Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-3125844-20150704181713/@comment-26235944-20150706043523

In 'Leave it to Beavers', Nick killed a Reaper by one shot to the neck. Then, in 'Double Date', Nick shot the Linus/Stacy wesen in the chest and shoulder...and it didn't kill him/her, he/she didn't even seem hurt by the shots. There was no mention of any poison used when Nick shot the Reaper...and yet it killed him, just by hitting him in the neck. Then in 'Double Date', the whole reason for using the doppelarmbrust was to deliver/inject the hormone potion to the Huntha Lami Muuaji. So if we go by what we've been shown...a 'neck shot' is fatal, but a shot to the chest or shoulder is survivable, if there is no poison on the bolts.

In the scene where Juliette gets shot, the footage that we're shown shows her getting shot in the chest and shoulder, near her neck. But then the behind-the-scenes photo that Bitsie Tulloch tweeted afterward clearly shows a bolt in her neck. Why the difference? Maybe they want to keep us guessing, keep up the suspense, until they come back in Season 5. It's one of the many cliffhangers that the finale left us with...so they probably want to keep up the suspense until next season. I'm just guessing here...but maybe the reason why they did another 'take' with Juliette, one with that bolt in her neck, was to use it in the first episode of Season 5.

But...I don't know how anyone could be encouraged by what David Giuntoli said in this interview. He says repeatedly that "she's gone". He even says that as far as he and Bitsie knows, there is no indication that she's coming back. He stops himself just short of revealing something...some inside knowledge...something that would be a strong indicator that "she's gone". So from what he said, it sounds like it would be a big surprise to both him and Bitsie, if the character of Juliette were coming back.