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!!!'''Centric Characters:''' Red Riding Hood



After quitting Granny's Diner and with her self-esteem at an all-time low, Ruby is hired by Emma Swan to be her assistant in order to help her discover what it is in life that she's good at; and Emma continues questioning David Nolan about the disappearance - and possible murder - of Kathryn Nolan. Meanwhile, 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.

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After quitting Granny's Diner and At the police station, David denies being on the phone with her self-esteem Kathryn when the record says he was. Since Emma knows he's still not lying and that there's no evidence of foul play in Kathryn's disappearance, she sends him home but advises that he find a lawyer.

Meanwhile
at an all-time low, Granny's, Ruby is hired enthralled in conversation with August about his travels while Granny nags her to get back to work.
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{{FLASHBACK}}! Red Riding Hood is visited
by her boyfriend Peter in the night and they talk about running away together and steal a kiss before Widow Lucas, Red's grandmother calls her. A hunting party is at the door, seeking to kill a wolf that slaughtered a dozen sheep. Red wants to go with them but Lucas denies her, telling her that the hunters are fools and reminding Red to keep her hooded cloak on, since the color supposedly keeps wolves away. Red tells Lucas that she hopes the hunters succeed so that she doesn't have to stay shut in all the time. The two women then barricade every way into the house, and Lucas guards the front door with a crossbow.
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Granny wants Ruby to work more hours so she can train her on various paperwork forms, but Ruby has none of that and thinks Granny is too hard on her, prompting her to quit her job on the spot.
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{{FLASHBACK}}! In the morning, Red and Lucas take down their fortifications and Lucas sends Red to check on the chickens. In the henhouse, Red collects eggs and is about to leave when she hears movement and finds the fugitive Snow White stealing eggs, although Red doesn't know who she is. Snow tells Red that she heard something terrifying in the night and sought safety and shelter in the henhouse. Snow doesn't want to tell Red her name since she's a wanted woman, and comes up with a pseudonym to use.
->'''Snow:''' Uh, Margaret. Oh, no. Uh, Mary. Mary.

Red has "Mary" come with her, going to get water from the nearby well before heading back to the house. Red explains that what "Mary" heard was a monstrous wolf that terrorizes the locale and kills livestock during what's known as Wolfstime. As Red brings up the bucket, she finds the water stained red with blood before the two girls see the mutilated remains of the hunting party scattered in the snow.
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Emma Swan to be fills in Mary Margaret on David's second interrogation and her assistant in order lack of progress on the case while preparing Mary Margaret to help face the immense suspicion the townspeople will place on her discover what it is in life and David. The two come across Ruby at a bus stop repeatedly turning down Dr. Whale's offers for a ride, and after Emma intimidates him away Ruby explains to them that she's good at; on her way out of Storybrooke. Emma and Mary Margaret are concerned for her since there currently isn't a bus out of Storybrooke and Ruby doesn't even know where she wants to go yet, and they decide to have her stay with them for the time being.
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{{FLASHBACK}}! Lucas, Red, and "Mary" arrive at a town gathering, where Lucas tells them all that the wolf is too powerful for them to kill, and tells them the story of how a similar wolf slaughtered her father and brothers and bit her arm before leaving, showing the scars to the townspeople. Lucas warns the town that all they can do against this beast is hide from it.

Back at the house, Red confides in "Mary" that she feels trapped living with her grandmother, and "Mary" quickly deduces that she wants to be with Peter, having seen the two exchange looks at the gathering. "Mary" says that she doesn't have anyone like that, and while Lucas is right about how dangerous the wolf is, "Mary" doesn't think that she should be using it as an excuse to keep Red and Peter apart. Red decides that they should remove that particular excuse and kill the wolf by attacking during the day unlike the ill-fated hunters. "Mary" thinks that this is a really bad idea, but Red has made up her mind.
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The next day, Mary Margaret drives to the town line where Kathryn disappeared and walks into the woods where she hears something moving in the foliage, and is surprised to see that it's David. Mary Margaret realizes that, like her, he's there to search for Kathryn, and promises him that eventually Kathryn will be found and until then she'll stick up for him, but David is seemingly in a daze, only able to repeat the words "[[MadnessMantra I'm looking]]."
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{{FLASHBACK}}! Red and "Mary" look for tracks in the woods and soon find huge, blood-tinged paw prints with massive strides.
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At the police station, Henry tries to help Ruby find a new job. Ruby notices the police station phone ringing, which Henry explains sends non-emergency calls to a machine for Emma to review later. Ruby starts answering calls
and Emma continues questioning David Nolan is impressed with her skill in handling the people, and offers to hire her to do it along with other tasks at the station. Ruby leaves to pick up lunch as Mary Margaret arrives to tell Emma about David's strange behavior.
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{{FLASHBACK}}! Red and "Mary" follow
the disappearance - tracks and possible murder - of Kathryn Nolan. Meanwhile, in are bewildered when the fairytale land tracks morph from paws to boots, and the strides changing to a human walking pace.
->'''"Mary":''' Red? What kind of monster is this?

