Before the end-of-the-world stuff, enjoy a magical comedy of errors.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Rosalee surprises Monroe with a trip to a nice hotel for the weekend and invites Nick, Adalind, Juliet, Hank and Wu to come along too. However, a hotel employee targets Nick to avenge his father's arrest.
Eve is visited by a familiar dark force and Renard's weekend with Diana goes astray when she's kidnapped.
This episode provides examples of:
- Armor-Piercing Question: Diana, when she asks Eve if she's sad that Nick isn't her boyfriend anymore. Eve dodges the question, and some of the things she says while under the love spell imply that More than Mind Control is at work. Especially as she says the following to Adalind, Nick's actual girlfriend, rather than the target of his obsession as everyone else is doing:Eve: It wasn't enough to steal Nick from me! It wasn't enough to have the baby that should have been ours!
- Birthday Episode: The action kicks off when the gang convene at a hotel for the weekend to celebrate Monroe's birthday.
- Breather Episode: Aside from the demonic face in the bathroom mirror, this episode is fairly light-hearted, with love-related squabbles and only the aggressors being killed or even seriously hurt.
- Call-Back:
- Diana tells Eve that she misses her "other mom," Kelly, and asks Eve if she knows where she is.
- The Nightmare Face Eve and Nick see in the mirror is set in a vortex that reminds Eve of what she saw in the death grip.
- Diana is kidnapped by Lt. Grossante, who wants Renard to follow through on his promise to make him captain.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The champagne briefly changes colour as people's hair is added, and the characters' eyes briefly glow in bright colours when they see the object of their induced obsession.
- Distracted by My Own Sexy: Hank, as a result of drinking the champagne meant for Rosalee that contained his own hair.Hank: [To self in mirror] You know, I hate to admit it, but you are one damn fine-looking man.
- Exact Words: Diana promised not to tell Daddy about the carvings from the tunnel. She didn't say anything about drawing them somewhere he'd see and ask about them.
- Flashback: The gang telling stories at dinner is accompanied by flashbacks to various episodes including the "Pilot", "Island Of Dreams", "Face Off", "Headache" and "Cry Havoc".
- How We Got Here: The episode opens with various gang members declaring their undying love for each other in wildly inappropriate combinations (with the recipients looking confused and unhappy), then jumps back thirty-six hours to show how that happened.
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Randy's responses suggest that he was unaware that Nick was a Grimm.
- It's Personal: Randy Goode targets Nick and his friends because Nick arrested Randy's father seven years earlier.
- Large Ham: The cast is clearly having endless fun chewing the scenery as the Amor de Infierno takes effect.
- Love Dodecahedron: The Amor de Infierno is meant to make people go crazy and finally kill each other over their unrequited lust. Hotel employee Randy Goode drugs the gang to each become obsessed with a member of the group who isn't their partner: Adalind is obsessed with Monroe, Monroe chases Eve, Eve is obsessed with Nick and Nick only has eyes for Rosalee. Meanwhile, Wu is obsessed with a random waitress whose hair fell into the glass and Hank can't take his eyes off his own reflection (fortunately, Rosalee is unaffected as she declined the drink with Hank's hair in it due to her current pregnancy).Monroe: [To Eve] Do you feel that? That is the tingling of like souls. That's love!
Eve: [To Nick] There's never been anyone else for me. There never will be. To think we almost threw it all away! [Kisses him]
Nick: [To Rosalee] You're the only one in the world for me. [Goes on one knee]
Adalind: [To Monroe] [I want] you. More than I've ever wanted anything in my entire life. [Kisses him] - Mind over Matter: Diana telekinetically throws Grossante around the Abandoned Warehouse where he's keeping her. And that's just the start of the fun.
- Mugging the Monster:
- Randy Goode recognises Nick as the cop who arrested his father, and targets him and his group for revenge not realising he's a Grimm.
- Lt. Grossante kidnaps Diana meaning to leverage her father. Renard is terrified... for about twenty seconds, and then he remembers who his daughter is. Sure enough, Grossante soon calls him back to beg for help.
Grossante: [On phone] Please, for God’s sake, you gotta hurry!
Renard: Yeah, listen, I just got a couple of things to take care of first, but I’ll be there as soon as I can.
Grossante: No! No! No, listen to me! For God’s sake, you gotta get here! She’s gonna kill me!
Diana: [Singsong]: I found you! That’s not a very good hiding place. - Murder the Hypotenuse: The Love Dodecahedron soon devolves into a brawl, with love-crazed murder as the obvious endpoint.Nick: [To Monroe] She can't love you if you're dead!
Adalind: Don't you dare touch him!
Monroe: I'm gonna tear you limb from limb! - My God, What Have I Done?: A common reaction when the Amor de Infierno wears off, but especially Monroe, who is horrified to have told his pregnant wife he loved someone else (Eve) after she caught him being kissed by a third woman (Adalind). She forgives him, knowing he wasn't himself.
- Nightmare Face: Eve sees something strange in the bathroom mirror and calls for Nick. When he arrives, there's a face with glowing green eyes staring out the mirror at them.Eve: Did you see that!?
Nick: Swirling blue tornado, a skull-like dude with green eyes staring right at us?! Yes, I saw that!
Eve: You’ve never seen anything like that in your mirror before?!
Nick: No, I probably would've warned you! - No Kill like Overkill: When Randy tells his father he's going after Nick and his friends using Amor de Infierno, his father tells him to double the dose. Randy disagrees: he's going to triple it.
- No Ontological Inertia: The Amor de Infierno wears off when Randy gets thrown off a cliff.
- Only Sane Woman: As Rosalee declined a drink due to her current pregnancy, she is unaffected by Randy's scheme, giving her time to realise what has happened and find a cure before any of the others do something more permanent.
- Shout-Out:
- The main plot involving the Grimm gang echoes A Midsummer Night's Dream, specifically the mayhem caused by Puck's love spell.
- The B plot with Renard and Diana homages O. Henry's "Ransom of Red Chief," in which a kidnap victim proves to be more trouble than they're worth.
- Spanner in the Works:
- Waitress Holly, who bumps into Randy as he carries the drugged champagne to the gang's table. Some of her hair falls into a glass, making Wu obsess with her instead of the intended target.
- Rosalee screws up Randy's revenge by being pregnant and passing on the champagne, which Hank takes instead. This results in Hank staring in adoration at his own reflection while Only Sane Woman Rosalee goes after Randy.
- Spurned into Suicide: Wu becomes a particularly intense Stalker with a Crush towards waitress Holly, finally trying to kill himself when she rejects him.Wu: If you can't stand my love for you, you leave me no choice but to end this ghastly farce and throw myself off this cliff. Farewell, my sweet, my darling, my one and only... [He looks at Holly's name tag] Holly. [He heads to the edge of the cliff] What dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Randy Goode is a Cupiditas who drugs the gang with a love potion by spitting in their champagne. And you thought a regular waiter spitting in your food was bad.
