Recaps

Nick and Dahlia triggered their nuclear trap at the Canyon and escaped the blast, while Ms. Bartholomew and the Black Lake forces were caught in the destruction. Five days later, Nick and Dahlia crossed a border into a safe house, where they confirmed they had been near the Caspian Sea.

• Dahlia struck first, and Nick detonated the explosives at the Canyon before fleeing along his prepared route.
• Nick shot down two pursuing drones as Ms. Bartholomew ordered the Black Hawk to escape the Canyon.
• The nuclear blast destroyed the helicopter, drones, and surrounding forest while Nick sheltered in a mountain hollow.
• Nick hid from radioactive fallout in a cave until five days later.
• Dahlia used her credentials to pass a border checkpoint with Nick, then explained that they had reached an FSB safe house in their sphere of influence.

Nick and Dahlia returned from their mission to Portland, where Dahlia discovered that the crossing had restored her body to its best condition. As they settled into everyday life, Nick and Dahlia discussed how their worlds and the Magic Movie Ticket might work.

• News outlets revealed Black Lake's role in secret biochemical weapons experiments and linked it to the nuclear explosion, prompting the FBI to raid the company's offices and laboratory.
• A flash of white light transported Nick and Dahlia from an apartment in Almaty to Nick's home in Portland.
• Dahlia found that her old shoulder scar and cavity had vanished, and Nick explained that the Movie Ticket restored her to her condition when she entered a world.
• Nick took Dahlia shopping for clothes and supplies, then brought her to a Russian restaurant for dinner.
• Back at home, Nick showed Dahlia the Magic Movie Ticket and asked whether she remembered seeing its words in Russian, while he had seen them in English.

Nick and Dahlia settled into living together while planning how to resolve her undocumented identity and find her work. The next morning, Dahlia mistook Hancock for an intruder and overpowered him, then learned from him that Nick had a reputation as a playboy.

• Nick cleared a bedroom for Dahlia and explained that they needed to maintain personal space while adjusting to living together.
• Nick planned to arrange Dahlia a legal identity and help her find work, though he would support her in the meantime.
• Dahlia joked that she would be Nick's live-in maid, and Nick offered her his credit card to buy clothes.
• Nick woke late and found Dahlia cooking breakfast, then heard her challenge Hancock as he entered the house.
• Dahlia pinned Hancock to the floor before Nick rushed downstairs and explained that Hancock was one of them.
• Hancock recognized Dahlia as Nick's girlfriend and revealed Nick's playboy reputation, prompting Dahlia to tease Nick.

Nick remembered his promise to cook for Hancock and agreed to bring him dinner, then visited Monroe with a thank-you gift for helping save a girl and kill a serial killer. Nick asked Monroe if he knew an identity broker for a friend who needed legal papers, and Monroe grew suspicious of the request.

• Nick remembered promising to cook Hancock meals while he recovered and agreed to bring him dinner.
• Hancock asked Nick if he was serious about Dahlia, then left after asking whether she had any single friends.
• Nick brought Monroe beef bones as a joke and gave him an expensive bottle of whisky to thank him for helping with the case.
• Nick talked with Monroe about Wesen and his home before asking whether he knew an identity broker.
• Monroe stared at Nick and asked if the request was a police sting.

Nick sought a way to secure Dahlia a verifiable identity through Wesen underground contacts, then returned to work early at the Portland Police Bureau. Inspector Raynard summoned him after rumors spread that Nick was planning to get married.

• Nick asked Monroe to find a Wesen black-market contact who could provide Dahlia with a genuine identity, and Monroe agreed to inquire.
• Nick went home to prepare beef marrow soup and delivered a meal to Hancock.
• Nick returned to the detectives' office despite being on leave, hoping to pursue cases that might recharge his Magic Movie Ticket.
• Inspector Raynard called Nick into his office and teased him about rumors that he planned to marry.
• Nick denied knowing anything about the supposed wedding, while Inspector Raynard said the gossip had upset women at the station.

