Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 4 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Take Heart
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.10.2013
Turning to Regina, Cora asks her to help her take out Rumpy, but before she can finish, her knees give out. When Regina asks what's wrong, Cora says, "My...my heart. It's with my things in your vault. Someone's there." She orders Regina to go. Alone, Cora approaches the protective barrier and says, "Really, Rumpel. Hiding's beneath you." We flash back to...
Random Kingdom. Cora is wearing her wedding gown and admiring herself when Rumpy appears. He compliments her and then kisses her. She fakes up some outrage about being a married woman, so Rumpy takes out the Exposition Fairy's wand and reminds her that the wedding isn't until tomorrow. Since that's true, Cora is more than happy to suck face. A lot of Rumpel fans seem to be glad that he's getting a little loving, even in his sparkly form, but frankly, it grosses me out. When he says he loves her dress, Cora replies, "Royal brides have to be snow white." I see what you did there, Jane. It's not your fault, of course, but that line would be more effective, were Cora's gown not so off-white that it's approaching coffee with extra cream. Rumpy might be color blind because giggles and then says, "When you see the future, there is irony everywhere."
Cora is less enamored of her good fortune, now that she realizes she's fifth in line to be queen. "That won't happen without an awful lot of bloodshed. And what you give me..." Rumpy insists he can give her nothing but darkness and isolation. Cora adds, "And love." When Rumpy agrees, Cora takes his hand and bends over to tempt him with her ample décolleté as she says she wants that. Touched, Rumpy decides to amend their contract, so that instead of owing him a random first born child, she will owe him his child. Cora agrees and wonders if they can really have a future together. He says they can, if she truly wishes it. Pausing to let the artifice ooze out of her pores, Cora mentions there's just one thing -- she wants to kill the king. "I want to show him his heart before I do it, so he can see it, and know what I'm doing as I crush it." Rumpy smiles. "That is why I love you." Putting her hand over his heart, Cora asks Rumpy to show her. When he agrees to show her everything, Cora says she'll kill Xavier tonight. Closing in, Rumpy whispers that they will seal their promise with a kiss. I watch through my hands as they do. We flash forward to...