Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A+ | 383 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT PANic And PANcakes
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 12.15.2013
If the wardrobe fails them, then Blue says the Queen's curse will transport them (all) to a new land. They will lose their memories, "...and become a slave to [the Queen's] darkest desires, so we have to have faith that your child will find a way to save us." Snow asks, "If we don't know we are, and we can't tell her that she's the savior, how will she know what to do?" Blue tells her that one day, when the time is right, their story will reveal itself to Snow's daughter. "You have to trust me." Snow wonders what Blue means by their story. Blue says, "I don't know yet, but I do know that it will happen." Snow wants to know how Blue is so sure. Blue says that's because she has what Snow needs: hope. "Good luck, Snow. Have faith."
Charming and Snow watch the fairy depart. Once she's gone, Snow says, "That's easy to say, when you have magic wings and a wand." I can't even argue with that. Charming says their only choice is to choose to believe Blue. Snow wanders across the room until she is right in front of the glass unicorn baby mobile. Her voice drops. "This was supposed to be hers. We had such plans." When Charming encourages his wife to have hope, she says, "This curse has destroyed every dream this family ever had." Right? And it hasn't even been cast, yet.
Charming tells Snow they don't know what the future holds for them. When Snow asks how he knows if it holds any good, Charming tells her, "...the unknown isn't always bad. Life is full of twists and turns you never see coming. This curse? It's just a turn." All Snow ever wanted for them to raise their child together. "That was our happy ending, and now it's gone." Charming says that while the future they've imagined is gone, that doesn't mean they won't find another, unexpected one. Finally, Snow decides to choose hope. "I can believe." Sheesh, between the two of them, no wonder Henry was cursed with the heart of the truest believer. We flash forward to the...
Present. Gold's Shop. Snow is fondling the same blue unicorn she did, once upon a time. When she sees her grown daughter on the other side of the mobile, Snow tells Emma the mobile hung above her crib, or was supposed to. She says giving her up was the hardest thing she ever had to do. Emma knows more about this than she cares to. She had to do the same for Henry, to give him his best chance. Mother and daughter wonder what it would have been like to raise their children. Emma says things would have been so different for her -- a normal life in Boston, or wherever, with Henry. It just was not meant to be.