Nothing to see here!
Duérmete niño, duérmete ya...Que viene el Coco y te comerá. (Sleep child, sleep now...the Bogeyman will come and eat you.)
Criminals in the neighbourhood fall victim one by one to horrible deaths. Juliette takes Nick to a Latin medium who explains it's the doing of El Cucuy, a supernatural avenger who is invoked by cries for justice and leaves after purging the area.
This episode provides examples of:
- Asshole Victim: El Cucuy targets criminals in a neighbourhood. She's summoned by the cries of women begging for divine justice. The first two are armed robbers who put a kid in the hospital, the second was trying to rape a woman and the third was a drug-dealing thug.
- Beneath Notice: There is no mention of El Cucuy in the Grimm notebooks.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: The gang sit around discussing the case, with details on exactly how each Wesen would go about taking down their prey, over dinner at Nick and Juliette's.
- Call-Back:
- Juliette is brought up to speed about Nick's mother still being alive.
- Nick's mother indicates that she was "unable to spend the money" due to the Royal assassination stirring things up.
- Pilar, Juliette's friend, fills Nick and Juliette in on the legend of El Cucuy.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Juliette sees an email to Nick signed, "Love you, M." She's clearly trying to talk herself out of the obvious assumption when she asks him about it (it's his mother).
- Refuge in Audacity: El Cucuy is literally covered in the last victim's blood, and still reckons she'll get away with it. As she's a little old lady with no visible means of ripping a man's throat out, she's right.Nick: You have Bolton's blood all over you.
Mrs Garcia: Well yes, you brought me to Mr. Bolton's house and when I heard the terrible screaming, I went in to help. Oh! I must have gotten all bloody when I tried to save him. - Too Dumb to Live: Monroe describes the Höllentier this way. They were buried alive with Egyptian Pharaohs as guardians, which they thought was a promotion until they were already sealed in.Nick: We've got him locked up right now.
Monroe: Tell him there's a Pharaoh in there, he'll stay forever! Just sayin'. - You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Captain Renard's reaction when they discover El Cucuy's identity as a 77 years old lady.
