I don’t watch the show, but I did catch a piece of it last night and couldn’t tell who one of the actresses was. Who was the woman who I guess was working in the tavern and talking to Grumpy about love? I didn’t catch her name so I couldn’t look her up.
That was Emilie de Ravin as Belle - she was previously featured in the “Beauty And The Beast” episode. Watch that one if you can - it was the best episode of the season.
The actress was also in “Lost”.
I thought the fairy costume, the skirt, sort of looked like a jellyfish, lol.
I think this demonstrates that things are not engraved in stone; a character can escape his or her ‘destiny.’ It’s very much in keeping with the widely believed American myth that anyone can do anything if they just want to enough.
It’s possible that the phone records are accurate, but do not reflect what is suspected. David’s phone could have pocket-called Kathryn’s (or vice versa - I’m not clear, but that’s certainly the first thing I’d suggest if I were in his situation) or Regina could have arranged the call in some way that involved neither party’s knowledge. The call would certainly warrant the sheriff questioning David again, but it’s sure as hell not evidence that would, on its own, lead to an arrest, let alone a conviction, especially in absence of a body. I still feel fairly confident that Kathryn is alive, although whether she is a ‘guest’ of Regina’s or on her own or captive to some as yet unknown factor has obviously not been shown. In any case, even in the warped town of Storybrooke, I don’t see David losing anything but his reputation from the current turn of events. I know this ain’t exactly cinema verite, but arresting and convicting on the basis of a single phone call when there’s not a body, any evidence of a crime, or any history of violent behavior on David’s part is a bit extreme. We know they have internet access; presumably they have television and radio, so it’s not like they’re unaware of legal process. A single episode of Law and Order would tell them that it’s not sufficient evidence.
But what is far more likely is that this ‘evidence’, while not meriting an arrest, will lead to both Mary Margaret and David being utterly ostracized by the entire community, both losing their jobs (an employer can always find a reason to let a person go if they want to badly enough), and either living on the streets or trying to leave Storybrooke, with the attendant consequences, whatever they may be (having a non-fatal car mishap seems to be the usual).
I’m guessing that Henry walked out of town, then hitch-hiked to a place where he could catch a bus to Boston. A nice-looking, respectable kid like that would have no problem getting rides, and a lot of people would pick him up just to keep him out of harm’s way.
I thought she was from Lost but couldn’t place her. Thanks.
She is nearly I unrecognizable a brunette.
This series seems to be a million times better than it has a right to be given its premise. I hope we see more Amy Acker in the future. I, for one, can’t get enough of her. I thought I saw the actor who plays Booth listed in the credits, but didn’t see him on this episode.
I did like Grumpy’s story, although I groaned at all the Disney Seven Dwarfs references. I can’t say why exactly but that all seemed sillier to me than the Disney jokes in the Beauty and the Beast episode.
Speaking of that, does Belle’s appearance corroborate the untruth of her fate as according to the queen? By seeing Belle in the “real world” we could reasonably have concluded that she survived, but I wasn’t sure how much the queen made up just to cause grief.
I dunno … that seemed a little pat to me. I can’t see a scheme like that working — $5,000 in candles sold to what appeared to be a relatively small crowd? People in their homes would presumably have flashlights, candles, or lamps already. And what if someone saw him or figured out what he’d done? Would Astrid — a nun — be comfortable receiving what amounts to illicitly-obtained money?
Unsure that I see any good reason to suspect that Emma’s super-power was ever meant to be genuinely super, or impervious to a good George Costanza, or anything like that. She’s just skilled at plain old people-reading and confident in her abilities thereof. If the writers intended for her to be able to discern the factual intent behind any statement, then she’d have known all along that Regina lies when repudiating Henry’s story-tale beliefs, for example.
Yeah, I mean, wouldn’t that sort of thing get her in trouble, and be impermissible as evidence anyway?
I wonder who’s going to be the Big Bad Wolf in the Red Riding hood storyline. Will they throw us a curve and have it be an actual wolf?
I agree. I never thought she had some sort of super-natural power. I always thought she just told Henry that so he wouldn’t lie to her.
She’s much more attractive as a fairy than she was as a spiderlady a few weeks ago on Grimm, but I’ll take her whatever way TV show will give her to us. 
See, I’m the other way around. I thought that’s the whole reason she stayed in Storybrook. Back in the first episode, she asked the mayor if she loves Henry, and the mayor gave her some sort of “OF COURSE I DO!” indignant response. But Emma had this look on her face like “sure you do Liey McLiarliar” that I was sure she “read” the Mayor as lying.
