Grimm (2011–2017): Season 2, Episode 9 - La Llorona - full transcript

JULIETTE: Previously on
Grimm...

HANK: You seen all
these in Portland?
NICK: Some of them.

I gotta say, man,
you been Iiving
one weird Iife.

HANK: Monroe's one?

It's okay. It's just me.

Monroe. And he's saved my Iife
a couple of times, too.

(GROWLING)

This is awesome.

(CAT YOWLING)
Oh, ow!

Hey!
I'm so sorry.
Are you okay?

Adalind put Nick's
girlfriend in a coma,

I need something
for obsessive behavior,

It needs to go away.

How Iong
have you had these feelings?

Ever since I kissed her,

Juliette. You're awake.

Who are you?

I was thinking maybe
if I saw you at work
it might help me remember you.

I could always take you home.

Yeah, thank you.

It's the Ieast I could do.

What's wrong?

Me.

Silencio,

I know.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Shh...

(WOMAN SOBBING)

I Iike this one.

(SOBBING)

Quedate ahi!

Senora!

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Papa!

Papa! Papa!

Papa!

Papa!

Papa!

LUIS: Rafael!

Rafael!

Rafael!

Rafael!

Rafael!

Rafael!

Rafael!

Rafael!

(CACKLING)

(SKELETON LAUGHING)

(MECHANICAL DOG BARKING)

MONROE: Did you bring it?

You do this every year?

Of course.
Are you kidding me?

Halloween for us, come on.
That's, Iike,
bigger than Christmas.

There's a Iong Wesen tradition
of the AII Hallows'
Eve midnight Woge,

running through the woods,
scaring the crap
out ofvillagers.

Literally, sometimes.

And you continue
this fair tradition
in Portland?

No, no, no.

I mean, I would if I
could find some villagers,
but, you know...

No, I can only imagine the fun
my relatives must have had,

man,
back in the good old days.

Anyway, Iet me see it.

Oh, baby. That's the one.

Beautiful.

And just think
of the history, man.

Yeah.

AII the skulls bashed in,
bones broken, knees shattered.

Hey,
those who ignore the past,
et cetera, et cetera.

Now watch this.

Okay, check this out.

Wait till you see this.

Whoa, intense.

Okay. Come here,
come here, come here.

Okay, ready?

Here goes.

(LAUGHING)
That's pretty great, right?

Unless you're a pumpkin.
(CELL PHONE RINGS)

Burkhardt.

Where?

Yeah, on my way.

Now, promise me no
one's going to get hurt.

(SCOFFS)

Fine.

I promise.

(GROWLS)

(GASPING)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Whoa. Okay, okay.

PIease,
sir, my Spanish is no bien,

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Wait, okay? Wait.

We're gonna need a translator.

This guy's English is about
as good as my Spanish.

His name's Luis AIvarez.

I'm pretty sure
he's saying someone

took his kid, Rafael,
eight years old.

I've got unis
searching the area.

There's fishing
equipment down by the river.

I'm guessing he and
his kid were down there.

You sure the kid didn't drown?

We're not sure of anything.

I called Search and Rescue,
they're en route.

Those kayakers
said they saw him
running up from the river.

This is their cell phone.

He was shooting video
and he got
something real interesting.

Put out an alert.

We'II take
Mr. AIvarez and the video
back to the precinct.

Yeah.

(SPEAKING SPANISH )

And tell Sanchez
to meet us there, too.

Uh, already tried,
he's on safari in Botswana.

(LUIS SPEAKING SPANISH )

Hey, Juliette, you busy?

We need a translator.

Search and Rescue
working the river
just in case?

Nothing so far.

There's a pretty
strong current,

but they've checked
five miles down already.

FBI?

Waiting to hear
if they want in.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Come in.

Excuse me for interrupting,
sirs,

but I thought
I should interrupt

because I think
this is probably
pretty important information.

What is it, Ryan?

Your translator's here.
Good.

Why don't you show her in?

Right. Of course. Yes, sir.

Hey, what can I do to help?

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

He says he can't stay here.
He needs to find his son.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

He says he went to go help
a woman in the river,

and he thought
she was drowning,

but next thing he knew
she was walking
offwith his son.

Ask him to describe the woman.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Long hair, white dress,
didn't see her face.
He doesn't know her.

