Cinderella (Daniela Ramiriz) is caught by a guard who says she's a murderer and leaves behind her slipper so she can be rescued by Henry (Andrew J West). As her fairy godmother, Princess Tiana (Mekia Cox) arrives to save her. She says she left her slipper behind and they make their escape on Henry's motorbike. Tiana takes her back to their camp where Cinderella changes to more appropriate low cut attire and a man, Jeremiah (Richard Newman) comes by with a pair of boots for her as he was once a cobbler. He is a true believer. Henry arrives with Reggie (Lana Parilla) and Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) introducing Reggie as his mother and she assumes Hook is his father. Hook kinda took a shine to Tiana didn't he, the way he looked at her. Tiana's ears perking when she hears Reggie knows magic cos Victoria (Gabrielle Anwar) is amassing magic of her own. Cinderella sneaks out to Victoria's mansion and is curious to see what is in the box there. As Cinderella confronts Victoria over killing her father and saying what happened wasn't her fault. Victoria opens up the coffin and shows her Anastasia inside. She has one last breath left which she wants to use to bring her back. She needs the heart of a true believer and this is Henry. She enchants Cinderella's hand so that she can pluck it from his bosom. Well I had to try and be poetic in some way!
Back at camp, Cinderella tries to take his heart but she can't. Instead she tries to take the heart of Jeremiah who is also a believer and Reggie stops her. Telling her own story of how she was like that once and she learnt to overcome it. No life is worth the sacrifice, whether innocent or not. She tells Cinderella to forgive herself for what happened to Anastasia. (Think Snow here and how she gave away Reggie's true love, Daniel and her mother killed him. Similar parallels here.) Reggie warns Tiana of Victoria's trap and she's waiting them saying she used a spell to find this out and so they can't attack her.
Back at Hyperion Heights, Ronnie, Hook and Henry plot against Victoria some more. But you know their plans will always backfire for the foreseeable future at least it seems that way. As Hook says he will see what Victoria is doing and stake her out, after Ronnie tells him she overheard a crooked city planner talk of something Victoria is planning. Ronnie will continue listening to her customers as is a bartender's lot and Henry's never been on a stake out and wants to go with Hook. However Hook tells him research will come in handy. On his stake out, he sees Victoria hand over an envelope to the man, yeah cos out in public was the best place to do this. But it's okay for her since no one is going to challenge or accuse her of anything.
Hook (Rogers) finds the man at the restaurant and brings him taking the envelope from his pocket. Liked the way he flashed his badge ha! However when he returns he sees Weaver (Robert Carlyle) giving him his card and letting him go. Weaver tells Hook he's got him working for him now so when Victoria's up to anything new he'll tell him. Dealing with Victoria requires some "finesse." Hoping Hook will enjoy his day off. So much for the 'being at court and dealing with parking tickets' story. Still can't see if Rumples, er, Weaver is weaving some evil or not yet.
Jacinda finds that Victoria intends to bulldoze the garden and build condos and Lucy isn't happy about it. So Jacinda takes Ronnie's idea of seeing how they can challenge any building plans by getting a petition signed. Noticing Henry at the bar as an afterthought. However Victoria shows her the development and says she can have a condo too with Lucy if she gets rid of the petition, which she does. She burns it and Lucy tells her she's a hero and is meant to act like one. She doesn't want to be with her. At the site, the bulldozer hits solid ground and Lucy tells Henry that Victoria must be after something more. Jumping into the newly dug hole, Henry has no choice but to follow and she finds a piece of glass which she says belongs to her mother. Again telling Henry about the curse.
Lucy later gives Henry the slipper after Jacinda gets people to sign the petition all over again saying she made a mistake and now she wants to save the garden. Lucy also telling Henry he didn't find his family at the cemetery since they're right here in front of him. Henry later visits a cemetery and finds a grave belonging to Abigail Mills. Victoria has the coffin here and she has a woman in chains in
the building. That lift reminded me of the lift at the library in Storybrooke. She's a witch (Emma Booth) and she wants her to bring Anastasia back to life. She asks her about using Lucy to get her back and says she will still answer to her for this. Thought hey, she can't be Hook's daughter can she? Well the thought crossed my mind seeing as she was meant to be kept captive in chains somewhere.
This heart mythology sure does get around doesn't it. It's a wonder Victoria didn't rip Cinders' heart out with the magic, instead of getting her to take Henry's. So isn't Cinders' a true believer, even if Henry is purer than her. Missing the days when Reggie used to do that though. Cinders now takes over as the idealistic Snow, but somehow Snow had more going for her in that department! Reggie and Hook in colour co-ordinating tops!!
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