As for Sydney, has he actually told a lie? Yes he’s working for the queen, but he really is fired from the paper, and he didn’t actually lie about getting the phone records, he just happened to get doctored records. The best manipulators can do it without telling a single lie, I just don’t recall if they’ve been this careful with him or not.
For unknown warped reasons, the thought of Belle hanging out in dwarf bars cracks me the hell up.
everybody looks better as their HEAL counterpart except the mayor.
I think that’s part of the point. Queen/Mayor doesn’t want anyone (but herself) to have a “happy ending” – its part of the curse, so part of that is everyone looks better as their HEAL counterpart than their Storybrook one. IMO, at least.
One of the key themes in the show is the suffusion of the fairy-tale world into the real world. The use of the same actors in both and the various references between the Storybrook character and the storybook equivalent are rather obvious examples, but the idea is suffused throughout the series–the shot of the candles in the park mirroring the fireflies is an excellent example from this week’s episode.
So if we assume this idea goes to the core of the series, this mirroring of the fairy-tale world in the real world is an essential part of the spell. The real-world characters will, on their own, naturally drift toward recreating the realities of the HEAL world–this represents the spell losing its potency. Regina’s role then is to use her real-world power to hold back the tide.
My guess then is that this drift toward their fairy-tale characters is what really prevents them from just physically leaving Storybrooke. Leaving the town means moving closer to the real world and thus away from their natural instinct–Storybrooke may be bad, but it is closer to their fairy-book lives than anything in the real world. But in a few cases characters stumble upon the secret of leaving Storybrooke: Rather than simply escaping, they imagine a way to bring their true self from the fairy-tale world into the real world; they find a way to make their true character compatible with the real world (they may not even have to physically leave the town; this could just be a state of mind).
Once a character successfully leaves, I suspect that for them the spell is broken and they come to remember their fairy-tale lives. These re-awakened characters would no doubt return to break the spell for others, but here I think Regina catches them before they can and locks them up in her little insane asylum (makes sense–anyone would agree that someone claiming to be a fairy-tale character would be declared insane). My guess is that Catherine is sharing a cell next to Belle in the basement of the hospital.
OK, is the motorcycle guy/writer supposed to be a total fake, or we are not supposed to know that Lemurs are indigenous to Madagascar only and do not over run temples in Nepal? Langurs are native to Nepal. So is that a writers’ error, a production error (the script may have said langurs, but the director thought it was an error and told them to say lemurs instead), or a clue?
Otherwise, I don’t know what to make of this episode.
I’d write off the Lemurs as a “failed to research” error. Althought it’s possible that Motorcycle Guy was trying to provoke the argument that could have resulted in Ruby leaving town, however farfetched that idea is. Depends on how much we think Motorcycle Guy really knows about the town, and if *he, *not Emma, is the true curse-breaker.
It would be interesting if someone other than the Evil Queen killed the only person Regina called a friend, but I doubt that will happen. Still, the heart in a casket just seemed so obvious.
I thought it was great, but I’m a sucker for werewolf stories. I’m happy to say that the “reveal” about the wolf caught me by surprise–I thought the twist would be that Granny was the wolf. (which actually wasn’t far off base). That’s a pretty tragic story for Red, though. I wonder what “Happily Ever After” would be for her in HEAL? She may actually be better off in Storybrooke with no memory of what went down. In any event, it was nice to have an episode revolving around her and I thought the actress did a good job. Hmm… I wonder if she ever becomes a wolf in Storybrooke? She appeared to have some heightened perceptions (hearing, smell) when she was in the woods…
I’ve been meaniing to ask: The Dr Whale who flirted with Ruby last night…and took Mary Margaret out on a date a while back, have we seen him in HEAL? Who is he?
I don’t recall if we’ve seen him in HEAL or not. That was a weird scene with him and Red at the bus stop last night, though, and he was being portrayed as kind of creepy.
Dr. Whale, whoever he may be, has been portrayed as a bit creepy all along. He fancies himself a ladies’ man (and pretty much interested primarily in the horizontal aspects thereof), and he is definitely in Regina’s pocket.
The only whale I can think of who might be relevant is the whale that swallows various characters in Pinocchio, Monstro. This is of course the Disney movie version, although a huge fish or shark does appear in the book as well.