Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 106 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT PANorama
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.06.2013
Charming rises and prompts Emma to continue. "And you were able to break the curse, because you're the..." Snow tells Emma not to be embarrassed to say it. Hook: "Say what?" Regina: "The S word." Emma looks down at the map, again. After summoning her strength, she says, "I'm the Savior." Not a blessed thing appears on the map. Emma says, "I don't get it. I said I'm the Savior. There's nothing I've denied more than that." Snow tells Emma they'll figure it out, but Regina says, "No, you won't," and grabs the map. She casts a locator spell on the map, despite Charming and Hook's objections to the contrary. Since the parchment belongs to Pan, it will lead them to him. The map floats off into the jungle. Hook says, "So, it appears we will be venturing into the dark jungle after all." Emma: "You mean the place you told us never to set foot." Hook: "That's the one." Regina tells Emma that since she said she wanted to be the leader, it's time for her to lead. Oh Regina, do you really care if you're not the leader of the other four? I get not wanting to lose a kingdom or a town, but these four? C'mon. I know you're this petty, but I thought you were above admitting it to them. Commercial.
Rumpy and Belle make their way to a cliff. She asks if he knows why he brought her to the island. He thought she would show him the answer. Belle insists only Rumpy knows that. I thought only the Shadow knows, in which case Rumpy is screwed, because he sent his off on a secret dagger-hiding mission. And it looks like it hasn't come back, because while Belle and the various plants are casting shadows, Rumpy is not, which -- BRAVO, Show. What fantastic attention to detail. When Rumpy says he has no idea why he brought her there, Belle is just as insistent that he's holding back.
Belle finally asks Rumpy what it is that he's not saying. Rumpy says, "I'm a coward. I'm just like my father." Belle says, "You feel better, now, don't you? You know why I'm here." Rumpy answers, "You always saw the good in me." Belle says she still sees it, no matter his denials. "I think you see it, too. So why am I here? What are you wrestling with." Rumpy: "Pan offered me a deal. I let him keep Henry and he allows me to live. The boy needn't be my undoing." Oh Rumpy, you of all people should have learned that, (a) you can't thwart prophecy, and (b) the plainest rendering of a prophecy isn't always the truest. I'm a little disappointed in the shallowness of his current struggle. I don't want him to already be fully redeemed, or otherwise perfect, but he's been alive a hell of a long time to have been so blind.