Red-Handed

"Red-Handed" is the 15th episode of Once Upon a Time.

Summary
After quitting Granny's diner, and with her self-esteem at an all-time low, Ruby is hired by Emma to be her assistant, hoping to discover what it is in life that she's good at. Meanwhile, Emma continues questioning David about the disappearance - and possible murder - of Kathryn. In the fairytale land that was, Red Riding Hood yearns to run away with her true love. But she, along with her fellow townspeople, are virtual prisoners when a bloodthirsty wolf continues on its relentless killing spree.

Plot
"Once upon a time, an Evil Queen banished every storybook character you've ever known..."

Queen Regina unleahes her curse on the land, she takes relish in the flames. Hansel and Gretel walk together through the forest and turn to see the Evil Queen's carriage. Red Riding Hood is shocked to see Charming. Prince Charming and Snow White stand at the alter to say their vows to each other.

"To our world..."

Mary Margaret and David take a romantic stroll together. Regina looks att the book and up to a mirror, worried about the safof her Dark Curse.

"Who knows the truth?"

Mr. Gold walks across the street.

"And who can break the spell?"

Emma stares forward. August W. Booth steals Henry's storybook. Henry and Emma sit in the former's "castle" and Henry tells his mother that you don't mess with the curse. Queen Regina sends out a ball of fire with her hand. Snow White is in the woods with the Huntsman, she's crying and asks if he's not going to kill her, he tells her to run, she obliges. David wahses the word "TRAMP" off of Mary Margaret's truck, later, Mary Margaret tells him that not only did he lie to Kathryn, but he lied to her, too. "What are you saying?" he asks, "That we shouldn't be together." she tells him. Regina tells Emma that it's been 24 hours since Kathryn went missing, she asks her if she's found anything. Emma looks through phone records. Emma tells David that she has to take him into questioning regarding Kathryn's disappearance, she takes him into the back of her sheriff's car.

ONCE UPON A TIME

Act I
David is sitting in the sheriff's station, having been brought in for questioning, and Emma, the sheriff, hands him a cup of coffee, he thanks her. He says that it's nice to be somewhere warm as appose to out in the cold. "David, I think you need to start worrying about yourself alot more. Your wife is missing, you're in love with another woman and there's this... unexplained phonecall." Emma says, lifting the phone records, David protests that he knows, "I can't explain why it says that... I didn't do anything to my wife." he assures her. Emma stares at him, "I'm pretty good at spotting a liar, and honestly, liars have better material." Emma tells him, before saying that he can go home. David is surprised, Emma opens the door to her office, "We don't even know if there was a crime yet, get some sleep." the blonde instructs. David thanks her and begins to leave, but before he does, Emma suggests that he maybe get a lawyer. David looks at her blankly and leaves.

It's nighttime in Storybrooke, Maine, and at Granny's Diner, Ruby is talking to August W. Booth, the mysterious new writer in town. She's talking about how he;s staying there without a roof over his head, he assures her that you get used to it, going on to say that he has a motor cycle so if he doesn't like a place, he can leave. Granny, who is watching the conversation from afar, calls out for Ruby, who ignores her. "I've never even been out of Storybrooke, what's your favorite place?" she asks, "Nepal." he tells her, she's hanging on his every word, "Best people. They have these prayer temples, carved into mountains, that are overrun by lemurs." he says, "What's a lemur?" Ruby asks curiously, before Granny calls out her name ofr a second time, this time angrily. "Give me a sec!" Ruby yells, continuing to talk to August, he tells her that they're animals and that they have eyes that reflect light so at night, it looks like the glow, Ruby smiles. "Ruby! Stop flirting and get over here!" Granny yells, banging her fist on the counter top.

In the fairytale world, a hand knocks on the window of a cottage, belonging to a lad, a girl from inside, sounding scared, asks who's there, the boy asks her to let him in, opening the shutters. "I'm just a poor old widow, spare me!" the girl calls in a fake voice. "Let me in or I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow the-" he begins, Red Riding Hood, the girl, opens the window, laughing. "You'll huff and puff?" she asks, smiling, "I couldn't think of nothing." Peter, Red's love, tells her, "Oh, so you thought you'd bring the house down with the power of your breath?" she asks, she leans in to kiss him, but doesn't, "Well, a case could be made." she tells him. He laughs but Red hushes him, telling him that Granny's in the other room, "You know she doesn't like me opening the shutters." Red says, "You mean she doesn't like me?" Peter asks, "...that's what I meant." Red says, sadly. He begins to talk about what will happen when they get out of there, and Red becomes touched that he'd be willing to leave everyone he knows just for her. "I'd do anything for you." he tells her, Red blushes, Peter asks her to come out for a minute but Red argues that its already dark and her grandmother would never allow it. "Red, where are you, what are you doing?!" Granny calls from the other room, Red turns, startled, but Peter turns her back, she says she has to go but he asks for one kiss. Red kisses Peter and afterwards, closes the shutters and leaves, leaving the lad happy as well as his red-cloaked love. Peter runs down the hill and Red walks into the room containing her grandmother.

