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In the Enchanted Forest, Red, whose real name is Liza (with a `Z) has a thing for Peter and I'm not being bawdy. It's just not clear if he's also a pumpkin eater, or possibly even a Pan. He's certainly, however, the Peter of Peter and the [SPOILER] Wolf, and before the end of the hour he's also [SPOILER] the answer to the musical question, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf," as well as the boy who must have [SPOILER] cried, "Wolf!"
Peter wants Red to come out and play, and jokes that he'll huff, puff, etc., but Granny runs a tight ship. It's wolfing time, and far too dangerous to be outside. Granny sings the same song when Red wants to join the villagers in their wolf hunt. She insists Red stay home, and orders her to keep her red cloak on, as it wards off wolves. No one else in the village seems to know that though. Granny doesn't bother wearing red (if memory serves) either. Instead, she arms herself with an impressive crossbow.
One morning, Red finds Snow White, who seems to be newly on the run from Queenie, hiding out in Granny and Red's chicken coop. Snow introduces herself as Frosty (heh), then as Margaret, before settling on Mary. Red takes Mary in. When the two girls go to the well to draw water they find it tainted with blood, and only steps away they discover the remains of the wolf's latest prey.
A skilled tracker, Red leads Mary through the woods in search of the wolf. The tracks morph into half wolf and half human. Eventually the tracks turn fully human and lead right back to Red's window at Granny's. Snow and Red wrongly surmise that Peter must be their "wolf-man."
Red finds Peter and tells him her suspicions. She suggests they tie him up for the night, to keep him from wreaking further havoc. She'll watch over him. Peter goes one better and suggests using chains, which he just happens to have handy. No, I don't get that either. Of course, since Red is the wolf, all she and Peter are doing are ensuring she will kill him, which she does.
Granny discovers Snow sleeping in Red's bed, under Red's red cloak. The older woman explains that Red is the wolf; the red cloak keeps her granddaughter from transforming. Earlier, in a town meeting, Granny told her neighbors that a wolf attacked her family when she was a girl. She was the only survivor, although she too bears a scar from the wolf.
Alone with Snow, Granny explains that the wolf was Red's grandfather. It seems strongly implied (to me, at least) that he raped Granny. At any rate, Granny became a werewolf, but now that she's old, she no longer transforms, although she does still have some lupine senses. Red's lycanthropy manifested itself when Ruby was 13. So yeah, thank you Show, for equating menstruating females with werewolves. Great work reinforcing the patriarchy, Jane Espenson -- and just 15 years and one day after Buffy the Vampire Slayer debuted. Buffy and I are not amused and are so telling Joss Whedon on you. Oh and nice job in keeping the truth from Red, Granny. Maybe she would have done a better job at wearing her cloak if she knew it would keep her from transforming into a bloodthirsty bitch (hey, I didn't go there -- Jane did).
I'll stop scolding real and fictional people, because I do like how dark this episode is.. Granny and Snow find the wolf chowing down on Peter's remains. Granny shoots it with a silver-tipped arrow and Snow throws the red cloak over the beast. Red is, once again herself, but she's disoriented and horrified. Snow sees her home.
Back in Storybrooke, Granny won't let Ruby flirt with August for 30 seconds, so the girl quits her job at the diner. When she tells Emma and Mary Margaret what happened, Mary takes her in, which is a lovely mirror image to their Enchanted Forest history. Henry, who is already wise to Ruby's Fairy Tale identity, helps her search the internet for new jobs. He's a literary and literal lad, so he keeps suggesting jobs that involve carrying items in baskets. Finally, Emma offers Ruby a job as her assistant.
Mary goes out to look for Kathryn, but instead, she finds David wandering the woods in a fog. She reports this to Emma, who takes Ruby with her. Ruby's lupine hearing helps her detect David's whereabouts. The women find him unconscious, at the foot of a tree. Later, in town, Dr. Whale suggests this episode may be related to David's coma.
Emma thinks that, since the last time she found David passed out, he was near the t(r)oll bridge, she and Ruby should search there for clues to Kathryn's disappearance. Ruby finds a jeweled box buried none too well. When she opens it, she screams. It contains a heart. Emma runs the prints found inside the box. They're not David's. They're Mary's!
