Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: C | 386 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT PANache
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.01.2013
Charming asks what's needed. Neal says they should gather up the Lost Boys and get them aboard Hook's ship. The littlest and middlest share a smile. Hook says, "Let's hope you have a Pegasus sail, otherwise, we're at the mercy of the trade winds." So wait. Is that like a thing? Could the wind whisk them away from Neverland, provided it was in the mood? There is no time for answers, because this is OUAT. Neal slings a sack over his shoulder. "Pan's shadow is in here. It'll get us home." He takes a beat, calculates, then adds, "As long as your ship will hold together." Oh, snap. Hook: "Well, as long as your plan holds together, she will." Bad form, gentlemen.
Emma doesn't toss the boys a ruler and tell them to make the contest official. I think that's because she's never had people who loved her before -- never mind people willing to compete for her love. She's wide-eyed as she watches this case of testosterone poisoning manifest in her boyfriends. Wisely, she ignores it and looks from Hook to Neal, who tells her, "Henry is going to be with me the entire time. Nothing is going to happen to him, while you two are away." Unless August shows up and scares you with the type-written word, Failfire.
Snow momentarily throws off the death shroud that is Mary Margaret and adds, "You mean three." Then the cloying cloak of Mary Margaret descends upon her once again. "I may be trapped on this island for the rest of eternity, so if you think I'm not going to be spending my last moments with my daughter, you're crazy." Since most of Emma's life has been spent scavenging from love's scrap heap, she agrees. "Okay. Let's do it." Commercial.
Sidebar. Mary Margaret. Ugh.
We return to the Storybrooke of 11 years ago. Regina is at home at the Mayoral Manse. Henry is still sobbing. Regina tells him she'll do anything for him, scoops him out of his seat and begs him to give her a chance. When he stops crying, she thanks him. Their momentary quiet is interrupted by a phone call from Sidney. Miraculously (and you new moms will feel me, here) the phone doesn't set the baby off again. It's Sidney. He's faxing her all the info he has on Henry's birth mother. Regina's fax is already churning out the pages. Regina grabs them, reads, then says, "No." We cut to...
Gold's Shop. Regina barges in. "You knew. [...] The child that you located for me in Phoenix. His mother was found in the woods outside Storybrooke, 18 years ago." Gold declares this a "startling coincidence." Regina raves. And while I addressed this earlier, during Gold and Regina's first shop scene, I think it's this scene that proves my point. Gold does not yet remember his Enchanted Past. And it's lack of memory that makes the scene all that more amusing, because if/since he doesn't remember, to him, Regina is nothing more than the raving lunatic that... Regina actually is.
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