Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 6 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Shadow Knows
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.05.2013
Once the Charmings are gone, Laceybelle reemerges from the backroom. "So, it's true? I heard everything. You... you really can do magic." Gold tells her she might want to pour herself another drink. While I say, "I don't think anyone has to remind Laceybelle of that," she chuckles. We cut to...
Snow's hovel. Holding the vial of tears, Charming tries to talk Snow out of doing this. She's been through enough already. Snow tells him her heart is dark because of how she treated Regina. If she can help find and save the Evil Queen, maybe it will let in some of the light. Charming nods and drops the magical solution into his bride's eye. Snow blinks and waits. Soon, she's overcome. We flash between her hovel and the warehouse, where Regina is similarly wracked with pain. David screams, "Mary Margaret," before we go to commercial. The audience corrects him: "SNOW!"
1904 London. Night. For all that she's a compassionate, well-bred young lady, Wendy is more than happy to both break her promise to Bae and rub it in his face. She opens the window and beckons Bae as the Shadow approaches. Bae begs her to get away from the window, but Wendy insists that the Shadow is from a land with magic, but it's different from magic in Bae's land. In Neverland, there are no adults. Children never grow up and they can do anything... even fly. Bae tries to warn Wendy that this is all a trick. He tells her she doesn't even need magic. She has a family, which is all that matters. As holds onto one of her hands, the Shadow holds the other. Wendy tells Bae she's always dreamt of this, drops his hand and flies off into the night, like the Shadow is Benny Mardones. Flash forward to...
Storybrooke. Day. Beach. Neal asks Emma if she thinks Tamara is hiding Regina in a sand castle. To add insult to injury he then tells her she's letting emotion cloud her judgment. Emma takes out her service revolver, shoots him in the head, throws him into the surf, heads to the Mills mausoleum, finds the ashes of Sheriff Graham's heart, uses her innate magic to reconstitute it. She finds Graham's grave, digs up his corpse, inserts his reconstituted heart, then revivifies him with a kiss. Groan and Tamara are so grateful to be free of Neal, that they promise to leave town, provided Emma will continue the search for Kurt. They leave Emma with two new SCIENCE BRACELETS so that Gold and Regina will never again be a threat, and we all live happily ever after. Don't worry about Henry. Kids are resilient. The end.