Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A+ | 383 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT PANic And PANcakes
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.15.2013
Blue says, "You finally believed in yourself, Tinker Bell. Welcome back." Tink can't believe she's a fairy again, considering she broke all of Blue's rules. Blue looks chastened as she allows that she might have been too strict. "You deserved your wings. You have earned them back many times over." Okay, so Tink saves Henry, and his extended, distended family, all the Lost Boys, and Hook, and that's not enough to earn back her wings. It takes saving Blue's bony behind and bodacious ta-tas to seal the deal. Are we all quite clear on this? Tink is much more moved than I, even before Blue produces the Black Fairy's wand out of thin air. She hands it to Neal and says, "Go. Save us all."
Tink and her team return to Gold's shop. Charming says, "She's back. The Blue Fairy. She gave us the wand." Nobody even reacts to the fact that someone who was just dead is once again alive. Bad form, writers. Now that they have the wand, Gold says they need only one more item, before they can return Henry's spirit to his own skin. He takes out the magic suppression cuff and says it's one of the few useful thing he managed to pilfer from Greg and Tamara. You and the show, Gold. Hell, even Neal barely reacts to the mention of Tamara's name.
Gold explains the cuff renders anyone with magic, "...utterly powerless." Looking up at Hook, Regina says, "I haven't forgotten about all that, by the way." Duck, Hook. Duck. Gold puts the cuff on Hen and says he wants to make sure that when Pan wakes up in his own skin, his powers will be blocked. He tells Hen he'll now cast the spell. Hen will go into a deep sleep, and wake up in his own body. Regina tells Hen, "And then you hang onto that scroll, and you come find us as fast as you can." Hen tells his family that when he gave his heart to Pan, he thought he was being a hero. He turns to Emma and says, "I'm sorry." Charming says Hen doesn't need to be sorry, Pan does. I think Henry should be a little sorry. I think it would be better if they told him they understand he thought he was doing the right thing, and he's forgiven for not listening to them, rather than this "nothing to be sorry for" business, but no one listens to me.
It's finally spell time. Hen focuses on the wand until he falls asleep. Once he's under Gold touches the wand to the boy's forehead. There's a flash of light. Hen convulses as Henry's spirit leaves Pan's body. Once it's done, Regina says, "It worked." Emma says, "Let's go find our son." Everyone heads out of the shop except Gold. Belle asks if he's coming. He says he doesn't think so. He and his father have some unfinished family business. Commercial.