"What's going on?" Red asks, noticing the huntsmen at the door, Granny tells her that its nothing to concern herself with, "Just a bunch of fools trying to get themselves killed over a few dead sheep!" Granny exclaims, "The wolf took out a dozen last night." the head of the group says. "So, you called me in here to... what? Just to keep me in sight?" Red asks, the head of the group greets her and says that they're forming a hunting party, Red seems excited that they're hunting the wolf but Granny nips this excitment in the bud, telling her granddaughter that she'll be staying inside and keeping her hood on. "You know red repells wolves." Granny says, "They're not wearing red." she points out, "They're damned fools, too." Granny says, before turning around and telling the people that there's only a few nights left so they should just let it take a few sheep, she yells at them to go home before slamming the door in their faces and locking it. "I hope they kill the wolf!" Red says, mentioning that then she can have a life again, Granny points out that she just wants to run around the woods with Peter, Red assures her grandmother that he works hard and has plans. "Oh, I am sure he does! Now come on, you know what to do." Granny instructs her granddaughter. Red and Granny barricade the door, lock the fireplace, shut the window shutters and lockdown the house, basically. Afterwards, Granny tells Red to go to sleep, she obliges and leaves. Granny sits in her chair and pulls out a large crossbow, keeping it aimed at the door.

Back at Granny's Diner, Ruby is yelling at Granny at the counter, "I can't believe you did that! That was completely humiliating!" Ruby yells, Granny ignores her, telling her that she wants her to start working Saturday nights, Ruby argues that she never agreed to work Saturday's. "I want to train you to do the books and the re-orders. Business is booming lately, and with more money comes more papaerwork." Granny explains, Ruby tells her that none of that sounds good but Granny exclaims that it's got to be done. "Is this a punishment? For talking to that guy?" Ruby asks. "If I wanted to punish you, I'd have better reasons, for one thing, you were late, for another thing, Eliza, you dress like a drag queen during fleet week." Granny tells her, "And you dress like Norman Bates when he dresses as Norman Bates' mother!" Ruby retorts. Granny reminds her employee that she's a grown woman and can't keep acting like some kid, "You just want me to act like you until I turn into you! Well, I am not a phossil yet, Granny. I should be out there having adventures with lemurs!" Ruby protests. Granny exclaims that as long as Ruby works there, she will listen to her, "I didn't ask to work here!" Ruby yells, Granny, moving along the counter, asls Ruby what's keeping her. "Nothing! I quit!" Ruby yells, Granny stops, shocked. Ruby takes off her apron and storms out of the diner, in a strop.

In the fairytale world, Red Riding Hood, who is red riding hoodless, walks into the living room to see her Granny, still sitting there with her crossbow. Red asks her grandmother if she slept, but Granny replies that she'll sleep with the trolls in the afterlife. Red helps her up, "I'll get the shutters, you go check if that wolf left the chickens alone." Granny tells Red as she goes over to the windows, Red unlocks and opens the front door, however, before she can open it, "Wear your hood!" Granny exclaims. Red closes the door again and heads back upstairs, Granny unlocks the window shutters.

Later, after hooding up, Red and her basket are checking on the chickens, as well as their eggs. Red collects some eggs and it is clear she is being watched, she begins to leave the coop but suddenly stops and turns around. She begins to walk towards whatever she thinks is watching her. "I'm sorry, I can go!" says Snow White as she steps out from where she is hiding, and egg in either hand, "Are you stealing our eggs?" Red asks, Snow says that she isn't before soon admitting to it and handing the eggs back to Red, who tells her that it's alright. "Thank you... I was just, erm... last night, there was something out there. There was howling and I heard it and it was so cold, so..." Snow says, cold and frightened. "Hey, come on, come with me." Red offers her new friend, "Everyone calls me Red." she says. "I'm Sn-... Frosty." Snow lies, not wanting to reveal her real name due to her being on the lamb. "Frosty? Really?" Red asks, "...no." Snow says, "It's just that someone's looking for me, so..." she explains. "You don;t know or trust me yet." Red finishes, before going on to say that she gets it but needs something to call her. "Uh... Margaret, oh, no, uh... Mary. Mary." Snow says, touched. "Well, Mary, come on." she says, Snow puts the eggs in Red's basket and the two new friends leave the coop.

Snow White and Red Riding Hood walk down the hill from Red's cottage in the snow, Snow asks where they're going but Red assures her that it won't take too long. "What was all that howling?" Snow asks, "It's wolf's time, there's a killer wolf out there. As big as a pony but a lot more blood-thirsty." Red warns Snow. The two of them reach a well as Red begins to talk about the wolf, she stops talking when the bucket to the well gets stuck. She asks Snow to pull teh rope and she obliges, the well begins to move as Snow applies all of her strength pulling, however, she is shocked by what she sees down the hill she is at the edge of. "Look, look at that, Mary. Look at the water... Mary?" Red says, looking at the thick, red liquid within the well's bucket. Snow is too shocked to respond. Red drops the bucket and walks up next to Snow, shocked by the awfully mutilated members of the wolf-hunt team, their blood having been scattered across the snow. Red and Snow are disgusted at the wolf's victims.

