Emma (Jennifer Morrison)gets fooled by Gideon (Giles Matthey) so what's new, as he says she must help him, but she doesn't demand Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) to be returned first before she helps him out in the other realm against the Black Fairy (Jamie Murray). Noooo that'd be too easy. Instead she goes along with him even though he tried to kill her and then she also tells Rumples (Robert Carlyle) and Belle (Emilie de Ravin) about what he's done, but they don't do much of anything, except for Belle pleading with Emma not to kill him cos he's a good boy, he's just been led dark by his grandmother, whom he has to call mother! Ugh. Then we have more flashbacks of how he became a coward when he didn't help his friend, Roderick after he was dragged off by her into the 'mines for you laddie!' ha. That's why she needs child labour, to mine the magic dust for her. I mean you've heard of pixie dust but this was a little over the top.
Of course Gideon is a coward, he still is in many ways since he was forced to grow up without his mother, but also in a land where time works differently, probably why the Black Fairy hasn't aged! She finds her key is missing and tasks Gideon with finding out who stole it. Of course this leads him to find Roderick again whom he thought was dead. Apologizing to him for not helping, well it's too little too late and he asks Gideon to help them in their fight against the Black Fairy. Gideon wanting to destroy her (in another use of Regina's fave word by another character!) He tells Gideon about her orb which will help them. He finds the orb, but she finds them and she turns Roderick into a bug and squashes him like the bug that he was in her eyes! Spoiling her boot in the process. Then she takes Gideon's heart, a la Regina and this is why he's so dark.
Back in Storybrooke, Gideon takes Emma to the sorcerer's house and she falls for it without caution or a second thought just cos he gives her the sword back as a gesture of trust and here he lets her do the spell but she conjures the giant spider through the portal, which begins weaving its web and if that wasn't enough starts firing web pellets at them too. She is pushed into the web by him (well we've all seen Lord of the Rings etc by now) and is helpless. She does manage to break her hands free, but not for long as she's caught out by the web of deceit. Which is what all these was to begin with anyway. No the spider wasn't Charlotte either, or she could've defeated it easily! Ha. As she loses consciousness, Gideon uses the sword to create a portal, but Rumples turns up with his powers and his dagger and saves Emma from the spider, as well as shrinking it to size, whereupon Emma squishes it. Just when Gideon thinks nothing else could go wrong, in walks the Black Fairy who was able to squeeze through the portal and get here! Well bully for Rumples!
Elsewhere Hook turns up at the tavern in a bid to get home and offers jewels from Agrabah to Blackbeard (Charles Mesure) who isn't buying the tiny gems! They play cards and he gambles the Jolly Roger if he wins and Blackbeard will give him a magic bean. Of course Blackbeard cheats after Hook's exposition about having to get back to the woman that he loves, the same woman, however he can't. Blackbeard cheats and sees hook tricked him since the ship is back at Storybrooke. So they jump through the portal together and end up in Neverland. See Hook can't go back and will always end up somewhere else in a cheesy version of The Time Tunnel! Ha. They're chased by the Lost Boys who have gotten even rougher without Pan around and Blackbeard steals the boat after knocking Hook out, see as useless as Emma at times.
Regina (Lana Parilla) tries to break the sleeping curse but it's tougher than it looks, whereas all the other ones were easy to remove. She asks Henry (Jared S Gilmore) to get some ingredients from Emma's shed, like tongue of newt and not eye and as Henry writes them down he ends up in a trance writing down symbols instead. She takes him to the author, Issac (Patrick Fischler) who will only spill once he gets a sports car and a free trip to New York, one way. He doesn't get a sports car, but a car and he tells her Henry will become like this so she should leave here too. He tells her the answer's in the book and Henry sees it's the final chapter but he doesn't tell him the ending. Just that Emma will fight the biggest battle and the outcome won't be good for anyone.
Just can't get into these episodes which just seem tagged on stories adding things onto what we already know, I mean Gideon told us about Roderick and not saving him, so this ep we had to see it visually. Emma as the Saviour always too trusting and she doesn't tell anyone where she's going or what she's doing, when we know she'll always end up needing help. Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) was being very un-Snow-like agreeing that it's okay for Emma to kill Gideon if he comes after her a third time. Well this time she'll be facing the Black Fairy. Clearly Rumples is not prepared for unexpected arrival and dearie you're 'dearie' needs more practice!! Haven't quite mastered it like Rumples. Also with Hook ending back up with the Lost Boys, do they still really need guidance and don't they want to get back to their homes.
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