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00:16Once upon a time, an evil queen banished every storybook character you've ever known to our world.
00:23They don't remember who they are.
00:25Only one knows the truth, and only one can break her spell.
00:30If you need anything...
00:32You'll find me.
00:33Always.
00:33We belong together.
00:35You're the only thing in this whole place that feels right.
00:37No one comes here. Ever.
00:40Any place to get a room around here?
00:42You're staying?
00:44That's the plan.
01:11What are you doing here?
01:13Fixing my bike.
01:15No, I mean in storybook.
01:18I'm just visiting.
01:19What's that?
01:20A box.
01:21What's inside it?
01:23Just something I need to do what I came here for.
01:29I thought you were just visiting.
01:31Doesn't mean I don't have something to do.
01:35Henry?
01:36Better get to school.
01:40Looks like the storm's coming.
01:46Henry?
01:48Who was that?
01:51Top of the morning.
01:52This is Chief Meteorologist Bill Godwin with your up-to-the-minute storybook weather.
01:56Well, break out those glasses, folks.
01:58It's gonna get soggy.
01:59We've got a major storm system moving up the coast, and the latest Doppler radar shows
02:02the worst bands of precipitation moving into storybook right about the time you're putting the kids in.
02:08I can't believe I overslept.
02:09It's only 7.10.
02:10You've got plenty of time to get to school.
02:12No, I have to be there at 7.15.
02:14Science fair.
02:15I'm helping the kids with their project before school.
02:16I'm sure if you're five minutes late, they'll live.
02:19We're making a volcano.
02:23Okay.
02:39We're making a volcano.
02:39All right, we're standing up.
03:05One cream and sugar, one black.
03:18Good morning.
03:20Morning.
03:24I should go. I'm going to be late for work.
03:27Oh, the animal shelter, right? How's that going?
03:29Well, the apes haven't taken over.
03:31Yet?
03:31Not on my watch.
03:52This is making a volcano?
03:57I was...
03:58I get it.
03:59He comes here every morning at 7.15 a.m. to get coffee.
04:03For him and his wife.
04:04I know, I know, I know.
04:05I'd just like to come here to see him.
04:09So you're a stalker?
04:11No, not really.
04:13Maybe a little bit.
04:15I mean, it's not like I'm following him.
04:16I just know that he spends his mornings with Catherine, gets coffee, then drives to the animal shelter to start
04:20work at 7.30, and then he's home around 5.
04:23Oh, is that all?
04:25Thursdays, they pick up Chinese for dinner.
04:29I can't get him out of my head.
04:30I know.
04:31Maybe the first step is not showing up here tomorrow.
04:36Love's the worst.
04:38I wish there was a magic cure.
04:52Hey!
04:54It's me.
04:55Red.
04:58The spear.
04:59Snow.
05:00Oh.
05:00Sorry.
05:03I wasn't expecting you for a month.
05:05It's been a month.
05:08Has it?
05:09You're really taking well to the solitude, aren't you?
05:11It's fine.
05:12It's exactly what I wanted, to be out here.
05:14Away.
05:15And that you are.
05:18There you go.
05:22So, how are things back in the world?
05:24Come on.
05:25Ask what you really want.
05:27I don't know what you mean.
05:30Fine.
05:32Tell me.
05:33The wedding's happening.
05:36Prince James is marrying Midas' daughter.
05:40In two days' time.
05:43You okay?
05:45I just thought the longer I was out here, the easier it would be to forget him, but...
05:50Instead, all I do is think about it.
05:53I'm sorry.
05:56I wish there was a way to get him out of my head.
05:59I don't know.
06:05What?
06:05Is there?
06:06Of course not.
06:07That would...
06:07Red, what do you know?
06:10Come on.
06:11I helped you when no one else would.
06:13What do you know?
06:17Well...
06:18There are whispers.
06:20Whispers of a man who can achieve even the most unholy of requests.
06:26A man who can do what you ask.
06:28Who is this man?
06:48How much for this?
06:54Excuse me?
06:55You're booked.
06:57Exquisite craftsmanship.
06:59It's not for sale.
