Emma, David, Mary Margaret, and Melissa arrive on the scene via squad car. David gets out and runs towards Belle and Gold, with Melissa trailing behind. Meanwhile, Melissa radios for more assistance.
"We're at the town line. Two people down, maybe three. There's a car – pretty banged up with Pennsylvania plates." Melissa said
"What's going on?" David asked Gold
"She crossed over the line. She doesn't remember." Gold said
Emma finds a now alert Hook at the side of the leans down and pushes on his ribs. He yells out in. Gold lunges at Hook, digging his cane into his neck. An ambulance arrives, distracting Gold long enough for Melissa to pull him off of Hook. The paramedics head towards Hook first, but Emma directs their attention to the driver of the car instead.
"No! Him! Take care of him. He can wait." Emma said
Snow, who is still tending to Belle, overhears Emma.
"What?" Snow asked in confusion
"There's someone in there. (Emma, Mary Margaret, and Melissa watch as the paramedics look over the unconscious driver of the car.) Do you know this guy?" Emma asked her parents
"I've never seen him before." Mary Margaret said
"That's because he drove into town." David said
"More coming to Storybrooke." Melissa said
At the hospital.
Hook and the driver of the car are wheeled into the hospital on stretchers by the paramedics, while the rest of the group from the accident site follow behind them.
"I don't know what's going on." Belle said
"Car versus pedestrian. Chest trauma from the wheel. Pedestrian's got contusions, broken ribs." Paramedic said
"Go to X-ray. Pedestrian first." Nurse said
"Margaret go with the nurses and hide him." Emma said
"What?" Nurse asked in confusion
"Ok." Melissa said
"Find a room and hide him." Emma said
In a room in the hospital.
Melissa keeps an eye on Hook who is handcuffed on the bed and Emma came in. He wakes up and both Melissa and Emma interrogates him.
"Where's Cora?" Emma asked Hook
"What? (Hook goes to move his arm and realizes he's stuck.) Again? You're really into this, aren't you? Damn, that hurts." Hook said
"You cracked a few ribs. Now my friend here just ask you a question. Where is Cora?" Melissa asked Hook
"All 'where's Cora?' in a commanding voice. Chills." Hook said
"You have all sorts of sore places." Emma said
"Perhaps one of us can hurt you." Melissa said
Emma pushes her hand into his ribs, causing him to wince in pain.
"I have no idea where Cora is. She has her own agenda. Let's talk about something I am interested in – my hook. May I have it back? Or is there another attachment you'd prefer?" Hook asked as he flirts
"You're awfully chipper for a guy who just failed to kill his enemy, then got hit by a car." Emma said
"Maybe you should get hit by another one." Melissa said
"Well, my ribs may be broken, but… Everything else is still intact. Which is more than can be said for other bad days I've had. Plus, I did some quality damage to my foe." Hook said
"You hurt Belle." Melissa said
"I hurt his heart. Belle's just where he keeps it. He killed my love. I know the feeling." Hook said
"Keep smiling, buddy. You're chained down, he's on his feet, immortal, has magic, and you hurt his girl." Emma said
"If we've pick dead guy of the year? We would definitely pick you." Melissa said
Melissa bites her own wrist and forced Hook to drink it. She jerked her own wrist. Hook doesn't feel pain anymore.
"What the hell did you do to me?" Hook asked Melissa
"Don't flatter yourself." Melissa said
Both Emma and Melissa enters the lobby.