Act II
The shot moves down to the street from the clocktower of Storybrooke library, Emma is walking along the sidewalk and Mary Margaret catches up to her, "Is he okay? David, is he okay?" Mary Margaret asks, "He's a little shaken up, but he's heading home, he's fine." Emma assures her friend, Mary Margaret then asks if there's any news on Kathryn but Emma tells her that there's nothing new. "Did you check with Boston again?" Mary Maragret asks in all hope, Emma assures her that Kathryn isn't there. Mary Margaret asks if there's anything that they do know, "All we know is that she found out about you two, gave you a... well deserved slap, and then disappeared." Emma explains. Mary Margaret stops, "'Well deserved'?" she repeats, "Do you really believe that?" she asks, Emma turns around to face her, "No... I'm just preparing you for what everyone else is gonna think... You two are gonna look bad until we figure this thing out." Emma tells her, "You mean David? That, people are gonna think in order to... be free with me..." Mary Margaret begins to piece together until Emma informs her that some people already are saying that. Emma asks her friend if there's anything she can give her to help pin down David's whereabouts on the night of Kathryn's diappearance, Mary Margaret says that he wasn't with her as they were through.

Mary Margaret and Emma continue walking and see Ruby at the bus stop, talking to Dr. Whale. He keeps asking her questions and not letting up and the two girls walk over to the scene. "Dr. Whale?" Mary Margaret says, interrupting the conversation, "Mary Margaret, Emma, hello there." he says to them. "I was just having a talk with Ruby here and I should, um..." he tries, "Yeah, yeah you should." Emma tells him, rather bluntly. Dr. Whale crosses the street and leaves. "Was he bothering you?" Mary Margaret asks Ruby, "The day I can't handle a lutch is the day I leave town... which this is." Ruby tells them. "You're leaving?" Emma asks, "I had a fight with Granny, quit my job." she says, "You quit?" Mary Margaret asks, stunned, before asking Ruby where she's going. "...I don't know. Far away." Ruby says, Emma informs her that buses out of town don't really happen and that she should think about finding a place to stay first. Ruby seems saddened, "Hey, if you want a place to come figure things out, you could always come stay with us." Mary Margaret offers, Emma seems reluctant but agrees. Ruby is grateful and walks ahead with Mary Margaret, Emma dawdling behind them.

In the fairytale land that was, Red's village is at a rage at the deaths of the wolf-hunt team at the paws of the wolf, the leader of the group assures the village that the previous night was the very last massacre. "If I had stayed with that party for another two minutes, I, too, would be among the dead." the leader tells them, Granny is seen entering the room, with Red and "Mary" not far behind her, as the leader babbles on about how he could have killed the wolf, Granny walks further into the room, and Red smiles at Peter who is amongst the rest of the villagers. "Maybe... I would have been able to slay the creature." the leader finishes, "You would not!" Granny exclaims, "Widow Lucas..." he says, "This creature is more powerful than you can imagine, you wouldn't have a chance. Stay inside! Hide your children! Forget your livestock!" she tries, she is reminded that she's said all of this before but Granny reminds the people that she hasn't said how she knows.

"I was a child with six older brothers, big as oak trees, all of them, veterans of the second Ogres' War, and my father, the biggest of them all, come one wolf's time, he decided to come out and actually take on the wolf, a different wolf back then, of course, but... just as fearsome. They went out there to protect me. I was supposed to be asleep, but I crawled out on the roof to watch, down on thatch. They had the beast surrounded, all of them, with spears all pointed in at it, and then it started, it was lunging, not at the men, at the spears, grabbing with its teeth, breaking the shafts. They stabbed it with the splintered end, but it didn't matter. It tore their throats so fast... that not one of them got a chance to scream... or pray... or say 'goodbye'. When my father died, I had tumbled from the roof, and I landed in the blood right in front of the wolf. I felt its breath on my face, and it clamped its hard jaw on my arm and I rolled away." Granny tells them, lifting her sleeve to reveal the large bite marks scarred onto her right arm. The corwd gasps. "Then it looked at me with eyes so black, they weren't even there... And it walked away. You ever seen a wild animal just turn its back and walk away like you don't even matter? If this wolf is like that one, there is no defeating it! It's already won just by existing in our world. Don't kill it... just hide." Granny finishes.

"So, your Granny's kinda intense." Snow tells Red later in the house, "Yeah, a bit... I feel like a rat in a trap." Red says, looking over at her Granny who's knitting. "And this trap's keeping you from... being with someone?" Snow asks, "...how did you know?" Red wonders, "Well, I saw some looks exchanged back there and I hate to break it to you, but it wasn't subtle." Snow says, making Red laugh. "Yes... Peter. We've been friends forever but... now... things... are... well, changing." Red explains, "That must be nice." Snow whispers, Red nods and asks Snow if she has someone, Snow, rather ironically, replies, "Oh, no. I'm not sure that's in my furture." she tells Red that she's lucky and Red says that she knows. "...and we're talking about going away together." Red whispers to Snow, "But I... don't even get any time with him." she says. "Granny's too afraid of the wolf to let me out alone, you saw what the wolf did. Sometimes I wonder if she's right." Red explains, "Oh, she;s right about the wolf." Snow says, intriguing Red, "But she's wrong to use it to keep you from love." Snow finishes. "You think that's what she's doing?" Red asks, there is a moment of awkward silence. "...let's kill the wolf." Red decides, rather siddenly. Snow is shocked and completely taken aback, "Hang on." the princess tries, "We could be heroes." Red says, "Red, teams have trained, hundreds have been killed." Snow reminds her friend, "But, they go at night when it's got the advantage, if we go now, we could find it slumbering in its den and kill it in its sleep." Red suggests, grabbing her red riding cloak. Snow says that she's unsure but Red says that she's going with or without Snow. "But, you're right, I can't let her keep me trapped forever." Red says before standing up off the bed and leaving, Snow is speechless.