Red recalls
that was, Wolfstime happens once a month around the full moon and starts to bring up a mythical beast she's heard of before the tracks lead them right back to the house, right to Red's bedroom window. They put together the clues and realize that Peter is the wolf, transforming at night and losing his humanity which causes him to blindly kill both man and livestock. Mary convinces Red to tell Peter that he's the wolf if he doesn't know already, and to work with him to find a way to save him from the townspeople and vice versa.
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Ruby goes to Granny's to order lunch, and she and Granny cannot resist taunting each other while the food cooks.
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{{FLASHBACK}}! Red explains her discovery to Peter, and although he's dubious, Red insists that this is a good thing since they can run away together, sparing the townspeople from the terror of Wolfstime, during which they can just keep Peter bound until he returns to his human form. Peter agrees to try it that night, suggesting that they use some chains that he has from his blacksmith job. Red tells him that she's going to stay with him while he transforms, even with the risk that he could break out.
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Henry puts his storybook in a locker at the police station to keep Regina from discovering that it wasn't destroyed, and tells Emma that Ruby is
Red Riding Hood yearns to run away with and that she can trust her true love. But she, to do more before heading home. Ruby arrives and brings her along on a search for David, deciding to take Henry's advice. In the woods, Ruby mutters that she can only screw things up before suddenly stopping and saying that she can hear David. Emma follows Ruby and they find David unconscious with her fellow townspeople, are virtual prisoners a head wound. Emma wakes him up, and finds that the last thing he remembers is being at the police station with Emma the night before.

Emma takes David to the hospital, where Dr. Whale finds nothing out of the ordinary but suggests that David's episode is a lot similar to [[Recap/OnceUponATimeS1E3SnowFalls
when he was first coming out of his coma]]. David worries that he could have actually made that phone call to Kathryn and not remembered it. Regina arrives since she's David's secondary emergency contact after Kathryn and orders Emma to keep searching for Kathryn.

Emma calls Ruby at the police office and tells her to go to the Toll Bridge and use the tracking ability she demonstrated to look for evidence of David being there recently, since that was where he had gone during his first episode. Ruby's unsure of herself but Emma insists that she can do it.

Ruby arrives at the bridge, and Emma directs her over the phone to search for clues, telling her to follow her instincts. Ruby flips over
a bloodthirsty wooden plank and digs under it, finding an ornate wooden box while Emma reminds to find "something of Kathryn's". Ruby opens the box and screams.
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{{FLASHBACK}}! At the house, "Mary" lies on Red's bed wrapped in her cloak in order to fool Lucas into thinking that Red is there, but Lucas discovers the deception and as "Mary" explains that she and Red discovered that Peter turns into the
wolf continues at night and that Red has him tied up somewhere, Lucas is horrified and hurries off to find them.

In the woods, Peter is chained to a tree as Red, the real wolf, pounces
on its relentless killing spree.
him.
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Back at the police station, Ruby can't bring herself to look at the box's contents. Emma comforts her and tells her that she's done well.
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{{FLASHBACK}}! Lucas and "Mary" rush through the woods as Lucas explains that she always knew that Red was the wolf, as Red's mother was one too before she was killed. Red's cloak is enchanted, as Lucas got it from a wizard, and keeps her in human form as long as she keeps it on, but she often removes it and unknowing transforms and escapes the house. "Mary" recalls Lucas' story, and she reveals that that wolf was Red's grandfather who turned Lucas into a werewolf as well, and although Lucas no longer transforms she still has heightened senses during Wolfstime, which she explains to "Mary" is how they're tracking Red and Peter. Lucas loads her crossbow with a silver-tipped arrow which can incapacitate the wolf as they draw closer. They emerge into a clearing where the wolf is eating Peter's remains, and Lucas downs the wolf before "Mary" throws the cloak over it, transforming Red back into a human. Lucas and "Mary" try to get Red away as another hunting party draws near, but Red sees Peter's remains and begins to have a breakdown as she realizes what she is and what she's done. Lucas stays behind as Red and "Mary" flee together.
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Ruby goes back to the diner and apologizes to Granny, noting her scarred arm which gets more pained around the full moon. Ruby has decided to return to her job at the diner and explains that while she's scared of new responsibilities, working with Emma has taught her that she's more capable than she knows, but doesn't want to continue in that line of work. Granny tells Red that the reason she wanted to train Ruby on new tasks was to prepare her to take over the diner when Granny retires, since she only trusts Ruby to do it.

