NARRATOR: Previously on Once Upon A Time...
Daniel's grave.
Mother!
She ripped his heart out.
All the dark deeds I've done have poisoned my heart.
Who do you want found?
My daughter.
Your Lilith might be the one who keeps Miss Swan on her dark path?
LILY: Your parents are monsters, Emma.
They banished me and threw you in a wardrobe.
She wants revenge.
REGINA: Marian. She's my sister, Zelena.
She's pregnant.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
QUEEN: Stop the carriage.
MAN: Whoa!
Good day, citizens.
Enjoying the meadow?
MAN: Indeed. It seemed perfect for our wedding ceremony.
QUEEN: It is lovely.
But see, the thing is,
these are part of the royal lands.
And I don't recall giving you permission to marry here.
We didn't know. We had just... (GASPS)
(ALL GASP)
Your Majesty,
could you be overreacting because of what day it is?
Don't talk to me about this day, Daddy.
But you need the support of your citizens, Your Majesty.
To alienate them would be shortsighted and weak.
I'm not weak!
I was going to spare you,
but someone just made me angry.
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
No...
Next time there's a wedding, book the church.
Make your way home. I have some place to go.
Mother.
It's been too long.
So...
Yeah.
So you moved on. With her.
That's not fair.
You understood. You agreed.
Understanding it and seeing it are different.
That's hardly the most important point here.
My son! Zelena's not going to keep wearing that glamor
and Roland's not going to understand where his mother's gone.
For him to lose her again...
A forgetting potion.
Just take him back to before the fake Marian showed up.
He'll lose time, but it's better, right?
Yes.
Thank you.
God, poor Marian.
And Zelena,
just killing her like she meant nothing
so she could play out this sad farce with us.
I just... I want to...
But I can't.
I mean, I knew that things didn't feel right,
but I just didn't know why.
I'm sorry. This was all about me.
For her, this was all about
making sure I never get my happy ending.
lf by "happy ending" you mean us,
then at least, in a way, that's possible again.
Look, it's messy, I know, but between us...
Is a huge obstacle.
And it's going to get bigger every day,
and not just for nine months, either.
It's a lifetime she has cooking in there.
No matter what happens from now on, there's going to be this child.
You're tied together in a way...
In a way we'll never be.
I'm such an idiot to think that life wouldn't kick me in the teeth again.
I hear you. Just...
Just what?
What do we do now?
I can't believe this survived all that time.
This place, it belonged to your...
His name was Neal.
He was a lot of things to me.
Now he's just gone, thanks to her.
Sorry?
(GASPS)
I think I just felt a kick.
You wouldn't want to rattle an expectant mother now, would you?
(DOOR OPENS)
Everyone pack up.
You, too.
We're going back to Storybrooke.
Tonight.
What is this?
A bagel.
Is it?
Did you hear?
This is why I hate this place.
Are you sure you want to start the day by tangling with the Dark One?
HOOK: Hmm.
A Dark One who can't strike back without charring his heart.
You're toothless, old dog.
So I get to give you the good news.
Emma's already on her way back, and guess what?
She didn't turn evil, after all.
So I get to find my happiness and you will never find yours.
And for you, never is a long, long time.
Well, that's bad news.
Emma's in charge of happy endings around here.
The ink has to contain her blood.
It has to be governed by her dark impulses.
No Dark Savior, no ink.
(COUGHS)
You okay?
What was he saying about your heart?
I'll be perfectly fine, once I find another way to get that ink.
You think there's a loophole?
Well, there always is. Let's go.
Get off!
Forget walking. I have a better idea.
EMMA: Hey.
Hey, all right.
Maleficent, this is Lily.
This is your daughter.
QUEEN: You show up
on the anniversary of killing the man that I loved?
To what?
Rub salt in the wound?
To apologize.
I see.
How did you get out of the Looking Glass?
I borrowed a rabbit.
Wonderland's an amazing place, and I've learned a lot.
I understand now why you had to send me away.
Without me, you've become your own person,
and I'm very proud of you.
What do you want, Mother?
To help you.
You've got beauty and strength, power.
I just want to help you get that final piece.
Love.
I had that piece.
You took it and tore its heart out.
The stable boy.
Daniel!
His name was Daniel.
Yes. I made a terrible mistake.
You see, I was fine with a loveless marriage.
I thought you'd be the same.
And now, I realize that you feel things more deeply than I do.
No, you really do.
You deserve more than I had.
Little late, isn't it?
Oh, we both know that's not true.
I had an encounter with a certain wingless fairy
who told me of a failed attempt to connect you with your soulmate.
You met Tinker Bell.
Indeed. She told me, Regina.
There is someone out there for you.
Someone you're fated to be with.
And I'm here to find him.
I'll believe it when I see it.
ZELENA: No, I mean it. I have no reason to escape.
REGINA: And with that cuff, you won't have the magic to do it, either.
(GASPS) Oh, look,
home.
