Grimm Recap: The Believer

Season 5 / Episode 16 / NBC Nick and Hank tell Monroe and Rosalee all that Eve told Nick about Rachel Wood and Andrew Dixon’s assassination. As they put it all together and realize how high the stakes are – if Renard is in with Black Claw, he knows a lot – and decide that they need to play their cards close to their chest until they can figure out where Renard’s loyalties lie. Monroe reaches out to his nerd network and contacts a professor friend of his, Ian Kreger, about the old cloth artifact (the one the magic stick was wrapped in) that he inherited from his Uncle Felix (that’s the lie he’s going with).  Monroe is on the phone with Kreger setting up a time to bring the cloth to Kreger while Eve arrives unannounced, at the Spice Shop. Gonna need to update this image pretty soon. Not enough abs. [divider type=”space_thin”]Eve tells Nick, Hank, Monroe, and Rosalee about her experiment with smoking the witch-hat-fog (at the end of last episode) and her foray into Renard-ness. Eve who is not usually so forthcoming tells them that she needs their help; she needs to know where Renard is so she can be him someplace else. Then she leaves abruptly and leaves the four of them to ponder the logistics of her turning into Renard. Cut to a religious tent revival. There’s a preacher onstage. He beckons to Satan to leave his parishioners alone, to instead to come to him. And then Satan does. Or at least that what it seems like to the people in the cheap seats; we know he woged.

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