Grimm Recap: Into the Schwarzwald

Season 5 / Episode 12 / NBC It’s the 100th episode and the second half of a cliffhanger so you know things are about to get interesting all over. When we start, Nick and Monroe have fallen through the forest into the catacombs of a defunct and disappeared church. Renard is onstage holding Mayoral candidate Andrew Dixon, who has just been shot by a Black Claw operative. Hank and Wu, who were on site in the crowd looking for the operative, spot him on the balcony of an adjacent highrise and shut down the building. BUT Eve, straight out HW, is there, too. And we all know how she feels about police procedures. Hank and Wu bust into the apartment and find the owner’s corpse, but no sniper. He is on the roof. When Hank arrives on the roof, it’s empty. Because by on the roof, I mean he woged and is using his Wesen bird-like power to scale the wall. But Eve is watching – just a few feet away from where paramedics are trying to revive Dixon. She follows the sniper. Nick and Monroe are still in the catacombs and finding nothing. When they don’t find the buried treasure, they realize that 1) it might not be buried and 2) they’re in  catacombs. Plan B is to look behind the skeletons. Because 800 years ago what would have been a better theft deterrent for the superstitious than decaying corpses. Adalind is at the Spice Shop with Rosalee. They are both doing their best “don’t think about my bae dying in the Black forest of Germany while looking for secret guarded treasure that Black Claw i…