Chapter Summaries

Nick and the others feared Mrs. Carmody would gain followers if the people who went into the fog died, while the group waited anxiously for the rope to return. After something dragged the rope outside with immense force, they pulled it back and found it bloodstained.

• Kurt explained to Jules and Martin how fear and uncertainty could make people believe Mrs. Carmody’s claims.
• Nick considered the danger of trying to rescue people himself and becoming a target if anyone died.
• David and the others paid out the rope attached to the seven people who had entered the fog.
• The rope suddenly jerked hard, scraping David’s hands and dragging Nick, Kurt, and others toward the doorway until more people joined the pull.
• After the force abruptly vanished, the group hauled the rope back and screamed when a bloodstained section emerged.

Nick challenged Mrs. Carmody to prove her claim that she was favored by God by retrieving the Old Testament he threw into the fog. She disappeared into the mist, and after a scream and the sound of flapping wings, her fate remained unknown.

• After a corpse appeared outside the supermarket, Mrs. Carmody called for a blood sacrifice and warned that creatures would come after dark.
• Nick stopped Kurt from reaching for his pistol and confronted Mrs. Carmody, pretending to share her belief that the night would be dangerous.
• Nick threw Mrs. Carmody’s Old Testament into the fog and demanded she retrieve it to prove her devotion.
• Martin and Lila helped persuade the crowd not to force Mrs. Carmody outside, but she broke free and walked into the fog to fetch the book.
• After several minutes, Mrs. Carmody screamed and cursed Nick before her voice abruptly stopped and strange wings flapped in the fog.

Nick and the supermarket survivors organized supplies and defenses under Ripla’s leadership while the town remained shrouded in fog. When the parking-lot streetlights came on, Nick took it as evidence that the power plant was still running, giving the group hope.

• Bud, David, the teachers, and other survivors organized everyone to prepare food, water, weapons, and a protected area for children and the elderly.
• Nick asked Ripla, a longtime elementary-school principal, to lead the group, and she assigned tasks to residents and the three army officers.
• Nick told Martin that he had replaced the Old Testament with a Yellow Pages book to prevent a woman from retrieving it, and they discussed the danger beyond the fog.
• Ollie called Nick to the window, where they saw a streetlight shining in the parking lot.
• Nick said the light suggested the power plant and the town’s electricity supply were still working, spreading hope among the survivors.

After Nick’s wound healed, he and Lila grew intimate, but Kurt interrupted them when giant insects swarmed the supermarket. Nick organized the survivors’ defenses, and they killed a pterodactyl-like monster after it crashed through a window.

• Lila removed Nick’s bandages and found his wound had healed; the two became intimate, and Nick told her his name when she asked him not to forget her.
• Kurt and Jules summoned Nick because giant insects were gathering outside the supermarket.
• Nick ordered the survivors to turn off the lights, prepare weapons and barriers, and form defensive lines as pterodactyl-like creatures attacked the windows.
• A pterodactyl-like creature smashed through a window, and the defenders stomped on its wing and severed its neck with an axe.

Nick and the people in the Supermarket fought off invading bugs and Pterodactyl monsters, then organized defenses and watch shifts. David thanked Nick for keeping the group together, while Nick reflected on David’s tragic fate in the original film and resolved to prevent the events that led to it.

• Kurt and the others killed one Pterodactyl monster while the women and elderly people fought off the bugs with household tools and insecticide.
• Jim and his helpers covered the broken windows with electrified wire mesh and boards, stopping the bugs from entering.
• Nick checked that everyone was safe, and Ollie shot the wounded Pterodactyl monster dead.
• David and Dan organized groups of five and watch shifts, while Jim suggested reinforcing the remaining windows.
• David quietly thanked Nick, who recalled how David’s original story ended in disaster and resolved to stop Carmody before she could take control.

As the fog thinned, Nick prepared to leave the supermarket and keep his promise to bring supplies to a mother and her child, while hoping to use a vehicle radio to reassure the survivors. Before he could go, a gigantic six-legged behemoth appeared in the distance.

