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I'd like to share a train of thought I had while watching this episode:

Graham kisses the savior, Emma, and it awakens memories of the Enchanted Forest within him. This seems to make him somewhat mentally unstable. Graham becomes irrational. I mean, looking at it objectively, he goes to a 10 year old boy with a storybook and buys into his crazy fairytale theory (right or not, Henry's theory is crazy. All of the adults around him are rightfully skeptical) He also becomes delusional, and maybe even might be hallucinating. (The wolf. I wonder if any of those encounters were in his mind)

I think this indicates that the two lives in your head is not something everyone can handle. Jefferson has always been aware of his past life and the Curse life, and he was clearly unstable too.

I think Regina's relationship with Graham is very interesting. I think she does care for him, inasmuch as she can. (Regina is emotionally stunted, she doesn't really know how to love) However, the fact that he was her slave in their previous life has influenced her heavily, and not in a good way. (Implied rape) It's basically a domestic violence situation at the end - when he makes moves to leave her, she decides that if she can't have him, no one will, and she kills him. I don't think she was exerting much control over him in Storybrooke (outside of "Welcome to Storybrooke") but he was definitely her prisoner.