07:00Of course it is, dearie.
07:02No one comes to see me without a deal in mind.
07:07So you're Rumpelstiltskin.
07:10Indeed I am.
07:13I've been looking forward to meeting you.
07:17Wow.
07:18You really are the fairest of them all, aren't you?
07:23What can I do for you?
07:25I need a cure.
07:28What else you done?
07:29A broken heart?
07:31The most painful of afflictions.
07:36Well, I'm afraid if you want me to make them love you,
07:39no can do, nothing can.
07:41No, that's not the problem.
07:42We can't be together.
07:44Well, that I can help you with.
07:49Mwah!
08:02That'll do it.
08:03Not yet.
08:04No two loves are exactly alike.
08:08We must make this personal.
08:12Mwah!
08:14So if I drink that, I'll no longer love him?
08:16The next time you see the object of your grief,
08:21you won't even remember who he is.
08:23Love is the most powerful magic for the cure must be extreme.
08:32Extreme sounds like an understatement.
08:34Don't doubt yourself now, dearie.
08:36Love makes us sick,
08:39haunts our dreams,
08:40destroys our days.
08:43Love
08:43has killed more than any disease.
08:47This cure
08:50is a gift.
08:53What's your price?
08:56These will do.
08:58What do you need of my hair?
09:00What do you need of it now?
09:02It's been plucked from your head.
09:05Do we have a deal?
09:11I thought so.
09:13Drink it in good health.
09:16Snow wine.
09:39I'm so sorry.
09:41You're fine to worry about it.
09:42I wasn't looking.
09:43Clearly.
09:44Oh, is this yours?
09:46Yes, thank you.
09:47Um, this must...
09:52Good luck.
09:59I trust you'll be discreet.
10:02Their lives are their business,
10:04not yours.
10:22James.
10:25How goes the feast?
10:27Your absence is felt.
10:29It is, after all,
10:31in your honor.
10:32I thought this might
10:34rouse you from your chamber.
10:36You could feed the kingdom
10:37for an entire winter
10:38with that crown.
10:39It's a gift
10:40from King Midas
10:41for you to wear
10:42as you marry his daughter.
10:44Once that is done,
10:45our new prosperity
10:46will allow us
10:47to feed the kingdom
10:48for all eternity.
10:51Show some enthusiasm.
10:53Enthusiasm wasn't part
10:54of the deal.
10:55The wedding's in two days.
10:57I've honored your wishes.
10:58But I want your heart,
10:59not just your honor.
11:03My heart shall belong
11:04to Abigail.
11:05You think I'm a fool,
11:07don't you?
11:08Your heart can't belong
11:09to Abigail
11:10when it's held
11:10by another woman.
11:11And don't deny it.
11:13I know that look.
11:14Who is she?
11:16I met her on her journey.
11:18We haven't seen
11:19each other since,
11:20but she stayed with me.
11:23Forget her.
11:25You speak as if
11:26that's so easy.
11:27Nobility was not
11:28meant to be easy.
11:29All this wealth,
11:31the power we hold
11:32over other men's lives,
11:33do you think that
11:34comes at no cost?
11:35I ask for none of it.
11:36You were chosen
11:38to be my son,
11:39plucked from poverty,
11:41wanting for nothing.
11:42Be thankful for that.
11:43It wasn't charity,
11:45Father.
11:45It was the only way
11:46to save your kingdom.
11:48Watch yourself, boy.
11:49this is a choice you made.
11:51A role you have taken.
11:52Honor it.
11:53There is too much at stake.
11:56Do whatever it takes
11:58to get that woman
11:59out of your head,
12:01because nothing
12:02is going to stop
12:03this wedding.
12:23Dearest snow.
12:30Find her.
12:56Oh, hey.
13:01I'm going to let you
13:02manage to get yourself.
13:04Come on.
13:05It's going to be okay.
13:12Well, the good news
13:13is no broken bones.
13:15She was just
13:15a little dehydrated,
13:16but I got her some fluids,
13:18and she should be just fine.
13:19And the bad news?
13:20Well, this is
13:21a North Atlantic dove.