• Nick saw the fog clearing and learned that giant spiders had captured a stray dog outside the supermarket.
• On the third day, Nick loaded food, infant formula, fuel, and water into a cart to deliver them to the mother and child.
• Nick prepared to drive the Hummer to the entrance and use its radio, while leaving weapons and ammunition in the vehicle for the others.
• As the survivors moved the freezer blocking the entrance, a whistle-like roar sounded and the ground shook.
• Ollie and the others saw a six-legged behemoth, covered in writhing tentacles, approaching the supermarket.

The military attacked and felled the giant beast, allowing the survivors to leave the supermarket and join the evacuation convoy. Nick reunited with the female ghost, drove her out of the Ford Explorer, and pursued her into a derelict wooden house, with Dahlia and the Winchester Brothers following.

• The army bombarded the giant beast with tanks, helicopters, and flamethrowers, bringing it down and clearing the mist.
• Kurt and several men removed the freezer and broken glass doors, and the survivors rushed out of the supermarket toward the military convoy.
• Lila kissed Nick as the survivors celebrated their rescue.
• The female ghost appeared on top of Nick and thrust her fingers into his chest, but white light struck her and flung her ghostly form from the Ford Explorer.
• Nick fired shots from his glowing P226, driving the ghost into a decrepit wooden house, and Dahlia and the Winchester Brothers followed him inside.

Nick and the Winchesters confronted the female ghost at her farm, where she reunited with the spirits of the children she had drowned and disappeared with them. Afterward, Nick explained his new skills, but Dean spotted another apparition outside the house.

• Dahlia rushed to Nick after he drove the female ghost back with light bullets, and his P226 disintegrated before he drew a glowing sword.
• Nick reasoned that the White Lady had avoided her home because she feared facing the children she had drowned.
• The woman’s children appeared and embraced her, and all three spirits vanished as the house shook and screamed.
• Nick explained that he had gained the skills Light of the Heart and Danger Sense, and Sam said the haunting was probably over.
• Dean headed out to find food, then froze on the stairs and asked whether the thing that had just appeared had disappeared.

After Constance vanished, a new White Lady appeared and showed an unexpected attachment to Nick before fading away. Nick hosted the Winchester brothers, then explained his new abilities to Dahlia, who remained jealous of the ghost.

• The White Lady emerged from Nick's car, ignored Sam's salt circle, stroked Nick's cheek, and vanished as Dahlia watched jealously.
• Nick invited Dean and Sam to his house, where they ate and discussed his glowing projectile and their plans to travel to Colorado or return to Sam's studies.
• Nick gave the brothers his business card and saw them off at daybreak.
• Dahlia asked Nick about his glowing projectile, and he explained Light of the Heart and Danger Sense.

Dahlia was possessed by the White Lady during an intimate moment with Nick, and the spirit later vanished into Dahlia before revealing that spiritual communion helped her recover. Dahlia and Nick learned that the White Lady was a damaged, partly corporeal lake fairy who could possess people, and she appeared to have become an uninvited resident in their home.

• Dahlia lost control of her body as the White Lady possessed her, flooding her mind with fragments of love, betrayal, and sorrow.
• Nick saw the White Lady appear beside Dahlia, but his Light of the Heart could not harm her before she vanished into Dahlia.
• Dahlia told Nick that the White Lady was not a ghost and could possess both her and Nick’s Explorer, and that spiritual communion seemed to help her recover.
• Dahlia explained that the White Lady might have originated as a Celtic lake fairy, though her identity and memories had been obscured over thousands of years.
• Nick wondered whether the White Lady was Elaine, then realized she might remain in his home as an uninvited resident.

Nick separated the White Lady from Constance’s vengeful spirit and made an agreement with her, naming her Gwen. After Dahlia and Nick celebrated with gold, Dahlia eagerly planned to collect more on their next adventure, while Nick’s vacation ended and he prepared to return to PPB.

