Storybrooke Present Day finds Zelena (Rebecca Mader) and Hades (Greg Germann) back in Storybrooke standing on the toll bridge (or Troll Bridge) with the baby and he wants to go into town as she suggests, but they will just come after him cos Snow (Gennifer Goodwin) et al don't know he's changed, cos he hasn't as we know. She leaves the baby with him and heads to town herself telling him to meet at the Mayor's office. But as mayor isn't that somewhere Snow may be. As Arthur (Liam Garrigan) arrives on the bridge after making his escape. Merida (Amy Manson) was meant to be watching him but she left a dwarf on the job and he got away. Hades kills Arthur after he finds out who he is and heads to the underworld. Arthur was meant to be king of a broken country but he doesn't know where he is until Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) tells him. As does the blind witch (Emma Caulfield). Hook needs to warn Emma (Jennifer Morrison) about Hades but he doesn't know how to do that until he recalls the pages Hades tore from the book. He asks Cruella (Victoria Smurfit) who's admiring the two pieces of meat in the sandwich (ie Hook and Arthur) and tells Hook she destroyed the phone cos she wasn't having people moving on if she can't.
They head to Hades' throne room and search for them. Hook needs to help Emma and Arthur says a woman had to be involved, roping him in after telling him he was meant to move on but he's still here cos he has unfinished business. Also he tells Arthur if he does one good deed then he'll be able to move on too, cos he's got two choices either to a better place, or to the one below. Hook calls it his 'holy grail'. He asks where Arthur would hide something as a king and he searches his throne uncovering a hidden panel with the torn pages. Begging the question did he really need to keep those especially since he went to great lengths to get them back, so why not just burn them?! Particularly as they held the secret to his downfall.
Hook reads the pages and finds out about the Olympian crystal but he now needs to find a way to show Emma the pages and for this he needs the story book. Which is at the place where Emma rescued Hook from, the gateway to hell, via the River of Souls and they manage to get a boat as well, thought they were hard to come by. A lost soul tries to drag Arthur in and Hook rescues him whilst he then heads for the book and another lost souls grabs it. Arthur stops it with the torch as Hook did and the book almost falls in, with Hook grabbing it just in time. As he offers Arthur a hook up! Ha. Well that didn't come out right, a hand up with his hook.
There's light and Hook says it's for him but Arthur wants to stay and help mend this broken kingdom. Hook is met by Zeus (David Hoflin).
Snow wishes her family was back and on cue they arrive without Hook and Emma is despondent. They find Arthur's body on the bridge and if Zelena was there she'd have known it was Hades who killed him cos she left him there, holding the baby, ha! Rumples (Robert Carlyle) heads to Belle's father but he refuses to wake her up with true love's kiss, well he just doesn't love her that's why. Saying he forced Belle into loving him and well that's rich considering they let Rumples have her, practically as a slave.
Robin (Sean Maguire) needs to see his baby but they find there's a protection spell around the office building and they try to find away to distract Hades. Emma asks for Gold's help and he refuses, big surprise! She was the cause of all this so he's not exactly helping. Though he does tell Hades he needs a chunk of his Mount Olympus Crystal and wants to make a deal, which he also declines. At the library they're all stuck in books and David (Josh Dallas) tells Emma to help too. Robin needs to see his baby and Regina (Lana Parilla) tells him there's a way in under the tunnels so they head there, but without Emma cos she'll just mess things up, Regina tells her she's too emotional. As she sits in the library, she finds the story book and looks at the picture of her and Hook at the ball. Then puts it away. The book opens and turns to the page that she needs, the picture with the crystal. So Henry (Jared Gilmore) as the author once again did nothing.
Regina and Robin need a distraction and Emma gives it to them, as she tries to undo the protection spell and they overhear Zelena saying they should just leave and head elsewhere. But he wants to stay and rule again. Zelena heads out to take care of Emma and Robin gets the baby, but instead of taking her out, let's have a reunion there cos we've got all the time in the world, or at least in Storybrooke. Hades tries to destroy Regina with the crystal and when that happens there's no turning back. She won't go to a better place or to the underworld, but will be vapourized forever. Robin jumps in the way to save her and is zapped! Zelena comes in and sees Robin dead as Hades tries to convince her that they're the ones responsible. She asks him if he tried to keep them down there and finally uses the crystal on Hades. Yeah no one lies to her and uses her too. So how come he doesn't get left behind as dust too, though he's a god so suppose that's what happens.
Emma says goodbye to Hook and we all know he's coming back, that's his reward which Zeus gives him for helping him with Hades. As they all mourn the loss of Robin. She doesn't know what she's going to do now and he returns to that place of course. Cue plenty of snogging. Guess Regina's not getting her happy ending as usual, whereas Emma gets hers, as usual. Though someone will have to take care of Ronald now and also help with his baby whom Zelena names Robin, knew that was coming! Rumples finds a chunk of the crystal cos this is his kingdom and Hades should've taken the deal. Regina always gets the short straw, especially since she and Robin were meant to be soul mates since Tinkerbell showed her in season 3, but left it too late. Even if he didn't really do much, as she tells Zelena true love involves sacrifice.
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