6/12 - Zerstörer Shrugged 6/13 - The End

 

6/12 - Zerstörer Shrugged

We have arrived at the penultimate episode of Grimm.  Zerstörer is German for "destroyer" and who is Zerstörer you are probably wondering.  Remember last time I talked about the skull that Eve saw in the mirror?  That's Zerstörer.  A few episodes ago Eve used a spell to let her slip through a large mirror into another dimension.  In that dimension, which was a more feral version of ours and also about four hundred years in the past, Zerstörer is a devil like creature that controls the mirror dimension.  Nick soon followed her through but the two of them could not do much in the way of damaging Zerstörer.  The two found themselves trapped in the mirror dimension and on the bad end of an ass beating compliments of Zerstörer.  Diana figures out a way to get Eve and Nick back to our side of the mirror.  What everyone didn't know is that  Zerstörer came along with them.  There is a side effect of Eve going to the mirror dimension and then coming back and that is she has lost all her Hexenbiest powers.  After Diana pulls them both back she looks at Eve and tells her she's different. 

 

 

Now everything isn't bad news, there is some good news.  That good news is Trubel is back in Portland as well.  She brings with her the information that every cell of Black Claw has been destroyed and the group no longer poses a threat.  With this episode there is a feeling of going full circle as the cottage in the woods that was featured in the very first episode makes a return.  Nick, Adalind, and Renard think this will be a good place to hide Diana from Zerstörer.  When Zerstörer enters our world (through the mirror in a gas station bathroom), he arrives naked and steals the clothes from the first man he sees, sort of like The Terminator.  It seems that in our world, when woged, Zerstörer looks like a normal human with blond hair and a tan.  Is he Rocky from Rocky Horror?  Also in Terminator fashion he goes to the police station and totally destroys the place.  With so little left to get through there were likely to be deaths.  For those of you that rode the roller coaster that was the final few episodes of LOST knows that when a show is ending, nobody is safe.
 

 

As the circle closes around Nick and the time grows short to tell this story, we see Diana back at the cabin in the woods very shaken.  She doesn't truly know how powerful she is but it is worry-some when we see her being so frightened.  Renard and Adalind do their best to reassure Diana she is going to be safe.  They almost sound like they meant that too.  So the basic needs for this skull guy, is he wants to take Diana for his child bride and he wants "the stick".  There is also talk of him being there for Kelly as well but that is never explained.  Now the stick is by far the bigger of the two issues that needs to be addressed.  Rosalee and Munroe discover that according to his families Wesen bible, the stick is a piece of Zerstörers' staff which is the most powerful weapon in the universe but it has to be reunited with the piece that Nick has for it to be fully functional.  It has some power now in the state it is in, a great deal it would seem, but with the stick added back it is the end all be all weapon.  While Zerstörer is walking around Portland looking like Rocky Horror, we see his stick turn into a huge snake and take out a bunch of guys giving him a hard time.

 

  

Nick leaves the cabin where Renard, Adalind, and Diana are hiding to go meet Hank and Wu at the precinct.  Before he leaves Nick tells Adalind he loves her for the first time.  Crap, it's not the last time is it?  When Zerstörer attacks the precinct everyone there dies except for Nick.  Sadly, that means we say goodbye to Hank and Wu this episode.   Wu morphs into his primal form and attacks Rocky but Wu is impaled by the staff and dies right there on the floor in Nick's arms.  Hank fires dozens of bullets into Rocky and it does nothing.  Hank is killed and Nick becomes enraged.  He attacks and is thrown around the precinct like a rag doll.  For Hank and Wu, their deaths happen very fast and we are never given enough time to mourn their loss as this episode ends with a predictable To Be Continued.  
 

 The title is a nod to Atlas Shrugged a novel by Ayn Rand which in my opinion reflects the fact that the society we know in the Grimm world is about to be destroyed so another one may be born.  The quote for this episode is "You shall break them with a rod." which is a quote from The Bible specifically Psalm 2:9.  The Psalm predicts the destruction of any rebellious nation when He returns to earth to establish his kingdom.  I liked how the human form of Zerstörer seemed to mimic that of the pre fall Lucifer description reinforcing his "devil" comparison.  The first time the show has gone biblical as far as I can remember.  One to go.  Let's all take a deep breath and jump into...

 

6/13 - The End

This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end of our elaborate plans
The end of everything that stands

                                          The End by The Doors

 

 

Back at the precinct Nick wakes up and tries to use the stick on Wu and Hank.  It doesn't work.  Trubel comes in and surveys the scene.  Nick tells her they have to kill Zerstörer but since bullets have no effect they will do it the old fashioned way like their ancestors did.  They need to cut his head off.  Nick sends Trubel off to the cabin to be with Adalind, Renard, and the kids.  Nick heads to The Spice Shop.  At the shop Munroe finds a mention of defeating the ultimate evil.  To do so they need "the strength of ones blood" which reminds Rosalee of a potion called Force du Sang.  The potion is not easy to make as it requires the blood of a Grimm, a Hexenbiest, and another Wesen.  It must all be added to the potion at the same time.  As they are making the potion Nick shows up and tells them about Hank and Wu.  Munroe and Rosalee leave with the potion that still needs the blood.  Rocky Horror shows up at the shop and Eve attacks him with a dagger but he is easily able to use telekinesis to force her to stab herself in the stomach.  Rocky vanishes and Eve tells Nick she has no regrets.  Nick tries to heal Eve with the stick but it doesn't work.  Eve dies.

