Roaring Rampage of Revenge about to happen.
The Spirit you seek in the water is only a reflection of yourself.
A Native American quest ritual becomes the focus of an investigation as a young man's troubled past leads to murder.
Juliette begins to enjoy her new dangerous side.
This episode provides examples of:
- Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time Booboo Stewart has played someone with a wolfy side.
- Asshole Victim: The victims are all violent racists who once beat a Native American man to death in front of his five-year-old son.
- Call-Back: Deputy Janelle Farris from "Highway of Tears" is back.
- Contrived Coincidence: Deputy Farris just happens to have an ex-husband from the exact Native American tribe the main suspect is from, and still has good relations at the reservation.
- How We Got Here: The Cold Open shows Nick being slammed against a wall and strangled by a clearly-possessed Hank, then jumps back by two days. When the narrative catches up, Hector (who was out of frame before) throws some red powder in Hank's face, depossessing him.
- Misplaced Wildlife: A supernatural example: Hector explains to Nick and Hank that the Mishipeshu is more commonly said to reside around the American Northeast, near the Great Lakes. Which is quite a long ways away from Oregon. Its presence in the Pacific Northwest is justified by saying that Simon's late mother was of one of the tribes near Lake Superior, thus giving him a connection to the Mishipeshu.
- Noodle Incident: Adalind discusses Juliette starting a bar brawl with Kenneth, adding, "and God knows, we've all done that."
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Renard follows a random guy to his car, punches him and takes his wallet. Later, when he finds the wallet in his coat, he doesn't remember how it got there.
- Properly Paranoid: Nick, Hank and Deputy Farris take part in a Native American ceremony to find Simon who is on a power quest. Just before the ritual begins, Hector notices something "different" about Nick and suggests he shouldn't drink the potion. Given how Mishipeshu reacts to Nick while possessing Hank, that was probably wise.
- Earlier, Deputy Farris and Hank observe a statue relating to a Native American myth about the "Bear Mother," and how bears are believed by the tribe to be humans who have taken on animal forms. This combined with Hector sensing something different about Nick more than implies that the tribe also has their own Grimms.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Mishipeshu is responding to Simon George's anger over his father's murder and violently kills the murderers. The last victim appears to have been saved, but Deputy Farris kills him in the end while possessed.
