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By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.10.2013
Neverland. Charming is still trying to get Snow to talk to him. Perhaps if he stopped calling her "Mary Margaret" she would. Ooh, he listens to me. "Snow! When are you going to start talking to me again. When we're storming Pan's camp? When we're grabbing Henry? When? You need to say something." Snow turns and gets right up in his face, and asks why. After all, he didn't tell her anything, even after he found a cure. Charming stammers out a flaccid excuse. Snow demands to know why he didn't tell her he couldn't leave the island. Charming says he was scared. She asks if he ever thought she'd leave him. Charming says he knows she wouldn't. What scared him is the thought of her having to be stuck on Neverland with him. "The price of this cure was something I didn't want to force on you." Snow shakes her head. "Love means being together." Charming knows that, but it also means sacrificing for and protecting your loved one. "How could a part of me not want you to leave this place." Still shouting, Snow says she'd happily build a tree house, "...and spend the rest of my days dodging poison arrows and Lost Boys, as long as I had you by my side." Her voice drops to a whisper. "But you should have told me." Charming says he knows and, "I'm sorry." Finally, they hug it out. Snow tells him what I've been saying all season. "You didn't believe, David. You needed to believe in us." They're both in tears now. I'd been missing Charming's pretty, pretty tears. Thank you, Show. We cut to the...
Dark Hollow. Neal explains how the coconut contraption works. When lit, the candle will draw the Shadow, and suck it into the coconut. You put the lid on and it's trapped. Everyone wants to know why the Shadow can't escape through the tiny holes on the lid. The show doesn't explain, and yet the answer is: it just can't. This is Neverland. If you believe this thing will work, it will work. Hook points out that their lanterns were extinguished and asks how they're going to light the candle. Neal whips out a lighter. Did he steal Charming's or does yet another non-smoker have an expensive, refillable metal lighter? Neal's still in jealous suitor mode so he smirks at Hook. "Welcome to the 21st century." With the high winds, Neal is struggling to light the candle. Hook offers to help. Neal snits that he's got it. Hook: "I've only got one hand and I could do better than that." Neal straightens up, throws his shoulders back and his chest out and says now isn't the time to try and impress Emma. Hook chuckles. "You think that's what I'm doing." Emma says, "Really? You're doing this now?" Hook: "You heard her. Are we going to stand here and argue, or are we going to get the candle lit?"