So much more happens, and I'll be back with it all in the full recap. In the meantime, please grade the episode at the top of the page and then join us in the forum, where our crossbows are at the ready.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!At the end of "Dreamy," Emma loaded David into her cruiser. This week, we open in Storybrooke on the same night. Emma and David are in her office talking quietly. He's worried about Kathryn. She suggests he start worrying about himself, since his wife is missing, he's in love with another woman, and he can't explain the phone call from him -- the one that's showing up on Kathryn's phone record. Wordsmith that he is, David says he "can't explain" why it's unexplained. He claims, though, that he didn't do anything to Kathryn. Emma says, "I'm pretty good at spotting a liar, and honestly, liars have better material." As a mother I can vouch for this. When they're guilty they have a hell of a story. So, whatever, since there's no proof that a crime has been committed, Emma sends David home suggesting he get some sleep -- and a lawyer.
Over at Granny's, Ruby is flirting with August who is telling her tall tales about lemurs in Nepal. Thanks to our forumites, I've been schooled on the fact that lemurs are endemic to Madagascar, so you're probably not going to find them crawling all over a cliffside prayer temple in Nepal. Now, at some point in the past (I can't find which episode) August claimed he always tells the truth. This little story about lemurs in Nepal seems to prove him a liar. On the other hand, when a writer writes fiction, he's not exactly lying. If August is the writer (and/or the unreliable narrator) of Henry's Once Upon A Time book, maybe he's not lying even if he is incorrect about lemurs in Nepal. What do you think?
Anyhow, as Ruby talks to August, Granny gets more and more agitated. She finally pounds on the counter and orders the girl to, "Stop flirting and get over here."
We cut to the Enchanted Forest. A young man (Jesse Hutch) knocks on the closed shutters of a humble cottage. I'm just going to start calling him "Peter" now, because it annoys me to pretend I haven't already watched this episode and don't know his name. A frail voice inside calls out, "Who's there?" When Peter asks to be let in, the voice says, "I'm just a poor old widow. Spare me." Peter: "Let me in, or I'll -- I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow..." Red throws open the shutters and gives Peter a brilliant smile.
Spoiled Forum Members: My, what big teeth you have, Red.
Red teases Peter about his threat to huff and puff. "So, you thought you'd level the house with the power of your breath?" She leans out the window as if to kiss him, then pulls back. "Well, a case could be made." Scope. Look into it, Pete. When Peter takes mock offense at this, Red hushes him and reminds him Granny doesn't like her to open the shutters. He corrects her, saying, "She doesn't like me." Red cops to this. The young couple talk about running away, together. Peter points out that as a blacksmith's boy he can get work all over. People in the forums interpret Peter as saying he's the son of a blacksmith. He might be, but I think that also implies he might just be an apprentice of sorts -- a sort that is free from Trump's combover, at least. Peter tries to get Red to come out for a minute, but she says Granny would never let her go out after dark. On cue, Granny hollers for Red. Red gives Peter a quick kiss and sends him on his way.
In the main room of the cottage, Granny has the front door open. She's talking to a wolf hunting party. When Red asks what this is all about, Granny tells her it's none of her concern.
Audience: Um Granny? You just called the girl to you.
Red wants to join the hunting party, but Granny tells her she's not going anywhere. She tells her to make sure she leaves her red hood on, too. "You know red repels wolves." Granny makes no bones about the fact that she thinks the hunters are fools to put their lives at risk over a few dead sheep, especially since there are only two nights left in wolfstime, and advises them to go home.
Red: I hope they kill the wolf.
Granny: You just want to roam the woods with that wastrel.
Red: Peter is a righteous dude.
Recapper: You've seen Ferris Bueller?
Granny: Anyhow, I make Red help me lock everything up tight and order her to her room, reminding her to keep her hood on. Once she's gone I pick up my crossbow.
Recapper: Granny, you are badass!
Granny: Word.
Back in Storybrooke, Granny and Red argue about Red's work ethic and other things.
Granny: I tell her, "Liza, you dress like a drag queen during fleet week."
Recapper: Oh my.
Red: That's okay, I tell her, "And you dress like Norman Bates, when he dresses like Norman Bates's mother.
August: These two are cracking me up.
Recapper: You're totally the writer, aren't you? I remember when I used to feel funny and would write a funny line and then laugh.
August: You sound like you could use some magical well water.
Recapper: It's worth a shot. But wait, now Red is telling Granny she should be out in the world, having adventures with lemurs. Red has had it. She quits and slams out the diner door.
