Grimm Recap: Lycanthropia

Season 5 / Episode 14 / NBC Two nights ago: This week’s episode opens with Nick and Adalind in bed, sleeping… kind of. It’s more of that will they/won’t they tension. It might be sex or it might be a fight to the death. Who knows? Nick sneaks out of bed and goes spelunking down the abandoned prohibition-era tunnel in the fome. He buries the chest with the magic stick (that he still has no idea what its use or power is) and the continues his attempt to open the locked door down there. This evening (just before sunset): Random suit guy is driving his expensive German car on a rainy, windy road doing suit-guy things like talking to his secretary and then his mom on his bluetooth when he has sudden tire blowout. He loses control of the car and drives into a tree. He emerges from the car with minimal scratches, but when he looks at the setting sun, he says “oh no” and starts hauling ass down the road. Back in the fome, shirtless Nick (I feel like lately he and Renard are having a subtle ab off) is still in the tunnel trying to get the mysterious steel door open. One close up on his biceps later and he’s in. But into what? It’s all exposed brick, spiderwebs, and pitch blackness.

 Meanwhile suit guy is still hauling ass, but… but the sun goes down, the moon comes up, and long ago – no, wait, he just woges, the camera pans away, and we hear screaming and flesh tearing. Back at the fome, Renard calls Adalind to set up a clandestine-don’t-tell-Nick meeting to talk about Diane (and…