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Grimm Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2011 - 2012
Episode 1
Pilot
Fri, Oct 28, 201145 mins
Nick Burkhardt, a promising Portland homicide detective, told nobody he's been seeing visions of people 'transforming' into monsters when he looks at them. While investigating the murder and disappearance of two girls, he realizes it's a Grimm family gift, which passes from his aunt Marie Kessler when she is dying from cancer. She also gives him a mysterious key. Nick becomes her attacker's next target, narrowly escaping. Nick discreetly uses his gift to track down a postman, who turns out to be a descendant of werewolf lineage, and who helps him find the violent monster.
Episode 2
Bears Will Be Bears
Fri, Nov 4, 201145 mins
Rocky Babb goes missing after breaking into lawyer Frank Rabe's desolate Forrest home with his girl-friend Gilda Darner, who escaped and urges the PPD to investigate. Nick believes her and Grimm-senses Frank's adolescent son Barry can change into a bear. Eddie Monroe Blutbad accepts grudgingly to guard aunt Marie Kessler in hospital while Nick and Hank check out Barry and his motorbike buddies, Jason and T.B. Colbert, who kidnapped Rocky for a grim sunset initiation hunt.
Episode 3
BeeWare
Fri, Nov 11, 201145 mins
During a flash-mob on a bus, a lawyer is killed with a stunning overdose of bee venom, but it fits no geographical origin. Monroe and the Grim records help Nick work out it must be the work of a feral bee queen, the sworn enemy of Hexenbiests like Adalind. Trailing a professor-beekeeper and the other twelve attendants of a bee-keeping convention, Nick and his partner Hank find them congregating and get attacked by an unnatural bee swarm.
Episode 4
Lonelyhearts
Fri, Nov 18, 201145 mins
Nick discovers that several disappeared women were raped, a few also killed, after a stay in Billy Capra's romantic, honeymoon-oriented hotel. After a Grimm-flash shows him Bill as a goat, Nick enlists Eddie Monroe to help him identify the feral type, which uses irresistible seduction pheromones, and to prepare a hotel intrusion to save the latest victims. Meanwhile Captain Sean Renard gives an uninvited French reaper a terrible welcome.
Episode 5
Danse Macabre
Thu, Dec 8, 201145 mins
Nick investigates the death of popular Seattle private prep school music teacher, who was seemingly bitten to death by rats in his car. The popular crowd suggest the only feasible suspect is recently suspended outsider Roddy Geiger, a gifted violinist but son of ruffian junk yard keeper Ephram. Near the fatal car are found cages used by Roddy to keep his pet rodents. As Nick recognizes the knave as feral rat, Monroe tries to give 'fatherly' guidance. However when his father is falsely arrested and abused in jail, the boy snaps and sets a trap for the rich kids who constantly abuse and sometimes bully him. In his anonymous feline DJ mask, he lures them to an underground rave, where his biting army is ready for the kill.
Episode 6
The Three Bad Wolves
Fri, Dec 9, 201145 mins
Blutbad Hap Lasser coincidentally survives a cunning arson attack which makes his home explode, two months after his brother died in a similar fire. Monroe reluctantly takes him in, also as a favor to Hap's sister, Monroe's own ex-lover Angelina. She returns to revenge both brothers and hates Grimms but resumes nocturnal hunt fun with Monroe. Lieutenant Peter Orson didn't call either case arson, but lost his own brother in a fire which may be a Blutbad's doing.
Episode 7
Let Your Hair Down
Fri, Dec 16, 201145 mins
A drug trafficker was murdered without apparent motive deep in the forest. Helped by unusually enthusiastic Monroe, Nick soon works out the killer must be a feral and after tracing her it's a girl. Then follows traces indicating she may be a long-missing child having nearly grown up in the woods, and suggesting a link with recluse tracker James Addison, but there are others involved.