Back in the Enchanted Forest, Red gets up the morning, sans cape, and asks Granny if she slept.
Granny: I'll sleep with the trolls in the afterlife.
Recapper: Granny's a hoot. She sends Red out to check the coop and make sure the wolves didn't get at their chickens. It's there that Red first meets Snow White (who was hiding out and hoping to steal some eggs). Snow took shelter in the coop when she heard something howling in the woods last night. She tries to return the eggs, but Red won't let her and instead tells her to come with her.
Red: Everyone calls me Red.
Recapper: And gentle readers, I apologize, because when I wrote the recaplet, I misremembered this scene and thought that this was where Red revealed her real name is Liza, but it seems I conflated that with the Storybrooke scene in which Granny calls Ruby Liza (and probably only does so as part of her drag queen/fleet week zinger). I'm sorry for the stupid.
Snow: Yeah, whatever. I'm making a new friend. I'm Sno... Frosty.
Red: Frosty?
Snow: No, I'm on the run. You can call me Margaret. Wait -- Mary.
Snow and Red go to draw some water from the well, before returning to the cottage. Red is alarmed to see the well water is blood red, but Snow can't even hear her, because she's horrified at the sight of all the bloody, dead bodies lying just feet away. When Red takes in the gory scene. She hyperventilates such that she huffs and puffs us right into commercial.
Back in Storybrooke at night, Mary Margaret bumps into Emma. She asks about David and if there's any word on Kathryn.
Emma: People are totally going to think you and David are behind Kathryn's disappearance. I mean, how many people saw that well-deserved slap Kathryn gave you right in the school.
Mary Margaret: Well-deserved?
Emma: Yes. I mean no. I mean I don't think... it's them.
Audience: We don't believe you, Emma.
Emma: Oh, look, there's your one night stand, Dr. Whale, putting the moves on Red.
Dr. Whale: This is awkward. Bye bye!
Emma: So Red's at the bus stop with her suitcase.
Red: I quit my job and I'm totally out of here.
Emma: There are no busses out of town. Believe me, I've looked into it.
Mary: Come stay at my place while you figure things out.
Emma: Um... I wanted to be your only foundling.
Back in the Enchanted Forest, the townsfolk are having a meeting about the wolf attack on the hunting party. One of the men is going on about how he could have been killed, or could have stopped it, when Granny, Red and Snow arrive. Snow has a scarf or something wrapped around the lower half of her face. She looks like she's a half-finished mummy, or possibly a leprosy patient.
Snow: Hey, I'm on the run.
Red: Oh, look, there's Peter. I love him.
Granny: You hate boys. I command it.
Man: I call Granny the "Widow Lucas," because she ain't my granny.
Granny: Praise be, because you are too dumb to live. Stay inside during wolftime and there won't be all this killing. When I was a little girl...
Man: Oh great, here we go.
Granny: Ahem. As I was saying, nearly 60 years ago my father and grown brothers, all veterans of the second Ogre War, decided to kill the wolf to protect me. I was supposed to stay inside the house but I crawled up on the roof to watch. These seven huge, spear-wielding men surrounded the wolf but the wolf broke all their stakes and then killed them, right before my eyes. I fell off the roof into their blood. The wolf bit me on the arm, then just looked at me and walked away.
Man: So you were bitter back then too, huh?
Granny: My point, and I do have one, is that if this wolf is like that one there's no defeating it. Just stay inside.
Snow: Back at the cottage, I look at Red all, So your Granny's a little intense.
Red: I've gotta get out of this place.
Snow: With that guy you were making moony eyes at?
Red: Yeah, Petey the sweetie. We can't even spend any time together though because Granny's so afraid of the wolf.
Snow: Well, she's right to be afraid of that thing but she's wrong to use it to keep you from love.
Red: Hey, what if we tracked down the wolf in the day, when it's sleeping. We could kill it then. We're totally capable.
Snow: Um...
Red: Please?
Snow: Well, it's less frightening than facing Regina that's for sure.
Back in Storybrooke, Mary Margaret drives the Trampmobile to the woods. She's going to search for Kathryn on her own, but she runs into David. He's totally out of it and mumbles, "I'm looking..." Mary babbles that Emma knows David didn't do it and that Emma knows when people are lying. That's at least the second reference to Emma's ability in this episode. Mary tells David she will stand by him and that she's sure Kathryn will turn up somewhere. Finally, Mary realizes David isn't exactly present. He again mumbles, "I'm looking," before wandering off. Although Mary calls after him, he doesn't even turn around.
