August approaches Marco's workshop in Storybrooke where the latter is fixing the clock that Mr. Gold previously asked him to repair. August pauses before telling Marco to align the gear on the spindle and then press the spring (as Geppetto had told him as a child). Marco does as August suggested and the clock begins working, cuckoos and all. Marco smiles, asking August who told him that, the writer replies that it was his father. Marco says that he taught him well and that he must be very proud. "Oh, I don't know about that..." August tells him, "I don't think I became the man he wanted me to be." Marco asks if he's tried to make it up to him and August explains that he made him a promise a long time ago and when the time came around to make good on it, it was too late. Marco points out th