Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 364 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT The Shadow Knows
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 2013.05.05
Storybrooke. Gold's Shop. Snow and Charming arrive and tell Gold that Regina is missing and might be in danger. Speaking for the audience, Gold says, "Just the way I like her." Eventually, Gold shoos Laceybelle off to the back room. Charming claims the favor he just extracted from Gold, to help them find Regina. Yes. I know. I'm shaking my head too. Gold wonders why they care about helping Regina. Snow says she owes her, on account of how she maliciously used Regina, who is always trying to kill them or wreck their lives, to kill Cora, who was bound and determined to kill them. Okay, that's certainly a paraphrase, but my bitterness is the only way I'm going to get through this without a glass of wine. Rumpy produces a vial containing one of Regina's tears, like that's a rare commodity. He then makes Snow cry and adds one of her tears to the vial. She's to drop the solution into her eye. That will link her with Regina. Whatever she sees and feels, Snow will see and feel. Oh my, I would certainly not be introducing Regina's bodily fluids into myself, particularly not my eye. Gold tells them the spell will last long enough to lead them to Regina, and with that, he pronounces his debt to Charming paid. Ugh.
Once the Charmings are gone, Laceybelle reemerges from the backroom. "So, it's true? I heard everything. You... you really can do magic." Gold tells her she might want to pour herself another drink. While I say, "I don't think anyone has to remind Laceybelle of that," she chuckles. We cut to...
Snow's hovel. Holding the vial of tears, Charming tries to talk Snow out of doing this. She's been through enough already. Snow tells him her heart is dark because of how she treated Regina. If she can help find and save the Evil Queen, maybe it will let in some of the light. Charming nods and drops the magical solution into his bride's eye. Snow blinks and waits. Soon, she's overcome. We flash between her hovel and the warehouse, where Regina is similarly wracked with pain. David screams, "Mary Margaret," before we go to commercial. The audience corrects him: "SNOW!"