After a relatively short winter break, Grimm is back to bust some wesen heads. Though theres nothing all that cliffhangery from the last episode of 2013, which was Christmas-themed, the show still has some dangling plot threads to deal with, like Adalinds pregnancy.

The episode opens with the quote To kill Koschei the Deathless, first you must find his soul, which is hidden in an egg, in a duck in a lead chest buried beneath an oak tree.

We then see a jogger in red running to a cover of Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs Little Red Riding Hood, which gives it an echo of the shows pilot (though that episode opened with The Eurythmics Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).

Just then Nick jogs by (perhaps its just hat tip). Juliette gets a call from her friend Alicia whose husband Joe beats her. Juliette wants Alicia to come and stay with her and Nick, and Alicia agrees. Nick comes home and though hes been jogging isnt sweaty.

In Vienna, Adalind has coffee with Renard and shes curious why theres a camera in her room. Renard says its because of her pregnancy, and plan to sell the Royal on the black market.

He then suggests she pick a side, specifically his. Back in Portland a young woman is praying that God will kill her when a Boris Mishkin whose eyes glow green cures her, while another a man gets an address and has plans to pay Boris back.

Boris is at a bar getting a young woman drunk (even though hes sitting next to his wife Olga) and is being toasted, and he wants everyone to celebrate, but when he goes to the bathroom hes assaulted by the man seeking revenge, but his Wesen powers send the assassin out a window, and the assassins got a wound that looks fatal.

The assassin stumbles into his apartment trying to make a phone call, but passes out. Juliette calls Alicia, but theres no answer, but just then Alicia pulls up.

Nick and Juliette offer her comfort as she cries, and then she reveals herself to be a wesen. Hank goes through physical therapy with his beautiful physical therapist, and when he tries to ask her out, hes shot down.

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