Back in the Enchanted Forest, Red gives Snow a primer in tracking. She points out the difference between dog and bunny prints.
Red: What we're looking for will be big -- like eight inches across, with long claws.
Snow: Um, like these bloody prints, right here?
Red: Yes. Let's follow them. They lead that way.
Snow: My, what a great tracker you are.
Red: When there's something I want, I'm good at tracking it down.
Back in Storybrooke, Henry is at the Sheriff's office. He's using the computer, trying to help Ruby find a new job.
Henry: How about a bike messenger? You'd deliver things to people in a little basket!
Ruby: I'm not so great on wheels.
Henry: How about delivering things on foot -- things you could carry in a little basket.
Ruby: I'm not so sure that's a real job.
Henry: But it's your calling.
Recapper: Hush, honey. Anyhow, while they're working together, Ruby answers the non-emergency phone line. She takes a message. Emma comes in when Ruby's taking her second call from Miss Ginger.
Ruby: It's not a prowler Miss Ginger. It's Archie's dog, Pongo. Throw him a vanilla wafer and he'll calm down. Do you still want to talk to Emma? No? Great. Glad I could help.
Emma: I'll hire you. Could you get me some lunch?
Ruby: I just quit waitressing. I mean... yes.
Mary: I pass Ruby as she's on her way out the door. I'm there to tell Emma about how weird David was acting. It's like he was a different person.
Henry: I'm just sayin'...
Back in the Enchanted Forest, the girls follow the trail. They stop when the tracks change from wolf tracks to tracks that seem to be half-wolf and half-boot.
Puss In Boots: Don't look at me. I'm not even in this episode.
Recapper: Here, kitty kitty. Get out of my recap.
Snow: Wolves don't wear boots. And look, then the tracks continue as if they're from a man. What kind of monster is this.
Red: Wolfstime is monthly, on the full moon. I once heard a story about a creature...
Snow: Hey, there's the cottage, and look -- the tracks lead right to your window. Um, any chance Petey the Sweetie is the big bad wolf?
Red: He was at my window last night, before the killings. But he'd never kill anyone -- at least not in human form. The hunting party will kill him if they find him, or he'll kill them.
Snow: I think you'd better tell Peter what is what.
Red: Can I save him?
Snow: You can save everyone!
Back in Storybrooke, Ruby steels herself before entering the diner. She talks up her job as if she's almost a deputy but then Granny points out she's still getting lunch for other people. Granny says she hopes Ruby finds what she's looking for. Ruby's eyes are teary as she asserts that she is.
Red and Peter are alone in the Enchanted Forest. She is not wearing her red cloak. She tells Peter about the wolfman. After some back and forth, he is convinced it's a possibility. He's devastated by the thought that he could have killed all those people. Red comforts him and says she'll get some rope and tie him up for the night. Peter just happens to have chains on him. And as the forumites have pointed out, he is a blacksmith's boy, but I still think it's goofy that he's walking around with chains in his satchel. Those things are heavy. Anyhow, while goofy, it is convenient. He tells Red he'll show her how to bind him so that he can't get loose, and that once that's done she must leave. Red says she's staying with him all night, and for all the night's to come. Peter is touched that she'd do that for him. Red says, "I would do anything for you." She lays her head on his chest and sighs. Poor dear.
Back at the Sheriff's station, Henry is locking his Once Upon A Time book in a desk drawer (to which we hope Regina has no keys), when Emma says he has to leave. She needs to find David. Henry's got to meet Regina, anyhow. Before he goes, Henry suggests Emma let Ruby do more.
Henry: She's Little Red Riding Hood.
Emma: With the little basket? That's badass. I'm being sarcastic, here.
Henry: She is. She's cool, she just doesn't remember her capabilities. It's true. Ah well, I should have known my screen time would come to an end. At least I was in a couple of scenes, this week. Stupid child labor laws.
Recapper: See ya, kiddo. Before I continue, I want to address some email I got asking why Henry would think Ruby/Red is badass. To me, it seems Henry's been reading his book again, which would tell him at least some of the real stories about Red, which would be why he thinks she's badass. I hope that answers that.
