Recaps

Nick confronted Renard about his role in the attacks on Nick’s family and learned how Renard had manipulated events to recruit him as an ally. After removing Adalind’s corpse, Nick left Renard to clean up the evidence and handle the aftermath.

• Renard warned Nick about the consequences of killing Adalind, but Nick challenged him and revealed he already knew about Renard’s royal and Hexenbiest heritage.
• Nick accused Renard of trying to turn him against the Royal Family, and Renard admitted he had arranged for Adalind to target Aunt Mary under orders from his younger brother.
• Renard explained that he had come to Portland after finding records of Nick’s Grimm family, hoping Nick would awaken and become an ally.
• Nick asked about his parents’ deaths, and Renard said a Royal Family member had ordered the assassination but probably had not been seeking the key.
• Nick made Adalind’s corpse disappear, retrieved the bullet from the wall, and told Renard to handle the bloodstained carpet and broken window.

Nick ordered Renard to keep his family in check, then brought Monroe and Dahlia to cremate Adalind’s body while learning about the Wesen Council and its Code of Honor. The cremation released a ghostly face that vanished into the night, leaving the group shaken and unsure what they had witnessed.

• Nick threatened Renard and kept him alive on the condition that he control the relatives his family sent after Nick.
• Nick visited Monroe, told him about Renard’s Royal Family and Hexenbiest heritage, and asked about the Wesen Council.
• Monroe explained that the Council enforced the Code of Honor, which forbade Wesen from exposing their true forms and required witnesses to report violations.
• Nick and Monroe reached an abandoned paper mill, where Labe had prepared a pyre to burn Adalind’s corpse, and Dahlia arrived in Predator Armor.
• As Nick lit the pyre, a cloud of smoke formed a ghastly face that struggled upward and disappeared into the night sky.

Nick celebrated the food truck’s first day of business with friends and family, then told Hancock about Wesen and the hidden world around them. Hancock reeled from the revelation but accepted that his earlier encounter with a Wolf Wesen had been real.

• Nick hosted a celebratory dinner after Hansen and Gracie’s food truck broke even on its first day.
• Nick asked Andrew Wu to take Hansen and Gracie home while Hancock stayed to hear about the secrets Nick had mentioned.
• Nick explained Wesen, Grimms, the Royal Family, and the Council to Hancock, who was shocked by the revelation.
• Hancock admitted he had seen the Wolf Wesen transform and had been plagued by nightmares since shooting it.

Nick reassured Hancock about the Wesen and explained what made Grimms different before they were called to investigate a suspicious death on an old bridge. After finding signs that the woman had died before the collision, Nick spotted two men beside a black 1967 Chevrolet Impala and hoped he had mistaken them for people he knew.

• Nick offered Hancock a place to stay and explained that Grimms could see Wesen reveal themselves involuntarily, unlike ordinary people.
• Hancock said he would try to adjust to the truth and asked Nick about Renard, while Nick assured him he could handle the situation.
• Nick and Hancock investigated a traffic accident on an old bridge, where Leroy Kent said he had struck a barefoot woman in pajamas who ran in front of his car.
• Nick found glass in a wound that did not match the car and noticed signs suggesting the woman had died of asphyxiation before the crash.
• Leroy told Nick and Hancock that an unknown man had urged him to call the police, then disappeared before he returned.
• Nick noticed two young men beside a black 1967 Chevrolet Impala outside the police tape and hoped he had recognized them incorrectly.

Nick and Hancock investigated Faith Collins’s suspicious death, which Harper determined was a murder by suffocation with unusual signs that raised Nick’s fears of a supernatural cause. They questioned Faith’s husband Roy, who seemed genuinely shocked and began describing their argument the night before.

• Harper told Nick that Faith had died by suffocation, with bruising inside her lip and unusually dilated pupils, while toxicology showed little alcohol and no common drugs.
• Hancock identified the victim as Faith Collins and reported that her husband, Roy Collins, had a history of domestic violence but was still at work.
• Nick and Hancock went to the furniture factory and told Roy that Faith had been murdered.
• Roy appeared shocked and told the detectives that he had last seen Faith the night before, when she was at her computer chatting with her online friends instead of making dinner.

