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References External links
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Government Saline County Sheriff's Office General information
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Saline County, Arkansas at ARGenWeb (argenweb.net)
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Saline County at Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
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Saline County in the Civil War at The Historical Marker Database (HMdb.org) Saline County Library
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1835 establishments in Arkansas Territory Arkansas counties
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Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway metropolitan area Populated places established in 1835
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"Mommy Dearest" is the 14th episode of season 3 of the supernatural drama television series Grimm
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and the 58th episode overall, which premiered on March 7, 2014, on the broadcast network NBC. The
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episode was written by Brenna Kouf, and was directed by Norberto Barba.
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Plot
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Opening quote: "I am going off to a house and entering it like a snake... I will devour their babes
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and make their hearts ache."
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Meisner (Damien Puckler) aids Adalind (Claire Coffee) in giving birth to the baby, and also
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restoring Adalind's powers as a Hexenbiest. Back in Portland, a creature follows a pregnant woman,
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Dana Tomas (Tess Paras), to her room and uses his extremely large tongue to poke into her belly
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button. Dana awakes and attempts to cut the creature's tongue before it flees and she falls back
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unconscious.
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Wu (Reggie Lee) and Sgt. Franco (Robert Blanche) are called to the scene to investigate, whom Wu
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recognizes as friends that moved to Portland from the Philippines under his recommendation, so now
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feels guilty. Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) are also called and while trying to
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regain consciousness, Dana whispers "Aswang". Dana's husband, Sam (Alain Uy) calls his brother in
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Manila to inform and question about the events. Then, he too woges into a creature similar to that
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which attacked his wife Dana before.
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Meisner calls Renard (Sasha Roiz) for help after aiding Adalind, informing him that he has a baby
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daughter and making sure that they will leave Austria safely. Wu begins to reminisce about an old
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story he heard as a boy about a mythical creature - an "Aswang" - a monster from the Philippines
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that stalks pregnant woman and then eats their children. Large quantities of Valerian root is
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inexplicably found in Dana's system, who has recovered enough to leave the hospital to go home. Sam
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knows that his mother could be involved in the attack and confronts her in her hotel room. Lani
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(Freda Foh Shen) explains that if she doesn't kill the baby, she will die, but Sam does not listen
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and brushes her off, angering her. She insists it's Aswang tradition that first born grandsons are
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always sacrificed to extend the life of elderly grandmothers, and as her son he owes her; then
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pleads with him that she doesn't want to die. Still, he refuses and hands her a ticket back to
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Manila, stating that death is a natural progression of life, she must just accept it!
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Nick, Hank, Monroe (Silas Weir Mitchell) and Rosalee (Bree Turner) find that the Aswang use their
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tongue to transmit the tranquilizing effects of the valerian root and siphon off the amniotic fluid
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- both of which can kill a foetus; but that only those with a familiar tie to the victim can
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successfully insert their tongue into the belly. They consider telling Wu the truth about the Wesen
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world but decide that he isn’t ready to learn it.
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That night, Lani breaks into the house, knocks Sam unconscious and goes after Dana, pretending to
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be there as a caregiver. Wu, standing guard outside, is surprised to see the creature (Lani) so
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swiftly climbing the tree & entering the house through the window for such an old lady. When he
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follows, he can't quite believe what he encounters again attacking/siphoning Dana. When he attempts
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to intervene, he's attacked by the Aswang. Nick and Hank arrive just in time to kill Lani with a
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shot to the head but Wu is now thoroughly shocked after seeing the creature transform back into
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Lani.
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Wu checks himself into a psychiatric hospital after the experience. Nick and Hank visit him, and
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attempt to explain away things - that Lani had a history of aggressive violence, that Dana and the
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baby are safe, and he's therefore a hero. Not convinced, Wu nevertheless continues to have dreams
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and hallucinations of the Aswang attacking him...
