Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 364 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT How I Met Your Mother
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2012.11.04
As Neal and Emma return to the Bug, she drops her purse out from under her shirt. She's not pregnant after all -- at least not as far as she knows. Inside the car. Neal gives Emma the keychain and they start kissing, because even they know it's a wrap for the clerk and customer.
Neal and Emma stake out a motel. When a family leaves a room, Neal says, "Twenty minutes 'til housekeeping," and they rush inside -- just to take showers. Get your minds out of the gutter. This is a family show. Emma finds a left-behind (not Left Behind) dream-catcher, which we last saw in this season's premiere, in Neal's Manhattan flat. She explains that it's supposed to keep away bad dreams. Neal: "It's flypaper for nightmares? Let's keep it." Emma laughs at the idea of hanging it in the car. Neal admits it's not much of a home and suggests it's time they retire the Bonnie and Clyde act, and settle down. Emma: "Where? Neverland?" Hmmm. Neal is serious. He grabs a framed map from the bureau, tells Emma to close her eyes, and pick a spot on the map. She chooses Tallahassee. [Note: I think we've met a guy from there before. -- Rachel.] Emma's smile in this episode reminds me of how seldom she smiles in this show. It's nice to see it, yet I'm bracing myself for her heartbreak that is sure to come within the next 44 minutes. She asks Neal if he's sure this is what he really wants. Neal: "What I want is you." What I really want is some Anbesol. I kid. I kid. I'm enjoying Neal and Emma. As they kiss, we cut to commercial.
Enchanted Present. Mulan draws a line in the sand, plunges a stick in the ground at the end of it, and explains to Aurora it will help her mark the time. Snow is already suspicious. "Do you have somewhere to be?" Mulan says they can take turns sleeping and keeping watch. When Snow volunteers for the first shift, Aurora volunteers to stay up with her. She doesn't sleep much these days. Snow understands. Nightmares are a horrible side effect of the sleeping curse both princesses endured. Snow tells Aurora how when she had the nightmares, Charming would wake her and light a candle. He said it would capture the bad dreams. "He'd watch over me as I fell back to sleep." Aurora: "Sounds like he lives up to his name." Snow: "Yeah." Sounds to me like after the first nightmare, one of them should have been more proactive and thought to keep a lit candle by your bed. Am I wrong? Snow encourages Aurora to sleep. She'll watch over her new friend and keep her safe. When Aurora wanders off, Snow stares at Mulan's what do I call that -- it's not a sundial. Can I just pretend it is, for convenience? Thank you. You're too kind. Anyhow, Snow eyes Mulan's sundial, then trains her gaze to the beanstalk.