Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: N/A | 296 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT I Will Sing My Maker's Praises
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2013.01.20
Downtown. Whale runs down the street so quickly that he crosses both space and time and we flashback to...
Frankestonia. Gerhardt's corpse is hooked up to Viktor's machine. When he turns it on, electricity shoots through the corpse. After it runs its... what do I call it -- a cycle? While I once worked in a hospital, coded procedures and maintained the charge master, I'm woefully bereft of Revivification Medicine Terminology. When Viktor sees smoke rises from the scar on Gerhardt's chest (and who sewed him up -- a toddler), rather than cutting through the enormous sutures, he makes a fresh cut and removes Gerhardt's heart. Igor is Captain Obvious in this realm and says, "It's burned. Like coal." Viktor tells Igor to cover Gerhardt. "This sheet will serve as his shroud."
Papa Frankenstein chooses exactly that moment to enter the lab and confront Viktor -- who was spotted bringing a body into the house. When Papa sees Gerhardt's corpse, he makes it abundantly clear that the deceased was his favorite son, as if the Christmas gifts didn't do the job. Father and son argue. Finally, Viktor says he operated on Gerhardt for his father's sake, too. "I wanted you to have two sons again." Papa sneers. "And now I have none." We flash forward to...
Storybrooke. Regina's house. Cora snoops around, pokes over Regina's things and sniffs her clothing. I am not making that up. It is in Henry's room she finds what she's looking for. There's a little plaque, featuring an imprint of his hand. Beneath, in childish letters, is the inscription, "FOR MOMMY." Cora smiles with delight. We cut to the...
Storybrooke Cemetery. Henry, who seems to be no better supervised now that he has two mommies and at least two (probably three) grandparents, as well as a great-grandmother of sorts in town, strolls across the cemetery and into the Mills crypt. Of course, it isn't Henry at all. It is Cora -- or currently, Hora. Inside, Hora pushes aside Regina's father's coffin, descends to the vault and calls out, "Mom?" Back in her house, which has really been bedazzled since magic came to town, Regina can hear "Henry's" voice. Approaching a wall of mirrors, she stops in front of one and waves her hand before it. She sees Hora looking for her. Hora calls out to her, asks her if she's in there and if he can come in. Regina's smile fades. Hora starts to walk away, but behind him, a secret door opens. It leads right into Regina's house. Once Hora is inside, she hugs Regina.