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My first impression after watching last week's episode, "The Thing You Love Most," was that Regina doesn't remember her past as Queenie. Subsequent viewings gave me a bad case of the "Regina remembers/no she doesn't" crazies. My first impression after watching this week's "Snow Falls," is that Regina definitely remembers life in the Enchanted Forest. We'll see where I end up after I write the full recap, but that's where I stand now. What about you?
Enchanted Forest: Snow White and Prince Charming meet cute. She's on the run from Queenie, who, Snow admits, has reason to want her dead. What's a Princess-on-the-lam to do, other than to resort to a life of crime? She dresses as a highwayman and robs Queenie's carriages, and whatnot, whenever she has the chance. In this instance, she chops down a tree so it's blocking the road.
When a beautiful white carriage finds its route blocked, it stops. Inside it is Prince Charming with a cranky, seemingly spoiled princess or noblewoman (Anastasia Griffith). We can already tell she is not the right one for Charming, not least of all because she's blonde. When Charming and his men are assessing their predicament, Charming notices axe marks in the tree trunk. The tree didn't fall; it was chopped down. He realizes they're being ambushed, but just a little too late. Snow has already stolen his purse from the carriage, and is fleeing the scene.
Charming gives chase. In a callback to the pilot, when he catches up with Snow, he tells her, "Wherever you go, I will find you." He's surprised that his highwayman is a highway-woman (and hey, spellcheck, stop being sexist; if highwayman, then highwaywoman should be, too, and no, I don't want to use non-gendered terms; this is fairy tale land). She gets away from him again, but later, he catches her -- in a net. Raise your hand if you watched Lost and can hear Jack tell Sawyer, "We got caught in a net." At one point, Charming ends up rescuing her from Queenie's knights, just as they're about to cut out Snow's heart. She's surprised he saved her. Charming says, "It seemed like the honorable thing to do."
Charming just wants his jewelry back. His mother's ring is among the stolen items and he wants to give it to his fiancée, or, as Snow calls her, "The nag with the bad attitude." (It's an arranged betrothal, not a love match, natch.) Charming, who says his name is James, recognizes Snow from the wanted posters plastered about the Enchanted Forest. If Snow will just return the ring, he'll leave her be.
Snow typically sells stolen treasure to the local trolls who, of course, live under a troll bridge. She leads James to the bridge, lays some coins on the side of it, and the trolls come slithering up top. They're spooked by James' presence. They find a copy of the wanted poster and recognize their regular customer as the wanted princess. They also recognize the profit potential inherent in their situation. James fights them off as best he can, but eventually, Snow, who had run away, returns to save him with the dark fairy dust she had been saving to use against Queenie. When she flings the dust at the trolls, they turn into bugs. James is surprised she saved him. Snow smiles. "It's the honorable thing to do."
James gives Snow the gold and she returns his mother's ring to him. He comments that it mustn't be her style. Snow says, "There's only one way to find out." When she puts it on and holds out her hand to look at it, she and James have A Moment. Still, they part ways. James returns to his castle, leaving Snow to her life on the run.
Our World: Mary has a date with Dr. Whale (David Anders, aka Sark, aka Uncle Snark Daddy). I don't know if he's Our World's counterpart to the whale who swallowed Pinocchio, but who else can he be? Anyhow, the date, which takes place at Granny's diner, sucks. Dr. Whale spends the whole time checking out Ruby (Little Red Riding Hood), and doesn't even offer to split the check.
Walking home, Mary comes across Emma, who is surprised Mary is out so late. Mary says, "I'm a teacher, not a nun," which cracks me up, because early reports on this show referred to this character as Sister Mary Margaret. Some people covering this show went with that for their review of the pilot. I even saw one or two that continued calling her "Sister" last week, even though there's been no evidence that Mary is nun. But anyhow... Mary realizes Emma has been sleeping in her car, since Granny evicted her from the B&B. She offers Emma her guest room, but Emma declines, saying she's not the roommate type. Well, neither am I, but it beats the hell out of living in a VW Bug, girl.
