A Curious Thing/Quotes

## Quotes

**Snow White**: It's happening again... I'm about to give birth, and an evil sorceress is threatening the future of my child!

**Evil Queen**: To be fair, the first time I was threatening *you*. Everyone else just became collateral damage.

**Grumpy**: Remind me again why we forgave her?

**Evil Queen**: Because I'm helping! Frustrating as it is for me to remember, Snow, you had a head start to defeat me last time. How?

**Prince Charming**: We were warned.

**Snow White**: By Rumplestiltskin.

**Evil Queen**: Maybe he can warn you again.

**Grumpy**: Wait. You want to sneak into Rumple's castle, where he's being held captive by the Wicked Witch? Name's Grumpy, not Stupid.

**Snow White**: You're right, it is stupid, but for our child -

**Prince Charming**: We'll do whatever it takes.

**Evil Queen**: Heartwarming. He's trapped in his own castle. Belle, you were prisoner there.

**Belle**: Yes, but breaking in? I would have no idea how.

**Robin Hood**: Luckily I do. I broke in there once before.

**Evil Queen**: Why are we even listening to him? He's a thief, which means he's not to be trusted! What are you even still doing here?

**Robin Hood**: What I'm doing here is saving your ass!

**Emma Swan**: (*about Zelena's plan*) There's something about this plan that doesn't fit... Regina.

**Regina Mills**: I'm the point of it. So she can take my life for herself.

**Emma Swan**: Yes, but why bring you back to Storybrooke? Why bring any of us?

**Regina Mills**: Well, no one's ever succeeded at traveling through time. Perhaps something from this world makes it possible? But what's almost as troubling is that she was able to cast the curse to bring us all here in the first place.

**Emma Swan**: Why is that?

**Regina Mills**: To do it you have to give up the thing you love most. From what I gather, Zelena doesn't love much.

**Emma Swan**: Neither did you. You managed.

**Prince Charming**: Zelena is smart. Strategic. Perhaps we discovered something in the missing year to stop her.

**Snow White**: And then the only way to stop us from interfering was to bring us back here and wipe our memories. So if we get our memories back, we might already know how to defeat her.

**Prince Charming**: We just need to break this curse.

**Snow White**: Well thank goodness we have a savior.

**Emma Swan**: I would love to, but there's one problem. Last time, all it took was me believing in magic and kissing Henry. Since I've been back, I've done both, and nothing.

**Regina Mills**: It's the belief. Henry... *He* needs to believe. In this new life he doesn't. We have to get him to believe again!

**Emma Swan**: So what? We put on a magic show?

**Regina Mills**: How did *you* believe?

**Emma Swan**: The book. The storybook.

**Regina Mills**: That's what started Henry on his original path, and what got you to believe. It's the key in him believing... in him remembering! Remembering everything.

**Evil Queen**: He really *is* back from the dead.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Dead. Dead. So much better. Dead.

**Prince Charming**: He's lost his mind.

**Rumplestiltskin**: On the contrary, now I have two! Two minds. Mining time. Digging deeper in the grime.

**Belle**: What is she doing to him?

**Snow White**: Nothing that can't be undone. Rumplestiltskin, we need your help. How do we stop Zelena?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Round and round, the circle of time, racing towards the finish line.

**Evil Queen**: This is pointless.

**Belle**: Let me try. Hey. Hey Rumple. Hey. Hey. I know you're in there. I know you can hear me. How do we stop Zelena?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Light.

**Belle**: What?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Light magic. The Good Witch of the South. Glinda.

**Emma Swan**: Hey kid, I got to run. I got to check on a lead. You're okay to stay here longer? I'll call you later.

**Henry Mills**: Where are you *really* going?

**Emma Swan**: I told you, I'm following a lead.

**Henry Mills**: What lead?

**Emma Swan**: It's my job. It's complicated.

**Henry Mills**: Is this about the person who killed my dad?

**Emma Swan**: Yes.

**Henry Mills**: Then tell me.

**Emma Swan**: It would just be easier once it's all solved, Henry.

**Henry Mills**: You've been lying to me ever since we got here. I deserve to know everything!

**Emma Swan**: (*angry*) No, you don't! I'm your mother and I know best! So you're just gonna have to deal with this for now, okay? Understood?

**Henry Mills**: Yeah, I think I do.

**Prince Charming**: We were told your light magic could help defeat the Wicked Witch. We've come to ask for your help.

**Glinda the Good Witch of the South**: I'm sorry. My magic is not powerful enough to defeat Zelena. It never has been.

**Prince Charming**: You know her?

**Glinda the Good Witch of the South**: We were friends long ago, when things were different. But she made her choice. She gave into her dark magic. I tried to stop her. I failed.

**Snow White**: There must be some way to defeat her.

**Glinda the Good Witch of the South**: There is. She was born with great power. Long ago I gave her a pendant to help focus it. He magic has resided inside of it ever since.

**Prince Charming**: So if we can remove it, she'll lose her power and we can defeat her?

**Glinda the Good Witch of the South**: But, only a purveyor of the strongest light magic will be able to accomplish such a feat.

**Snow White**: Light magic?

**Glinda the Good Witch of the South**: Magic created from love.

**Snow White**: Emma. Our daughter. She's the product of true love. She's the savior.

**Glinda the Good Witch of the South**: If she is as pure and powerful as you say, then yes. She, and only she, can defeat Zelena.