13:22It's a migratory species,
13:24very unique
13:25among American doves.
13:26Now, they tend to form
13:27strong, monogamous bonds,
13:29meaning...
13:29If I don't get her
13:30back to her flock,
13:31she'll be alone forever.
13:33Well, it's a long shot,
13:36but the alternative,
13:39she'll heal,
13:40but she won't be happy here.
13:44I'll take my chances.
13:45Thank you, doctor.
13:46You're welcome.
13:47Good luck.
13:49All right, Margaret,
13:50there's a storm coming.
13:51You really shouldn't
13:52go out there.
13:52Well, the storm's
13:53coming tomorrow,
13:53and if I wait,
13:55she could be lost forever,
13:57completely alone.
13:59No one deserves that.
14:00Then let me drive you.
14:01I don't need your help, David.
14:03I'll be fine.
14:14Storybrooke has seen
14:14wind gusts up to
14:1560 miles an hour.
14:16Your best bet
14:17is to stay in the house
14:18because...
14:20If you're looking
14:21to blame me for the storm,
14:22I think you're taking
14:23things a bit far now.
14:24I need you to look
14:25into something, Sheriff.
14:27Someone's in town.
14:29Someone new.
14:30Yeah, I know.
14:31I gave him directions
14:32to grannies the other night.
14:33You talk to him?
14:34What'd he say?
14:36He asked for directions.
14:38What's the big deal?
14:40Who is he?
14:40I don't know.
14:41Passed around,
14:42but no one seems
14:43to know anything.
14:44There's something about him,
14:45something familiar.
14:46He must be one
14:47of the untold millions
14:48you cursed.
14:50What?
14:51Oh, you know,
14:52the curse.
14:53Henry's whole thing.
14:54Sheriff, I need you
14:55to find out who he is,
14:56what he wants
14:57and what he's doing here.
14:58You know,
15:00as hard as you tried
15:01to find one in my case,
15:02there was no law
15:03against visiting Storybrooke.
15:04This isn't about
15:05the law, Miss Swan.
15:07You're gonna do this
15:08because I asked you to
15:09and because you'll see
15:10it's the right thing to do.
15:12And why is that?
15:13Because he was
15:14in front of my house,
15:15taking a particular interest
15:17in the one thing
15:17we both care about,
15:19Henry.
15:22I'll look into him.
16:25And if you don't, I will have my answer.
16:44Well, the flock can't be much further.
16:47It just have to be the store.
16:49They're waiting for you.
17:00Where are you at the stable yet?
17:03Does they have a guard drag you there?
17:05And do you go with me?
17:06King George's carriage must be spotless for tomorrow's journey.
17:10Flowers for Prince James from the kingdom of Midas.
17:19Top of the northeast spire.
17:21Take the service stairwell.
17:22The guards will toss you over the walls.
17:24The prince.
17:24Come on.
17:25Come on.
18:08I am a royal emissary.
18:12Sure you are.
18:13The king will decide your fate.
18:55Who is there?
19:03What are you looking at, sister?
19:07Tried it all.
19:09Steel gets stronger as we grow weaker.
19:12Well, I am not giving up.
19:17I'll give you time, Grumpy.
19:21I'm not Grumpy.
19:23I'm focused.
19:23No.
19:25My name, Grumpy.
19:27I'm telling you, there's no way out.
19:30Well, I'm Snow, and I'll find one.
19:34You say so.
19:37There's someone out there for me.
19:39Someone I love very much, and I will not lose him.
19:43Love, huh?
19:45Good luck with that.
19:48What do you know about it?
19:50That's why I'm stuck in this hole.
19:55I had it bad.
19:57She was beautiful as a fairy.
20:00But I lost her.
20:01I was desperate to get her back.
20:05So I came up with a plan.
20:07I worked at the diamond mines.
20:10Traded all my wages to the foreman for a diamond to propose.
20:14But I got swindled.
20:16It was a stolen rock, and I took the blame.
20:20I'm no thief.
20:22But they think I am.
20:25Should have known better.
20:27But I wasn't thinking clearly, all because of love.
