- David faces questions about Kathryn's disappearance and Emma gives Ruby a job as her assistant, as flashbacks show Red Riding Hood attempt to kill a wolf preying on her village.
- Emma takes on a depressed Ruby as her assistant in the hopes it will show her the good things in life. David is questioned about Kathryn's disappearance (and possible murder). The backstory of Red Riding Hood is revealed as well as her yearning to run away with her true love and her village's virtual imprisonments when a bloody thirsty wolf begins a unyielding killing spree.—robo_1990
- At the Sheriff's station, Emma talks to David about Katherine's disappearance. He can't explain the phone call that shows up on his records. Emma still doesn't think he's lying, but points out he's not in a great spot. She lets him go, but suggests he get a lawyer.
At Granny's, Ruby flirts with August (Eion Bailey), asking him about his travels. Granny (Beverley Elliott) calls for her, but Ruby blows her off. "Ruby, stop flirting and get over here," Granny commands.
In fairyland, Ruby/Red opens the shutters to her cottage for a young suitor named Peter. He wants her to run away with him, but she's afraid to cross Granny.
Red says good-bye to her suitor and answers Granny's calls. There's a hunting party at the front door preparing to set off after the wolf that's been killing sheep. Red is going stir crazy. Granny won't let her go out with the wolf on the prowl. And she has to keep her hood on -- Granny says red repels wolves.
Granny and Red barricade up the cottage. Red heads to bed as Granny mans the front door with a crossbow.
Back in the diner, Ruby is mad at Granny for embarrassing her. Granny wants her to work Saturdays and she wants to train her how to do the books. Ruby objects. Granny tells her she dresses like a drag queen during fleet week. "And you dress like Norman Bates when he dresses like Norman Bates' mother," Ruby shoots back.
Granny tells her it's time she grows up, and reminds her as long as she works there she has to listen to her rules. They start arguing. Ruby quits and walks out.
Back in Fairyland, in the morning they open up the cottage and Ruby gathers eggs from the chickens in the coop. She hears something hiding. It's Snow White.
They head to the well. Ruby tells her about the killer wolf. They see its handiwork: the hunting party has been slaughtered.
Back in Storybrooke, Mary Margaret asks Emma about David. Emma prepares MM for the fact people are going to look suspiciously at her and David about Katherine's disappearance.
They come upon Dr. Whale (David Anders) hitting on Ruby, who has her bags packed and is waiting at the bus stop. He scampers off. Ruby tells them about her fight with Granny and she's leaving, but she's not sure for where. MM invites her home with them.
In Fairyland, at a town meeting, the leader of the hunting party regrets he couldn't save his men. Red and Snow, with her face hidden, are at the meeting. So is Peter. Granny tells a story about when she was a young girl and her six older brothers and father went out to kill the wolf. She climbed up on the roof and watched as the wolf slaughtered them all. She fell off the roof and the wolf came over, chomped on her arm and then left her alone.
She shows off the gnarly scar. She warns everyone the wolf cannot be beaten. She urges everyone to hide.
Back at the cottage, Ruby tells Snow about her crush on Peter. Snow thinks Granny is using the threat of the wolf to keep Red from love. Red thinks about it for a minute and then announces they should go kill the wolf.
In Storybrooke, Mary Margaret drives to the edge of town and gets out to look around where Katherine disappeared. She hears something and follows the noise and runs in to David. She assures him Emma knows he had nothing to do with Katherine disappearing. David is in a daze and just keeps saying he's looking. He stumbles off.
Red and Snow trek through the woods, tracking. They find wolf prints.
In Storybrooke, Henry helps Ruby look through help wanted ads at the sheriff's station. Ruby notices the phone keeps ringing. Henry explains it goes to a machine when Emma is busy. Ruby answers it and takes a message, then she handles a call about a prowler, explaining it's a neighbor's dog.
Emma sees her on the phones and offers her a job. Ruby goes out on a lunch run.
Mary Margaret comes and tells Emma about running into David in the woods. "It's like he was a different person," she says.
In Fairyland, Snow and Red keep following the tracks and find the paw prints turn into boots, like he was a wolf that turned into a man.
Red knows "wolf's time" is once a month on the full moon. They keep following the tracks and realize they're at Red's cottage. The prints go to her window -- where Peter was.
Red knows Peter didn't join the hunting party last night, but she worries about what will happen tonight.
Snow tells Red to tell him.
Ruby goes in to Granny's and orders lunch, bragging that she's working at the sheriff's station now and helping solve crimes.
Back in Fairyland, Red tells Peter she thinks he's the wolf. He doesn't understand how he could not remember. He suggests she chain him up, just in case.
At the sheriff's station, Henry suggests Emma let Ruby do more because she doesn't remember she's Little Red Riding Hood and has forgotten she's a bada--.
Emma tells Ruby to come with her. They head into the woods looking for David. All of a sudden, Ruby says she hears him and realizes where David is. She finds him passed out on the ground with bump on his head. He doesn't remember anything since he was in Emma's office last night.
Emma takes him to see Dr. Whale, who says it seems like what happened to him when he came out of his coma. Emma wonders what else he could do in that state and not remember. David suddenly worries he could have done something to Katherine. Regina storms in -- she's still David's emergency contact since Katherine is missing. She snarks at Emma to just find Katherine.
Emma calls Ruby and asks her to drive to the toll bridge -- where David went last time during a black out. Emma wants her there before David is released from the hospital.
Ruby drives to the bridge and finds some recently dug up ground. She digs and finds a small wooden box. She opens it and screams.
Back in the cottage, Snow lies in bed, taking Red's place. Granny finds her. Snow explains Red's out with Peter and isn't in danger because he's tied up. "She's got him tied up? Oh that poor boy," Granny says.
Cut to Peter chained to a tree, yelling at Red to stop. She's the wolf.
Back at the station, Emma looks in the box. Ruby asks if it's what she thinks it is. It is.
Ruby's freaked out, but Emma tells her she did a great job finding David and then the box. Emma's impressed.
Granny and Snow head out in the woods to find Red. Granny knew. Red's mother was one, too, but was killed by a hunting party. Red starting turning when she was 13. Granny paid a wizard for the cloak, but Red doesn't always wear it.
The story she told was about Red's grandfather. He marked her that night, then came back and turned her. She says it's mostly faded away, but she's tracking Red by smell. They hear a wolf braying. Granny approaches with the crossbow. They come upon the wolf tearing into Peter.
The wolf turns and lunges at them. Granny shoots her with the arrow. Snow throws the cloak over Red and she turns back. Red is confused. The hunting party is approaching. She turns and sees Peter's body. Snow tells her she's the wolf. Red is distraught as the hunting party appears in the distance, Snow helps her away.
Back in the diner, Ruby visits Granny -- who has the wolf claw scars on her arm. Ruby tells her she wants to come back. She wasn't mad, she was scared of the extra responsibility. Granny assures her she's ready and can handle it. Granny tells her she wanted to learn the books so she could take over the place and own it when she retires. Granny tells Ruby she's proud of her.
Mary Margaret visits with David at the pet shelter, he's worried about what he might have done. Emma joins them. She tells them they found a box and it had a human heart inside. There were fingerprints in the box and a matchto a specific person. David tells Emma to arrest to arrest him.
But the fingerprints weren't his.
They were Mary Margaret's.
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