Nick received a ten-thousand-dollar bonus for the ogre serial killer case, then turned to reviewing recent missing-person files. A colleague brought him a drunk driver, Guilda Dana, who claimed her boyfriend had been attacked and might be dead.

• Inspector Raynard told Nick that he and Hancock would each receive a ten-thousand-dollar bonus tied to the ogre case and urged professional silence about certain details.
• Nick wondered why Raynard had taken such a personal interest in him and speculated about the inspector's motives.
• Nick searched recent missing-person files and considered whether unsolved murders without bodies could be hidden in Forest Park.
• A detective squad colleague told Nick that drunk driver Guilda Dana claimed her boyfriend had been attacked and his fate was unknown.
• Nick introduced himself to Guilda and asked her to explain exactly what had happened.

Nick brought Gilda, a suspect in a break-in, to the estate where she claimed a monster had attacked her boyfriend Rocky. The owners had returned, but investigators found no blood or body, leaving Rocky’s disappearance unexplained as Nick went upstairs to question the Rabes.

• Gilda and Rocky broke into a wealthy family’s estate, but when the owners returned, a monster attacked Rocky and Gilda fled alone.
• Nick questioned Gilda and drove her to the estate after she promised she had told him the truth.
• Nick met Andrew Wu, who reported that the Rabes had found their home ransacked and their bed disturbed after returning from Seattle.
• Nick and Wu inspected the broken rear door and found no signs of violence, blood, or a body.
• Nick went upstairs to meet the wealthy homeowners, Frank Rabe and Diana Rabe.

Detective Nick Burkhart investigated the break-in at the Rabe mansion, finding evidence that Gilda escaped through a bedroom window while Rocky was attacked. The Rabes reported no missing valuables, and Nick requested a list of recent visitors to the house.

• Diana Rabe complained about the ruined silk sheets while Frank Rabe explained that the mansion's alarm was rarely used.
• Nick examined the bedroom window and the flower bed below, finding scratches and disturbed soil consistent with Gilda's escape and Rocky's disappearance.
• Frank Rabe showed Nick the living room damage, including two opened bottles of expensive wine, while reporting that jewelry and watches appeared untouched.
• Nick inspected the Rabes' collection of Pacific Island artworks and a Germanic artifact as Diana Rabe explained their conservation organization and the collection's origins.
• Nick asked Frank Rabe for the names and contact details of recent visitors, and Frank listed the housekeepers, their son Barry, and their neighbors, the Corbetts.

Detective Nick investigated Guilda’s account of Rocky’s disappearance but found no clear evidence to explain it. He returned home and was reunited with his gravely ill Aunt Mary, who had come back from Utah.

• Guilda told Nick she fled after something grabbed Rocky in the dark, and Nick reviewed her background and the Labes’ account without finding a reasonable explanation.
• Nick told Andrew Wu to keep Guilda in custody and investigate Rocky, while Wu reported that Rocky was missing and described his poor family circumstances.
• Wu said Rocky often drove girls around in his pickup, prompting Nick to doubt Guilda’s claim that they had always been devoted to each other.
• Nick returned home, saw an old SUV and trailer in his backyard, and found Aunt Mary waiting inside after coming back from Utah.
• Nick hugged the bald and weakened Aunt Mary, then reproached Dahlia for not telling him she had returned.

Nick reunited with Aunt Mary, who warned him about the danger connected to his parents’ deaths and urged him to leave Dahlia. Their conversation was interrupted when Horda attacked, leaving Nick to fight the scythe-wielding creature as Aunt Mary lay injured.

• Aunt Mary visited Nick and Dahlia, then told Nick she would leave after dinner rather than stay the night.
• On a walk, Aunt Mary discussed Nick’s Grimm awakening and gave him a metal pendant linked to his parents’ deaths, warning him to keep it secret.
• Aunt Mary told Nick to end his relationship with Dahlia to keep her safe.
• Aunt Mary spotted Horda and stepped in front of Nick as the creature attacked with a scythe.
• Horda knocked Aunt Mary to the ground, and Nick kicked the creature away before drawing his P226.
• Horda charged again, and Nick fired his gun.

