Chapter Summaries

Nick returned to Monroe and Rosalie’s shop, where they had found a bottle of J, an addictive drug that acted as a painkiller for Wesen. Rosalie admitted she had once been addicted and insisted her brother sold J only as medicine, while Nick remained uncertain whether to trust her.

• Monroe showed Nick a bottle of J that Rosalie had found in a partly emptied case.
• Monroe explained that J came from mold, was lethal to most humans, and could relieve pain and transformation side effects in Wesen, but was highly addictive.
• Nick confronted Rosalie about her sealed juvenile record and suspected past drug use after noticing her reaction to the bottle.
• Rosalie admitted she had been addicted to J and said her brother had spent his savings and incurred debt to help her quit.
• Monroe exposed Rosalie to the smell of J mixed with hot water, triggering her Wesen form and demonstrating her strong reaction to the drug.
• Rosalie insisted she had no involvement in the sale and that her brother sold J as medicine; Nick said he would trust Monroe’s judgment for now.

Nick left Rosalie with Monroe to investigate the Wesen drug dealers connected to her brother’s murder, then received a new homicide case from Renard. At the Pearl District apartment, Nick and Hancock found a severely desiccated body and questioned whether it could be Ryan Salt, who had supposedly been dead for only two days.

• Rosalie gave Nick outdated contacts for Wesen drug dealers and asked him to catch her brother’s killer; Nick left Monroe to protect her and investigate the basement.
• Rosalie revealed her Fox Wesen form, and Monroe transformed into his Blutbad form, prompting her to ask how a Grimm and a Blutbad had become partners.
• Nick considered whom to recruit to investigate the dealers, but Renard called with a murder involving a city councilman’s nephew.
• Nick and Hancock arrived at Ryan Salt’s luxury apartment, where a patrol officer explained that Ryan’s girlfriend, Amy Louise, had found the body after returning from Los Angeles.
• Nick examined the dried, corroded corpse and questioned whether it was Ryan, since it looked far older than two days dead.

Nick and Hancock investigated the apparent murder of Thor-te, a Fox Wesen whose body had been unnaturally drained, and found a possible female companion in gallery footage. Nick told Renard that another Fox Wesen had recently been murdered, but they found no connection between the cases and had no answer for the strange movement of a severed finger.

• A patrolman told Nick and Hancock that Thor-te’s girlfriend had spoken with him during a gallery exhibition the previous night, while his Rolex was missing from the house.
• Nick examined Thor-te’s fresh-looking, desiccated body, and Hancock found a severed finger that twitched despite having been separated from its owner.
• Nick and Hancock reviewed gallery footage showing Thor-te talking with a woman in a round hat after his phone call.
• Nick reported the case to Renard, who identified Thor-te as a member of an influential local Fox Wesen family.
• Nick told Renard that the Calvert Tea and Spice Shop owner was also a murdered Fox Wesen, but Renard saw no likely connection and could not identify a Wesen whose limbs remained active after death.

Nick came home to find Bud discussing silver-thread armor with Dahlia, then shared a Russian dinner and talked through plans for weapons and Dahlia’s identity documents. As Nick and Dahlia finished cleaning up, Monroe called in a panic to say that he and someone else had killed two Lizard Wesen.

• Nick found that the damage to his home had been repaired and discovered Bud discussing armor designs with Dahlia.
• Bud suggested silver-thread armor and proposed testing silver-plated blades, with help from his blacksmith cousin and a metallurgical lab.
• Nick cooked a Russian meal, reassured Bud about payment, and told Dahlia about his new cases after Bud left.
• Dahlia asked Nick to introduce her to Rosalie, but Nick said they should wait until the spice shop case was nearly over.
• Monroe called Nick in a panic and said that he and someone else had killed two Lizard Wesen.

Nick investigated the bloody aftermath of the attack on the spice shop and learned how Monroe had killed the two Lizard Wesen who returned for the stolen “J.” He identified the gun as the weapon that killed Frederick, but the suspects’ deaths meant the case would remain unsolved.

