Misfits Season Three, Episode Four

We are still behind on the older season and that is why season three is appearing today.  As usual, an up to date post on season four will appear on Wednesday.

This episode begins with an introduction to Friedrich Hirsch, a man who was born in Berlin in 1935.  He managed to escape the holocaust by being adopted by a German family, when his parents were sent to a labour camp.  Hirsch never saw his family again. Hirsch survived by doing nothing, as everyone he knew was murdered and now he feels compelled to travel through time and kill Adolf Hitler.  Hirsch writes a letter detailing all of this and then uses Curtis' old power to travel through time. Hirsch's attept to stab Hitler to death fails and is instead stabbed. Unfortunately, Hirsch drops his cellphone and Hitler picks it up.  This forces Hirsch back to the present, where he discovers that the allies lost the war and England is now a Nazi state.

Kelly is in the community center and she is wearing her jump suit and it has a big swastika on the back.  Alisha is working in the office for Shaun, who is now a Nazi officer, who has no problem sexually harassing her. Simon comes to the door and salutes and lets Shaun know that the prisoner has arrived, along with Hirsch and his letter.

Seth is in a cell and Shaun is interrogating him.  Shaun wants him to test people to see if they have powers, then remove said powers and give them to the people of Shaun's choosing.  The first man Shaun checks has no powers, but when he moves onto a woman, she has a power.  Shaun is forced to take it from her. As she is being escorted out of the room, she begs to be released but is shot for her trouble. Kelly who is standing outside of the cell, witnesses the whole incident through a window.

Kelly goes to see Curtis at a bar and he escorts her upstairs. Kelly tells Curtis about Seth and how he is being used to take people's powers. Hirsch is in a jail cell and Simon goes to check on him.  Seth asks if he can take Hirsch to the hospital but Simon says that the Nazis aren't big on compassion.  When Seth points out that Simon is also a Nazi, Simon says that he was conscripted and promises to do what he can for Hirsch before walking away.

That night, the two Rudy's are hiding and arguing about what to do. What they don't realise is that Nazis are in the hallway preparing to break into the apartment.  Rudy opens the door before the battering ram can be used and promptly closes the door and sneaks out the window.

At the bar, Curtis asks Kelly if she is still delivering food to the cells and then instructs her to poison Seth's food.  Kelly says that she is not willing to kill Seth because he is a prisoner like the rest but Curtis adds that it's not personal.  Curtis reminds Kelly that the powers Seth gives to the Nazis will be used against them.

Simon is back at the community center and he takes Shaun's keys to get his hands on antibiotics for Hirsch.  Alisha walks into the room catching Simon in the act.  Simon tells Alisha that there is an old man in the cells who has an infected wound. Alisha closes the door and asks Simon if he knows what they will do if they find him here.  They see Shaun and so they pretend that Simon was helping Alisha with the computer.  Alisha tells Shaun that she missed him and kisses him to distract him from Simon and Simon leaves the room.

Back at the bar, Curtis pours a drink for Rudy who asks, "what about them Nazis."  Rudy looks around the room and asks Curtis if he is part of the resistance.  Curtis takes Rudy upstairs and then puts a gun to his head.  Rudy says that he has a power and the Nazis are after him. Curtis demands that Rudy show him his power.

Grimm, Season 1, Episode 13: 3 Coins in a Fuchsbau

“For there are neither locks nor bolts, whatsoever I desire is mine”

 

So, we begin with an extremely well armed and equipped jewellery robbery with the shop owner running to protect not his jewels  - but 3 coins. The perpetrators are 3 fuzzy Vesen that come from 3 different countries (Ireland, Spain and Austria) and were looking for those 3 coins – and don’t get them which is most frustrating for them. Especially since they don’t like each other very much judging by the constant holding each other at gun point. Certainly it shows when a strange new bird Vesen (a Steinadler) is able to use their paranoia to have the Irishman and the German shoot each other in the darkened room

In come Nick, Hank and Sergeant Wu to find the shop owner’s dead body – Hank knows him as a collector of rare coins (in case we didn’t guess from  the large number of coins, y’see).  Which helps Nick see the Spanish Fuzzy Thief through his Grimmvision when he comes back to try and get the coins they missed (not guessing it would be a crime scene by now, for some reason). This also allows Nick to catch a glance of the car he’s driving which in turn allows Sergeant Wu to use magical science cameras that can read the number plate of a car using the blurriest of blurry images.

The pathologist (one of the 2 token recurring women) has found those 3 coins in the jeweller’s stomach – and swallowing them apparently killed them. The coins seem to have some kind of stylised swastika on the back but seem older than Nazi Germany. Both she and Hank start acting very possessive of the Coins and want to keep them

Anyway Nick and Hank find the car and rush in to the hideout, the surviving Fuzzy Thief (a Schakahl) gets away but the Steinadler who is also looking for the coins gets captures – and roughed up by Hank who seems to have developed anger management issues (or possibly excessive stereotyping issues).

Back to base and the coins end up in the hands of Reaper-Maybe-Evil-We-Don’t-Know-Because-We-Never-Get-Any-Damn-Meta-Plot Police Chief Captain Renard (can you see I’m bitter about the meta? Yes I am) who reports his finding to a mysterious French blokey (French seems to be the Reaper lingua franca. Which we’d know more about IF WE HAD MORE META!)  They are the Coins of Zakynthos.

We must return to Nick’s case of the week where he get the identities of the 3 Fuzzy Thieves from Harley Colt (the Steinadler) where they have a nice off-the-record conversation. The coins were mined a long time ago in Greece passed through history (and the Third Reich) – all the while giving great charisma to the carrier but having bad consequences for them in the long term. They disappeared since the Nazis and then entered the custody of the Grimms, since they were less susceptible to their magical influence. And the last Grimm to be custodian of the coins was Nick’s mother – before she was killed for them. And Harley Colt knew and loved Kick-arse Aunt Marie, the woman who raised Nick.

Meanwhile a lot comes together. Nick & Hank search Harley Colt’s hotel room and find ancient CIA letters about the coins, Nick interviews Colt more and finds out that Soledad Marquesa (Fuzzy Thief) killed Nick’s parents for the coins. Soledad is kidnapping the pathologist, pistol whipping her then killing a policeman in another hotel to steal his uniform so he can go hunt Renard. And the coins are going to Captain Renard’s head.