Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-33188476-20160411220032/@comment-2202172-20160513161906

Man... Adalind taking Kelly proved to be a bad move. BC scored a bargaining chip there.

Renard's reasons for colluding with BC are becoming clearer, but I'm still working out how the wheels in his head took him from "you killed my friend" to "Cool, I'm in". He wants power, sees BC as a conduit to power, but knows where his place in the chain of command will not be at the top... for now. Not much different from his alliance with the resistence I guess. And now that the royals power is diminished, BC probably looks like the next big thing to be part of. At first I thought he'd have some sense of loyalty to his alliance with Nick, but tossed it as soon as he found out BC wanted him. They sold him on the revolution by giving him a place in their power structure. Would he even be trying to recruit Nick at all if BC hadn't tasked him with it?

Renard may or may not believe that he can limit the blood shed during the revolution, but he'll use that card against Nick's conscience to draw him in. Nick has been trying to play the moral law enforcer all along. Especially able to arbitrate for victims of Wesen perpetrated crime due to his being a Grimm. BC's tactics in general will not be something he'll be able to just roll with. Also, the whole "We've all got blood on our hands" crap doesn't really apply to Nick. Just about every life he's taken has been in his own defense or to defend others under his protection. And there have been a lot of wesen who he would have been justified in killing that he spared out of his sense of moral authority. To corrupt Nick they will have to overpower his conscience. If they do that, he will cease to be Nick.

Nick's hesitation to fully commit to HW has probably been driven by that same sense that he's a lawman, not an assasin. BC's moves are going to force him to pick a side. He could try to go the double agent thing, but I don't think it'd square with Nick's character. He's a soldier, not a spy. He'd have to get innocent blood on his hands to do that and that would destroy him.

I've been looking forward to an open fight at the end of this season, but there are too many things going on right now that make me think it's going to be a mexican stand-off and we'll have to wait until next season to see who's left standing in the end.

-DavicusPrime