• Nick arrived at the spice shop with Dahlia and found Rosalie treating Monroe’s gunshot wound.
• Nick went into the basement and saw that Monroe had torn apart the two attackers, making a police report impossible.
• Nick retrieved a Glock 17 and a TEC-9, then recognized the Glock as the gun that had killed Frederick.
• Rosalie explained that the attackers had returned for “J,” killed Frederick, and been ambushed by Monroe after she lured them into the basement.
• Monroe lost control after being shot and nearly attacked Rosalie before regaining his senses.
• Nick concluded that the case would remain unsolved because the suspects were dead and their bodies would disappear.

Nick and Hancock investigated a corpse whose organs had been dissolved by a corrosive substance, while Nick suspected a Wesen might be responsible. After returning home exhausted, Nick woke to Gwen’s growing ability to affect the physical world, and she excitedly told him about a discovery in the living room.

• Nick told Hancock that the vanished lizard Wesen suspects were gone for good and that their case did not need further investigation.
• Harper explained that the victim had been forced to ingest a corrosive substance that dissolved his chest organs, and that paired punctures marked his abdomen.
• Nick told Hancock to watch for fingerprint results and the lab report, then fell asleep while Hancock tried to ask for advice about a much older woman he had fallen for.
• Gwen woke Nick by blowing air at him, and he noticed that she could now affect the physical world more than before.
• Gwen flew into Nick’s palm and excitedly mentioned Dasha, the living room, and a big discovery.

Nick and Dahlia uncovered a Japanese scroll describing Margaret van Dijk, a possibly immortal spider-like Wesen called the Black Widow, and Nick connected the creature to the victim’s toxins. The investigation took a new turn when a severed finger’s print matched a homicide in Phoenix from five years earlier.

• Dahlia showed Nick a passage from Grimm's Journal about a Black Widow that preyed on men and gave him a Japanese scroll to translate.
• Nick read the account of Margaret van Dijk, who attacked a sailor, escaped after losing an arm, and later appeared with the arm restored.
• Nick and Dahlia left separately, with Dahlia going to check on Monroe and Nick heading to the police station.
• At the station, Hancock told Nick and Renard that the victim’s body contained spider venom and a protein-digesting enzyme.
• Hancock received a call confirming that the severed finger’s print matched a homicide in Phoenix five years earlier.

Nick investigated a suspected series of murders involving a dangerous spider Wesen while Renard arranged checks for similar cases. Monroe identified the creature as a Man-Eating Spider and explained the importance of Rosalie’s apothecary shop, leaving Nick surprised by how quickly Monroe had grown close to her.

• Nick showed Renard and Hancock an illustration of the suspected Black Widow Wesen and warned that the mummified corpse might be part of a murder series.
• Renard agreed to contact police departments along the West Coast about similar murders, while Nick advised him not to involve the FBI yet.
• Hancock set out to check pawnshops and secondhand stores for the victim’s missing Rolex as Nick reviewed surveillance footage and found the suspect familiar.
• Dahlia told Nick that Monroe wanted to meet him, and Monroe explained that spider monsters included the dangerous Man-Eating Spider, known as a Black Widow.
• Monroe told Nick that Rosalie was a skilled apothecary and that he hoped she would stay in Portland to run the century-old herbal workshop.

Nick and Monroe visited a Wesen monastery to ask Charlotte, a Man-Eating Spider, about a brutal murder. Charlotte identified the killer as one of her kind and said similar murders had occurred in Phoenix and Portland, leaving Nick with more cases to investigate.

• Nick realized Miss Fox’s apothecary skills could help them understand the potions in Aunt Mary’s RV and considered winning her trust.
• Monroe drove Nick to a Wesen monastery where he had once lived and introduced him to Charlotte.
• Charlotte transformed into a Man-Eating Spider when Monroe revealed that Nick was a Grimm, then demanded to know why he had come.
• Nick explained that he was investigating murders in which victims’ organs had been dissolved and sucked dry.
• Charlotte said a Man-Eating Spider had committed the murders and recalled at least two similar cases near Phoenix and others in Portland.

Nick learned that Charlotte’s Black Widow nature forced her to kill young men to avoid rapid aging, and he proposed that a medical substitute might satisfy the need instead. Charlotte agreed to cooperate with tests and asked Nick to help another Black Widow, leaving open whether that woman would accept his help.

