Grimm Recap: Beginning of the End

Season 5 / Episode 21 / NBC The double-episode starts with Renard’s victory. Rosalee and Monroe watched with disgust from home while Nick, Hank, Meisner, Ever, and Trubel watch from HW. Meisner lays it out: usurping the human world starts like this. Then they’ll be Black Claw cops, firefighters, judges, Starbucks baristas. No one and nothing is safe. It’s a fire sale. I repeat: It’s a fire sale. Call Kevin Smith. [divider type=”space_thin”]Hank realizes that Zuri wasn’t trying to recruit him; she was trying to get information out of him. Just then Eve walks in and says one of those Eve things that makes me be like “Juliette who?” Hank asks how Zuri is doing after the interrogation session: “She’s not dead.” Perfect. Zuri gave up Bonaparte’s name because EVE’s questioning techniques are the stuff of nightmares. Hank’s phone rings; it’s dispatch. There’s been a crime at his house. So he and Nick haul it over there. Rosalee and Monroe’s house are still processing Renard’s win. And evidently Monroe has some built up anger in him because he goes out to confront the Black Claw pickup truck that’s been sitting outside his house for just a little too long. Of course Rosalee is pissed because in what world is it a good idea to attack the henchman sent by the most murderous organization in Portland without so much as a water gun? But she’s right by his side when he does that. And when the henchman leave without a word, she writes down their license plate (and looks a little green from …