Nick and Hancock investigated Faith’s death, ruled out her husband as the likely killer, and began to suspect a serial predator targeting women. Nick found a late-night photo on Faith’s Facebook page, and the detectives ended the chapter examining its location information.

• Hancock and Nick questioned Roy Collins, who said Faith had stormed out after an argument, and decided not to detain him.
• Renard told Nick and Hancock to close the Flash Mob murder case and discussed Faith’s disappearance and the possibility that it connected to other missing women.
• Nick suspected Faith had been meeting someone when she escaped an attack, and he asked Hancock to check forensic evidence while he searched her social media.
• Hancock reported that the glass was ordinary window glass and the silk pajamas were too widely sold to trace quickly.
• Nick showed Hancock a Facebook photo Faith had posted after eleven, and Hancock watched him inspect its location information.

Nick and Hancock investigated the crash leads and learned an urban legend about a ghost haunting the nearby iron bridge. They left the precinct to visit Thorn House, while Inspector Renard dealt with the man who had come seeking the officer who shot his friend.

• Nick located Thorn House near the crime scene and suggested checking with the cab company for passengers dropped off there.
• Andrew Wu told Nick that a man wanted to speak with the officer who had killed his friend, and Nick recognized the case from a newspaper report about the Grimm Hunter.
• Wu told Nick and Hancock an urban legend about a murdered woman who supposedly killed men who picked her up near the iron bridge.
• Nick and Hancock left the precinct, leaving Inspector Renard to handle the waiting visitor.
• Nick and Hancock arrived at Thorn House, where owner Billy Capra welcomed them inside.

Nick and Hancock investigated innkeeper Billy Capra about Faith Collins’s disappearance and discovered that Billy was a Goat Wesen whose enchantment had affected Hancock. After Nick explained the Wesen’s influence, Monroe arrived to help with the investigation.

• Nick questioned Billy Capra about Faith Collins, who had visited the inn but never checked in, and Billy said she had spent time in the garden before leaving.
• Nick noticed Billy’s enchantment affecting Hancock and identified Billy as a Goat Wesen when Billy transformed after Hancock stepped on a frog.
• Nick and Hancock left the inn, and Nick teased Hancock about his strange behavior until Dahlia read them an account of a Goat Wesen’s enchantment from Grimm’s Journal.
• Nick explained that Billy’s enchantment could affect men and women, and Hancock realized it had caused his dazed state.
• Nick answered the door and brought Monroe into the living room as an expert on Goat Wesen.

Nick and Hancock consulted Monroe about Goat Wesen and considered whether Billy Capra had killed Faith Collins after she escaped his influence. The next afternoon, Nick visited Hansen and Gracie at their food truck.

• Monroe explained that Goat Wesen used a seductive pheromone-like influence and warned Nick and Hancock not to let one touch them.
• Nick and Hancock discussed the possibility that Billy Capra had caught and killed Faith Collins after she fled the Thorn House inn, and Hancock left to investigate.
• Monroe offered to help with the case and explained that his eagerness came from resentment toward Goat Wesen.
• Dahlia asked Nick whether love was just hormones, and Nick drew her into his arms and invited her to the bedroom.
• The following afternoon, Nick visited Hansen and Gracie at their food truck, where Gracie scolded her brother over a five-dollar discrepancy.

Nick continued training Hansen and supporting the siblings’ food truck while investigating Billy Capra, a Goat Wesen linked to multiple cases involving abducted pregnant women. He gave Renard a way to call for help as their conflict with the Grimm Hunters continued.

• Hansen kept practicing cooking, and Nick’s food truck earned around eight hundred dollars a day while paying Hansen a salary and covering insurance for him and Gracie.
• Nick returned to the station with dinner, where Hancock reported that Billy Capra had moved to Portland about a year and a half earlier and might have changed his name.
• Nick brought Renard FBI files linking seventeen missing people in three states to one man, with fourteen pregnancies all fathered by the same person.
• Nick identified Billy Capra, owner of the Thorn House inn, as a suspected Goat Wesen, and explained that the victims had been confined and exposed to gas that impaired their judgment.
• Renard signed Nick’s request for equipment and said he had driven away his younger brother’s Grimm Hunter, who had lost an ear.
• Nick gave Renard a number to use as a Bat-Signal if the situation became overwhelming.

