Quill

"" is the fourth episode of Season 2 of Grimm and the twenty-sixth episode overall. It first aired on September 3, 2012 on NBC.

Synopsis
The episode begins with a Portland Park ranger sitting in his car listening to the radio. Suddenly another car rams him from behind. The ranger gets out and checks on the other driver. He finds a man covered in what appears to be a skin infection. The infected man fights with the park ranger and falls into a wall. In the struggle, we see the park ranger is a hedgehog-like Wesen.

Nick explains to Hank about the basics of the Wesen world. They get paged and go off to their case. Meanwhile Juliet is frustrated that she still can't remember Nick. She calls Monroe and asks him how her relationship with Nick was before her memory loss. He can't tell her more than she already knows.

At the crime scene, the detectives find a completely trashed office covered with blood. They find the infected man, Stanton, who attacks them. Nick and Hank are forced to shoot, and Stanton falls dead. They interview the park ranger, but get nothing useful. The park ranger goes to a female cop to get the police report for insurance purposes, but hits on her instead, causing her to back him off.

At the precinct, the detectives informs Renard that only ibuprofen was found in Stanton's bloodstream. Hank and Nick go home. Renard gets a phone call from a man named Sean, who inform him that the family has sent a Nuckelavee to Portland to get the key. Renard tells him that he will not let that happen.

Nick shows up at Monroe's house to talk about Hank. He says that he's told Hank everything. Monroe tells Nick that Juliet called him about their relationship. Nick is upset that Juliet still hasn't warmed to him, and leaves.

Juliet is getting something from the fridge when she suddenly has a flashback to the scene where the fridge repair man (eisbiber) runs out midway through his job, and makes a reference to Nick. Nick comes home, and Juliet shares her frustration with him. However their relationship is still cold.

Renard informs one of his officers to be on the lookout for the person that the family has sent. He asks the officer to keep it top secret.

The park ranger wakes up from a nightmare. He goes to bathroom and we see an infected area on the back of his neck.

Rosalee opens her shop to find her shop in a complete mess. She sees that the cat has chewed its way out of its cage. The cat attacks her and she forces it out of her shop into the street. Monroe shows up and and finds the cat's been run over by a car outside. Monroe asks Rosalee if she'd like to go out for a picnic and she accepts.

Juliet comes downstairs to find the quilt that the eisbibers made her, and she flashes back to the scene when the eisbiber gives them the quilt and makes a reference to Nick again.

Renard is looking at the obituary info on Nick's parents when the officer he assigned the secret case to shows up. He tells Renard that he couldn't find the person, but a cab and its driver went missing 30 minutes after the person's flight landed. Renard passes by Nick and Hank's desk and gives them a vague warning about a fugitive who just landed in Portland.

Monroe and Rosalee go on their picnic in the woods. The park ranger drives up to the same location, fully infected now.

Nick and Monroe are in the morgue.Haper tells them that the infection is like the ebola virus, but different. Hank asks if its contagious, and Parker reassures them that since they look pretty healthy after one day of contact, they should be ok. She runs some tests just to be sure. Hank wonders if Stanton was infected because he was a Reinigen. As they leave, we see a man watching them. He gets into a car and follows them.

Juliet invites the Eisbiber (fridge repair man) over for tea and asks him for help to jog her memory. She asks him about her relationship with Nick. The Eisbiber tells her that they were so perfect for each other and so in love. He accidentally lets out that Nick is a Grimm, but Juliet has no idea what that means. The Eisbiber realizes his mistake and nervously covers his track by telling her that a Grimm is a term for a "good cop". He hurries off.

Sgt. Wu runs a background check on Stanton and finds a woman's voice on Stanton's answering machine. Hank and Nick decide to dig deeper. Nick finds a page in his book that describes Stanton's symptoms. Hank gets a hit on Stanton's wife's job. She handles domesticated animals, especially pigs.

Sgt. Wu arrives at Stanton's house and finds it in disarray. He calls out for Mrs Stanton, but get no response. She suddenly appears, fully infected, and comes at him with a knife and screwdriver. Wu has no choice and shoots her several times. She falls dead straight onto him.

At Monroe and Rosalee's picnic, the two are about to share a kiss when they see the park ranger coming towards them. He chases after them but Monroe and Rosalee manage to get away.

At the Stanton's house, Nick and Hank sees the wife's dead body. They notice a suitacse filled with files on pigs. They get a message on the police radio about the park ranger, and they respond.

Monroe and Rosalee get back to the shop and they share their first kiss. Monroe gets a call from Nick, who asks him about the 'yellow plague'. He informs Monroe that there may be an outbreak and asks if Rosalee can make an antidote. Meanwhile Rosalee seems extremely turned on, and while kissing Monroe, he sees a scratch on her neck and realises she's infected.

At the woods, Nick and Hank see the park ranger coming towards them, but he suddenly collapses.

