Grimm Recap: Inugami

Season 5 / Episode 17 / NBC [quote_simple]Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice.[/quote_simple] We start this week’s episode with two unsettling shots: someone ceremonially cleansing their katana and Eve hexenbiesting Nick’s car door open and getting in, cloaked like she’s on her way to grandmother’s house.

We are left hanging about the sword for a bit, but Eve wastes no time in divulging the spoils of her recent… um… recon… with Rachel Woods.* Renard is cooperating with Black Claw. And she reminds Nick that Adalind’s hexenbiest suppressant will wear off and the dear, sweet Adalind he’s grown to know and love – have a complicated relationship with – will disappear. Then she steps back out into the rainy Portland night. Somewhere else in moist Portland, a couple is getting ready to go out for the night when their angsty teenage son’s best friend, Roger, calls looking for him. The angsty kid is not answering his cell. He is, in fact, hiding in his parents’ basement playing video games. His mom doesn’t force him to answer, but she does nag him until he agrees to call his friend back “as soon as [she] leaves” so obviously that was a lie. As the camera pans out, we see a hooded shadow outside the basement window. The son, Brian, takes a break from playing video games to forage through the fridge for food. There’s a knock on the door. It’s Roger. Brian sends him away, but when he goes back downstairs, there’s an origami lion on the coffee table. Almost imme…