We Talk GRIMM And His New Charity Project With Sasha Roiz

Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Grimm Sasha Roiz press and media call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards, we will conduct a question and answer session. At that time, if you have a question, please press 1 followed by the 4 on your phone.

If at any time during the conference, you need to reach an operator, please press Star 0. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded, Monday, January 26, 2015. I would now like to turn the conference over to Akiva Griffith, please go ahead.

Akiva Griffith: Thank you everyone for joining the call today. As you know, we have Sasha here from NBC’s Grimm. Before we start the question and answer, I wanted to give him a brief moment to speak about the Grimm Gala that will be taking place next week and which the auction opened today.

And he’ll give you guys sort of a little bit of information on that and you can follow up with questions once the Q&A begins immediately after he speaks. Go ahead Sasha.

Sasha Roiz: Thank you, and thanks everyone for joining me today. I really appreciate your support and your interest in all this. I’ll just give you a quick background on the gala, if you haven’t already read it and I’m happy to follow it up with any questions you might have.

And it’s to benefit an endowment that we began over here at Portland at the Children’s Hospital, called the Doernbecher and the endowment is called the Grimmster Fund and it’s to help benefit the families that need any financial assistant.
About a year ago we started the fund and then for the past year have been working closely with Comcast and NBC, our production of Grimm, of course and Nike, have all come together to help put together this Gala for us which will be taking place February 7 in Portland.
And we have amazing auction items, things from the set, props and costumes, as well as Nike pitched in and did an unbelievable one-time thing where they do a limited run of 50 Nike pairs of Grimm shoes, specifically designed for us. Some of them featuring the faces of the character on the shoe itself.
Those will be available at auction at the event as well as 400 fleeces, special Grimm designed fleeces, all designed by T. Hatfield, a very impressive name in Nike design. So we’re very excited for this event and currently it’s sold out so it’s going to be a fantastic opportunity to help us benefit this fund.
And today, this morning the on-line auction of a lot of the props and costumes and some of the drawings, one of a kind drawings, have all gone on line and they’ll be available for bidding and for purchase up until February 4. That’s it. If you have any questions, I’ll be happy to answer them.

Akiva Griffith: Great. And I’ll turn it back over to the operator to start the question and answer.

Operator: And ladies and gentlemen, once again, if you’d like to register for a question, please press one followed by the four on your telephone. Our first question comes from the line of Jamie Ruby with SciFi Vision. Please proceed with your question.

Jamie Ruby: Hi Sasha, thanks for talking to us today.

Sasha Roiz: My pleasure.

Jamie Ruby: Well, the first thing I wanted to ask about is kind of where the cliffhanger left off. Obviously Juliette came to talk to you now that she’s partly Hexenbiest, we don’t know what’s going on. Is there anything you can tease about that?

Sasha Roiz: There is a - this season has become kind of like the season of the Hexenbiest. It’s a hexen feast, as I like to call it. There’s been my mom, there’s been myself, Juliette's transformation, Adalind's involvement and a lot of sort of magical developments; some good, some bad.

And it’s definitely going to create havoc as you could imagine. Certainly already has for Juliette and now it slowly will trickle to everyone else. She’s come to me in that kind of partnership and assistance is going to be imperative for her to try to understand who she is and how to navigate this, you know, uncharted water for her.
So, we’re going to become a little bit closer than I think Renard is comfortable. Far more than he’s comfortable. And it’s going to be interesting to see how we walk this tightrope without falling back into any residual effects of that love potion a few scenes ago. Yes, so it’ll be definitely a fun story line.

Jamie Ruby: Sounds like it. So can you talk a bit about how, kind of, I guess I don’t want to say partnership, but how the dynamic at the precinct is kind of changing now that Wu's involved.

Sasha Roiz: It’s really interesting. It’s nice to have him on board. I like the dynamic as it’s, you know, slowly kind of evolving with Wu in the know, you know, of course now just keeping the rest of the precinct unaware.

But it’s fun to have yet another player, and, you know, a police officer in it, you know, because obviously we need all the help, as you can see we need all the help we can get because it’s starting to become unruly and far more than we can handle at this point.

Jamie Ruby: Okay. Great. Well, thank you so much for your time.

Sasha Roiz: Thank you.

Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Rebecca Murray with Showbiz Junkies. Please proceed with your question.

Rebecca Murray: Good morning Sasha, how are you?

