Grimm Recap: Eve of Destruction

Season 5 / Episode 7 / NBC This mid-season premier starts exactly where we left off: Nick, Hank, Wu, and Renard are at the abandoned warehouse and were saved from the fangy Wesen jaws of death by…. Juliette. Obviously, Nick is freaking out. He’s like, “I gotta go talk with Trubel” and leaves post-haste. The other three are just standing around like, “Um. Did you just see what I couldn’t possibly have seen?” When Nick gets back to his house, Trubel has very few excuses. She knew they wanted to “break” Juliette in order to turn her into a weapon, but with all the jetsetting and killing Wesen in exotic locales, she wasn’t sure if it worked or not. So we get the first of a few flashbacks that fill in the blanks between seasons 4 and 5. Trubel insists that she doesn’t know where Juliette is, but Adalind – after she pees a little bit out of fear – is like “Meisner?” So Nick uses Chavez’s phone to call him. Meisner, in a typical trench coat wearing revolutionary way, is evasive: “The woman you knew doesn’t exist anymore.” Um. Okay. But Meisner relents and says he’ll get back to him. Then Rosalee calls Hank like, “Put my husband who better be alive on the phone.” So, obviously, all of them decide to go to the spice shop to “question” Xavier about setting them up. He tells them everything he knows – after Monroe punches him in the face. He reconfirms what we know: Wesen uprising, join-or-die, etc. But, he also reveals that they singled him out because he knew Monroe and Monroe knows…