(01-14-2018, 10:20 PM)irukandji Wrote: Wasn't the tree attacking those who were causing harm to the forest though? If they were involved in investigating the disappearances, it would be unlikely the tree would attack them.
IIRC, the tree would have attacked and/or killed hikers/campers if they left their trash on the ground. Although the tree was protecting the forest, police wouldn’t have accepted deadly retaliation even if both parties were human. Nick, as law enforcement and Grimm, reacted to the tree’s extreme response, not it’s personal position on the environment. Are you suggesting that because the tree’s method of protecting the environment represents it’s Wesen culture/heritage, Nick shouldn’t have interfered with natural procession?
Nick wasn’t hunting the Wesen in ‘Star Crossed’ because he was practicing a Wesen ritual, but because that ritual included human sacrifice.
The episode ‘Good to the Bone’ was described as: “When a man is found dead with all of the bones in his body seemingly liquefied and removed, Nick and Hank find themselves in the middle of a gruesome family arrangement.” While it's reasonable to assume Wesen cops could have determined the source of that crime and been equipped to deal with it, I don’t see Wesen cops addressing the crime preferable to a Grimm cop. The outcome would have been the same as long as we assume the Wesen cops wouldn’t have looked the other way to avoid interfering with the Wesen’s way of life.
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