Flashback to Minneapolis 1990 where little Emma sits with fairytale book pages that she's burning, when a teen approaches her and talks of The Ugly Duckling. She feels she has no hope and won't find happiness but he tells her of the story and how the duckling became a swan cos he never gave up believing he could do it. It was his fate. The teem obviously being August. He convinces her to go to the police where she adopts the last name of Swan.
In the wished for land, Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and Regina (Lana Parilla) need to find away to get back home and Robin (Sean Maguire) steals their jewellery and vanishes. As Henry (Jared S Gilmore) approaches with guards in search of his mother and the Evil Queen. They hide behind some driftwood and Emma then realizes she has an idea how she can get home: she thinks of August (Eion Bailey) who would be here too. Yeah charming hey, think of a plank of wood and come up Pinocchio!! He's still at his father's hut but his father has long since passed As Regina goes off to find Robin. Emma will realize it was August who convinced her to go to the police and he can't make the cupboard for her since there's no more magic left and he doesn't have magic. But he has an idea what he can do. As he takes Emma to the tree in the forest with his tools. The chisel will help him carve it for her. But before he can, Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) appears. Aged, dishevelle, in need of personal hygiene and pot bellied! Oh boy if ever there was anything or anyone so ugly (re the ugly duckling or ugly pirate ducky in this case) it was Hook! ha. He's here to rescue Emma, but more so he's after the reward her family's put up!
As they fight, the chisel breaks and Emma uses her magic to whisk him away to his ship. Saying she'll have to cut down on his rum and dessert. Not that we've seen Hook eating dessert, blame Granny's diner for that. Maybe he binge ate ice cream for all the troubles and woes he went through. Or the implication the love of a good woman can keep your weight down!! ha. Emma talks of the sword and how it is fated to kill her, but she won't give up her fate without a fight. She convinces August to believe in himself and he manages to take the tree back to the hut and carve a portal for her.
Regina looks for Robin and ends up at that same tavern where she was told he was the love of her life and she should go for it, as she spies his tattoo again. Everyone flees cos the Evil Queen has arrived and she tells him about himself and asks whether he's happy here. Which he says he is and she leaves but he stops her. Not for long since the Sheriff of Nottingham (Wil Travel) arrives, places a bracelet on her wrist preventing her from using magic and arrests them both. As they sit in the dungeon carriage, she tells him about him and how in her other world he's actually dead. He tells her he didn't have a chance with Marion cos she died before they could get together. Rumples (Robert Carlyle) appears and gets them out but takes them to his castle dungeon too cos he found Belle's (Emilie de Ravin) bones! Robin uses a nail from the bed to break out, that was too easy, wouldn't he have put some magic spell on the door. She tells him how she lost him in her world and he shows her the feather, later at the hut. The same one that Zelena was meant to give her but it got lost. Though she doesn't tell him about his son and also his daughter, with another baby mama! Her sister of all women!
Emma thinks Regina can take him with them cos he doesn't really have a happy life here. He's Robin of Loxley: a thief who steals for himself and not to give to the poor and he agrees to go. As they reach Storybrooke, Regina thinks Robin isn't coming since he takes a long time to get here. Emma finds herself in her usual clothes and heads for town. As Regina shows Robin the town and introduces it to him in her capacity as Mayor.
In the town square, Emma meets with Gideon (Giles Matthey) and they fight. He needs to be the new Saviour to save his land from the Black Fairy. But why can't they work together and why can't Emma help him. Well as he said earlier to Belle and Rumples, he wants the power and he didn't have a good upbringing courtesy of the Black Fairy. Rumples tries to reason with him cos he's been through all that, but it falls on deaf ears. He even tells Gideon to hit him and take it out on him but he doesn't. Partly for being a bad father, well he wasn't there for him. Though he and Belle are equally at fault for that. She could've kept him and raised him surrounded by her Friends. Belle also pleads with Hook and Charming not to kill him until she's had a chance to reason with him as his mother.
However as they fight and the others turn up at the square, he freezes them all so they can't interfere and Emma's hand shakes again but she strikes up courage to fight him. Saying if she's fated to die then it'll happen but not today and pushes him back, breaking the sword which he had gotten hold of. she picks up a piece and puts it to his neck, as Rumples pleads with her to not kill him. However he vanishes saying he doesn't need his help. Really so that's why he has to be the Saviour. There's hugs and kisses with Emma and Charming (Josh Dallas) also telling Hook earlier that he won't wake up Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) until he has helped his family.
Belle is at the well and Rumples asks her if she's making a wish. As they talk about their failings and how he failed Baelfire, as well as each other. Gideon climbs the clock tower and destroys that window again! Huh how many times will that happen. As Belle makes a wish and throws the coin into the well.
Emma headed to August's where he's typing a story and she shows him the pages of the book, she kept the Ugly Duckling stories. Seems time and again whenever she needs confidence and courage it's usually been August who's given her that, even in the land of the wish. As well as when he first arrived in Storybrooke. We now know (again) that he always knew her when she was little and gave her the courage and hope back then as well to do the right thing, always.
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