'Once Upon a Time' Recap: Episode 3 – 'Snow Falls'

The episode begins with a white carriage being ridden through the Enchanted Forest in the fairy-tale world. Prince Charming is inside with an obnoxious princess who is berating the prince for choosing this particular route through the Forest. The carriage stops. The prince exits to see what is the matter, leaving the obnoxious princess inside…and something he was holding. He yells back to her that a tree has fallen in the carriage’s path and there is nothing to worry about. As the prince and his men attempt to move the tree, one the prince’s men notices markings on the tree indicating that it didn’t fall by accident…it was cut. He tells the prince this and he immediately whispers, “It’s an ambush,” and draws his sword. The prince and his men run back to the carriage as a hooded figure grabs whatever the prince was holding in the carriage and rides off as the obnoxious princess shrieks. The prince mounts a horse and chases the hooded thief. The prince catches up and tackles the hooded thief to the ground. But, when he unmasks the “coward,” he finds a girl (Snow White.) Surprised and off-guard, Snow hits the prince with a rock and escapes. The prince screams after her, “You can’t hide from me. Wherever you are I will find you.” Snow looks back and keeps on riding away.

Shoot to Mary-Margaret (Snow White) drinking coffee at a coffee shop, talking to a man, who is obviously her date. He seems rattled when she mentions “having 15 children” and Mary-Margaret explains that she’s talking about the number of kids in her class and how he’ll meet them the following day when they come to the hospital as part of its outreach program. Then, she starts rambling on about wanting “kids, marriage, true love. I want it all.” She stops, seeing he looks disinterested and says, “But, that, of course, is…wildly inappropriate for me to discuss on a first date.” She then asks the waitress, Ruby, for the check.

Shoot to Mary-Margaret walking alone, presumably home, and sees Emma sitting in her car with a flashlight. Emma tells her that she’s sleeping in her car until she can find a place. Mary-Margaret is happy that Emma decided to stay in town…”for Henry.” Emma gets out of her car and asks Mary-Margaret why she’s “out so late?” She tells her that she had a date, which Emma correctly deduces didn’t go well. Mary-Margaret tells Emma that “if things get cramped. I have a spare room.” Emma thanks Mary-Margaret for the offer but tells her she isn’t the “roommate type. I do better on my own.” Mary-Margaret nods, says goodnight to Emma, wishes her luck with Henry and walks on.

Shoot to the hospital as the kids are scurrying around the ward. We see Mary-Margaret watching Henry as he sits at John Doe’s (Prince Charming’s) bedside about to touch him when she asks him to go put up more decorations. Henry then asks Mary-Margaret if “Mr. Doe will be okay?” Mary-Margaret explains to Henry that John Doe isn’t the man’s name, “it’s what we call people when we don’t know who they are.” Henry then asks Mary-Margaret if she knows who John Doe is, and she says no but that she brings him flowers on her rounds. Henry asks her what is wrong with him and she says she doesn’t know, only that he’s been in the same sleeping state since she started volunteering at the hospital. Henry then asks Mary-Margaret if John Doe has any family or friends. She tells him that “no one’s claimed him.” Henry then says that John Doe is all alone. Mary-Margaret remarks that it’s sad but true. Henry then asks Mary-Margaret, “Are you sure you don’t know him?” Mary-Margaret says she’s sure and then ushers Henry out of John Doe’s room closing the door behind her.

Shoot to Henry’s “castle” and him telling Emma that he “found your father, Prince Charming.” He shows her a picture of him in the storybook. Emma is disbelieving but Henry goes on telling her that he’s in the hospital in a coma. He then points out on the picture a scar that the prince has. Henry goes on to say that the curse is keeping Prince Charming and Snow White (Mary-Margaret and John Doe) apart by using the coma. He then tells Emma that they have to tell Mary-Margaret that “they found her Prince Charming.” Emma tells Henry that, “telling someone their soul mate is in a coma probably isn’t helpful. Not having a happy ending is painful enough. Giving someone unrealistic hope is far worse.” Henry replies that it’s time that Mary-Margaret and John Doe find out who they really are. Emma asks Henry how he plans to do that. “By reminding him. We have to get her to read their story to John Doe. Then, maybe he’ll remember who he is.” Henry says. Emma pauses then says she’ll do it…”but her way. Let me ask her.”

