Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 438 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT It's What's For Dinner
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2012.01.15
Mary Margaret's Hovel: When Emma gets home, she finds Mary folding laundry. She tells her that Michael changed his mind. Emma wonders what it would be like to find her parents. Mary encourages her to not to give up. Emma says, "If they wanted to know me, they wouldn't have made it so hard to look." Mary suggests there might be an explanation Emma hasn't considered. Emma says if so, then it's got to be even crazier than Henry's theory. Mary asks what that is. Emma: "Well, my parents put me in a magical wardrobe and sent me to this world to save them." Mary is charmed. "Who does he think they are?" Emma: "Well, you [...] well, Snow White." Mary: "Snow White has a kid?" Emma: "Well, apparently that book you gave him -- not exactly the stories in the most traditional sense." Mary: "I have a kid. You think I'd remember that." Emma: "Yeah, you'd think."
Mary's expression and voice are playful as she takes a good look at Emma. "Well, you do kind of have my chin." Emma excuses herself to go get some air. Mary asks if she should wait on dinner. Emma tells her not to. Before Emma is out the door, Mary spies Emma's baby blanket. When she remarks on how pretty it is, Emma just says, "Thanks. Goodnight." Once Mary is alone, she picks up the blanket for a closer look. She sees Emma's name stitched on it, presses it to her face and inhales. For a second, it looks like she is about to remember. She shakes it off, puts the blanket down and walks away.
Emma is sitting in her cruiser, reviewing her own file. It contains an article about a seven year old boy finding a baby on the side of the road. There's a picture of him, too. When Henry walks up to the car, Emma shuts the file. Henry's brought some pumpkin pie. "I thought you'd like some. It was pumpkin, right?" Emma says it was. When she gets out of the car, she says, "Henry, about your father..." Henry smiles up at her. "Yeah?" When Emma looks at him, her expression softens. "I'm glad I told you." Henry, "Yeah, me too." They hug and then Emma grabs the pie. Henry says, "What you did, with Ava and Nicholas -- you really are changing things." More so than even you suspect, Henry. Just wait.