Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT My Heart Also Belongs To Another
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 02.19.2012
Gentle Readers: Yikes!
Recapper: It's been a long week of February vacation, is what he's saying.
Rumpy: Veeeeeery weeeeeell, be gone, Dennis the menace. Hmmm now that's a name...
Recapper: Anyhow, Charming says he will not fall prey to the Siren's deceptions, so she turns herself into Snow White.
Siren: How you like me now?
Charming: Gulp. I mean, I know it's not real.
Siren: Sometimes illusions are better than truth. Everything you want that you can't have -- I can give it to you. All you have to do is kiss me. I know you want to, I can feel it.
Recapper: Dirty! Ahem. So, they kiss. Charming drops his sword (not a euphemism.) When their lips part, the siren starts to lead him out into the lake, but he insists he wants reality or nothing. She kisses him again -- asking if it feels real. He says, "Snow." She's all, "That's right. It's me. I love you."
Charming: No. No it's not you.
Siren: Is too.
Charming: Is not. This isn't real love. I've felt it. This isn't it. I know the difference.
Siren: Congratulations Prince Charming. You're the first.
Charming: Then she drags me underwater. I see the skeletons of the Siren's prey. I try to swim away, but some water weeds wrap around my legs.
Siren: I swim in for the kill, but Charming finds a dagger on the lake bottom. When I kiss him, he stabs me in the gut.
Charming: As she bleeds out, she regains her own face, thank goodness because while I know she isn't Snow, I cannot watch her die, wearing the face of my own true love, even if I'm not my true love's true love.
Recapper: You worry too much, Charming. That said, I really like that whole siren scene the more I watch it. Charming's struggle to remember what's real -- to resist the illusion, is a lovely echo of David's struggle with the curse, in Storybrooke.
Charming: Who is David?
Audience: He is NO ONE TO US RIGHT NOW!
Back in Storybrooke, Mary arrives home to find David washing her car. It's not exactly a romantic gesture. It's just that someone has spray painted "TRAMP" on it -- in bright red. I get it. In the Enchanted Forest, Mary's car was Hester Prynne. David blathers that he doesn't know who did it or how any of this happened.
Mary: You don't know? Really?
David: I can't control what other people do.
Mary: You can control what you do, you lying liar who lies.
Curse: Muahahahahaha.
David: I can't figure out who told Kathryn.