Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-3125844-20141116220359/@comment-3125844-20141209182358

Here is what the writers had to say regarding Trubel:

"Okay, gang, gather around and take a knee, we need to have a state of the union about the show and some misconceptions... This week we air ep 408, but in the office we're writing 416, filming 413, prepping 414, and putting the final touches on 415. I bring this up because the #AskingForTrubel thing led to a lot of confusion. Jaq is not fired. She is not gone forever. She will come back. But we wanted her to know that we, and the fans, loved her character, and to show NBC there's a lot left mine in terms of her journey. NBC gets that, and has already talked to the guys about when she'll show up again with the biggest impact/a story worthy of her comeback. But, again, we're literally 8 eps ahead of what you're watching, so we can't just insert her back into the plot if we hit a magic number. Because the magic number does not exist. The whole thing was a combination of "we'll miss you! Come back soon," and making some noise.

This is sort of like when Renard got shot. People threatened to stop watching if he wasn't brought back the next episode. But the episode when he was brought back was already shot and finished, as were the three after it by the time you saw the 1st ep of S4. Which is also why we don't do real spoilers here. There's months of work and coordination for each ep. Spoilers burn that to the ground."

And regarding the syndication news of Grimm airing reruns on TNT starting January 7:

"2nd the syndication news: this does not mean the show is stopping. I have no idea where that came from, but syndication is a good thing. It means NBC has even more reason to keep making Grimm because that means more episodes to sell to other networks."