Grimm: Organ Grinder

I'm not quite sure how I feel about this episode of Grimm. It was just so-so for me, although it did have some good moments, mostly with Monroe, of course.
 
The episode opens with two older boys running through the woods being pursued by, well, we don't know yet. One boy gets away and immediately falls into the river. The other boy is caught by their pursuers. The bad guys take the boy back to the bad place, and we discover that they throw bodies into a pit of fire. Now, I'd call that a pit of despair (random Princess Bride reference). The other boy's escape really wasn't much of an escape. The next we see of him, he's floating down the river belly-up, and a crow is picking out his eyes.
 
Nick and Hank are called to investigate that same body when it washes up on the river bank. Later, the coroner tells them he has had an extreme loss of blood, and he has two puncture marks on the side of his neck. What? Is this going to be Hansel and Gretel meet Dracula?

No, it is the story of Hansen and Gracie meet the Geiers.
 
Nick finds out from the "Book of Shadows" (I mean the book Nick's aunt gave him) that Geiers are some of the vilest creatures. They remove human organs while the victim is still alive and harvest the organs to sell them to other creatures for medicinal purposes. Not someone you’d want to run into in a dark alley, or a white van.
 
Eventually the Geiers get Hansen and Gracie (siblings who have no parents and are living on the streets selling puka shell necklaces), and take them to their compound. Hansen breaks one of the puka shell necklaces, leaving a trail of “breadcrumbs,” which eventually leads Nick and Hank to the right place just as Gracie is about to be sawed open - alive. I wish that the writers would have thought of a more clever way for the kids to lead them to the compound, but they probably believed it was clever when they thought about it.

There are two great bonding moments between Nick and our favorite Blutbaden, Monroe. The first bonding moment is over coffee. Nick wants Monroe's advice on whether or not he should tell Juliette about his "family secret." Monroe doesn't think it's a good idea. I don't think it is either. It isn't close enough to the season finale yet. The second bonding moment is over dinner. Nick wants to get information about Geiers, and Monroe just wants to have a normal conversation. Monroe truly wants to be Nick's friend, and he's already proven his loyalty by not ratting Nick out to the other creatures. It's sad that all Nick wants is for Monroe to be his informant to catch the bad creatures. Come on, Nick, don't you know what a great friend you have in Monroe?

I expected more from Grimm, and I was really looking forward to this episode, maybe that's because I enjoyed Once Upon a Time’s Hansel and Gretel episode so much.

I am, however, looking forward to next week’s episode. As much as I hate spiders, this episode looks great.