The day, Mary finds Henry in John Doe's hospital room. The boy is convinced the mystery coma patient is Snow White's Prince Charming, and shows Mary how both Charming and Doe bear the same scars. Later, he convinces Emma to convince Mary Margaret to read Doe the story from his Once Upon A Time book, in which Snow White, dressed as a highwayman, robs his carriage (i.e. all the stuff I just covered above). While she's reading, John Doe grabs Mary's hand. Mary goes to get the doctor. It's Dr. Whale. Awkward! Whale treats Mary like a delusional woman and insists she must have fallen asleep and dreamt the whole thing. When she leaves, however, Whale calls Regina and tells her what happened, and there has been a slight change in Doe's brain activity. Regina wants to know who was with Doe when he moved his hand. Whale says: "Mary Margaret Blanchard."
Mary meets Emma and Henry at the diner and tells them that Doe woke up. When they rush to his room he is gone. Whale and Regina (who is Doe's emergency contact and claims to have found him on the roadside) are at his empty bedside. Finding people is what Emma does (because she's daddy's little girl, yes) so despite that fact that Regina tells her to stay out of it, Emma gets on the case. They review hospital security footage with the security guards (who are Sleepy and Grumpy). At first, they see nothing suspicious, but our Operation Cobra... operatives realize they're looking at the wrong tape, because the decorations that Henry's class put up in the ward are missing. When they find the right tape, they see Doe wake and wander off on his own. Don't worry. I'll hit the improbability of that happening, in the full recap.
Henry insists Doe is looking for Mary, i.e. his Snow White. Mary, Emma and the Sheriff search the woods at night. Henry finds them and says Doe will be at the toll bridge (there's graffiti on the "Toll Bridge" sign, such that it reads TROLL BRIDGE) Doe is lying face down in the stream. Mary performs CPR. When her lips meet Doe's, he wakes up. Yay!
Back at the hospital, a blonde (the same actress who plays Charming's first fiancée) rushes in, to see Doe. Regina says she's his wife, Catherine, and that his name is David Nolan. The story is that David walked out on Catherine years ago, after a fight. Doe, for his part, has total amnesia, so he's no help. When the Mayor tells Henry it's time to go home, he runs back to get his backpack and to tell Mary not to believe Regina and Catherine. "You're the one he was looking for." Mary says Henry just thinks that, because of the book. Henry says he thinks it, "...because you belong together."
Emma catches up with Regina and calls B.S. on the whole Catherine/David story. She thinks it's odd that he's been John Doe all these years, with Regina as his only contact, but now that he's awake, it took Regina no time at all to identify him and find his wife. Regina says she too watched the security tapes, heard David calling out for Catherine, and put two and two together. Emma seems to believe her. Regina then rubs it in about having Henry. "Not having someone is the worst curse imaginable." Meanwhile, back inside, poor Mary plays with her ring (the same ring Snow stole from and returned to James) as she watches while Catherine hugs Doe, whose eyes seek out Mary's.
Later, Emma appears at Mary's hovel and asks if the spare room is still available, which makes me very happy, because these two have lovely friend/mother-daughter chemistry.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!After days of stark, evil news (not personal news, items the news, you know which ones), I am so grateful to escape into fairy tales, with monsters, evil queens, and other villains that don't make me want to vomit and then go on a rampage. Last week, during a discussion of Once Upon A Time, the conversation turned to fairy tales writ large, and darn it, I should have used Writ Large as my TWoP pen-name. Seriously, I just turned in a 1,700 word recaplet for The Vampire Diaries, but I digress (for lo, I am Writ Large). Anyhow, someone (who loathes the show, so I'll leave names out of this) described fairy tales as: "...the stories that explain to us who we are." Those words have resonated with me all week. And yet today, I turn to fairy tale, not to explain to me who we are, but rather, to help me forget who we also are. I seek not discovery, but refuge. Come, run away, with me to the...
Enchanted Forest: Prince Charming's snow white carriage travels a road through the woods. With Charming, is a seemingly spoiled blonde princess or noblewoman, played by Anastasia Griffith. I say Princess Blondie is "seemingly" spoiled, because my feeling with this show is that our first look at most of our characters (perhaps, excluding Emma and Henry) is purposefully one-dimensional. There's a tree blocking the road, so the carriage must come to a stop. When Charming exits to discuss the situation with his guards, he notices the tree didn't fall down. It was pushed... I mean chopped. As Charming is declaring this an ambush, a highwayman steals Charming's purse from the carriage, and flees the scene on horseback. Princess Blondie screams, undoubtedly because she got a look at her dress in the mirror. What is with those feathers?
