Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B- | 3 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Beauty And The Fruity
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 02.12.2012
Gold: I'm just going to smirk at you and spew platitudes about love as I buy my usual Valentine's Day purchases -- you know, rope and duct tape.
Sneezy: *Sneezes*
Next, we see Gold driving the "Game of Thorns" van. Moe French is bound and gagged in the back. Next to him lies a long stemmed Gaston...I mean rose. Happy Valentine's Day, you crazy kids.
Network: Commercials.
At the Woodland Cabin of David and Mary Margaret's Moral Failure, Gold stops the van, gets out, opens the back, and at gunpoint, orders Moe French to walk.
Moe French: Mich sny oo, 'mzzz mmmunm.
Recapper: The duct tape over his mouth is making it a little difficult for Moe to enunciate. Let me get that, for you. He says, "Which I do -- 'cause gun."
Moe French: Mmmaanmooo.
Recapper: You're welcome.
Back in the Enchanted Forest, Belle is on her way to town, when Regina's carriage rolls down the road. Regina opens the door and asks if her carriage splashed Belle. What -- with the blood of innocents? Belle says it didn't. Regina says she needs to stretch her legs and joins Belle on foot for a spell.
Regina: That's a pretty empty basket you have there.
Belle: I don't want to be slowed down.
Regina: Ah, are you running from a master or a lover? Oh, I saw that look. Both, you cheeky thing.
Belle: Um?
Regina: You love your employer, but you're leaving him.
Belle: I maybe love him. I don't know, there's something evil in him.
Regina: Sounds like a curse to me. Have you tried true love's kiss? Not that I would ever suggest a young woman should kiss a man who is holding her captive. What kind of message is that? Besides, if he loves you, he'd let you go. If not, the kiss won't work.
Belle: He did let me go.
Regina: But there was no kissing. True love's kiss will break any curse. He'll be an ordinary man again.
Recapper: That curse is unbreakable, no matter what you do. (I kid, fellas.)
Rumpy watches out the window for Belle's return. When he spots her on the road, he flies to his spinning wheel, and acts all casual like.
Rumpy: I have my dignity. So, uh, Belle. What's up?
Belle: You're happy I'm back and you promised me a story. Tell me about your son.
Rumpy: I lost him.
Belle: And since then, you've loved no one, and no one has loved you. I wasn't going to come back, you know, but something changed my mind. I'm going to kiss you, now.