He played John, the beaver who, right before the title credits, heard a noise and crept into his basement wielding a poker and saw Arnold hiding there. On the right on the photo Grimm found.
We had a viewing party and we all wore our Oregon Ducks clothes. 
Very cool! Tell your friend he’s a great beaver, for a duck!
Okay, question – how did Nick (or Monroe?) know the name and address of the Reaper in Chief to send him the heads of the reapers? Did they just google it or something?
Also – did it seem like a bad idea to anyone else to taunt the Reaper in Chief with the “next time send your best guys” note? It’s one thing to show you’re not a pushover, another to encourage the Reaper in Chief to escalate things.
On the Monroe story – why didn’t they invite Rosalie also, make it a more normal two couples kind of thing? Bet she’s a way better liar than either of them.
And, vegan salmon? :rolleyes:
If the guy who went to jail can find reapers, it is reasonable to assume that it wouldn’t be too hard for Monroe or his girl friend (with her brothers questionable past) to find them.
I think it sent a good message, that he wouldn’t be pushed around.
Well Monroe and Nick didn’t want the meal to happen in the first place. It is best to make the dinner as simple as possible and get it over as quick as possible. And the girl friend would just complicate things and make them harder than they need to be.
I liked the episode. It was a necessary step. Nick needed to shun guns for old school weapons, guns aren’t good for science fiction shows.
And, it was cool to see Nick actually be on the aggressive side and send those reaper heads back. He is becoming more like a Grimm in every episode.
This puzzled me also. I suppose the two had passports on them, and Nick could’ve traced their travel arrangements and got background on their identities, but I’d also expect that their connection to other Reapers wouldn’t be traceable that way.
Great episode–I loved Nick being a badass against the Reapers and sending a message to their boss.
I really like the Bud character (the beaver that Nick is friends with):
“I’ll leave a message by carving a series of numbers on your front steps, and the odd ones will–”
“Or, you could just call.”
“…Yeah!”
I agree [though I do wonder how they got the heads through customs … ]
I think that his Captain and he are not really going to butt heads, they both seem to want the wessen population of the area to behave. No predation on the normal humans, keep things low key, interact peacefully. I think that is mainly why the captain is protecting Nick from the reapers. I do have the feeling the captain didn’t know that 2 reapers had flown in to take care of Nick.
If you stop and think about it, it is very similar to the first couple books in the Anita Blake series [minus the whole sex thing] where you have someone who is basically human with additional powers working to keep a supernatural population under control by being used as a boogieman that isn’t killing actually killing everything that moves. Nick is perfectly happy to let them carry on as long as they obey the human laws with respect to violence and other crimes.
if the troll from last night had been willing to suck it up and peacefully go to jail for extortion, there wouldn’t have been so much violence, the reapers wouldn’t have ended up dead and it would have been peaceful.
It is obvious they’ll end up together, but Monroe and Rosalee aren’t a couple yet.
Except for the issue of the key. The captain wants it and Nick is supposed to protect it with his life.
The message ‘send your best’ was really a cypher for the real message, which is “I have a bigger dick.” Sending back the heads can’t escalate things. It’s already too escalated. The guy just killed two elite assassins simultaneously. Now Nick has to die, because he besmirched the reputation of the reapers. Like any gang, it’s all about reputation. Or in other words, who has the bigger dick.
Apologies to the above posters friend but man did i want to beat the crap out of most of those beavers.
Technically, didn’t one of the reapers kill the other before falling victim to Chekhov’s crossbow?
Yeah, one beheaded the other.
The captain and Nick don’t want the same thing.
We don’t know a lot about the captain, but it is safe to say that he has evil on his mind. The only reason that he kept the reapers out was because if they killed Nick before he got the key, he would be screwed.
He does want the vessen to calm down, but just so he can get his own agenda done, not because he believes in peace.
It finally clicked to me tonight why the name of the actor playing Monroe – Silas Weir Mitchell – is familiar.
There’s a 19th-century physician/author from Philadelphia named S. Weir Mitchell. Among other things, he’s famous for having come up with the “rest cure” that was prescribed for “hysterical” women of the late 19th century (and early 20th – Virginia Woolf, e.g.). Feminist history buffs will recognize the name of his most famous patient – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, whose story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” about a woman driven mad by that treatment, is based on her own experience.
I suppose if Nick runs into any more bats-from-hell, he’ll have to steal back that device from evidence.
Why wasn’t Akira in on the coin robbery like the other suspects in the homicides of Kelly and Reed Burkhardt?
Perhaps he never touched the coins.
I found something interesting looking at Wikipedia.
Don’t mention “The Yellow Wallpaper” that’s the worst story I ever read, well its a tie between that and “Metamorphosis”.
Yeah – but doesn’t the fact that it’s based on real-life events, and the doctor involved in those real-life events has a grandson who’s now playing a wessen on a show that dozens of us are obsessed with, count for anything?
Yes it does. There, there, dear. Some of us thinks it’s cool even if the book does suck. 
Just finished watching (DVR). Pretty good episode in my opinion.
Not much to say about this episode, but wondering about the next; He tells Julia the truth, so I wonder if he’ll tell Hank.