The Master Thief

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**The Master Thief** is the first episode of the second 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.

* Master Thief
* Master Thief's Father
* The Count
* The Countess
* The Parson
* The Clerk
* Master Thief's Mother

## Plot

### Light Version

A mysterious man enters a village and asks for a meal but finds that everyone is too poor to eat, he follow an older man to find the reasons why and reveals to the man that he is his runaway son and has become a self dubbed "Master Thief". The Master Thief decides he'll fix this problem and visits The Count at his castle, The Count happens to be the Thief's godson. The Count wants to hand the Master Thief for being a criminal but decides instead to challenge him by making him perform three difficult tasks. The First is to steal The Count's horse from the stable, then steal The Countess' wedding ring as well as the bed sheet she and The Count are sleeping on and finally the third task was to steal the Parson and the Clerk from the church. If the Master Thief fails then he is to be hanged. The Master Thief agrees and goes and does the first task. For the first task, he disguises himself as an old woman and leaves a basket of wine for the gurads, who all get drunk and pass out from it, allowing him to steal the horse. For the second task, the Thief grabs a corpse from the gallows, predicting that The Count would be prepared for him, which The Count was, having locked all the doors and windows except for one which The Count keeps guard with a gun. The Master Thief pretends he's at the window, using the corpse as a ploy which The Count shoots, thinking he's killed his godson, as a result, he then lets his guard down by going outside and burying the corpse allowing the Master Thief to steal the wedding ring and bed cover by pretending to be The Count, speaking from the window. The Master Thief meets with The Count, mocking him for his gullibility. For the final task, The Master Thief takes a sake and a lantern into the village churchyard, alongside some hermit crabs and wax candles. The Master Thief uses the candles to make it seem like the apocalypse was happening, he claims that those worthy can go to heaven if they go into his sack, claiming that he himself is "Peter, the gatekeeper of Heaven". The Master Thief returns to The Count delivering the stolen goods, however, he is banished and still under threat of death. The Master Thief leaves proud of his mastery but ashamed that he is still in The Count's bad book.

### Dark Version

The Master Thief is a cover story for a mysterious man who's actually a vampire hunter, he visits a village and greets his old parents, having run away years prior. His mother knows him from anywhere and his father shows him what has happened since he's left, there are several monsters, named trees, that have engulfed the village all caused by The Count, whom the Master Thief needs to kill to stop the monster crisis. He meets his godfather who claims the two will fight in combat but the Master Thief needs to perform three tasks, the first to steal The Count's horse, the second The Countess's wedding ring and bed sheet and finally extracting two creatures from the church. He performs the first task, initially in disguise but he is seen through and kills all the vampire guards to steal the horse. For the second task, the Master Thief calls up the army of the undead and stirs a rebellion against the one who caused their suffering. The Count fights off the zombies as the Master Thief orders the zombies to take the whole coffin bed which in turn means both items have been stolen. The third and final task sees the abandoned church inhabited by two werewolves, as The Count did no say that the two had to be apprehended alive, the Master Thief kills them both before taking them back to The Count, ready for the show down. The two meet with a crowd watching the battle, both The Count and the Master Thief throw insults to each other before fighting. The battle ends with The Count being killed by the Master Thief's crossbow, saving the village from The Count's control.

## Levels

### Scene 1

Grimm is curious why The Master Thief has returned to his parents after all these years and believes their should be a motive behind it as he converts the village, and turns the trees into monsters. Grimm hatches an idea to turn the story into a 1930s monster/horror movie, turning everything black and white and turning the Master Thief into a monster hunter.

### Scene 2

Now arriving at The Count's castle, Grimm decides to change the story to the Master Thief searching for the reason for all this supernatural evil, which happens to be The Count, who is turned into a vampire once Grimm gets inside the castle. Grimm eventually goes back outside, following The Count and his godson

### Scene 3

Arriving at the first task, Grimm changes the stables, bit by bit, using the skeleton horses and the Mummy to make his way through. At one point Grimm turns into a birds eye point of view with Ghouls jump scaring the player. Grimm ends the scene by turning The Count's horse into a skeletal demon which the Master Thief steals.

### Scene 4

Now for the second task, where Grimm is at The Count's courtyards, creating a mini Zombie apocalypse to help the Thief, however, Grimm then tries helping The Count in using a better weapon before converting The Countess into a large deadly vampire as well.

### Scene 5

For the final task, Grimm decides that the hermit crabs aren't enough and wants to create an actual apocalypse in the churchyard before moving inside the church.

### Scene 6

Grimm wants to make the final scene between The Master Thief and his godfather a climatic one, he first transforms the villagers into an angry mob before being chucked onto the other side, where he converts a second batch of villagers into monsters. He finishes things off by butt-stomping the main characters, which in turn causes a battle between monsters and villagers.

## Trivia

* This was the Halloween special, hence the horror theme.
* This is the first appearance of the Sausage Stomp Power-Up.