Mary Margaret tries to reason with David at the pet shelter where he's distraught over not being able to trust himself due to his blackouts. Emma arrives and tells them about the box, which contained a human heart. Although DNA tests haven't returned, Emma's doubtful that the heart could belong to anyone other than Kathryn since there's no other missing person case. As David breaks down, Emma adds that there were fingerprints inside the box's lid matching those of someone in Storybrooke. David offers himself for arrest but Emma refuses as the fingerprints weren't his, but Mary Margaret's.


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* AbsenteeActor: Robert Carlyle (Mr Gold).
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* ItMakesSenseInContext: "Emma was my lemur." [[labelnote:Explanation]]August had spoken to Ruby about his travels abroad, including lemurs, causing her to latch onto them as an example of what she had never gotten to experience, a lack of independence. After finding out she could do more (by working at the sheriff's station) but also that she didn't want to be part of ruining people's lives through crime investigation, she comes back to work at Granny's again. Granny asks what about the lemurs, prompting the above response.[[/labelnote]] Also something of a MemeticMutation eventually.

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* ItMakesSenseInContext: "Emma was my lemur." [[labelnote:Explanation]]August had spoken to Ruby about his travels abroad, including lemurs, causing her to latch onto them as an example of what she had never gotten to experience, a lack of independence. After finding out she could do more (by working at the sheriff's station) but also that she didn't want to be part of ruining people's lives through crime investigation, she comes back to work at Granny's again. Granny asks what about the lemurs, prompting the above response.[[/labelnote]] Also something of a [[invoked]] MemeticMutation eventually.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: The scene where Granny tells the people of the village about what the wolf did to her father and brothers when she was a child is a truly chilling and unsettling example of this, particularly the way she emphasizes how [[UncannyValley unnatural]] the wolf was in the way it acted toward her. Ironically, Granny herself is a wolf (though no longer able to change), but this just acts as another source for her knowledge's reliability--she knows from experience that turning into the beast makes you a rampaging, immoral killer. The fact the wolf came back to change her, and ended up [[WifeHusbandry becoming her own husband in the years to come]], just adds an extra disturbing layer to how bad this Big Bad Wolf was.

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* AnimalisticAbomination: The scene where Granny tells the people of the village about what the wolf did to her father and brothers when she was a child is a truly chilling and unsettling example of this, particularly the way she emphasizes how [[UncannyValley [[invoked]][[UncannyValley unnatural]] the wolf was in the way it acted toward her. Ironically, Granny herself is a wolf (though no longer able to change), but this just acts as another source for her knowledge's reliability--she knows from experience that turning into the beast makes you a rampaging, immoral killer. The fact the wolf came back to change her, and ended up [[WifeHusbandry becoming her own husband in the years to come]], just adds an extra disturbing layer to how bad this Big Bad Wolf was.



* ContrivedCoincidence: Ruby happens to get fed up with her life at the diner and strikes out on her own...right when Emma could use extra help at the sheriff's office and her (unrevealed until the latter third of the episode) wolf nature will allow her to track down both the wandering David and the evidence needed to proceed with Kathryn's case.[[note]] One wonders what Regina would have done if this hadn't happened; would she have let the first frame job stand, since David being convicted of killing Kathryn would still have kept him and Mary Margaret from being together? Or would she have arranged things for the heart to still be found, so the one she truly hated would take the blame and pay the price?[[/note]]

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* ContrivedCoincidence: Ruby happens to get fed up with her life at the diner and strikes out on her own...right when Emma could use extra help at the sheriff's office and her (unrevealed until the latter third of the episode) wolf nature will allow her to track down both the wandering David and the evidence needed to proceed with Kathryn's case.[[note]] [[labelnote:*]] One wonders what Regina would have done if this hadn't happened; would she have let the first frame job stand, since David being convicted of killing Kathryn would still have kept him and Mary Margaret from being together? Or would she have arranged things for the heart to still be found, so the one she truly hated would take the blame and pay the price?[[/note]]price?[[/labelnote]]



* ForYourOwnGood: The reason Granny didn't tell Red the truth about herself, to keep her from having to bear that burden.[[note]]It isn't clear, after "Child of the Moon", if the story she tells Snow of Red's mother being killed by hunters is also an example of this, something she told Red to keep her from knowing what Anita was like and that she was alive, or if Anita herself faked her death to escape Granny and [[IAmWhatIAm live her life as part of wolf society]].[[/note]]

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* ForYourOwnGood: The reason Granny didn't tell Red the truth about herself, to keep her from having to bear that burden.[[note]]It [[labelnote:*]]It isn't clear, after "Child of the Moon", if the story she tells Snow of Red's mother being killed by hunters is also an example of this, something she told Red to keep her from knowing what Anita was like and that she was alive, or if Anita herself faked her death to escape Granny and [[IAmWhatIAm live her life as part of wolf society]].[[/note]][[/labelnote]]
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* BloodlessCarnage: Averted with the hunting party that the wolf killed.