20:31Now here I am, trapped.
20:34With no way out.
20:36I know a way out.
20:45Stealthy.
20:46You ready to go home?
20:47How'd you get in here?
20:48Duck whipped up the sleeping gas.
20:50Knocked all the guards out cold.
20:51The rest are waiting with transport.
20:53There's more of you?
20:55Who's that?
20:56She's pretty.
20:57No one.
20:57Come on, let's go!
21:02Grumpy?
21:03Good luck.
21:05I hope you get your love back.
21:10Son of a...
21:12Give me that.
21:20Come on.
21:24Do you hear that?
21:26Your flock.
21:28Your flock.
21:38No.
21:44Never...
21:54No!
21:57No!
21:59No!
22:00No!
22:01No!
22:07Hold tight.
22:10Come on.
22:17You really think I'll let you come out here alone?
22:20You okay?
22:22I'm fine, thanks.
22:28Where are you going?
22:29I came to find the flock.
22:31And I came here to get you before you got hurt.
22:35We have to go.
22:37No!
22:39Doing this on foot is not the best plan.
22:41The gate was slow.
22:43I know, I saw him.
22:44It's too late, we have to go.
22:46Mary Margaret, it's not safe.
22:48We need to get out of here.
22:51Come on.
22:53Come on.
23:02Oh, hey, wait. The stairs.
23:04No, we sneak out through the courtyard.
23:06No, it's safer if we climb over the curtain wall.
23:08Trust me, hiding from royals is my life.
23:09The courtyard is clear now, but it won't be for much longer.
23:14I'm sorry, lady.
23:16Stealthy got me this far.
23:19Grumpy!
23:19Grumpy, wait!
23:33Halt!
23:34Those two are prisoners.
23:35Grumpy, run, we can make it.
23:36Stealthy, no!
23:41No!
23:43Stop!
23:46Where is the girl?
23:51What girl?
23:52Kill him.
23:57Looking for me?
24:00Let him go.
24:04This place will burn.
24:11Be gone, dwarf.
24:15Go, Grumpy.
24:27Now, Snow White.
24:32We need to talk.
24:40There!
24:44Come on.
24:48Hello?
24:50Hello?
24:51Is anyone in there?
24:54It's empty.
25:08It's empty.
25:19Okay.
25:21Let's get you dry.
25:25Whose cabin is this?
25:27Are you sure it's okay for us to be in here?
25:29Well, you're roommates with the sheriff, so I doubt you'll arrest us for breaking and entering.
25:35Here.
25:40Hey, I'm just... just trying to help.
25:45What's going on with you today?
25:49What's going on?
25:52I still have feelings for you.
25:56What?
25:57Why?
25:57Why do you think I go to Granny's every morning at 7.15?
26:02It's to see you.
26:04I don't know why.
26:06Because it just makes me miserable.
26:08Because every time I see you, it just reminds me that you chose Catherine instead of me.
26:14And that's why I didn't want you to come to the woods with me.
26:18Because being around you is too...
26:22It's too painful.
26:28You think this is funny?
26:29No.
26:31No, it's just...
26:32The reason I go to Granny's every morning at 7.15...
26:38...is to see you.
27:00How can you do this?
27:02What are you talking about?
27:04David, I know.
27:06You know what?
27:07About Catherine.
27:10What about Catherine?
27:11That she thinks she's pregnant.
27:14What?
27:33I need to talk.
27:35Why?
27:38Because...
27:40You're suspicious.
27:42Sitting here.
27:43Out in the open.
27:45Drinking coffee.
27:47I wonder what kind of hell I would have raised had I ordered a donut.
27:51You were talking to Henry.
27:52You mean the little kid who came up to me asking me questions?
27:56Is that unusual for him, being curious and precocious?
28:01What were you doing outside his house?
28:03My bike broke down.
28:05It happens.
28:08Your mysterious box.
28:10What's in it?
28:12It's awfully frustrating not knowing, isn't it?
28:14Just tell me.
28:15Why?
28:16Is it illegal to carry around a box in these parts?
28:18No, of course it's not.
