Line #11 Recap/GrimmS2E3BadMoonRising


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Save the DamselInDistress, all in a day's work.]]
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4	->''Then she began to weep bitterly, and said, 'What can a poor girl like me do now?''
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6	Things are bad for Nick both at home and at work. Juliette still has no memory of their relationship, while Hank is reaching breaking point and thinking of quitting the force. Nick to decides to tell his partner the truth about Wesen and Grimms, but first the pair must help an old friend of Hank's whose daughter Carly is missing.
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8	Nick soon realises there's more to the case than Hank knows; Carly and her father are Coyotls, and she's been taken for a brutal and barbaric rite of passage. With Monroe unable to help, can Nick and Hank save the girl in time?
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11	!!Tropes that appear in this episode:
12	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Nick and Hank find a bathtub full of animals slaughtered by Carly's family as part of the Aseveración rites.
13	* BilingualBonus: Aseveración means "Affirmation" in Spanish.
14	* CreepyUncle: Carly's uncle is really looking forward to raping her as part of a coming-of-age ceremony for her kind.
15	* DecoyDamsel: Inverted. Hearing Carly screaming for help brings all her Coyotl cousins running - not to help her, but to join in the carnage she is supposedly witnessing.
16	* DoubleMeaning: Jarold tells Nick and Hank that he knows that they found something in Hayden's apartment because he can smell it on them. Hank takes this figuratively, but Nick knows that Jarold means that literally because he's a Coyotl with a heightened sense of smell.
17	* TheDreaded: A good example of how feared Grimms are among wesen; four armed Coyotl are faced with two armed cops, and the four immediately drop their weapons when they realise they're facing a Grimm.
18	* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Nick asks Jarold if Carly's abduction might have something to do with the Coyotl ''Aseveracion'' ritual, Jarold says his wife's family was heavily into that stuff, but that's why he and his wife broke off contact with them, and that family lives way out in Texas... then realizes who has taken Carly.
19	* InternalReveal: Nick winds up revealing his status as a Grimm to Hank, if only to stop Hank from shooting Carly out of panic. He was going to tell him anyway, realising Hank was [[SanitySlippage losing his mind]], but figured the kidnapped teenager should probably come first.
20	* KissingCousins: Carly's cousins are really looking forward to raping her as part of a coming-of-age ceremony for her kind, and hate her father for not wanting her to go through it.
21	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Juliette has ''specifically'' only forgotten Nick. Everything else is in place, but with him carefully edited out. For example, she remembers Monroe, [[Recap/GrimmS1E19LeaveItToBeavers having him over for dinner]] and [[Recap/GrimmS1E14PlumedSerpent that he saved her life]], but not Nick's part of either of those events.
22	* LetMeGetThisStraight: Wu, when Nick and Hank return from their very busy day.
23	-->'''Wu:''' Hey. So, let me get this straight. In the last six hours you've arrested six villains, saved a damsel in distress, and reunited a family, while I've filled out three dozen overtime reports and scrubbed out the coffeemaker. Yeah, we've all put in a rich, full day.
24	* TheLoad: Poor Jarold is enough of a PapaWolf that he becomes a LeeroyJenkins, nearly getting himself killed, and ''does'' get himself taken hostage. Balanced out by the fact that it at least gave Nick and Hank the time to get Carly out of the well.
25	* NoSell: The Coyotls try to win their fight with the police by putting on their GameFace to scare them. They're up against a Grimm and a newly-minted Kehrseite-Schlich-Kennen, so it doesn't work, leading to a KnowWhenToFoldEm instead.
26	* OldFriend: Jarold Kampfer to Hank. Hank is the godfather to Jarold's daughter Carly.
27	* PapaWolf: Jarold Kampfer, to the point of being a liability for Nick and Hank.
28	* ShamefulStrip: Todd cuts off Carly's clothes with a knife.
29	* SpotTheThread: Nick sees a clean white rope in a run-down foreclosed farm, running into a well. It's moving, indicating that Carly is imprisoned in there.
30	* UnwillingSuspension: Carly is imprisoned by being lowered down a well by her tied wrists.
31	* VirginInAWhiteDress: Carly is forced to wear a white dress for the Aseveración ceremony.
32	* WorfHadTheFlu: The ritual is scheduled for the night of the full moon, which means Monroe is benched and leaves Hank open to finding out about Wesen.
33	* WoundedGazelleGambit: Part of the plan to take down the Coyotl pack is to have Carly scream and run, acting like Hank and Nick are being killed unexpectedly by Hayden. It works flawlessly.

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