To continue, Ruby returns with lunch but Emma decides to take Henry's advice and include Ruby in the search for David. Ruby's afraid she'll screw it up but Emma knows she can do it. Out in the woods, it's more of the same until Ruby hears something. She must retain some of her lupine senses because there is no noise, yet Ruby runs right to David who is lying unconscious. He has a gash on his forehead. Emma shakes him awake. He has no idea what happened to him since he left Emma's office -- last night. Commercial.
Emma takes David to see Dr. Whale. He'll refer David to Dr. Hopper for a mental health evaluation, but he suspects this episode is related to the blackout David had when he first came out of his coma. "Moving around. Acting out. Not remembering it later." When Emma asks what David could be capable of during these fugue states, Whale says people with similar issues do a lot -- cook, eat, drive. David realizes Emma is wondering if he made the unexplained call when he was like this, or if he killed or kidnapped Kathryn. "It would explain why it didn't seem like I was lying. I wouldn't know." That's the third mention of Emma's ability, right?
Just then, Regina storms in. She's still David's emergency contact. I guess he was too busy with the adultery and the fugue states to fill out new forms. Regina's up in arms, wondering why Emma is talking to David when he doesn't have a lawyer present. Emma points out David isn't under arrest. They're just talking. Regina tells Emma how to do her job, again, which is getting so tiresome. Lana Parrilla is great. The material she's getting lately -- is less great.
It's getting dark out. Ruby is still working at the station. As Emma walks out of the hospital she calls Ruby and tells her to take her VW Bug and drive to the t(r)oll bridge, because the last time David had an episode that's where they found him. Ruby's not sure she's up to the job, so Emma gives her a pep talk.
Ruby arrives at the bridge. She's still on the phone with Emma who tells her to look for anything out of the ordinary. Down on the river bank, Ruby moves a piece of plywood, grabs a stick, and starts digging. In seconds, she finds a wooden jewelry-style box. Over speaker phone, she asks Emma if she can give her any kind of clue as to what she's looking for. Emma tells her, "Anything of Kathryn's." Ruby brushes dirt of the box and hesitates for a moment before opening it. As soon as she does, she screams and slams it shut. She's too freaked out to answer Emma, who's yelling her name over the phone.
In the Enchanted Forest, Snow is hiding under Ruby's cape, when Granny comes in and asks where Mary is. Snow tries to hide. Granny gasps as she turns the girl over and realizes she's been duped. Snow explains their Peter is the wolf theory and that Red is with him, but she'll be okay because Peter is tied up. Granny says, "He's tied up. Oh that poor boy."
Out in the woods, Peter is indeed chained to a tree and still human. A wolf snarls as it approaches him. Peter struggles against his chains. "Red. Red. Don't. It's me...." on and on like that, until I'm practically cheering for her to eat him up. As the wolf lurches at Peter, we cut to commercial.
At the Storybrooke Sheriff's station, Ruby and Emma stare at the open box.
Brad Pitt: WHAT'S IN THE BOX?
Dean Winchester: WHAT'S IN THE BOX?
Everyone in my house: WHAT'S IN THE BOX?
Poor Ruby finally manages to asks, "Is that what I think it is." Ruby turns from the scene. Emma asks if she's okay and tells her it will be all right. They can figure out what happened now. Emma says she's impressed by Ruby. Ruby says she shouldn't be since she's scared out of her mind. Emma says, "But you did it, anyway."
Granny and Snow trek through the Enchanted Forest and while they walk Granny exposits.
Granny: I'll take this. It's hard to get good roles at my age. Of course I knew Red was a werewolf. Her mother was one too, but a hunting party killed her. Her lycanthropy started when she was 13. I paid a wizard for that red cloak, that's supposed to keep her from turning but she doesn't always wear it.
Snow: Why didn't you tell her?
Audience: Yeah, really, Gran.
Recapper: Seriously.
Granny: The writers wouldn't let me, and had me concoct some nonsensical answer about not wanting her to have that burden. And the story I told to the townsfolk? That werewolf was Red's grandfather. He marked me that night, then came back, found and turned me.
Recapper: How dark is this? I think he raped her.
Snow: How are you tracking Red?
Granny: Smell. It's my last lupine sense. Everything else faded away.
Recapper: Undoubtedly, when you went through menopause.
Buffy: So wait, Jane Espenson, my Jane Espenson, wrote an episode which essentially says menstruating women are literally bloody bitches? I feel so betrayed.