Back in Storybrooke, a leaving sign is seen and below it, a truck pulls up the the washed away but still viewable "TRAMP" written on the side. Mary Margaret steps out with her unmbrella and walks into the woods. All is silent but she soon hears stirring, she becomes frightened and follows the sound of the rustling leaves. She cautiously walks towards it to discover that it's none other than David, she is relieved. "It's you." she says as David walks up to her, he seems is a daze and Mary Margaret asks him if he's okay, "You looking for Kathryn too?" she asks, offering him her umbrella. "I'm looking..." he says, still seeming odd and looking around alot, "She knows you didn't do anything, Emma, I mean. She can tell when people are lying, so... she knows. And I'll stand with you, I'll tell everyone this isn't possible... She's going to turn up somewhere. That's why you're out here, right?" she asks. David seems odd, "I'm looking..." he says, "David?" asks Mary Margaret, confused. He turns to Mary Margaret and retracts, she tries to stop him but he heads off in a different direction, further into the woods. "David!" Mary Margaret calls after him as he runs away, she is left deeply concerned.

Act III
In the fairytale world, Snow White and Red Riding Hood are walking through the snow-covered forest of Red's village, searching for the sleeping wolf. "Hey, over here." Snow says, kneeling down having spotted a footprint, "That... is a rabbit." Red tells her, "What we're looking for will be huge." Red goes onto say that it'll be big, giving an example of it being eight inches across with long, sharp claws. "Like this..." Snow says, looking worridly at the ground, Red walks up next to her, there is a rather large paw print in the ground. Snow seems worried at her discovery but Red looks further ahead, "And those..." she says. Snow turns to where Red is looking and they see another paw print many feet away, "How big is this thing?" Red wonders. "This was one stride." Snow says, following the wolf's path, "From here... to there." she says, looking from one paw print all the way to the other one. "Come on." Red says, walking ahead, with a reluctant Snow trailing behind her. Red gives directions and Sbow tells her that she's good at what she's doing, "When there's something I want, I'm good at tracking it down." Red says, speeding up and walking more determindly. The girls venture forward.

At the sheriff's station of Storybrooke, Maine, Henry is on the computer looking up job oppurtunities in the town for Ruby who's lazily sitting there, "You wanna be a bike messenger?" he asks her, "A bike messenger?" she says, "That's about taking things to people in a basket." Henry explains, Ruby turns down the offer, saying that she's not too good at bike riding. "How about taking things on foot to people, in a little basket?" Henry suggests (clearly referencing the "Little Red Riding Hood" tale) "I'm not sure that's a real job." she tells him. The phone on the desk rings but the sound soon ceases, Ruby asks Henry why it keeps doing that and Henry explains that the non-emergency calls go to the machine when Emma's busy. The phone begins to ring again and Ruby decides to answer it, "Sheriff's station, how may I help you?... Umhm, I'll get her to return... Thank you, too." she says, ending the conversation, the phone continues to ring so Ruby answers the call again, "Sheriff's station... hey, Miss Ginger... no, that's not a prowler, that's Archie's dog, Pongo... Did you still wanna talk to Emma?... Great, glad I could help." Ruby says, smiling and putting the phone down. Emma takes off her coat, having walked in and viewed Ruby handle the phones. "How's it going, you two?" Emma asks, "Great, except I can't do anything." Ruby says. Emma tells Ruby that she's sure that's not true, saying that she just saw her on the phone and that that was good.

"That? That's... nothing." Ruby says, sighing, "No. No, it isn't." Emma assures her, "...I actually have some money in the budget if you wanna help out around here?" Emma offers, Ruby leaps out of her seat, "Yes! Thank you!" she exclaims, "Yes, um, I could answer phones, and, um, help out, and... is there anything else that you need done? Organized? Filed? Cleaning up? Please, I wanna be useful." Ruby says. "I am swamped with the Kathryn Nolan thing, if you maybe wanna grab us lunch, I would never so 'no' to a grilled cheese." Emma suggests, and all-too-eager Ruby decides to oblige and asks Henry if he wants anything as she grabs her coat. "Um, two chocolate-chip cookies, a half a pie, and a hot dog." Henry tells her, Ruby smiles and heads for the door just as Mary Margaret walks into the station, "Hey, lunch, Mary Margaret? I'm getting for everyone." Ruby offers, Mary Margaret turns down the offer and Ruby leaves, Mary Maragret grabs Emma's attentiong, "David's in the woods." she tells her, still shaken by the earlier scene. "There's something wrong with him. He looked right through me. It's like... it's like he was a different person." Mary Margaret worridly reports, Emma looks to Mary Margaret, to Henry, to Mary Margaret, who sighs.

