Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 523 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Mother Knows Best
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2012.10.14
Lance offers our ladies a repast featuring chimera (part lion, part serpent, part goat). Go for the goat meat, Emma. She ignores me and asks nobody in particular, "Like turducken?" Heh. My Writey Sense (think Spidey Sense) was already on high alert after all that vengeance versus justice business, so I rewind to the credits to see if Jane Espenson wrote this episode, but no -- it was written by Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg. Well played, gentlemen. Well played.
Snow says, "I don't understand. We were told this land didn't even exist anymore." Think about that for a tick, oh Fairest of them all. Who told you it didn't exist? Could it have been a lying liar who lies. Snow ignores me and continues. "How did you all escape the curse?" Lance says it's a mystery. Some of them in that region were left behind. They know neither how nor why. Finding the Haven involved spilling some blood, but he assures the ladies they're safe there. Snow explains that they have to get back to her husband and Emma's son. She wants to find a portal, but Lance says leaving is unwise; the ogres have returned. Emma: "Ogres? As in fee-fi-fo-fum?" I cringe for Emma, as does Snow. "Those would be giants." Chagrinned, Emma shuts up. Lance mansplains about ogres being far worse. He tells Snow there are no portals left and asks her to stay there.
Snow thinks she knows of a portal, but when Lance asks where, she says she's not comfortable revealing it, with Cora nearby. Lance assures her that Cora is powerless now, but Snow -- as sharp as ever -- demurs. She again asks leave to... well, to leave. Lance will allow it on the condition that she allow Mulan to accompany and defend them. Emma: "We can defend ourselves." Snow ignores her and tells Lance it's a deal. She thanks Lance for always looking out for her and we flash back to...