It's Princess Tiana's (Mekia Cox) coronation and she has to help her people as Dr Facilier (Daniel Francis) shows her some tarot cards spelling trouble for her kingdom. She enlists Hook's (Colin O'Donoghue) help along with Ella (Dania Ramirez) and along the way they encounter a stranger with a magic spear, who just happens to be a prince, Naveen (Jeff Pierre). Hook doesn't like him of course and they split up when one of her subjects was attacked by a gator, leaving Tiana alone with Naveen.
In Hyperion Heights, Henry (Andrew J West) narrates about old stories and having endings and new stories too, as he's set up a podcast called "H Town" all coming on the heels of Victoria's demise. As Lucy (Alison Fernandez) lays flowers at her grave. Facilier visits Henry on the guise of being a developer by the name of Samdi and wants to see Reggie (Lana Parilla) to help out with her bar. All this as the lights flicker, of course that suggests an evil presence. Henry also finds that Jacinda made a mix tape for him. He tells Reggie about the visitor and she wonders what he's doing here. Great a new bad to take over. Maybe he's aligned with Eloise/Gothel and maybe he's not and is the one killing the witches. Zelena (Rebecca Mader) and Reggie try to fool Samdi into revealing whether he recalls everything or is affected by the curse, by Zelena pretending to be Ronnie and Reggie pretending to be Kelly. Of course that wouldn't help much. It wasn't even an elaborate plan.
Lucy tells Henry that she knows there's another book and that Victoria showed it to her, but she doesn't know where it is. That true love's kiss is waiting for him and Jacinda and she tries to speed this up to break the curse, as she invites him over and he comes over with the intention of playing games. Lucy has other thoughts on her mind of matchmaking. This however turns out to be a goer as Henry tells Jacinda he heard she left him a mix tape, which she has to show him.
Tiana opens up her food truck business but she's hindered by being reported for not having a food licence. That could only he Samdi and she meets Drew, who happens to be Naveen. He's got a rival food truck a called 'Flaming Cajun' which happens to be financed by Samedi. He was given money, had hand outs whilst she had to work and she's angry about that. They both went to cooking school but she was the better cook and her Beignets show this.
Hook and Rumples (Robert Carlyle)are on the trail of whoever killed the doctor last ep and visit one of her patients, Hilda (Chilton Crane) who happens to be blind and makes gingerbread houses. Thus being the witch from Hansel and Gretel. Obviously Rumples would've known that seeing as he's got his memories intact, but no mention was made of this or even an implication of it. Oh and he's lost his cockney accent all of a sudden. Infact ever since Victoria was killed. Also he's still leading Hook down the fanciful road of there being a cult, I mean it's not as if Hook would have anyone to share the truth with if Rumples told him and anyway who'd believe him. I mean look at Henry and how many times he's been told by Lucy. Hilda doesn't tell them much but offers them a cookie, hey that was one cookie between them which they refuse but they notice the tattoo on her wrist. Thus she's a witch as said. Later they return and find her by the oven (no coincidence) passed out as someone tried to gas her.
As Rumples pays a visit to Reggie with the news, and a picture of a scar that reveals a tattoo was removed from the doctor's wrist. Thus she was also a part of the coven with Reggie stating that someone is killing witches. Drew gives Sabine/Tiana her licence since she's a better cook and this wasn't his fault. Admitting that he flunked cooking school and didn't leave. Samedi has words with him about it later.
Tiana and Naveen talk as he tells her the gator killed his brother and as he struggles with the gator he is attacked by it and she manages to kill it with the spear. Facilier turns up and she wants him to save him, but he says it comes at a price. She replies she got him back his bauble so that's her price. As he saves Naveen, he spirits him away, that should be smokes him away to another place and he says that wasn't his price so he's got to pay his own. As she's crowned she wants all her friends to appear on the balcony with her since she will need their help when ruling. Reggie tells Facilier to come out cos she knows he's there and they kiss as he brings the necklace to her as it was hers to begin with. She's not the same Evil Queen anymore but she still can't resist him. Everytime the mentioned the gator I couldn't help but think of Hook and his battles with the Crocodile aka Rumples.
Hook: "alligator, crocodile, they both kill people."
In Hyperion Heights, Lucy finds her closet opened and as she gets up to look inside, there's nothing there. Yeah beware strangely opening closest. As she gets back into bed she drops a page from her book and finds a picture with Henry and Ella, he's going to die from true love's kiss and she stops them kissing in the nick! Wanting to play the game now after having a nightmare. Reggie knows Samdi was pretending about not remembering and she goes to see him. She won't come in but then he says she always did what she wanted and she enters.
All we get is more mystery about how Reggie and Facilier know each other, and why he's on the scene now. Especially as Victoria is no more and why he claims to be a developer too. Obviously his hold on Drew is his payback for saving him. As Rumples mentions first a doctor and now a baker. Who's next, a candlestick maker, the butcher? Well I had to say it. Also let's not forget how Rumples suddenly recalls everything as Reggie said to him how he didn't help her when she asked and how he's coming round here with news.
Rumple says he was having to work with Victoria and so couldn't help. A lock of their hair is missing too.
This episode just seemed like a filler and one where Lucy realizes her mother and father can't be together after she was the one pushing for it the most. Now that Henry finally succumbs he can't be with Jacinda. Also what happened to Drilzilla/Ivy, her mother is barely buried and they choose not to show her. Will she become an ally or will she go off the deep end. Though she should be good now knowing that Victoria wanted to reunite the family.
This entire Facilier/Reggie love bit seems to be tacked on just for the sake of it. Very boring, Zelena was just there as a filler too. Seems Facilier is now wearing black gloves as Samedi but he was wearing white as Facilier. And those white trainers seemed so out of place!! No sense of fashion at all! Ha. Samedi hails from Baron Samedi associated with voodoo. So do the black gloves mean he's the killer or is it just a red herring.
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