Back in the snow-covered forest, Snow and Red are still tracking the wolf through it's large paw prints, Red finds the next one and Snow is managing only just to keep up with her, Red becomes stunned at the shame of the upcoming prints, saying that it looks like it belongs to something that's half wolf, half man. Snow recognizes a boot print, "Wolves don't wear boots." she says, mentioning that the prints continue as though it's a man, "Like it's a man... and a wolf." Red says. "What kind of monster is this?" Snow wonders, turning to Red who is as flabbergasted as she is.

Act IV
After their discovery, Snow and Red continue to walk through the snow, "So... the wolf comes out once a month... on the full moon. There was a story I heard once, about a creature-" Red is cut off, "Hey, aren't we awfully close to the cottage?" Snow asks, looking at her surroundings. Red notices this and as the girls walk, they see that the footprints lead right up to Red's house. The girls are stunned. "Who's gone to your window, Red?" Snow asks, exacting the end of the footprints. Red becomes shocked and worried and Snow turns to her, noticing her terrible reaction, "...is it Peter?" she asks, shocked, Red is silent, "Red, has he been at your window?" Snow asks, "...last night... Before the killings... And he never joined the guys to hunt the wolf!" Red exclaims, worridly, Snow tries to assure them both that peter wouldn't have killed them, "He wouldn't! But when the wolf takes over..." Red says, realizing what might be going on, Snow asks about that night's wolf-hunt, Red says that they're going to kill him, she's slightly hysterical, before stating that he might kill them. "It doesn't have to be that way..." Snow says, Red asks her what they can do, "Tell him! If he doesn't know, tell him, stop him. If he'll listen to anyone, if he'll believe anyone, it's you." Snow suggests. "You think I can save him?" Red asks, "I think you can save everyone." Snow assures her. Red says that it's going to be dark soon and that Granny will be out of her mind with worry if they're not home, and she'll go out there and endanger herself. Snow insitructs Red to do something, "Okay..." Red says, "I have to."

In Storybrooke, Maine, Ruby cheerily walks up to Granny's Diner to get lunch but as soon as she looks at the old place, her facial expression becomes sad, and then determined, she walks inside. Ruby strolls through the diner and up to Granny, who's at the counter, she places her order, "I need a couple of grilled cheeses, I'm working over at the sheriff's station now. Sorta like... like a deputy. You know? I guess sometimes your fate finds you." she brags as Granny writes down the order. "Seems kind of like you're doing the same thing you've always done." Granny says, hanind over the order, Ruby pauses, "Plus, so much more." she says. "Those'll be right up." Granny tells her, "Yeah..." Ruby says, now a little more depressed, "Do you want us to unwrap the cheese slices?" Granny asks, Ruby doesn;t have a response and so comes out with, "I help solve crimes." accomponied by a smile. Granny nods and walks closer to her, "I'm sure you do." she says in an almost sarcastic tone, "...I hope you're finding what you're looking for." she tells her former employee. "...I am." Ruby says, seeming upset by Granny's subtle words.

In the fairytale land that was, Red Riding Hood is talking to Peter in the snowy forest with a fire near by. "So, I'm the wolf man? Red, you know me." Peter says, "I know the wolf's not you, really... but I think it's using your body." Red says, seeming saddened. "Wouldn't I know? Wouldn't I wake up in the woods? Wouldn't I remember something?" he asks, clearly in denial, Red suggests that maybe it makes you forget. Peter then begins to comes to grips with the fact that he may be a murderer, referring to the men who died, he seems shaken. "Forget the past. Think of the future. We can go now, Peter. Have lives. All we need to do is tie you up during wolf's time and... I know where to get rope." she says, hping that everything's solved, "No..." he tells her, confusing her, "Not rope." he says, taking out chains that were lying at his feet, "Chains..." Red states. He tells her that it's just in case she's right, he holds the sad girl's hand, he offers to show her how to rig it up so that he can't get out. "And you need to get away from me." he tells her, "No." she says, "I'm staying with you... Stay with you all night... And for all the nights to come." she assures him, he appears to be touched, "I'd do anything for you." she states, reusing his words. Red leans on Peter, sadly.

In the sheriff's office, Henry takes his storybook off of the desk and places it into a drawer, before closing it. "Okay, kid, don't mean to kick you out, but I gotta go see if David's in some kinda trouble out there." Emma tells Henry, emerging from the office and throwing him her keys. "It's okay, I'm supposed to meet my mom." he tells her, locking the book in the filing drawer. Henry hands Emma back her keys, and, as he leaves, he tells his biological mother that Ruby can do more as she's Little Red Riding Hood, "With the little basket? Yeah, she seems like a badass." Emma laughs, Henry says that she is but she just doesn't remember how cool she is or what she can do. As Henry leaves, Ruby walks into the office, "Got your grilled cheese." Ruby says, half-heartedly putting the food on the desk, Emma thanks her and retrieves the sandwich, before asking Ruby if she;s alright. "I guess, this si something I know how to do, so... yay!" Ruby sarcastically exclaims before taking a sip of her soda. "Okay, let's pack these back up and we can eat them in the car." Emma says, putting the food back in the brown paper bag, saying that she needs to do a little wilderness search and needs Ruby's help. Ruby says that she'll just screw it up but Emma assures her that she won't, handing her back the meal. "You can do this." she says, Ruby seems to be becoming more eager.

