- Mary Margaret and David struggle with their feelings for each other, while Emma and Regina become suspicious of a mysterious arrival in Storybrooke.
- Mary Margaret and David continue to grapple with their unrequited love, and Emma and Regina grow suspicious over a mysterious new stranger in town. Meanwhile, in the fairytale land that was, Snow White yearns to ease her breaking heart as Prince Charming's wedding to King Midas' daughter approaches.—ABC Publicity
- Henry meets the motorcycle-riding stranger to Storybrooke, who has a box with him which he says contains something he needs to do something he cam to town for. The man takes off just as Regina comes walking out, and she wonders who the man is. He warns that a storm is coming.
Mary Margaret rushes off in the morning, telling Emma that she's late for school. She needs to be there by 7:15 to help the kids with their science fair. But we see that she's instead gone to the diner, where David regularly shows up at 7:15. They have a pleasant little conversation before he walks back out to his car, where his wife is waiting. Emma shows up and asks Mary Margaret if she's stalking David. She kind of is. She knows his whole routine, including that "Thursdays they get Chinese for dinner." Mary Margaret says she wishes there was a magic cure for love.
In Fairy Tale Land, Snow White meets up with Little Red Riding Hood, who asks about how Snow is dealing with the solitude in the forest. The conversation quickly turns to the fact that Prince James is marrying Midas' daughter in two days. Snow says she can't forget him. She wishes "there was a way to get him out of my head." Red gestures something, and Snow presses her about what she knows. Red says "there are whispers of a man who can achieve even the most unholy of requests -- a man who can do what you ask." Snow wants to know who it is.
We next see her meeting up with Rumpelstiltskin. He likes her boat and says he's been looking forward to meeting her. She says she needs a cure for a broken heart. He puts together a potion that he says will make her unable to remember who the prince is the next time she sees him. He's plucked a strand of hair from her head and says that's all he wants in return. She asks but gets no straight answer when he asks what he wants with it.
Mary Margaret runs into Kathryn at the store -- literally. They inadvertently bump into each other and their baskets both spill onto the floor. Kathryn finds a massive chocolate bar that Mary Margaret is buying, while Mary Margaret picks up a pregnancy test that Kathryn is buying. Mary Margaret politely wishes Kathryn luck with the test. Regina sees the whole scene and tells Mary Margaret to "be discreet," adding, "their lives are their business."
Back in Fairy Tale Lane, Prince James gets a crown from his father, which he says is a gift from King Midas. Prince James says he could feed the kingdom for an entire winter with the crown. The king asks James for some enthusiasm, and says he wants his heart. James claims his heart will belong to Abigail, but the king knows James' heart is "held by another." He tells James to forget about it, even though James says this was a role he never wanted to play. When the king leaves, James writes a letter to Snow and sends it off with a messenger dove.
Back in Storybrooke, Mary Margaret finds a dove caught in a net. She takes it to the animal shelter, where David works, and the vet there tells her the dove should be OK, but is a rare breed that forms monogamous relationships and it "won't be happy here" even if it heals. Mary Margaret figures she has to get it back near home, but David thinks it's a bad idea with the storm coming. Mary Margaret says no one deserves to be "lost forever, completely alone," so she's going to try to beat the storm and take the bird home. David offers to drive, but Mary Margaret thinks she should go alone.
Regina asks Emma about the stranger in town and wants to know who he's there and why. Emma suggests he might be one of the thousands Regina has cursed. Regina doesn't know what she means, and Emma refers to Henry's "stories." Regina tells Emma that the man took a particular interest in Henry, which gets Emma's attention.
Mary Margaret drives through the coming storm with the dove in a cage on the passenger's seat of her truck. We get a quick flash to Fairy Tale Land, where we see the dove deliver a note from Prince James. He asks her to come to him and show him she feels the same so they can be together forever. "And if you don't, I will have my answer," he writes.
Now, we see Mary Margaret get out of her truck with the bird, then quickly cut back to Fairy Tale Land, where Snow pulls a hood over her head to bring in flowers for Prince James from the kingdom of Midas. A coordinator isn't so sure about letting her in, but does -- warning to take the service stairwell "or the guards will toss you over the wall." She sneaks all the way to James' room, and even hides as he walks by her, but her delay is costly, as a knight grabs her from behind and takes her to a cell. He reads the note James sent her and says "the king will decide your fate." Snow tries to climb a craggy wall to escape, but falls and hits her head on the ground. She comes to and little fellow with big ears in a cell next to her tells her he's tried everything. He explains his name is Grumpy. She says she has to escape because there's someone she loves and she's not going to lose him. He tells her his story of love -- he worked at a diamond mine and traded all his money to a foreman to get a diamond so he could propose, but the diamond had been stolen and he took the blame. "I'm no thief," he says, "but they think I am." He says he should've known better but he wasn't thinking clearly all because of love.
"I know a way out," says a voice from somewhere else. It's another dwarf named Stealthy," who snuck in and knocked out the guards with a sleeping gas that "Doc" whipped up. Stealthy opens Grumpy's cell and as they're leaving, Snow wishes Grumpy luck and says, "I hope you get your love back." Perhaps against his better judgment, Grumpy takes the key and opens Snow's cell, as well.
Back in Storybrooke, Mary Margaret brings the dove to where its flock is, but lighting strikes the cliff where Mary Margaret is standing. She slips and winds up hanging precariously off the edge of the cliff.