Shoot back to the hospital and Emma telling Mary-Margaret Henry’s idea, saying that Henry thinks it will help John Doe remember who he is. Mary-Margaret asks Emma who Henry thinks John Doe is. She tells her “Prince Charming.” Mary-Margaret puts together that since Henry thinks she’s Snow, that she and John Doe will get together. Emma tells Mary-Margaret if they play along then… Mary-Margaret says, “He’ll see that fairy tales are just that. That there’s no such thing as love at first sight..He’ll see reality.” Mary-Margaret agrees also saying that “sadly the plan is genius. We get him to the truth without hurting him.” Emma tells Mary-Margaret that she told Henry that they would all meet for breakfast at Granny’s. Mary-Margaret then says, “Well, I suppose I’d better get ready for my date.”

Shoot to Mary-Margaret starting to read to John Doe saying that she’s doing it “for a friend.” She starts to read and we see she’s there for quite a while reading to him because she goes from sitting in a chair to sitting on his bed. As Mary-Margaret reads, all of a sudden, John Doe suddenly moves, placing his hand on top of Mary-Margaret’s.

Shoot to Mary-Margaret getting Dr. Whale (played by David Anders) and telling him that John Doe grabbed her hand. Dr. Whale looks him over and tells Mary-Margaret that John Doe’s condition is “steady. As it’s always been” and asks her what she was doing in John Doe’s room. She tells Dr. Whale that she was reading to him, He thinks that Mary-Margaret imagined John Doe moving. She maintains that it really happened. He tells Mary-Margaret that he doesn’t see any change and that sometimes there are “minor fluctuations in readings” and that Mary-Margaret maybe misconstrued a machine sound. He then advices Mary-Margaret to go home to rest and he will call if John Doe’s condition changes. Mary-Margaret takes the storybook and leaves. As soon as she’s gone, Dr. Whale calls Regina saying she told him to call her if John Doe’s condition changed and says, “Something’s happened.” We see Regina ask the doctor what happened. He tells her that “one of the volunteer’s said he grabbed her and there were minor fluctuations in his brain activity.” Regina asks Dr. Whale who the volunteer was. He tells her it was Mary-Margaret.

Shoot to Mary-Margaret’s place and her flipping through the pages of the storybook. She pauses at an illustration in the book of a lantern and then…

Shoot back to the fairy-tale world as Snow, still dressed as a hooded thief hides what she stole from the prince in a dark alcove. She leaves the alcove only to be snared by a rope, which catches her foot and pulls her upside down into a net and hanging from a tree. She screams and struggles to free herself until the prince appears laughing and reminding her that he told her he'd find her and no matter what she does he “will always find her.” Snow then asks the prince if the only way he can capture a woman is by entrapping her. He replies that that’s the only way to trap scum. “You’re a real 'Prince Charming,'” Snow says, then demands that the prince cut her down. The prince says he will release her once she gives him back the “leather pouch with my jewels in it” and asks where they are. She tells him that she sold them and asks why he cares since he “has a palace full of them.” The prince tells Snow that those jewels were “special.” He tells her that among those jewels was a ring that belonged to his mother that he was about to give to…Snow cuts the prince off, saying, “That nag! That’s what this is about? You must be getting something impressive to agree to that union.” The prince is offended by Snow’s comment. Snow goes on to say that true love doesn’t exist and it’s all about arranged marriages. She “guesses” the prince’s fiancé’s kingdom wants to take over his kingdom, so the marriage is “a last ditch effort to avoid war?” The prince denies Snow’s assertion and says it’s a “merger and none of your business.” He then tells her he is going to cut her down so she can take him to “whoever has my jewels…and then you’re going to give me my ring back.” Snow asks him why she would do such a thing. He replies, “Because you don’t want me to tell anybody who you really are.” The prince then holds up a “Wanted” poster with Snow’s likeness that says she’s charged with treason, murder and other assorted despicable acts. The prince tells Snow that he either gets his ring back or he’ll turn her in to the Evil Queen’s forces, adding, “and I don’t think the Queen is as…charming as I am.” The prince then cuts Snow down. She screams and lands with a thud. Then…