Monroe asks Rosalee to help him make the treatment for the plague, but she's already showing the symptoms and passes out. Monroe is forced to make it on his own. Nick and Hank come into the shop with the park ranger. Rosalee escapes and Nick goes out to find her. Monroe manages to brew the treatment and forces it down the park ranger's throat.

Nick finds Rosalee in a deserted alley but she charges towards him with a pair of scissors. He knocks her out and takes her back to the shop. They give Rosalee the treatment. Later on, they find that the infections on the park ranger has diminished, and the treatment seems to be working. Rosalee wakes up and thanks Monroe for saving her.

Meanwhile, the Wesen sent by the royal family sits above the shop, watching them.

Wesen

 * Blutbad
 * Eisbiber‎
 * Fuchsbau
 * Nuckelavee
 * Reinigen
 * Stangebär

Quotes

 * (Hank): "Now how many of these what-you-call-them are there?"
 * (Nick): "Wesen. They call themselves Wesen. And...I don't know how many there are. And I've seen, maybe two dozen. I've read about them a whole lot more.'"
 * (Hank): "What d'you mean you read about them? You can buy a book about this?"
 * (Nick): "No. Look, when my Aunt Marie came to town. She brought this bunch of stuff with her. And I sort of inherited it. My ancestors have apparently been passing this stuff down for centuries."
 * (Hank): "And now you see them all the time?"
 * (Nick): "Only when they're upset, pissed off...Y'know, emotional in some way."
 * (Hank): "And do they know you're one of these...Grimms?"
 * (Nick): "No, I think...they can sense it, when I recognize them. But I don't know for sure. My ancestors never wrote that down. They were too busy chopping off heads!"
 * (Hank): "Now am I gonna be seeing them all the time now too?"
 * (Nick): "I don't think so. But you never know, you just have to be ready. Y'know, if you didn't have a Grimm for a partner, I doubt you would have seen anything. But believe me, they're out there."


 * (Nick): "Don't even think about it..."
 * (Carl Stanton morphs into a Reinigen):
 * (Nick, to Hank): "He's thinking about it."


 * (Hank): "Did he do that 'change' thing?"
 * (Nick): "Right before he charged at us."
 * (Hank): "What d'you see?"
 * (Nick): "He's called a Reinigen."
 * (Hank): "What's a...Reinigen look like?"
 * (Nick): "Kinda like a rat."
 * (Hank): "I hate rats!"


 * (Hank): "How do you do this? How do you know who's who and what's what?"
 * (Nick): "Sometimes you do...sometimes you don't."
 * (Hank): "That's no help!"


 * (Sean): "Why is it being sent?"
 * (Informant): "For the Key!"
 * (Sean): "I will not let that happen!"


 * (Nick): "It's Hank."
 * (Monroe): "Uh-oh. Is he getting worse?"
 * (Nick): "No. I told him...everything."
 * (Monroe): "I'm sorry--excuse me?"
 * (Nick): "He knows I'm a Grimm, and he knows about Wesen."
 * (Monroe): "And he believes you?"
 * (Nick): "Man, he was losing it. I don't think he had a choice anymore!"
 * (Monroe): "Did you tell him about me?"


 * (Hank): "Now maybe this is all 'coz he's a...ummm...? What did you call it?"
 * (Nick): "It's a Reinigen."
 * (Hank): "Yeah, maybe it's 'coz he's a Reinigen!"
 * (Monroe): "I dunno. But whatever he's got, I think that explains why he attacked Gilko!"
 * (Monroe): "We need to get a background on Stanton...Who he was...What he did...Where he been!"


 * (Nick): "Look, I gotta check out some books."
 * (Hank): "What books?"
 * (Nick): "The stuff my ancestors wrote. Maybe they have something about this disease."
 * (Nick): "I'll stick to the modern world, thank you. See what I can find out about Stanton's history."


 * (Monroe): "Hey, hey, hey! That's the guy we saw at the park! He came right at me Nick! Listen, Rosalee's got it too. I think he must've scratched her, or something."
 * (Nick): "Wait, Rosalee's sick?"
 * (Hank, shocked): "Rosalee's one?"
 * (Nick): "Yeah, she's a...she's a Fuchsbau!"
 * (Hank): "Then Monroe's one?"
 * (Monroe): "Yeah! Blutbad, here. Can we get into this later? I mean welcome aboard Hank. Glad we don't have to beat around the bush anymore. It's just Rosalee's in the other room, okay? And I'm just about to mix this stuff."


 * (Monroe): "As long as we’re...umm... letting the Blutbad out of the bag, so to speak. I was the one who hit you in the park that day."
 * (Hank): "What?"
 * (Monroe): "Y'know, the 'Hunt for Bigfoot Day'?"
 * (Nick): "It's true. It was him."
 * (Monroe): "I didn't mean to. It's just...Larry was a really good friend of mine and...more later..."

Continuity

 * In, Nick told Juliette that he was descended from the Grimms on his mother's side of the family; in this episode, Bud tells Juliette that Nick is a Grimm.

Trivia

 * The Nuckelavee did not speak and was not credited.