Grimm - Nick Burkhardt's Final Battle

Chapter 5 - That Itchy Feeling

"When something itches my dear sir, the natural tendency is to scratch."

William Swalich, woged as an Ataktos Fuse, rises from beneath the ground. After he pulls himself out of the ground, he retracts. He starts looking around at the people walking nearby, noticing Jeremy Heriberg talking on his phone.

Eve wakes up in the tunnels and looks around at all the drawings on the walls. She looks at her hand and still sees one of the symbols from the cloth on her palm. She also notices her hands are cut up.

Nick wakes up after having a nightmare from the night he was shot. Rhett walks in after hearing Nick's restlessness before looking at a sleeping Adalind and then Nick gets out of bed to check on Kelly, who is also asleep. Nick and Rhett then go and get a drink of water and walk to the door to the tunnel entrance. Nick opens the door and hears heavy breathing in the tunnel. He also hears footsteps approaching and turns around as Adalind walks up, scaring them. She apologizes for scaring them and he tells her it's okay, and that he thought he heard something in the tunnels, but it's probably nothing. Adalind comments about how it must be strange for him to be back at the loft after everything that happened and Nick tells her it's a lot better now that she Rhett and Kelly are back. They then go back to bed.

Swalich follows Heriberg as he continues talking on the phone. Heriberg notices Swalich following him and ends his call. Swalich falls to the ground and tells Heriberg that he needs food. Heriberg decides to call 911 to have someone come to Swalich because he looks to be in rough shape. Heriberg then realizes that Swalich is gone, so he tells the 911 operator he's not sure what happened to Swalich, but suddenly, Swalich sticks one of his sharp, elongated fingers through the back of Heriberg's neck, effectively killing him.

Renard tucks Diana in bed, but before he leaves Diana's room, Renard finds her dolls of him and Adalind in a box. He takes both dolls out of the box and sets them down together. He then finds the needle that Diana used on the Bonaparte doll to make Renard stab Bonaparte. Renard takes the needle with him and goes to his room, where Meisner appears. Meisner tells Renard that he likes his new place, and they talk about how Meisner was with Adalind to help deliver Diana. Renard asks Meisner, "Is that what this is about? You want some thanks for being there when I couldn't be? Well, thank you, really. Thank you for being there. I really appreciate everything that you've done for Diana and me." Meisner tells him "it's too bad you didn't think of that before your betrayal. How much did Rhett suffer thanks to you? We believed that he was safe with me, apparently not. Thanks for killing all those who fought for and by your side." Renard tells Meisner to get out of his room because he wants to get some sleep. Meisner then says, "Well, there's the problem. Am I in your room or am I just in your mind? Now that's awesome. Am I even here?" Renard just tells Meisner that he can have the bedroom, and he goes downstairs and gets a drink. Suddenly Meisner says, "I've heard the only way to battle your demons is to take a trip to their hell." Renard hears gunshots and woges. He turns around and sees multiple dead Meisner bodies on the floor. Renard is a little freaked out and retracts.

Swalich finishes washing himself in a lake. He gets out of the water and picks up the clothes he stole off of Heriberg.

Rosalee has an ultrasound done with Monroe by her side. They find out Rosalee is pregnant with triplets, and Monroe tells Rosalee, "I love you and we can do this."

Nick with Rhett at his desk talks with Hank about the night he was shot, how he was dead, and then how he suddenly was not. Hank says maybe he wasn't actually shot, but Nick tells him he felt the bullets. Nick tells Hank that he feels like he needs to carry the stick around and that he has unsuccessfully tried to not think about the stick. Nick says that he wants to know more about the stick and why it was hidden and not destroyed if it's so powerful. Hank suggests that it may not be so simple to destroy it. Hank then gets a call from Wu about Heriberg's body. Nick turns to Rhett, "Sorry buddy, it seems that you have to go with Uncle Monroe and Aunt Rosalee for the day." Rhett shakes his head no before asking to go back home. "That's a bad idea Rhett." "But Adalind, Kelly and Diana are going to be there." Nick gives in and plans to drop Rhett off before heading to the crime scene.

Diana meets Adalind downstairs so she can head with Adalind to the loft. Adalind wonders where Renard is and Diana tells her, "He's in the bedroom. I think he was having bad dreams last night." Renard comes down and apologizes for oversleeping. Renard and Diana agree that they had a great time, and Diana and Adalind leave. After dropping Rhett off at the loft, Nick and Hank arrive to the crime scene and talk with Wu about Heriberg's naked body in Swalich Square Park. Wu says they searched for clothes but only found a pile of dirty rags. Wu takes them to the rags and Hank says to have CSU check them out just in case. Wu goes to run Heriberg's prints and Nick and Hank discuss why Heriberg is naked in a park. They wonder if he came to the park naked, or if his clothes were taken. They go over to Wu, who tells them Heriberg's identity. A woman suddenly screams nearby, so Nick and Hank run to see what's happening.

They find a mother trying to help get her kid out of a hole that he partially fell in. Nick and Hank each grab one of the kid's arms to try to pull him out, but they realize his foot is stuck on something. Nick and Hank are finally able to pull the kid out of the hole, but attached to his leg is a skeletal hand and forearm, with the rest of the body's remains in the hole.

CSU checks out the newly discovered body remains. Brenda tells Nick and Hank the body has been down there at least a couple of years based on all the roots. Hank tells Nick that pieces of the clothing on the corpse look similar to the pile of rags. Nick notes the hole seems a little big for just one body and that the mother said her kid was playing in dirt, but there is no other dirt nearby, just grass. Hank says someone did some digging before the kid started to play and asks, "But why would somebody start digging right where a body was buried, unless they knew the body was buried right here?" Nick responds, "So it's either a complete coincidence or the killer was the digger." Hank notices dirt scattered in the direction of Heriberg's body and Nick says a body got out of the hole.

Swalich eats at a diner and weirds out the waitress as he subtly insinuates that he ate someone.

Renard sits in his office, thinking about seeing all the Meisner bodies. He then calls Steiger to set up a meeting.

Hank recaps Nick Heriberg's last known activities before he died. Hank then asks, "So was Heriberg a target because he was convenient or because of his clothes?" Wu walks up and tells them that Heriberg's credit card was just used at a diner, and Nick and Hank head out.

Nick and Hank talk to the waitress at the diner. She tells them what Swalich said as best as she can remember. Hank asks if she can give a description of Swalich to a sketch artist and the waitress agrees. Nick then gets a call saying that Brenda is ready for them to come by.

Brenda tells Nick and Hank that the victim from the hole is a female who was in her mid-30s. She tells them that the woman was in the hole for at least five years, maybe even longer. Regarding the woman, Brenda says, "Some of her skin was somehow preserved and hardened into a waxy shell. I took subcutaneous samples and found traces of an enzyme I've never seen before." She then points out that there was no trace of any organs left. Showing Nick and Hank how there appears to be gnaw marks all over the woman's bones.