Shoot back to Henry and Emma at the coffee shop. Emma just changed into a shirt Henry gave her. She asks him if the shirt is Regina’s. He replies that she’ll never notice. Emma then asks Henry where Regina thinks he is. He says, “Playing at the arcade.” Emma is surprised that Regina bought Henry’s story. “She wants to believe it, so she does.” “Imagine that,” Emma replies. Then, Mary-Margaret comes into the coffee shop. Emma tells Henry “not to get his hopes up.” Mary-Margaret quickly sits down next to Henry, looks at Emma and says, “He woke up.” Emma is shocked whereas Henry smiles and says, “I knew it." Mary-Margaret explains that John Doe didn’t “wake up” but that he grabbed her and. Henry says that means that he’s remembering. Mary-Margaret also tells Henry and Emma that Dr. Whale told her she imagined it but she knows she didn’t. Henry tells Mary-Margaret that she has to go back to the hospital and read to John Doe again. Mary-Margaret agrees with Henry and gets up while Emma is still skeptical. Mary-Margaret says that she doesn’t believe he’s “Prince Charming” but if she got through to him somehow, she can’t give up. She and Henry leave the coffee shop with Emma following.

Shoot to the hospital as Henry, Mary-Margaret and Emma arrive to see a bunch of doctors congregating around John Doe’s bed. Henry’s convinced he’s woken up and wants to go into his room but Sheriff Graham stops him. Mary-Margaret asks Sheriff Graham if John Doe has woken up. He replies, “No. He’s missing.” Sheriff Graham turns toward John Doe’s room and we see his bed is empty.

Shoot to Emma and Mary-Margaret looking in the same direction and we see Regina also hovering over John Doe’s empty bed. Regina walks out of John Doe’s room, over to Emma, Mary-Margaret and Henry and asks what Emma is doing there. Regina then grabs Henry’s hand and asks him why he lied to her about being at the arcade. Meanwhile, Mary-Margaret asks the sheriff what happened to John Doe and asks if someone took him. The sheriff says that they don’t know what happened to him. “His I.V.s were ripped out but there were no signs of a struggle.” Henry then accuses Regina of doing something to John Doe. Regina is surprised that Henry would think she had anything to do with John Doe’s disappearance. Emma says it’s “curious” that Regina is there. Regina replies that she’s there because she’s his emergency contact. She goes on to explain that she found him on the side of the road, years ago with no identification and she brought him to the hospital. Dr. Whale interrupts saying that Regina saved John Doe’s life. Mary-Margaret asks if John Doe will be okay and the doctor replies that considering he’s been “on feeding tubes for years and under constant supervision, he needs to get back here right away or…quite honestly. ‘Okay’ might be a pipe dream.’” Emma then says they should stop “yapping and start looking.” Regina says that Emma shouldn’t worry and that it’s being handled and then says that since Emma can’t seem to stay away from Henry, she’ll have to “keep my son away from you.” Regina then grabs Henry’s hand and whispers to Emma. “Enjoy my shirt, because that’s all you’re getting.” Regina then turns to the sheriff and orders him to find John Doe, saying, “Time is precious.” Regina and Henry then leave the hospital. The sheriff then asks the doctor when it was he last saw John Doe. Dr. Whale tells him “12 hours or so.”

