Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 7 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Freaks and Geeks
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.24.2013
August enters the Sheriff's Office screaming for Emma, but no one is there, so he uses the desk phone to call Emma's cell. As soon as he tells her that he has to warn her about something, Tamara enters and pulls the phone wire out of the wall. He tells her he knows what she did to The Dragon. A few days after she left, August went back to The Dragon to beg for a cure, only to find him dead. "At the time, I was too wrapped up in myself to wonder what had happened -- to question who could have done such a thing, but then I found this photo in your car, and it hit me. You and your grandmother. You went back there. You killed him."
Tamara says he should have left. She counted on him to save himself. August says that's what he's trying to do, know. He lived a shameful life. Only he can cure that. "...Not magic. Not science. Just me. I care about the people in this town. And if you wanted The Dragon's little bit of magic, then you have hit the mother lode here, and you are not going to harm anyone to get it. I'm going to warn them."
Tamara says, "No, you're not," and then takes out her "very special" taser and uses it on August. Since it's "very special" I'm not going to waste any more time than I did in the recaplet (or in my brain) rejecting the idea that a taser can kill a wooden man, because it's not really a taser, right? August screams in pain and falls to the floor. Commercial.
Charming and Henry have joined Snow, Marco and Emma. Hanging up his phone, Charming says, "If August is still at the station, he's not picking up." On cue, August stumbles out the door, so the gang runs to him. Emma and Marco both drop to their knees, next to him. Marco turns him over as he laments the condition of his boy. "What happened to you?" August says, "I'm so sorry, Papa." Marco says there's nothing to apologize for. Everything will be all right. August turns and slowly says, "Emma." When she whispers his name, he tries to sit up and whispers in her ear. "Emma, she's...she...." Marco lowers his lifeless man doll to the ground and cradling him (it?), cries, "Oh no, not again," which is what I say when Neal shows up. Emma says, "August?" Snow says it can't end this way. "He was supposed to get a second chance." Emma tells Neal, "Someone killed him to stop him from telling us something. He used his last dying breath to warn us. I will not let that be in vain." You won't let that be in vain? Really, Emma? I think it's time to put down Henry's fairy tale book. It's affecting your speech patterns.