Why is it that every TV cop ever is like “I know it’s protocol for me to not work a case where I’m a target but let’s ignore all that because I am too Badass and Dedicated for the rule to apply!” ???

Tsk tsk Hank. Tsk tsk.

Nick pretending not to know where Monroe keeps the coffee cups! 😂

Jesus. I always forget how gruesome the ogre crime scenes were.

Bud gossipping about seeing a Grimm to his buddies. 😂

Santa Claus is apparently a Wesen called a Gefrieren Geber. I had forgotten that.

Related to Krampus orrrrrr?

MONROE AND HIS CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS.

Wu seems to know what the name Holly Clark means to Hank, even though Nick didn’t. How long have they known each other? How close are they?

“Sometimes being a cop gets in the way of what you have to do.”

Lt. Orson is the second person to tell him that. But Nick is very reluctant to cross that line. Which is a good thing! I’m glad.

Interestingly, I think the line-crossing coincides pretty cleanly with the point where people start attacking him in his own home.

In which I look at this scene through ship-colored glasses.

“You’re still in love with her, aren’t you?”

Nick’s voice has such an odd note to it when he asks that. His shoulders are a little slumped, too. He looks almost…defeated. Because Monroe has never stonewalled him like this before. He’s never just flat refused to help. And Nick can’t help but read into that.

But then Monroe says “No, I’m not.”

And I swear when Nick sighs, he almost sounds relieved.

It still looks like it hurts Nick when Monroe refuses to help, but at least he knows what the reason is…and isn’t.

(I can’t help but wonder what Monroe must have been thinking after Nick left. Did he worry that Nick would get hurt? That Angelina would? That they would hurt each other, even kill each other?

Did he ask himself Angelina’s question again? “Which would hurt more?”)

Angelina’s least favorite things: pigs and cops. I feel like there’s a very mild pun somewhere in there. Oh, writers.