Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT To Catch A Thief
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.21.2013
Storybrooke. The Rabbit Hole. Hard drinking Laceybelle is approached by Keith (who will be the Sheriff of Nottingham in upcoming L'enchantement scenes, and is played by Red Widow's Wil Traval). Got that? Good, because the first time I watched this, I didn't figure out he wasn't Robin Hood for about five minutes. Charming and Gold enter just as Laceybelle is giving Keith the brush off. Gold's first instinct is violence, but Charming talks him down and they join Laceybelle, who doesn't care for the music, and instead wants to play Van Halen's "Panama." Her talk about being a Hagar fan is lost on Gold, but he follows her to the jukebox and proposes they go on a date. Lacey wants to make it clear she is not Belle. He says he understands, so she says she's heard he's got a frightening reputation. He asks her to give him a chance. Lacey agrees and says they'll meet tonight, at Granny's. She really should have stated a time, because I keep wondering how he'll know when to show up.
After Lacey struts off, Charming says, "Not bad, Don Juan." Gold smirks. "Don Juan was nothing before he made his deal with me." Charming's point is that Gold succeeded in getting her to go out with him. Gold frets that now he has to get her to fall for him. We cut to the...
Waterfront. Emma is reading the Once Upon A Time book, when Regina shows up and asks if she's reading about Henry's father or his grandfather. Oh Queenie, your heart really does have a hole in it. Look at the illustration right in front of your evil face. She's reading about when her parents were expecting her birth, shortly before you cast the Dark Curse. Regina asks Emma how long she thought she could keep Henry's paternity from her. Emma says, "Well, I was going to tell you, but I was kind of busy trying to keep your mother from killing me and my entire family." Game. Set. Match. I love Regina's "You got me," look, before she asks why Neal came to town. When Emma says he wanted to spend time with his son, Regina gets in a crack about how neither he nor Emma cared much about that for the first ten years of Henry's life. Emma isn't playing along. Instead, she advises Regina to concentrate on being the person Henry wants her to be, before she loses him for good. Regina's ears perk up at that, and she asks what "for good" means. Emma says it means nothing. "Unlike you, the rest of the world isn't always scheming to get what they want." Regina knows Emma is hiding something and assures her she'll find out what it is. Do my eyes deceive me, or does the look on Emma's face say that she is using Regina for her own purposes? My word, I hope so. Commercial.