Beauty and the Beast

* Light
* Dark

**Beauty and the Beast** is the eighth and final episode of the first season of American McGee's Grimm and is based on the fairy tale of the same name.

## Characters

**NOTE** This list only includes the characters that played an active role in the story and does not include side characters or Grimm.

* Beauty
* Beauty's Father
* Beast
* Beauty's Sister
* Beauty's Brother

## Plot

### Light Version

A family home burns down, killing the family matriarch, as they attempt a new life afterwards, the boats are destroyed by pirates. Now poor and desperate, the Father goes out into the wilderness and finds an enchanted castle, he sleeps and eats there and the next morning attempts to pick a rose from the garden. However, he is intercepted by a monstrous beast who threatens him, however, the father begs for mercy and states that he will let the Beast have his daughter in return for gold. The Father returns with treasures but states that the Beast wants Beauty and as such she is forced to go to the castle. She meets the Beast and for a while the two slowly get on, she ends up having dreams of a handsome prince as well as dreams of her family. Seeing the Beauty is becoming lonely, the Beast allows her to go back home, where she reunites with her family. However, she has a nightmare of the Beast dying which scares her into returning. She returns to see a dying Beast where they both confess their love for one another. The Beast disappears and in his place is a handsome prince the same from her dreams. The two live happily ever after.

### Dark Version

Pirates destroy a man's fleet and burn down a village, killing the family matriarch and their cat as well as burning all their belongings. The father goes out into the wilderness, he believes the creatures of the woods are just a bunch of workers or business men in disguise and attempts to run away and fight them off. He finds himself at a castle and stays the night, eating and sleeping, when the next morning comes the father attempts to get a rose for his daughter, but is caught by the Beast, he begs for his life, but the Beast hears about the man's daughter and demands he brings her to him. Beauty takes her father's place and goes off to meet the Beast but not before cursing her family and wishing they all die horribly. When she meets the Beast she is mortified but over time they fall in love with each other. However, one day she worries about her family and asks to go, the Beast is hesitant but Beauty goes nonetheless but returning to her family, the family only wanted to know how much gold and treasures she got, to her dismay. Over the next few days, she has a recurring nightmare about the Beast dying which spooks her to going back to the Beast. When she returns she sees the Beast dead, luckily, she spots some "Zombie Elixir" nearby and gives the Beast that to resurrect him. The Beast becomes a human once again and they decide to get married, at the wedding, Beauty decides to take revenge on her family and sells them to be tortured by pirates.

## Levels

### Scene 1

The scene starts off with the burning house, Grimm decides the whole village should burn as well. After burning down the village , Grimm goes around and destroys the ships and boats with a heavy emphasis on pirates.

### Scene 2

Beauty's Father in in the wintery woods, where Grimm follows the father's tracks, freezing and darkening everything before converting a Yeti which blacks the path, but opens up a new area full of Wolves, using the wolves to take out the Yetis. Through some platforms, Grimm chases after the Father to the castle gates.

### Scene 3

Now inside the castle, Grimm starts inside and attempts to ruin the Father's meal by using the fireplace to burn him. Grimm follows the Father through the castle and down the spiral stair case to the garden outside where the Beast is confronting the Father, Grimm decides to turn the Beast into a true beast.

### Scene 4

Back at the village, Grimm decides to turn the whole family affair into a more brutal one, starting off on outskirts before moving inside. After this, Grimm become angered over the father's smile despite the fact he's just sacrificed his daughter to the Beast, and goes to the gateway to the Beast's castle where he almost kills the father but sets him on fire again.

### Scene 5

Once again in the Beast's garden, Grimm decides to turn their first meeting to a horrifying one but upon doing so he is thrown inside the castle by the Beast. Grimm decides to go across the garden to find the sleeping Beauty, in an effort to give her "nightmares", once doing so he invades her dreams.

### Scene 6

Beauty's dream is a maddening series of platform and floating islands that Grimm navigates to get to her family, so he could turn the "happy" dream into a horrifying one. He does so in a dream that results in her father's decapitation.

### Scene 7

Beauty is back home and Grimm starts off on the outskirts of town again, following the whereabouts of Beauty who is once again asleep. Grimm makes his way to her house and breaks in, and invades her dreams again in this short scene.

### Scene 8

This dream revolves around Beast's death, Grimm must make his way through a series of platforms and break through to the garden, with assistance from two Yetis. Here, Grimm decides to scare Beauty awake by turning the Beast into a horrifying monster which roars and scares Beauty awake.

### Scene 9

The scene begins with the dying Beast as Grimm is once again in the garden. He quickly darkens the garden and the Beast becomes a prince. Almost immediately both Beauty and the new Prince get married, which Grimm hates. He then hatches an idea to go around the beaches and gather a small pirate army to disrupt and destroy the wedding.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode with nine scenes.
* During the dream sequences the converted bushes come to life and run around.
* Unlike other stories that use similar or the same sets, this story repeats sets for levels.