Passing the torch.
"No," said the King. "I had rather die than place you in such a great danger as you must meet with in your journey."
What does a mysterious old man and his confused son have to do with a double murder that leads Nick and Hank to a special section of the Verrat? The old man is a Grimm, on a serious mission that involves Nick.
Renard becomes suspicious of Adalind's activities and sets Wu to keep an eye on her.
This work provides examples of:
- Big Eater: The gang are startled by the amount of spaghetti Trubel can put away.
- Dark and Troubled Past: When the gang ask about her first time seeing a Wesen, Trubel tells the story of a handyman who came to her foster house, only to lure her into the garage and try to rape her. He freaked out when he woged and saw she was a Grimm, and later when she tried to tell people what she saw they thought she was crazy. The gang look pretty harrowed by the time she's finished that story.
- Inadequate Inheritor: Through no fault of his own. Joshua Porter isn't a Grimm and thinks his father is just crazy. Rolek's terminal cancer means he needs to find a different Grimm to inherit his equipment and especially the key he's guarding. Rolek feels himself to be one as well, as he tried to live a normal, non-Grimm life.
- Mistaken For Crazy: Rolek Porter, in common with many Grimms. His son especially thinks he's gone crazy from the cancer that's killing him, and is mortified by his insistence on seemingly bothering some random cop with his delusions.
- Mr. Exposition: Nick explains the key to Trubel.Trubel: What's up with this key he keeps talking about?
Nick: It's a long story. It has to do with the Crusades and a bunch of knights who were Grimms who found something they thought no one else should have, so they buried it in the Black Forest and made a bunch of keys that had a map that supposedly leads to where it is. Is that enough?
Trubel: Good enough for now. - Passing the Torch: Rolek Porter is a Grimm, who's dying of cancer and needs to pass the books, weapons and especially the Crusaders' key he inherited from his father and grandfather to another Grimm. Unfortunately, his son Josh is not a Grimm, thinks his father is crazy and will likely just get rid of everything once he's dead, leading Rolek to use his dying days seeking out Nick as the only other Grimm he can find.
- Sword Cane: Variation. Rolek Porter has his key concealed in his walking stick.
- Tap on the Head: Adalind uses magic to bean Renard over the head with a vase.
- Visual Pun: Adalind enters Nick and Juliette's house using a key made from bones, an actual skeleton key.
- Wait Here: Nick tells Trubel to wait inside the hospital when he goes outside to fight the Verrat who've come for the trunk. She does, for two seconds, then goes and joins the fight. Nick and Hank later admit it's good she did.
