What a crazy episode this turned out to be! This is probably the first time in the series that I was really thrown for a loop, and I thought the show was already fairly adept at purposely misleading.
In Fairy Tale Land, Red Riding Hood wants to run away with her best friend and newly-minted love interest, Peter, but her grandmother won’t let her because it’s the Wolftime. Snow White is taken in by Red and while she’s there, she and Red go hunt for the wolf in order to kill it so Red can finally leave her granny’s house and be with her love. When they find out the wolf turns into a human, they erroneously believe Peter’s the wolf. Of course, they’re wrong–Red has been the wolf all along. She has a curse on her thanks to her mother and grandfather. Needless to say, Peter doesn’t survive. Once Red finds out about her curse and what she’s done, she is overcome with grief as she is rushed out of harm’s way.
In Storybrooke, the mystery of the disappearance of Kathryn continues. For a while, it is suspected that David might have done something to Kathryn since, due to his previous injury, he is prone to have blackout spells in which he can seem lucid. During the investigation, Ruby has a fight with her grandmother, resulting in her quitting her job at the diner. Emma hires her on as an assistant, and through Ruby’s incredible hunting talent, she finds David when he’s knocked out in the woods as well as find a major clue to the investigation–an ornate box containing a human heart. Ruby’s discovery makes her realize that she doesn’t want to be in law enforcement anymore and gladly returns to her grandmother’s diner in order to be groomed to take it over once her grandmother retires.
When Emma tells David and Mary Margaret of the horrid discovery, David immediately thinks he’s the one that killed her (if that is her heart in the box), but the fingerprints inside the box don’t belong to David–they belong to Mary Margaret!
What does any of this mean? Give your ideas in the comments section below.
