Grimm Recap: Bad Night

Season 5/ Episode 20 / NBC This week’s episode started off exactly where The Taming of the Wu left off: Nick has just read Adalind’s letter. My dude loses; he’s throwing and breaking stuff. His stuff. In his house. So he’s clearly not thinking straight. He calls Hank, but Hank’s phone is in Hank’s jacket pocket hanging on a chair in traitorous-ass Zuri’s kitchen while Hank and Zuri… convene in the other room. So Nick is not getting any help from him. Across town, Adalind arrives (via multiple cabs) at Casa de Black Claw with Kelly in tow. Her and Renard play that time honored game of exes, “let’s name the effed up shit you did” while they wait for Diana to arrive. Renard is hard to read here: he acknowledges that he’s not in control, acts tough about how he’ll deal with Nick, and says he’ll treat Kelly like his own son.

At about the exact moment Renard is tryna claim his son, Nick is driving erratically to Renard’s house. Which is so empty. Tumbleweed blowing across the wide-plank floors empty. So he doesn’t know where Renard lives and Renard doesn’t know where he lives. And yet, they work about 10 feet from each other. This should be good.

Since the title let us know that everyone is going to have a bad night, let’s visit Wu. He’s in bed, not sleeping, remembering killing a man with his bare hands. So he does what anyone would do: gets up and tries to force himself to woge. When it doesn’t work, he starts throwing and breaking stuff. His stuff. (For those of you keeping tr…