28:20You really want to know what's inside it, don't you?
28:22No.
28:25Well, maybe.
28:29I'm going to make you wait.
28:32You're going to have to wait a long time and watch me carry it around,
28:37hauling it to strange and mysterious places.
28:41And with each passing moment, the mystery will become more tantalizing.
28:45Your imagination will inflame, but so will your frustration,
28:49never knowing, only guessing, what could possibly be inside that box.
28:57Or...
28:59you could let me buy you a drink sometime and I'll tell you right now.
29:04You want to buy me a drink?
29:06Yes.
29:07Yes.
29:08Okay.
29:09A drink it is.
29:24Really?
29:25I'm a writer.
29:27That's why you're here.
29:28That's why you're here.
29:28I find this place provides... inspiration.
29:32Don't you?
29:39Wait.
29:40Have you been here before?
29:42I didn't say that.
29:47What about that drink?
29:51I said sometime.
30:02You didn't know.
30:06No.
30:07And you two weren't trying.
30:09No, as far as I know.
30:13Mary Margaret, you have to believe me.
30:16I...
30:17The rain stopped.
30:19I need to get her out.
30:20Mary Margaret.
30:26Please, can we at least talk...
30:29Listen.
30:37The flock.
30:39It didn't leave.
30:43You must have been waiting for the storm to clear.
30:51Okay.
30:52Okay, girl, time to join your friends.
30:58You can do it.
31:16No, David, it's too painful.
31:24It doesn't have to be.
31:27We don't know Catherine's pregnant.
31:28It doesn't matter. You chose her.
31:31I know.
31:32But I still have feelings for you.
31:34You can't have both.
31:36But I do have both.
31:39I know. I know it doesn't make sense.
31:42But it's like I have these two conflicting lives.
31:45Memories of feelings for her.
31:48And real feelings for you.
31:54Who's to say which is real?
31:57I can't get you out of my head.
31:59I know. Me too.
32:01But we're going to have to.
32:03We're just going to have to forget each other.
32:05Here.
32:13So, you're the one.
32:15I don't know what you're...
32:17Enough. I know everything.
32:19You poisoned his heart. Now his marriage.
32:23And with that, the entire kingdom, all because of your feelings.
32:28I wish feelings could be helped, but they can't.
32:30Of course they can.
32:32Love is a disease.
32:33And like all diseases, it can be vanquished in one of two ways.
32:37A cure or death.
32:39Do you know where your beloved is right now?
32:43He's right down that hallway, packing for his new life.
32:47He'll never know I'm here.
32:48Oh, yes, he will.
32:50Because you are going to walk down that hallway, Snow White.
32:53You're going to sneak in and tell him you received his letter.
32:57You're going to tell him why you're here.
32:59Because you don't love him.
33:02It'll break his heart.
33:04And that will cure him.
33:07Or you'll kill me.
33:08Oh, no.
33:10I'll kill him.
33:12Killing you would just make him love you more.
33:14And the marriage and the kingdom would ultimately crumble.
33:17But if he were to die at an assassin's hand, he would die a martyr.
33:21Midas would forgive even Laud the death.
33:23And the merger would be complete.
33:26You would do that to your own son?
33:29He is not my son.
33:44No.
33:59James.
34:02Snow.
34:03I got your letter.
34:05You came.
34:09You came.
34:11You came.
34:15You came.
34:17You came.
34:27Wait, James.
34:30Us.
34:35It can't happen.
34:37What's wrong?
34:38Of course it can't.
34:39You're here.
34:40We can go.
34:41We can be together.
34:42We can leave all this.
34:43I know there are costs.
34:45But I plan for everything that can hurt us.
34:50And now that I know that you love me too.
34:52I don't.
34:56What?
34:58Love you.
35:00I don't.
35:02I'm sorry.
35:03I'm sorry.
35:04You said I would always be in your heart and...
35:08That is too cruel a fate.
35:11Go live your life.
35:14Live it without me because there is no place for us together.
35:20Fill your heart with love for someone else.
35:24Someone who can love you the way I never have.
35:29The way I never will.
