Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: N/A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I Will Sing My Maker's Praises
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.20.2013
When an orderly approaches the group and then quickly turns on his heels, they stop him. He admits he's looking for Whale, who never showed up to the O.R. When the orderly pages him, the gang hears a pager beep. The sound is coming from a nearby scrubs hamper. Emma pulls out Whale's hospital coat, looks down at the name tag and pulls out the page. "He's gone." Commercial.
Red grimmaces as she tries to pick up boozy Whale's scent from his hospital coat. Emma asks Red to find him and says they'll keep an eye on Hook, while they try to figure out their options, if Whale doesn't return. When Snow suggests that perhaps Doc could perform the operation, Grumpy laughs. "Surgery?" His smile disappears. "No." There's no way to do justice to his delivery. Watch the episode if you haven't already.
When Snow wonders if Cora snatched Whale, Charming says he doesn't think so. "[Whale] has been in a rough place since he brought Regina's fiancé back to life." While Snow is all, "Daniel?" Emma is all, "Back to life?" No one thinks too much of hearing Charming say that Daniel ripped off Whale's arm. Snow is still stuck on Daniel's name, and Emma is still stuck on the larger question. "Like some kind of Frankenstein?" Charming says, "That's Whale. And Daniel was his..." Alarmed, Snow says, "What went on here while we were gone?" Emma interrupts her arguing parents like you do when they're about to get into it in front of your friends, and tells Ruby to get going. "Bring back Dr. Frankenstein. We're going to send this guy back home with bolts in his neck." Missing the point, Snow's, "She'll find him," comment is less than reassuring to Emma, who wonders in what sort of state they'll find the good doctor. We cut to...
Downtown. Whale runs down the street so quickly that he crosses both space and time and we flashback to...
Frankestonia. Gerhardt's corpse is hooked up to Viktor's machine. When he turns it on, electricity shoots through the corpse. After it runs its... what do I call it -- a cycle? While I once worked in a hospital, coded procedures and maintained the charge master, I'm woefully bereft of Revivification Medicine Terminology. When Viktor sees smoke rises from the scar on Gerhardt's chest (and who sewed him up -- a toddler), rather than cutting through the enormous sutures, he makes a fresh cut and removes Gerhardt's heart. Igor is Captain Obvious in this realm and says, "It's burned. Like coal." Viktor tells Igor to cover Gerhardt. "This sheet will serve as his shroud."