Episode 8
Game Ogre
Fri, Jan 13, 201245 mins
Highly respected judge Logan Patterson is murdered, and shortly after several other people who played some part in the conviction and incarceration of an escaped giant of unnatural strength. Nick is badly wounded, out of action. Monroe however shows unusual enthusiasm to help out while Hank follows the paper trail.
Episode 9
Of Mouse and Man
Fri, Jan 20, 201245 mins
A man named Leonard "Lenny" Drake is found dead in a garbage truck and Nick and Hank investigate the case. They find blood in the dumpster near his building and a trail of blood to the parking garage. The manager explains that the tenant was a violent man that lived in his apartment with the gorgeous Natalie Havershaw. On the previous night, they had an argument and the tenants Marty Burgess first and the lawyer Mason Snyder then had come to protect her. Marty returned to his apartment while Lenny and Mason continued to argue. Then Mason escorted her to her car and she left the building to check in a hotel. Nick and Hank visit Marty at his junk shop and Nick sees that Marty looked like a mouse. Then they visit Mason and Nick sees that the lawyer looked like a snake. Nick visits Monroe and learns that the creatures are the harmless and cowardly Mauzhertz and the dangerous and lethal Lausenschlange respectively. Then Monroe receives a phone call relative to work and Nick leaves him, but Monroe receives a message instead. When another man is found dead in the dumpster of a repair shop in the same "modus-operandis" Nick believes the cases are connected.
Episode 10
Organ Grinder
Fri, Feb 3, 201245 mins
Teenage street kid buddies Steven Bamford and Kevin Standish disappear in the forest. One's corpse is found, missing various organs. Nick realizes from his legacy book that may be the work of Geiers, crypto-vultures who take sadistic pleasure in the agony of victims whose organs they 'harvest' to sell as feral creatures medicine. Monroe shows Nick the fox-feral pharmacist-client. Nick and his girlfriend take pity on street kid siblings Hanson and Gracie, who tell them when treated to a dinner about their missing mates. Both trails connect in a free clinic treating the homeless.
Episode 11
Tarantella
Fri, Feb 10, 201245 mins
A mysterious woman seduces men, then kills them in a way too gruesome to watch. Nick must uncover this new and rare creature's secret and find her before she kills again. Concurrently, Nick takes (admittedly belated) action to stop the (Wesen) creatures from rumor-mongering and stalking his home; in this show of power, Nick is slowly coming into his own as a Grimm - and defending house and home.
Episode 12
Last Grimm Standing
Fri, Feb 24, 201245 mins
When Nick consults him about an erratic murder committed by athletic ex-con Dimitri Skontos, Monroe soon helps him realize that's actually a victim of 'gladiator games' organized by the most bloodthirsty pride of Löwen, a lionesque feral species. Nick spends his anniversary working out the fighters are recruited through a dodgy parole officer and where the arena is hidden. Captain Sean Renard realizes the lucrative fights are becoming too notorious, his royal order to close down the games is ignored, so he turns to a priestly enforcer. Meanwhile first Monroe, then Nick go undercover, only to end up caged and hence in the ring, facing daunting ferals.
Episode 13
Three Coins in a Fuchsbau
Fri, Mar 2, 201245 mins
Jeweler Sam Bertram was murdered by three European killers, of rival feral species, to steal the rarest Ancient gold coins from his safe. Two are dead, the third steals a uniform from a cop he murders. The coins are found on the elusive Farley Kolt, who is arrested and tells Nick enough to work out he was late aunt Marie's true love. The coins, minted on Zakynthos, with swastika's and lions heads, are poisonous and magically attract great power and utter disaster. Captain Sean Renard keeps them and starts an ambitious 'campaign against crime' amidst dreams of absolute power in Nazi style.
Episode 14
Plumed Serpent
Fri, Mar 9, 201245 mins
Nick is puzzled by several corpses with unusual semi-internal combustion symptoms. After Nick and Hank are attacked by a fire-breathing dragon, which fits the riddle, Monroe teaches Nick about the suspect feral breed, not actual dragons but close, and brings him in contact with a member, Ariel Eberhart, fire-breather at his favorite nightclub. She seems however more interested in Nick than is safe for his relationship with Juliette, and is the daughter of the murdering 'dragon'.
