Hook-centric episode as it focuses on how he's determined to keep this family together, of Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and Henry (Jared Gilmore). Showing Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) on his ship before the onslaught of the curse and how one of his crew turned out to be Captain Nemo (Faran Tahir) who has a quest of his own and needs Hook's help. This in a roundabout way leading to Hook facing his own past and finding Liam on the Nautilus too, small ocean it seems!
It also finds Hook having to make breakfast for Henry as he steps into his fatherly duties but the Evil Queen is there to stop him and ensure Hook doesn't become close to him, as she tells him about the shears and how they're hidden in the toolbox. Oh really Hook, you couldn't find anywhere else to hide them. Thus showing how he betrayed Emma since she needed him to do this one thing and get rid of them for her. Henry takes them and Hook discovers them gone. As he tries to talk to Henry at the docks cos Henry wants to put them back into the ocean, they're taken back to the Nautilus cos Nemo needs him again. As in flashback mode Hook is rescued by Nemo from the sea monster as he hunts for the chest. It's not about treasure but it contains a key which Nemo says will lead them to a home called Mysterious Island.
Only Hook finds the island is actually the Land of Untold Stories, so it wasn't really a home for them. As well as Hook telling Henry how he killed his father partly out of jealousy over his brother Liam. But how he doesn't want that to happen to Henry and Emma and that's why he kept the shears. So if it came down to it, he could save her. He makes Henry escape and stays behind where he's confronted by Liam. He's out for revenge and doesn't want to hear Hook's excuses so he tries to stab him with the dagger but Nemo intervenes gets in the way. Back to today and the same thing happens, but Henry comes back and begs for him not to kill Hook. Liam telling him he realizes that Henry would've been left an orphan like he was, as Nemo is wheeled in and they're reunited. Couldn't really be that easy.
The show finding another way to just bring in ancillary characters to drive the story forward no matter how pointless it is sometimes and tedious in many ways. The same with Aladdin (Deniz Akdeniz) as Emma shows him the Storybrooke sign when she found out she was the Saviour, but it's been repaired. She tries to make him realize he can still be a hero, only for Jasmine (Karen Shenaz David) to tell him that Agrabah is no longer there and she made an alliance with a neighbouring kingdom, but it doesn't matter now. (Yeah Agrabah was blown up if you get the point from last year when there was the vote for it to be bombed by dummies who thought it was a real country!!)
Belle (Emily de Ravin) leaving the ultrasound photo for Rumples (Robert Carlyle) in some hope it'll what - change him? What's the reasoning behind this, it'll only make him more determined to keep her here and to get his hands on his son no matter what. So far the Queen (Lana Parilla) hasn't accomplished much of anything except a few victories here and there and just putting a spanner in
the works. She's even alienated Henry, so much for saying she's his mother. Hook tells Emma what he did and she understands cos she would've done the same. Not much changed there then. It just keeps going round in random circles with bits of stories added from other characters but nothing interesting that makes you really care much, if at all!
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