The
Enchanted Forest subplot for this episode takes place after the events of ‘7:15 AM’ and ‘What Happened to Fredrick.’
Prince Charming continues to search for Snow White, with Red’s
assistance. But because Snow took
Rumpelstiltskin’s Forgetfulness Potion, she not only doesn’t remember loving
Charming, but she’s also forgotten who she really is, as she tries to kill a
random bird and is downright cruel to the dwarfs. To find Snow, Charming goes to
Rumpelstiltskin for help and ends up trading his cloak in exchange for the
information on Snow White’s whereabouts.
His first attempt at getting through to her, through the power of True
Love’s Kiss, ends in a failure because, as Jiminy points out when he pops up to
help Charming out, ‘how can she remember who you are when she’s lost sight of who she is?’ This inspires Charming to allow himself to
get hit by the arrow Snow tries to kill Evil Queen Regina with. The whole sequence that follows is a very
well-written one, and quite reminiscent of the scene in the fourth Shrek movie. Unfortunately, even though Snow regains her
memories, their reunion is short-lived, as King George’s soldiers capture
Charming immediately afterward. Snow
White vows to rescue Charming, with the seven dwarfs, who promptly forgive her
for her actions while under the Forgetfulness Potion’s effects, agreeing to
help her.
In
Storybrooke, Emma is trying to search for proof that Mary Margret was set up
for the murder of Kathryn, particularly after a hunting knife, the instrument
believed to have cut out the heart Ruby found, is discovered hidden in the
apartment Emma and Mary Margret share. She
ends up getting nowhere because there are no signs that anyone had broken
in. Henry, thanks to the help of the
mysterious August (who tells Henry that he shares his goal in getting Emma to
believe in the fairy tales within Henry’s book), finds Regina’s skeleton keys
and brings them to Emma, who finds out that one of the skeleton keys can open
the door to her and Mary Margret’s apartment.
However, Emma knows the discovery of these skeleton keys won’t be enough
to help Mary Margret when the DNA tests performed on the heart Ruby found state
that the heart was indeed Kathryn’s, so she turns to Mr. Gold in
desperation. Unfortunately, before
anything can be done to help build up a strong defense for Mary Margret, she
discovers a key beneath her jail cell cot which she discovers can open the cell
door and uses it to break out of prison.
David really
does a number in this episode. Possibly
because he’d spent so long in a coma, the curse’s memory-altering effects
clearly don’t affect him as strongly as the others, as his true memories are
seemingly trying to resurface. This
results in him having hazy memories of Snow attempting to kill Evil Queen
Regina. Of course, since the memory is
only hazy, he’s understandably confused, and the fact that evidence suggesting
that Mary Margret may have killed Kathryn is continuing to mount only makes it
worse. For that reason, I don’t blame
him for being confused and at a loss trying to figure out what his faint
memories mean. That said, it was a
pretty dumb move for him to practically accuse Mary Margret, particularly
after, as she states herself, she stood by him when it looked as if he might
have had something to do with Kathryn’s disappearance. So, I also can’t blame Mary Margret for
angrily dismissing David. This really
was a no-win situation on David’s part.
The episode
ends with us finally seeing the reason why Rumpelstiltskin wanted one of Snow
White’s hairs in exchange for the Forgetfulness Potion. After obtaining Charming’s cloak, he manages
to extract one of Charming’s hairs from the cloak and places it into a vial
along with Snow’s hair. The moment both
hairs are encased inside the vial, they react to each other, forming a glowing
double helix. So, apparently, all you
need to bottle up love is to obtain two hairs from people who share True
Love? Okay, makes sense to me. And we see in the final episode of this
season exactly why he wanted to obtain a vial of Essence of True Love. (That doesn’t explain why Mr. Gold is so keen
to help them now, however. Come on, guy. What’s your game?)
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