Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 6 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Shadow Knows
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.05.2013
Mayor's Office. Charming and Emma enter with guns drawn. Once Emma yells that the place is clear, Snow and Henry appear. Henry asks if Emma will hurt Regina if she finds her. Emma assures him she won't. They just want the stolen beans. While Henry and his grandparents examine the now bean-free beanstalk, Emma checks out the activity on the security system. Referring to the empty beanstalk, Emma says she knows Regina wouldn't have left this kind of evidence behind. Charming suggests she's already used the beans to leave Storybrooke. Emma points out that Regina would never leave without Henry. Henry's worried something bad has happened to Regina.
Emma notices that someone entered an override code into the security system, and realizes Regina wouldn't have to do that, since she'd know the code. Snow and Charming say only Gold could overpower Regina. Personally, I think Regina is pretty handy at accidentally undermining if not overpowering herself, but since neither is the case here, it's not worth discussing. Emma knows Gold has been too busy with Laceybelle. She's sure Tamara is to blame for the disappearance of Regina and the beans (band name?). Snow condescends to Emma in a perfectly maternal fashion, about how Emma already tried to prove that, and it might be time to let it go. Emma points out that Tamara arrived the day August was attacked the day Tamara arrived in town. Emma tells her parents to go to Gold to see if he can magically locate Regina, meanwhile, she'll return to Tamara's room. We cut to the...
Waterfront. Tamara and Groan have set up shop inside the Storybrooke Cannery warehouse. Tamara shows Greg the beans she got from Regina's office. She explains they'll open portals. Groan is jealous of Neal, so Tamara tells him as soon as they've done their job Neal's engagement ring is coming off. Groan holds up the sack that contains the failsafe trigger -- a giant black diamond, and says she can have it instead. He doesn't know the gem's purpose, but he found it on Regina. Tamara says she'll send it to the Home Office. Groan says he still has something to do. Tamara tells him to make it quick, because they'll be getting their "instructions" soon. There's been a lot of reaction to this Home Office business. I'm trying to withhold my own, until I see how it all plays out. I've harped on the insertion of Tamara and Groan, into a story that already seems crowded enough that our main characters don't get the focus they should. That said I'm not going to hate on something that hasn't yet been revealed. Unless I get bored.