Sasha Roiz: I’m well, thank you.

Rebecca Murray: I’m going to (unintelligible).

Sasha Roiz: I’m sorry, I’m going to have to interrupt you, it’s breaking up. I can’t hear you very well. (Benjamin), are you having trouble hearing her as well?

Operator: Yes, her line is breaking up. We’ll move on to the next question. She should dial back. I believe she’s on a cell phone. She should just simply dial back from a land line and we’ll be able to put her back in queue.

Sasha Roiz: Sorry about that. Please call us - please call again.

Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Stephanie Piche with MingleMediaTV.com. Please proceed with your question.

Stephanie Piche: Hi Sasha.

Sasha Roiz: Hi.

Stephanie Piche: It’s great to see the cast of Grimm giving back with the Grimm Gala for OHSU. I have a special place in my heart for Portland as well as OHSU because I was treated for breast cancer there and have been cancer free for seven years.

And one thing I know is the business community in Portland does rally around causes like this so I’m so impressed with the, you know, that you’re going to have this as something that goes forever, not just one year for support of the families, so that’s great. Can you tell me what other things do you like about Portland or have you guys found that you want to give back to?

Sasha Roiz: Well, I mean, like you said, it’s an amazing community and just goes to show, I mean corporations as large as Comcast and NBC and Nike, who ostensibly seem likes these just giant companies that are impersonal are anything but. I mean, the people that I’ve met who have all come to assist us and who have gone beyond, you know, my expectations.

And have done so much in order to help put this together and help their own community. It’s really humbling and I’m so grateful for it. And it really is a testament to Portland and how strong a community it is here and how much they embraced us and so that’s really the motivation to give back.
Because it’s been our home now for four years and it really does feel like home now and so we really want to be a part of the fabric here and they’ve been so gracious in helping us accomplish that.

Stephanie Piche: Well, the show fits in by keeping Portland weird for sure. My follow-up question would be how are you liking the evolution of your character in the show?

Sasha Roiz: Oh I love this.

Stephanie Piche: You’ve gone from villain to good guy.

Sasha Roiz: Yes, and there’s probably room to go back to villain too and that’s what makes it so much fun. I don’t know, the audience doesn’t know, the writers keep me guessing as well as the fans. And that’s what makes it fun for me.

I like a character that is unpredictable and I like as an actor being in that position where I don’t know from episode to episode, from season to season, what is expected of me and where my character may go and it keeps me very interested and engaged.

Stephanie Piche: Great. Well, thank you so much and keep up the good work and we hope to see more of you on Grimm.

Sasha Roiz: Thank you. All the best.

Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Vicki Dolenga with ThreeIfBySpace. Please proceed with your question.

Vicki Dolenga: Good morning, Sasha. How are you doing?

Sasha Roiz: I’m good. How are you?

Vicki Dolenga: Good. So glad to hear about all the great work that you’re doing with the Grimmster Fund and I’m sure that I speak for most of us by saying that we wish we could be there for the Gala.

Sasha Roiz: Well thank you. You guys just publicizing it will be a lot of help so I appreciate that.

Vicki Dolenga: Oh, you’re very welcome, glad to do anything we can. So my question is now that Juliette is coming up with these new powers, is there any chance that you’re mother somehow planned on this as a way to have a hold over getting where Kelly and Diana are?

Sasha Roiz: It’s a good question. I mean, I don’t know for sure but you know, anything can happen. And, you know, like these characters have their own imaginations and agendas and its always interesting to see what happens. Again, the writers just keep us guessing so just when I think I kind of know where it’s all headed, I’m always left surprised. And you never know who’s going to pop in, whose mom is going to pop in, or whose parents or cousins or uncles.

I mean, I’m still having a lot of trouble with, you know, members of my family and there’s a few more coming, some new ones, who are, you know, definitely going to make things even more difficult so. There is an ongoing swell of activity and characters that keep pumping in and out. So absolutely, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by who appears.

Vicki Dolenga: That sounds very interesting. One other question. So we haven’t spoken to you since the new season started, what was it like having that long summer hiatus where your life was literally hanging in the balance, were you worried?

Sasha Roiz: Well, you know, I think when that initial script turned up where I was shot. You know, I always felt very confident that I was well positioned in this cast and that I wasn’t going anywhere but at the same time I was thinking, you know, this would be really good as a story line if they did kill me off. I’d be terribly upset but I’d understand.

