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WilliamR 
Yes we do, they clearly said there were only two ways to undo the connection between the captain and his wife. The first was they needed the original instrument that caused it, which was the cat and they showed, in recaps, how the cat was killed so they could not use it. The only other way was for Nick to do the same process as the captain did.
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WilliamR 
They explained it back then what it meant to be purified and how painful it was. Can't recall but she ir purged him of something.
This is why I say we don't know why he's doing the purification process again: Juliet is already awake, so it's not like he needs to wake her up a second time. Breaking Juliet out of her coma required her to get kissed by Prince Charming, and since none of the royals has a pure heart anymore, Renard had to go through an artificial, chemically induced process to purify himself into "Prince Charming" status. Nick isn't a royal, so he couldn't take the purification process to wake Juliet up then, and we don't know why he's taking it now, either. Perhaps he will just kiss her after he's purified to counteract the effects of Renard's kiss, but we don't know for sure that's how it works. Monroe never told us what the second step is, except that it involves "all three of them".