Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: N/A | 268 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT A Sticky Wicket
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2013.01.06
Regina looks at Snow. "You tricked me." Snow says it was not a trick, but a test. I say po-tay-to/po-tah-to. Charming rubs salt in the wound by explaining they wanted to give Regina a chance to change. It's then that Snow banishes Regina to live alone in her misery. She approaches her stepmother and says, "You saved my life, once. Now I've saved yours, so now we're even. And if you ever try to hurt anyone in my kingdom again, I will kill you." We flash forward to...
Storybrooke. Regina opens her front door to find Emma on the stoop, and Snow and Charming down on the walkway. When Regina says she's ready to hear Emma's apology, Emma says she saw Regina choke the life out of Archie. Since Regina didn't, she wonders how this is possible. Charming answers that it was magic. Emma continues that she saw it happen and she knows it was Regina. Because this lovely, enchanting story is occasionally guilty of TV-Talk, nobody mentions the dreamcatcher. Regina says she knows Gold must have helped them and points out how he's less than trustworthy. Snow clarifies that Emma is the one who used magic. Regina's whisper sounds nearly enchanted as she says, "You can use magic?" After a beat, she adds, "The savior, of course. Well, I can only assume he warned you, then, that magic always comes with a price." When Emma says they'll both pay the price, Regina wonders what she means. Emma: "Henry. He believed in you. His heart's going to break. That's both our prices."