Shoot to the sheriff questioning the two employees who were on the floor during the time John Doe supposedly went missing the previous evening. They both say that they didn’t see anything. Emma asks if anyone walked by. The two employees still say that they didn’t see anything or anyone. The sheriff then asks Mary-Margaret if she saw anything unusual while she was there with her students. She says that she didn’t. Emma then realizes that they are looking at the wrong security tape because the banner Mary-Margaret’s class hung up isn’t shown. Then, one of the employees accuses the other of “falling asleep…again.” The other employee gets angry that the other “ratted him out.” They start to bicker until the sheriff stops it and asks where the right tape is. They find and insert the right tape and see that John Doe just got up and walked out of the hospital. Mary-Margaret is relieved that he’s okay. Emma asks the sheriff where the door that John Doe walked out of leads. He says, “The woods.”

Shoot back to the fairy-tale world as Snow and the prince are roaming through the Enchanted Forest. The prince inquires about Snow’s necklace. She tells him to not worry about it. He, then promptly snatches it from her. She then tells him it’s a weapon. He’s perplexed because it’s filled with dust. She tells him it’s fairy dust and tries to snatch it back. The Prince says that he thought fairy dust was a “good thing.” She replies, “That’s from a good fairy. That stuff is deadly. It can transform the most fearsome of adversaries into a form that’s easily squashed.” She moves to snatch it away from the prince again but he evades her attempt again. He then asks why she didn’t use it on him. She says he wasn’t worth it. He tucks it away in his shirt as Snow tells him that it’s hard to come by and that she was saving it for a “special someone.” The prince guesses she means the Queen and tells Snow that she’s “carrying around a lot of anger.” She tells him the charges on the “Wanted” poster he showed her before are lies, “but that didn’t stop her from sending her husband to rip out my heart.” The prince asks Snow what happened. She explains that the Queen’s husband took pity on her, let her go and she’s been hiding in the Forest ever since. “Trying to amass enough fortune to leave this place. Escape to another realm. Somewhere isolated, where I can never be hurt.” The prince replies, “That sounds lonely.” Her reply, “No lonelier than an arranged marriage.” He shoots back that he “doesn’t prey on the innocent.” Snow says until she met him she had only stolen from the Queen and she thought the prince’s carriage was the Queen’s since no one else uses that road. The prince replies that he likes the “scenic route.” Snow retorts, “Well, Charming. I’m just doing what it takes to survive.” She tells the prince that the Queen wants her dead. He asks her what she did to the Queen to “incur that much wrath?” She tells the prince that the Queen blames her for ruining her life. He asks if she did. She replies, “Yes.” They come upon a river. They both take sips from the river. Then, Snow pushes the prince into the river, steals back her necklace full of evil fairy dust and runs away. But, she is caught by two of men. One draws a dagger, saying, “The Queen wants your heart…and we’re not going to disappoint her.” Snow looks scared.

Shoot to the sheriff, Mary-Margaret and Emma trying to track down John Doe in the woods but then the trail ends. Emma criticizes the sheriff’s tracking technique. The sheriff tells the ladies not to worry, “This is his world. I’ve got this.” Mary-Margaret asks Emma what he meant by that and asks Emma “isn’t finding people your thing too?” Emma says yes except “the people I find usually run to places like Vegas not the woods.” Mary-Margaret then asks Emma how she “fell into such an interesting line of work.” Emma says, “Well, looking for people is what I’ve done for as long as I can remember.” Mary-Margaret asks Emma what made her start. “Your parents?” she inquires. She tells Emma that Henry told her that she was “from a similar situation to his own.” Mary-Margaret then asks Emma if she ever found her parents. Her reply, “It depends on who you ask.” Suddenly, Mary-Margaret and Emma hear a branch crack behind them. Henry appears asking them if they’ve found John Doe yet. Emma says they haven’t and tells Henry that he shouldn’t be in the woods but he says he can help because he knows where John Doe is headed. Mary-Margaret asks Henry, “Where is that?” Henry replies, “He’s looking for you.”

