Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: N/A | 296 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT I Will Sing My Maker's Praises
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2013.01.20
Storybrooke Hospital. Someone is calling Greg's phone again. It's the same person, who is only identified in the Caller I.D. as "Her." Given his recent history with philandering, Charming suggests it must be a girlfriend. Snow thinks they should answer the call and let "Her" know Greg is okay, but Emma points out he's not. Charming is afraid the police could trace the call. Emma explains the phone can be found, even if no one answers it because apparently tonight she needs to be on every side of a given argument.
When an orderly approaches the group and then quickly turns on his heels, they stop him. He admits he's looking for Whale, who never showed up to the O.R. When the orderly pages him, the gang hears a pager beep. The sound is coming from a nearby scrubs hamper. Emma pulls out Whale's hospital coat, looks down at the name tag and pulls out the page. "He's gone." Commercial.
Red grimmaces as she tries to pick up boozy Whale's scent from his hospital coat. Emma asks Red to find him and says they'll keep an eye on Hook, while they try to figure out their options, if Whale doesn't return. When Snow suggests that perhaps Doc could perform the operation, Grumpy laughs. "Surgery?" His smile disappears. "No." There's no way to do justice to his delivery. Watch the episode if you haven't already.
When Snow wonders if Cora snatched Whale, Charming says he doesn't think so. "[Whale] has been in a rough place since he brought Regina's fiancé back to life." While Snow is all, "Daniel?" Emma is all, "Back to life?" No one thinks too much of hearing Charming say that Daniel ripped off Whale's arm. Snow is still stuck on Daniel's name, and Emma is still stuck on the larger question. "Like some kind of Frankenstein?" Charming says, "That's Whale. And Daniel was his..." Alarmed, Snow says, "What went on here while we were gone?" Emma interrupts her arguing parents like you do when they're about to get into it in front of your friends, and tells Ruby to get going. "Bring back Dr. Frankenstein. We're going to send this guy back home with bolts in his neck." Missing the point, Snow's, "She'll find him," comment is less than reassuring to Emma, who wonders in what sort of state they'll find the good doctor. We cut to...