Fome, sweet fome.
After three days and nights, whoever tries and does not succeed shall be put to death.
A wealthy mobster sets three young men on a quest to win his daughter Emily's hand in marriage and earn his fortune.
This episode provides examples of:
- Bilingual Bonus: The Weten Ogen suitors are all involved in what is referred to as the "Maagd Zoektocht," which is Dutch for "Maiden Quest."
- Call-Back: The episode opens on Nick exploring the Secret Underground Passage he showed Adalind when they moved in. He encounters a secure door that won't open.
- Cliffhanger: Nick hears a crash outside and goes to investigate, finding an injured Trubel.
- Dark and Troubled Past: An ex of Rosalee's from her drug addict days sends her a letter, claiming to have something important to discuss with her. Wanting to leave that part of her life behind, she ignores it.
- Fairytale Motifs: The episode takes elements from the Grimm story "The Three Feathers."
In the original tale, a king blows three feathers into the air and tells his sons to go and fetch them. The youngest one (who the others look down on as a fool) meets a talking toad who helps him in two other quests the king gives the sons, eventually earning himself a toad who becomes a princess whose hand he takes in marriage. The griffin statue Daniel Troyer (who, as a mob boss, is effectively "king" of his business) has the three suitors pull feathers out of to see who goes first in the attempt to kill Frankie is a clear allusion to this tale. - Foreshadowing: While Nick and Renard speak to Amanda Proctor about her son's death, Amanda woges in front of Nick upon learning that he's a Grimm. It doesn't seem to be too out of the ordinary, but the moment does establish that Weten Ogen look roughly the same, despite their sex. This already hints at the idea that the mysterious Weten Ogen that swoops in every time to save Frankie from one of the suitors may not be male at all. True enough, it later turns out to be Emily herself saving Frankie's life.
- Go Mad from the Revelation: The fate of Frankie Atkins, who sees the Troyers' Game Faces.
- Incompatible Orientation: Amos, the third suitor, doesn't want to marry Emily because he's gay. He only became a suitor because his mother made him.
- Mafia Princess: Emily Troyer. Subverted as she'd rather be the don herself.
- Mama Bear: Amanda Proctor, mother of the first victim, tells Frankie Atkins who put out a hit on him so he goes to kill Troyer himself.
- Panthera Awesome: The Wesen of the Week is the Weten Ogen, a lynx-like Wesen.
- Rule of Three: Three suitors are sent to kill Frankie Atkins and so win Emily's hand in marriage and her father's business.
- Secret Test of Character: The titular maiden quest is intended to test Emily's strength so she can inherit the business.
- Stay in the Kitchen: Seems to be the male Weten Ogens' attitude towards Emily. Daniel Troyer lost his son, and rather than give Emily the family business, he decides to seek out three suitors who can marry her. When Emily goes to tell Eli not to go through with the Maagd Zoektocht, he brushes off her concerns and says that she should just worry about how to raise all the kids the two of them will have when everything is said and done. Subverted when we learn that Amos, the third suitor, is gay and does not care one way or the other about Emily, while Daniel is revealed to have set the whole thing up as a secret test for Emily.
- Visual Pun: Frankie's club's sign features a bomb marked with an F. It's an F-bomb.
- You Are Worth Hell: After Isaac, the first suitor, is killed, Emily tries to talk Eli, the next in line to go after Frankie, out of the Maagd Zoektocht by claiming that it isn't worth it. Eli concedes that she probably has a point—but he thinks she's worth it, and if completing the quest is what will prove to her father that Eli is worthy to marry her, then he'll gladly do it.
- You Killed My Son: Mob boss Daniel Troyer's son was killed by Frankie Atkins' goon, so whoever brings Troyer Frankie's head gets to marry Troyer's daughter, Emily, and inherit the family business.