Is he married, divorced?
Any custody issues?

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

His wife is dead.

Is there anyone
who might want to do him harm?

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

No.

Can he can tell
us anything else
about the woman?

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

He says she was crying.
That's why he
went to help her.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

He's saying these questions
aren't gonna help
him find his son.

We'II do the best
we can, but tell him

he's got to take us
to where he Iives.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(BEEPING)

(GROWLS)

(PANTING)

I need to book a flight.

The next flight
to Portland, Oregon.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

They're asking
if he's found Rafael.

Tell him we need
to get inside the house.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

They really Iove
their Halloween.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Day ofthe Dead.

Rafael!

Rafael!

If there's
an answering machine,
we need to Iisten to it.

And we need
to check out Rafael's room.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Just his phone.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

NICK: Rafael?

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Nick, she says she
knows who took Rafael.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

He says that she doesn't know,
and she's not helping.

Let her talk.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

What's La Llorona?
The Weeping Woman.

It's a ghost story
about a dead woman

who steals children
and drowns them.

We believe in ghosts now?

Not that I know of.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

What's going on?

She's saying
La Llorona took Rafael

and he's basically
telling her to shut up.

Ask her if she
knows who this is?

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Silencio, por favor,
Okay?

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
WU: Hey.

This what we're running with?
Yeah.

AII right.
We'II start
canvassing the neighborhood.

Have two officers
stay in the house
with Mr. AIvarez,

monitor his cell phone,
in case there are calls

from the kid
or whoever took him.

There's no hard Iine.

Yeah.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

He wants you
guys to stop talking
and find his son.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

This way, sir.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Okay?

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

We're headed back
to the precinct.

But we need you to stay,
ifyou can,

until we find
another translator.

Okay.

Did she say anything else?

Not about Rafael.

You okay?

Yeah. Yeah, I just don't know
how you do this all the time.

I'II call you.

I saw the photographs
of Duvall's body.

I know how badly
he was tortured.

But we must find
out if he talked,
if he gave up any names.

It could endanger everyone
that was involved with us,

especially those
working on the inside.

We need to know
who Duvall met with
the night he was taken.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)
I'II call you back. Yeah?

Hey, there's
a detective from AIbuquerque.

She says she has
some information
about the missing kid.

Should I bring her in?

Yeah, send her in.

Uh, now?

Yes, of course, now.

Valentina Espinosa.

You're from New Mexico?
Yes.

And you have
information on the boy
that was taken this morning?

I do.

How Iong
has he worked for you?

Now what...
Wait, what time was that?

Do you know anything
about his boy, Rafael?

Were there any
problems at home?
Okay, thanks.

Had he ever tried to run away?

Okay, I appreciate it. Thanks.

No problems at home.

Luis was a hard-working guy
dedicated to his kid.

Nothing with Rafael either.
No problems at school
or with his friends.

Detectives
Nick Burkhardt
and Hank Griffin,

this is Detective
Valentina Espinosa
of AIbuquerque.

Hmm, Iong way from home.

She's got information
on the missing child.

We've been tracking
this unsub for a while.

If Rafael AIvarez
is the first child taken,

then we can expect two more
before the day is out.

She did the same
thing in New Mexico?

And Texas,
Colorado, Arizona and Utah,
that we know of.

Seriously, she's abducted
that many children?

And if we don't act fast,
they'II all be
dead by morning.

This is research
I've put together
over the Iast five years.

(HUMMING)

(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

Oh, dude, Iook at this.
Look at all the pieces.
It went everywhere.

ALL: Trick or treat!

Ah!

Wow, what a bevy
of great costumes.

Love the Wolfman.

Looks Iike my Uncle Herman
before they
chopped his head off.

AII right, one handful apiece.
Off you go.

GIRL: Hey, stop it.
That's my candy.
Give it back.

Stop it!

What you gonna do now, huh?
Hey.

That's not very nice.
Give her candy back.

Now.
Make me.

AII right, since you asked.

Ow, ow, ow.

Ah.
There.

Okay, I did it.
Now Iet me go.

Now say you're sorry.

Okay, I'm sorry.

Ow.

There.
Now don't you feel better?
I know I do.

No, and you're gonna be sorry.

Let's go.

You okay?

Thanks, Mr. Monroe.
You're welcome.

Want a Iollipop?

Thank you.

