We see Rapunzel (Meegan Warner) in the Other Realm as she tries to forage food for her family and her daughters, as she mentions Anastasia, knew she was really Victoria, she had to be related to one of the characters in the Other Realm. She's caught by the witch aka Mother Gothel (Emma Booth) and she makes a deal with her: that her family not want for anything and in return for this deal, she basically sacrifices herself as Rapunzel is transported to the tower.
In Hyperion Heights Victoria (Gabrielle Anwar) speaks with Ivy/Drizella (Adelaide Kane) and she's still determined for Anastasia (Yael Yurman) not to be resurrected. Did she really expect Victoria to help her in telling her where she hid her. Weaver/Rumples (Robert Carlyle) then comes in and Victoria makes a deal with him too. They can stop playing this game cos she knows he knows who he really is. Thus she says she will tell him who the Guardian is if he helps her get out. Even calling him Rumpelstiltskin for that added extra touch. She's released since Hook Rogers (Colin O'Donoghue) didn't have a warrant for that place when he arrested her. Rumples also letting drop he knows she's Rapunzel. So Hook proceeds to get into Rumples' storage locker and finds a number of files all to do with them and with their photos. He sees Sabine/Tiana (Mekia Cox) and he questions her again (see he deffo has a soft spot for her). She draws him the dagger that Rumples questioned her about. Obviously he was seeing if she could be the Guardian and thus wielding magic. Saying it was used to jimmy open the door.
Victoria gives Jacinda (Dania Ramirez) her files regarding Lucy (Alison Fernandez) and says she was the one who signed her away it wasn't Victoria, but now she wants Jacinda to have her back. She's glad she got in touch with Nick (Nathan Parsons) as her lawyer. Victoria saying it was a test to see if Jacinda would fight her custody application, but she didn't at first but she did later and clearly she's passed. Victoria was trapped in the tower for six years without seeing her children so she does know a little about family and fighting tooth and nail for them. As she was trapped in the tower Rapunzel gets the idea to escape after seeing some lanterns floating by, she uses her hair as a rope and chops it off. Shame those scissors were left lying around.
Reaching home she finds Marcus (Matty Finochio) is married to Cecilia (Cindy Luna) and has a step daughter, Ella/Jacinda. Gothel shows up again and tells her she should get rid of the competition, thus giving her some poison in a toadstool. She throws it onto the fire but then she becomes a slave to the family and isn't happy when Drizella ignores her at her birthday party.
Jacinda asks Nick if the papers are authentic and says she wants Nick in her life after she kisses him, but only so that he can get to know Lucy. She then picks up the mix tape again. Victoria heads to the mausoleum but it's only to pick up her bag and some other ingredients she needs. Rumples expected to find Anastasia there. He tells her about Baelfire and how he wanted to have a better relationship with him before he lost him. After he finds Ivy and Gothel following them. She disappears by the time they arrive after saying she has plans for them. Gothel has words with Rumples as she tells him by letting Victoria go he's done something very bad for his great grand daughter, Lucy.
In the Other Realm Rapunzel used the mushy but it made Cecilia fall asleep and as she and Marcus grew closer together and were on the verge of sharing a kiss, Ella walks off as the snow man's hat blows away and ends up falling into the cracking ice. Anastasia tries to save her, but Marcus can only bring out Ella. She takes Anastasia to Gothel who manages to save one last breath in her lungs. Gothel wants to return Anastasia to the tower but Rapunzel gets one over on her as she steals the bottle from her and sends her to the tower instead. Which is where she will meet Hook and escape as we saw earlier.
Victoria shows Lucy the vid she took of Jacinda kissing Nick and shows her the Once Upon A Time book, telling her the stories are real. As she then proceeds to break her innocence by telling her that she and Henry won't be together, thereby catching her tear on the book, which she uses to wake Anastasia. Just barely, I mean how long was she going to mess around with that tear before she lost it, but also it didn't dry up already. They search for Lucy and she returns home where she passes out. Anastasia wakes and Ivy walks away despondent but not giving up.
Hook confronts Rumples about what's happening, he's either a corrupt cop, he can't decide. Rumples tells him he won't believe him, but he is looking for his wife. It's crazy but Hook believes him and helps him. Now some of the pieces begin to join together as we near the mid-season finale. As we get answers to who Victoria really is and how Gothel ended up in the tower, as well as how Ella lost her mother. Even if Victoria says she believes in family, she still manages to put her own family first and in helping Anastasia, she lets Lucy suffer. So her good deed of letting Jacinda have custody back was just for her own purposes and not out of the goodness of her cold heart. Well Rapunzel should've stayed locked in the tower. Explains Victoria's taste for buildings and high rises. Ha.
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