Mary Margaret struggles to climb back up and David appears, pulling her up to safety. "You really think I'd let you come out here alone?" he asks her. Mary Margaret races back to the cage to get the dove, but David insists it isn't safe to stick around.
Stealthy, Grumpy and Snow are sneaking around through castle, but Snow thinks they should go one way and Stealthy thinks they should go another. Grumpy follows Stealthy and Snow stays behind. Soon enough, the dwarves are stopped by guards. Stealthy tries to run and is shot with an arrow by a sniper (which must be why we hadn't heard of him before). The king asks Grumpy where the girl is, and when Grumpy claims he doesn't know who they're talking about, the king orders him killed. Before the sword is swung at his neck, though, Snow shows up and threatens to burn down the castle if the king doesn't let Grumpy go. He does, and Grumpy gets away, but the king wants to talk to Snow, who is handcuffed.
In Storybrooke, Mary Margaret and David find shelter from the storm in the form of an empty cabin. Conveniently enough, there's a fire burning in the fireplace. Mary Margaret admits to David that she still has feelings for him. She says she goes to Granny' at 7:15 every morning to see him, but being around him is too painful because he chose Kathryn over her. He laughs, and admits that the reason he goes to Granny's every morning at 7:15 is to see her. He leans in for a kiss, and Mary Margaret backs away and asks him, "How can you do this?" She says she knows that Kathryn thinks she's pregnant.
"What?" David responds.
Emma shows up to confront the stranger, telling him he's suspicious. He claims he was only in front of Henry's house because that's where his motorcycle broke down. She then asks him about his mystery box, but he tells her she's "going to have to wait a long time" before he reveals what's in it. Or, he says, she can let him buy her a drink and he'll tell her right now. She agrees, and he opens the box. It's a typewriter. He says he finds Storybrooke provides "inspiration." She asks if he's been there before, and he replies, "I didn't say that." He gets up to leave, and Emma asks about that drink.
"I said 'sometime,'" he says before leaving.
David says he didn't know Kathryn thought she might be pregnant, and says they weren't trying to have a baby. The storm has stopped, though, and Mary Margaret goes back outside to release the dove to join its flock. They watch it fly away, and David tries to hold Mary Margaret's hand. She says they can't, but he tries to convince her otherwise. He says he feels like he has "two conflicting lives -- memories of feelings for her, and real feelings for you." She says they're going to have to forget each other, and walks away.
The king tells Snow that "love is a disease -- and like all diseases, if can be vanquished in one of two ways: a cure or death." He tells Snow to walk down to James' room, tell him she got his letter, and that she doesn't love him. He says it will break James' heart, and that will cure him. Snow thinks that if she doesn't do this, the king will kill her. But he says he'll kill James instead. He says killing Snow would just make James love her more, and the marriage and kingdom would crumble. But if an assassin killed him, he'd died a martyr and Midas would laud the death and the merger of kingdoms would be complete.
"You would do that to your own son," Snow says.
"He's not my son," the king replies.
We next see Snow enter James' room, and he's ecstatic to see her. He pulls in for a huge hug. She then tells him that they "can't happen." He tells her they can leave all this, and she tearfully tells him she doesn't love him. She tells him to fill his heart with love for someone else, "someone who can love you the way I never have -- the way I never will."
Back at his house, David and Kathryn talk. She says she feels like he's "here, but not here." She says it's been hard on her, and that she wants a family and children with him. She says she thought she was pregnant, but when the test came back negative she was upset at first, but then relieved. She says she wants to fix their relationship, and he agrees. She asks him to join her in seeing Dr. Hopper to get help. He tells her he knows they should be in love, and he wants to make that work. She notes it's 7:10, and they should leave if he wants to get coffee at the diner before work. He suggests that they instead have breakfast at home.
Back in Fairy Tale Land, Snow cries as she walks away from the castle. Grumpy walks alongside her, and six other dwarves are with him. He asks Snow if she found her love, and she says, "Worse, I lost him." Grumpy invites her to join them on their trip home. "We all lost someone today," he says. Doc notes, "Now we're seven."
Grumpy says they're going to protect her. She says the only thing that needed protecting was her heart, "and now it's destroyed." Grumpy tells her it will get better, and she agrees -- pulling the potion out. She says it will erase all her pain. Grumpy tells her not to do it -- he says he doesn't want his pain erased. It makes him who he is. "It makes me Grumpy," he says. He tells her to keep the potion, and if the pain is too much she can always drink it. "But, for now, put it away," he says. She agrees, and they continue walking.
Emma notices it's 7:15 and Mary Margaret hasn't left yet. She holds her hand.
Back in Fairy Tale Land, Prince James has ridden out to the forest looking for Snow. Red sees him, and tells him that Snow never came back after she went to find the prince.
"Then I'll find her," he says. "I will always find her."
Grumpy comes running into the dwarves' house with news that the royal wedding is off -- that her Prince Charming isn't getting married to Abigail.
Snow has a blank look on her face, then asks, "Who?"
Grumpy notices the empty potion vial on the nightstand.
Back in Storybrooke, it's 7:45 and Mary Margaret gets her coffee at the diner. David walks in, sees Mary Margaret and leaves. But she chases him. He says he's trying not to see her, and she says she's trying not to see him, too. They don't know how to resolve this, but when David tells Mary Margaret that Kathryn isn't pregnant, they kiss -- right in the middle of the street.
Regina, in her car across the street, sees it all.
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