Charming, also on horseback, catches up with the highwayman, jumps from his horse to the thief's horse, and pulls the culprit to the ground. Charming says, "Show me your face, you coward, and then pulls back the thief's cloak. He's about to punch the highwayman when he realizes she's a highwaywoman! "You're a... girl." It is Snow White, who promptly corrects him. "Woman." Then she bashes him in the face with a giant rock and rides off on her horse. Charming rises to his feet and dabs at the blood on his chin as he hollers off after her, "You can't hide from me. Wherever you are, I will find you." Snow smiles back at him. We cut to...
Storybrooke, Granny's Diner, Night: Mary Margaret Blanchard is on a date with Dr. Whale (David Anders, aka Sark, aka Uncle Snark Daddy) when Mary Margaret realizes Whale is too busy ogling Ruby to have a conversation, she asks for the check. Date over, she walks down the street, but stops when she comes across Emma, who is living in her yellow VW Bug. They commiserate over the dud date and then talk turns to Henry. Mary is glad Emma has decided to stay, and offers Emma her spare room. Emma declines, because she's not the roommate type. You're the living in a car type? Huh. We cut to the...
Hospital, Day: While most of Mary's students are out decorating the larger ward, Henry is in coma patient John Doe's (Prince Charming's) room. Just before he touches Doe's face, Mary enters. Henry quickly pulls his hand back, as his teacher encourages him to come out and help with the decorating. When Henry asks if "Mr. Doe" will be all right, Mary explains how that's a pseudonym used when you don't know who someone is. Henry: "Do you know who he is?" She doesn't know, and she doesn't know what's wrong with him, either. She explains that no one has claimed him, and says it's quite sad. Henry looks from Doe to Mary and grins as he asks, "Are you sure you don't know him?" She insists she doesn't and hustles the boy out of the room.
Waterfront Park: Henry and Emma are sitting up in the castle shaped play structure, looking at the Once Upon A Time book. He tells her that John Doe is her father, Prince Charming, and notes how they have the same scars in the same place. That place is the chin -- right where Snow White clocked Charming with that rock. Emma is still too adult to understand any of this, so Henry explains that the curse is keeping "Doe" in a coma, to keep him apart from Snow/Mary. He insists they have to tell Ms. Blanchard that Doe is her Prince Charming. Emma suggests that telling someone their soulmate is in a coma is a less than helpful. Giving someone unrealistic hope is even worse than not having a happy ending. Henry: "What if I'm right? We know who they are. Now they have to know." Henry says if Mary reads to Doe, then maybe he'll remember who he is. Emma agrees, provided they do it her way.
Emma's way is to approach Mary (who already knows Henry thinks she is Snow White), and ask her to read to Doe. She confesses that Henry thinks Doe is Charming. Emma points out that if they go along with Henry, it may show him that fairy tales aren't real. Mary sums it up. "He'll see that Fairy Tales are just that, that there's no such thing as love at first sight, or first kiss. He'll see reality." She pronounces the plan genius and agrees to it. Emma gives Mary the book and tells says to meet Henry and her for breakfast at Granny's the morning.
Hospital: Mary explains to the comatose Doe that she knows it's odd she's reading to him, but she's doing it for a friend, "So just bear with me." She starts to read the story of how Charming and Snow White first meet. There's a time lapse. As she's nearing the end of the story, she notes that it was in the shadow of the troll bridge that Snow White and Prince Charming's love was born. "But they knew, no matter how they were separated, that they would always..." She stops short when Doe places his hand on her. She looks from his hand to his still closed eyes in disbelief. Commercial.
Mary brings Dr. Whale to Doe's room and tells him what happened. Whale reviews the monitors and says everything is as steady as it's always been. When he learns she was reading, he suggests she dozed off and dreamt the hand holding. She's quite certain she didn't. He continues to treat her as a delusional little woman and shoos her off home. As soon as Mary scurries away, Whale calls Regina, and tells her Doe touched a volunteer's hand and admits there's been a slight fluctuation in brain activity. Regina wants to know which volunteer was in the room when Doe reacted. When Whale says, "Mary Margaret Blanchard," Regina nearly crushes her phone in her hand.
Mary's Hovel: Mary sits in bed and opens up the book to the...
