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Oh, Grimm, how cruel you are!

Or maybe I should be saying the sandman is a very, very cruel creature. In any case, Nick’s dream of Juliette remembering him and giving him a big smooch is just about the last kind of dream Nick would want to be tricked into believing is real.

So fess up, Grimm fans, who fell for it? The show actually had me believing Juliette’s amnesia was finally starting to subside until she said, “It’s all coming back to me.” Now that’s too easy. And when she was totally cool with Nick’s Grimmness, I knew this had to be a dream.

And I’m rather relieved it was a dream (sorry, Nick!). I’m enjoying this memory loss storyline because it was really time for Grimm to shake things up in Nick and Juliette’s relationship. But I still find myself rooting for things to work out between them. Sort of. Maybe. I’m so conflicted! When you see how dejected Nick is upon realizing his dream come true was really just a dream, you can’t help but feel for the guy! But ooo the intrigue of Renard/Juliette!

The fact that we’ve seen this dream scene probably tells us that when (if?) Juliette gets her memories of Nick back, it’s going to be nothing like this. No chance that the real thing will be this easy and happy and rainbows and puppies for Nick.

Okay, now that we’re through that mini emotional roller coaster of a scene (maybe it was an emotional carousel – ups and downs were somehow involved), let’s get onto the rest of this very packed episode. Monroe struggling in the spice shop! Hank finally goes to Aunt Marie’s trailer! There’s definitely something going on between Renard and Juliette! And Adalind’s back!

NEXT: The case of the abducted Wesen child and the discovery of a truth-revealing weapon

All this happened while Nick and Hank did their detectiving (totally a verb) on the case of the week, which depicted a father Drang-zorn on the run with his nine-year-old daughter as the violent culprit, but it turns out the daughter is the uncontrollable killer. I wasn’t as embarrassingly gullible with this as I was with Nick’s dream – this was easy to see coming early on because you know there’s gotta be a twist in there somewhere. There’s always a twist in a seemingly straightforward case. And it was about time we saw a creepy Wesen child (played, by the way, by a girl who must be having a pretty exciting week – Jade Pettyjohn also appeared in Monday’s episode of Revolution).

When the police find the missing girl’s mother battered and beaten in her home, Nick sees that she’s a Wesen. To figure out what kind of Wesen they’re dealing with, Nick finally takes Hank to the trailer of knowledge and solitude. Hank is a mixture of freaked out and impressed. “Okaaay…this is not the kind my family ever went camping in,” he says when he walks into the trailer. Nick shows Hank his ancestors’ profiling books and is adorably giddy when he shows off his closet of weaponry. But the boys geeking out over their toys moment is over when Hank eyes the elephant gun. Being the skilled detective he is, Hank immediately recognizes the gun as the one that killed Oleg Stark the ogre last season. For a moment it looks like Hank is going to demand that Nick tell him who pulled the trigger on Stark so Hank can do his police of Portland duty and arrest the killer, but when Nick reluctantly tells Hank that Monroe killed Stark, Hank is only grateful that the Blutbad saved his life. Maybe now Hank won’t be so weirded out around Monroe. Or he’ll be weirded out in a different way.

Monroe spends the episode tending to Rosalee’s spice shop while she’s out of town visiting her sick aunt. The whole mix-up with the potion Monroe makes with one incorrect (one very incorrect) ingredient for a Mauzhertz named Leroy was probably meant to supply the comic relief this week, but next to the gravity of the rest of the episode’s happenings, it just felt cheap and insignificant. Though it was amusing to watch Monroe live his worst nightmare when he watched the crazed mousy Wesen slice through a grandfather clock with a chainsaw.

NEXT: Juliette and Renard — they meet at last!

And now the moment you’ve been waiting for: Sleeping Beauty finally came face-to-face with her prince (in a scene that EW debuted earlier this week). Between this scene at the precinct, the deleted scene from last week, and this episode’s closing heart-wrenching scene, it certainly appears that Juliette and Renard can’t get each other out of their heads. How great was Juliette’s flustered response to Renard of “Yeah, uh, what? Yeah,” and her smitten twirl out of frame when she left the precinct? I only wish that the show had kept continuity of Juliette’s chunk of flyaway hair caught in Hank’s hug into the next shot – it would have completed Bitsie Tulloch’s whole flustered performance.

Renard gets a bit of a scare when he realizes he’s been typing “Juliette Juliette Juliette” over and over again on his computer. It was almost as frightening as the moment in The Shining when Wendy discovers that Jack’s supposed manuscript is just the repeated phrase, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” Almost. Not really. It seems hardly fair to compare Grimm to The Shining, but it was still freaky. Renard, you’re obsessed with Juliette, admit it!

Renard also gets a call out of nowhere from Adalind. (Yay! The witch is back!). She’s trying to get the police captain to tell her who killed her mother, but Renard’s only interested in knowing about that spell she cast on Juliette.

It does seem like Adalind only put Juliette into a memory-damaging coma as simple revenge, to get back at Nick for taking away her powers, not as part of some grander plan. “Nick took something away from me, so I took something away from him,” she says. But she also seemed unsurprised to learn that Renard had awoken Juliette – is it possible she has some motive for getting the sparks to start flying between those two?

The episode is bookended with another awww poor Nick moment, though there’s a shimmer of hope for Juliette/Nick before we get to sad puppy Nick. He tells Juliette that on nights like these (the candlelit, romantic dinner, white roses kind of night), they used to… well, we’re just going to take Nick’s word for it when he says they used to dance. I don’t think we’ve seen a bigger grin on Nick’s face than when Juliette responded by turning up the soft music and said, “That seems like something I should make the effort to remember.” And dance they do, to a song I can’t figure out the name of (anyone know what it is or who sings it?), but it’s pretty apt for these two once-lovers; I could pick out the lyrics “a chance to start over again” and “I see you in my dreams.” [Update: The song is “Tomorrow is a Chance to Start Over,” by Hilary Grist. Thanks, Irishgirl, for the tip in the comments section!]

Once they get their footing, Nick and Juliette slowly move closer to one another, until their lips touch and Juliette kisses Nick for the first time – the first time that she can remember. But when Juliette pulls away, the man she sees before her is Renard! These two are subliminally obsessed with each other and they don’t know why! Well, Renard probably has a sense of why, but Juliette’s just so confused.

“What’s wrong?” Nick asks. And all Juliette says is, “Me.” When she walks away, Nick looks like he’s on the verge of tears.

Your turn to sound off, Grimm fans. How psyched were you to see Adalind return? Who wants to see more of Nick looking sexy so professional in his bulletproof vest? Where would you like to see things go for Nick/Juliette/Renard? I have this inexplicable desire to see something blossom between Nick and the Wesen juvy guard Jess Reilly. People, you gotta tell me if I’m crazy or if you’re feeling that too. Just think of the scandal – a Wesen and a Grimm together. This could be the beginning of something awesome.

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