Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: C | 390 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT PANache
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.01.2013
Neverland. Pan still has our three best ladies (okay, one best, one doppelgänger, and one maniac) tied to his Thinking Tree. He vagues about how their regret will do them in, at this tree which is the site of his regret. "I abandoned my boy, here." Regina hasn't been reading the recaps, so she is shocked. "You have a son?" Pan explains that Rumpy is his son, but he's wrapped up tight in Pandora's box, now. Mary Margaret (she's still not Snow) can't understand how Rumpy's father can be younger than he. Pan bitch slaps her with a reminder of how she and her own daughter appear to be the same age. I'd object, were he treating my fair princess like this, but this weaker clone totally deserves it. Meanwhile, poor Emma just soaks in her own regret over surrendering Henry for adoption.
Let's give the devil her due. Regina is the only one to call out Pan for being a fraud. "Your magic's weakened. You can't even hurt us, let alone Rumpelstiltskin." Pan admits she's right, but says his Thinking or Regret or whatever Tree will protect him until he's ready for big, child-free, childish fun.
When the ladies struggle to free themselves, Pan says the tree exploits its prisoners' regret, then he hones in on Emma, who snaps, "I regret not taking a better shot at you when I had the chance." He taunts the Savior about how her son's heart now beats within his breast. "I can feel just how much you let him down time and time again." Snow tries to emerge and says, "Leave her alone," so Pan turns the tables on the once Fairest and points out that she abandoned Emma, long before Emma abandoned Henry. Ouch.
Bless Regina. She may hate her step-daughter and step-granddaughter/son's bio mom, but they're her victims to abuse, not Pan's. Disdain drips from her lips. "Are you finished?" Pan turns his attention to her. "Last words from the queen. Perhaps a deathbed confession from the one who has the most to regret of all." Regina says there's one problem with that. "I did cast a curse that devastated an entire population. I have tortured and murdered. I've done some terrible things. I should be overflowing with regret, but... I'm NOT." At that, Regina magics free of the vines that bind her and Team Princess. Pan is taken aback. Regina finishes: "Because it got me my son." She then forces her fist into Pan's chest and retrieves Henry's heart. The demon stumbles and falls. For good measure, Queenie scoops up Pandora's box, and turns to her companions. "Now, let's go save Henry." Wait, Regina. Kill Pan. What's one more death on your books. Hell, aren't you even going to bind him with some magical squid ink? Argh! Commercial.
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