Meet April Granger, the cutest killing machine ever.
'Let me out, let me out,' the spirit cried. And the boy, thinking no evil, drew the cork out of the bottle.
An investigation into a grisly murder leads Hank and Nick to a seemingly unstable man who is on the run with his daughter, but all is not as it seems.
Filling in for Rosalee during her absence, Monroe realizes that running the local Wesen apothecary will be harder than he thought.
Tropes that appear in this episode:
- All Just a Dream: The episode opens with Nick and Juliette preparing dinner and talking about a memory of Juliette's, which she suddenly announces she remembers telling him about. In fact, she remembers everything! Including Nick telling her about all his Grimm stuff, which she now believes! And then Nick's alarm goes off.
- Bunker Woman: Bill Granger has built a survivalist bunker out in the woods to contain his nine-year-old daughter April. Unusually for this trope, he has a good reason for doing so.
- Call-Back:
- Adalind calls Renard, demanding to know who killed her mother.
- Hank finds the elephant gun Monroe used to kill Stark, forcing Nick to explain what really happened that night.
- Dramatic Irony: When Renard goes to the Spice Shop to solve his obsession with Juliette. The audience knows he's going to Nick's friend for advice about Nick's girlfriend, but none of the characters do.
- Madness Mantra: A text version when Renard looks at something he's typed to see it now reads "JulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJulietteJuliette..."
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Nick and Hank correctly identify what species of wesen they're dealing with; they just don't realise until it's almost too late that the problem is April rather than William, as she's currently in a stage of her development where she's very easily provoked into a rage.
- Unstable Powered Child: The Wesen of the week is a Drang-Zorn, which is a badger-like creature with immense strength even as a child. If a Drang-Zorn child goes through their first woge prematurely (before they're 13), they inevitably become this as they lack inhibitions to control their anger, and end up violently lashing out at anyone who provokes them. This is what April is going through.Bill: It's not her fault, she can't control it. She's going through the change earlier than she should. She's just a baby, man. We weren't ready. It usually doesn't happen 'til they're 13.
Lilly: She's just a little girl. She doesn't know what she's doing.
Hank: April did this to you?
Lilly: Bill came to protect me. He just didn't get there in time. (on the verge of tears) I can't handle her. No one can. - Wham Line: When Nick and Hank confront Bill at the hospital, his wife Lilly drops this bombshell concerning their daughter April.Hank: Ma'am, your husband brutally murdered a gas station attendant.
Lilly: Wait, you let her out of your sight?
Bill: I didn't even know she was out of the truck. It happened so fast!
Lilly: No, you can't turn your back on her!
Nick: Are you saying your daughter was responsible? - Wham Shot: Right before the Wham Line, you can clearly see that when William goes to see Lilly in the hospital, she's not scared of him and they're sharing a tender emotional moment.
