User blog comment:Theory of everything/First Impressions: Season Two/@comment-1509826-20120818010345/@comment-206.211.150.253-20120822023637

To answer the questions asked by "General MGD":

1. Regarding Nick's mother not going in with him to fight such an extremely deadly wesen. I agree it seemed unrealistic for Nick to remain alive, and even nearly unscathed, despite a couple of full contact attacks by that wesen... a wesen that had formerly been shown capable of killing 3 men at once, almost instantaneously. He should've at the very least come out of that fight with a few battle wound scars like his mom, but that wouldn't make for a pretty leading man so, through the magic of TV land, he remained untouched (aside from a few superficial scratches from the big cat). She'd warned Nick before he went in that this wesen was known for toying with and stalking his victims before going in for the kill, therefore, always found a way to trick/ surprise his target. In order to gain the upper hand, or have a fighting chance at all, they had to do the same with mom/ a Grimm #2 as the surprise factor. Also, he was told to come alone or the female FBI agent would be killed. At that time he didn't know yet that she'd been killed so he wouldn't have wanted to risk it.

2. Regarding why they sent in their best assassin, was Nick really such a big threat. In short, yes. Normally Reapers are sent to complete this task, killing Grimms is their sole purpose, but every Reaper Nick has fought has ended up dead (3 total). Plus, Nick has Renard (a royal himself) as additional protection.The last attempt, they'd sent their best Reapers, two of them, and both were killed during the fight. One of them accidentally beheaded the other during the fight but the royal family didn't know this so Nick appeared to be a huge threat. Also, since one beheading was done already, Nick opted to go ahead and behead the second one too... then mailed their heads back to them to send a message.