We have no forensic evidence,
nothing but
the bodies of the victims.

AIways two boys and a girl,
between the ages
of seven and 10.

AII drowned.

How many are we talking about?

That's hard to say.

I think there's
been as many as 15,
but I don't know for sure.

I've been able to document 12,
three in each
of the Iast four years.

AIways before
midnight on Halloween.

Same pattern,
but there could be more.

Some kids just disappear
and are never found.

Some of the bodies
wash up miles from
where they were taken.

This is
the only image we have,
compiled by a few witnesses.

Looks Iike the same woman
we're dealing with.

You've seen this?
Yeah.

We got an iPhone video.
It's on my computer.

There.

Oh, my God.

That's her.

You got an ID?

No.
No, we never found
one single fingerprint

or any hard evidence.

But we have
confirmation
of witnesses

who all
identified the same image.

You said she drowns them?
Yes.

When the bodies are found,
if they're found,

they're never close to where
the children were taken.

They're much
farther down the river.
But this woman is here now.

That would make Rafael AIvarez
the first one taken here.

You said there's always three.

Yes. When I Iooked
at all the other cases,

all the children
were taken near
where two rivers meet.

Look,
one child goes missing here,

another from here,
and the third from here.

And you know this how?

The same triangle
described in every city

by the same
geographical abduction points.

It's her signature.

Houston, Denver,
Yuma, and AIbuquerque.

Did the father
of the missing boy say

anything about
hearing a woman crying?

Yeah, he did,

which is why he thought
she was trying
to kill herself.

AII the others who saw
her heard her crying.

They all thought she was
gonna kill herself in a river.

So this kid, Rafael,
may already be dead.

Well, it's possible,
but no bodies
have ever been found

until after midnight
the day she takes them.

I think she kills
them at the same time.

OFFICER: Captain.

I got that file you requested.

Um. Excuse me.

So,

you've been working on
this one a Iong time.

I have.

Never gotten close?

No.

What do you know
about La Llorona?

You know the story?

It's a ghost.
Yes. A ghost story.

A mother drowns
her three children
in revenge

because her husband Ieaves
her for a younger woman.

I think our killer
believes she's La Llorona,

So we're not after a ghost.

Of course not.

She's a dangerous predator,
and we must stop her tonight.

I want you to call
the AIbuquerque
Police Department,

put in a request
for a copy of Detective
Valentina Espinosa's files.

Will do. Anything
specific we're Iooking for?

AII the data
relating to this case,
everything they've got.

Roger that.

(CHILDREN YELLING)

(LAUGHING)

Wah!

Ah!

Boo!

(SCREAMING)

(WOMAN SOBBING)

Why are you crying?

Are you sad?

MAN: Kalli.

Kalli!
I'm gonna find you.

Where are you?

AII the kids were
reported taken within

five miles
of the confluence
of the rivers.

Where was Rafael taken?

Rafael was taken here,
this morning.

Then the other
kids will be taken
from here and here.

That's a Iot of
territory to cover.
How's she moving around?

I don't know.
No one's ever seen anything.

You mean she just appeared?

To the people
that've seen her,
she does.

91 1 just came in,
another child abduction.

HANK: Where?
Sauvie Island State Park.

Is it along a river?

The Columbia, right here.

CHILDREN: Trick or treat!

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Yeah.

(SIGHS)
No. No, nothing here.

What? Where?

Okay.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

He wants to know
if he found his son.

No. But...uh.

Tell him
another kid was taken,
Iooks Iike by the same woman.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(PANTING)

(SOBBING)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

I'm not choosing
between anybody.

OFFICER: They were having
some kind of a Halloween
party out there.

And his is where
the dad said he saw

his Iittle girl
going down the path.

We searched the woods
up and down the riverbank.

This is all we found.

Is he the one
who saw the woman?

No, no, that's another
guy who was fishing
down the river.

Where is he?

Well, we have him
back at the cars.

AII right, Iet's bag it,

get some photos of the area,
and check for footprints.

Okay.

And Iet's talk
to that witness.

Got it.

We found where the Iittle
girl was taken from.
We also have a witness.

Just hold on.
We need to talk
to that witness.

I just spoke
to the FBI 20 minutes ago.

There will
be a third child taken.

And to the Captain
of the AIbuquerque
Police Department.

