Quote:'Grimm' Season 4 finale: If Juliette's dead, it'll be revealed in Season 5

By Terri Schwartz
May 15th, 2015


The big question coming out of "Grimm's" Season 4 finale is heavy for a lot of the series' fans: Is Nick's longtime love Juliette -- played by Bitsie Tulloch -- actually dead on the show? Sadly, everyone's going to need to wait until the series returns in Season 5 to find an answer.

Zap2it went to the source, showrunners David Greenwalt and Jim Kouf, but they aren't ready to tell viewers. When asked if Tulloch would be returning the show, Kouf responds vaguely, "It's a good question. The answer is ... possibly not."

The intention is to keep fans guessing through "Grimm's" Season 5 return in the fall. To the showrunners, they felt like Juliette getting shot and grievously injured -- fatally or otherwise -- was the "next logical beat" in the story of her becoming a Hexenbiest. "She became such a threat," Greenwalt says.

Having that question in viewers' minds also teaches "Grimm's" audience that no one is safe on the show, regardless of how integral they seem to the story or how long they've been around. Heck, even Nick could be killed off since there's another Grimm in a central role.

"I think it keeps everyone on edge. You don't know what's going to happen," Kouf says of the Juliette twist. Greenwalt adds, "Anything could happen. It seems like a few shows, episode whatever, they get married or they finally get together. We decided to go a different way."

"Rosalee and Monroe got married. How many marriages can you really have?" Kouf quips.

The showrunners want fans to look past the question of whether Juliette is dead or not and instead focus on the repercussions losing both his fiancee and his mother has on Nick.

"The real discussion is something major happening to a major character. That's what's important in the move. It seems inevitable. It seems like it had to happen," Greenwalt says. "Nick has to deal with an awful lot of stuff now, including it sure looks like Adalind is going to have his baby. ... He's got a child he's responsible for, so that's the conflict."

"Grimm" will return to its original Friday 9 p.m. PT/ET time period in Season 5, and viewers can expect the series to get "a little darker" when it returns. Kouf says the new season will be "a little more of not the same" and will take the current state of the show and "turn it on its head a little bit."

"If everything is expected, I think you lose your audience a little bit because they see what's coming," Kouf says.

Besides, the cliffhanger ending already hinted at a Season 5 plot line. Beyond Nick cradling the dying Juliette in his arms, Agent Chavez showed up with a squad of cars.

She says, "Get her," and considering she talked to Trubel earlier in the episode, she's likely talking about Juliette. According to the showrunners, that's "tees up what's going to come."

(05-15-2015, 07:44 PM)Hexenadler Wrote: There's definitely something afoot. Trubel shoots Juliette, and then Chavez and her men show up immediately afterwards? Does this strike anyone as a little suspicious?

I'm hoping Chavez's appearance in the cliffhanger is a sign that her character (in addition to the Steinadlers) will be more heavily featured in season 5.

(05-16-2015, 07:10 PM)sasquatch Wrote: I just think that Chavez was after Trubel and not Juliette. Trubel was avoiding her calls for a reason. She obviously went to Portland without Chavez's permission and Chavez is there to get Trubel back.