Save the Damsel in Distress, all in a day's work.
Then she began to weep bitterly, and said, 'What can a poor girl like me do now?
Things are bad for Nick both at home and at work. Juliette still has no memory of their relationship, while Hank is reaching breaking point and thinking of quitting the force. Nick to decides to tell his partner the truth about Wesen and Grimms, but first the pair must help an old friend of Hank's whose daughter Carly is missing.
Nick soon realises there's more to the case than Hank knows; Carly and her father are Coyotls, and she's been taken for a brutal and barbaric rite of passage. With Monroe unable to help, can Nick and Hank save the girl in time?
Tropes that appear in this episode:
- Bad People Abuse Animals: Nick and Hank find a bathtub full of animals slaughtered by Carly's family as part of the Aseveración rites.
- Bilingual Bonus: Aseveración means "Affirmation" in Spanish.
- Creepy Uncle: Carly's uncle is really looking forward to raping her as part of a coming-of-age ceremony for her kind.
- Decoy Damsel: Inverted. Hearing Carly screaming for help brings all her Coyotl cousins running - not to help her, but to join in the carnage she is supposedly witnessing.
- Double Meaning: Jarold tells Nick and Hank that he knows that they found something in Hayden's apartment because he can smell it on them. Hank takes this figuratively, but Nick knows that Jarold means that literally because he's a Coyotl with a heightened sense of smell.
- The Dreaded: A good example of how feared Grimms are among wesen; four armed Coyotl are faced with two armed cops, and the four immediately drop their weapons when they realise they're facing a Grimm.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Nick asks Jarold if Carly's abduction might have something to do with the Coyotl Aseveracion ritual, Jarold says his wife's family was heavily into that stuff, but that's why he and his wife broke off contact with them, and that family lives way out in Texas... then realizes who has taken Carly.
- Internal Reveal: Nick winds up revealing his status as a Grimm to Hank, if only to stop Hank from shooting Carly out of panic. He was going to tell him anyway, realising Hank was losing his mind, but figured the kidnapped teenager should probably come first.
- Kissing Cousins: Carly's cousins are really looking forward to raping her as part of a coming-of-age ceremony for her kind, and hate her father for not wanting her to go through it.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Juliette has specifically only forgotten Nick. Everything else is in place, but with him carefully edited out. For example, she remembers Monroe, having him over for dinner and that he saved her life, but not Nick's part of either of those events.
- Let Me Get This Straight...: Wu, when Nick and Hank return from their very busy day.Wu: Hey. So, let me get this straight. In the last six hours you've arrested six villains, saved a damsel in distress, and reunited a family, while I've filled out three dozen overtime reports and scrubbed out the coffeemaker. Yeah, we've all put in a rich, full day.
- The Load: Poor Jarold is enough of a Papa Wolf that he becomes a Leeroy Jenkins, nearly getting himself killed, and does get himself taken hostage. Balanced out by the fact that it at least gave Nick and Hank the time to get Carly out of the well.
- No-Sell: The Coyotls try to win their fight with the police by putting on their Game Face to scare them. They're up against a Grimm and a newly-minted Kehrseite-Schlich-Kennen, so it doesn't work, leading to a Know When to Fold 'Em instead.
- Old Friend: Jarold Kampfer to Hank. Hank is the godfather to Jarold's daughter Carly.
- Papa Wolf: Jarold Kampfer, to the point of being a liability for Nick and Hank.
- Shameful Strip: Todd cuts off Carly's clothes with a knife.
- Spot the Thread: Nick sees a clean white rope in a run-down foreclosed farm, running into a well. It's moving, indicating that Carly is imprisoned in there.
- Unwilling Suspension: Carly is imprisoned by being lowered down a well by her tied wrists.
- Virgin in a White Dress: Carly is forced to wear a white dress for the Aseveración ceremony.
- Worf Had the Flu: The ritual is scheduled for the night of the full moon, which means Monroe is benched and leaves Hank open to finding out about Wesen.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Part of the plan to take down the Coyotl pack is to have Carly scream and run, acting like Hank and Nick are being killed unexpectedly by Hayden. It works flawlessly.