We can't afford
to waste time.

Apparently,
the only Valentina Espinosa
they have on file

was relieved
of duty three years ago.

We need to find
those kids now.

The FBI wants
you held on grounds

of impersonating an officer
and interfering with
a federal investigation.

But, sir,
a second child was taken,
and she was right about that.

This is now the FBI's case,
and they want her
back at the precinct.

There will
be a third child taken.
Just Iisten to me.

Put her in the car,
bring her in.

You don't understand.
We have no time for this.

(GROWLS)

Don't do something
you're going to regret.

A Wesen?
Yeah.

A cop Wesen? What kind?
I don't know.

I'm a Balam.

And you're a Grimm.

You're going
to put me in that car

and take me
somewhere to kill me.

Look, we don't give
a damn what you are.
We just want those kids back.

So we're going
to take you to the precinct,
Iike the Captain said.

But ifyou try anything,
he's gonna blow your head off.

(CAR ENGINE STARTS)

(HUMMING)

Who is she?

I think she's an angel.

That's awesome.

RENARD: How did you know
a second child would be taken?

Because there's always
a second child taken,
and then a third.

You seem to know
an awful Iot about this.

I've been following
her for five years.

You were thrown
off your police force

because you were
obsessed about all this.

Yes.

Were you involved
with any of the kidnappings?

No.

Where were you
this morning when
the first child was abducted?

I was in New Mexico.

I made a plane reservation
from there this morning.

You could still be involved
with the woman that's here.

My sister's son was
one of those taken.

Where?

AIbuquerque.

How Iong ago?

Five years.

You call what
I'm doing an obsession?

It is, but that's why.

'Cause we never
found his body.

He was with me that day.

I saw the woman.
I heard her crying.

I went in the water
to keep her from
killing herself.

I've Iived this again
and again and again.

Lock me up,
it will make
no difference.

There will
be a third
child taken.

It doesn't
matter what you think.

This is now the FBI's case.
They'II be calling the shots.

You will be detained
until they're
ready to speak to you.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

(LAUGHS)
(SCREAMING)

CHILD 1: Oh,
it's Monroe's house.
CHILD 2: I Iove
this place.

CHILD 3: It's so cool.

ALL: Trick or treat!

(DOOR OPENS)
Wow, another great
group of costumes.

AII right,
one handful apiece.
Offyou go.

CHILD: Thank you.
Trick or treat.

What do you want
to do with him?

Payback.

I don't feel good about this.

You believe her?
Yeah, I do.

I think a third
kid's going to be taken.
So do I.

So how do we cover
100 miles of riverfront?

We can't, and we can't
explain what Valentina's
told us,

how this woman
appears and disappears
in all these different places.

So what the hell do we do?

HANK: Oh, man.

If this is real,
how do you ever sleep?

Well, you've got my back.

Yeah, but who's got mine?

(EXHALES)

I think I've got something.

HANK: She got a name?
NICK: Yeah.

La Llorona,

I thought we didn't
believe in ghosts.

We didn't.

(HUMMING)

NICK: (READING) "Three
children were taken from
the village on AII Souls' Eve.

"The men pulled their
bodies from the river.
AII of them drowned."

So she's got
to be a Wesen, right?

No, she's something else.

Something my ancestors
couldn't figure out either.

HANK: Oh!

This Iooks Iike the symbol
Valentina showed us.

NICK: Yeah.

"Abrazo del R?o, "

Something about a river,
that much I know.

I think "abrazo"
means "embrace."

"Embrace of the River,"
what does that mean?

Well, if she drowns
the kids in the river,
hell of an embrace.

AII of these entries
are about the same thing,

a weeping woman
who steals children,

but none of them
know what she is.

HANK: This dates back
to 1519, Veracruz.

But it's all in Spanish.

No, translation,
bottom of the page.

HANK: In German.

Looks Iike it's
been translated
into a Iot of Ianguages.

English.

"Having joined
Cort?s and his expedition,

"we have now
moved on to Veracruz.

"This is where
I came in contact
with the woman in the river.

"There are many stories
of her and
the children she has taken.

"I did not
believe them at first,

"but I set out tonight
to find out,
find out for sure.

"If I am right,
I will return with her head.

"If I am wrong,
I may not return at all."

That's the Iast
thing he wrote.

I guess he never came back.