Shoot back to the fairy-tale world as one man holds Snow by the throat as the other prepares to cut out her heart. He’s just about to plunge his sword into Snow when the prince shoots him dead from behind with a crossbow. Meanwhile, the other man is still holding Snow. The prince charges him, sword drawn. The man lets Snow go and he and the prince begin sword fighting as Snow looks on. Then, she starts to run away but another man on horseback comes up behind her and snatches her up while she screams, “No!” Meanwhile, the prince has dispatched with the other man and sees Snow and the third man ride off. The prince then gets his crossbow and fires, killing the third man from a great distance. Snow then rides back over to the prince who asks her if she’s alright. Breathlessly she says, “You saved me.” The prince replies, “It seemed like the honorable thing to do.” He then says, “Are you ready?” Snow replies, “What?” The prince answers, “My jewels.” She pauses, saying, “That’s right, you’ve got a wedding to get to.” She then tells the prince that the trolls she sold his jewels to are just beyond the next ridge but they need to be careful. “Of trolls?” the prince asks. “You’ve clearly never met one,” Snow replies. The prince then says, “Aren’t they just little people?” Snow tells the Prince that he’s thinking of dwarfs and to “show a little respect. They’ll cut your hand off sooner then they’ll shake it.” They both decide to hurry up because they both have places to be. “You have your lonely little corner of solitude to find,” the prince says to Snow. She replies, “And you have a ringless fiancée to appease.” They begin to walk, side-by-side. Then…

Shoot back to Henry, Emma, Mary-Margaret and the sheriff still searching for John Doe in the woods. Henry keeps saying to Mary-Margaret that John Doe is looking for her because she’s the last person he saw but Mary-Margaret insists that he’s just lost and confused. Then, Henry stops walking and screams, “But, he loves you. You need to stop chasing him and let him find you!” Emma then says that Henry needs to go home because Regina is going to kill her. He tells her that Regina dropped him at home and he immediately left again. Emma says that they need to get him back home. Henry says no but then the sheriff calls out to them. They follow his voice and with their flashlights see John Doe’s hospital ID bracelet and…blood.

Shoot back to the fairy-tale world as Snow and the prince, riding together on a horse, stop at what must be where the trolls reside. They both dismount and Snow chases the horse away telling the prince that trolls don’t like them. She then tells the prince that they will walk the rest of the way and that he has to be quiet. They walk for a little while when the prince asks Snow where the trolls are. She replies, “They’re here,” as she leaves some gold coins on a ledge nearby. Suddenly, several trolls are circling Snow and the prince. She tells the prince not to worry because she knows them. The head troll (played by Mark Gibbon) asks Snow why she returned. She tells him that she wants to make another trade. The head troll asks who the prince is. Snow says, “Don’t worry about him, he’s with me…He’s nobody.” She then tells the head troll that she wants to buy back the jewels she sold him. But, the head troll keeps asking who the prince is. Snow tells him to forget about him and that he will give him back all his money. The head troll hesitates so Snow then says that she just wants the ring and that “you can keep everything else.” The head troll hesitates again but nods to another troll to hand the prince the ring. The prince makes the mistake of thanking him. The head troll screams that they are being set up. Snow tells them they aren’t but then the other troll calls the prince a “royal” and they attack. The head troll grabs Snow, another disarms the prince of his sword. Snow tries to convince the trolls that if she wanted to set them up she would have, and begs them not to hurt the prince. The head troll holding Snow orders the other troll to search the prince. The troll empties out all the prince is carrying, even Snow’s necklace full of evil fairy dust, which one of the trolls takes. Then, they find the “Wanted” poster of Snow. The head troll notices the reward and tells the other troll to take Snow away. Meanwhile, the prince breaks free, picks up his sword from the ground, fights off the trolls and he yells for Snow to get away. She does but not before picking up her necklace full of evil fairy dust from the ground. The prince continues to fight off the trolls but he is subdued. Snow continues to run thinking the prince is behind her. She stops running when she realizes he isn’t. She grapples with either continuing to run away or going back to save the prince. We see the head troll about to stab the prince when…he vanishes in a puff of smoke and we see a frog in his place. The other trolls look up to see Snow who then throws the rest of the evil fairy dust on them as well, turning them into harmless creatures. The prince then looks up at Snow and says, “You saved me.” She replies, “It was the honorable thing to do.” She then looks down at her necklace. It’s empty. The prince then says, “What about your special someone?” Snow says she’ll find something else. They pick up the money and jewels from the floor. The prince also retrieves the gold pieces that Snow left on the ledge for the trolls. Then he thanks Snow, who responds, “How could I let Prince Charming die?” He then tells Snow his name… it’s James. “Nice to meet you James. “ Snow says and adds that they should get out of there in case more trolls were coming.

