Grimm Recap: Seven Year Itch

Season 6/ Episode 5 / NBC [quote_simple]“When something itches my dear sir, the natural tendency is to scratch.”[/quote_simple] We return to Portland to see a huge bug-type-thing clawing its way out a well-manicured park lawn late at night. Immediately, it un-woges into a man in tattered clothing. He’s looking at everyone walking past him like they’re a pork chop. Cue the unlucky dude walking and talking on his cell. I think you know it didn’t work out for that dude, but he did manage to call 911 before becoming a midnight snack.

In the tunnels tombs under the loft, Eve is laying on the ground like she’s exhausted from a wild night of partying. And by partying, I mean obsessively scrawling ancient hieroglyphs on the wall, compelled by some unseen force that I’m sure is the stick. Her hand is still marked by a hieroglyph where the stick defended itself and burned her. Upstairs, Nick is having a restless nightmares-about-all-the-people-I-killed-in-this-loft sleep. He gets up to check on Kelly and have a drink of water. For some reason, he decides to open the door to the tunnel to look around. Before he can do anything Adalind comes to get him in that “baby, it’s 3am come back to bed” way. Sidebar: Has this dude not checked on Eve in days? What in the hell kind of friend or fearless leader is this mess? Only reason old girl was a hexenbeist in the first place was trying to save his ass because he wanted his Grimm powers back. Only reason old girl lost her powers was because he …