In the pit Emma (Jennifer Morrison) begins to tell Cora (Barbara Hershey) everything but luckily Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) wakes in time to stop her from blabbing. She's Regina's (Lana Parrilla) mother and far worse than her. Their leader wishes to see them and Emma says she had things under control and was finding a way to get them back to Storybrooke. Their leader is Lancelot (Sinqua Walls) someone Snow knows, a most honourable 'fallen' knight! She met him when she and Charming (Josh Dallas) were fighting against King George (Alan Dale) and he sent this warrior to do his dirty deeds, known as the Leviathan. He spots Charming saying goodbye to Snow since he took so long to snog her and follows her. Taking her back to King George who speaks of how Charming was not a worthy son and how his beloved was cursed never to have children. The same thing he's done to Snow as she drinks wine. Well she shouldn't have drank it then. She accuses Lancelot of poisoning her but he's on her side, it was the king who cursed her.
Together they go to find Charming as the King has sent his men to the cabin where Snow was meant to meet his mother, Ruth (Gabrielle Rose). In a fight to the death, Charming takes care of the men but his mother is hit with an arrow, Lancelot calls poisoned. She wanted to meet Snow before they were married. Charming recalls how he used the water from the Lake to help in the past and so it will heal her now. However when they arrive, the lake is dried up. His mother gives Snow her necklace which can predict the sex of children and future children, if it moves North to South it's a boy, East to West is a girl.
Lancelot finds a smidgen of water, all that's left and Ruth refuses to drink but does so anyway, thinking Snow should have it to lift the curse, knew she didn't really drink it cos the magic would have worked on her. It's a parents duty to protect a child which Snow will come to learn, as she always has protected Emma. Lancelot performs a marriage ceremony for Snow and Charming, giving them wine to drink from the same cup, obviously he's put the water in there, remarking on the Holy Grail. Together they go forward to reclaim their kingdom from George.
In Storybrooke Charming tells Henry (Jared S Gilmore) he did find the Hatter but he disappeared and Henry thinks they should look for him. Henry wants to help Charming get back Snow and Emma but he'll be safer at school. Henry misses school and finds Jefferson (Sebastian Stan) on the bench looking at a drawing his daughter, Grace drew. He tells her she's at school and he should go see her, but he can't since he left her. Henry's left here and he would prefer to know than not. He also tells Henry about Regina's vault, so how did he know about that? The one where she's kept those hearts. See I mentioned that last ep review. As Rumples also said to her last ep that Regina will hold the hearts of many in her hands. Henry turns up at the crypt after calling Regina and arranging lunch with her. Sh returned to find her keys missing and called Charming to get him.
Snow tells Lancelot she knows of a portal which may take them back but can't tell him where it is, cos Cora might hear, leading Mulan (Jamie Chung) and Emma back to their castle. Aurora (Sarah Bolger) follows with vengeance in her mind and Mulan warns her not to confuse vengeance with justice. The ogres have awakened and Emma confuses ogre for giant as in "fe fi fo fum..." let's face it, Emma was out of her element here as Snow told her and well she should have listened and not try to be a know-it-all, after all mother knows best, especially somewhere she's never been. Firing her gun when Aurora tries to stab Snow, thus alerting the ogre to their presence. Snow shoots the ogre between his eye, it's been 28 years since she fired an arrow. Snow shows Emma her nursery which she saw in Henry's book. As well as the magic portal which Geppetto carved. Lancelot turns up saying he wanted to protect them.
Lancelot turns into Cora, she killed him and she wants the portal. Emma uses powder from a bullet to set the portal on fire and save Snow too. They return back to the island, with Snow now becoming leader and Mulan and Aurora will help them find a way back, well it wasn't going to be that easy. Cora returns and puts some ash into a bottle, of course she'll use it to get home since she has magic, well not home but to Regina. Henry wants to be like Charming and he will teach him how to sword fight, maybe even fight a dragon since he can't do this without Henry. Jefferson shows himself to Grace who is pleased to see her papa. George watches Henry and Charming, so how exactly did he manage to end up here?
This episode was all about families with Emma finally forgiving Snow for leaving her alone seeing what she had to live with, an empty nursery and she understands now. George clearly doesn't since he wanted Snow to suffer the same fate as his beloved in not being able to conceive. Yet she tells Lancelot she will be having a girl after Charming uses the necklace, she didn't tell Charming, he wanted a son, saying it's a surprise instead. Regina tries to redeem herself still with calling Charming to get Henry, we'll see how long that lasts. Hopefully she'll have to contend with and pit her wits and magic against Cora.
Jefferson was finally reunited with Grace so there's not much left for him to do, considering his 'portal jumper' no longer works. Yet he was acting strangely after wanting her back so much and the lengths he went to last season to kidnap Snow and make Emma churn out a hat for him, he seemed to have given up so easily when she was right in front of him now. Writers what were you thinking? He's has so much low self esteem over the years that he can't face her now, that was truly mad.
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