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With the series dangerously close to hitting the dreaded reset button, I wasn't sure what to think about this episode when it started. Annie was back in the fold with Joan, butting heads with her superiors over an operation with the potential for serious repercussions. Besides Auggie being in therapy, how was this an evolution of the story?
Ah, the "treasure hunt". Already, it's been the focus of the show's longest-running story arc, and at least one episodic story that I can think of. I remember that episode being a fun, lighthearted romp, and it left me wishing that "White Collar" would do more "treasure hunt" episodes. Wish fulfilled. "National Treasure"-type escapades are nothing new for "White Collar", but it's rare to see it so unabashedly embraced as it is here. The episode's climax doesn't quite live up to the promising earlier half or so, but an amusing and intriguing last-minute twist seems to leave the door open for sequel episodes.
I think all "Grimm" viewers were expecting that Juliette's condition was going to lead to a Sleeping Beauty scenario sooner or later. The question was less how they were intending to incorporate it into the story and more how it was going to set things up for the second season. On the whole, I'm fine with the notion that she doesn't remember Nick, thanks to Renard's little gambit, but it does run the risk of falling into cliché.