Grimm

Pilot: Season 1, Episode 1, Written by: Marc Burkland

    
      The show begins with Detective Nick Burkhardt coming home from work to find a woman in his house. It is Nick's Aunt Marie, who tells them they need to talk. They go outside where Marie tells Nick that she is dying; she then him the family secret: he is a Grimm. Marie explains that the Brothers Grimm fairy tales are true and that there actually are monsters. Being a Grimm means he is one of the few people with the ability to see those monsters. The next day, Nick is still freaked out about his conversation with Marie, but is distracted when his partner Hank Griffin calls with a missing person case. Nick meets up with Hank in the woods where he gets a brief recap of what happens.  A young college student went on her morning jog through the woods and has not been seen since. Nick finds her body torn to shreds and sees a footprint nearby. The next day, Nick gets a call about a little girl going missing in the same woods. Nick and Hank follow the path the little girl likely took and find the exact same footprints. They follow the footprints to find that it leads to a man; but suddenly Nick sees this man’s face change -- it changes into a monster, and then it returns to normal. Nick assumes this monster-man is the culprit, and runs him to the ground. After a ton of police work, this monster-man, whose name is Monroe, is released without any charges being filed. Nick, still suspicious of what he saw, goes back to Monroe’s house. Suddenly, out of his house comes this big wolf-like creature. It’s Monroe, he is aBlutbad, which is more or less a werewolf. After assuring Nick he does not eat people, Monroe becomes helpful in the case. Monroe helps sniff out the real culprit, who is another Blutbad. Monroe leaves because he does not want to get involved, so Nick calls Hank. A middle-aged man lets Nick and Hank into the house; they search the house, finding nothing. Just as they are about to leave, Hank hears a thud. When they turn back to the house the middle-aged man, who is a Blutbad, is ready to fight. In all the commotion, the Blutbad gets shot. He dies before he can say where the girl is. In their search for the girl, Nick finds a trap door in a basement where they find the little girl.

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Comments:

-This show interests me.  It takes a new spin on cop shows by incorporating this mystical feel. But instead of making it nice and sweet, they show not only thatmonsters are terrifying, but sometimes monsters are humans, and humans have those dark sides too.

-Another reason why I love this show is that almost every episode of Grimm deals with a different fairy tale. Fairy tales are supposed to be happy and nice but the writers reveal them for what they really are: horrifying. (This episode is ‘Little Red Riding Hood’, if you were wondering.)

-I love Monroe. I look back on this episode and find it hilarious that Nick could ever possibly think a nonthreatening-looking-guy like Monroe could possibly be evil.