And, but I did have at one point just a little panic attack and I’d have to go, you know, to our producer Jim Kouf one of our show runners and at one point when he was on set I pulled him aside and I just started.
I said, hey by the way I just need to ask, and he immediately interrupted and he goes, you live. And I go, thank you. So I was put at ease so I wouldn’t have to sweat it out over the hiatus and thankfully I just had a chance to enjoy myself and come back to work.

Vicki Dolenga: That’s good, and I promise you all of the fans would not have been happy if you had indeed died, so I’m very glad that you survived it.

Sasha Roiz: Yes, I really enjoyed the pouring of support and absolute, you know, hysterics, that were on-line, you know, in support of the character so it was fun to see that.

Vicki Dolenga: Well thank you very much and best of luck raising lots of money at the Gala.

Sasha Roiz: Thank you so much.

Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Josh Maloney with Niagara Frontier. please proceed with your question.

Josh Maloney: Thank you. Sasha when we talked to other casts that film in other cities, they always, you know, speak highly of their experience and people and whatnot. But we don’t really hear a lot about casts in shows getting as involved as you guys are with this initiative.

And I’m just wondering, have you seen anything like this before in your career or is this something that is sort of new even for you, to see a show and a network get so involved in a community initiative like this?

Sasha Roiz: I hadn’t experienced it myself. You know, not to say that it hasn’t happened before, but I don’t know of it myself. But you know, this is just a really special experience we’re having and I think it probably reflects that. You know, we are a show that celebrates the city that we film in, both on set and off set.

You know we actually represent Portland and I don’t think it’s really been quite as represented before. And so we take pride in that and in turn the City takes great pride in the fact that they’re being represented and positively represented by us, you know, aside from all the murderers and monsters and things like that. But I think they enjoy, you know, that we keep it weird as they say.
And, you know, and this has become, you know, and this is four years now and, you know hopefully we’ll have a few more and so it has become home for all of us. And, you know, everybody else in the cast, they all do their share and they participate in the community in different charities and nonprofits that move them and speak to them and it’s just been really just a symbiotic and natural evolution.

Josh Maloney: Can you tell us a little bit more about the Children’s Hospital and why you guys felt that they would be the best recipient for this Gala and for all the work that you guys are doing?

Sasha Roiz: Well, I mean, they’re an incredible hospital, OHSU is one of the premiere hospitals in the country and especially in this region where, you know, people come from bordering states, from all over the place to just be, to be patients of this particular hospital because of its reputation.

We came to realize very quickly in our visits that, you know, a lot of these families put their lives on hold and on top of all the difficulties and emotional trauma that they have to deal in regards to their children, they spend months, weeks, years sometimes, going back and forth trying to rehabilitate their kids.
And, you know, in addition to that they have to bear the burden not just emotionally but financially, it’s really, it can’t help but move you. And so I think we just felt a certain connection to that cause and the hospital and the staff are just tremendous and dedicated and it just spoke to us. You know, I’m sure it’s not the only charity, not the only hospital that certainly needs help, but we just kind of connected and were happy to be able to assist.

Josh Maloney: Okay, well thank you for your time and good luck with the event.

Operator: Our next question comes from the line of (Ben Lay) with SpoilerTV, please proceed with your question.

(Ben Lay): Hi Sasha.

Sasha Roiz: Hi, how are you (Ben)?

(Ben Lay): I’m doing good, how are you doing?

Sasha Roiz: I’m good.

(Ben Lay): That’s good to hear. Well before I ask my first question, I just wanted to say, every Friday night, I always look forward to you, you are my favorite character on Grimm. You just, I really enjoy you on Grimm every Friday.

Sasha Roiz: Oh, thank you, I appreciate that.

(Ben Lay): It’s not a problem at all. My question is what do you like the most working about your character on Grimm? What do you like the most about your character?

Sasha Roiz: Well, I mean, like I mentioned before, I like the ambiguity, you know, the sort of moral ambiguity that you can’t quite predict this guy and even myself as an actor I can’t predict it because the scripts keep me guessing.

But I also like how he keeps his cards close to the vest and you just, you see him thinking, you see him constantly planning and scheming and just sort of trying to appraise the situation and how to best deal with it.
But you never quite know what his move is going to be so it’s a very interesting kind of like master chess player. And I love that about him. He’s, you know, a very, he’s working on so many levels at once and it’s really fun to enact that.