35:31Now.
35:31I know.
35:44I'm sorry.
35:45We can set off.
35:46I'm sorry, I can't go.
35:52I've lost my life.
35:52No, no, no.
35:53Nobody will come to me.
35:53Then I need to go to my house.
35:54I will be in my house.
35:55Every night, I'll have to go home.
35:55So, let's go.
35:56Hell, no.
36:04Anything you want to tell me?
36:07What do you mean?
36:09Something's up, isn't it?
36:12What?
36:14I feel like ever since you've come home,
36:19you're here, but you're not here.
36:24I know you say you're trying,
36:26and I know you've been through a lot, but...
36:28No, no, Catherine, let's...
36:30No, David, please, just let me finish.
36:33I know it's been hard on you,
36:34but it's also been hard on me.
36:40I want a family with you someday.
36:42I want children.
36:44I'll be honest.
36:45I thought I was pregnant.
36:48And when the test came back negative,
36:50at first I was upset,
36:52but then I was relieved.
36:56We're not ready.
36:57If I was pregnant now,
36:59it would be a disaster.
37:00Yeah.
37:01But I want to fix this.
37:02I want to fix us.
37:03Me too.
37:04Do you?
37:07Well, then let's go see Dr. Hopper.
37:09Let's get some help.
37:10Will you do that?
37:11Will you give us our best shot?
37:15Yeah.
37:18Look,
37:19you and I,
37:21I know we're some...
37:24I know we should be in love.
37:28And I want to make that work.
37:34It's 7-10.
37:38You should get going
37:39if you want your coffee before work.
37:43No.
37:46Why don't we
37:47go downstairs
37:48and have some breakfast instead?
37:50Hmm?
37:51Yeah.
37:52All right.
37:54All right.
37:56All right.
37:58All right.
37:59All right.
38:00All right.
38:01All right.
38:01All right.
38:09All right.
38:10All right.
38:17Are you okay, sister?
38:23Not even close.
38:25You didn't find him?
38:27Worse,
38:29I lost him.
38:34Come on.
38:38Where are you taking me?
38:41Home.
38:44We all lost someone today.
38:46Now we're seven.
38:49I wouldn't be here
38:50if it wasn't for you.
38:51So you're coming home
38:52with us, Snow,
38:52and we're going to protect you.
38:55The only thing
38:56that needed protecting
38:57is destroyed.
38:58By heart.
39:02It will get better.
39:06Yes.
39:09Yes.
39:10Yes, it will.
39:11This will take all of my feelings,
39:13all of my pain,
39:15and destroy them.
39:17No.
39:18Why?
39:19You, of all people,
39:20should understand
39:21you've lost love.
39:23What if your pain
39:24could be erased?
39:25I don't want my pain erased.
39:28As wretched as it is,
39:31I need my pain.
39:33It makes me who I am.
39:35It makes me grumpy.
39:40Look around, Snow.
39:42You're not alone anymore.
39:44I promise you
39:45that's all the cure you need.
39:46If the pain's too much,
39:48you can always drink it.
39:50But for today,
39:52put it away.
39:55Okay.
39:56Okay.
40:00Okay.
40:40Come on, come on.
40:42Snow!
40:45Snow White!
40:53Snow!
40:55Are you there?
40:56She's gone.
40:58She never came back
40:59after she went to find you.
41:04Then I'll find her.
41:07I will always find her.
41:14Where's Snow?
41:14Where is she?
41:15Snow!
41:16Snow!
41:17The royal wedding!
41:18The kingdom's abuzz!
41:19It's off, Snow.
41:20We left her!
41:20James left Abigail!
41:22Did you hear me?
41:23Your prince charming
41:24isn't getting married.
41:28Who?
41:38Thanks, Ruby.
41:58What are you doing here?
42:00It's 745.
42:01I know!
42:02Well, I'm trying not to see you.
42:03Well, I am trying not to see you.
42:05Well, how do we stop
42:06seeing each other?
42:06Apparently, we can't.
42:09This is a problem.
42:11Yes.
42:14She's not pregnant.
42:43She's not pregnant.
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