Shoot back to Emma, Mary-Margaret, Henry and the sheriff still looking for John Doe. The sheriff then says his trail stops at the river. Mary-Margaret looks around with her flashlight and sees John Doe lying on his side. She starts screaming and runs over to him. Meanwhile, the sheriff radios for an ambulance. Emma and Mary-Margaret pick him up and put him down on steadier ground. John Doe seems to awaken for a second, then passes out again, all the while Mary-Margaret is screaming at him that she found him. Henry asks if John Doe is alright. Emma tells Henry not to look as Mary-Margaret whispers for John Doe to come back to her as she begins CPR. Then…she kisses him. He then spits up water and awakens gasping for air. He and Mary-Margaret then lock eyes and he says, “You saved me.” Then, Henry says to Emma, “She did it. She did it. She woke him up.” Emma’s response, “She did.” John Doe then thanks Mary-Margaret, who then asks John Doe who he is. He says he doesn’t know and she tells him he’s going to be okay as the ambulance siren grows louder and louder. Then…

Shoot to John Doe being wheeled on a gurney into the hospital. As the doctors examine him in triage, Mary-Margaret, Emma, Henry and the sheriff watch from outside some glass doors. All of a sudden, a blonde woman (played by Anastasia Griffith) rushes past them and bursts through the glass doors, screaming, “David? David, is that you?” Dr. Whale tells the woman that she can’t be in there and another doctor escorts her over to the side. Mary-Margaret then asks who the woman is. “She’s his wife,” says Regina who is now standing behind Mary-Margaret, Emma, Henry and the sheriff.

Shoot back to the fairy-tale world as Snow and James are again walking through the Forest. They both pause, seemingly not wanting to say goodbye. James gives Snow back the gold pieces Snow had left on the ledge for the trolls and Snow then gives James back his mother’s ring. James looks at the ring and says, “I know. Not your style.’ Snow then grabs the ring and says, “One way to find out” and she puts it on. James stares at her. Snow then says, “Nope. Not me at all.” She gives it back to him and says that his fiancée will love it. James pauses, takes it back from her and then tells her that she can have the rest of the jewels “the ring is all I require.” Snow thanks him but declines. James then tells Snow to be careful wherever she’s going and “if you need anything…” Snow replies, “You’ll find me.” James answers, “Always.” Snow then says, “I almost believed that.” She then picks up her belongings. James says, “Goodbye Snow White” and Snow says, “Goodbye Prince Charming.” He replies, “The name is James.” Snow responds, “I like Charming better.” They both laugh softly and Snow turns and walks away as James watches. He then turns and walks away just as Snow stops, turns around and watches him walk away.

