Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A+ | 384 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT PANic And PANcakes
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.15.2013
Even though it's the middle of the night, dawn breaks across Felix's face. Panry adds, "Only one person has always believed in Pan." Felix swallows hard. "That's me." Panry cocks his head. "Don't be afraid. Be flattered." Felix screams, "No, no, no, no, no!" Panry plunges his greedy little hand inside Felix's chest. We hear the squish and the sploosh. Panry pulls the heart out. Why is it not blacker than Snow White's, Show? Felix collapses as Panry squeezes his heart into dust. The dust wafts down into the well.
Sidebar: Parker Croft, I hated your Felix, as I was supposed to. You, young man, did a wonderful job playing a creepy character. Thank you for your performance. I thoroughly enjoyed it and am sure I am not alone. Bravo.
Cemetery. Hen (Henry in Pan's body) exposits that once he's back in his own skin, he'll have possession of the scroll. When Regina is worried that Gold isn't powerful enough to cast that sort of spell, he says he can do it with the right tool. Tink takes the Exposition Fairy's wand and says, "The Black Fairy's wand. One of the most powerful fairies that every existed. Well-versed in dark magic. The Blue Fairy exiled her, but before she did, she took her wand." Of course she did. How was Blue not killed long ago?
Gold figures the late, great Blue hid it at the convent. Charming is ready to lead the expedition. Hook gives a brotherly nod to an invitation not yet issued. Tink wants to go along too, to pay her respects to Blue. That's pretty big of Tink, don't you think? Gold says it's settled. The rest of them will retreat to his shop and prepare Hen for the spell. Neal heads off with Charming, Tink, and Hook, even though no one invited him anywhere. (Poor Neal. I've got to stop taking cheap shots at him, but it's fun easy.) Unbeknownst to anyone, Pan's Shadow has been lurking in the trees and has heard every word.
We cut back to the well. Henry is still dumping Felix's heart ash into it. Once he's done, his curse bubbles up from the bottom in plumes of thick green smoke. The title card features Emma's yellow VW bug. Toot toot. Hey. Beep beep.
Enchanted Past. After the title card, we open in Emma's nursery. Oh Emma isn't there of course, because she doesn't get to have nice things. Well, she's there, but she's safely ensconced in her mother's womb. Blue is visiting the Charmings. Snow asks Blue what if this cockamamie wardrobe plan doesn't work. Note: at this point in the timeline, a pregnant Snow plans to enter the wardrobe alone (or so she thinks, but we know Pinocchio will use the wardrobe, too). There was a lot of confusion about the point of this scene, at least on our boards. What she's asking Blue is: what will happen if the wardrobe doesn't whisk them to safety, and she and Emma, like everyone else, have their memories wiped? Are we all clear on that, now? Heaven knows I like to rant when things are messed up. This isn't one of those times.