Trubel gets to work.
No longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan.
Nick takes Trubel under his wing as she learns about Wesen and Grimms. He and Hank take her on a ride-along as they investigate a case, but Trubel takes matters into her own hands as the victim strikes close to home.
Adalind reaches into her past as she prepares to make a move against Nick.
This work provides examples of:
- Armor-Piercing Question: Trubel asks Juliette how she copes, being married to someone like Nick. Juliette sidesteps the question by explaining that she and Nick aren't married.
- Attempted Rape: The girls recruited by Ken and Donna have to spend their first night with Ken; a fight starts when he tries to enforce this on Trubel.
- Dark and Troubled Past: While looking through the books in the trailer, Trubel suffers a minor Heroic BSoD when she reaches the entry on Siegbarstes. When Nick and Hank ask her what's wrong, she tells them a Siegbarste killed her foster parents. She only survived because she ran, and when she told people what she saw she ended up in a psych ward.
- Call-Back:
- Looking through books at the trailer, Trubel tells a story from her past that sounds familiar to anyone who's seen "To Protect And Serve Man".
Trubel: I've seen one of those.
Nick: Wendigo. Where did you see it?
Trubel: Chicago. Dude picked me up, offered me dinner. Then I found out I was supposed to be the main dish.- The Monsters Of The Week are Lebensaugern, like Ryan in "The Hour of Death". There's a Flashback to that episode.
- Five-Finger Discount: Ken and Donna are Lebensaugern who recruit homeless teenage girls to shoplift for them.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Trubel puts herself in danger by going undercover by allowing Donna to recruit her. This is probably the only way they'll find who they're looking for, as Nick and Hank clearly aren't who Donna's looking for, but she does this without Nick's approval and without any way to guarantee her safety.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Nick and Hank are showing Trubel the Grimm ropes, and start by bringing her to meet Monroe and Rosalee so she can see them woge. After, she asks how they know she's a Grimm, and they give her the same explanation they gave Nick. Hearing how her eyes can look like nightmarish windows into the void, Trubel smiles and says, "Cool!"
- She Cleans Up Nicely: The first thing Ken and Donna do with girls they recruit is to give them a makeover to pass as customers of the kind of stores they're supposed to rob.
- Shout-Out: The title is a reference to My Fair Lady, also referred to when Renard refers to someone as "a modern-day Pygmalion." It refers both to Nick teaching Trubel about Wesen, and to Ken and Donna teaching street girls to "pass" for women who would shop at high-end stores.
- Too Hungry to Be Polite: Trubel doesn't really have much in the way of table manners, which makes sense given her history of being on the street for a big chunk of her life.
- You Have Failed Me: Victim of the Week Camilla is murdered by Ken for being spotted by the store detective.