Nick learned that the victim had inhaled a hallucinogenic aphrodisiac neurotoxin, then tracked Billy Capra while Hancock investigated Thorn House. The chapter ended with Nick seeing Billy eat a live toad before entering the Blue Moon, a bar linked to the victim.

• Medical examiner Harper told Nick that the state lab had found an undiscovered neurotoxin in the victim's blood.
• Nick requisitioned a tracking device and chemical protective gear, and Hancock attached the tracker to Billy Capra's MG convertible.
• When Billy left Thorn House on foot, Nick told Hancock to search the inn while he followed Billy.
• Nick watched Billy eat a small green toad in a planting strip.
• Billy entered the Blue Moon, where the victim Faith Collins had previously been seen.

Nick encountered Sam and Dean outside the Blue Moon bar and recruited them to watch Billy Capra, a Goat Wesen suspected of murder and rape. As they entered the bar to investigate, Nick called Hancock, who had found a broken window and was searching for the suspect’s DNA.

• Nick stopped before following Billy Capra into the bar and called Monroe instead.
• Nick recognized Sam and Dean beside their Chevrolet Impala, then identified himself as a PPB detective and a Grimm.
• Nick asked the brothers to investigate Billy Capra inside the Blue Moon bar, and Sam accepted his offer of money and help with their case.
• Sam and Dean entered the bar while arguing about finding their father.
• Nick called Hancock, who reported finding a broken window and searching for Billy Capra’s DNA.

Nick and the Winchester brothers joined forces to arrest Billy Capra, a Goat Wesen suspected of abducting and killing women. When Nick confronted him, Billy recognized him as a Grimm and leapt into the bushes to escape.

• Dean and Sam told Nick that Billy had charmed a woman at the bar and given her a business card, and Nick explained that he was linked to missing women across several states.
• Nick challenged the brothers on how they handled nonhumans when police evidence was unavailable, then asked them to help catch Billy before he answered.
• Dean and Sam damaged Billy's motorcycle to provoke him, and Billy revealed his Goat Wesen form after checking that no one else was nearby.
• Nick confronted Billy and ordered him to surrender, but Billy recognized Nick as a Grimm and turned to flee.
• Billy sprang into the roadside bushes, and Nick holstered his gun and chased after him.

Nick, Hancock, Dean, and Sam captured Billy Capra after discovering he had imprisoned three women and exposed them to an aphrodisiac gas. After the victims were rescued, Nick warned Renard to keep the gas from falling into the wrong hands and advised him not to investigate the brothers because of their Vatican ties.

• Nick, Dean, and Sam chased Billy Capra through the Thorn House garden, where Hancock struck him with an oxygen cylinder and Billy fell onto the spiked iron fence.
• Hancock told Nick that Billy had locked three women in the basement and that a gas had nearly knocked him unconscious; Nick shut off the gas and found the women in cages.
• Police and FBI personnel surrounded the inn, and the victims were taken for treatment while Billy was sent to the hospital impaled on part of the fence.
• Renard asked Nick whether Billy should be allowed to go to prison, and Nick warned that the aphrodisiac gas needed to be kept out of the hands of people with ulterior motives.
• Nick identified Dean and Sam as Witch Hunters and cautioned Renard against meddling with them or drawing the Vatican's attention; Renard dropped the matter.

Over breakfast at the Skyline Restaurant, Nick explained to Sam and Dean Winchester that he sought to uphold order rather than simply follow the law, while learning about the brothers’ lives as Witch Hunters. He shared his own uncertainty about being a Grimm and said he would do whatever it took to keep supernatural trouble from harming people he cared about.

• Sam asked whether Nick’s approach to being a Grimm meant he believed in upholding the law, and Nick said he believed in order instead.
• Nick asked about the Winchesters’ Witch Hunter background, and Sam explained that John had trained him and Dean to fight supernatural threats after their family suffered a tragedy.
• Dean told Nick that their father had gone missing near Portland while preparing to deal with a dangerous ghost, so Dean had gone to fetch Sam from Palo Alto.
• Nick briefly described his recent experiences and admitted he was unsure how to be a good Grimm because his predecessors had each followed their own methods.
• Nick told the brothers that he wanted an ordinary life but would try to set things right to protect the people he cared about.

