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
When the trio gets to the trailer, they find it empty. We cut to the road. Wooden August is speeding out of town in Tamara's car. When he passes the "Leaving Storybrooke" sign, something bad happens -- commercials.
Hong Kong. 2011. Dragon's Lair. Day. Tamara enters the Dragon's lair. Without turning to see her, The Dragon tells her her photograph is on his desk. "Do not forget to take it, when you leave." Tamara says she's not going anywhere until she gets the truth. The Dragon says, "Interesting choice of words from someone who lied about being sick." Tamara smiles and acknowledges she doesn't have cancer. She's been searching for someone like him for a long time. Magic is so rare in this world that most would say it's fiction, but finding it has been difficult. "I found a world full of frauds, until you." She pulls out the potion and says she's had the context analyzed. "What I found? Nothing." The Dragon says, "So I'm a fraud, too?" Tamara says, "No. Literally nothing. The liquid in this bottle doesn't contain a single element found in this world." The Dragon says his creations are not of this world because the people who needs his help suffer from afflictions science can't treat. "People like the man you stole that from." Tamara says she didn't steal it, since she paid for it. Turning her back to him, she adds that now that she has it, she can't risk anyone else finding him. Facing him again, she holds out a taser which the writers assure is us a "very special" taser. It damned well better be, giving what it's going to accomplish by the end of the hour.
Red smoke streams from The Dragon's nostrils. He levitates and floats toward her. "You haven't met me. At least not the real me." He floats up in the air. Red smoke wafts between the floor and his feet. Tamara reaches up and shocks him in the chest. He falls dead to the floor. Well, at least I think he's dead enough, for now. If she hasn't met the "real him," who knows if he's completely dead? Still, he should probably get in the cart. Do you think the very special taser sucked the magic out of him, or was it just dialed up to 11? Tamara surveys her work, grabs the picture of her grandmother and her, and leaves. We flash forward to...
Road out of Storybrooke. I don't know if August has a spasm, or hits a bump, or what, but something makes the car jerk. He already passed the Storybrooke sign at the town line, so it doesn't seem to me that magic should have caused the jerk. But speaking of jerks, let's get back to August. He notices something fall from the sun visor. Picking it up, he sees it's a picture of Tamara and her grandmother -- the one she told him about, two years ago, right before he stole her money. Even though he's made of magical wood, August's face is certainly able to convey his resolve. He bangs a U-turn and heads back toward town.