Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B | 351 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT The Drama Queen
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2013.04.28
Regina continues digging her own hole. "As long as there are other people in our lives, you can never fully be mine. You loved me once. With them gone, you'll love me again, and you can see me for what I truly am." Oh lady, I think he just did. When Regina says she'll be a hero, Henry says, "Not if you kill everyone. You're a villain." He really should have added a duh for emphasis. Regina goes on blaming everyone else. Henry rejects her nonsense and asks why she's even telling him this. In her brief shining moment of self-awareness, Regina answers, "Because I don't have anyone else to talk to." I wonder why. Let's ask the one person who loved you more than anything -- your father. Oh, wait. Do ya see where I'm going with this, Queenie? Of course not. Instead, she blathers that everything she's said will come to pass, then, pulling out Cora's grimoire, she opens it and casts a spell to erase their conversation from Henry's mind. Commercial.
Enchanted Past. Bustling village. Disguised as a peasant, Regina is startled to realize people are throwing arrows at her -- the Queen, that is -- in effigy. She reacts exactly as you'd expect, defending their "Queen" and trying to destroy Snow's reputation. When the villagers decide to burn the effigy, Regina grabs a torch and tries to warn them off. It's then that her own Queen's Guard appears. Of course her men don't recognize her magical disguise. The decide Regina is the ringleader, rather than the one trying to stop the demonstration. When they go to arrest her, she insists she is the Queen, and tries to fling them off with magic, which of course she can't access while in peasant form. The guards grab her and drag her off. We flash forward to...
Storybrooke. Mayor's Office. Regina is examining the beanstalk she's growing in a terrarium when Captain Hook enters. Regina is surprised he'd show his face in Storybrooke, considering he failed to kill Gold. Hook says they have bigger problems and tells her about Groan and "some woman" who are trying to enlist Hook to betray Regina. He proposes that he, Regina and Cora team up again instead. I have to hand it to Colin O'Donoghue and the writers here because I have no earthly idea if Tamara has already brought him up to speed on Cora's death, or if he's truly caught off guard by this news but is deft enough at the art of the double-cross that this information doesn't break his stride. Either way, it works for me. And either way, Hook is more than happy and able to use Cora's memory to manipulate the hell out of Regina. Okay, some of the hell. We all know Regina is full of it. She shows him her beanstalk and asks Hook to help her in her plans to escape the total destruction of Storybrooke and start over with Henry. When she asks Hook if she can trust him, he asks if the "total destruction" includes the Crocodile. Regina says that's a big yes. Rumpy will die if Hook helps her. Commercial.