Grimm

 

 

Let Your Hair Down: Season 1, Episode 7, Written by: Holly Dale

                We start by seeing a young couple hiking in the woods when they encounter a drug dealer. The drug dealer takes the young couple to his camp, threatening to kill them, when they start hearing something following them. The drug dealer goes to investigate, but seconds later, we see his silhouette being torn to pieces.

                We then see Detective Nick Burkhardt and his partner Detective Hank Griffin driving up to the camp site/crime scene. While examining the body, Hank notices that the drug dealer’s neck is severely bruised and that there are some long brown hairs on his body. While Nick goes deeper into the woods, he spots a dark figure watching him. He pursues the figure, but when the figure turns around Nick sees that she is a little girl; not only that, he also sees that she is a Blutbad. A Blutbad is kind of like a werewolf. Back at the station, Nick and Hank get the hair, most likely belonging to the girl, analyze and they find out it belongs to a girl named Holly Clark, a girl who disappeared years before. Nick, who is a bit confused with this whole Grimm thing, goes to Monroe, his friend who is also a Blutbad.  Monroe agrees to help find the missing girl. The next morning, Nick and Monroe go into the woods where Nick last saw Holly, so Monroe can sniff her out. After they find Holly, they chase her to a tree where she suddenly vanishes. Not knowing where she went, Nick and Monroe climb the tree. Up there they find a little hideout and in it Holly is treating her wounds. Nick realizes that the wounds are too bad for her or Nick to heal, and decides to take her to the hospital. Monroe thinks that is a terrible idea because she is a wild Blutbad who hasn’t been around civilization, but Nick does not listen to him. After she is treated and us checked out of the hospital, Holly is reunited with her family.

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Comments:

-          One thing I love about this episode is the relationship between Holly and Monroe. When Nick and Monroe first found Holly, she was frightened, but once she realized Monroe was like her, he became almost like a father figure to Holly.

-          I think the writers did an excellent job of making the Rapunzel story modern. In the actual fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm make it seem that nobody really cares that a girl is missing, but in modern times, it’s everyone’s top priority to find a missing child, and I just find it fascinating how they brought out how the people in the fairy tale could have reacted.

-          I like that in this episode Nick is still so clueless about the world of Grimm. In the most recent episodes, Nick is use to this world and all its monsters so it is refreshing to look back at when he knew nothing and was as clueless as we, the viewers, are.

Here's the promo for the episode!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ReVTRD94sc