A man lay on his deathbed and recalls the mistake the made him rich. He takes us back to the past, when he was lost in his mothers death. The young man has no money, nearly homeless when two men come into his life to change his life.
After Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt discovers he's descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as "Grimms," he increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.