An ep marking Lana Parrilla's directorial debut and she did a great job too. Hence she was missing for most of the ep but at least she did appear and it was also good she got to direct one which involved Zelena (Rebecca Mader) and her story as well as her farewell. Though we won't be too disheartened by it since this is the final season after all, which means we'll have to say farewell to everyone at season's end! This one also gave Lana the chance the direct an ep which involved one of her fave fairytales of Hansel and Gretel; with a twist as is always the case with this show.
Zelena stumbles across the gingerbread cottage in the woods and finds Hansel (Seth Isaac Johnson) and Gretel caged, fatted calves ready fro slaughter, don't ask why I said that! But she doesn't rescue them and seems the witch got one over her in terms of using magic. So Zelena stumbles and loses her necklace too only to be rescued and taken back to Ivo's (Dan Payne) house. He nurses her back and she finds he's blind thus he can't see her in all her magnificent wicked greenery. She notices the exquisitely carved chairs and finds that he is Hansel and Gretel's father mentioning how he told Hansel to leave breadcrumbs to find his way back home. They weren't that young though in this ep that they needed breadcrumbs. I mean if Hansel can threaten Zelena with the knife then he's old enough to know his way back home. Zelena finds he doesn't judge her for who she is and as she plans on rescuing them she finds their cages empty and takes the witch's sight to restore it to Ivo. Obviously he wouldn't want it and they found their way back themselves. See! Hansel wants to punish her but she burns his hands adding children shouldn't play with witch's or they'll get burned. This was her chance at redemption but of course no one wanted to listen to her explanation. Thus that's why she didn't bother anymore with anyone.
Back in Hyperion Heights Reggie (Lana Parrilla) has found the moss that she needs for Henry's spell and to break the curse but Zelena receives a box of those choccies! As I said a few eps ago in my review it had to be Hansel and Gretel behind it since they were the ones with the sweet tooth. Also Gretel was featured in 7.15 with Drizella. Of course she was double crossed there and so she would've been avenged by Hansel. Zelena speaks with Rumples (Robert Carlyle) who really doesn't want to help her but reminds her it's good to have a piece of their sorry past to remember how they have changed and come that far. As he gives her back her necklace and also she mentions Belle and if he doesn't help her then it won't get him any nearer to being reunited with her.
As Nick cum Jack cum Hansel has kidnapped Henry (Andrew J West) as he wants him to see that the book Henry wrote is real and he's a part of it, Henry sees his lollipop keychain and realizes he's the killer. Although he doesn't believe that he is Hansel just that he's probably delusional and a killer. Hansel (Nathan Parsons) commenting on him being the truest believer but yet doesn't believe. Margot (Tiera Skovbye) and Zelena have problems too as she can't share anything with Margot right now and she wonders why she came back here. Hansel also kidnaps Chad (Kip Pardue) as Zelena thinks of him too and how he won't like her and what she's done but Reggie thinks she should have the happiness of Kelly too. That baseball bat didn't come in handy though. Jacinda (Dania Ramirez) hasn't herd from Henry who's meant to be in New York and then suddenly gets a text calling her 'J' which only Sabine (Mekia Cox) does.
Henry's car is found and Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) tries to find him. Noticing the gingerbread making kit in Jacinda's car and how she tells him she was called 'J.' Hook finds Henry and it's actually Zelena who's left to take care of Hansel as he has Chad tied up. But she doesn't kill him and knocks him out. Chad still wants to marry her as he says no matter what she might have been like as Zelena he saw how she could have gotten her revenge on him but she didn't. She asks Margot to be her bridesmaid and gives Margot the necklace. Margot wants to stay here since she wants to see how things will work out with Tilly.
Zelena and Reggie bid farewell and she tells Zelena to find her life and be happy since she came when she needed her and now she should leave. Facilier (Daniel Francis) gets what he wants from Naveen (Jeff Pierre) a Beignet to add the dusting to his voodoo puppet since he takes care of Hansel with it. He failed in his killing of the witches and now he's a loose end. Facilier's still after the Dark One's dagger, but has Reggie wrapped around his little finger still. Henry returns to Jacinda and they almost kiss except Lucy (Alison Fernandez) interrupts them. Henry realizing this is where he must stay.
Henry being shown the birth certificate doesn't believe he's Lucy's father since Hansel killed the doctor. And he doesn't want to rewrite any happy ending for Hansel since s Hansel tells him, Henry doesn't believe that bad guys like Hansel are worthy of it. (See all that stuff we went through with Reggie and wanting her own happy ending when she was the Evil Queen.) As well as not batting an eye when Hansel tells him he's more concerned with Henry's aunt, Kelly, getting whats he deserves for Gretel, and in short, for being a witch. We await Mother Gothel's fate!
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