So while ranting about Grimm with my sisters on facebook, the baby sis presented an interesting theory about Trubel’s mysterious phone call. With her permission, I am reposting the theory here (in a form more conducive to tumblr than facebook comments).

So when Trubel is in the car with Bud, a woman calls her. Not Nick. She lies to Bud and says it’s Nick, but we know it’s not. Little Sister’s theory is that it was Juliette who called Trubel, not Agent Chavez as popular fan interpretation suggests.

The basis for this theory? We saw throughout Juliette’s descent into Major Antagonist that she was conflicted at times. It was almost like there were two Juliettes: the angry, vengeful, blithely sadistic hexenbiest who liked her powers and the scared, confused, hurting woman who felt she was losing herself a little at a time. One of them wanted to be helped, to have this magic undone. The other wanted to keep the power, and use it to punish everyone who had hurt her, even her friends.

We also saw that the Juliette we know and love came most strongly to the surface in moments just after the hexenbiest had done something uncharacteristically vengeful or violent–trying to crush Adalind to death, blowing up a car, etc.

So the theory is that Juliette really was fighting hard against her hexenbiest side, but that it was too powerful for her. The hexenbiest would have gotten on that plane, but Juliette? Juliette came to the surface after Nick’s mother was dead, and she stayed long enough to do what she had to do.

She knew she was dangerous. She knew Nick could never forgive her for what she’d helped bring about. And she knew that the only hope of her being even partially cured had been destroyed. So…what if she wanted to die?

What if Trubel already knew that Juliette was a hexenbiest? What if Juliette had contacted her, turned to her in a moment of desperation when all her other friends failed her? It would certainly explain why Trubel failed to look completely fucking floored by the revelation. She barely looked surprised at all when they told her.

So Juliette comes to the surface and realizes that she’s finally done something there is no coming back from. It doesn’t matter if it wasn’t technically her or not. It feels like her. She has a feeling Nick won’t see a difference, even if she can stay in control long enough to really explain it to him.

Her only choices? Go with the Royals, and likely hurt more people…probably be used to hurt her friends again in the future. Stay in Portland and kill Nick. Or stay in Portland, and let Nick kill her. Because as far as she’s concerned, there is no option in which she gets to come back. She’s lost everything, burned every bridge.

So in a moment of lucidity, she calls Trubel. What does she say to her that makes Trubel look so grave? The conversation is short and mostly one-sided. “Listen to me. I’m going home. I know Nick will find me there. I know I can’t come back, there’s no forgiveness for what I’ve done. If he can’t do it, Trubel…I need you to.” Trubel would know what she meant. And she quietly voices her assent and hangs up. Lies to Bud, says it was Nick.

Then the confrontation at the house. Why else would she do that? Why else wouldn’t she get on that helicopter? The hexenbiest wanted revenge but she was also really gung-ho about her own survival. That ‘copter represented a chance to gather the strength to take them all out and come back next season ringing Hell’s bells in their faces. But she doesn’t do it. She goes…home. To face Nick. To tell him she didn’t mean for this to happen. To die.

She tells Nick to kill her, taunts him, attacks him…and he can’t do it. Like she knew he wouldn’t be able to, no matter what she had done. And that’s where Trubel comes in. 

How else do you explain Trubel, who got so attached to Juliette, who adored Juliette, who found her harder to say goodbye to than anyone else in Portland…just putting two arrows in her chest like it’s nothing? Are we meant to believe that much has changed in the few short weeks Trubel was gone from Portland? Or does it make more sense to believe that Trubel acted completely within what we know of her character: she did what she had to do, what she was meant to do (stop dangerous Wesen and protect others), and she did it because Juliette asked her–maybe begged her–to do it if Nick couldn’t.

Personally, this is the best theory I’ve read all hiatus, and I’m not just saying that because she’s my sister. I think it actually explains a lot of things that otherwise don’t make much sense in the season four finale. Tell me what you guys think!