Once Upon a Time: 7:15 AM

This week’s episode of ABC’s Once Upon a Time showed quite a bit of progress in the relationship between Mary Margaret (Snow White) and David Nolan (Prince Charming). In fact, the entire episode features them and begins heading in the direction of how they end up getting married in fantasy land.

Significance of 7:15

The episode begins with Mary Margaret in a rush to “get to school” according to her. She claims she is going in early to help the kids with a science project. In reality, she is headed to the coffee shop where David goes ever morning to buy some coffee to go. Despite him being married, she has to see him.

In the meantime, you learn later on that David makes his early morning coffee run every morning in order to see Mary Margaret and that they share the same feelings for each other. The only thing in their way is David’s apparent wife, who he doesn’t fully remember because of the curse.

Fantasy Background Story

Meanwhile, in fantasy land, Snow White can’t stop thinking about Prince Charming who is scheduled to marry in two days. She seeks Rumpelstiltskin to obtain a potion that will make her forget the prince completely, but Rumpelstiltskin requires a price – a strand of her hair. While it doesn’t explain the significance of that deal at the time, it will likely be important in a future series.

Before Snow can take the potion, she receives a letter from Charming claiming his love for her. He asks her to come to the castle and run away with him. As she enters the castle she finds Charming but before she can speak, she is captured and taken to the dungeon where she meets Grumpy, the dwarf.

Grumpy tells Snow of a love he had and the lies that brought him to the dungeon when his fellow dwarf, Stealthy, sneaks in and releases them both. As they all try and escape, Stealthy gets shot with an arrow (which is why there is no Stealthy in the original Snow White). Grumpy escapes and Snow gets captured and sent to the king.

The king forces Snow to lie to Charming and tell him she doesn’t love him and she does.

How it Ends

On the fantasy side, Snow meets up with Grumpy and the rest of the dwarves and Charming escapes, looking for Snow. But before the dwarves can get word to Snow that Charming didn’t get married, she takes the potion and is unable to remember who they are talking about.

In Storybrook, Mary Margaret and David try and forget about each other because Mary Margaret spots a pregnancy test in the grocery basket of David’s wife. However, they end up finding out that she is not pregnant and the episode ends with them kissing (finally) in public. Unfortunately, the twist is that Mayor Mills (The evil queen) spots them.

Who is the Visitor

We mentioned the strange visitor in the last episode. He doesn’t make much of an appearance except to give some words of advice to Henry and arrange a date with Emma. We do learn his mysterious box contains a typewriter and that he is supposedly a writer. Expect him to play a major role in the few episodes to come.