Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: N/A | 268 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT A Sticky Wicket
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2013.01.06
Regina shakes her head. "No, I will not let you poison Henry against me." Emma: "That's an interesting word choice, since you already did." Emma turns to walk away. Regina follows her down the walkway and demands to see Henry and tell him her side of the story. "He's my son!" Emma jerks back to face her rival. "He's not! He's mine. And after this, you're not getting anywhere near him." She then adds, "Do it." Blue peeks out from behind a nearby tree and hurls a ball of fairy dust at Regina, who deftly catches it and throws it to the ground at Snow and Charming's feet. Fool her once, shame on you. Fool her twice, well it's sure as hell not shame on her. She rages at Emma about Henry then magically thrusts the sheriff to the ground. When Regina starts to crow about having the upper hand, Emma insists she has already won, because there's no way she can fool Henry any longer. He will learn the truth about who she truly is. Looking around at her false accusers, Regina does what any self-respecting magical queen (currently evil or not) would do in such circumstances, and poofs away in a cloud of purple haze. Commercial.
Downtown Storybrooke. I am going to rush because my deadline is approaching, and I'm home alone with a dog who is making it quite clear she needs to go out, right now. Emma is with Snow and Charming, waiting for Henry's bus. She's fretting over how she can be a parent to Henry (especially at a big moment like this, when she has to tell him once person he loved killed another he loved). Charming knows how she feels. Emma insists they don't have to parent her, but Snow says otherwise. When Emma echoes Regina and says she's only been a parent for five minutes, Charming reminds her they're family now, and don't have to go through any of this alone.
Henry gets off the bus and reminds Emma he's big enough to walk home without an escort, but Emma tells him they have to talk. They sit down on a city bench, and the camera zooms out, so we can't hear what Emma is saying as she breaks the (false) news to her boy, but we see them hug, after the deed is done. Watching from her parked car, Regina sees it too, and sobs. We cut to the...
Enchanted Past. Knifingham Palace. Rumpy drops in on Regina. They quibble about whether he's her friend or there to relish in her suffering. He reminds her that today is the day of Snow and Charming's wedding. He didn't get an invitation, either. When he mentions it looks like they'll get their happy ending after all, Regina says that's his fault, since she has no way to harm them in this land. Rumpy reminds her how specific he and this land is. Then he plants the seeds he's been long to sow for so very long. "Now if you were to bring them to another land..." When Regina smiles, Rumpy almost takes on a Cockney accent as he adds, "Told ya I was your friend." After he poofs away, Regina summons her father and orders him to ready her carriage. "I have a wedding to get to." We flash forward to...