Well, that breeds confidence.

AII right,
so what are we dealing with?
Do we have any idea?

Doesn't Iook Iike anybody's
been able to figure that out.

No wonder Valentina's
been obsessed with this.

Looks Iike your
ancestors were, too.

The FBI has no idea
what they're dealing with.

We can't
Iet them run with this.

We're not going to.

(EVIL LAUGHTER)

Oh, man,
I knew I should
have bought some more.

(DOORBELL RINGING)
Wait. Hold on,

you don't want
to miss the show...

(LAUGHING)

(EXHALES)

You're going with us.

You're transferring
me to the FBI?

Not exactly,
but you're still in custody.

You ever heard
of the Abrazo del R?o?

"The River's Embrace."
No. Why?

We were hoping you knew.

How much do you
know about La Llorona?

This is not a ghost.
I saw her.
This woman is real.

Yeah. Real is sort
of a relative term
around here.

What are you doing?

Taking a chance.

VALENTINA: Why did you
believe me now?

NICK: We did a Iittle
research of our own.

And what did you find out?

Enough to know
it's worth
pissing off the FBI.

We're going
to the third part
of the river, Iike you said.

We're hoping you're wrong,
but we don't
wanna take the chance.

(RADIO BEEPS)
MAN: (OVER RADIO)
All available units, 10-46,

we have a 207
child abduction,

Be on the lookout
for a 10-year-old boy,

brown hair, 4'8",
90 pounds, name Tino Diaz,

reported missing from
Bridgeton Road and Fourth,

Where is that?
It's on the river.

The third kid
was just taken here.

And the other two
were taken here and here.

That completes
the symbol you showed us.

But where does
she drown the kids?
VALENTINA: I don't know.

The bodies are
always found downriver,

way beyond where
they were taken.

That could be miles of river.
The Columbia flows all
the way to the ocean.

Unless "The River's
Embrace" is a place.

Abrazo, abrazo,
"the embrace."

Brazos is "arms."

We embrace
something with our arms.

The rivers are the arms.

And where they meet,
that would be the embrace.

So she drowns them
where the rivers meet,
the confluence.

NICK: Kelley Point Park.
VALENTINA: How far is that?

Fifteen minutes.

We have until midnight.
After that she's gone.

(TIRES SQUEAL)

(HUMMING)

(VEHICLE APPROACHING)

Where is it?

About a half
a mile down the road.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(SOBS)

It's them.
Hey!

NICK: Don't do it!

(SOBBING)
Stop!

VALENTINA: No! No! No!

HANK: Stop!

We're police!
You'II be all right.

VALENTINA: You don't.

NICK: Get the kids!

We're police. We're police.

Step back. Step back.
You're safe now.

We can take you
to your families.

Nick!

(ROARS)

(GASPS)

(SNARLING)

(MOANING)

(GASPS)

HANK: Nick,
are you okay? Nick.

What happened?

What happened?

I had her, Hank.

I had her,
and then she wasn't there.

Where is she?

I don't know.

It's one minute
after midnight.

Where's my dad?
How did we get here?

(POLICE SIREN WAILING)

CHILDREN: Mom! Dad!

(SOBBING)

I was so worried.

Unbelievable.

(STAMMERING)
Just unbelievable.

We believe in ghosts now?

We won't know
for another year.

CAPTAIN: Hey, Nick, Hank.

Got a couple
of pissed off FBI agents
in the other room.

Well, that's too bad.

You took a big risk.
Wasn't just him, Captain.

I know.

But at Ieast
you got them back.

What about Valentina?

We're not gonna
press any charges,
considering.

HANK: And what about the Feds?
We couldn't have
done it without her.

Like I said,
they're not too happy,
but they're not stupid.

We'II just throw
a Iittle credit their way.

I'm not choosing
between anybody.

BOY 1: (CHUCKLES)
This is so awesome.

BOY 2: Dude, we should...
We should totally post this.

You can't post this,
you idiot.
It's Iike evidence.

PIay it again.
Yeah, come on.
PIay it again.

Okay.

Hey, give that back.

When you pay for my window,
I'II be glad to give it back.

We're not scared of you.

Yeah.

Really?

Hmm.

Well, how about now?

(GROWLING)

(ALL SCREAMING)

(CHUCKLES)

Trick or treat.

Converted by Silmaev