Grimm Recap: Silence of the Slams

Season 5 / Episode 13* / NBC We are in mid-Monroe and his miraculous recovery when we re-join the gang. They figure that they have a magical healing stick… maybe. They can’t read the writing on the cloth it was wrapped in or the box it was kept in. And they are more than a little weirded out so they decide to keep the stick a secret and to lock it back away. Hmmm. So you mean the thing that the Seven Grimm Knights buried under a church behind skeletons in a box with seven keys that they scattered across the globe might be powerful and perhaps dangerous? Who am I kidding? I’d have looked for it, too.

We cut to a scene of an older man hunched over a desk, working in his shop. A younger man comes in and after establishing that he doesn’t speak Spanish, much to the older man’s chagrin (and pity), he picks up a wrestling mask that the shopkeeper was repairing for him. But it turns out the kid is a “jobber,” a warm body in the ring who loses. He’s pissed about it and wants to be a winning luchador like the men he idolized as a child. And then the soundtrack gets eerie and the lighting dims (figuratively) background. The old man is like, “you are not ready for a mask like they had and if you were, I’d get half your earnings. And it costs a lot.” Wait, what?

The young guy is like, “First, hell no. Second, I’m late to my professional ass-kicked gig.” Then we have to watch him get his ass kicked in the ring. This is a sad man. [divider type=”space_thin”] In the locker room of his hur…