Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 116 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT PANdora's Box
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.08.2013
Storybrooke Cemetery. Belle, Gold, Hen, Emma, Snow, and Charming approach the mausoleum. Neal, Hook, and Tink are already waiting there. Hen runs into Neal's arms. I love how uncomfortable everyone looks when they're hugging and talking to Hen. Since the mausoleum is locked, Gold casts a spell to unlock it, but says it will take a while.
Emma walks off and tries to collect herself. Her parents go to her and assure her it will be okay. Emma can't even use her gun, since Pan is in Henry's body. Charming says they'll save him and lays another pep talk on her. Emma knows he's about to hit the "moments" theme, because she's been paying attention to this episode. Charming and Snow both say that's exactly what it is all about. Emma says they're wrong. The Savior doesn't have the luxury of having moments. She says her magic has a price -- she will never get a day off.
Thank goodness that at that moment, Gold manages to open the door, because I'm about to open a vein on Emma's behalf. Snow, Charming and Emma make it down into the vault, first. When Snow sees Regina lying unconscious, she rushes to her side. This ticks off some fans, but not me. Snow checks for a pulse. Charming reports Pan is gone. Emma calls up to the rest of the team and sounds the all clear.
Gold magically revives Regina, who asks what happened. Emma explains the body swap. Regina can't believe she fell for it. Snow says they all did. Regina chides herself for wanting so badly to believe Henry still wanted her to be his mother. Hen enters the chamber. "I still do." Regina gasps when she sees her son in Pan's form. When he hugs her, she tries not to cry.
Gold's been doing some magical investigating. He holds up his hand and when he feels a charge, he turns to Regina. "Please tell me you didn't keep it down here." Regina looks like a little girl who has to face her disappointed father. "Where else would I keep it?" Emma asks what Pan took. We cut to the...
Woods. As Panry unwinds the scroll, Felix says, "A curse?" Panry corrects him. "No, Felix. The Curse." He explains how it took everyone from the Enchanted Forest and dropped them in Storybrooke. Felix asks if he broke him out of jail to give him an origin story. Panry says he broke Felix out of jail because this spell will give them everything they've always wanted. We cut back to the...
Vault. Regina asks why Pan would want the curse. She already cast it and Emma broke it. Gold says that doesn't mean it can't be re-cast. Addressing Emma, he adds, "And this time, without your parents' true love woven in, even you would be powerless to break it." Charming and Snow don't understand what this means. We cut to the...