"This place is huge." says Ruby as her and Emma search through Storybrooke's forest, "How are we supposed to find one guy?" Ruby asks, Emma hushes her, hearing something, "Like we'd be able to hear him, it's massive!" Ruby exclaims, "I'm following the path because there are boot prints, just stay close." Emma says. "I shouldn't even be here, I'm just gonna screw everything up - oh, wait!" Ruby exclaims, stopping, making Emma walk into her, "I hear him." Ruby says. "Really?" Emma asks, "Yeah, really, I hear him, or... something." she tells the sheriff, "I know where he is, don't you?" she asks, speeding away, Emma says that she doesn't and follows Ruby who walks under a trunk and through a bush, Emma asks her what she's doing, "He;s over here!" Ruby yells, Emma calls after her and walks under the same trunk, she turns round teh corner of a tree to see Ruby, standing over David's unconscious body. Emma rushes over to him, stunned, and tries her best to revive him, "Wake up! David, wake up!" she yells, David's eyes open, "Emma... Ruby?" he says, hazily, Emma asks him if he remembers where he is, he sits up, "No, I... what the hell?" he says, "I was... I was in your office... Did you bring me here?" he asks Emma, "You don't remember anything since you were in my office... last night?" a wide-eyed Emma turns to Ruby, "No.... I don't." David says, still seeming disorientated.

Act V
At Storybrooke's hospital, Dr. Whale is examining David with Emma close by, Whale says that David's experienced bruising, dehydration and more, he asks Emma what she expected, "He's got a cut on his head." Emma points out, Whale assures her that it's merely superficial before going on to say that he can refer him to Dr. Hopper for a pshych evaluation but it is his opinion that David experienced a similar black out to that of what happened to him when he was in his coma and disappeared. (see "Snow Falls") "Moving around, acting out, not remembering it later." Whale says, "We will figure it out." Emma assures David, who sighs and says that it's so strange and that he can't even believe that it happened. "How functional could he be during one of these episodes, I mean, he talked to someone." Emma wonders, "Well, people in similar states, even under sleep medication, do all sorts of things; cooking, talking, driving a car." Dr. Whale explains. David begins to wonder other things and asks Emma if he could have kidnapped Kathryn in his blackout state, or even killed her, Dr. Whale tells him to take it easy but David points out that it could explain why it didn't seem as though he was lying, because he wouldn't know.

Regina walks into the hospital room, "Stop talking, David. What're you doing here?" Regina asks Emma, before going on to ask why David doesn't have a lawyer present. "Have you even read him his rights?" Regina asks, "No, because he's not under arrest, we're just talking." Emma explains, "Right... just talking." Regina says. Emma then asks Regina what she's doing there, "Mayor Mills is still Mr. Nolan's emergency contact." Whale informs them, "You have to be kidding me!" Emma exclaims, "I thought that changed to Kathryn." David says, Regina tells him that Kathryn's currently unavailable. "Some people haven't found her yet." Regina tells him, though looking at Emma, before going on to tell her to stop trying to place blame and just find her, "There's a whole lot of Maine to search, Regina." Emma reminds her, "Well, you've covered this room, I suggest you branch out." Regina tells her, sarcastically. Emma walks away and the shot moves over to David who shakes his head.

It's now evening and over at the sheriff station, Ruby answers the phone yet again, "Sheriff's station, thanks for calling, how may I direct your ca-" Ruby starts, before being told by Emma, who's on the other line, to stop. "Here's the thing, the last time David went for a sleep walk, he went to the Toll Bridge, you know the one?" Emma asks Ruby from the hospital's halls, Ruby says she thinks so, "It's a crazy hunch, but I want you to take my bug and go and see if he went there." Emma tells her, "I-I could get somebody else to do it." Ruby suggests, "Ruby, you were great out there, I still don't know how you found him. You can do this." Emma reminds her, "...I don't know." says Ruby, "It's gonna be dark out soon! David's gonna be let out! If there's some evidence there, we gotta get there first! We don't have time to argue!" Emma exclaims, Ruby tears up a little, "Can you do this?!" Emma asks, Ruby contemplates.