Enchanted Forest: Snow White throws her ill gotten gains in a sack, dons an amulet and leaves the hollowed out tree trunk in which she's been living. Before she's ten feet away, she's caught in net. Charming laughs. "I told you I'd find you. No matter what you do, I will always find you." Snow asks him if this is the only way he can catch a woman. He says, "It's the only way to catch thieving scum." Snow's laugh is bitter. "Aren't you a real Prince Charming?" Heh. When he says he has a name, she says, "I don't care. Charming suits you." He'll release her when she returns his jewels. They bicker back and forth, 'til Snow admits she sold the jewels. Since he's a Prince, she can't imagine why he's troubled over a few measly jewels. Charming says they were special. The satchel contained a ring that belonged to his mother. He was going to give it to... Snow White finishes his sentence for him. "The nag with the bad attitude. That's what this is about?"
When Snow learns Princess Blondie is Charming's fiancée she laughs and then rants about arranged marriages between royals, generally for political reasons. "True love? It doesn't exist." Charming allows that this marriage is a political merger, but wants to get to the point. He'll cut Snow down from the net, and she will lead him to whoever has her jewels and get back his ring. Snow asks why she'd do that. Charming: "Because you don't want me to tell anyone who you are." He takes out a wanted posted bearing her likeness that reads: WANTED For crimes against the Queen: MURDER, TREASON, TREACHERY. Charming says, "Snow White, help me get my ring back, or I'll turn you over to the Queen's forces. And I have a feeling the Queen's not as charming as I am." Charming cuts the rope. The net comes crashing down. Snow screams and we cut to...
Storybrooke, Granny's Diner, Morning: Emma thanks Henry for the shirt he stole for her, from his mother. When Mary walks in, Emma warns Henry not to get his hopes up, so of course Mary comes over and gets Henry's hopes soaring. She agrees to go back to the hospital and read to him some more. Emma stops her for some stupid adult rationality. Mary starts to explains, "If I got through to him...if I made a connection..." Emma cuts her off: "You don't believe..." Mary: "That he's Prince Charming? Of course not, but somehow, someway, I touched him." Emma looks like she either thinks everyone else is on drugs, or perhaps she's wishing for some herself.
When they get to the hospital, Whale and some nurses are in Doe's room, looking down at the bed. The Sheriff stops the women and Henry from approaching the room and then explains Doe is missing. When the Sheriff steps aside, we see Regina is in Doe's room as well. She glares at Henry and the women, as she looms over the empty bed. Commercial.
After the break, Regina charges out of the room and heads straight for Emma. "What the hell are you doing here?" She grabs Henry a little too forcefully and pulls him toward her a little too hard. "And you. I thought you were at the arcade. Now you're lying to me?" Mary asks what happened to John Doe. "Did someone take him?" The Sheriff says they don't know, but his IV was ripped off, but there was no sign of a struggle. Henry looks at Regina. "What did you do?" Regina is offended that Henry thinks she has something to do with this. Emma notes it is a little weird that the Mayor is there. Regina says she's Doe's emergency contact. She found him on the side of the road years ago, with no identification. When Mary asks if Doe will be okay, Whale says Doe has been on feeding tubes for years, so no, not unless they get him back right away. Okay, ripping out an IV? I can buy that. I don't know enough about feeding tubes, but it sounds more complicated to me. Anyhow, Emma says, "Let's stop yapping and let's start looking." Regina: "That's what we're doing. Just stay out of this, dear. And since I clearly can't keep you away from my son, I guess I'm just going to have to keep my son away from you." She grabs Henry's hand. And pauses as she passes Emma. "Enjoy my shirt, because that's all you're getting." She turns back to the men. "Sheriff, find John Doe. You heard the doctor. Time is precious."
The Whale tells the Sheriff it's been about 12 hours since he last saw Doe. So heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to the security office we go. Leroy (Grumpy) and another worker (Sleepy, whose "Our World" name I missed) stand by as the Sheriff, Mary and Emma review the surveillance tapes. Emma realizes they're looking at the wrong tape, because the decorations Henry's class put up aren't on the walls. Grumpy and Sleepy start arguing about drinking on the job versus sleeping on the job. When they find the correct tape, we see Doe stagger out of his room on his own, and exit through a side door. Grumpy confirms it leads to the woods.
