Grimm Recap: A Reptile Dysfunction

Season 5 / Episode 7 / NBC The episode starts off innocently enough: a couple drives out to Diamond Lake to rent a motorboat, fish, and post Instagram pictures that their friends will pretend to like. BUT. You’re in/near Portland; you, cute white couple, had to know this isn’t going to go well. Nick briefs Hank, Wu, and Renard on what his meeting with Eve/Juliette was like. Since there were three dead bodies, he kind of had to. Nick shares all the information that Meisner shared with: Eve works with Misener (who Renard knows), the dead guy AKA Eve’s restaurant victim was Samuel Rankine, and that the whole thing was a hit with the delightful bonus of testing Nick. Back at the Spice Shop, Rosalee (and Monroe) get another Seattle postmarked letter and she’s not happy about it. This time the letter suggests that the sender wants to come to Portland to see Rosalee. Monroe wants to figure out what’s going on, but Rosalee’s approach is more denial and let’s-not-talk-about-this. On the lake, the happy couple sees a… something swimming around their boat. They’re obviously scared so they do the only logical thing: she takes a picture and he pulls a gun out of a tackle box (wtf kind of fishing is this?) and empties it into the water. He manages to not hit the thing, but piss it off enough for it to ram the boat. He falls into the water and, uh, well, so she’s a widow now. And the thing swims off, in its red speedos, to the shore, leaving the new widow screaming at the top of her lungs…