Spoilers for ep. 16

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An interview with the actress who plays Emma, Jennifer Morrison reveals some tidbits about this upcoming episode. Proceed with caution, there are spoilers ahead.

In this week’s episode, we again saw Emma placing a lot of faith in her “super-power” of being able to tell when someone’s lying to her, but Sidney’s been playing her for weeks now. Is she going to get a rude awakening in terms of her alliances any time soon?
Yeah, I think eventually, for sure. I feel like she’s always been a little bit skeptical of Sidney only because he did come from being so deep in Regina’s pocket that it’s hard for Emma to believe that someone could really make that much of a turnaround. But she’s also in a town where she doesn’t have a lot of people who are on her side. So, sometimes I think she feels that she has to take the best-worst option. It’s like she knows that there may be something to be skeptical about with Sidney, and yet, he seems like the best possible option at this point. She almost has to force herself to believe that he’s going to be trustworthy because she has no other choice. He’s really the only person she has access to that can get her the information that she needs and to help her try to solve this case. But yes, at some point, she will definitely have a rude awakening in terms of how deeply he’s not supporting her.

The promo for next week reveals that Emma actually arrests Mary Margaret for Kathryn’s murder. Obviously, Mary Margaret has been Emma’s closest friend in Storybrooke up to this point, so what does this new development mean for their friendship?
It’s a really upsetting situation for Emma because clearly, she doesn’t think that Mary Margaret is guilty. And yet, there are seemingly tangible pieces of evidence that point to her. Emma’s sort of left with no option because if she doesn’t go where the evidence leads and actually make the arrest, then she looks like she’s offering some sort of favoritism to Mary Margaret, which then makes Emma look like she’s not doing her job properly, which then gives Regina a reason to fire Emma. So, there’s this domino effect of problems that would happen if Emma doesn’t follow through with what actually seems to be going on. In Emma’s mind, even though it’s a horrible thing to have to arrest this person who she truly does consider a friend and truly does believe in, she feels like she can protect her better by doing this than she can if she doesn’t do it, because then she could be fired and then someone else be put in that would really take her down.

I think you’ve said in the past that you guys want to avoid playing the parent/daughter dynamic in Emma’s scenes with Mary Margaret or David because you don’t want to be winking at the audience like any of them are really aware of something, correct?
Yeah, I think that she really doesn’t believe any of this at all. I mean, there’s no little part of her that thinks that what Henry has suggested to her with these fairytales being true could possibly be real. So, I can’t ever go into a scene thinking that she believes that. So her entire dealings with David or with Mary Margaret are always from the perspective of two people that she just met and treating them as two people that she just met. I do believe that she does feel drawn to both of them in some way. There’s some sort of underlying magnetism that she feels to them. But I think she just thinks that that’s because she thinks they’re good people and that she believes that they’re telling the truth, not because she thinks that there’s any deeper meaning of them being related.

In next week’s episode, we’ll also see Mr. Gold as Mary Margaret’s attorney. What are Emma’s feelings towards him at this point?
I think initially she’s very opposed to [Mary hiring him] because obviously she doesn’t trust him, for good reason. Ultimately, the dilemma that Emma always ends up having with Mr. Gold, sort of from this point on, is that she does not agree with his methods and she does not agree with the way that he goes about doing things, but she does agree with his results, oftentimes. She suspects that he has ulterior motives that are serving him, but those ulterior motives that are serving him are also serving Emma sometimes. So she, once again, has to sort of choose the lesser of two evils and decide if she’s going to go along with what he’s doing in order to get the results that she needs in order to protect the people that she wants to protect, or shy away from all of it and try to do all of it by herself.

I think the producers have indicated in previous interviews that there will be a resolution to the Kathryn storyline fairly soon. So in terms of where you’re filming now, has the balance shifted between Emma and Regina at all, or has Regina still got the upper hand?
By the point we’re at right now, it does start to balance out a little bit. There’s more and more building against Regina in terms of proof for other people in town to realize that maybe, she isn’t just a good mayor. Part of the curse has been that people have not questioned things; they’re sort of in this haze where they don’t really think outside of what’s been the norm from day to day for the last 28 years. Now, all of the things that have been set in motion because of Emma being in town are forcing people to sort of wake up a little bit at a time and go, “Wait a second, why would she do this?” So, Regina is starting to lose her footing in terms of her hold over everyone in town. There does start to be a little bit of a power shift — or at least some sort of a power balance — because once you plant those seeds of doubt then she’s definitely not as all powerful as she once was.

Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/12/once-upon-a-time_n_1338893.html

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More spoilers for what’s happening this episode in FTL:

Snow White is on a mission in the March 18 episode of Once Upon a Time! Flashback to the time when Snow told Charming that she didn’t love him after his life was threatened by King George. Heartbroken, she took a potion given to her by Rumpelstiltskin in order to forget her love for him. Since that time, she’s been living with the dwarfs, but the potion is seriously messing with her mind.

Case in point: in this weekend’s episode, she decides to assassinate the Evil Queen. Fortunately, Charming is on her trail, having called off his wedding to Abigail. Now he’s determined not only to reunite with Snow White, but also to stop her crazy plan before she can get herself hurt. But, of course, she doesn’t remember him, so that throws a serious wrench into his plans.

