Chapter Summaries

Nick investigated whether Serena Dembrooke’s murder was connected to Bee Wesen and searched for the Bee Wesen Queen, Melissa Wickoft, while considering a possible motive tied to the closure of Primrose Paper Mill. Before he could verify whether Serena was a Hexenbiest, Wu reported another murder connected to a “Flash Mob.”

• Dahlia told Nick that Hexenbiests had a heart-shaped mark beneath their tongues and suggested the Bee Wesen Queen might be friendlier to him than other Wesen.
• Nick asked Monroe about Bee Wesen, and Monroe explained that they alerted local Wesen to danger and often opposed Hexenbiests.
• Monroe tracked the strongest scent at Primrose Paper Mill to the CEO’s office, where Nick found Melissa Wickoft’s name and address.
• Nick and Monroe visited Melissa Wickoft’s deserted villa and found an abandoned beehive in the attic.
• Nick told Hancock that Serena had led the legal case against Primrose Paper Mill before its hostile takeover and bankruptcy, and that Doug Shallow and John Coleman had worked there.
• Wu called Nick to report another murder connected to a “Flash Mob” in Chapman Square.

Nick investigated Camilla Graypool’s murder, linked it to the Primrose Paper Mill bankruptcy case, and privately confronted Labe about Melissa Wickoft. He asked Labe to warn Melissa that her identity would soon be exposed and to arrange a meeting before she left the country.

• Wu told Nick and Hancock that witnesses saw Camilla Graypool doing yoga when she was killed, while a crowd obscured the killer on surveillance footage.
• Hancock linked the murders of Serena Dembrooke and Camilla to their work as attorneys in the Primrose Paper Mill bankruptcy case, and Nick named Adalind Shade to redirect Renard’s attention.
• Nick visited Labe and asked about his relationship with Melissa Wickoft, whom he suspected of seeking revenge against the lawyers who drove her mill into bankruptcy.
• Labe admitted he had realized something was happening after the streetcar victim was identified and explained that Melissa was an old friend whose honey he loved.
• Nick asked Labe to warn Melissa that her identity would soon be exposed, urge her to stop and leave the country, and arrange a meeting before she left.
• Labe suggested Melissa was using the murders to warn Nick as a Grimm, and Nick angrily told him to tell her to get her head examined.

Nick confirmed that the two murdered women had matching marks on their tongues and recognized Adalind Shade as the Hexenbiest who had tried to kill Aunt Mary. He confronted her about the murders while Inspector Renard ordered him to protect her, and Nick left Adalind’s protection to Hancock until the case was closed.

• Nick examined the victims’ tongues with Harper and found identical heart-shaped brands, then left to return to the station.
• Hancock told Nick that Adalind Shade had been brought in, and Renard introduced her to Nick and Hancock as a possible victim who could help the investigation.
• Renard urged Nick to share anything he knew about Adalind and ordered him to keep her safe; Nick claimed he had only seen her outside a coffee shop before.
• During Adalind’s interview, Nick challenged her account of the business dispute with Melissa Wickoft, while Adalind denied knowing anything about the murders.
• Nick told Hancock that Adalind had posed as a nurse and tried to kill Aunt Mary, then asked Hancock to keep her under close protection until the case closed.

Nick met Queen Bee Melissa Wickoft, who explained why she had staged public killings to warn him about threats surrounding him. He urged her to leave the country and returned home, where Dahlia quietly comforted him as he pondered what he had learned.

• Nick met Melissa Wickoft and asked why she had not contacted him directly after detecting the Hexenbiests.
• Melissa warned Nick that the real threat came from Vienna, while Sean Renard also wanted to use him.
• Melissa explained that her bee companions could convey only vague information, so she had arranged the killings and exposed a subordinate to put Nick on guard.
• Nick learned that Melissa had also wanted to test what kind of Grimm he was, and he urged her to leave the country after their long conversation.
• Nick returned home, and Dahlia brought him a beer and sat with him as he thought; he absentmindedly lifted her legs onto his lap and kneaded them until she blushed.

Nick considered how to use Renard’s ambitions against the Royal Family while maintaining their uneasy alliance, then confronted Renard and Adalind in their apartment. After Adalind attacked him and was killed by a seemingly automatic shot, Nick prepared to question Renard.

• Nick and Dahlia discussed Renard’s ties to the Royal Family and the possibility of using his ambitions to trouble them.
• Hancock reported that Melissa Wickoft and the Primrose Paper Mill’s Bee Wesen had vanished, and Renard shelved the investigation while assigning the detectives a case involving missing travelers.
• Nick told Hancock that he would reveal a new world to him after the food truck’s opening party.
• Renard and Adalind argued about Nick and their past, then began to reconcile before Nick revealed himself in their apartment.
• Adalind attacked Nick in her Hexenbiest form and was shot dead; Nick retrieved Renard’s pistol and ordered him to dress for a proper talk.

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.