Meet El Cuegle, eater of babies.
Foretold our fate, by the gods' decree, all heard and none believed the prophecy.
A menacing new Wesen terrorizes a young family, for reasons that will raise all sorts of uncomfortable questions.
Capt. Renard is shocked by an unexpected guest, while Diana has news for Monroe and Rosalee.
Eve looks for answers relating to her strange visions and side effects after being healed by the stick.
This episode provides examples of:
- Abusive Parents: The Malers are a toxic family. The father, Paul, is snide and emotionally abusive, while the mother, Haley, is self-absorbed and more focused on social media than her baby. The situation between them is worse by the end of the episode, and will apparently deteriorate until a nineteen-year-old Auggie kills both his parents.
- Call-Back:
- The episode follows directly on from Oh Captain, My Captain, with Diana wanting to know why Nick looked like her Daddy.
- After touching the stick, Eve starts drawing the symbols she saw in her Death Grip trance.
- Cassandra Truth: No one believes El Cuegle is preventing future tragedies until the end, when he's dead anyway.
- Combat Pragmatist: The three-armed El Cuegle pins Nick with two arms while punching him with the third.
- Crazy-Prepared: Adalind foresaw that Renard would try and talk Diana into killing Nick and pre-empted him.Diana: Mommy said you'd say so and that I shouldn't believe you.
- If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: An indirect version. Diana tells Renard that Nick will be "very sorry" if he ever hurts Adalind.
- Kid Amidst the Chaos: Monroe and Rosalee worry about raising children in Portland, given all the crazy, dangerous stuff that keeps happening.
- Mercy Kill: Renard tries to persuade Meisner to stop haunting him by pointing out that he only killed him to end his suffering. It's a No-Sell as Meisner points out that Renard caused the attack in the first place.Meisner: Oh, thank you for that. Really. But don't forget you betrayed us all. It's the real reason I'm dead.
- Mundane Utility: Diana uses her awesome, unfathomable powers to boil water for pasta real quick.Renard: It must be fun being you, isn't it?
- Oh, Crap!: When El Cuegle dies, he says "The bears... the bears..." about his vision that Auggie will grow up to kill his parents. Nick and Hank are dismissive... until they see a blanket of Auggie's, adorned with a pattern of teddy bears.
- Psychic Link: Nick has a dizzy spell when Eve picks up the stick.
- Psychic Powers: Diana can sense that Rosalee is pregnant, and tells her and Monroe that she has more than one baby.
- Sanity Slippage: With Meisner now appearing to him in person, Renard has started shouting at thin air in public.
- Shipper on Deck: Diana wants her parents together, and is clearly unhappy with Nick. She hasn't gone after him as she did Rachel... yet.
- Shout-Out:
- The Grimm diaries' image of El Cuegle resembles the Francisco Goya painting, "Saturn Devouring His Son".
- When Monroe hears the description of El Cuegle, he asks, "You sure it wasn't a one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater?"
- Would Hurt a Child|: El Cuegle has visions that compel him to abduct and eat babies who will grow up to do terrible things.
- You Do Not Want To Know: Monroe stops a pregnant Rosalee from seeing the image of El Cuegle as it shows a baby being eaten.
- You Have to Believe Me!: Haley insists that a monster took her baby and sticks to that story even as her husband derides her as crazy.
