Recapper's Husband: Nice red wine. Nice dark chocolate.
Recapper: Shhhh. There's still more.
Regina: Finally, you two. So anyhow, I reach into my purse.
Gold: My eyes grow wide.
Regina: I take out the cup, but I keep dangling it in front of the cell bars, just out of reach, as I tease the sap about his sentimental keepsake.
Chip: Hey, I'm a person, you know? Okay, I'm not a person, but I'm an anthropomorphized object. And I sing!
Gold: [grabbing the cup] Thank you, your majesty. Now that we're being honest, let's remember the good old days. I'm the one with the power here. I'm going to be out of here in no time, and things are going to change.
Regina: We shall see.
Back in the Enchanted Forest, Queenie pays a call on Rumpy, and furthers my we-shall-speak-of-it-no-more-fantasy by letting herself in, or barging in.
Regina: Flimsy locks. I have a certain mermaid I want to discuss.
Rumpy: Bitch, please. Keep trying, but you're never going to beat me.
Regina: Is this about that girl I met on the road. Margie? Verna? Whoevs.
Rumpy: Belle.
Regina: I had nothing to do with that tragedy. After Belle got home, her fiancé had gone missing. Since she had been shacking up with you, no one wanted her. Her father shunned her, cut her off and shut her off.
Rumpy: I'll totally take her in!
Regina: Muahahahahaha. Her father locked her in a tower and had clerics cleanse her soul with scourges and flaying. After a while, she jumped to her doom. She died.
Rumpy: You're lying.
Regina: Am I?
Rumpy: Well done.
Recapper: C'mon Rumpy, why are you taking Queenie at her word?
Regina taunts Rumpy about getting a new girl and finally leaves him. Once he's alone, Rumpy goes to the china cabinet, and takes out Chip. He sets it in a place of honor, where an elaborate goblet (the Holy Grail?) once sat.
Back in Storybrooke, Regina visits the hospital. She walks right past Moe French and enters a security code to gain access to a locked door. When she descends the stairs, she hands a Nurse Ratched look-alike a long stemmed rose, compliments her work and then asks, "Has anyone been to see her?" The nurse says no one ever has. Regina smiles and starts down the hall. She rounds a corner and passes a maintenance worker who is Chief's doppelganger. Finally, she reaches her destination. She flips open a little window on the door. Inside is Belle. Fade to black.













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