

Speaking of Squidface, he uses the information he gleaned from Slocombe to copy a lot of files and passes on some of what he learned, assuring his employer he's in the clear once he rids himself of the stolen Porsche, but it's too late - he's confronted by the police as soon as he approaches the car. Once questioned and released he leaves the station - without the Porsche - and Trubel performs a sweet fake mugging in order to see his true tentacles. Once she tells Nick and Hank he is in fact the Wesen they are looking for she takes off after him.

The final scene of the episode is definitely a cliffhanger - Sean seizes and then flatlines, and they finally call it: time of death, 1:34 p.m. This is a cliffhanger for two reasons. First of all, there is a very dismayed blonde Hexenbiest lurking on the other side of the window. No, not Adalind. Second, Sean can't really be dead, right?

A few interesting points about this episode. Nick told Juliette that perhaps it was a good thing for them, his not being a Grimm anymore. Will he choose not to pursue whatever Monrosalee come up with in the spice shop in favor of a normal life? Will he realize that his life has already deviated too far to ever be normal? Next, Adalind really wasn't in this one, other than the mention of her return to Vienna and the royals. Sean's cousin learns that his FBI lackey shot Sean and was beheaded, and orders that Steward's involvement be tied to Nick rather than himself. Previews indicate that we will soon discover more about the Hexenbiest as well as Adalind's newest predicament. Also, there has to be more to the random FBI Wesenette than we've seen thus far. And finally - seriously, they didn't really kill Sean, did they?

Check out a preview of what's to come below, and tune in with me next week to see where this is going, GRIMM fans. I'm loving the new season so far!

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