Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-3125844-20150424201205/@comment-25862208-20150531231905

82.21.236.214 wrote: My understanding of the doppelarmburst is that one pull of the trigger fired two bolts. Depending on how the firing mechanism works a second delay for second bolt is pretty good. The trajectories of the two bolts proves they were fired from different positions.

Juliette and Nick didn't act like a couple. Nick bought an engagement ring before the Pilot even began, but never asked Juliette to marry him for nearly two seasons. Showing some commitment to settle down there - that's heavy sarcasm just so you know. Renard never did elaborate on why Nick would leave Portland if he wasn't with Juliette nor what it was that tied Juliette to Portland. I'd agree the two bolts were fired from different positions, or at least aimed differently, but I think it was clear in "Cry Havoc" that Trubel fired two separate shots. Here's a couple other good examples to look at: in "Double Date" when Nick shot Stacy in her woged form with the "jumbo" darts--Nick shoots two shots in rapid succession, but they aren't shot at the same time. The amount of time it took between the first dart and the second one was definitely less than the time it took for Trubel to shoot the two bolts, which shows that the shooter of the Doppelarmbrust controls each bolt being fired individually. Probably the best example is in "Woman in Black" when Nick only fired one dart at Akira Kimura and was preparing to fire a second one at him, but Kimura advanced on him too quickly.

I agree that Nick and Juliette certainly weren't always on the same page as a couple, but they really did have a lot of nice moments with each other the first season. I think Nick probably wanted to settle down with Juliette more than she wanted to with Nick, but Aunt Marie's arrival and Nick finding out he was a Grimm pretty much put any plans for marriage on a permanent holding cycle. Nick eventually put plans together to propose to Juliette in "The Thing With Feathers," and he actually bought the engagement ring in the Pilot (after Nick walked out of a jewelry store, the scene right before Nick saw Adalind woge, Hank said to him, "Detective, what are you looking at? You just bought a ring).