Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 283 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Happy Birthday
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2013.03.03
Gold holds open the door to Neal's building as his insta-family enters. Inside, Neal and Henry run up to the flat to get the boy's camera. Emma and Gold remain in the lobby, so she informs him that Neal says leaving New York is complicated. Gold is disappointed, so Emma suggests that maybe Neal needs some time, but before the conversation can continue, Hook bursts in, throws Emma down, and using his trusty hook, he stabs Gold in the chest. As his victim slumps to the ground, Hook says, "Tick. Tock. Time's up, crocodile." How did he know a commercial was coming?
After the break, Hook is still crowing over Gold. "You took Milah. My love. My happiness. And for that, I now take your life." Before he can get his hook into Gold again, Emma rises and smashes Hook over the head. She rushes to Gold's side. Neal runs down and asks what the hell is going on. When Emma explains, Neal recognizes Hook on sight. Emma: "You know him?" Neal touches Gold's wound. Looking at the blood on his hand, he says, "Papa?" We cut to...
Neal's Flat. As Neal settles Gold down on his couch, Emma takes the Exposition Fairy's wand and says she locked up Hook in a storage room. Showing the guys a map, she says it looks like Hook sailed his ship to town. Speaking for all of us, Neal asks, "How did he get a pirate ship into New York?" Emma answers, "It's cloaked," and then tries to reassure Henry. When Emma and Neal hustle off to do whatever, Henry goes to his new grandpa's side. "Mr. Gold, are you all right." Gold sits up as best he can and is too rough as he grabs Henry by the shirt. "You stay away from me. You caused this. You brought us back here. You did this." Emma enters just as Gold shoves the kid away. She gives him her phone, tells him the batter is dead and asks him to look for charger in the other room, because Jared Gilmore's work hours are limited.
Neal examines Gold's wound and says they have to get him to an E.R. ASAP. I wish I could write the rest of the recap in abbreviations, but alas. Gold says medicine will be of no use, because Hook's hook was coated in a poison of Hook's own making, so there's no antidote in this world. He needs to get back to Storybrooke, where there's magic. Neal offers to get a car, but Gold says they need something faster -- Hook's ship. Great, just go down to the harbor and look for the gulls that are perched on apparently nothing. You should find it right away, assuming a million other crafts haven't slammed into the invisible behemoth. Emma's still adjusting to her true identity and all the crazy surrounding it, so she's a little shocked she'll be sailing on the Jolly Roger, but Rumpy doesn't have time for that, so he grabs the Contrivance Fairy's wand and explains that it's the fastest vessel in all the realms. And what luck, Neal knows how to sail it. Emma's all, "You know how to sail a pirate ship?" Neal: "Yeah, I do." Oh, well that muds that right up.