Recapper: Right there with ya, sister. That said, I do like how dark this episode is. My friend Rachel suggests Red's lycanthropy can lead to an empowerment story once Red learns how to live with it. It sounds like she's have some heightened senses and that tracking ability is going to be handy.
Buffy: Oh, sure, as long as she wears the Magical Cloak of Midol. She's not on the rag. The rag's on her! I'm going to go slay something, and then watch reruns of me.
Recapper: So, um. That happened. Where were we? Granny stops buying her own b.s. and admits she's been a fool to keep this secret from Red.
Granny: A fool who cost so many lives.
Snow. You didn't mean to. That's the main thing.
Audience: Try telling that to the victims, and when they can't hear you, on account of being dead and all, go try it out on their of kin.
Recapper: So, Granny and Snow stop when they hear a wolf howl. Granny takes out her crossbow, and explains that a silver-tipped arrow will drop Red. They approach from downwind, so as not to be detected. Red is chowing down on Peter's remains. The squishy sound effects are to gag! When Snow steps on a twig, the wolf turns on the women. As she lunges at them, Granny shoots her bringing her to the ground. Snow is still wearing Red's Magical Cloak of Midol. Granny orders her to throw it on Red.
When Red returns to human form, she hears Snow saying, "He's gone." The women get Red to her feet. They can hear a hunting party approaching. Granny wants Snow to rush the disoriented Red out of there. When Red turns to look for Peter she sees blood on the snow. Snow White explains that Peter wasn't the wolf. Red looks at Granny, who admits she was wrong to keep it from Red but tells her she has to go. Red's still trying to take it all in. "Me?" Finally, Snow gets Red to leave. Granny watches as the hunting party draws near.
Back in Storybrooke, Ruby returns to the diner, but she's dressed decently and her makeup is finally normal. She looks beautiful. She notices Granny wincing and asks if her arm is okay. Granny says, "Same as it is, every full moon." Her 3/4 length sleeve reveals the scar she got in the Enchanted Forest. I wonder what false memory she has to explain it. Ruby wants to come back to work for Granny. The ladies get to talking out their issues. Ruby says that it wasn't so much that she doesn't want to turn into Granny, as that she's afraid she doesn't have what it takes to do everything Granny does. She was scared she couldn't handle the extra responsibility.
Ruby: I sort of found someone in myself that was more than I expected.
Granny: What about adventure? What about lemurs?
Ruby: Emma was my lemur. I did that, found out I could do that, and also that I don't want to. I don't want a job where a good day means ruining someone's life. I want to do something that makes me happy -- somewhere I love.
Granny: I just wanted you to do all that extra work, so that you'd be ready when I give the diner to you.
Ruby: Big hug!
We cut to the Storybrooke Pet Shelter, where Mary is trying to reassure David that everything will be okay. He's less convinced. Just then, Emma arrives. She tells David they found a box. "We think it -- we think she... There was a human heart inside it." David and Mary both cry. Emma says they're going to send the heart out for tests, but there aren't any other missing people.
Audience: Yeah, but who knows if they all have their hearts? Remember Graham?
Recapper: Of course. *Sob*
Emma: There's more. There were fingerprints inside the lid of the box. And there's a match.
David: Arrest me!
Emma: The fingerprints are Mary Margaret's. Dun dun dun.
Now, I don't believe for a moment that Mary Margaret killed Kathryn. I am not even sure Kathryn is dead. I would like some answers on that heart, though. And how Mary's fingerprints got inside the lid of that box. The forumites have suggested that the box once belonged to Snow, back in the Enchanted Forest, and that Regina has set all this up. That seems like the most logical suggestion to me but I'm not so excited about it. I hope we get something less expected or that there's more to this than a simple frame job. It was nice to have the kiddo back this week. I would like to see a little more bonding between Henry and Emma -- some more growth in their relationship. All in all, this was a solid episode, full of surprises and dark the way fairy tales were, before they were sanitized. While I gave Jane Espenson hell about the sexual politics of it, I only have surface problems with the issue. In the Enchanted Forest, Red has been a good friend and ally to Snow, so I hope she does turn out to be badass.
I'm out of time, so I'll see you Monday morning with my recaplet of "Heart of Darkness." In the meantime, please grade the episode at the top of the page and then join us in the forum, where our crossbows are at the ready.