Monday, November 28, 2011

The truth behind the Cricket

This episode after waiting 2 weeks was interesting but did not blow me away. In this one, we delve into the reasons behind the town shrink Archie or more commonly known as Jiminy Cricket.

Once Emma puts on her deputy badge (and keeps her bad ass red leather jacket) the earth shakes and a huge mine shaft blows. Henry is convinced that there has to be something under there hiding. His weekly sessions with Archie or going to come to a kibosh when evil queen mother mayor tells him he better tell Henry that he is imagining it all. It seems to me that maybe she does know a little bit she is the evil queen. She also tells Emma to go home before Emma comes back and says "I am the deputy now" and then the Queen has no idea what to say. She shoots an ice stare over to the sheriff who we found out last time she was boning.

We go into the back story of Archie. When he was little he used to steal from people while his parents put on a town puppet show. When he got older he realized that this was not the way he wanted to live. His parents had told him that as long as they were alive, he would steal for them. He went to Rumple (who else) to ask for some magic. He gave him a potion and sent him off to give that to his parents. In return, he would keep them after whatever happened would happen. One night Jimmny and his parents stopped at a rich persons house and asked if they could come inside (I love the flooring you have here!). At dinner over broth, they tell the nice people that there is a plague and they will need some elf's potion to survive. They will sell it to them for all the riches they possess. Jiminy then takes his potion from Rumple and sprinkles it on them. Tricky as they are, they had switched potions. Now realizing what had happened he runs back to save the couple, but they had been turned into wooden dolls.

Their son comes back and finds them there in horror. He goes out and makes a wish and a fairy comes (the same fairy that turns Pinocchio into a real boy I am assuming) and makes Jiminy free. The only thing he can think of is a cricket and he is turned into one with his handy umbrella. The fairy tells him he must take care of their son who's name is coincidentally Geppetto. I am really hoping that we meet Pinocchio one day too.

from abc.com

Back in Storybrook, Henry sneaks into the mine and Archie goes after him. They are trapped in an old elevator as he tells him that his thoughts are not fake and he finally decides to take a stand. He is going to be the conscious that he always knew he was. Emma (bad ass) breaks into the mine and scoops Henry, things start to get Dicey and the elevator falls to the floor but Archie had been holding on by his umbrella.

Back over at the hospital, Mary Margaret has been playing hangman with John Doe. They feel this connection between them, but somehow his wife is still hanging around. They go for a walk together and almost kiss. It wont be long before they are back together where they belong and he remembers.

Everyone is happy that Henry is saved and the evil queen rips him out of Emma's hand and tells her to go control the crowd. Archie also tells the Mayor that he will do things his way and her threats dont fly, because when it comes down to a custody battle he will be the key witness and will have plenty to say against her. She had picked up this strange piece of glass earlier and when the landfill collapses she tosses it in. It follows to the bottom where we see tons of other pieces of glass, which I can only assume is her magic mirror.

Do you think the Evil Queen/Mother Mayor knows she is the queen? What about Mr. Gold aka Rumple? Wasnt it eerie that he owns those wooden dolls?

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