Where we find out what happened to Hook's (Colin O'Donoghue) ship and why Ursula (Merrin Dungey) is an enemy of his and theirs as she sides with Gold (Robert Carlyle) and the other evil twosome. She was a mermaid just like Ariel (JoAnna Garcia) but her father wanted her to use her singing to lure sailors onto the rocks instead of giving people the pleasure of her voice. The only thing they both have left of their mother. So no one used the word Siren in this, which is what she was really meant to be. But this is OUAT and we had to expect different.
Had a feeling for a bit that somehow Emma (Jennifer Morrison) thought there was more to Hook and Ursula than just pirate and mermaid since he at first didn't want to tell her about their backstory, when he mentions her. Obviously it wasn't going to be like that since Hook only had eyes for Milah until he met Emma, years later. However he did have a soft spot for her since as I said, they've both been through loss, but really who said they were romantically involved, she was a bit young for him dearie!! Hook tries to get Ursula to reveal what plans Gold has in store in finding the Author of the book and he has the very thing which will make her help. This being her voice in a nutshell, or rather a seashell. Flashing back to how she refused to do her father, Poseidon's (Ernie Hudson) bidding and wanted to run away from him.
Meeting our lovable pirate rogue in the process who offers her free passage cos he knows what it's like to lose someone. (Course luv I'll take on free passage with ya!! ha. Plus I also have the right name!! Mila!) Of course her father wants her to come home. Hook needs the squid ink in return for free passage but her father puts paid to that. As we know, revenge is so hard for our would-be hero/villain to get on the Crocodile. Thus he betrays Ursula and takes away her voice and whereby she gets a lesson in how cruel people can be in the real world. Growing tentacles and losing her mermaid's tail. Should I have said her innocent mermaid's tale for some reason. Ursula had that bracelet from her father's vault, the same one sported by Ariel which Regina (Lana Parilla) gave her in season 3, so was there an abundance of these bracelets. Though Regina, as Ursula back then, was a good scene.
Hook gives her back the shell but she doesn't get her singing voice back, later finding out the only one who can do that is the one who cast the spell, her father. As Ursula throws him into the sea. Knew he'd be rescued by Ariel cos she hadn't seen her in a while and there's not many friendly mermaids we've come across. She tells him she was angry about Eric since she had to rescue Blackbeard (Charles Mesure) to find where he was and the scene I liked was where Ursula bought back Hook's ship in a bottle! Later we'll learn that it was Elsa (Georgina Haig) who cast a spell and did that, but not any more detailed explanation, would've liked to have seen that. Okay the more plausible explanation is that Elsa shrunk the ship when Blackbeard had it after he doublecrosses Ana and threw them in the chest for Hans. Thus Hook and Elsa not knowing each other.
[Just a gripe though, which seems to be an invalid gripe, just thinking out aloud) does this mean Elsa and Hook knew each other when they were back in Arrendelle, or wherever they met. Cos they didn't appear to know each other when she got to Storybrooke and no mention was made of it either. ]
So father and daughter meet again when Ariel brings him back through a portal and she gets her voice back, keeping her bargains he tells him Gold intends for Emma to turn to her darkside.
Of course things weren't going well for August (Eion Bailey) since Gold can't get any answers from him about the Author or the book. He gets a potion whereby his nose will grow when he's lying. Which it does as he questions him on the page from the book, he tells him he doesn't know where it is. Regina having to magic up some smoke through the chimney and enter Snow's (Gennifer Goodwin) body to give them the message about Gold and August, which must've been creepy. Let's see, why didn't she use this sell in previous eps when the situation called for it. Anyway she tells them where August is and they rescue him but not before they're confronted by Ursula and the Cruel one, Cruella (Victoria Smurfit) who's clobbered over the head with a frying pan by Snow.
Gold's plan/secret whilst the Saviour is around no one will get their happy ending, thus she needs to turn dark. See once again Emma's the cause for all the palaver. However Hook pics this time to tell her she's his happy ending. (Everytime they said that phrase, my mind went back to Avril Lavigne's Happy Ending song. But it's so relevant, "so much for my happy ending, all this time you were pretending..." Getting back to Hook and Emma; if she's his happy ending, then something must go awry for them since he's really a villain turned good, cos it's the same as Regina not getting one either.
However August tells them the Author is inside the door and trapped inside the book itself which was convenient. His nose grew cos he didn't know where Henry (Jared Gilmore) had the book. Oh and Regina tells Emma about her dream of seeing Robin and then the Evil Queen who appeared to be protecting him, was that from his fate, or rather was she really the Evil Queen. She asks Emma to locate Robin in New York, umm, like getting a phone number, but she did know where he'd be. Since she gave him the keys to Neil's apartment.
One other nitpick, relevant for 4.20 is how Emma can locate people, but she never felt remorse or any kind of inkling to find Lily and make things right.
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