The fall finale of Once Upon A Time, which is the seventh episode of the show, aired last Sunday and was mind blowing to say the least. We cried and we screamed at our TV sets, but the show is so amazing, we’re trying to forgive the writers. We all knew it was a Hot-Sheriff-centric episode, and we loved it. We just didn’t love the ending.

The episode starts with Graham showing off his shooting skills. (Darts, that is) He’s smokin’ shooting those darts, by the way. A few moments later, Emma walks into the bar, and simply put: AWKWARD. (Remember how she caught him sneaking out of Regina’s house and was extremely pissed at him?) Graham tries to explain that he feels nothing towards Regina and he tries to prove it by kissing her which only gives him a flashback of his life in Fairytale and makes her even angrier at him. What? Drunk and confused, he runs to Regina’s bed for salvation.

In Fairytale, we see The Evil Queen mourning her dead husband while Snow White cries over his tomb. Is it me or is the Queen’s fortress very fake? You can tell it’s computerized, and that’s very annoying. The rest of Fairytale is usually portrayed beautifully, sometimes even magically, but everything related to the Evil Queen is turning out really mediocre. Anyway, The Evil Queen hugs Snow White telling her that she’ll always be there for her after her father’s death. For a second, I’m like, “Whoa! They actually liked each other.” But then my hopes get crushed when it’s revealed that it’s all just an act on the Queen’s part so she can get her revenge on Snow. Why? We have no idea except that Snow betrayed her by not keeping a secret The Queen shared with her.

Back in Storybrooke, Sherriff Garaham wakes up from a dream (a memory) of him shooting a gazelle and taking care of a red-eyed wolf. Wow, Emma had a huge effect on him. His whole past-life’s creeping up on him. If I were him, I would freak out, too.

The next morning, Emma and Mary Margaret have a heart-to-heart about the wall Emma builds around herself and how she doesn’t let anyone in. Wall? What wall? It’s more like a barricade than a wall; she still calls her son: “Kid.”

Mary Margaret: “Emma, that wall of yours, it may keep out pain, but it also may keep out love.”

Meanwhile, Garaham tries helplessly to find out the truth from his dreams by following the wolf he saw in his nightmare into the woods which makes him remember, of course, Snow White. Ding, ding, ding!

Back in Fairytale, The Evil Queen summons the Hunstman (THE SHERRIF! THE SHERRIF! THE SHERRIF!) so he can kill Snow and bring her heart to The Queen.

Later on, Graham tries to explain to Mary Margaret that he knows her from before – from another time and place — but she simply shrugs it off even when she can’t remember how she met him in the first place. And that’s to be expected, how will the show last multiple seasons (HOPEFULLY!) if Mary Margaret remembers that she’s Snow White in episode 7?

The next scene gives me chills; I think it reminds everyone of their childhood. We all know the Huntsman never kills Snow White and lets her run away. Here, too, the Huntsman lets Snow go after reading the letter she wrote to the Queen. I don’t know about you guys, but I think The Huntsman’s tears while reading the letter are unnecessary.

It’s cute how Graham later on runs to Henry for the rescue; it seems like Henry is the only wise person in Storybrooke. Graham tells Henry his story and how he started getting flashbacks after he kissed Emma. (How adorable is Henry when he asks him surprised, “You kissed my mom?!”?) Long story short, Graham discovers that he has to search for his heart that the Queen ripped off from his chest while he was the Huntsman. (Are you following?)

As he heads out from Regina’s place, Emma sees him. Now this scene is probably one of my all-time favorite scenes from the show to date. It’s sad that the Emma/Graham ship sank so early; they were so meant-to-be. (Or not.)

Graham tells Emma that he does not have a heart and that there’s an evil curse that has made him this way, which makes sense to him because he can’t feel anything at all.

Emma approaches him and touches his heart. “See? It’s beating. It’s real,” Emma says as she grabs his hand and puts it, too, on his heart.“Feel that. That is your heart.” (THEY’RE SO CUTE TOGETHER! #HOTSHERRIFANDEMMAFTW!)

As Emma tries to reassure him that there isn’t an actual curse, she sees the wolf Graham previously told her about. They both follow the wolf until it leads them into a graveyard. On one of the tombs, Graham sees the symbol he has been seeing in his dreams and is convinced his heart lays there.

In Fairytale, the Hunstman reads Snow’s letter to the Queen which only drives her even more insane than she actually is. He gives her a heart telling her it Snow’s, but she soon discovers that it isn’t. (Did they use a rubber heart? It looks horrible.)

Back in the real world, Madame Mayor catches Emma & Graham in action as they scavenge through her father’s tomb. Don’t worry, they didn’t open it. Fed up, Graham tells Regina off. “It’s over,” he says. And you can see Emma’s triumphant smile. She has won. Regina thinks so, too.

“I don’t know what I ever did to you Miss Swan to deserve this. To have you coming after everything I hold dear!” Regina cries. (Uhm, well you did kind of ruin her family and curse them into another world where they don’t remember who they are, but whatever.)

“Henry came and found me. Graham kissed me. Both were miserable. Maybe Madame Mayor, you need to take a good hard look in the mirror to why that is. Why is everyone running away from you?” (Okay, that’s EPIC! You go Emma!)

Regina doesn’t think it’s epic, though. She punches Emma in the face causing her to retaliate and both end up hurt. Emma and Hot Sheriff go to the station where he tries to patch up her wound, and the sparks are flying everywhere. They’re sizzling hot together!

Back in Fairytale, The Evil Queen snatches The Huntsman’s heart from his chest and kisses him telling him that he’s now her pet and that she can kill him any time she wants by just squeezing his heart in her hands.

As Emma approaches Hot Sheriff and kisses him, Regina opens a secret door in her father’s tomb, grabs Hot Sheriff’s heart from a drawer, squeezes it, and …kills him.

UHM WHAT?!?!?!? YOU KILLED OFF HOT SHERIFF?!!?! FOR REAL?!?!? WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING ?!?!?!

Graham is one of the few characters we knew nothing about before this episode, and it was so cool finally getting to know him and falling even more in love him. So why did the writers have to break our hearts like that? We all saw it coming, but it still sucks. I’m sure they’re bringing him back, though, I mean, they did write for Lost. (That’s the silver lining I’m trying to see.)