Episode 15
Island of Dreams
Fri, Mar 30, 201245 mins
Herbalist Freddy Calvert is murdered in his spices shop by two intruding ferals, who are chased off by the alarm he still manages to trigger. Monroe and Freddy's sister and heir Rosalee tell Nick the murders must be addicts after a mind-poisoning drug. On captain Renard's orders, seductress Adalind Schade bakes magically spiked cookies to put a spell on Hank, then tries to dispose gruesomely of sergeant Wu, but Rosalee knows a cure.
Episode 16
The Thing with Feathers
Fri, Apr 6, 201245 mins
Nicks takes his first holiday since he realized being a grim, to propose to Juliette in a romantic country setting. They end up in a lodge next to the home of feral Timothy Steinkellner, who they soon rightly suspect of nasty business with his wife Robin, also a feral but avian. It turns out sheriff Munson, whom Nick could only inform, given jurisdiction, is in the plot for a golden egg. Meanwhile Hank, supposed to mind the fort, only stalks Analind, who continues luring men under Renard's orders. The secrecy now exacts a high price for Nick.
Episode 17
Love Sick
Fri, Apr 13, 201245 mins
Nick is in the trailer trying to find out what the key that he received from his aunt might open. Juliette calls him telling that Hank has invited them to have dinner together with Adalind. Captain Renard is forced by a criminal with a weapon to go with him to meet his cousin, but he reacts and kills them both. When Nick meets Adalind, he recalls that she wanted to kill his aunt and he confronts her near the restrooms. But he is called to investigate the murder of the two men and leaves the restaurant. Meanwhile Renard goes to the house of Catherine and she tells him that her daughter will get the Grimm's key for him. Nick meets with Monroe and Rosalee and Rosalee discovers what Adalind gave to Hank. Will she be capable to prepare an antidote and save his life?
Episode 18
Cat and Mouse
Fri, Apr 20, 201245 mins
A man named Ian Hamon is being hunted down by the Verrat's agent Edgar Waltz and is wounded at Portland's bus station by a bullet and loses his backpack. Waltz meets Captain Renard seeking for help to capture Ian but his request is turned down. Meanwhile, Ian, who belongs to the Wesen Resistance, goes to the spice shop and Rosalee, who was his lover in the past, calls Monroe to help her to remove the bullet. Waltz kills a man and leaves Ian's passport in the crime scene to force Renard to chase him. When Nick arrives at the spice shop, he tries to arrest Ian, but Rosalee and Monroe testify that he was unconscious with them when the man was murdered. Soon Waltz confronts Nick while Ian needs a new passport to leave the country. Nick has to make a decision and cross the line as a police detective.
Episode 19
Leave It to Beavers
Fri, Apr 27, 201245 mins
Nick investigates the murder of a bridge construction contractor who is a beaver (Eisbiber), by a building inspector who is a troll (Hasslich). The contractor's refusal to pay tribute to the inspector potentially disrupted long history of trolls controlling bridges.
Episode 20
Happily Ever Aftermath
Fri, May 4, 201245 mins
After a man and his wife are scammed out their fortune by a Madoff-like fraudster, the husband approaches his wife's evil stepmother for financial assistance. But she refuses and is soon after murdered by a Murcielago - a bat-like creature that kills with a sonic scream.
Episode 21
Big Feet
Fri, May 11, 201245 mins
Episodes of vicious attacks by Bigfoot-like Wesen known as Wildermann are suddenly rampant. Nick and Monroe discover that the errant Wesen are connected to a psychologist performing medical experiments to help the Wesen control their urges.
Episode 22
Woman in Black
Fri, May 18, 201245 mins
A Schakal Wesen wreaks havoc while searching for the ancient Zakynthos gold coins, while a mysterious woman in black tracks his movements. Nick informs a dubious Juliette of his heritage just before she collapses and is hospitalized because of a poisonous scratch from Adalind's cat.