(Ben Lay): That’s so awesome. Well thank you so much for taking the time to do this, I really appreciate it.

Sasha Roiz: Our next question comes from the line of (Erin Marie Ritter) with Broadway World. Please proceed with your question.

(Erin Marie Ritter): Hi Sasha thanks for taking my call, I appreciate it.

Sasha Roiz: Thank you.

(Erin Marie Ritter): I wanted to talk to you, I love that you’re so involved in the city, but particularly with your theatrical endeavor with Portland Center Stage and Three Days of Rain with Silas Mitchell can you talk a little bit about that project. I know you’d spoiled, or Jeff kind of like spoiled at Comic-Con but didn’t have a lot of information. Now that it’s coming up do you have more information on that?

Sasha Roiz: Well, we’re very excited, Silas and I have been wanting to do theater for a long time. We, I mean, obviously came from the theater, but it’s just been years since we’ve had a chance to set foot back on the stage so fortunately it worked out and was the last slot in their season and it coincided with our break so it just worked out perfectly.

And it’ll be directed by their artistic director whose name is Chris Coleman a very, very talented director. It’s a three hander, so we’re going to audition the female role and we’re going to get started in rehearsals in late April and I think we open around mid-May.
So we’re thrilled and Silas and I love working together and unfortunately we don’t have a lot of scenes together. You know, over the years we’ve only worked together maybe a handful of times and we’re looking forward to it because we’re very different actors, very different energies but we, I think we really complement each other, so it’s going to be a really interesting endeavor.

(Erin Marie Ritter): Great, thank you so much.

Sasha Roiz: Thank you.

Operator: Ladies and gentlemen if you’d like to register for a question, please press one followed by the four on your telephone. Our next question comes from the line of Courtney Vaudreuil with OhSoGray.com. Please proceed with your question.

Courtney Vaudreuil: Hi Sasha.

Sasha Roiz: Hi Courtney.

Courtney Vaudreuil: My question is, is there anything else that you can tease for us about this second half of the season, any new Wesen that we’re going to see, any twists and turns coming up, anything that people are really going to be surprised about, without spoilers obviously?

Sasha Roiz: Yes, there’s always Wesen. That’s one thing you can always rely on us for, there’s always some new creative and sometimes, like the current episode we’re filming, really weird new ones, like to the point that you’re scratching your head going, how did they turn that into a Wesen.

And you’ll see what I’m talking about, I guarantee, you’ll look after episode 16. But it’s, yes, there’s always residuals to everything. Every decision on Grimm comes with repercussions.
So my life saving experience is definitely going to kind of come back and reek a little havoc for me because it’s not without its residual effects which you’ll see slowly with Renard suffering from some of those residuals. As well there is issues with more family members coming over and creating a lot of trouble for him.
And, you know, it’s getting progressively more and more heated, both life threatening and the politics become a lot more heated and the dynamics from the characters, obviously with Juliette's new found, you know, (hexen bee) status, this is going to change things for everybody. So I get caught, or Renard gets caught in the middle of all of that and it becomes a really difficult seasons for him as the season progresses.

Courtney Vaudreuil: Wonderful, and for the Wesen, how does it work when they give you a script, do they give you a description about what this particular Wesen is going to look like? Do you get a drawing or do you just have to wait until the show actually airs to see kind of how it all works out with the special effect?

Sasha Roiz: It’s a combination, I mean, there’s the description in the script, which is you know, never more than really just a sort of brief description of what kind of animal or creature it’s based on. And then there’s definitely some drawings, some artistic renderings that you can look at.

Sometimes visual effects will come with their particular take on it and give you, you know, a chance to look at it so you can envision what it’s going to be. And if we have the time and, you know, yes, if we have the time, then our makeup team, which is remarkable, as you have seen, comes in and does all the prosthetics and then you get to look at it, you know, firsthand, which is always incredibly impressive.

Courtney Vaudreuil: Wonderful, well thank you so much I appreciate it.

Sasha Roiz: Thank you.

Operator: Our next question comes from the line of (MaryAnn Audette) with Washington Square News, please proceed with your question.

(MaryAnn Audette): Hello?

Sasha Roiz: Hi.

(MaryAnn Audette): My question is what first drew you to the role of Captain Renard?