Nick killed the scythe-wielding attacker while protecting Aunt Mary, who was hospitalized as her cancer worsened. He learned she had less than a week to live, and she revealed that his ability was tied to a family curse and the responsibility she had tried to prepare him for.

• Nick shot the attacker in the throat and left eye, killing him as he charged with a scythe.
• Hancock arrived, took charge of the scene, and agreed to keep Dahlia out of official records; Nick told Dahlia to protect herself and guard Aunt Mary's RV.
• At the hospital, a doctor told Nick that Aunt Mary had no more than a week to live and asked about the many scars across her body.
• Aunt Mary apologized to Nick for the family curse falling on him, and Nick said she had treated his ability as a responsibility.
• Aunt Mary explained that she had pushed Nick to become a police officer so he could protect himself.

Nick learned from Aunt Mary about the Grimms’ history, their journals, and the wider supernatural world. After returning home, he found Dahlia had discovered that his pendant was an antique bronze key, and he invited her to see Aunt Mary’s trailer.

• Nick visited Aunt Mary, who explained that his mother and maternal ancestors were Grimms and that their family had hunted dangerous Wesen for generations.
• Aunt Mary told Nick about the Grimms’ journals, specialized weapons, Wesen Grimm Hunters, and other hunters who dealt with ghosts and demons.
• A doctor ended Nick’s visit, and he saw Andrew Wu and another officer standing guard outside Aunt Mary’s room.
• Nick returned home after midnight and found Dahlia examining the pendant, which she had opened into an old bronze key.
• Nick told Dahlia what Aunt Mary had revealed, and she agreed to leave supernatural threats to him if bullets could not stop them.
• Nick invited Dahlia to look at the trailer Aunt Mary had towed over.

Nick and Dahlia explored Aunt Mary's Airstream and discovered its alchemy equipment, an extensive collection of weapons, and the Grimm's Journal. They found a possibly useful artifact and a portrait that reminded Nick of a Wesen he had seen near a coffee shop.

• Nick and Dahlia entered Aunt Mary's Airstream and found it filled with alchemical equipment and a wall of connected photographs and clippings.
• Dahlia opened a wardrobe containing nearly a hundred weapons, and Nick identified a Ming Dynasty sword inscribed with words about slaying demons and warding off evil.
• Nick gave Dahlia the sword to take to Chinatown for a new scabbard, then pocketed a broken black beast's claw linked to a case he was investigating.
• Nick and Dahlia examined the Grimm's Journal and found drawings labeled “Vulture” and “Witch” in German.
• Nick recognized the hideous face in the journal's witch portrait as resembling a blonde woman he had seen outside a coffee shop.

Nick secured the Grimm journals and learned that the attacker Hancock killed was a wanted criminal using multiple identities. Inspector Raynard ended police protection for Mary that night, while Nick continued investigating a missing-person case.

• Nick stored a volume of Grimm's Journal in a reinforced chest, and Dahlia offered to install cameras and alarms around the motorhome.
• Hancock told Nick that the scythe bore an Old High German phrase meaning "Grimm killer" and identified Horda as a criminal who had used several identities.
• Hancock offered to handle Nick's cases while he recovered, but Nick refused and said he would keep investigating.
• Inspector Raynard reminded Nick to see a psychologist and told him police protection for Mary would end that night.
• Nick made coffee and began reviewing the file on the missing-person case.

Detective Burkhart and Officer Wu returned to the Labe estate to ask the family about missing Rocky, whose disappearance might be connected to the break-in. The Labes denied knowing him, but their reactions raised the officers’ suspicions, and Nick ended by showing Frank Rabe an item from a paper bag.

• Nick and Wu returned to the Labe estate and encountered Barry Labe and two friends riding dirt bikes.
• Nick showed Barry and his friends photographs of Gilda and Rocky, but they said they had never seen them.
• Diana Rabe and Frank Rabe denied knowing anything about the missing boy, while Barry said he had spent the night before last at a party at the Colberts’ home.
• Nick noticed Barry’s evasive gaze, and Diana moved to block his view as Barry answered questions.
• Diana objected to the officers treating the Labes as suspects, but Nick said they were making routine inquiries about a missing person.
• Nick opened a paper bag and asked Frank Rabe whether he recognized what was inside.