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Reception
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Viewers
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The episode was viewed by 5.65 million people, earning a 1.5/5 in the 18-49 rating demographics on
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the Nielson ratings scale, ranking second on its timeslot and fourth for the night in the 18-49
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demographics, behind Dateline NBC, 20/20, and Shark Tank. This was a 6% increase in viewership from
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the previous episode, which was watched by 5.32 million viewers with a 1.4/5. This means that 1.5
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percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 5 percent of all households
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watching television at that time watched it. With DVR factoring in, the episode was watched by 8.38
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million viewers with a 2.6 ratings share in the 18-49 demographics.
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Critical reviews
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"Mommy Dearest" received positive reviews. The A.V. Club's Kevin McFarland gave the episode a "B"
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grade and wrote, "Still, at this point I'm not sure that Grimm really needed an episode that
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focuses on Sgt. Wu, especially one where one of the big reveals about his character is that his
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first name is Drew. Sure, he's the one character on the show who has been there since the beginning
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that the show hasn't gone into detail about. But he's also the character on the show who doesn't
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know anything about Nick's life as a Grimm. He's the outsider, a necessary foil to the rest of the
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group, able to stand in not as a fool, but as a barometer for how people without a familiarity with
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the Wesen world would look at what Nick and Hank do."
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Nick McHatton from TV Fanatic, gave a 4.5 star rating out of 5, stating: "Poor Sergeant Drew Wu.
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Just when it looks like he's going to be in on the Wesen secret in Grimm Season 3 Episode 14, his
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'gateway Wesen' was an Aswang. You know, just your typical, average amniotic fluid sucking Wesen."
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MaryAnn Sleasman from TV.com, wrote, "That was pretty grim, even for Grimm. First there was all the
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uncomfortable preggo-tummy torture and then Wu, OMG Wu. I just think it's a little messed up—maybe
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messed up in a good way, but only maybe — when the least traumatic thing that happens in an episode
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is that a lady-witch gives birth to a monster-baby in the middle of the woods."
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References External links Grimm (season 3) episodes 2014 American television episodes
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Abolghassem Nadjm (Najm ol-Molk) (), Abolqāsem Najm/Abolqassem Najm (11 May 1892 – October 19, 1983)
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was an Iranian politician, cabinet minister, and diplomat.
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Early life and education
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His father was Mirza Mahmoud Shirazi, a merchant, who died when Abolqasem was an infant. His mother
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was the daughter of Iran's first modern physicist and astronomer, Mirza Abdulqaffar Nadjm ol-Molk.
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Abdulqaffar, who taught mathematics and physics at Dar ul-Funun, took Abolqasem under his custody
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after Abolqasem was orphaned. Abolqasem received his basic education from his grandfather and later
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inherited his grandfather's title of "Nadjm ol-Molk" (star of the nation) after Mirza Abdulqaffar's
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retirement. He studied at the Tehran School of Political Sciences.
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Diplomatic career
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After graduation he entered the service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1912 as an attaché.
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He was Iran's ambassador to the Third Reich, but was appointed to France upon his own request just
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prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.
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In 1937, when Nadjm was Iran's ambassador to France, the French journal L'Europe Nouvelle
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criticized the economic condition of Iran. Reza Shah Pahlavi demanded an apology and received one.
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A French columnist reopened the wound one month later by rehearsing the incident under the punning
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headline "n'y avait pas la de quoi fouetter un Shah". This was a parody of the French phrase "there
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was nothing there with which to beat a cat", (playing on the words "shah" and "chat", which is
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French for cat) suggesting that the King of Kings had made a fuss about nothing. The poor pun was
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enough to make Reza Shah Pahlavi immediately recall Nadjm to Tehran "for an explanation", and
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withdraw his promise to lend Iranian art objects to the coming Paris International Exhibition which
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was planned for May 1937.
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Nadjm later served as Iran's ambassador to Japan, until the relations between the two countries