**Prince Charming**: But she's not in this land, and we can't get back to her.

**Glinda the Good Witch of the South**: Then I'm afraid your quest is futile.

**Snow White**: Actually, there is a way. But there's a steep price.

**Prince Charming**: No, Snow. You can't mean -

**Snow White**: Yes. We must enact the Dark Curse.

(*Henry takes the storybook and his memories are restored*)

**Henry Mills**: (*to Emma*) Mom? (*to Regina*) Mom! I remember. (*to Emma*) I remember!

**Regina Mills**: Do it, Emma. Break the curse.

**Zelena**: (*enters*) So sorry to interrupt. (*grabs Henry*) Now, who wants to say goodbye first?

**Henry Mills**: Who are you?

**Zelena**: You can call me Auntie Zelena.

**Regina Mills**: Enough of this. (*steps forward but Zelena knocks her out with magic*)

**Emma Swan**: Let him go. He had nothing to do with this.

**Zelena**: Don't blame me. The captain failed me.

**Captain Hook**: Damn you, Zelena.

**Emma Swan**: Hook, what's she talking about?

**Zelena**: He knew what the price of that failure was: Your son's life. (*chokes Henry*)

**Henry Mills**: Mom! (*Emma uses magic to burn Zelena's hands and henry escapes her grasp*)

**Emma Swan**: Run!

**Zelena**: (*furious*) Enjoy this moment together, because you don't have many left!

**Snow White**: (*preparing to crush Charming's heart to enact the Dark Curse*) I can't lose you.

**Prince Charming**: You'll never lose me. But this - This is our only chance. Think of our baby. Think of being a mother.

**Snow White**: Our child will never know it's father.

**Prince Charming**: Of course it will. Through *you*. We've always shared one heart. It'll only grow stronger when you look at that baby's face and see the love I have for you in its eyes.

**Snow White**: I've loved you since the first moment I saw you.

**Prince Charming**: And I'll love you until my last. (*to Evil Queen*) Okay. Do it.

**Evil Queen**: I won't lie. This is going to hurt. But it *will* work. (*rips Charming's heart out*)

**Snow White**: Charming?

**Prince Charming**: Don't say goodbye.

**Snow White**: I love you. I love you more than anything.

**Prince Charming**: Which is why you have to crush it. (*Snow White crushes Charming's heart, killing him*)

**Evil Queen**: This won't be in vain. We *will* get back to Storybrooke. We *will* defeat - (*the Wicked Witch enters*) Zelena.

**Wicked Witch of the West**: Did you really think you could enact Rumple's Dark Curse and I wouldn't know about it?

**Evil Queen**: No, but I didn't really care. You're too late.

**Wicked Witch of the West**: Actually, I'm not. I'm afraid you sacrificed your charming husband for nothing.

**Snow White**: Regina, he can't die in vain!

**Evil Queen**: She's bluffing. Once the curse is enacted it can't be stopped.

**Wicked Witch of the West**: I may not be able to stop it, but that doesn't mean I can't spice it up a bit. How does a forgetting potion sound? Sorry, did you need your memories in the new land? Were you planning to stop me? Or for that matter, recognize me?

**Snow White**: Regina, I need you to rip out my heart. Charming's right. We have been of one heart since the day he woke me from the Sleeping Curse. If you split my heart in half, we can both survive!

**Evil Queen**: Snow, I know your love is strong, but this isn't like plucking a flower. How do you know it will work?

**Snow White**: Faith! Belief! I believe! I believe my heart is strong enough for both of us!

**Evil Queen**: But if you're wrong, you'll die.

**Snow White**: Please! Please, Regina. Do it. (*the Evil Queen rips out Snow White's heart, splits it in half and places the two halves into the Charmings' chests*)

**Prince Charming**: (*revived*) Snow? Snow, what's happening?

**Snow White**: You're okay! We're both okay!

(*the Dark Curse engulfs them*)

**Henry Mills**: What did I miss here?

**Regina Mills**: Nothing much. Nothing that matters now.

**Henry Mills**: Not even that guy that was kissing you?

**Regina Mills**: Let's stay focused on New York. Tell me about the pizza.

**Henry Mills**: Come on, Mom. Who is he?

**Regina Mills**: His name is Robin Hood. We just started seeing each other.

**Henry Mills**: Wait. Robin Hood?

**Robin Hood**: (*enters*) At your service.

**Henry Mills**: Awesome.

**Regina Mills**: So, the curse is broken.

**Robin Hood**: Indeed. And the missing year? Things a bit rocky between us, yeah?

**Regina Mills**: For some reason you're so much more likable here in Storybrooke.

**Wicked Witch of the West**: We're about to take an unplanned trip, my pet. The curse is coming.

**Rumplestiltskin**: You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed.

**Wicked Witch of the West**: Don't be so dour. What I need to do can be done from any land. I *will* succeed in changing the past. My spell *will* work.
**Rumplestiltskin**: But only if you remember it.

**Wicked Witch of the West**: Which I will, with this. (*shows Memory Potion*) To keep my valuable recollection safe and sound. (*drinks potion and gives another potion to Rumplestiltskin*) Here. Drink it. Dump it out. Sing it a song. Your brains are still mine. If you want to remember the loss of your son, so be it, but if you prefer to stumble about blind and stupid with the rest of them, be my guest. (*exits*)

**Rumplestiltskin**: Memories are pain. Pain is strength. (*prepares to drink*) For vengeance.

(*Neal takes over his body*)

**Neal Cassidy**: We don't need to remember. Emma does. (*gives a carrier pigeon the Memory Potion*) Find Killian Jones. On the *Jolly Roger*. Find Captain Hook. Go!