The Devil and His Three Golden Hairs

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**The Devil and His Three Golden Hairs** is the seventh 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.

* Lucky
* Lucky's Adoptive Father
* The King
* Satan
* Satan's Grandmother
* The Inn Keeper
* The Princess
* Gatekeeper
* Charon

## Plot

### Light Version

A woman gives birth to a child who has the placenta covering his face, the doctor claims this is a sign of a "Luck Child" who will marry the king's daughter in the future. The King finds out and takes the child, putting him into a river, in the hopes the child will die. However, in a stroke of luck, the child is picked up by an old miller and his wife who adopt him. Years pass and the King passes by the mill, noticing that the son looked familiar, he asks the miller who reveals he found the boy in the river and that he was a "luck child". The King puts the two together and decides to get rid of Lucky, he orders the boy to take a letter to the Queen, however, the letter is an order for Lucky's execution. Lucky's journey is long and he becomes lost and tired, he meets a innkeeper who finds an interest in him, she warns him not to sleep there as bandits would come and kill him if they see him. However, he falls asleep anyway and the bandits come, they attempt to assault him but see he's carrying a letter from the King, whom they hate. They read the letter and alter it, asking the princess' hand in marriage, saving Lucky. When Lucky gives the letter a wedding ensues and he marries the princess, to the dismay of the King who returns during the wedding feast. Angered by this, The King forces Lucky to prove himself worthy, by taking three golden hairs from The Devil himself. When Lucky goes on his journey, he is met by a guard who asks why their town's fountain no longer produces water, to which Lucky doesn't know, but claims he will tell when he gets back. The same thing happens with the next village he crosses paths with a Gatekeeper who wonders why their golden apple tree no longer produces anything, to which Lucky again doesn't know but claims will say once he gets back. Lucky gets to a pier where he meets the Ferryman who allows people to pass back and fourth from Hell, however, the Ferryman asks why he eternally go back and fourth from hell, again Lucky doesn't know but promises to find the answers afterwards. Arriving in Hell, Lucky finds The Devil's granny who asks why he is here, he tells her and she hides him by turning him into an ant and putting him down her cleavage as she awaits Satan. Satan returns and rests as granny pulls the three hairs off, when he wakes with a startle, she claims she had a nightmare and accidentally pulled his hair out, while they talk, they provide the answers to the the Ferryman, The Guard and the Gatekeeper, which Lucky remembers as he travels back, providing these solutions. The King is angered and dismayed about Lucky's success, he asks Lucky for more gold and Lucky tells him where to go. The King meets the Ferryman who gives him the paddle and makes him the new Ferryman of the Underworld for eternity.

### Dark Version

A woman gives birth to a child who has the placenta covering his face, the doctor claims this is a sign of a "Luck Child", The King takes the child and beats him before throwing him into a river, however , in a stroke of luck, the child is picked up by a boy who decides to try and feed the infant to a giant. However, the giant adopts the boy as he believed the boy was lucky. The King eventually finds the "Luck Child" and decides to order the boy to take a letter to the Queen, however, the letter is an order for Lucky's execution. Lucky's journey is long and he becomes lost and tired, he meets a innkeeper who finds an interest in him but before anything happens the bandits come and beat him up, finding the letter for his execution and alter it, asking the princess' hand in marriage, saving Lucky. When Lucky gives the letter a wedding ensues and he marries the princess, to the dismay of the King who returns during the wedding feast. Angered by this, The King forces Lucky to prove himself worthy, by taking three golden hairs from The Devil himself. Lucky goes on his journey, he is met by a guard who vomits then asks why their town's fountain no longer produces water, to which Lucky doesn't know, but claims the water is infected via the pipe work and states they should drink apple juice instead. The same thing happens with the next village he crosses paths with a Gatekeeper who wonders why their golden apple tree no longer produces anything, causing a famine where the villagers are forced to eat one another, to which Lucky again doesn't know but argues that they should change their diet. Lucky gets to a pier where he meets the Ferryman who allows people to pass back and fourth from Hell, however, the Ferryman asks why he eternally go back and fourth from hell, again Lucky doesn't know but promises to find the answers afterwards. Arriving in Hell, Lucky finds The Devil's granny who helps him pull out the three golden hairs, although he questions why he couldn't just get hair from any blonde. The Devil wakes up after this and sees Lucky, chasing after him. Lucky escapes and returns to the castle but the King wants more treasures, Lucky tells him to go to the Ferryman and touch his oar but this meant that the King is now the new Ferryman of the Underworld for the rest of eternity.

## Levels

### Scene 1

The scene starts off with the birth of Lucky, Grimm makes the scene as disgustingly graphic as possible. The baby is born and flies out hitting The King on the other side of the fence. Next Grimm navigates around to the river where The King attempts to drown the new-born. Grimm decides to follow Lucky before making it to the mill, converting the small village and saves the "Luck Child" by killing a batch of people.

### Scene 2

Lucky is now grown up and is trying to find his way to deliver the King's message. Grimm decides that Lucky should be punished for his stupidity and so called luck, by getting the bandits to beat him up. After he runs away, Grimm follows him to the castle grounds where he is forced to see a wedding, preferring to make the wedding a disaster by causing a large amount of explosions and annoying the King who arrives.

### Scene 3

Lucky's mission begins as he arrives at the village with the fountain problems, making their problem into a full blown crisis, first turning all the people sick, and with their vomit, flooding the village. Through the rooftops, Grimm must jump over and survive barrels toppling his way before finally escaping.

### Scene 4

The second village with the loss of food, annoys Grimm as it doesn't appear to be in mass starvation as they claim. He decides to change that, destroying all food supplied and making the people starve and bringing in Rats as a cause for the famine. However, some villagers become unhappy with Grimm's action and attempt to clean things up with reinforcements, so Grimm fights back by darkening everything around him, making them extremely skinny, which kills a bunch of them. Grimm makes his escape through some platforms.

### Scene 5

A short scene. In a village where the pier to the Underworld is situated. Grimm first goes and converts the villagers into Ghouls before getting on the boat with the Ferryman.

### Scene 6

Grimm lands on some floating platforms before landing on The Devil himself. Grimm starts from Satan's lower half and moves to the top half before doing the back, converting each of the golden hairs. It ends with Satan throwing Grim away.

### Scene 7

Lucky returns to the castle with all his treasures, Grimm starts on the outskirts and must make his way inside, being careful not to go too close to the guards. Grimm gets a cannon and kills them, making his way inside. He converts the entire castle's interior and it ends with Lucky kicking The King out of a window.

### Scene 8

The King is with the Ferryman wanting to get more gold, so Grimm decides to make The King's new eternal rowing job a misery from the start. Grimm is in a swampy area and decides to convert lily pads into bombs, hitting The King multiple times, torturing him.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode to have a stopwatch for the timer.
* During the third level, there is a gorilla who chucks barrels down on the pathway, this is a reference to Donkey Kong.
* This is the first episode with eight scenes.