"Here, let me try. I have a thing. And we do know something. There was stuff in his car – rental agreement, maps, receipts. His name is Greg Mendell. Now, let's see… (Emma breaks into the phone and begins to root through it. She finds several phone numbers and pictures of Greg.) Pictures of him alone at a bunch of Eastern Seaboard tourist locations, a LinkedIn account, and he tweets pictures of his food. I'll keep looking, but I think what we have here is a well-documented, real-life ordinary Joe. Or Greg." Emma said
"So, whatever's kept random people from stumbling into Storybrooke for the last twenty-eight years." Emma said
"Think what'd they do to a werewolf or a hybrid." Leroy said
"Thanks Leroy." Melissa thanking Leroy in sarcasm
"Oh, and his friends and family? They're going to come looking for him soon." Mary Margaret said
"Let's try not to overreact." Emma said
"Hook says he doesn't know where Cora is, and God knows what she's going to do. With other people coming here, that's not going to be good for anyone." Melissa said
"We need to find Regina – tell her that Cora is here." Mary Margaret said
"I've been tracking her. No luck. She's gone underground." Ruby said
"But what if Cora finds her first? I don't want to think about the damage those two would do together. This could not have come at a worse time." Mary Margaret said
"It's okay. The guy's being patched up right now. He'll probably be on his way home by morning." Emma said
"Not yet." Melissa said
"What do you mean?" Mary Margaret asked her daughter and Melissa
"We can't take any chances." Emma said
"He's not a supernatural. And if he knows something, then I can do some compulsion. (They looked at her in confusion.) Compulsion is mind control. And if he has a bad injury, I'll slip him some of my blood. Although he can't die with my blood in his system." Melissa said
"What happens if he dies with your blood in his system?" Emma asked Melissa
"He'll come back and decide if he want's to become a vampire by drinking human blood or he will just die without it. Same with Hook. My blood will be out of their system in two days." Melissa said
"I thought vampires..." Leroy asked Melissa
"You guys watch to many movies." Melissa said
Dr. Whale enters.
"He's bleeding into his chest cavity. It's not a full flood, you know. But, pretty soon, he'll be drowning in his own blood." Dr. Whale said
"Aren't you a doctor?" Emma asked Dr. Whale
Dr. Whale spots Gold walking down the stairs. He approaches him.
"Gold. You fixed me. Now fix him. It will take you seconds and cost you nothing." Dr. Whale said
"No." Mr. Gold said
"No? Just… No?" Dr. Whale said
"I owe you nothing, Whale. I owe none of you anything. And some of you, owe me. So, yeah, just… No. Oh, and point of interest – the driver? He saw me throwing some magic. So, instead of trying to get him out of here, you better be hoping he dies. Because if he doesn't, he's going to be driving tour buses up and down main street. So glad I don't give a damn." Mr. Gold said as he exits.
"Look… Letting him die is easy. I can do that, if that's what you decide." Dr. Whale said
"Let's take this somewhere private." Emma said
The group enters a small examination room to talk.
"It's not really murder if we let him succumb to his injuries." Dr. Whale said
"Yes it is." Melissa said
"We save him." Mary Margaret said
"Obviously." David said
"We got to think it through. If we save him and kill the whole town, is that really better?" Leroy asked them
"So we have to choose between our lives and his." Ruby said
"We can worry about the town later." David said
"Guys. We should save him. Supernatural or not, he has to be saved. Either we like it or not." Melissa said
"She's right." Emma said
"Well, of course I'm right. I've been to this situation before." Melissa said
Dr. Whale exits. Suddenly, Greg's phone begins to ring.
They're waiting in the lobby of the hospital. Greg's phone, now on silent, begins to vibrate. On the screen, the incoming caller is listed as 'Her'.
"Same person again." Leroy said
"Her." Emma said
"Cute." Melissa said
"Probably a girlfriend." David said
"We could answer it – just let her know he's okay." Mary Margaret said
"He's not okay." Melissa said
"He's alive. We could let her know he's alive." Ruby said
"Nah. The police could trace it here instantly." David said
"She can activate the find your phone thing without us picking it up at all." Emma said
The phone stops vibrating.
"That settles that." Leroy said
A man enters and scans the lobby. He turns to leave when David stops him.
"Whoa. Whoa. Wait. Wait. Any news?" David asked one of the doctors
"No. I was just looking for the doctor." Man said
"He's not in the OR?" Ruby asked the man
"He never came in." Man said
"Then page him." Melissa said
"He was not looking so good earlier." David said
The man makes a phone call. A beeping sound is then heard nearby.