Nick’s animal claw exposed the Labe family as Bear Wesen, and he later learned from Monroe that it was used in a violent coming-of-age ritual. Monroe’s description left Nick suspecting that the Lohaz Ceremony was connected to Rocky’s disappearance.

• Nick showed the animal claw to the Labe family, who revealed their Bear Wesen forms, and Frank Rabe ended the visit by referring Nick and Wu to his law firm.
• Nick returned to the car with Wu and joked about wearing sunglasses before dropping him at the police station.
• Nick visited Monroe and asked him to identify the claw, explaining that he had encountered two nearby Bear Wesen families.
• Monroe identified the claw as a ritual implement used in the Lohaz Ceremony and explained that Bear Wesen used it to disembowel prey during a three-day coming-of-age hunt.

Nick asked Monroe for help understanding Wesen and avoiding harming innocent ones, while Monroe reacted with concern about Aunt Mary’s illness. Back at PPB headquarters, Wu uncovered evidence that Barry Labe had gone hunting before Gilda and Rocky were killed, but Nick faced legal obstacles and considered his competing concern for Aunt Mary.

• Nick questioned Monroe about Wesen hunting and learned it could involve other powerful species, then told him Aunt Mary was hospitalized and asked for help dealing with Wesen.
• Monroe hesitated over Nick’s request, and Nick left him time to consider whether they could work together.
• Nick returned to PPB headquarters, where Wu showed him a photo of Barry Labe and the Colbert boys on a hunting trip with a dead buck.
• Wu said Barry’s phone records showed calls with his mother, suggesting the family had lied, but admitted he had obtained the records without a warrant.
• Nick worried that the case would be difficult to pursue against Barry’s lawyer father, while Wu urged him to focus on Aunt Mary instead.

Nick learned that Gilda had taken a gun and was heading to the Labe estate, so he raced there to warn the family and prevent a confrontation. He discovered that Frank Rabe knew Nick was a Grimm, then confronted the Labes about the Lohaz Ceremony and the missing boy’s planned death that night.

• Wu told Nick that Gilda had taken a handgun from Rocky’s room and threatened the Labes, so Nick sent officers ahead and called Frank Rabe.
• Nick and Wu raced to the estate, where Frank Rabe arrived and reunited with Diana Rabe.
• Nick sent Wu to watch the road and search for Gilda, then stayed behind to speak with the Labes.
• Frank Rabe called Nick a Grimm, and Diana Rabe began transforming before Frank calmed and shielded her.
• Nick asked whether the Labes were holding two innocent young people and accused them of planning to kill the missing boy during the Lohaz Ceremony that night.

Nick and Frank Rabe searched the forest for Gilda and Rocky after Frank agreed to help the police find his son and the Colbert children. They reached the children’s cave and discovered the ritual had already begun, then rushed to find the victims.

• Diana Rabe refused to tell Nick where Barry and the Colbert children were, so Frank Rabe offered to lead Nick into the forest.
• Nick told Andrew Wu that he was searching with Frank, while Wu reported that police had found Gilda’s concealed pickup and phone.
• Frank drove Nick to the children’s secret camp and warned him that the boys had set traps along the trail.
• At the cave, Frank smelled blood, found a bloodstained shirt, and realized the ritual had begun.
• Frank charged deeper into the forest as Nick struggled to keep pace.

Nick rescued Gilda from Barry Labe and his accomplices, then helped stop the Bear Wesen family ritual from turning deadly. After Frank Rabe and Nick agreed on the official account, the police arrested those at the scene while Rocky remained at large.

• Rocky abandoned Gilda as three Bear Wesen chased them, and Nick appeared to protect her.
• Nick defeated two of the Bear Wesen and stopped Barry from attacking, but Diana Rabe charged out fully transformed.
• Frank Rabe transformed and collided with Diana, whose argument revealed his affair with a Colbert widow.
• Nick fired a warning shot to end the fight, then called Wu and waited with Gilda for the police.
• Nick and Frank agreed to portray the incident as kidnapping and attempted murder, and officers arrested Barry Labe, Jason Colbert, TB Colbert, and Diana Rabe while Rocky escaped.

