Once Upon a Time (TV Series)

Is This Henry Mills? (2018)

Lana Parrilla: Regina Mills, Roni

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Quotes 

• Young Henry Mills : So... I-I may have hit a curb, and dinged the passenger door.

  Regina Mills : Oh, Henry, do you know what I put this car through? Scratches are a part of life.

• Henry Mills : Okay, fine. You know what? I'll play along. Say my book is real. Where are all the real heroes, then? Where is Snow? Where is Charming? Where is Emma? W-Where are these heroes to save the day? Doesn't everybody always find each other?

  Roni : You can't find someone if you don't know they're missing.

• Henry Mills : Don't you get it? No one wants to believe that this is real more than I do. Because if this is real, that means that the pain that I carry around every single day doesn't exist. But it is still right there. So, no, I am not your boy wonder. I am just a sad grown man who couldn't even save his own family.

  Roni : Henry, I get it. I had thought it was just the curse, but your pain is real. Because the day we were cursed, you couldn't save your family. You were kidnapped, and you're still blaming yourself for it. But the difference between what you believe and what I believe is that I know you can still save us. Because we're right here. We've always been with you. I just need you to remember that.

• Young Henry Mills : Mom, I wasn't entirely honest with you or myself about why I couldn't pick a college.

  Regina Mills : Really?

  Young Henry Mills : When you told me that you were ready to let me go, I realized *I* wasn't ready to leave. Storybrooke is the only home I've ever known. And change is hard, and the unknown is scary.

  Regina Mills : But now it's not?

  Young Henry Mills : Oh, no. Still terrifying. But I know now that home isn't a place. It's the people you love. And even when I'm not in Storybrooke, Storybrooke will always be with me.

• [Henry has still not bought into the curse theory] 

  Roni : But a part of you wanted to believe. Or else what's all this?

  [she gestures to the corkboards of research in the room] 

  Henry Mills : Nick was a psychopath. And I admit it, I went deep down into the rabbit hole. But I was wrong.

  Roni : You're rationalizing away your belief - like an adult.

  Henry Mills : I *am* an adult.

• Roni : [referring to Henry's original storybook]  Victoria knew how powerful that book is. And if anyone wanted it, they'd have to pry it from her cold, dead hands.

  Lucy Vidrio : Uh, you think the storybook is in there?

  Roni : Why do you think I kept my vault in a cemetery? When you have secrets that powerful, you take them to the grave.

• Regina Mills : What's wrong?

  Young Henry Mills : It's just... in the entrance essays, the Henry Mills I was writing about wasn't really... me.

  Regina Mills : What are you talking about?

  Young Henry Mills : I couldn't write about the time I got kidnapped to Neverland. Or how I met my first girlfriend in Camelot. I even had to lie about my own home.

  Regina Mills : I read those essays. They were exeptionally well-written.

  Young Henry Mills : That's not the point. They didn't accept the real Henry Mills. And i-if I go out there and keep lying, I won't be me anymore. Maybe I'm better off just staying at home. Mom, what do I do?

  Regina Mills : I wish I can tell you to stay here and never grow up. But you're already grown up. And the only person who can tell you what to do... is you.

• Regina Mills : [returning from Henry's graduation party]  Thank you for saying you wanted to leave early. I could not handle another one of Grumpy's "To all the curses I've known before" toasts.

  Young Henry Mills : Yeah, I was starting to think that wasn't hot chocolate in his mug.

• Gothel : That's the problem with humans. They don't know when to let go.

  Roni : Letting go has never been my thing.

• Henry Mills : Sorry it took me so long to get here.

  Regina Mills : Oh, Henry. I'm just glad to have you back.

  [conjurs a fireball] 

  Regina Mills : And my magic.

• Henry Mills : You were right. I did stop believing in myself. I guess I got a little dinged up along the way, and I couldn't recognize who I was anymore.

  Regina Mills : I know. Scratches are a part of life.

  Henry Mills : I remember that now. I remember everything you taught me.

• [first lines] 

  Lucy Vidrio : It didn't work!

  Roni : Lucy, what are you talking about? What didn't work?

  Lucy Vidrio : True love's kiss. My mom and Henry kissed.

  Roni : But Henry's poisoned.

  Lucy Vidrio : Not anymore. I found all the pieces of the glass slipper and Mr. Samdi cured him. But it doesn't matter. We're still cursed.

  Roni : I don't know about cursed, but those clouds aren't a great sign.

  Gothel : [suddenly appearing before them]  They're not clouds. It's a re-birth.

• Gothel : The balance of nature is shifting, Regina. We're on the precipice of a great extinction; one that man cannot crawl back from.

  Roni : So you're wiping out humanity with a rainstorm? How biblical.

• [Roni is brewing a potion when Weaver enters] 

  Roni : I'm sorry, I don't remember ordering a traitor with a side of betrayal.

• Regina Mills : Look, I... I've been thinking, and maybe your future is outside Storybrooke.

  [she holds out a collection of college pamphlets] 

  Young Henry Mills : Mom... I thought you didn't want me to leave home?

  Regina Mills : Oh, I don't. But being a parent also means learning to let go.

  Young Henry Mills : Really?

  Regina Mills : Henry, I just want you to be happy. And even if happiness means a rowing crew in Ithaca. Or... a chess club in Boston.

  Young Henry Mills : Or studying film in Los Angeles.

  Regina Mills : ...Whatever you want. Even California.

• Roni : So, uh... what's with the bags?

  Henry Mills : Oh. I'm taking Jacinda and Lucy to Bainbridge Island this weekend. Jacinda kinda has a thing for that place.

  Roni : Oh. So the rumors are true.

  Henry Mills : Yeah, Jacinda and I are definitely, officially... some sort of thing.

• Roni : Henry was always the one who made the rest of us believe. Today we're gonna return the favor.