Regina decides to ask Snow about her opinion of the queen and soon realizes that the princess actually sees the good in her. Regina’s eyes tears as she realizes that Snow was talking about how they first met.Īfter a few days of rest, Snow and Regina move to get ahead from the queen’s guards. As they talk, Snow tells the story of how she met this stranger who saved her life when she was young and that this woman was indeed a good person. The next thing Regina sees is that she is in the forest with Snow White tending to her wounds. The guards decide to make an example of her and cut off her head, but who comes in storming to protect the “peasant girl”? None other than Snow! You can image how upset that made Regina! Not liking the fact that the people around her are willing to burn their queen in effigy, Regina tries to stop them but instead, gets arrested with the misunderstanding that she is the one that wants to burn the queen. While strolling through the village as a lowly peasant girl, Regina sees how the villagers revile the queen and wish that Snow was their ruler. For payment, he tells her that she will need to cut off all ties to King George’s kingdom as he needs him to be bankrupt.
Rumple does warn the evil queen that if he does what she asks, she’ll have no magic at her disposal and that once the deed is done, she will need to find him as he is the only one that can turn her back to her majestic self. The townspeople continue to stay loyal to their princess.ĭetermined to find her step-daughter, Regina asks Rumple to cast a shape shifting spell so that she can get close to the princess and kill her. See, a long time ago in Storybrooke, the evil queen leaves no stone unturned as she tries to locate Snow and even tries to have the princess’s subjects turn against her buy spewing out lies about her step-daughter but to no avail. Here, we learn more of the reason why Regina is the way she is. Last night’s episode reveals another layer of Regina that actually makes the viewer see her not as the Evil Queen as we’ve grown up to believe, but rather a misunderstood one. As kids, we read the simplistic version of a tale and as we become adults, we realize that life is not always as simple as the stories make it seem. One of the things I like about ‘Once Upon a Time’ is how they explore a fairy tale character’s backstory.