• Charlotte explained that Black Widows had to kill three young men every five years and revealed that she was only twenty-six despite her aged appearance.
• Nick questioned whether Black Widows truly needed human victims and suggested that animal food or a medical alternative might prevent their aging.
• Charlotte said she had never considered alternatives because her mother and grandmother had taught her that killing was necessary.
• Nick offered to investigate a solution if Charlotte cooperated with tests, though he could not promise they would succeed.
• Charlotte asked Nick to help another Black Widow, and he agreed to try if she was willing to resist her nature and traditions.

Nick and his partners investigated a second desiccated victim and connected the Portland murders to similar cases in Phoenix and Albuquerque. Nick recognized the apparent killer in hotel footage but still lacked a way to identify and catch her before another victim was taken.

• Monroe praised Nick after they left the convent, and Nick invited him and Rosalie to his home the next night.
• Nick learned that Dahlia had begun sensing psionics after her recent encounters with Gwen.
• Wu called Nick to a hotel, where an attendant had found a desiccated male corpse and Hancock discovered a black ribbon in the victim’s hand.
• Nick identified the woman in the hotel security footage as Lila, a researcher he had met in another movie world.
• Renard brought records showing three similar murders in Phoenix and Albuquerque, each set of cases occurring five years apart.
• Nick explained what he had learned about the Man-Eating Spider, and Renard warned that they had two days in theory to prevent another victim.

Nick hosted Monroe and Rosalie for dinner, reassured Rosalie that her brother’s murder case was effectively closed, and learned about her work as an apothecary. He showed the guests his hidden room of Grimm books, weapons, and alchemical supplies, where Monroe recognized a potion designed to kill Ogres.

• Nick welcomed Monroe and Rosalie to dinner, and Rosalie asked whether her brother’s case was really over.
• Nick told Rosalie the case would become unsolved, credited Monroe with killing the two Lizard Wesen, and asked what she planned to do next.
• Rosalie decided to stay in Portland and keep running her spice shop, then explained that apothecaries studied healing potions while Hexenbiests favored dangerous ones.
• Nick led Monroe and Rosalie to a locked room filled with Grimm books, weapons, and alchemical equipment while Dahlia stayed at the doorway.
• Monroe recognized a red potion as Ogre Gift, a poison that could bring down an Ogre, then apologized to Rosalie for taking over as the expert.

Nick and Dahlia gave Rosalie Grimm's potion notes and equipment, and Rosalie agreed to reopen her brother's spice shop and arrange identity documents for Dahlia. The next day, Nick and Hancock recovered a stolen Rolex at Washington Middle School and learned that seventh-grader Sally Massinger had traded it to Ben Hudson.

• Rosalie recognized the value of the Kessler family's potion notes, and Nick offered her the books, lab equipment, and potions in exchange for her expertise.
• Rosalie said she would reopen Frederick's spice shop and contact Reginald about Dahlia's identity documents, while Dahlia lent her three gold bars to cover the shop's expenses.
• Nick went to work and followed up on reports and leads until Hancock told him that East Precinct patrol officers had found the Rolex.
• The principal of Washington Middle School explained that Ben Hudson had taken the watch home after trading his mountain bike for it.
• Nick asked who had given Ben the watch, and the principal identified Sally Massinger, who was waiting in the corridor.

Nick and Hancock investigated the Massingers after Sally stole her father’s Rolex, suspecting Lina of being a man-eating spider responsible for murders. Nick concluded that normal evidence would not be enough and planned to keep Robert in custody while Lina had only two nights left.

• Sally admitted that she had taken the Rolex from her father, and Nick, Hancock, and Wu searched the Massinger home under a warrant.
• Police arrested Robert Massinger, while Nick and Hancock questioned his wife, Lina, about the bandage on her finger.
• Lina’s finger appeared completely healed beneath the bandage, leading Nick to suspect that she could regenerate lost limbs like a man-eating spider.
• Robert repeatedly claimed he had bought the Rolex secondhand, and Renard warned Nick that the watch alone could not link him to the murders.
• Nick told Renard to keep Robert at the station for forty-eight hours, noting that Lina had only tonight and the following night left.