Sasha Roiz: I’m sorry, could you repeat that?

(MaryAnn Audette): What first drew you to the role of Captain Renard?

Sasha Roiz: Right, well, employment first drew me to the role, I really wanted to be employed. But beyond that it was, I’m just being facetious. But beyond that it was, you know, working with Jim and David which, they have such an incredible resume and such great success with so many shows that I’ve enjoyed.

They really know how to piece together an amazing ensemble and they thought that this character would be a really interesting player in this ensemble and they assured me of some amazing arcs and story lines and evolutions for him and they’ve come through. So I think I made a good choice.

(MaryAnn Audette): Well thank you for your time and good luck with everything.

Sasha Roiz: Thank you.

Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Earl Dittman of Digital Journal. Please proceed with your question.

Earl Dittman: Hi Sasha, how are you doing?

Sasha Roiz: Good Earl, how are you?

Earl Dittman: Doing great. You know, being four seasons on, what is it about the role of Renard that you maybe find challenging or do you find easier now that you’ve been doing it for a while?

Sasha Roiz: Well the thing that remains challenging is that it’s one of the characters that keeps getting developed. You know, as an audience member you can probably attest to that. That you don’t know his back story and it slowly unfolds as the season goes on.

You start to realize that he’s a prince, that he’s a Wesen, that he’s, you know, got all this family, that all these things about him become revealed from season to season.
Now those things are not necessarily revealed to me four seasons in advance so I always have to kind of, as an actor, keep a certain portion of the character uncommitted, meaning like, when they bring something in, I can still fit that into the makeup of this individual.
So that’s been the most challenging part but at the same time it’s a really fun thing. Right, because, you know, I can tell you with every development that you’ve seen I’ve been equally surprised, you know. Oh, I’ve got a mom, oh I have a dad, I have a cousin, a brother, I’m a prince. I didn’t even know until the second season that I was Wesen. So all these things get layered from season to season and it’s really challenging and exciting.

Earl Dittman: What aspect of Renard do you relate to, I mean, how much is, is there anything about him that’s like you as a person?

Sasha Roiz: Sure. I mean, I think we all have parts of our characters that resonate with us. You know, I think being, to some extent being an outsider. To some extent, you know, not fitting in. These are all qualities that we can all relate to.

Certainly, you know, issues of identity or issues of belonging, these are things that resonate with me and I’m sure with a lot of viewers. I think that’s what makes him a very interesting and sympathetic character at times.
Even when he’s being as harsh as he is, you realize that there’s something fueling that that comes from a place of pain. And I think that’s, you know, something that as a human being you can certainly relate to whether it’s me acting it or you watching it.

Earl Dittman: One final thing, one final follow up. I asked a couple questions to our readers and what they would like to ask you and a lot of female readers and a couple male readers wanted to know when are you going to take your shirt off again this season.

Sasha Roiz: There’s a lot of that coming up.

Earl Dittman: Yes, you’ve become a sex symbol, how does that feel?

Sasha Roiz: It feels, you know, on the one hand very flattering. And on the other hand it’s a tremendous amount of pressure. I feel like every day, I’m like when am I going to the gym.

Like it’s just all about the gym and my caloric intake and it’s all these things, you know, very pressing, much more so than perhaps I would enjoy. But it’s definitely an interesting aspect of the job and, you know, I’ve come to embrace it. It’s not a bad place to be, certainly in my 40s you know.

Earl Dittman: Exactly. Well I appreciate it. Thanks so much for your great work and keep on doing it, I appreciate your time.

Operator: We have no further questions from the phone lines at this time.

Sasha Roiz: Okay. Well, thanks everyone. I appreciate you guys calling in and thank you for your support.

Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude today’s conference call. We thank you for your participation and ask that you please disconnect your lines.

Sasha Roiz stars in NBC's hit drama "Grimm" as Captain Renard, Nick's politically adept superior officer and a descendant of a powerful royal line.

Roiz's work on "Grimm" follows his series regular role as Sam Adama, a brutal mob enforcer, on the critically acclaimed Syfy series "Caprica," prequel to "Battlestar Galactica."

In recent years, Roiz has become a familiar face on TV screens; making numerous guest appearances on some of television's most notable programs, including "House," "The Mentalist," "Lie To Me," "CSI," "NCIS," "Castle," as well as a series arc on "Warehouse 13."

