Top 5 Grimm Moments by Season

Season 1, #5: Roddy Geiger’s Rat Trap in 1×05, “Danse Macabre”

I can’t say enough about how much I love this entire episode, but this scene really takes the cake. It’s a great use of music and lighting and just creates such a sinister atmosphere. It’s also masterful character writing; in less than 20 minutes of screen time, they managed to make me care about this one-off character that I’d never met before and so far have never seen again.

As audience members, we sympathize with Roddy. We even, on some level, want him to succeed in his attempt at revenge on his tormentors. And this scene is a such a peak point for him: it’s the perfect marriage of everything that makes him special and everything that makes him an outcast, pulled together into one dark, twisted, beautifully rendered scene.

Four years later, I still occasionally wonder what happened to Roddy Geiger. Where is he right now? Is he okay? I still hope the Grimm Writers will bring him back someday and answer these questions.

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