Shoot back to the hospital as Regina is telling Mary-Margaret that John Doe’s real name is David Knowland and the blonde woman is his wife, Catherine. Regina adds that the “joy on Catherine’s face has put me in quite a forgiving mood.” She then turns to Henry and says, “We’ll talk about your insubordination later” and also asks him if he knows what ”insubordination” means. She tells him it means that he’s grounded. Catherine then interrupts to thank Mary-Margaret for finding “her David.” Mary-Margaret tells Catherine that she doesn’t understand how she didn’t know that her husband was there and in a coma. Catherine then says that a few years prior, she and David “weren’t getting along. It was my fault. I know that now, I was difficult and unsupportive. I told him if he didn’t like things, he could leave and he did…and I didn’t stop him. It was the worst mistake I ever made.” Emma then says, “You didn’t go look for him?” Catherine says she had assumed he had left town but now she knows why she never heard from him. She adds that now she can finally tell him she’s sorry. “Now, we get a second chance.” Emma stares at her while Mary-Margaret looks sad for a second then says, “That’s wonderful.” All the while, Regina has an evil looking smile on her face. Then, Dr. Whale tells everyone that it’s a “miracle” adding that David is physically fine but “his memory is another issue. It may take time, if at all.” Mary-Margaret then says, “But, I brought him back.” Dr. Whale replies, “There’s no explanation. Something inside him just clicked.” Emma then says, “He just decided to go for a stroll.” Dr. Whale says that David woke up delirious and “his first instinct was to find something, I guess.” Henry then blurts out, “Someone.” At that comment, Mary-Margaret turns to look at him and Regina seems to glare at him. Catherine then asks Dr. Whale if she could go and see David. He says she can and accompanies her into his room. Regina then tells Henry they are leaving. Henry moves to follow her but then says he forgot his backpack. He turns around, picks it up and whispers to Mary-Margaret, “Don’t believe them. You’re the one he was looking for.” Mary-Margaret tries to interrupt Henry but he continues saying that John Doe/David was “going to the troll bridge. Just like at the end of the story.” Mary-Margaret tells Henry that John Doe/David went there because it was the last thing she read to him. Henry protests and says, “It’s because you belong together.” Regina again calls to Henry and he follows. Mary-Margaret continues to stare at Catherine hovering over John Doe/David. Emma then runs after Regina who tells Henry to go wait in the car. Regina then tells Emma that she let her “off the hook back there.” Emma tells Regina that she thinks Catherine’s story is “a load of crap.” She questions how no one came looking for him, how no one saw it on the news and adds that something isn’t right. Regina then asks Emma, “Well, what else would make sense to you?” and asks Emma why she thinks Catherine would lie. “Do you think I cast a spell on her?” Emma says she thinks it’s strange that she (Regina) has been John Doe/David’s emergency contact for so many years and “you only found her now.” Regina brushes Emma’s inquiry off by saying that Storybrooke is bigger than Emma knows. “It’s entirely possible for people to get lost here. It’s entirely possible for bad things to happen.” Emma again says that she finds Regina solving the mystery all of a sudden “too convenient.” Regina then says that Emma noticing that they were looking at the wrong hospital security tape prompted them to look at past tapes and they found that John Doe/David was talking in his sleep. Regina claims that he kept calling out for “a Catherine. After that, it wasn’t hard to put the pieces together.” She then says she thought she and Mary-Margaret would be “pleased. True love won out.” Regina tells Emma to “bask in the moment. Were it not for you two, they would have lived their lives completely alone.” Regina says that’s why she’s forgiven Emma’s “incessant rudeness.” She adds that this whole ordeal has reminded her how lucky she is to have Henry. “Because not having someone, that’s the worst curse imaginable.”

Shoot to Catherine hugging John Doe/David. He hugs her back but stares at Mary-Margaret, who is staring right back at him.

Shoot to Mary-Margaret in her pajamas at home. There’s a knock on her door, she opens it to find Emma. She apologizes for bothering her so late and then asks her if the spare room she offered her is still available. Mary-Margaret smiles a bit and gestures for Emma to come in.