Nick and Frank Rabe found Rocky, and Nick returned to the hospital after closing the case to care for Aunt Mary. Aunt Mary told Nick that some Wesen were evil by nature and urged him to stay cautious, while Nick worried she might not live long enough for his next journey.

• Frank Rabe detected Vultures nearby, but they had already passed through the forest.
• Wu told Nick that Rocky had escaped the forest and been found by a patrol car.
• Nick thanked Frank Rabe and left the Rabe estate, reflecting on the respect his Grimm identity had earned him.
• Nick visited Aunt Mary in the hospital after learning she had left the ICU, then sent Dahlia home to rest.
• Nick told Aunt Mary about his recent cases and asked whether he had acted rightly.
• Aunt Mary said Nick had handled himself well but warned him to be careful around Wesen who were evil by nature.

Nick learned that Aunt Mary had been luring the assassins who murdered his parents, but a Hexenbiest and a disguised priest attacked them at the hospital. After killing the priest and identifying himself to hospital security, Nick left Aunt Mary’s fate and the assassins’ motives unresolved.

• Aunt Mary told Nick that his parents had been murdered and that she had returned to Portland to pass on the trailer’s secrets before she died.
• Aunt Mary explained that Grimm Reapers served the Royal Family and warned Nick to protect the key to a thousand-year-old secret.
• A Hexenbiest disguised as a nurse tried to stab Aunt Mary, but Nick threw her through the hospital-room door before she escaped using an invisible force.
• A disguised priest attacked Nick with a heavy Bible and a scalpel, but Nick wounded him and shot him dead.
• Hospital security guards aimed their guns at Nick, who showed his police badge and shouted that he was police.

Nick was pulled into an out-of-body state by Artie and Galahad, who came to offer Mary a chance to become a guardian of the Library. He returned to his body as Mary collapsed, leaving her future uncertain while doctors rushed to save her.

• Nick's consciousness left his body as time stopped, and Artie and Galahad introduced themselves to him.
• Galahad explained that Mary was an unofficial librarian and offered her a choice in her final moments.
• Galahad and Artie woke Mary, and she signed a contract to become a guardian of the Library.
• Galahad told Nick that Mary's binding ritual would take about three years and that she hoped he would stay safe and fulfill the Grimm family's duty.
• Nick returned to his body as doctors rushed in to perform CPR on Mary, and a nurse helped him sit down.

Nick told Dahlia that a knight had taken Mary’s soul and speculated that the Metropolitan Library and Warehouse 13 were connected. Meanwhile, Renard punished Adalind for failing to deal with Nick and revealed that he intended to control Nick through other means.

• Nick explained to Dahlia that the knight had taken Mary’s soul and that she would see her aunt again in three years.
• Nick and Dahlia discussed whether the Metropolitan Library and Warehouse 13 were related supernatural containment centers.
• Nick worried about Wesen and planned to find and kill the Hexenbiest who had immobilized him.
• Renard confronted Adalind over her failed attempt and blamed her for letting Nick recognize her.
• Adalind suggested using Hexenbiest methods against Nick, but Renard choked her and insisted Nick was vital to his plans.
• Renard declared that Nick Burkhardt could not escape his grasp and that women were not the only way to control him.

Nick handled Aunt Mary's funeral, completed a month of training at Gunsite Academy, and returned to Portland. At the airport, he spotted Dahlia waiting for him.

• Inspector Raynard told Nick about the investigation into the two assassins and gave him the case file, while Nick promised not to act recklessly.
• Nick comforted Hancock, then held a simple funeral for Aunt Mary.
• Nick traveled to Arizona and spent a month training at Gunsite Academy, where his squad drew with the instructors’ team in the final CQB exercise.
• In October, Nick returned to Portland and saw Dahlia waiting for him outside the airport.