When Snow wonders if Cora snatched Whale, Charming says he doesn't think so. "[Whale] has been in a rough place since he brought Regina's fiancé back to life." While Snow is all, "Daniel?" Emma is all, "Back to life?" No one thinks too much of hearing Charming say that Daniel ripped off Whale's arm. Snow is still stuck on Daniel's name, and Emma is still stuck on the larger question. "Like some kind of Frankenstein?" Charming says, "That's Whale. And Daniel was his..." Alarmed, Snow says, "What went on here while we were gone?" Emma interrupts her arguing parents like you do when they're about to get into it in front of your friends, and tells Ruby to get going. "Bring back Dr. Frankenstein. We're going to send this guy back home with bolts in his neck." Missing the point, Snow's, "She'll find him," comment is less than reassuring to Emma, who wonders in what sort of state they'll find the good doctor. We cut to...

Downtown. Whale runs down the street so quickly that he crosses both space and time and we flashback to...

Frankestonia. Gerhardt's corpse is hooked up to Viktor's machine. When he turns it on, electricity shoots through the corpse. After it runs its... what do I call it -- a cycle? While I once worked in a hospital, coded procedures and maintained the charge master, I'm woefully bereft of Revivification Medicine Terminology. When Viktor sees smoke rises from the scar on Gerhardt's chest (and who sewed him up -- a toddler), rather than cutting through the enormous sutures, he makes a fresh cut and removes Gerhardt's heart. Igor is Captain Obvious in this realm and says, "It's burned. Like coal." Viktor tells Igor to cover Gerhardt. "This sheet will serve as his shroud."

Papa Frankenstein chooses exactly that moment to enter the lab and confront Viktor -- who was spotted bringing a body into the house. When Papa sees Gerhardt's corpse, he makes it abundantly clear that the deceased was his favorite son, as if the Christmas gifts didn't do the job. Father and son argue. Finally, Viktor says he operated on Gerhardt for his father's sake, too. "I wanted you to have two sons again." Papa sneers. "And now I have none." We flash forward to...