Hmm. Dank.
Isn't it? I'm glad I thought of it.
And right upstairs, our OB, Dr. Whale,
gives the finest care this side of the fictional realms.
It's the perfect temporary home.
Yes, this home is temporary.
But me being in your life is not.
Because this means forever.
Okay, Zelena.
You want to start talking truth?
Tell me, why are you so confident?
Tell me, what's gonna make you feel safe at night
once that baby's born?
The fact that if you kill me,
Robin will always know that you murdered
the mother of his child.
You underestimate me, Zelena.
Enjoy your new home.
GOLD: Get anything on blood magic, but be quick.
I've just remembered something in the back that might help.
-(DOOR BELLS JINGLING) -ISAAC: What are you doing here?
What do you want?
I want the Author.
Finding him was my idea before you stole it.
What's wrong with you? You look terrible.
Nothing, I'm fine.
Oh, it's your heart, isn't it?
It's finally happening.
Yeah. It's dying.
Bad news for you and me both.
You said it would kill your ability to love.
You didn't say that...
The Dark One can't die, not like that.
No.
But Rumplestiltskin can.
Friendly warning,
you don't want to face the Dark One when there's no one else at home,
so I suggest you don't antagonize me.
Oh, but it doesn't really matter.
By definition, when I get my happy ending,
I'll be... Guess what?
Happy.
So I don't really care what you'll be up to.
No, no, no, you're just being shortsighted.
Look. I have the quill.
You and I can
work together.
We could figure out a way to find that ink.
Yes, you look like you're up for some serious collaboration.
Thank you.
I'll figure out the ink on my own.
No, no, no.
Goodbye, dearie.
No!
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
You are too good for this place, my lady.
You'd be surprised. Who are you?
They call me Nottingham.
The Sheriff of Nottingham, actually.
Come.
My name's Cora, and I'm looking for a man.
Well...
A specific man.
He has a tattoo on his arm of a lion.
Right here.
Robin Hood.
Sounds like you're talking about Robin Hood.
Tell me more, Sheriff.
Oh, no, no, no, you don't want him, darling.
He is a sanctimonious blowhard
who thinks he's better than all the other thieving bastards
because he steals from the rich
to give to the poor and won't shut up about it.
That sounds insufferable.
But my daughter has her heart set on him.
The things we do for our children.
Mmm.
Well, he's all married up now, I hear.
To some sickly little tart that no one else would want.
Wives can be gotten rid of. So I hear.
(LAUGHS)
I think I could help you find him.
For a price.
(LAUGHS)
Maybe I'm closer to finding what I was looking for than I realized.
Let's talk some more.
REGINA: So, if I have this straight,
you thought Emma was going to go dark and she didn't.
-So the whole operation's dead. -Right.
The energy of her darkest potential has to charge the ink.
Okay, let's think.
It's a shame. I mean, writing a happy ending for the Evil Queen.
Well, you've always been a favorite of mine.
Very clear goals plus totally damaged personality
with a self-destructive streak?
A recipe for compelling.
And of all the characters I've written for,
you really do get screwed over the most.
I'm well aware.
By the way, I was only working with Rumplestiltskin
because he was able to protect me.
So you can trust me.
And you can really do as you say?
Take a look at this.
This page,
it says my happy ending is possible, doesn't it?
I mean, it has to exist for a reason.
Whoa.
I wrote this.
I mean, the story with this drawing in it, from my...
Well, a little experimental writing I did
for another book that I never got the chance to write.
Where did you get this?
It just turned up one day in Robin's things.
I don't know how that happened, but it...
Yeah, it suggests that something is looking out for you.
Something? Well, could you be more vague?
You know as well as I,
there are forces greater than all of us.
But no matter how you got that, gosh, I am a fan.
I'd be happy to write whatever you want,
if you only had the ink.
Oh, I already figured that part out.
I know exactly where to find it.
You're so beautiful.
Sorry. I just...
Just, you are, that's all.
(SIGHS)
So how are we gonna get revenge on Snow White and Prince Charming?
Now that I see you,
I don't want to waste our time on revenge.
I understand why you want it.
It's suddenly so clear we should only look forward.
Seriously? We're gonna let them get away with this?
We can be happy in the future or we can be angry about the past.
Let's do both.
Look, all these years since I've figured out what happened,
I've been trying to figure out how two humans
could get me away from a freaking dragon.
But now, I get it. You're a pushover.
What'd they do, rub your belly? Give you a dragon treat?
Lily, no.
I did everything I could.
But all I want to do now is enjoy our time together.
I am your mother.
Well, I'm grown up now.
I don't need grooming advice from Annie Hall. I got to go.
Wait! Wait.
Please. If you go, if you leave town, you can't get back in.
I can't leave at all.
I'll crumble back into the dust that I was before Gold revived me.
Man, that's a bummer.
Please. Can't you just wait a little while longer?
Things could look different in a week.
Send me a postcard.
David.
