Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B | 349 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT The Drama Queen
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2013.04.28
Enchanted Forest. Night. Regina leads the Queen's Guard to a village. They force their way into a cabin, but while Snow might have been hiding there once, she's now gone. Regina orders her men to round up the hapless villagers. Queenie lies to them that Snow has betrayed them and poisoned her own father so that she could inherit the throne. Regina goes on and on with a list of trumped up charges and promises a lucrative reward to whoever gives up Snow. Infuriated by their silence, Regina orders her guard to, "Kill them all. No mercy. Find me Snow White." I hope you're not all too young to understand the term broken record because that's exactly what Regina is. We flash forward to...
Storybrooke. Present. Waterfront. An old fisherman (Harold Davies) is dressed in yellow rain gear is sitting on the docks, within hearing distance of Charming and Snow -- so clearly, he is Regina in magical disguise. Charming and Snow are sitting on a park bench, covered with a blanket, sipping cups of what must be cocoa with cinnamon. Snow asks if, when they return to the Enchanted Forest, they'll truly leave Regina behind. "Henry won't like it. She is his mother, despite all the horrors." Charming says, "Mary Margaret, those horrors will continue. Do you want to give her another chance -- because every time we do, she..." Snow says, "She slips. I know." Slips? Slips? Slips is when your daughter promises your grandson she'll never again lie to him, but momentarily falters when he acts a direct question about secret magical beans. Ugh. David suggests that instead of giving Regina another chance, they give her a choice. She can return with them and live out her days in the cell built for Rumpelstiltskin, or she can remain in Storybrooke. Oh yeah, because it's not like she can't turn you all into toads.