Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 7 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Freaks and Geeks
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.24.2013
Snow, who has been listening under the covers the whole time (and wearing her coat), gets up after Emma is gone and wishes her husband a flat good morning. He invites her to eat the eggs he cooked for her, but instead, she's loading up a bag with food including some cans of tuna and a bunch of bananas. Bananas in the morning? Sure. Tuna? *Gag* She wants to head out to the woods to think things through, and despite David volunteering to go with her, she says she has to do it alone.
Talk turns to the magical bean field. Since Anton has told him they may soon have a crop, David says they'll be able to go home soon, "...none of what happened will matter. It will all be in the past." I wish I could use a magic bean to take me someplace where nothing bad I've ever done would matter, but beans are small. Even they can't contain that much magic. Snow is with me. "I used Regina to kill her own mother. I don't think going back will erase that." David says, "Mary Margaret..." She and I both interrupt him, but while I'm yelling, "WHY DON'T YOU CALL HER SNOW, YOU WERE IN A COMA FOR 28 YEARS?!" Snow simply says, "Please, give me time." We cut to...
Granny's Boarding House. Exterior. Inside, Neal and his backpfeifengesicht are waiting there with a cheerful, "Hi buddy." Involuntarily, my fist clenches. Henry has brought along his Once Upon A Time book, so that Daddy Douchiest can tell him, "...what it was really like over there." Neal, who must be covered in magical dust from his travels to A World Without Consequences, thinks that sounds neat-o keen, and suggests Henry run next door to the diner and score three hot chocolates for him, Neal and Emma.
As Henry runs out, Emma too quickly explains that she has to go to work, but sadly, I must report she fails to escape. Neal has a couple of things he wants to talk to her about. First of all, Tamara reports that Hook is no longer in the storage room in Neal's Manhattan building. Secondly, Tamara is on her way to Storybrooke.
Emma, undoubtedly shocked by the realization that she and this nincompoop have created a kid who can walk and chew gum at the same time, says, "What are you thinking? [...] What are you going to tell her when she sees a giant or a werewolf run past her, down Main St.? Between Greg Mendel, our food obsessed tourist, and now your fiancée, this town is turning into a theme park." Oh honey, it was already a theme park. Now it's just open for business. Since your salary is paid through tax revenues, perhaps it's time to buck for a raise.