I'm not here to kill you.
Okay.
I just... I just want my daughter.
Lily isn't with you?
She's leaving.
And you think we can help.
Come in.
You cast the second curse. Can you...
Is there a way for you to seal the borders the way Regina did?
I don't know how to do what you want.
But that wouldn't be the right way, anyway.
If she's upset, you have to get to the heart of what's wrong.
I don't know what's wrong. I don't know her.
Well, she's acting a lot like Emma did when she first came here.
She had these... Her walls were always up.
She was afraid that if she opened herself up to me,
I would let her down like everyone else had.
And ultimately, I did.
If you have any way to help...
You didn't give her back to me then,
but please, if you can help, do it now.
Yes. Come on, David, let's find her.
Thought I might find you here.
Fair warning, bus service in these parts can be spotty.
It's going to be a wait.
I missed the part where that's your problem.
Shove off.
I bet that mouth got you lots of attention back at the group home,
but it doesn't work here.
Now, listen up.
I've got some talking to do.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
Cora! How... I thought...
Yes, hello. Get out, Henry.
Why are you here?
I have news. I found your man.
You found him?
He's on his way.
He's on his way?
Mother!
Come.
You remembered.
I love this color.
I can't believe you did all this.
I told you, I've learned.
Thank you
for the dress.
You're welcome, darling.
Now turn around, and meet him.
Your Majesty.
I think I'll leave the two of you alone.
Enjoy your evening together.
You know, this apple tree used to stand near where I grew up.
There was this stable boy I liked once,
and we used to meet underneath it.
Stable boy?
Well, you certainly have come up in the world
since consorting with a lowly stable boy, I'd say.
Have I?
I don't feel like I've gone anywhere but down.
Oh. You just need
some manly arms to lift you up.
Now you let me be the strong one,
so that you can be weak when you want to be.
Weak?
Well,
feminine.
-Manly arms. -Oh...
Like these?
Hello, there.
Oh!
-Glory! What are you doing? -(GROWLS)
That's not a real tattoo. That's magic.
Who put that on there?
Stop it. Ah!
Was it Mother?
Yes! Ah!
She told me to pretend to be your soulmate,
and then I could be the king.
-(LION GROWLING) -Just get it off me.
What does she get out of it?
Ow! Just stop it!
What does she get out of it?
She said that she wanted you to have a child.
What?
She said she wanted you to have a child.
And I don't know why.
You know about Snow and Charming getting you banished,
putting Emma's potential for darkness into you?
Sent me through the portal in my egg shell
like baby Moses in his basket.
And unless you have any ideas about giving them what they deserve...
Let's not worry about what they deserve.
Let's work on what we deserve.
I deserve them dead.
Well, you do have some darkness in you, don't you?
Thing is, a lot of that darkness, it actually belongs to Emma.
And right now, it's good and riled up.
And riled up Savior darkness, it's exactly what I need.
The only thing you need, lady, is to get out of my way!
And here I thought we can have a civil conversation.
Guess I should just cut to the chase.
Hey, stop!
(GROANS)
You're out of your mind!
Welcome to Storybrooke.
(LOUD ROAR)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
Lily?
Lily.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
So, how did it go?
He's not still here, is he?
Oh, but he is.
-He wanted to see the dungeon. -(MUFFLED SCREAMING)
Oh, for heaven's sake! You're having a tantrum.
There. He's home now. Poor thing.
Why'd you let him go?
Don't you want someone else to suffer for what you did?
Like usual.
I don't understand. I thought you were getting along.
Well, I haven't known a lot of love in my life.
But, I do know
that's not what a soulmate feels like.
Your so-called soulmate
is a married, moralizing sap.
The one I found is much better.
You were never interested in my happiness.
(WHOOSHING)
Hello, Zelena.
Oh, visitors! I'll put the kettle on.
I've got the Author, and I've got the ink.
I wanted you to witness the moment he writes me my heart's desire.
See, this is my town.
And this is my story.
You've just been a supporting player this whole time.
(CHUCKLES)
Yeah, see, l'm not here to support you.
I'm here to replace you.
Out with the old, and in with the new.
Really? We'll see about that.
Wait.
What exactly is he going to write?
I've given that a lot of thought.
There are so many good options.
But I think after much deliberation,
I've come up with the perfect ending for you, sis.
What am I looking at?
The horizon.
EMMA: Is it doing something?
Well, I just thought you'd find it calming.
It is. So is rum.
Emma, I can tell that your heart is uneasy.
And it's my job, well, I hope it's my job to protect your heart,
even when no one is physically trying to steal it.
You don't have to stop me from going after Gold,
I'm smarter than that.
He didn't turn my heart dark,
and I'm not gonna fall into one of his traps.
I'm not worried about him getting to your heart,
I was talking about your parents.
We've talked about this.
I talked, you walked away.
I just want to know, is anything gonna be enough,
or are you willing to lose them just to spite them?
Give me back the rum.