The beginning opens with a father running to save his daughter and telling her to take the book and run...
The Black Fairy's curse struck and Once turned back the clock to the beginning, all the way to season 1 for the most part and did a doubletake on the Evil Queen's curse!! People were in Storybrooke (some of them) and could recall nothing of their past except that Fiona/The Black Fairy (Jaime Murray) was now Madam Mayor taking over from Regina. Also as Regina (Lana Parilla) did she locked people up in the hospital. This time, Emma (Jennifer Morrison) cos she believed in fairytales and fantasies and was loony! But hey last time I looked, what you believe in didn't make you a crackpot. To the point where Henry (Jared S Gilmore) remembers everything and visits Emma there. Only once again she doesn't want to believe in the book or fairytales and is having trouble remembering anything too. Especially since all she can do now is paint a swan!! Much the same as the early episodes and Henry trying to convince her about the real stories in the book and who she really is, i.e the Saviour, he had much the same bad luck in trying his best again this time round.
Fiona now taking over Regina's role as said and even telling everyone she's his mother, as Regina is/was. Henry tells Emma not to do anything Fiona tells her to do but that's easier said that done. Emma was nothing more than a shell of her former self and once again just gives up one everything too easily. I mean later she said she doesn't want to return to the hospital after Henry breaks her out, but she wasn't even trying to get out, even swallowing the pill Fiona convinces her to take. As well as Henry trying to show her the new page with the runes. You wouldn't blame Henry if he just gave up!
It appears she has even got Rumples (Robert Carlyle) round her little finger with everyone calling her Madam Mayor including Rumples and Gideon (Giles Matthey). Who's bitter cos Belle (Emilie de Ravin) is meant to have just left them, you know the story, went to the store one day and never came back. Though Rumples tries to convince him that she loves him and wouldn't just do that by showing him the book, 'Her Handsome Hero' and reading the inscription. But Gideon doesn't want to believe either, content in fixing watches, as Fiona gives him one to fix as well. But you know there's always something more going on with Rumples, as last time he was one of the people who recalled everything and still had his memories intact. SO if we're going on the basis of the first curse, then Rumples still remembers everything.
The others, Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) Charming (Josh Dallas) Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) and Regina all find themselves in the Enchanted Forest. Reggie dressed as the Evil Queen in her 'rock' outfit from the musical ep. Hook wants to find Emma and Henry's not here either. Regina saying they've got to owe it to the Black Fairy as she took them back to he Charming's wedding day and where they got married. There's no way to get out and Zelena (Rebecca Mader) turns up with the Mad Hatter's hat. Regina commenting it was 'destroyed'. Well at least she got to use her favourite word again in the season finale. Zelena tells her he was a hatter, he'd have more than one. However they can't create a portal to Storybrooke and as she pulls away the curtain, she find there's nothing behind the curtain, Oz is all gone. All of the worlds are being destroyed as Jasmine (Karen David) and Aladdin (Deniz Akdeniz) also find they got out before Agrabah vanished too.
Regina thinks she can find a way back with a spell but finds most of her ingredients are missing and someone's been stealing them. Only it's her other half, the Evil Queen who's here with Robin. She had to turn up here cos everyone thought she was really her and so she and Robin turned to a life of good and stole from the rich to give to the poor. Together they think they can muster something. After Regina refuses to listen to Hook and his idea. Charming follows him as he climbs the beanstalk cos he's his son-in-law now and can't let him go alone. He recalls Hook, the pirate tried to kill Emma and Snow and that was back then. He's changed now and he didn't even realize he and Emma would have any sort of a story together, or were even destined to be together with a happy ending. He retrieves the magic bean but as they descend the beanstalk, the stalk shakes since the giant was awakened.
Back at the castle, they find that everything is being engulfed and Regina says it's cos Emma's losing hope and the Black Fairy is making her forget everything. Back in Storybrooke, she convinces Emma to return to Boston where she was happy and takes the book from Henry. After Henry rescues Emma, he takes her to the rooftop where they were married and tells her to meet him back here as he'll help her escape. Unfortunately Henry goes back for the book, where the Black Fairy is waiting for him and she pushes him down the stairs with her magic. Henry in hospital with a broken arm, she again convinces Emma to burn the book since it's the right thing to do. As she does, the book opens on a picture of Hook. Emma packs to leave and Henry can't make her stay.
Hook falls off the beanstalk, as does Charming and as he gets back to the castle, he finds the bean is no longer magical but shrivelled up, again cos of Emma's actions. Snow returns to find Charming and does so, cos they always s find each other and uses true love's kiss to revive him with flashes to when he did the same for her. The Evil Queen tries to help them and Regina doesn't want her to be left behind cos she'll be killed.
The Black Fairy returns to the store for her wand telling Gideon that Rumples doesn't know but she still has Gideon's heart. He has to do everything she tells him and he finds the wand, which will help her in translating the runes Henry drew. Rumples is shown photos of Belle travelling around the world cos that's what she always wanted to do. Also proving he was right about his mother all along. As he returns to the shop, she realizes he does remember after all and after finding Belle who was hiding out in a house where the Black Fairy was keeping her. Using a spell to follow her favourite book there. The Black Fairy thinks he will choose her over Belle and she tells him she's sent Gideon to kill Emma since it's not a battle over light vs darkness, but light versus light. Also saying she can reverse everything and help him get Bae back, bringing him back from the dead. But Rumples isn't falling for it, as he kills her. Belle walking in to see what he's done. They must find his heart so that he doesn't kill Emma, he's going to save his son once again. Emma having returned from Boston after seeing the book Henry left for her. Henry also knowing Rumples remembers everything as he's been whipping up spells and he asks for two things from him, cos he's also his grandpa, walking away with the sword.
Rumples finds his heart but is met by the Crocodile Rumples and says that he can go travelling the world and have power and then destroy the world later on as well, but he's not convinced. He has Gideon's heart and he wants to do the right thing. As Gideon and Emma fight, and the others return and Regina convinces Emma that she has a third choice. That when they fought over Henry when she first arrived here, they came up with a compromise, they could both be his mother. She also says that in the final battle she loses either way, since either way light will end. Emma throws the sword down and Gideon kills her. With lots of light around, Rumples finds his heart is shrivelled and tells Belle he made the right choice but it didn't help. Henry kisses Emma and wakes her up again with true love's kiss no doubt. As Rumples and Belle hear a baby crying. It's Gideon so they can spend their time with him all over again as they should have done. As Belle tells him it's not the end but a very happy beginning.
With all the lands replaced including Agrabah, Wonderland. Everyone gets their new beginning and Snow says it was always about hope and now they'll get to find what happens next. Meeting at Granny's (Beverley Elliott) for dinner. Grumpy (Lee Arenberg) Sneezy (Gabe Khouth) and Sleepy (Faustino Di Bauda) give Regina a new sign on the door reading 'Regina Mills Queen.'
The girl from the beginning rides on the train in Boston and ends up at her 'father's house since Tiger Lily (Sara Tomko) told her she'll reunite with him one day and she doesn't know what will happen then. The door is opened but he doesn't know her. Only he does really, she tells him he's Henry (Andrew J West) her father. She's Lucy Mills (Alison Fernandez). As we return to the beginning again when Henry tried to convince Emma of her destiny and who she actually was! Coming round full circle in what was to be the series finale in season 6, but fear not, Once returns for a season 7 as we all know by now, but without at least half of the cast. As we're probably now going to get 'Henry's Story.' I thought the girl was Baby Robin for some reason! But then that wouldn't have been her father, who was Robin.
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