"He's here." Mary Margaret said
The beeping sound is coming from the laundry basket of dirty scrubs. Emma looks through it and finds the pager, along with Dr. Whale's lab coat.
"No, but his pager is. He's gone." Emma said
Ruby sniffs Dr. Whale's lab coat to pick up the scent.
"Got the scent?" David asked Ruby
"Boozy." Ruby said
"Just find him and bring him back. We'll watch Hook and figure out options if Whale doesn't come back." Emma said
"Maybe Doc can do it." Mary Margaret said
"Surgery? No." Leroy said
"Maybe he didn't even run. Maybe Cora grabbed him for some reason." Mary Margaret said
"I don't think so. He's been in a rough place since he had brought Regina's fiancé back to life." David said
"Daniel?" Snow asked in confusion
"Back to life?!" Emma asked in confusion
"Even I can't learn a spell like that. Well, not yet anyway." Melissa said
"And had his arm ripped off and put back on." David said
"Wait. Daniel came back?" Snow asked again
"Like some kind of Frankenstein?" Emma asked again
"That's Whale. The doctor. And Daniel was his-" David said as Melissa finishes his sentence
"Frankenstein's monster." Melissa said
"Ruby, get going. Bring back… Dr. Frankenstein." Emma said
"I'm going to slip some blood into Gregs system." Melissa said as she exits
Melissa is in the patients room and sees Greg Mendell lying on the bed. She takes out a needle and stick it to her own arm as the needle suck some of the blood off of her arm. She takes it out off of her arm and sticks the needle to his arm and made her blood go into his system. His wounds were healing.
In the lobby.
"Well." Mary Margaret said
"I healed him. But he was still asleep. Haven't compelled him yet." Melissa said
Melissa looked at Dr. Whale. Everyone turned around.
"I don't know why everyone's so worried. I was just stretching my legs. Now I'm going to go do this thing." Dr. Whale said
"You don't have to worry about that. (Whale looked at Melissa in a confused look.) I fed him my blood. He's doing just fine. Ask the other doctors if you don't believe me." Melissa said
"Actually I do. You tried saving Henry's life under the sleeping curse." Dr. Whale said
"Yes I did." Melissa said
"You've saved someone without me. (Melissa nods) Thank you." Dr. Whale thanking Melissa
"You're welcome." Melissa said
"I want to talk to him." Emma said
"Well, let's talk to him." David said
"We're not talking to him as a group. We're not a group Sheriff...or Deputy for that matter." Emma said
"But, we've been doing this together." Mary Margaret said
"We're trying to convince this guy this place is normal. In a normal town, the Sheriff goes in and asks a few questions. She doesn't bring her parents in with her." Emma said
"We'll be right here, then." Mary Margaret said
Both Emma and Melissa exits.
Both Emma and Melissa enters Greg's room.
"Nurse? Doctor?" Greg asked both Emma and Melissa
"Sheriff Swan, actually." Emma said
"Deputy Flair." Melissa said
"I'm thirsty." Greg said
Melissa hands Greg a glass of water with a straw. She also sets a bag of his belongings next to the bed.
"Here. I have your personal effects. I'm just going to put them here, okay? So, Mr. Mendell, I wanted to talk to you about the accident." Emma said
"Did I hit somebody? Oh, my God, I hit someone. Is he okay?" Greg asked again
"Don't worry about him." Emma said
"The damage was pretty minor." Melissa said
"Oh, thank God." Greg is relieved
"But, we do need you to state what happened in your own words – what you did, what you saw." Emma said
"Well, I…I didn't see anything." Greg said
"You were driving." Melissa said
"Yeah, I mean… I saw the road, of course." Greg said
"We might be able to put your mind at ease." Emma said
"There might be…an explanation." Melissa said
"I was texting. I looked down, just for a second. And when I looked back up, he was… He was right there. And he was too close to avoid, but I… I know that it's not legal in Maine." Greg said
"It's okay. I'm just glad that you… Were honest with us." Emma said
Melissa was close to Greg's bed as he looked into her eyes. She was compelling him.
