No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Nick and Hank investigate the murder of a boy whose foot was removed by the killer, and find themselves learning the origins of a particular superstition. With another teenager abducted and time running out, Monroe and Rosalee go undercover to find the killer to save the girl.
Reeling from Juliette's revelation, Nick goes to meet Henrietta, who also has unwelcome news for Adalind.
This episode provides examples of:
- An Arm and a Leg: The episode features a rabbit-type Wesen, Wilahara, who are hunted for their feet, which are rumored to have the property of helping couples conceive. Victim of the Week Peter dies when he's left to bleed out after his foot is cut off.
- And This Is for...: Used by Chloe to her captor when she's beating him with the stake he tied her to. She adds "And this is for my father!" before stabbing him through the foot.
- Artistic License – Medicine: Adalind seems pretty certain that her child's father must be Nick, even though she was sleeping with Renard about a week earlier. It's possible they were using some form of birth control that was nullified when she turned into Juliette, but it's not specified.
- Berserk Button: The hunting of Wilahara for their feet proves to be this trope for Rosalee, who is incensed that this is still going on and makes it her personal mission to help bring down those responsible. When told to make sure the nurse acting as go-between doesn't leave the clinic, it doesn't take Rosalee long to get to "punch the bitch out."Rosalee: The thought that they're still being hunted, don't get me started!
Hank: If the killer is selling their feet...
Rosalee: That is, I am sorry, outrageous. God, you're getting me started.
[Monroe and Rosalee plan to go undercover]
Monroe: See, that's what happens when you get her started. - Call-Back:
- To convince Nick that she's not Adalind in disguise, Juliette references him proposing to her and her finding the ring in his sock drawer as Adalind wouldn't know those things.
- Henrietta tells Nick that Juliette's condition is permanent, referencing Nick taking Adalind's power as she explains that that won't work this time because Nick's blood is already in Adalind and therefore in Juliette.
- When Adalind confronts Renard, she shows him the shiner she got from her fight with Juliette.
- Charm Person: Henrietta does this to Nick and they nearly kiss. She then points out how easy it was for her to do that despite the fact that he came in angry with her, and warns him that Juliette will become a much more powerful Hexenbiest than she.
- Defiant Captive: Chloe, the Wilahara girl who's kidnapped by her brother's killer. She refuses to woge so her abductor can't take her foot, then later she beats him with the stake he tied her to and impales him through the foot.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Henrietta tells Adalind she's pregnant, Adalind says that, no, she can't be pregnant, because she hasn't been with anyone since... Nick. Cue an Oh, Crap! and a Rapid-Fire "No!" as an amused Henrietta looks on.
- Gender-Inverted Trope: In the Cold Open, a teenage couple sneak out for some fun, and it's the boy, Peter, who's concerned that someone's nearby. Acts as Foreshadowing that he has reason to be afraid.
- The Infiltration: Monroe and Rosalee go undercover with a Wesen fertility doctor, pretending to be a couple having trouble conceiving who are interested in "Wesen-specific" alternatives. The doctor is disgusted, but the nurse is working for the Monster of the Week and adds them to the list.
- Irony: The A plot involves Wesen couples going to desperate lengths to conceive. The B plot involves Adalind discovering she's unwillingly become pregnant.
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Nausea Fuel: The gang unsurprisingly feel this way about practice of gettin' busy with a severed foot under the bed.Nick: It says here, "Before relations are to begin, the severed Willahara foot must be placed beneath the couple wishing to procreate."
Hank: You're joking. [Nick shows him the entry] Okay, not joking.
Nick: There's more. "The fresher the foot, the more fertile the female will be. Within three days, conception will occur."
Wu: They leave a severed foot under the bed for three days?
Hank: That's what it says.
Wu: Uh, does anybody else think this is messed up? - Never My Fault: Both the nurse acting as go-between and the couple who paid $10K for a severed Wilahara foot insist that they have nothing to do with murder.
- Oh, Crap!: The couple who bought Peter's foot, when Nick tells them that, while he can't arrest them as a cop, he can and will inform the Wesen Council of what they did.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: For the first time ever, a Wesen is relieved to find that the cop she's talking to is a Grimm, because it means he really does know what kind of danger a kidnapped Chloe is in.
- Properly Paranoid: Peter describes his mother as paranoid in the Cold Open. Considering he's soon murdered for his foot, she might have been onto something.
- Shout-Out: The Victim of the Week is a rabbit-type Wesen named Peter. His mother's name is Beatrice, similar to Beatrix.
- The Sociopath: The Leporem Venator working his way through the Bennet family. He killed the father and placed a tracking device on the family car so he could follow the wife and children wherever they ran. He takes obvious pleasure in stalking his targets and gloating over them, and leaves them to die after cutting off their feet.
