First, lets cover the fallout from Eves dramatic mirror encounter last week.
Everybodys freaked, and they decide to use the buddy system henceforth when looking in mirrors.
She tells Monrosalee that the only way to handle this is to travel to the other place.
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This wouldnt bemyfirst impulse, but you do you, Eve.
Presumably, her travel plans will be explored in an upcoming episode.
Nick quickly agrees, and they beat it out of the bathroom.
Now, to the crime of the week.
Then Wu comes through with research showing three other disappearances in that area in the last five years.
Doesnt exactly sound Wesen, Wu says.
Awww, look how far hes come since season 1!
At this point, they call in the big guns, a.k.a.
Monrosalee and their library, to see if Edward Branchyhands might be real.
It would have the same kind of effect.
As it drains, she plops into lawn chair and starts smoking and tossing trash onto the ground.
(Ralph and his friend, for example, were poaching deer from their vehicle using spotlights.
Wondering if theyve discovered an eco-avenger Wesen, the law enforcement trio head back to the forest.
Nick spots a hawk circling overhead, Wu watches a deer gambol off, and Hank enjoys playful squirrels.
I hope its not as bad for us at it smells, Hank chokes out.
Naturally, Rosalee has just the thing.
They did this to mess with her neighbor, a Skalengeck that ate her best friends Chihuahua.
(Our childhoods were very different, Wu deadpans.)
I sleep like a baby, and that tree right there is full of faces, Wu insists.
Its nasty stuff but not permanently toxic, which relieves the conflicted Monroe.
I have to live with myself, which is already challenging as it is.
The men find her near the jubokko but so does the kinoshimobe.
It staggers and falls, and the jubokkos trunk splits open to drag the body inside.
Once the jubokko closes back up, the kinoshimobes face appears on the bark.
The kinoshimobes dead, and they cant arrest a tree, so everyone cheerfully shrugs and turns to go.
But once theyre in their cars, the kinoshimobes bark face opens its eyes and watches them leave.
Submit it for publication in the highly competitive, peer-reviewedGrimm Monthly.
This thought unsettles everyone enough that Wu decides to carry a machete with him to bed.
(This is not a euphemism.)
Tucked in for the night, Monroe says they should avoid future dangerous excursions while Rosalees pregnant.
Well probably have to cut back a little after the kids are born, too she replies.
Then they notice that the knots in their pine ceiling look a liiiiiitle bit like a face.
All in all, this was a fun episode!
In some ways, the villains were more sympathetic than their victims, which always produces interesting tension.
Four more episodes, folks!
