Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 364 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT The Shadow Knows
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2013.05.05
1904 London. Night. For all that she's a compassionate, well-bred young lady, Wendy is more than happy to both break her promise to Bae and rub it in his face. She opens the window and beckons Bae as the Shadow approaches. Bae begs her to get away from the window, but Wendy insists that the Shadow is from a land with magic, but it's different from magic in Bae's land. In Neverland, there are no adults. Children never grow up and they can do anything... even fly. Bae tries to warn Wendy that this is all a trick. He tells her she doesn't even need magic. She has a family, which is all that matters. As holds onto one of her hands, the Shadow holds the other. Wendy tells Bae she's always dreamt of this, drops his hand and flies off into the night, like the Shadow is Benny Mardones. Flash forward to...
Storybrooke. Day. Beach. Neal asks Emma if she thinks Tamara is hiding Regina in a sand castle. To add insult to injury he then tells her she's letting emotion cloud her judgment. Emma takes out her service revolver, shoots him in the head, throws him into the surf, heads to the Mills mausoleum, finds the ashes of Sheriff Graham's heart, uses her innate magic to reconstitute it. She finds Graham's grave, digs up his corpse, inserts his reconstituted heart, then revivifies him with a kiss. Groan and Tamara are so grateful to be free of Neal, that they promise to leave town, provided Emma will continue the search for Kurt. They leave Emma with two new SCIENCE BRACELETS so that Gold and Regina will never again be a threat, and we all live happily ever after. Don't worry about Henry. Kids are resilient. The end.
Oh c'mon, once upon this recapper's dream, it totally plays out that way. On the actual show, Emma turns to Neal and says, "Do you really think this is all about me trying to break up you and Tamara? What do you wanna hear, Neal? That it killed me you never came looking for me even once I was locked up? [...] That it didn't hurt that you found Tallahassee with someone else?" Before the conversation can continue, Tamara runs up to Neal and Emma. He's surprised she isn't running in the woods. Tamara lies that she starts in the woods but finishes on the beach. When she asks what they're doing there, Emma says Regina is missing and they thought they might find her on the beach. Tamara blahs something about the Regina situation sounding terrible, tells Emma to let her know if she can help, then runs off.