Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 689 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Unstable Girl
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2012.04.01
Gah, this is a talky-meat scene but I want to show how thoroughly manipulated Snow is by the time she breaks her promise and spills Regina's secret to Cora. Cora tells Snow that Leopold told her how much Snow's mother loved her.
Cora: Losing her must have been so hard.
Snow: It was.
Cora: Hearing him I realized he might as well have been talking about me and Regina. I don't want us to lose each other. If only I could show her how I feel -- that no matter what, all I want is her happiness.
Snow (rising to her feet): Then don't make her get married.
Cora: I'm sorry?
Snow: She doesn't love my father. She loves someone else. She made me promise not to tell but she'll lose you. She can't lose her mother. No one should.
Cora: Oh sweet Snow, it's all right. She won't lose me. You can tell me. You must tell me.
Storybrooke, Day. Emma arrives at Regina's home. The camera operator services Lost fans with a tight shot of the house number: 108. When Regina opens the door Emma gives her a warrant to search the premises and tells her to unlock the garage. Regina asks what the grounds are. Emma shows her the shovel shard and then claims she got an anonymous call placing Regina near the TRoll Bridge, the day Ruby found the heart. After some pissing back and forth, Regina opens the garage for Emma. She walks right to where the old, broken shovel once stood but in its place is a new one. Emma asks Regina where "it" is. Regina is all where is what?
Emma: You knew I was coming.
Regina: How on earth would I know that?
Audience: Because clearly Sidney planted a bug in that vase of tulips, dumbass.
Emma: Mary Margaret is a good person. She doesn't deserve this.
Regina: Miss Blanchard is a liar and a murderer. No matter what accusations you throw my way that won't change. She's going to pay for what she's done. That woman has destroyed the last life she is ever going to destroy.
Emma pounds on August's door at Granny's B&B. She asks how he could do "this" to her and to Mary Margaret. August tells her to slow down and explain. Emma tells him about the missing shovel, and says Regina knew she was coming for it. August was the only other person who knew about it. August says he would hope she'd have enough faith to know he'd never betray her. Emma asks how she can know he's not lying about this and everything. August's voice is low when he says he's not a liar. Emma sighs and says that's exactly what a liar would say.