Enchanted Forest: As Snow and Charming make their way through the woods, he asks her about her necklace. I mistakenly called it an amulet, earlier, but it's actually a small bottle full of dust tied to a thin leather strap. When she doesn't answer him, he rips it off her neck. Snow yells at him to be careful. "It's a weapon." It's filled with dust from a bad fairy. "It transforms the most fearsome of adversaries into a form that's easily squashed. [...] It's very hard to come by. I'm saving it for a special someone." She tells him the charges on the wanted poster are lies and how the Queen instructed her huntsman to rip out Snow's heart. When the huntsman took pity on Snow and let her go, she hid out in the forest. She's been trying to amass wealth sufficient to escape to another realm. "Somewhere isolated, where I can never be hurt." Charming: "It sounds lonely." Snow: "No more lonely than an arranged marriage." Charming snarks about how at least he doesn't prey upon the innocent. Snow says she only steals from the Queen, because no one else usually uses that road. "All I'm doing, Charming, is what it takes to survive. She wants me dead." Charming asks why. Snow: "She blames me for ruining her life." Charming: "Did you?" Snow: "Yes." I wonder what she did. They soon reach a river. Snow says she's thirsty and asks permission to stop for a drink. When Charming joins her on the shore, she head-butts him, knees him in the crotch and then throws him into the river. She grabs a satchel from among his things and runs away. On the road, Snow is apprehended by three of the Queen's black knights, who inform her the Queen wants her heart. "We're not going to disappoint her." Commercial.
Storybrook Woods; Dark: The Sheriff leads Mary and Emma through the woods, but the trail runs out. When he leaves them to try to find it again, it gives Mary time to talk to Emma. She asks how Emma got into the business of finding people, and if it was because of her parents. Knowing that she's talking to the woman Henry believes is her mother, Emma is startled. Mary babbles about Emma's situation being somewhat similar to Henry's and then asks Emma if she ever found her folks. Emma: "It depends who you ask." Just then, Henry arrives, and seems to be the only one bright enough to have brought a flashlight along. Emma tells him he shouldn't be there, but Henry says he knows where to find Doe. Mary asks where that would be. Henry: "He's looking for you."
Enchanted Forest: Before the black knights can cut out Snow's heart, Charming swoops in, throws a knife into the back of the first knight, and engages in a sword fight with the second. Snow tries to run off, but the third knight who is still on horseback, picks her up by her hair and throws her over his horse. Charming shoots at the knight with a bow and arrow. He's Prince Charming, so his aim is true. Snow gains control of the horse and returns to Charming. Her voice is breathless. "You saved me." Charming: "It seemed like the honorable thing to do." When he asks if she's ready, Snow says, "For what?" Charming reminds her about his jewels. Snow snaps out of it. "Right, you've got a wedding to get to." She says the trolls are just beyond the ridge, but they're fierce. "They'll cut your hand off sooner than they'll shake it."
Storybrooke, Woods, Night: Henry's still pushing the theory that Doe is Charming. He badgers Mary about how Charming loves her, and says, "You have to stop chasing him, and let him find you." Sexist brat. Emma tries to encourage Henry to go home, but he refuses. Soon, the Sheriff calls out to the gang. He's found Doe's hospital bracelet. There's blood on it. Commercial.
Enchanted Forest, Troll Bridge: Snow and Charming dismount a black horse they must have taken from the fallen knights. Snow scares away the horse, and tells Charming that trolls don't like horses. She lays a pile of gold coins on the side of the bridge. A troll climbs up the side, blade in his mouth. When he gets to the top of the bridge, two other trolls appear. The trolls don't want to talk in front of Charming. Snow tries to get to the point and says she wants to buy back the jewels she sold them. She'll give them back all the money if they'll just give her the ring. The head troll gets suspicious, because Charming is too eager. He accuses the pair of setting them up and identifies Charming as a royal. One troll grabs Snow. A second one grabs Charming. When the third troll searches Charming, he finds Snow's fairy dust, but considers it worthless and tosses it aside. He then finds the wanted poster of Snow White. They decide they'll turn her into the Queen for the reward. Charming grabs his sword, and slashes at the trolls holding Snow. Snow gets her necklace. Charming tells her to run, he'll be right behind her. He sends one troll crashing off the dilapidated bridge to, I assume, his doom, but the other trolls best Charming.
Snow continues to run away until she realizes Charming didn't get free. Looking back at the bridge she sees the trolls looming over him. There's a third one there, again. As one troll growls that royal blood is the sweetest of all, Snow throws her bad fairy dust at him and turns him into an insect. She then gets the other two. Charming gets back on his feet. "You saved me?" Snow says, "It was the honorable thing to do." She'll think of something else to defeat the Queen. "Anyway, how could I let Prince Charming die." Charming says, "I told you, I have a name. It's James." Snow smiles at him. "It's nice to meet you, James." The leave to avoid more trolls. James grabs his coins off the side of the bridge.