Soon, Emma's car is driving down the road with Ruby driving, it comes to a stop at the Toll Bridge. Ruby steps out into the damp weather and asks Emma, to whom she is on the phone with, what she's even looking for, "Anything out of the ordinary, something that doesn't belong there." Emma tells her. Ruby walks down to the bank at the edge of the bridge and asks Emma what she would do if she were to find something, "Just follow your instincts." Emma tells her. Ruby kneels down by a large wooden square on the bank, she places the cell phone on a near by rock and cautiously flips the plank over, revealing nothing but dirt underneath. Ruby looks around briefly and grabs a large stick, and, with the stick, she begins to poke the ground and dig up the area that had previously been covered. Ruby hits something hard and begins to dig faster, uncovering the dirt from around the object, it's a small box. Ruby uses her hands to wipe away the final pieces of dirt and begins to lift the box from the ground. "You can't give me a clue what I'm looking for?" Ruby asks Emma on the near by phone. "Anything of Kathryn's" Emma tells her, still listening in. Ruby manages to fully pluck the box from the Earth and lifts it towards her, "Ruby? What's going on? Did you find something?!" Emma asks as Ruby silently cleans the lid of the small, wooden box with her gloved hand. The girl takes a deep breath and quickly opens the lid of the box, this action is followed by a loud scream which is then followed by the dropping of the box. Ruby is clearly shaken by its contents. "Ruby?! Ruby?!" Emma calls as Ruby begins to have what seems like a panic attack at what she has just viewed.

In Red Riding Hood's bedroom, Snow is lying awake in Red's bed with the riding cloak over her, she's clearly posing as her friend. The bedroom door opens and Snow seems worried, she pretends to sleep. Granny walks in and sees her "granddaughter" sleeping in her bed, "Where's Mary?" Granny asks, telling "Red" to wake up. Snow pulls the hood over her face. "If Mary's not back by now, then she'll have to take her chances." Granny says, rolling Snow over to see her face, realizing that her granddaughter is not where she should be. Granny is shocked, "She's in no danger." Snow assures her, "What've you done?" Granny asks, horrified, "No, it's okay, it's alright-" Snow tries, "Where is she?!" Granny cries, Snow says that she's with Peter and that, although Granny doesn't like him, that shouldn't matter, "You stupid, careless, ridiculous girl!" Granny exclaims, "No... you don't understand... Peter isn't, oh, this is going to be difficult to accept, you just have to trust me... he's the wolf." Snow explains. "You think Peter is the wolf?" Granny asks, "Yes, this terrible creature... is also human. It's okay though, he won;t hurt her, she's got him tied up." Snow says. "He's tied up?!" Granny yells, Snow nods, "Oh, that poor boy!" she cires, before running out of the door.

Elsewhere, Peter is chained to a tree and desperately trying to escape, seeming panicked, "Red, no! Red, it's me! Don't!" he cries, the shot turns to reveal the Big Bad Wolf is gaining on him, the wolf being Red Riding Hood that is. "Please! No! Red! No! Red!" H econtinues to scream in fear and call out her name, trying to escape the chains as fast as he can but to no avail. "Red! No." he says finally. Red, the wolf, pounces.

Act VI
In the sheriff's station, Ruby and Emma are staring into the box that Ruby found at the Toll Bridge, its contents still a mystery to us. "Is that what I think it is?" Ruby asks, still a little freaked out, "Yeah." Emma confirms it, seeming disgusted herself. Ruby states that she cannot look and walks away from it, Emma closes it, latex glove on hand, snapping it shut. "You okay?" asks Emma, walking closer to a panicked Ruby, "...I don't know what I am." she says, "It's gonna be alright, we can figure out what happened now." Emma reminds her, Ruby exhales, nodding, "Ruby... you did good." Emma reassures her. "This is doing good?" Ruby asks, still a little teary-eyed, "Yeah, it's amazing." Emma tells her, "First you found David and now this. I know you say you don't know what you are, but whatever it is, I gotta say, I'm impressed." she finishes. Ruby smiles and wipes away the tears, "Don't be, I was scared out of my mind." she says, and Emma reminds her that she did it anyway. Emma smiles at Ruby, who reciprocates.

In the snowy forest, Snow White and Granny are tracking through it with lanterns, looking for Red and Peter, "You knew?!" Snow asks, "Of course I knew! My mother was one too until a hunting party killed her. I thought maybe Red didn't get it, but when she was thriteen, it started." Granny explains, as the two of the hurridly walk. "I paid a wizard for that cloak, it keeps her from turning, but she doesn't wear it!" Granny continues, Snow asks why Granny didn't tell her, "I didn't want her to have that burden. That terrible burden." she answers. "That story you told..." Snow starts, "That was her grandfather, he marked me that night, and came back, found me, turned me." Granny explains further. "Turned? You're a-" Snow realizes, the two women stop when they hear a wolf's howl. Snow asks how Granny's tracking Red, "By smell. I still have that, even though the rest of it has faded away." Granny tells her, "God, I was a fool to think I could keep this from her. I am a fool... and I've cost so many lives." Granny says, continuing with Snow. "But you didn't mean to, that's the main thing." Snow reminds her, the two are startled by a second howl. Snow hands Granny her cross bow and Granny points it forward, moving more cautiously now. Snow whines and Granny hushes her, "Now, approahcing from downwind so we have a chance." Granny says, aiming the cross bow carefully and making her way forwards, Snow in tow.