At the cabin Munroe and Rosalee tell Renard and Adalind about the potion.  Nick arrives and tells them Eve is dead.  They need to add the blood to finish the potion.  Now!  Adalind, Rosalee, and Nick all hold their hands over the cauldron.  Renard holds a dagger over their hands.  He hesitates.  Trubel pushes his hand down plunging the dagger through all three of their hands.  Their blood mixes with the rest of the concoction.  Rocky Horror shows up and in his human form he slams his staff down and everyone is knocked down except for Diana.  She willingly leaves with Rocky.  Renard gets up and chases them outside and tries to attack to no use.  Rocky stabs him in the chest with his staff, killing him.  Outside, Munroe brings the finished potion and throws it in Rocky's face.  He screams in agony but then recovers and acts as if nothing happened.  Rocky slams the cabin door trapping Trubel inside with Kelly.  Rocky has an axe that Adalind, using her power telekinesis, takes from him but Rocky is able to take it right back.  He slashes her in the chest with the axe.  Her final words to Nick are "Save Kelly and Diana.".  Rocky drops his staff and Rosalee picks it up.  The staff turns into the giant snake I had mentioned before.  The snake bites Rosalee on the throat and then does the same to Munroe.  Killing them both.

 

Rocky goes back into the cabin and recognizes Trubel as a Grimm.  His staff turns into a rope and he strangles Trubel with it.  Only Nick is now left with the children.  Rocky tells Nick that none of this needed to happen and if he gives him the stick he will revive them all.  To prove this Rocky touches Trubel's body with his staff and she is brought back to life.  Rocky cannot kill Nick and he cannot take the stick from him either.  Nick must give it willingly.  Nick wants to give him the stick but Trubel tells him he can't as it would end all of humanity.  The two of them begin to fight now.  Trubel gets the stick and runs away with it.  The stick glows red and burns her hand forcing her to drop it.  They begin fighting again and Nick is able to overpower her and get the stick back.  He heads back to the cabin but a voice cries out "You must not!  You cannot betray us and what we are.".  The voice belongs to his mother.  His aunt Marie is with her.  They tell him he can't do what he is about to do.  He says he wants his friends back.  They tell him about the power being in the blood.  Nick tells them he already tried that and it didn't work.  They say the blood they are talking about is Nick's blood.  The power of the Grimm.  All three of them together can conquer any evil if they fight together with all of their ancestors. 

 

 

The three of them go back to the cabin and Rocky Horror again asks Nick for the stick.  Nick drops the stick on the ground and tells Rocky to come and get it.  Zerstörer battles all four Grimms with Kelly and Trubel stabbing him with daggers.  Zerstörer falls and drops his weapon.  Maria cuts off one of his arms with her sword.  Nick picks up Zerstörers' staff and when he does the stick glows green and rejoins the staff making it whole.  Nick turns to Zerstörer and says: "You wanted it? Here it is!" and stabs Rocky Horror right in the chest with the staff.  As Zerstörer dies a tendril of black smoke comes out of his mouth.  

Nick thanks Kelly and Marie for stopping him and asks how they knew he needed help.  They said they could "feel" that he needed them.  They mention that Trubel felt it too, that's why she came back.  Kelly says they are all descendants of the first Grimm and the staff must be protected as it is part of a much greater power.  Kelly tells Nick to take good care of her grandson and says she likes his name.  Trubel comes over marveling at the fact that the two of them were able to beat Rocky.  Nick asks what she means by "the two of them" and looks around and Kelly and Marie are gone.  Nick looks around and sees that even though Zerstörer is dead, his friends are also all still dead.  Diana comes out of the cabin and asks where the other two went.  Meaning she could see Kelly and Marie.  Nick has one last idea to bring everyone back to life, the staff.  Just then, Trubel calls to Nick to look at  Zerstörers' body.  It has turned to ash and goes up into the air as a swirling dark cloud.  The cloud begins to pull the staff and Nick up into it.  Nick tries to withstand it but cannot.  Up he goes. 

At Munroe and Rosalee's house Nick comes crashing through a mirror with the staff in hand.  Diana tells Adalind; "It worked, I got Nick back for you!".  Nick is surprised to see everyone alive again and hugs everyone telling them how glad he is to see them all again.  They are just as happy to have him back.  It appears only Nick and Diana know what really happened.  Diana recognizes that Eve has her Hexenbiest powers back.  Diana said she was afraid that Zerstörer was coming back but he's not now because he is dead.  Munroe looks at the staff and asks where it came from.

  

Twenty years later, a male voice narrates as he writes in a book.  He is sitting in a trailer in the woods.  The man concludes his narration by saying,  "I know it's true, because my father told me so.".  Just then a young woman's voice calls the man "Kelly".  She tells him to get ready because Mom and Dad are waiting and they have Wesen to kill.  She adds that the triplets (Rosalee had an ultrasound a few episodes ago and learned she was pregnant with triplets) are coming too.  She opens a cabinet loaded with antique weapons and pulls out the staff.  The man signs the diary entry "Kelly Burkhardt" and leaves the trailer with the staff.  As she is leaving the trailer, the woman turns back and with her eyes glowing purple she closes the large book.  Embossed on the cover of the book is a large letter "G".  

 

The episode ends with The End on the screen and then the words Thank You which is translated into 32 languages.  The quote for the final episode was also taken from The Bible again, specifically Psalm 23:4 "Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.".  I'll be back for one more Grimm post to wrap all of this up tomorrow.  Toodle Pip.