Episode Report Card 118 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT PANdemic
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.20.2013
Tink is good to go, as soon as she hears the exit strategy. The problem is, there is no exit strategy. If you'll recall, Tink only signed on, for a chance to leave Neverland. She's not buying into the Charming family motto that good will win out. As a visual aid, she shows them a watch and explains it was Tamara's. She tells them the fate of Henry's original kidnappers and makes the point that this is how Pan treats the people he employs and asks how they think they'll fare with him while still stuck on his island. When they figure out an actual plan, they know where to find her.
Charming wants to go after Tink, but Emma stops him, because she knows Tink is right. "You never break in somewhere, unless you know the way out." In her usual snarky form, Regina asks if she learned that in "bail bonds person school." Emma's face is defiant when she says, "Neal taught me that." As I mentioned in the recaplet, Regina's silent response conveys so much. She knows what it's like to lose a love. She knows what it's done to her. She fears Emma's pain and I love it. Kudos to Lana Parrilla.
Changing the subject yet again, Charming asks Hook how he got off the island before. Hook said he left via his ship, but he had to get the portal-creating magic from Peter Pan, "...in a deal I don't think he's ready to repeat." Hook says only one person has ever left Neverland without Pan's permission -- Neal. Emma asks how he did it. Hook doesn't know but thinks they might be able to find out. We cut to...
Another spot in the jungle. Rumpy approaches two of Pan's sentries and magically knocks them out. He grabs a spear from one and is examining it, when he's startled by the sound of someone running through the jungle, as that someone enters the clearing, Rumpy is ready to chuck the spear at him, until he sees that it's his son, who isn't so dead after all. Of course, since Rumpy's main Neverland companion has been Illusion Belle, he thinks he's seeing an illusion of his son.
In an effort to convince his father he's real, Neal says, "It's me." Gesturing to his torso he adds, "I got shot." Is it me, or is there no bullet hole in his shirt? Is he wearing one of Phillip's shirts or something? It's rumpled, so it's hard to tell, but to me, it looks like a standard, modern day work shirt -- not terribly different from the one found on the other end of this link.