• Nick set rules for the White Lady, who agreed to respect Dasha and their group while she recovered her abilities.
• The White Lady asked Nick to name her, and he called her Gwen before she vanished into Dahlia’s body.
• Dahlia told Nick that Gwen needed regular stimulation while recovering and was willing to regard him as her master.
• Nick brought out thirty gold bars, delighting Dahlia and drawing Gwen out to admire them.
• Dahlia bought a safe and declared that she and Nick would collect gold on future adventures.
• Nick’s vacation ended, and he prepared to report to PPB and return to work.

Nick put aside his questions about Gwen and focused on work, protecting his food truck, and studying his new skills. Dahlia discovered that his Ming Dynasty sword used an ancient silver-gilding technique she could not reproduce, so she ordered silver-electroplated gun components instead.

• Nick decided to wait until Aunt Mary returned to life before seeking answers about Gwen and the hidden side of the world.
• Nick and Hancock handled several non-Wesen cases in Portland while maintaining the PPB's highest case clearance rate.
• Nick's Danger Sense failed to respond to staged attacks, but he discovered someone had tampered with a gas hose at his food truck.
• The PPB caught a jealous business competitor, and Nick arranged for a gas alarm and told Hansen to protect the food and keep the truck near public cameras.
• Dahlia found that Nick's Ming Dynasty sword was silver-gilded with dense patterns that formed a psionic circuit, but she and Nick could not identify how to reproduce the technique.
• Dahlia ordered expensive silver-plated gun components to test whether they could work in place of silver-gilded parts.

Nick considered silver ammunition and melee weapons for fighting supernatural creatures while he and Dahlia planned a future trip to find metalworking expertise. At the food truck, Nick discovered that the repairman struggling to install a gas detector was a Beaver Wesen.

• Dahlia experimented with silver-plated and silver-nitrate ammunition, while Nick considered getting silver chain mail and melee weapons for fighting supernatural monsters.
• Nick and Dahlia planned for her to visit Cyrus in April to learn gilding or inlay techniques and find a craftsperson who could process their weapons.
• Nick arranged for Monroe to help collect Dahlia's identification and documents, then stopped at the food truck on his way from the police station.
• Nick went to investigate a repairman struggling to install a gas detector and found Gracie trying not to laugh at his exposed backside.
• When Nick offered the repairman a hand, the man transformed into a Beaver Wesen, prompting Nick to recognize his kind.

Nick brought Bud, a terrified Beaver Wesen who recognized him as a Grimm, to the police station and tried to reassure him that he protected law-abiding people. Bud left after Nick warned him to keep Nick’s identity and food-truck connection private, while Nick realized earning the trust of ordinary Wesen would take time.

• Bud panicked when he recognized Nick as a Grimm, and Nick took him to the station after he wet his pants.
• Nick gave Bud clean jeans and explained that he was a police officer who did not harm innocent Wesen.
• Bud said rumors claimed a Grimm had killed Queen Bee Melissa Wickoft and her people, and Nick avoided discussing their move to France.
• Nick let Bud leave after telling him not to reveal Nick’s identity or his connection to the food truck.
• Nick told Hancock that Bud had recognized him and reflected that connecting with ordinary Wesen would be difficult.

Nick and Monroe investigated the murder of Frederick Calvert, a Fox Wesen merchant, after a robbery alarm brought them to the tea and spice shop. Nick found evidence that the killer had been bitten, and he left Wu thinking of Monroe as a consultant with an unusually keen sense of smell.

• At dinner, Monroe praised Nick’s Five-Spice Vegetarian Chicken, and Nick offered to make more soy-based dishes another time.
• Hancock called Nick to report that Frederick Calvert had been killed during a robbery at his tea and spice shop, so Nick and Monroe went to the scene.
• Hancock explained that Calvert had been shot three times at close range, and Nick examined the body for evidence.
• Nick removed a piece of skin and flesh from Calvert’s mouth, suspecting that Calvert had bitten his killer.
• Wu recognized Monroe from an earlier search, and Nick introduced him as a private consultant with a keen sense of smell.