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* BloodlessCarnage: Averted with the hunting party that the wolf killed. [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank Not to mention the well water]].
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* ForYourOwnGood: The reason Granny didn't tell Red the truth about herself, to keep her from having to bear that burden. It isn't clear, after "Child of the Moon", if the story she tells Snow of Red's mother being killed by hunters is also an example of this, something she told Red to keep her from knowing what Anita was like and that she was alive, or if Anita herself faked her death to escape Granny and [[IAmWhatIAm live her life as part of wolf society]].

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* ForYourOwnGood: The reason Granny didn't tell Red the truth about herself, to keep her from having to bear that burden. It [[note]]It isn't clear, after "Child of the Moon", if the story she tells Snow of Red's mother being killed by hunters is also an example of this, something she told Red to keep her from knowing what Anita was like and that she was alive, or if Anita herself faked her death to escape Granny and [[IAmWhatIAm live her life as part of wolf society]].[[/note]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Ruby happens to get fed up with her life at the diner and strikes out on her own...right when Emma could use extra help at the sheriff's office and her (unrevealed until the latter third of the episode) wolf nature will allow her to track down both the wandering David and the evidence needed to proceed with Kathryn's case. (One wonders what Regina would have done if this hadn't happened; would she have let the first frame job stand, since David being convicted of killing Kathryn would still have kept him and Mary Margaret from being together? Or would she have arranged things for the heart to still be found, so the one she truly hated would take the blame and pay the price?)

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* ContrivedCoincidence: Ruby happens to get fed up with her life at the diner and strikes out on her own...right when Emma could use extra help at the sheriff's office and her (unrevealed until the latter third of the episode) wolf nature will allow her to track down both the wandering David and the evidence needed to proceed with Kathryn's case. (One [[note]] One wonders what Regina would have done if this hadn't happened; would she have let the first frame job stand, since David being convicted of killing Kathryn would still have kept him and Mary Margaret from being together? Or would she have arranged things for the heart to still be found, so the one she truly hated would take the blame and pay the price?)price?[[/note]]

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* ContrivedCoincidence: Ruby happens to get fed up with her life at the diner and strikes out on her own...right when Emma could use extra help at the sheriff's office and her (unrevealed until the latter third of the episode) wolf nature will allow her to track down both the wandering David and the evidence needed to proceed with Kathryn's case. (One wonders what Regina would have done if this hadn't happened; would she have let the first frame job stand, since David being convicted of killing Kathryn would still have kept him and Mary Margaret from being together? Or would she have arranged things for the heart to still be found, so the one she truly hated would take the blame and pay the price?)



* TheUnreveal: It's never revealed who the wizard was that gave Granny the red cloak for her granddaughter, but chances are it was probably Rumple. [[Recap/OnceUponATimeS2E8IntoTheDeep He does later tell Belle]], after Granny treats him rather coldly at the diner, that he has a "complicated past" with most people in town, including her. Thus it's also never revealed what she had to trade to him for it.

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It's never revealed who the wizard was that gave Granny the red cloak for her granddaughter, but chances are it was probably Rumple. [[Recap/OnceUponATimeS2E8IntoTheDeep He does later tell Belle]], after Granny treats him rather coldly at the diner, that he has a "complicated past" with most people in town, including her. Thus it's also never revealed what she had to trade to him for it.it.
** It's also never revealed just what was up with the unexplained call from David to Kathryn that made him at first seem to be the guilty one; this episode implies he simply forgot about the call due to his real memories trying to return and putting him in fugue states, but it's entirely possible Regina just doctored the phone records (considering she had them all along, as well as the photos of him and Mary Margaret), the same way she did the heart and the rest of the evidence against Mary Margaret.
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After quitting Granny's Diner and with her self-esteem at an all-time low, Ruby is hired by Emma Swan to be her assistant in order to help her discover what it is in life that she's good at; and Emma continues questioning David Nolan about the disappearance - and possible murder - of Kathryn Nolan. Meanwhile, in Fairytale Land, 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.

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After quitting Granny's Diner and with her self-esteem at an all-time low, Ruby is hired by Emma Swan to be her assistant in order to help her discover what it is in life that she's good at; and Emma continues questioning David Nolan about the disappearance - and possible murder - of Kathryn Nolan. Meanwhile, in Fairytale Land, 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.
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