"Tell us what you were really doing?" Melissa asked Greg
"I was texting my girlfriend." Greg said
"Did you see something extraordinary?" Melissa asked again
"No. I just hit someone." Greg said
"Do you know what I am or what these people are?" Melissa asked again
"You're just a Deputy and these are just towns people." Greg said
"Forget we had this conversation." Melissa said
While Emma and Melissa exits the room. Greg had vervain in his hand so that he wouldn't be compelled.
Meanwhile Emma and Melissa heads down to the lobby, where everyone is nervously waiting.
"I did compel him. He didn't see anything." Melissa said
"Oh, good." Mary Margaret said
They were relieved
"Now maybe, things can calm down for ten minutes and we can catch our breath." David said
Emma, Mary Margaret, David, and Melissa arrive home to Snow's apartment. Jenna was in the carriage just standing there. Henry runs down the stairs to greet them in the kitchen. They all sit down to eat breakfast.
"You were out all night. Where were you? Granny wouldn't tell me anything. Did I miss it all?" Henry asked them
Granny leaves.
"Cereal okay?" David asked his daughter
"Yeah." Emma said
"Rumpelstiltskin and Captain Hook had a fight and someone got hurt." Mary Margaret said
"We weren't sure if Dr. Frankenstein could fix him, but he did." Emma said
"I did help him with that situation." Melissa said
"Doctor? Oh… That's who Whale is." Henry said
"Yeah, but without the neck bolts." Emma said
"The monster had the bolts, not the doctor." Henry said
"Right, but either way, some of us having known him… It's weird." Emma said
"Definitely." Melissa said
"It's not weird. We're past it. We were cursed." Mary Margaret said
"You guys were cursed. Jenna and I aren't from your world remember." Melissa said
"Wait. (Henry leaves and returns with his book.) Frankenstein isn't in here. It's not even a fairy tale. That means it comes from another land with different stories." Henry said
"Eat. I really want to go to bed." Emma said
"If the curse went to places with other stories, then who knows who else is in this town?" Henry said
There is a knock on the door.
"I'll get it. (Melissa goes to answer it, but Gold lets himself in first.) Gold? What are you doing here? All of us had a long night. We need some sleep." Melissa said
"Miss Flair, you remember that favor you owe me? You and Miss Swan?" Mr. Gold asked Melissa
"Yeah." Melissa said
"I'm cashing it in." Gold said
"It's not… A good…" Emma said
"You do honor your agreements, don't you? I need to find someone, so we're leaving today. Pack your bags." Mr. Gold said
"Leaving?" Mary Margaret asked in confusion
"Wait. Find someone? Who?" Melissa asked Gold
"My son. It has to be today, because every minute I'm here, is a minute closer to me killing Hook. So it's really best for all concerned if I leave, and you're going to come with me. Oh, and, um, we have a long history. So know this, and know it to be true. If any harm comes to Belle while I'm gone, I'm killing all of you. I'll see you at noon." Gold said
"Mary Margaret. David." Melissa said
"Yeah." Snow said
"Can you guys watch for my daughter?" Melissa asked both Mary Margaret and David
"What?" David asked in confusion
"I promise not to break a deal with him." Melissa said
"Its your deal too?" Mary Margaret asked in confusion
"Yep." Melissa said
"We'll do that." Mary Margaret said
Melissa is outside making sure Emma or anyone doesn't see her talking on her phone. She dialing her phone now.
"Hello" Neal said
"Hey." Melissa said
"What's going on?" Neal asked Melissa
Melissa remembers that she can't break a deal.
"Nothing. I just wanted to know how you were doing?" Melissa asked Neal
"Good. Everything's good." Neal said
"Ok." Melissa said
"Is everything ok?" Neal asked again
"Yeah. Everything is good." Melissa said
"Ok. Listen I love to talk to you some more, but I've got to go." Neal said
"Bye." Melissa said
Melissa hangs up. She feels really bad about not telling him that Gold is trying to find him.