Saturday, January 17, 2015

Grimm - S3E15 - Once We Were Gods

Episode fifteen of season three of Grimm starts with some construction workers finding an Egyptian sarcophagus in a secret room:


They call a professor named Vera Gates to investigate it:


It occurred to me how appropriate the name Vera Gates is for a scientist.

I'm fairly certain that Vera comes from the Latin word verum, which means truth.  It's the same root that the word veracity comes from (also the word very, which I found interesting).  So truth combined with gates seems to name a character who is a guardian of knowledge.  It's especially apt considering her dedication to her job, which doesn't falter even after her lab has been broken into and vandalized.  She asserts, "This is science.  I won't be scared into not doing my research."