As the others in Hyperion Heights are celebrating getting their memories back and the curse being removed; Henry (Andrew J West) celebrates with his family and with Reggie (Lana Parrilla). Also Alice (Rose Reynolds) and Robin (Tiera Skovbye) bring in Beignets from Tiana's. Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) is in hospital but stable and is later leased as Alice calls him when he returns home. She can't come any closer still but misses him and wanted to see him, declaring his love for her and her for him. Henry mentions Facilier to Reggie and they haven't seen him here and she heads over to see him. When she gets there she notices Rumples' album on the floor and can hear some loud water sounds from the fountain. Well Facilier was easily removed from the picture and the finale too. She magics the water away to find Rumples (Robert Carlyle) tied up there. He breaks the news about Facilier to her and tells her his Wish Realm self killed him. They need to stop him.
Henry, Ella (Dania Ramerez) and Lucy (Alison Fernandez) celebrate with three cupcakes and as Lucy lights the candles and makes a wish, she and Ella vanish. Henry is approached by Rumpelstiltskin and tells him he wants the dagger in return for his family. Saying that Rumple's been weakened and poisoned by love. As Rumples, Hook and Regina talk of his dagger, Henry needs their help and Reggie says they will stop him together. However they "will not negotiate with villains." Henry adding that could've been their family motto at any other time. There might be something Alice has hoarded and Rumples returns with the mirror with Reggie. It's broken but they think they can get it to work. Going through the portal they are separated and Rumpelstiltskin was the one who cracked the mirror to ensure they'd be separated. Henry and Reggie end up in Rumpelstiltskin's castle and see Peter Pan (Robbie Kay) in the stock who tells them they won't get out of here alive. Cruella (Victoria Smurfit) arrives. She's been helping Rumpelstiltskin and she won't tell them where they are until she's threatened by Henry and they fight, as Reggie put s her into the cage after the swordfight.
Cruella tells them they're in his dungeon, wouldn't that be obvious. They find them in a snow globe on the table miniaturized. Rumpelstiltskin was waiting for them and still wants Henry to get the dagger or else they will freeze in there. The glass is unbreakable and Reggie can't use magic on it either. Rumples and Hook finds themselves at the cottage rumples recognizes as his old house. This is where he showed his cowardice and hobbled his leg so he wouldn't have to fight in the Ogre wars. As we too rightly remember. There isn't anything inside the cottage that will help them.
In the Wish Realm we see Henry (the original) riding back into a cave to rescue Sleeping Beauty but he fails at that cos the Prince strolls in and kisses her to awaken her. Losing out again, seems this Henry (Jared S Gilmore) is a failure and always misses his boat/chance. In this realm Rumpelstiltskin offered him a chance to be a hero in return for a deal. However Henry said he would find his own "happy ending the right way." Recall he told Henry he would only find his happiness with his help and his way when he was in this realm and went back (or forward) to Hyperion Heights Henry.
Hook knows someone who can help them and takes Rumples to his "beachfront property". A friend helped him when he was down too and was going to binge on drink. He calls for Ariel (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) who thinks Rumples is the Dark One, however he miniaturizes her wand. Hook tells her he's here to help and rid their realm of their Dark One. She gives them the scant remaining shell of squid ink she has left. Hook and Rumples return to stop Henry from giving the dagger, but he criticizes Rumples for not doing for Lucy what he would've done for his own family and Reggie's magic won't work on the globe. Rumples wants to confront Rumpelstiltskin with the ink and Reggie cos with him as she has magic, but tells Henry and Hook to look for something in the library to break the globe spell.
Rumples finally says he will hand him the dagger as long as he gets to be with Belle. He had no belle in his realm which is why he's such an evil monster. He tells him how more people shouldn't be sacrificed for the sake of the dagger. As he hands him the dagger the handle is tainted with the ink and just for a moment Rumpelstiltskin loses his power. However Reggie interrupts them and his magic returns. Couldn't they just have given him the dagger, yet if he did that then there'd be no way to defeat him. So he was thinking on the lines of doing good after all. Rumples knows killing Rumpelstiltskin is the only way to end the darkness in the world even if it means he won't be reunited with Belle.
In the library, Henry notices the quill on the table and gets an idea. He is the Author after all and can just write another chapter in their book. So he knocks out Hook and heads to look for the Apprentice (Timothy Webber) telling him he is the rightful Author and needs his pen. He places his hand on Henry's heart and sees all the adventures he has written about. He warns Henry that his job is to record stories and not create them, which is what he was going to do here. Oh yeah and that line being directed to Once writers where he says how it's a "complicated story and the timeline alone would make one's head spin. Only a true author could weave such a tale." Okay some self-indulgence for their final time or rather penultimate time of writing for Once. Henry steals the ink from Cruella's hair who vows to get him back, alas not in this show! Ha.
Henry now confronted by himself: the Wish Realm version who is bitter and wants to write his own happy ending but can't and so made the deal with Rumpelstiltskin. He tells Henry to write "the powers of the guardian are no more." With the others there to hear that too. Rumpelstiltskin vanishes them all into the snow globe with Lucy and Ella, that was a mistake on his part cos he underestimated the power of their determination to get out of there. As well as the others in Hyperion Heights knowing something was wrong, particularly Alice, who gets a pain in her heart and knows Hook is in trouble.
Reggie is still there and Henry didn't want her sucked into the globe cos she's the Evil Queen who crushed his grandparent's hearts and wants revenge.
Tiana (Mekia Cox) is at a loose end in Hyperion Heights and stress bakes Beignets when Naveen (Jeff Pierre) tells her she should be doing more. Alice and Robin ask for her help and she asks if anyone has anything magical they may have forgotten about. Remy (Trevor Roberts) hands over his magic bean he had been keeping incase he needs it. Alice and Robin take it and the truck to Storybooke as a detour where Robin gets reinforcements.
The action hotting up for the final ever episode of the show. It was good that the writers managed to remove Ella from the rest of the show cos she wasn't really an original character and would've gotten in the way. This one was for the important characters and so they could have their ending. Otherwise it would've left no time for real stories to be told. But who'd have thought Henry would've become so bitter in his travels and ended up alone. However in many ways that's how Rumpelstiltskin was too since he didn't have his Belle to make him change. her influence we saw in Rumples and how he didn't put himself first anymore. Though they did manage to bring back some of the other characters for a little bit, especially in the next episode.
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