Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: C | 386 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT PANache
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.01.2013
Neverland; Skull Rock. Regina casts a preservation spell on the still unconscious Henry. It will buy them some time to get to Pan. Emma asks Neal if he knows where to find Pan. Neal duhs that he knows where the compound is. Eternal Queen of the Neal haters, Regina says, "Well, that's idiotic. We all know that. You think he's stupid enough to go back? You're useless." I don't even hate Neal, but the line and Lana's delivery sing to me. You're useless, Neal. You're such a schlemiel. While I might be psychotic, I'm not idiotic. Emma with you -- is a riot. You're outshone by a pirate. Ahem. No judging. It's still a work in progress.
Emma says, "Enough." Hey, I said 'no judging,' Emma. Oh, you're speaking to Regina. Right. Regina says, "Don't tell me what's enough. My son is dying." Emma: "Our son. So yes, I know how you feel." Regina tells Emma she has no idea what she's feeling. "You have your parents. You have this..." she gestures at Douchefire, "...person, a pirate who pines for you. You have everything, and yet you claim to know what I feel? All I have is Henry, and I am not about to lose him, because he is everything." Emma crouches down next to Regina. She keeps her voice soft like you do, when you're trying not to poke the hive and disturb the Queen. "You're right. I don't know what you feel, so what do you want to do? You want to run the show? Run it. How do we save Henry?" Regina whispers that she doesn't know. Neal is concerned that since Pan now has Henry's heart, he might be too powerful to hurt. It's then that Regina notices Emma's still bloody sword. "Yes we can. Look. You nicked him. If he can bleed, we can hurt him, and if we can hurt him, we can kill him. And we will." You totally should. Commercial.
Sidebar. I get that Regina loves Henry, and that Henry is all she has (of course, it's her fault that he's all she has). I get that for 10 of the last 11 years, it was she who "...changed every diaper, soothed ever fever, endured every tantrum." Normally, I'd be on the adoptive mother's side, but this is Regina, who left normal when she plucked the heart out of a gypsy girl, just to prove she could. I want to stick up for my girl Emma here, probably largely because I get tired of Regina's tears. Every time Emma has ever opened her heart, it has ended up broken. Every time. The penultimate time, it was broken by that... person. And yet, she opened her heart again, to Henry. While she has grown to love her parents, and I believe their relationship will continue to strengthen, Emma, Snow, and Charming can never be to one another what they most needed from one another. Ever. So cry all you want, Regina, but some day, you'd better wake up and realize how gracious Emma is being to you. Perhaps you can turn Neal into a toad, or something, to return the favor, Queenie, or is that redundant?
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