Under the light of the full moon, Red Riding Hood, the wolf, is finishing off her meal, her true love, Peter. Granny appraoches her with the cross bow from behind, Snow seems utterly worried by the unwinding events. Snow steps on a twig and gasps, making the wolf turn to them and growl, realizing they're there, the wolf steadies itself and pouncies, Granny fires her cross bow and the wolf whimpers and falls to the floor at her feet, "Cloak!" Granny exclaims, dropping the bow, Snow removes Red's riding cloak and lays it over the wounded creature. The two stand up and, under the infulence of the magic hood, the wolf becomes a woman again: Red. "It's too late." Snow says, noticing the blood and scraps coming from the area with the chains, noting that Peter is dead. "He's gone." she says. "Who's gone?" asks a weary Red, standing up from under the cloak, keeping it on her.

"Get up, girl, get ready to run." Granny warns her, "What's going on?" she asks, "Oh, Red!" Snow cries. Granny asks if they can hear them, noticing the angered villagers heading their way, hunting the wolf, Snow says that they have to run. Red doesn't understand but Snow says that she'll explain it all later, "I'm confused, what's happening?" she asks, being rushed around by her friend and grandmother, she turns to the chains, "Where's Peter?" she asks, noticing he isn't there, she pulls away from the other two, "...he wasn't the wolf." Snow explains. Red becomes shocked and stumblkes, she turns to her grandma, "I was wrong to keep it from you." Granny says, "But now you have to go. Red, go!" Granny exclaims, pointing to the direction of the cottage. "Me?!" Red asks, the villagers' torches become visible through the trees and Red begins to come to terms with what just happened, how she killed her true love. Red begins to cry and break down and her Granny, once again, tells her that she has to go, Red blubbers and Snow tries to assure her that it's going to be okay. Snow huddles with Red and the two of them run back to the cottage, Granny staying behind. She sees the villagers emerging.

At Granny's Diner in Storybrooke, Granny is at the counter when Ruby walks into the diner, wearing less make-up than usual. "You look good." says Granny, making smalltalk, Ruby thanks her and hangs her bag, Granny asks her if something happened with the sheriff. "Nope." she says, removing her coat, Granny closes the till that snaps shut, she wails briefly, "You okay?" Ruby asks, "Same as it is every full moon." Granny says, cradling her wolf-bitten arm. "What're you doing here, Ruby? You here to tell me more about your fine new job?" Granny asks, "...I wanna come back." Ruby admits, smiling and walking towards the other side of the counter, "Why? You looked pretty mad." Granny reminds her, Ruby tells her that she wasn't mad but granny says that it looked like mad from there. "Yeah, here's the thing... you were talking about having me do all this stuff, and... I... wasn't sure. I-I said that... you wanted me to turn into you, but... what I meant was... I don't know how to be you. You're a tough act to follow." Ruby explains.

"Oh..." Granny says after a pause, "Then you wanted me to take on all this extra responsibility, and... I... guess I just got... scared." she finishes. "Don't be. You shouldn't be." Granny assures her, "Well, I am. But... it's okay. I can do it anyway. I sort of... found something in myself that was more than I expected." Ruby tells her, clearly taking Emma's words to heart. "What about adventure? What about lemurs?" Granny asks her, "Emma was my lemur. Did that. Found out I could do that, and also that I don't want to. I don't want a job where a good day means ruining someone's life. I want to do something that makes me happy. Somewhere I love." she explains, running her hadn aling the counter of the diner. "But... just so you know... I wanted you to do the books and everything so you can take over when I retire... Own the whole place." Granny informs her. Ruby is shocked but Granny asks her who eslse she would give it to but someone who loves her back. Ruby hugs her Granny, touched by the centiment of her gesture. They smile at each other and as Granny walks away, she mumbles something, ("I'm proud of you.") "What was that?" Ruby asks, "You heard me." Granny tells her, Ruby looks lovingly at the diner.

At Storybrooke Pet Shelter, David is nervously pacing, thinking that he killed Kathryn, but Mary Margaret tells him that it's going to be okay. He's unsure, saying that he honestly can't say anything about his actions anymore. "There has to be an explanation." Mary Margaret states, David calms down and sits down, telling her that she's right. "But the problem is, I don't think it's a good one." he explains, Mary Maragret is about to respond when Emma hurridly enters the shelter. She's silent, "What is it? Did you find her?" David asks, hopefully, standing up, "We found a box." Emma tells them, David asks her what that means, "We think it... we think that she..." Emma tries, David asks her what, "There was a human heart inside it." Emma tells him, shcoking both he and Mary Margaret, David begins to cry, sure that he is guilty. "We're gonna run some tests, but... there aren't any other missing people." she reminds him, Mary Margaret crouches by David and puts a comforting arm around him, "There's more." Emma tells them, "What?" David asks, already crying, "There were finger prints inside the lid of the box, I ran them through the records of everyone in town and there was a match." Emma says. David and Mary Maragert are both still shcoked, "Arrest me." he tells her, "No!" Mary Margaret exclaims, "Arrest me, I'm gonna do it!" David says, standing up. "David, the finger prints weren't yours... they were Mary Margaret's." Emma states, finally, Mary Margaret turns to her friend, completely stunned, David turns to his love with the same affliction, Mary Margaret looks from friend to lover, not knowing how what has happened, has happened.

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