Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: N/A | 2181 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Fairy Tales Can Come True
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2011.10.23
Enchanted Forest: A very pregnant Snow and an angry Charming host a round table meeting. When Charming bangs the table and suggests they fight, the camera pans to a large magnifying glass. Through it, we see Jiminy Cricket in cricket form. "Fighting is a bad idea. Giving into one's dark side never accomplishes anything." Charming asks how many wars a clear conscience has won. He wants to take Queenie out before she can inflict her curse. Grammy and Little Red Riding Hood listen as one of the dwarfs (Doc, I think) asks if they can trust Rumpy. Charming doesn't answer directly. Instead he says that his men report that the forest animals are abuzz about Queenie's plan. "This is going to happen unless we do something." Snow finally throws in her two cents. "There's no point. The future is written." Charming says, "Good can't just lose." Snow thinks perhaps it can. Charming: "Not as long as we have each other. If you believe him about the curse, then you must believe him about our child. She will be the savior."
The Blue Fairy (Keegan Connor Tracy) enters with some knights trailing in her wake. They're carrying a tree. Grumpy (played by Lee Arenberg, and not to be confused with Robert Carlyle's Rumpy) is not impressed when Blue says the tree is their only hope for saving the child. He likes the fighting plan. Blue ignores him and says, "The tree is enchanted. If fashioned into a vessel it can ward off any curse. Geppetto, can you build such a thing?" Geppetto (Tomy Amendola) says he and his boy can do it. He pats the head of the real boy seated as his foot. Blue tells Snow that it will work, and that they all must have faith. "There is, however, a catch." My word, look at her breasts. Sorry. But my word. "The enchantment is indeed powerful, but all power has its limits..." Except the power of your corset, Blue. "And this tree can protect only one." One boob? Oh, sorry. One person. Right. Check.
Our World, Mayoral Manse, Exterior: Henry begs Emma not to take him back, but she says his parents must be worried sick. Henry says he has no parents -- just a mother who is evil and only pretends to love him. Just then, his mother, Mayor Regina Mills (Lana Parrilla, who plays the Evil Queen in the Enchanted Forest) runs out the door and hugs Henry. Sheriff Graham (Jamie Dornan) follows. Regina asks Henry if he's okay and where he's been. Henry snits: "I found my real mom," and runs inside the house. Regina looks devastated as she turns to Emma and asks if she's Henry's birth mother. When Emma says an awkward, "Hi," in return, Regina asks, "How would you like a glass of the best apple cider you've ever tasted?" Don't do it, Emma! Emma shakes her head. "Got anything stronger?" Good girl.