- [as Emma saves Mary Margaret from Cora, her own heart becomes the target of Cora's deadly grip]
- Cora: Oh, you foolish girl! Don't you know? Love is weakness.
- [she tries to rip Emma's heart out, but for some reason can't make it happen]
- Emma Swan: No. It's strength!
- [Cora is blasted away by some magical force]
- Mary Margaret Blanchard: We're going to win this fight, you know. Good always defeats evil.
- Emma Swan: You sound like Henry.
- Mary Margaret Blanchard: Guess optimism runs in the family.
- Emma Swan: I think it skipped a generation.
- Mary Margaret Blanchard: When I was a little girl, I used to sneak into Cora's chamber and watch her practice magic. She had a spell book, and, Emma... the spells were in the book!
- Emma Swan: Yeah. Isn't that what a spell book is, a book that has spells in it?
- Evil Queen: [speaking to the "dead" Cora] I'm sorry, Mother. Without you, I never would have become the person I am now. But I had no choice. I had to do this. After you killed Daniel, you told me something I've never forgotten. Love - is - weakness. Well, Mother, you are my weakness. Because I love you.
- Captain Hook: Do you know what this is, Emma?
- Emma Swan: The bean that the giant kept.
- [she tries to grab it]
- Captain Hook: [keeps it away from her] Uh-uh-uh. Yes, indeed. A pirate always keeps a souvenir of his conquest, but this... well, this is much more than a mere trinket. This is a symbol. Something that was once magical, full of hope, possibility. Now look at it. Dried up, dead, useless. Much like you.
- [Mary Margaret has roused her husband from his sleep]
- David Nolan: You... You did it.
- Mary Margaret Blanchard: Did you ever doubt I would?
- David Nolan: No.
- [they kiss]
- David Nolan: Though the burning red room did give me pause.
- Emma Swan: Um... your mom, she's, uh... she's... a piece of work, you know?
- Regina Mills: Indeed I do.
- Henry Mills: [to Regina] Emma and Mary Margaret are going to come through. I know it. You said you wanted to change. To be better. This is how. You want me to have faith in you? Have faith in *me*.
- Emma Swan: You created the curse, Gold. You made me the savior. So everything I've ever done... it's exactly what you wanted me to do.
- Mr. Gold: I created the curse, dearie, but I didn't make you. I merely took advantage of what you are - the product of true love. That's why you're powerful. And everything you've done... you've done yourself.
- [Hook has saved Aurora's heart from falling through the portal]
- Captain Hook: I may be a pirate, but I bristle at the thought of a woman losing her heart. Unless it's over me.
- [during a swordfight with Hook, Emma has fallen to the ground]
- Captain Hook: Normally, I prefer to do other more enjoyable activities with a woman on her back. With my life on the line, you've left me no choice. A bit of advice? When I jab you with my sword, you'll feel it.
- [first lines]
- Black Knight: Halt!
- Hooded Man: [carrying a bucket] Food for the prisoner.
- Black Knight: It's not mealtime. Who are you? Identify yourself, slave!
- [he tries to uncover the man, and a short battle ensues, which the man wins]
- Captain Hook: [removing his hood] "Slave"! I prefer "Captain".
- [the Queen of Hearts is whispering something to her knave]
- Knave of Hearts: The Queen wants to know why you've come to Wonderland.
- Captain Hook: I'm in search of someone. In her native land, she goes by Cora.
- Cora/Queen of Hearts: [removes her mask] In this land, she goes by "Your Majesty"!
- Evil Queen: You remember Claude?
- Captain Hook: Can't say that I do.
- Evil Queen: You killed him in the cell block.
- Captain Hook: Ah, yes. I didn't recognize him without my hook in his neck.
- Captain Hook: Well, what shall you have me do?
- Cora/Queen of Hearts: Get me close to my daughter. And then I'll rip her heart out.
- [Hook has tried to rip out Cora's heart, but to no avail]
- Cora/Queen of Hearts: I'm the Queen of Hearts. Do you really think I'd be so careless as to keep my heart where everyone else does? *This*...
- [her turn to grab Hook's heart]
- Cora/Queen of Hearts: ...is how it's done.
- Captain Hook: Wouldn't it have been easier to reconcile with her before her curse destroys the land?
- Cora: Regina doesn't need me not now, not when she thinks she's about to win. But I still have a place in her heart. And the curse won't last forever. It will end. In 28 years, there'll be a savior, and she'll break it.
- [Hook gives her a look]
- Cora: You won't even notice. You'll be frozen, like all those in this corner of the land. But when the curse ends, and our quest will resume, and when it does, Regina will truly have lost everything, and *then* she'll need me.
- Cora/Queen of Hearts: You're now going to tell me everything and do exactly what I want. Because when you hold a heart, you control it. You have the power.
- Mr. Gold: We have to consider the possibility that when that portal opens, it won't be his family that come through. It'll be Cora.
- Regina Mills: And neither one of us wants that.
- Mr. Gold: We have to find where they're coming through and destroy that portal.
- Regina Mills: But whoever came through would die.
- Mr. Gold: Exactly. But I'm confident between the two of us we can summon up enough magic to complete the task.
- Regina Mills: Well, what if we're wrong? What if that portal opens up, and it's not my mother? What if Mary Margaret and Emma do defeat Cora and go through it?
- Mr. Gold: Well, I believe in this world, they call that a win-win.
- Regina Mills: How exactly is that?
- Mr. Gold: If we stop Cora, you are protected from your mother's wrath. If, on the other hand, we stop Snow and Emma, well You become the only mother in your son's life, now don't you?