Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 88 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Live Together. Die Alone.
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.07.2012
Across town, Charming takes out Jefferson's hat and places it on the hood of his truck. Once he douses it with Rumpy's locator potion, the hat shimmies, shakes and then wafts off through town. It leads Charming to a car wreck. Jefferson is trapped inside. A stuffed rabbit and play tea set lie nearby. Charming frees Jefferson from the wreck and says they need to talk.
Inside Town Hall, Henry is trying to get "Gramps" (and yes, it will never not be fun to think of Josh Dallas as a grandfather) to answer his phone, as Red is trying to get the Storybrookers to settle down and wait patiently for Charming. When she sees Granny holding her trusty crossbow, Red suggests it's unnecessary, but Granny isn't budging. "We've got a lawless town, Ruby. Damn right I need it." As Red encourages Henry to keep calling Charming, Regina magics open the doors and sneers at her unwilling subjects. "My, what a nice turnout." As she swans through the crowd to the front of the room, Jiminy and Grumpy both try to stop her, but she uses magic to toss them across the room. Granny shoots an arrow at her but Regina catches it in her hand and turns it into a fireball, which she tosses at the crowd. The fireball ricochets around the room until it lands on the Town Seal behind Regina and sets it ablaze. Red steps forward to face their tormentor. "What do you want?" Before Regina can answer, Henry rises to his feet. "Me. She wants me." He walks toward his mother. "Okay, I'll come with you, just leave them alone." Regina gently touches his chin, but there is no real or true love in her eyes as she says, "That's my boy." Commercial.
Charming presents Jefferson with the remains of his hat and asks if he can help Charming travel through, get back Emma and Snow or at least get the hat to work. Jefferson may now be free, but he's still mad. His giggles give him away. "If you only knew." Charming noticed the tea set and the rabbit, so he figures Jefferson has a daughter he loves and appeals to him on those grounds. He's missing his own daughter and wife. "They're out there somewhere -- in the Enchanted Forest or a void. I don't even know, but I'm going to get them back." Jefferson: "They're in the Enchanted Forest, that's for sure. I just can't get there." Charming: "It still exists?" Jefferson: "It exists. I don't know if that matters, since we can't go there. [...] I'm a portal jumper. You destroyed my portal, so you're out of luck." Charming grabs Jefferson by his scarf and threatens to lock him in a cell. Jefferson: "Then all we'll do is both sit...stuck. Two lives in our heads. Cursed worse than ever." When Charming releases his hold on Jefferson, the latter sinks back into his seat but continues to talk. "Two lives forever at odds. Double the pain. Double the suffering." As Charming mulls over this dire prediction, Jefferson upends the cafe table between them and takes off.