Wesen drug den
Soon he was so in love with the witch's daughter that he could think of nothing else. He lived by the light of her eyes and gladly did whatever she asked.
Nick stumbles across the Wesen drug scene when he investigates the grisly murder of a Fuchsbau shop owner. Nick believes he has found an ally in the Wesen in his neighborhood.
Sgt. Wu gets mixed up in a plan by Adalind to harm Nick through his friends when he eats entirely the wrong cookie.
This episode provides examples of:
- Blood Magic: Adalind uses some of Hank's blood and some of her own when she bewitches him.
- Body Horror: Sgt. Wu, thanks to eating an evil witch cookie not meant for him. Unlike other examples of this where the victim is cured, Hollywood Healing is not in play. Not only does he have to sleep off the trauma, but he also has a mess of open sores on his face from it. And for the next two episodes he is eating anything he gets his hands on, from his carpet, couch foam, to paperclips and chap-stick.
- Call-Back: Nick reminisces about his first encounter with Freddy Calvert when he was dealing in human organs; his first suspects in Freddy's murder were the Geiers.
- Chekhov's Gun: The box-cutter Rosalee uses to search boxes in the basement for "anything a Wesen might kill for" comes in useful defending herself when the killers come back for the Jay they left behind.
- Compromising Call: Rosalee gets cornered in the basement when the killers come back. She hides, but is endangered when her phone buzzes, forcing her to box-cutter her way out.
- Contrived Coincidence: Hank just happens to have a physical, from which Renard gives Adalind a sample of his blood to use in a potion. Unless Renard ordered the physical.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Rosalee is eager to settle her brother's affairs and leave Portland, because she lived there before when she was a drug addict and isn't keen to relive those memories. Her brother helped her get clean and made her sole beneficiary of his will; a later episode suggests this was partly out of guilt that he caused the trauma that led to her addiction.
- Exact Words: When Nick receives a call from Monroe that Wu is sick at the spice shop, he updates Hank and Renard with the following:Nick: I sent Sergeant Wu to the spice shop and I think he has something. So if you cover this, I'll see what he has?
- Facial Horror: Twofold. Sgt. Wu has a faceful of open sores while he hallucinates Nick's, Monroe's, and Rosalee's faces sloughing off their skulls.
- Fantastic Drug: Jay. Derived from mold called jacine, it's used in controlled doses as a Wesen-specific pain medication. In uncontrolled doses, it has the effects of meth, rat poison and helium all at the same time. It's also fatal to humans and not illegal because nobody knows about it.
- Fingore: Adalind pricks her finger to add her own blood to her potion.
- Improvised Weapon: Rosalee takes Joshua Hall down with a cinder block and cuts the other with a box cutter.
- I Owe You My Life: Monroe brings Rosalee flowers at the end.Monroe: Now, I know it's not equal trade for my life. But I just wanted to say I'm glad you know how to clock a dude with a brick.
- It's All My Fault: The killers escape Nick and Hank because Hank hallucinated Adalind and wandered after her, leaving a door unguarded. Nick tries to cover for Hank by saying the killers escaped in all the gunfire, but Hank admits it was his fault. He gets off with a warning, probably because Renard is aware that Adalind's drugged him.
- Man Bites Man: Freddy Calvert takes a bite out of one of the robbers, leaving a one-inch circular piece in his mouth.
- More Dakka: Joshua Hall, one of the Jay addicts, wields a MAC-10 machine pistol.
- Not Me This Time:
- Nick's first suspect for Freddy's murder is the Geiers from "Organ Grinder"; they never show up.
- When Rosalee has the usual Oh, Crap! moment after realising what Nick is, he assures her he had nothing to do with her brother's death.
- Shower Scene: While under the influence of Adalind's potion, Hank imagines her in his shower.
- Spanner in the Works: After being beaten unconscious by the robbers, Freddie wakes up and activates the Spice Shop's alarm. This forces the robbers to leave earlier than planned, running past Freddie who bites one of them in the leg. This gets Freddie shot.
- Title Drop: An "Island of Dreams" is a drug den catering to Wesen.