Roiz's introduction to feature films was in a supporting role in the blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow," followed by "16 Blocks," "Man of the Year" and "Unthinkable." Roiz shot his first starring film role in the independent science fiction thriller "Extracted" which premiered at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival. He recently starred alongside Kit Harington and Kiefer Sutherland in the blockbuster "Pompeii."

Raised in Montreal, Canada, Roiz trained theatrically at the Guildford Conservatoire (UK). Upon returning to Montreal, he began to work consistently in theatre, earning a nomination for his performance at the "Masques Awards" (Quebec's Theatre Awards). Roiz currently resides in Los Angeles.

NBC’S HIT DRAMA ‘GRIMM’ TO SUPPORT PORTLAND’S OHSU DOERNBECHER CHILDREN’S HOSPTIAL WITH GRIMMSTER ENDOWMENT
Fans Invited to Contribute to Endowment and Participate in Online Auction

PORTLAND, Ore. – Jan. 21, 2015 – The cast and crew of NBC’s hit TV drama “Grimm,” which is set and filmed in Portland, Oregon, are supporting OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital with the establishment of the Grimmster Endowment.

“Over the past few years, my fellow cast and crew members and I have fallen in love with the city. Since Portland has given us so much, we wanted to give something back,” said Sasha Roiz, who plays Captain Sean Renard on “Grimm.” “The cast visited OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital not long after coming to Portland, and we were moved by the families, the kids and everything the hospital does to ensure that patients receive the best possible care in a supportive, family-centered environment. We also were made aware of the hospital’s areas of greatest need, which inspired us to establish the Grimmster Endowment, a patient-assistance fund that provides children and families critical support associated with uncompensated care, travel, lodging and other services integral to the care and comfort of the most vulnerable patients.”

Fundraising efforts for the endowment will kick off with the “Grimm Gala” at the Eastside Exchange Ballroom on Feb. 7. Comcast and NBCUniversal are underwriting the cost of the event so that all proceeds will go directly to the Grimmster Endowment. The gala is sold out.

“Grimm” fans are encouraged to support the endowment by making a donation or by participating in an exclusive online auction of memorabilia from the show. The auction is open to the public and will run from Jan. 26 to Feb. 4. Bids can be placed at grimmgala.doernbecherfoundation.org. Online auction items include the Volcanalis eye from episode 218, Monroe and Rosalee’s cake topper and wedding invitation from episode 322, and drawings from the “Grimm” book, among other items from seasons one through four.

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About “Grimm”

“Grimm” is a drama series inspired by the classic Grimm Brothers’ set of fairy tales. After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) discovers that he is descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as Grimms, he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm. Bitsie Tulloch, Russell Hornsby, Silas Weir Mitchell, Reggie Lee, Sasha Roiz, Bree Turner and Claire Coffee also star. “Grimm” is a Universal Television and Hazy Mills production.

In the wake of Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) and Rosalee's (Bree Turner) wedding, things have never been more chaotic. Nick, having lost his Grimm abilities, must dig deep and decide what type of person he wants to be, while Juliette (Bitsie Tulloch) continues to try to come to grips with Nick's recent "betrayal." Monroe and Rosalee find themselves having to put their honeymoon plans on hold to try to not only figure out what happened to Nick, but also how to reverse it.

With Captain Renard (Sasha Roiz) in critical condition after being shot by Agent Steward, Sergeant Wu's (Reggie Lee) biggest fears are becoming reality thanks to recent events, not the least of which is the strange young woman seen with Nick and the sketches he saw in one of her books.

In Europe, Viktor (guest star Alexis Denisof) is trying to make the best of the Royals' mishandling of the "hexenbaby," using Adalind's (Claire Coffee) desperation and vulnerability to make her his prisoner.

On top of all this, wesen crime in Portland doesn't seem to be letting up at all, with even more dangerous wesen making their way to the great northwest. It's going to take all of Team Grimm's strength and energy to keep Portland from bursting open at the seams.

Russell Hornsby stars as Nick's partner, Hank Griffin.

“Grimm” is a Universal Television and Hazy Mills production. The series was created by David Greenwalt & Jim Kouf and Stephen Carpenter. Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner (“Sean Saves the World,” “Hot in Cleveland”) and Norberto Barba (”The Bridge”) serve as executive producers along with Greenwalt and Kouf.

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