Nick used his experience as a police officer and a Grimm to challenge Sam and Dean’s reasons for hunting monsters, then agreed to help them find their missing father and investigate a string of disappearances. Dean played Nick the last call from their father, which ended with a woman’s voice saying she could never go home.

• Nick told Sam and Dean that protecting people and preserving order mattered more than blindly following rules, and questioned whether revenge or helping others drove their hunt.
• Dean thanked Nick for the meal and asked him to help find their father; Nick sent Bert Aframian’s name to Andrew Wu so officers could check nearby motels.
• Dean explained that their father had been investigating a possible ghost case involving repeated disappearances along the same stretch of road over twenty years.
• Nick connected the disappearances to the urban legend about Centennial Highway and the old iron bridge, and offered to obtain the case files and investigate.
• Dean played Nick his father’s final phone call, then played an isolated audio track containing a woman’s voice saying, “I can never go home.”

Nick reluctantly discussed the Winchester brothers’ ghost investigation before returning to work and learning the Billy Capra case was resolved. After telling Dahlia about the female ghost, Nick woke to find her researching the Sylvia Bridge suicide, leaving the pair poised to investigate the haunting.

• Nick handed Dean back the iPod and asked where the Winchester brothers planned to investigate next, while privately hoping to find John Winchester instead of hunting ghosts.
• Sam explained how the brothers dealt with ghosts, and he and Dean planned to investigate local legends connected to the female ghost.
• Nick returned to the police station, where Hancock told him Billy Capra would likely survive but face severe injuries and multiple prosecutions.
• Nick told Dahlia that they could visit another movie world, then explained the female ghost legends before falling asleep.
• Nick woke and found Dahlia researching a report about Constance Welch, who had drowned after jumping from Sylvia Bridge in 1981.

Nick and Dahlia traced a suspected ghost to Constance Welch’s suicide at Sylvia Bridge and went there with the Winchester brothers. After a woman jumped from the bridge and vanished, both couples’ empty cars started driving at them, forcing them to flee over the railing.

• Dahlia found reports that Constance Welch had drowned her two children before killing herself, and Nick agreed the incident could have created a vengeful spirit.
• Dahlia gathered an assortment of folk exorcism supplies, and Nick reluctantly agreed to investigate the bridge with her.
• Nick and Dahlia met Dean and Sam at Sylvia Bridge, where the brothers said they had found no other leads along Centennial Highway.
• A woman in a white nightgown appeared on the bridge, jumped into the river, and vanished without a sound.
• Both empty cars started their engines and charged toward the group, so Dean and Sam climbed over the railing and Nick carried Dahlia after them.

After the White Lady nearly forced their cars off a bridge, Nick, Dahlia, Sam, and Dean discussed the spirit’s legend and how it gained power. Sam explained that finding and burning the ghost’s body and destroying its anchors was usually safer than spreading the story further.

• Dean climbed out of the river and complained that the others had not jumped, while Sam, Nick, and Dahlia confirmed he was safe.
• Nick checked both cars for mechanical problems and found no damage despite their near collision.
• Dean identified the spirit as a White Lady, and Sam described the legend of vengeful women who haunted roads and waterways.
• Dahlia compared the White Lady to the Slavic Rusalka, spirits who lured men into rivers.
• Sam explained how legends could empower spirits and warned that witch hunters might strengthen them by spreading their stories.
• Sam said the usual approach was to find and burn the spirit’s body and destroy anything anchoring it.

Nick investigated disappearances along Centennial Highway and confirmed that the missing men had all been unfaithful. At a motel room where John Winchester had been staying, Nick and the Winchester Brothers found evidence about the Woman in White and a cryptic message showing that John had left for coordinates 35-111.

