Grimm Recap: Star-Crossed

Season 5 / Episode 7 / NBC What I’m liking lately about Grimm is that the writers have gotten better at blending the monster-of-the-week plots and the season-long Grimm-Wesen-Royals plots. It doesn’t feel like they’re doing one or the other because, lately, each episode has, for the most part, been both.

This week’s episode is no exception. We start with Nick and Adalind in the home-sweet-bunker they share with their kid. Nick is about to, once again, attempt to open the huge, mysterious door in the tunnels beneath the house that Nick says haven’t been opened since the Prohibition. Hmmm. This keeps coming up, so we know the payoff should be huge – either something big is behind that door or someone will need it to escape/hide from something scary.

Meanwhile at HW headquarters, Trubel links the same man to several Wesen-related revenge killings across the globe. Trouble is, they have no idea who he is; they just have a face, but no name. Trubel tells Meisner and then heads over to Nick’s place to force the “Are you joining us?” issue. What about though is the “we” and the “us” she’s talking about are HW, Meisner, and Eve – not your friendly neighborhood Grimm, cops, and spice shop owners. Elsewhere in a barn, a guy gets killed. It looks ugly in the uglier than your average murder way. There’s a huge cross on the ground and things go down hill from there. The next morning, two surveyors find the body. It’s been hoisted onto a cross and there are shards of mirror shoved where …