In order to kill the Queen, Snow turns to the devious Rumpelstiltskin for help. Grumpy thinks this is a horrible plan, but Snow is determined. Rumple’s suggestion is for Snow to kill the Queen while she’s on the move, using a bow and arrow. We know that Snow obviously doesn’t kill the Queen, but will Charming be able to bring back her memory in this weekend’s episode of Once Upon a Time?

Meanwhile, Mary Margaret has serious problems back in Storybrooke, where she’ll be arrested for Kathryn’s murder. She too turns to Rumple for help…well, she actually turns to Mr. Gold to represent her against the murder charge.

Read more here: http://www.tvovermind.com/once-upon-a-time-abc/once-upon-a-time-preview-episode-16-heart-of-darkness

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

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I know we already knew that Gold was her lawyer, but i really love that. It sounds so funny.

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Here is another interview with Jeffiner Morrison on what’s in store for Emma this week and in weeks to come:

With Mary Margaret’s fingerprints, what does Emma do? This is her roommate and her friend at this point, but Emma’s also the sheriff.
Morrison: Yeah. Ultimately Emma is very confident that Mary Margaret is not doing anything wrong and that something weird is going on. But if Emma doesn’t follow the evidence and she doesn’t follow through with doing what’s right based on what’s being handed to her evidence-wise — even if it has been tampered with or even if Mary Margaret is being set up or something — at this point, I have to follow through with it because otherwise I won’t be doing my job properly. It will look like I’m having some sort of favoritism for Mary Margaret, and then Regina would have cause to fire me. Then if she’s able to fire me and put someone else in that position, then she would definitely have control over ruining Mary Margaret. So I think Emma sees it as a very upsetting and frustrating position to be in to have to see the evidence as floating towards this person she truly believes to be innocent and who she truly cares about. But at the same time, I think she’s relieved that she’s the one in an authority position because it’s the best way she could possibly hopefully protect Mary Margaret.

Does Emma have any reason to think Regina’s involved in this specifically yet?
Morrison: I don’t think she specifically is thinking Regina at this point. I just think that she is very confident that Mary Margaret is not capable of murder. So it seems to her that something is off and wrong and that someone is trying to set her up for some reason.

You have a very interesting, very different dynamic on the show where these two characters are your parents, but you simply don’t believe it. Emma and David have had a few more scenes recently, but it’s mostly been about this case. Are we going to see a little bit more bonding there?
Morrison: There’s not a lot of reason at this point in the show, unfortunately. There’s just these little bits and pieces that we hit with them, because of the case obviously. So I feel like people are definitely going to get to see little bits of their time together, but Emma really does not believe on any, even small, scale that this person could possibly be her father. So it’s not like she’s going into this time with David thinking, “Oh gee, maybe this guy’s my father.” He’s just this guy that Mary Margaret fell in love with who’s causing all sorts of trouble by not being honest with people, and now his wife — it’s like in Emma’s eyes he’s just sort of the center of a lot of complications.

Emma’s been there a few months now. Making the leap to “these are my parents” is obviously something massive, but do you think she’s started to at all maybe be a little more receptive to something being off in this town?
Morrison: I think she’s absolutely at zero with thinking there’s any chance of a curse. I think that she feels like that there’s something going on in terms of there being some sort of manipulation or some sort of framing of something going on and someone being set up. And I think she thinks politically maybe there’s some dark things going on and she doesn’t understand why or who or what exactly their motives are, but it’s all very reality-based for her. There’s just zero part of her that believes it has anything to do with a curse.

And is her relationship going to progress with August? Obviously, we have more reason that she does to be suspicious or very curious about what exactly he’s doing.
Morrison: She’s obviously very skeptical of August. August is someone who doesn’t offer a lot of information about himself, which is very similar to Emma. She’s always been very guarded and she’s kept a lot of her life private. And she did that because she felt like she had a lot to hide. So I think she’s assuming that August must have a lot to hide if she’s operating the same way. So she is definitely very skeptical of him. And we’re going to see this bit of a dance that goes on in terms of the push and pull of her trying to figure out if he’s trustworthy or not or if he has good motives or bad motives or no motives. To her, he’s really the wild card in the town right now. She’s got everybody else sort of figured out and kind of knows what alliances exist and where they stand or who to trust or who not to trust. But she still feels the jury is out on him.

The show’s interesting in that with the different stories and the different characters the tone can be very different depending on what you’re focusing on. There can be a more fanciful tale involving, say, the fairies. But in this past episode with Red Riding Hood, it’s pretty dark stuff with all the corpses in the snow. Is it fun for you to be on a show that can go back and forth like that?
Morrison: Yeah, I like that about the show in particular, because I feel like it’s a nice representation of how life is. Things can be very light and cheery, and then everything can change in a moment. I was just talking to a friend of mine who, very tragically, had a friend who was in a very terrible car accident, and their whole family’s life changed based on dealing with these obstacles: hoping that she’ll pull through and hoping she’ll be okay. And that was life changing in an instant. And I feel like there’s a lot of what you see on our show; there’s these vast extremes that can happen on any given day and how faith and help are involved in both extremes of good and bad and light and dark.

Read more here: http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/122/1220972p1.html

"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy

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