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| "Zerstörer Shrugged" | |||||||||
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| Episode Information | |||||||||
| Air date: | March 24, 2017 | ||||||||
| Viewers: | 4.14 million[1] | ||||||||
| Teleplay by: | Brenna Kouf | ||||||||
| Story by: | Jim Kouf & David Greenwalt | ||||||||
| Directed by: | Aaron Lipstadt | ||||||||
| Opening Quote: | Psalm 2:9 | ||||||||
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| Co-stars: | Douglas Tait as Skull Zerstörer Other co-stars | ||||||||
| Objects: | Adalind's Ring Zaubertrank Recipe Book Zerstörer's Staff Piece of Zerstörer's Staff Nuukh Suens | ||||||||
| Images: | Images | ||||||||
| Transcript: | Transcript | ||||||||
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| Previous Episode: "Where the Wild Things Were" |
Next Episode: "The End" | ||||||||
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"Zerstörer Shrugged" is the twelfth episode of Season 6 of Grimm and the one hundred and twenty-second episode overall. It first aired on March 24, 2017 on NBC.
Press Release[]
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES - JACQUELINE TOBONI, HANNAH R. LOYD AND WIL TRAVAL GUEST STAR - The prophecy that was uncovered comes to pass when a dark force arrives in Portland with its eyes set on Diana (guest star Hannah R. Loyd). In an effort to protect her, Nick (David Giuntoli), along with Capt. Renard (Sasha Roiz) and Adalind (Claire Coffee), returns to the scene of his first investigation as a Grimm. Back at the Spice Shop, Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell), Eve (Bitsie Tulloch) and Rosalee (Bree Turner) make a discovery that uncovers the origins of the mysterious stick. Meanwhile, Hank (Russell Hornsby) and Wu (Reggie Lee) are called to a crime scene that is connected to the gang's greatest threat.
Synopsis[]
In the mirror dimension the Zerstörer faces Nick and Eve with its staff glowing with green lightning. Eve, fully woged as a Hexenbiest stirs up a dust cloud between them and the Z. When it dissipates they have disappeared. Eve and Nick attack the Zerstörer from behind as it searches for them in their previous location, it knocks them to the ground with pulses from its staff.
Renard and Adalind are researching ways to access the mirror dimension at Munroe's house. Adalind thinks this is a waste of time because she knows how to get in. Renard thinks he should be able to the same way, but Adalind says that zauberbiest blood is different. Monroe arrive having dug out his family bible, a Wesen edition. The illustrations of hell in this Wesen edition are not like non-wesen editions, resembling a garden overrun by beasts with the fires of hell within the beasts not the land. The depiction of the devil is of a robed figure with pointed ears, a gaunt skull-like face and a staff rather than a trident. When Renard points out that this doesn't get them there, Munroe thinks that they might know the way, they just won't like it, he thinks Diana can open the way for Munroe and Renard to go in to fetch Nick and Eve.
In the circle of stones Eve deflects a swarm of bats back at the Zerstörer. They realise that it isn't trying to kill them, but trap them.
At the spice shop Hank Wu and Rosalee discuss prophesies for the end times. Hank finds a book in old German with a depiction of a skull, according to an internet translation it discusses "evil darkness trapped" and that a Grimm is needed for it to escape to its child bride.
At Munroe's the adults are arguing about who should or should not go and Diana overhears. Unbeknownst to them she picks up the stick in the other room. Rosalee calls them on the phone to warn them but Diana has already opened the portal. The Zerstörer repels Nick through the portal with his staff and then follows.
Credits.
At Munroe's house Eve and Nick emerge through mirror breaking the glass. Munroe tells them that Rosalee said not to open the portal because they might be followed by the Zerstörer but it isn't there. Eve is no longer woged. Nick picks up the stick and it heals his hands. They think Nick was tricked into going there so that he would open the way in the right direction to escape. They hope the Zerstörer didn't make it to their world.
At the last chance gas station a car pulls up to the pumps, the driver pays the attendant $10 for some fuel and goes to use the bathroom. The wind picks up and bats fall from the sky around the attendant.
At Munroe's they discuss the prophecy and that they were likely tricked. Munroe things the forest filled with permanently woged wesen sounds like his bible. He translates the human's word for themselves as "walking meat" and Zerstörer as "the destroyer". Diana thinks Eve is different now, with part of her staying in the other place. Eve realises she can't woge and isn't a Hexenbiest any more. Diana starts panicking, saying that "he's coming".
At the gas station bathroom the mirror ripples and becomes a portal, the Zerstörer begins to emerge through the shattering glass, turning into a naked blond man as he passes into the real world. He walks outside and zaps the attendant with his staff.
Diana tells the group that he's there. They update Nick on the prophecy. Nick think s the pest place to hide is a cabin he know of in the woods as it has no connection to them. Rosalee wants to use the Nuukh Suens to hide Diana from them, it is the same spell Renard's mother used to hide him from the royals. Hank and Wu will go the the precinct to see if any reports have come in about the Zerstörer's arrival.
In the tunnels, Trubel looks for the stick and sees the carvings.
Diana is asleep in an armchair. Adalind agrees that the Nuukh Suens could work as a shield and agrees to go to Nick's hiding place with Renard.