Nick investigated the robbery and murder of Frederick Calvert, suspecting the killer had targeted something hidden rather than the shop’s cash. After the search yielded few clues, Nick returned home to find Dahlia and Gwen together, while the case remained unresolved.

• Wu questioned why anyone would rob and kill the owner of the small Calvert Tea and Spice Shop, and Hancock confirmed the cash drawer had not been touched.
• Nick led Hancock, Monroe, and Wu into the shop’s basement, where they found signs of searching and an empty cabinet that had once held illegal herbs.
• Nick asked the forensics team to test the shop’s stock and planned to contact Frederick’s sister and review records from the organ-trafficking case.
• Monroe left to ask his underworld contacts about the case, while Nick had Wu request that hospitals and clinics report patients with suspicious bite wounds.
• Nick returned home before dawn and found Dahlia working on her laptop with Gwen perched on her shoulder.

Nick researched a silver-cerium alloy for armor and melee weapons before taking Dahlia to bed, then met Frederick Calvert’s sister, Rosalie, at the station. Rosalie asked to see her brother’s shop, and Nick agreed to escort her to the crime scene.

• Nick and Dahlia researched silver-cerium alloy as a possible material for chain mail and blunt weapons.
• Nick closed the laptop and carried Dahlia to bed after Gwen returned to her body.
• Wu brought Rosalie Calvert to meet Nick and Hancock, and Rosalie demanded to know who had killed her brother.
• Nick and Hancock described Frederick’s death during a robbery and questioned Rosalie about her brother’s business and their relationship.
• Rosalie asked to inspect the shop, and Nick offered to take her there with a police escort.

Nick investigated Frederick Calvert’s murder at the tea shop and asked Rosalie to help identify what the killers had taken. After leaving Rosalie and Monroe to search the basement, Nick spotted two men watching the police station and confronted them.

• Nick took Rosalie to Frederick’s shop, where she broke down before agreeing to discuss her brother’s dealings.
• Nick asked Rosalie about Vulture herbs and explained that the killers might have come for something in the basement storeroom.
• Rosalie could not identify what had been kept there, so Nick called Monroe to help her search.
• Nick left Monroe and Rosalie at the shop and returned to the PPB.
• Nick overheard Bud and Joey arguing about whether he was a Grimm, then approached their pickup and addressed them.

Nick confronted Bud and Joey, two Beaver Wesen who had followed him to confirm he was a Grimm, then made arrangements for Bud to repair damage at his home. Back at the police bureau, Renard summoned Nick and warned that trouble might be coming.

• Nick stopped Bud and Joey from following him and learned they had wanted to prove to other Wesen that they had encountered a Grimm and survived.
• Nick reassured the frightened Beaver Wesen that he would not kill them, warned them not to follow him again, and asked how many others knew about him.
• Nick gave Bud his address and hired him to repair his damaged front door and entryway floorboards.
• Nick returned to the police bureau, where Hancock told him that Renard wanted to see him.
• Renard closed his office door and told Nick that he believed trouble was coming.

Nick told Renard that only a Grimm could open the treasure linked to the keys, giving Renard a way to present himself as useful to the House of Habsburg. Renard reported his progress to the King while Nick left after asking whether Catherine would cause trouble.

• Renard told Nick that Catherine had arrived in Portland and that his younger brother had sent a special envoy to claim the key.
• Renard explained that finding the keys was his family assignment and that he needed more time to build a secure political base in Portland.
• Nick said only a descendant of the Grimms could open the treasure and suggested Renard use that information to gain leverage with his family.
• Nick sent Renard a photograph of the scorched parchment as evidence and asked whether Catherine would cause trouble.
• Renard assured Nick that Catherine would not openly defy him, then called the King to report significant progress on his assignment.