• Nick checked recent missing-person cases and confirmed that the victims had all been unfaithful men.
• Andrew Wu gave Nick the motel address where Mr. Aframian had rented a room, and Nick contacted the Winchester Brothers before heading there.
• Dean explained that vengeful spirits could cause magnetic disturbances that affected lights and radios.
• Nick, Dean, and Sam found John Winchester's messy motel room, including protective powder and an evidence wall identifying Constance Welch as the Woman in White.
• Sam found John's journal and a note for Dean with the coordinates 35-111, suggesting John had left urgently.

Nick traveled to Goldendale to question Joseph Welch, now called Old John, about his late wife Constance and the tragedy that had driven him away. He left Old John stunned by asking whether he had ended up with the woman he truly loved.

• Nick found Joseph Welch’s address in Goldendale, informed the Winchester Brothers and Dahlia, and drove from Portland toward Washington State.
• Nick reached Old John’s isolated home and introduced himself as a Portland police detective investigating events from the past.
• Old John said a reporter named Amiam had asked where Constance was buried, and he said she lay on Breckenridge Mountain with their two children.
• Old John explained that he had moved because he could no longer bear hearing his family call him Daddy whenever he closed his eyes.
• Nick asked whether Old John had ended up with the woman he really loved, and Old John froze in disbelief.

Nick questioned Old John about Constance and learned more about the family tragedy behind the White Lady disappearances, while Fox Mulder arrived to investigate. As the Winchester brothers burned the family’s remains, the White Lady appeared in Nick’s car and demanded to be taken home.

• Nick told Old John the White Lady story, and Old John tearfully insisted that Constance had never intended to abandon him or their children.
• Nick left whiskey and money for Old John, then called the Winchester brothers and told them where the family was buried.
• Fox Mulder arrived at Old John’s house, showed his FBI credentials, and asked to speak with him.
• Dean told Nick that the brothers and Dahlia had found the remains and were burning them.
• A white figure appeared in front of Nick’s car; after he passed through it, the doors would not open and a ghost spoke from the back seat.
• Nick saw the ghost’s face in the rearview mirror and recognized her as Xiao Dachui.

Nick encountered Constance’s ghost, who forced his car to an abandoned farmhouse and then pinned him down with a disturbingly sensual attack. He shot at her, making her vanish, but her fate remained unclear.

• Nick refused to take Constance home, but she took control of his Ford Explorer and drove it to an abandoned farmhouse.
• Constance told Nick she could not go home, then vanished from the back seat and appeared beside him.
• Nick asked whether Constance was unable or afraid to go home, but she pinned him beneath her and demanded that he hold and love her.
• Nick summoned his P266 and fired several shots, causing Constance to disappear.

After escaping the Female Ghost by using the Magic Movie Ticket, Nick arrived at Portland State University in 2009 with a new identity as Horton Parker and a mission to survive and save his companions. Months later, he still had not identified the world, but he had become a masked killer; Kurt then invited him on a weekend trip and promised to introduce him to Dana.

• The Female Ghost attacked Nick by reaching into his chest, and he escaped by tearing open the Magic Movie Ticket.
• Nick arrived at Portland State University as Horton Parker, a transfer student and football running back, and received the mission to survive and save his companions.
• Kurt helped the badly injured Nick to his dorm room, where Nick entered Fake Death Revival and later woke with his heart restored.
• Nick spent months attending classes and gathering information about the nearly familiar world, but he could not determine which movie or television setting it was.
• Nick killed a tattooed Latino man while wearing the Predator Mask, then answered Kurt's call and said he was working over summer break.
• Kurt invited Nick to spend the weekend with him, and Jules urged Nick to meet her best friend Dana.

Nick robbed a Zetas drug deal, taking sixty gold bars, then agreed to join Kurt and Jules on a trip to help Dana recover from being dumped. After returning to Portland, he arrived near Jules’s apartment on Saturday morning.

• Nick spoke with Jules and Kurt, who asked him to help Dana rebuild her confidence after Professor Bennett dumped her by email.
• Nick checked the gold bars from the drug deal, killed the gang members, and stored the remaining cases in his pocket dimension.
• Nick accepted Kurt and Jules’s invitation to vacation in Hood River with Dana and Martin, while warning them he was not looking for a girlfriend.
• Nick returned to Portland and arrived near Jules’s apartment building early Saturday morning.