At the gas station the Zerstörer finished dressing. A crystal on his staff glows and he walks off purposefully after looking at it briefly.
Diana is worried that the spell might hurt, but Adalind assures her that it won't. She pours a jar full of grey-blue powder over Diana's head, who feels nothing. Nick takes the stick out of its box.
Nick and Renard arrive at the cabin with Adalind and Diana and they all reminisce about old conflicts. Nick takes them down into the basement under the cabin. Nick heads off to help Hank and Wu. Before he leaves he tells Adalind that he loves her, she reciprocates.
Hank and Wu have found no reports about skull faced people, but have a report of two bodies, one with his eyes blown out and loads of dead bats which seems sufficiently unusual.
Downstairs at the Spice Shop Eve, Rosalee and Munroe are looking at legends of staffs over the centuries. They think that many of the staffs in legends are the same item. Creaking from upstairs makes them nervous, but it's just Trubel. They start telling her what's giong on.
Wu and Hank arrive at the gas station. Sgt. Franco fills them in on what they've found. The electrocuted person is naked, the bathroom mirror is broken and the person in there has been stabbed.
Diana doesn't want to go to sleep as she isn't tired. Renard thinks they won't have to hide forever as the Zerstörer will find them whatever they do.
The Zerstörer walks down the road with no regard to the traffic, he mimics some of the abuse shouted at him but keeps walking.
Nick arrives at the crime scene as Sgt. Franco has the CCTV ready for review.
The Zerstörer encounters some homeless people drinking on the street. They attempts to fight him, but he turns his staff into a snake which bites the man who broke a bottle over his head. As he leaves he imitated their cries to run away.
Thanks to CCTV Nick Hank and Wu know what the Zerstörer looks like now, he calls Adalind and Renard and tells them that the Zerstörer has woged into a human. Wu passes on information about the snake attack.
At the spice shop they're discussing the staff. Eve is bothered by how the staff looked like it's cracked and the historic depictions don't. Monroe remembers reading about a staff that was too powerful and was broken up into a hundred pieces and scattered for safety, they theorise that the stick is the last piece of that staff and the Zerstörer might be after the stick.
Nick is by the snake bite victim when Eve calls and asks for him to go to the Spice Shop.
Diana lies awake in the basement of the cabin. The trap door opens and a woged Zerstörer enters without his staff while her parents sleep, it reaches for Kelly and Diana wakes up screaming. She says that the Zerstörer wants Kelly too.
Nick arrives at the Spice Shop. Trubel says Black Claw is destroyed. They all tell Nick about the stick being part of the staff and that that's why it was buried.
Hank and Wu call nick and tell him that they have a hit on the APB for the Z.
At the station Nick, Hank and Wu look at the surveillance picture and get weapons to take it on. Trubel arrives at a police car where they have been killed by Zerstörer she sees the Zerstörer walking off in the distance. The Zerstörer arrives at the station woged and blasts most of the police manning the desks into unconsciousness. Wu woges and attacks him, but is killed. It knocks Nick away, is unaffected by Hank's submachine gun fire and stabs him with his staff. Nick is thrown into a wall.
To be continued.
Guest Stars[]
| Actor/Actress | Role |
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| Jacqueline Toboni | Theresa "Trubel" Rubel |
| Wil Traval | Zerstörer |
| Hannah R. Loyd | Diana Schade-Renard |
| Robert Blanche | Franco |
Wesen[]
- Blutbad
- Fuchsbau
- Half-Zauberbiest
- Hexenbiest
- Bauerschwein (seen in Monroe's family bible)
- Dämonfeuer (seen in Monroe's family bible)
- Eisbiber (seen in Monroe's family bible)
- Phansigar (seen in Monroe's family bible)
- Steinadler (seen in Monroe's family bible)
Non-Wesen Beings[]
Diseases[]
Videos[]
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Production Notes[]
- Footage from "Pilot" and "Face Off" was reused (flashbacks).
- This episode ended with a title card reading, "To Be Continued..."
Continuity[]
- Eve loses her Hexenbiest side to the Mirror Dimension and becomes human.
- Nick tells Adalind he loves her for the first time.
- Trubel returns to Portland and reveals that every last remaining Black Claw cell was destroyed by Hadrian's Wall.
- Hank and Wu are killed by Zerstörer, who crosses over to Earth.
Trivia[]
- Zerstörer is German for "destroyer."
- The episode title is a reference to the 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged, written by Ayn Rand. The novel depicts an oppressive and dystopian society existing in the United States with the most prominent and successful industrialists abandoning their fortunes to fight back against aggressive new regulations.
- This episode marks the first time Jim Kouf has written an episode of Grimm with his daughter, Brenna Kouf.
- This episode marks the first time an ending title card (and the same exact title card) has been used in back-to-back episodes.
- Lowell Deo, who portrays Attendant Todd, also previously portrayed Mayor in "You Don't Know Jack".
- Adam Hart, who portrays Driver, has previously been a stunt performer in various episodes of Grimm since season 4. This episode marks his first credited character role on the show.
- Monroe's line that Diana "knows something wicked is this way coming" is a reference to Macbeth, the play by William Shakespeare. The line in Shakespeare's play specifically occurs in Act 4, scene 1, when one of the witches says, "By the pricking of my thumbs,/Something wicked this way comes."