Storybrooke, Night: The camera pans past a toll bridge. There's graffiti on the "Toll Bridge" sign, such that it reads TROLL BRIDGE. Down below, the Sheriff says the trail dies at the water line, like trails do. Mary sees Doe lying face down in the stream. She rushes to him as the Sheriff calls for an ambulance. They lift Doe out of the water. Mary keeps saying, "No, no, no, no, no. I found you. It's going to be okay." Emma goes to Henry and holds him, so he won't have to watch the scene. Mary starts chest compressions, but it is when she begins mouth to mouth breathing that the magic happens. Doe coughs, sputters, and spits out water. When he can finally breathe, he says, "You saved me." Looking on from Emma's arms, Henry says, "She did it. She did it. She woke him up." Emma says, "Yeah, kid. She did." Doe thanks Mary for saving him. When she asks who he is, he says, "I don't know." She assures him that's okay and that he'll be okay.
Hospital: The rescue party is waiting outside Doe's room, when a blonde woman played by Anastasia Griffith pushes her way into Doe's room. "David? David is that you?" Whale makes her leave the room. Snow asks, "Who is that?" Regina slithers up from behind. "His wife." Commercial.
Enchanted Forest: Snow and James stop their trek. He gives her the troll's gold and she returns his ring. He looks at it and says, "I know. Not your style." Snow takes it from him. "There's only one way to find out." She puts it on and admires it. When her eyes lock on Charming's, she shakes her head and lies, "Yeah, not me at all." She hands it back, fakes up her best smile and says, "I'm sure your fiancée will love it." He offers her the rest of his jewels to fund her escape. She says they both got what they wanted. Charming: "Well, I've got to get going. Be careful. If you need anything..." Snow finishes: "You'll find me." Charming: "Always." Snow says, "I almost believe that." She picks up her bag. When he says, "Goodbye, Snow White," she counters with, "Goodbye, Prince Charming." He says, "I told you, it's James." Snow shakes her head. "I still like Charming better. He watches her walk off before starting out in the opposite direction. Once he's on his way, Snow turns around and watches him with a regretful smile.
Hospital: Regina tells Mary, "His name is David Nolan, and that's his wife, Catherine. And the joy on her face, well, it's put me in quite the forgiving mood." She turns to Henry and scolds him about his "insubordination" which is an awfully official word to use on a little boy. She then tells him he's grounded. Catherine comes out and thanks the group for finding her husband. She tells them that he walked out after a fight, years ago. She had assumed he left town all this time. Now she can apologize to him and they can have a second chance. Mary Margaret's eyes are brimming as she smiles and says, "That's wonderful." When Whale comes out, he confirms that Doe is physically okay, but his memory isn't. Mary asks what brought him back. Whale has no explanation. "Something just clicked in him. [...] he was delirious. His first instinct was to go find something, I guess." Henry adds, "Someone." Regina sneers. The doctor brings Catherine back in to see David.
When the Mayor tells Henry it's time to go home, he runs back to get his backpack and to tell Mary not to believe Regina and Catherine. "You're the one he was looking for. [...] He was going to the Troll Bridge. It's like the end of the story." Mary says, "He was going there because it's the last thing I read to him." Henry says, "No, it's because you belong together."
Outside, Emma catches up with Regina and calls B.S. on the whole Catherine/David story. She thinks it's odd that he's been John Doe all these years, with Regina as his only contact, but now that he's awake, it took Regina no time at all to identify him and find his wife. Regina says she too watched the security tapes, heard David calling out for Catherine, and put two and two together. "And here I thought you and Mary Margaret would be pleased. True love won out, so bask in the moment, dear. Were it not for you two, they would have lived their entire lives alone. That's why I'm willing to forgive your incessant rudeness. All of this has reminded me of something very important -- how grateful I am to have Henry, because not having someone? Well, that's the worst curse imaginable." Muahahahahaha. Meanwhile, back inside, poor Mary plays with her ring (the same ring Snow had stolen from and returned to James) as she watches while Catherine hugs Doe. His eyes seek out Mary's. Later, Emma appears at Mary's hovel and asks if the spare room is still available. Snow gestures for Emma to enter, and smiles as she shuts the door. The end.
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