Random speculations about the season cliffhanger

[hyndara71]

After I spent the last days in re-re-re-re-re-re-...rewatching 2.22 and thinking the hell out of the episode my head will explode if I'm not writing down what is going on in there (in my head! not in the writers-room - I wish I was there!) .

Okay, let's do some speculations about how they will pick up the cliffhanger:

Renard is the one in the wind, the wild card. In fact he's the only one who could put all things together as Nick, trapped, is now not in the position to tell anyone else.
I have to say, for me this would be the worst case scenario. I really, really want to see Nick in Eric's hands. I want to learn more about the Royals and what Eric wants from Nick. Plus, once more a rescue by Renard? Seriously? Why not rename the whole show then into "Renard" or "KöniglichBastard" or something, as in that case Nick would reduced to a sidekick, always in trouble, always saved by his boss. I really hope this isn't going to happen.

What I'm stumbling about is Eric not longer interested in the key, but very interested in Nick. The trap for Nick, the way Baron Samedi build it, how he managed to seperate Nick from the others, how he'd played him before to make him really angry and wanting to know, what's going on in Portland. That is all perfect planned and executed. Also Eric did an awesome job with telling no one to what he is up to. No one in Vienna knew where he would fly, he was supposed to stay in Prague when he arrived in Portland.

My question: WHY did Eric call Sean telling him he's in town? Eric knows there's a spy in his house, we'd seen that in 2.16 when that Hundjäger tried to kill Renard's guy AND also Renard with the bomb. So, why did Eric call Sean? Why he was so noisy about Nick but put the "key-business" aside - completely desinterested in it.

So, what situation we have now?
Eric in Portland, kidnapping Nick while the ScoobyGang is trapped by Samedi's zombies. Eric, wanting to take Nick with him. But how? "He has a plane to catch", Eric tells when he's entering the container with the coffin. So he want Nick out of the states as fast as possible.

Again, we don't know where Sean is. My guess, he's at the container-yard after following Eric - but (big but) how Eric will transport Nick to the airport? The car he entered at the hotel isn't big enough for a coffin. My guess was the container will be moved, maybe there's a truck somewhere.
IF Sean is there, he could see this, and probably he would try to rescue Nick. Probably (again, worst-case for me) that would work. Nick reduced to sidekick, Eric reduced to the stupidst baddy ever.

What I've noticed is, not all zombies are at Nick's truck. What Samedi let loose out of the two containers where much more than what is around the truck. Where is the rest? Some of them, true, had got the treatment. I'm sure, there will be some more be treated than we saw (promo-pics to 2.22).

I'm sure, I'm thinking too complicated now but if I were Eric, I had a backup plan: a second container, a second coffin, a second flight. I wouldn't leave Portland in my own jet but on a regular flight. Probably I would leave Portland at all with Nick on the road or on the river. Sean, if he is there too, or someone else, as Nick is a cop, the precinct will search him the minute they find out about him lost, have to loose the track to Nick and Eric. Otherwise all this perfect work in building the trap and catching Nick was ... useless and only another plot-device to concentrate the storyline more on Sean.

Eric doesn't trust Sean, Sean doesn't trust Eric. So why is Eric telling Sean more or less about his plan? True, he didn't tell at all but it was very obvicious where his priority is now. And if Sean didn't get it this time he's still under Adalind's spell. I think Eric also had planned something for Sean but I doubt he will kidnap him too. There's something else we haven't seen yet. Would explain where the missed zombies are.

And, remember the last scene we saw Hank: "I'll call you later!" Which meant after dinner at Juliette's. As Nick and Juliette went to the Spice-Shop and we haven't heard, read, noticed something, it could also be Hank, who could find out, if he haven't called so far. Eric had Nick's cell at the end of the ep, and I'm sure they will get rid off every evidence, so no one who didn't know Nick, would recognize the false identity. Eric had Nick's badge, his ID and his cell in the last scene when he closed the coffin. I'm sure the Baron took away Nick's gun (which was fallen into the coffin) and the flashlight.

Seriously, I'm thinking about it since Tuesday. As I wasn't that wrong with my guess about 2.22 I somehow hope my gues for 3.01 (Eric will succed and take Nick to Europe or wherever he wants him) will be also become true. But I seriously fear they will *again* use Sean to rescue Nick at the beginning and dump with that their great work on this cliffhanger, this awesome trap and all the possibilities this move had in particular. Didn't happen so far? Well, I was disappoinetd with how they pulled the plague in 2.14 with the cliffhanger in 2.13 *shrugs*.

Please tell me I'm not going to be crazy about this and I hope this entry makes somehow sense

[Helen Bezzo]

I think they're going to need someone as powerful and connected as Renard to get Nick back. I personally don't think the "Grimm Gang" would be able to take on Eric without him. I'd really like to see how they'd all work together without Nick for a while. I think it could be quite interesting.

[hyndara71]

That's also a reason to let Eric take Nick away.
I think a rescue for Nick should come from ALL his allies and friends, and that includes Renard surely. But not him again saving the day alone, that would be too much for me and I would probably lose interest in Grimm (and I love this show ways too much!).
Friday night I rewatched all Eric-scenes in season 2. I wanted to find out, WHEN he changed his mind about Nick. We know he sent the Mauvais Dente and also the Nuckalevee. The first came truly to kill Nick, the second one ... he watched Nick and the ScoobyGang out, he had the chance to take Juliette as hostage, and his fight with Nick (with the knowledge of 2.22) seems to me more like a first attempt to get control over Nick. That time truly because to get the key. But that changed with Eric learning about Adalind.
He sent her to Portland, yes, he sent her after the key, yes. But that ... was a weird attempt in my eyes. It looked more like Eric wanted to find out who is/are the spies, working together with his brother. Remember that scene when Adalind and Eric meet again in Vienna? Eric isn't very surprised or very angry (what surprised me back then, I mentioned that in all my reviews about that episode) that Adalind came back with empty hands. He'd lost interest in the key but seemed suddenly very interested in Nick.

Still thinking about that spoiler Kouf gave: "Friends become enemies". Call me whatever you like but I think, in the same way Eric reduced Sean's network he built his own. The trap was too perfect, this weird dinner with Sean, to let Sean KNOW that he's in Portland. I doubt Eric is stupid, he's a very dangerous person, highly intelligent and already has experience with such business. You know what I think? There's a traitor in Portland, someone near Nick and also near Sean is working for Eric. It has to be someone both trust, someone who is supposed to be friend - maybe not really with Sean but with Nick. That or Eric has a magic mirror showing him everything except where he could find the key *shrugs*