- Gold interferes with the Snow Queen's plans for his own agenda, as flashbacks show the Snow Queen try to pit Elsa and Anna against each other. Emma turns to Gold for help getting her powers under control.
- In Arendelle, when the Snow Queen tries to pit Elsa and Anna against each other and when it proves more difficult than she anticipates, she takes drastic measures. Meanwhile, in Storybrooke Emma's powers are out of control and her fear of hurting loved ones pushes her away from everyone she cares about. In her confusion, Emma turns to Gold for help getting her powers under control. Gold tells her about a way to get rid of her powers altogether and Hook tries to put a stop to it. Meanwhile, Regina struggles with her plan to find the author of the storybook until her quest takes an unexpected turn. Robin Hood recruits Will Scarlet to assist him on a mission and Mary Margaret and David search for Emma.
- We start "a long time ago in Arendelle," where The Show Queen gallops into the woods to bury the box containing the sorcerer's hat.
Back in the Enchanted Forest, she goes to the sorcerer's apprentice in an effort to make a deal with the sorcerer. She tells him she has the sorcerer's hat and the apprentice threatens her. All she wants, though, is "happiness." She tells him she wants "two new sisters" born with magic. She has Elsa and wants a "third perfect match." She's "willing to take as long as it takes to find a perfect sister."
Back in present-day Storybrooke, Henry finds Emma hiding in the woods with her yellow Beetle. He reaches out a hand to help her, but some magic from her hands pushes him back as if a bomb has gone off, and he's bleeding from his ear. Emma's magic is out of control. Henry leaves -- after Emma tells him to -- and The Snow Queen shows up to convince Emma that everyone fears her. She wants Emma to embrace who she is, but Emma isn't having it. She drives off.
Regina and Robin Hood have had themselves quite a night and he invites her back to his camp for breakfast, but she says they can't do that. She wonders why they didn't go this "a few decades ago." She says she should've listened to Tinkerbell and chosen him instead of evil. She's still convinced this will end badly. She shows him the fairy tale book, which he's surprised to see but says it's "about the past." She's searched everywhere, she says, to find the author. They start to get frisky again, even after she says "this" can't happen again.
Mary Margaret is feeling bad about giving up the search for Emma. She's probably feeling pretty guilty about having made her feel like a monster. Henry shows up and tells the group he found Emma in the woods, and they're worried when they see the blood on his fingers. Elsa tells them she understands where Emma is coming from, worrying that her powers are out of control.
We flash back to Elsa in Arendelle excitedly preparing to host Anna, but The Snow Queen shows up and tells her that Anna won't be showing up. She tells her about the hat Anna found in an effort to "cure" Elsa of her magic. The Snow Queen tells Elsa that Anna was going to use it on her (Elsa). The Snow Queen tells Elsa that it was her mother, The Snow Queen's sister, who put her in the urn. She tells Elsa that Anna is the same and will never accept her for who she is.
In Storybrooke, Mr. Gold is surprised when he gets to his shop and things are running by themselves. Emma emerges and asks him for help controlling her magic. She doesn't care wqhat he has to do, just asks that he fixes it. He tells her he could cast an ancient spell to remove her magic, but she'd lose all of it forever. He says the spell will wipe out an entire city block, so he circles a spot near an abandoned manor in the woods where they can meet. She thanks him and leaves, and he tosses the curse instructions into the trash.
Elsa finds Anna in the dungeon, and Anna tries to convince Elsa that The Snow Queen is lying to her. Elsa doesn't believe Anna, then demands that the guards leave so she can talk to her sister. As soon as they're gone, she tells Anna she was putting on an act so the guards would believe she'd sided with Ingrid. She lets Anna out, and says they're going to trap Ingrid in the urn. They just need to find it.
Regina shows up, indignant when they ask why she wasn't answering their calls all night. She brought a "locator potion" that works by pouring it on anything Emma owned. Emma calls Mary Margaret to check on Henry, then tells her about her plan to get rid of her magic forever. Hook steps outside to call Emma and ask her to call him right away. He's worried she's being set up.
Anna, Elsa and Kristoff are searching in the east wing for the urn. Anna opens a bureau and finds Hans inside, frozen. And the urn is next to him. Seems just a bit too convenient.
Mr. Gold shows up to The Snow Queen's palace and, circling around her while chatting about his big plans, manages to pour remnants of the presumably destroyed urn around her, effectively creating a new "urn" in which she's now trapped. It won't last too long, he says, but long enough for him to fulfill his evil plan, which includes betraying Emma.
Robin Hood finds Will in the diner and tells him about the fairy tale book. Will tells Robin about the clock tower, and the library under it.
David and Mary Margaret talk about Emma's situation and worry that she's doing the wrong thing. Elsa overhears David pondering whether Emma's "best chance is for her to be normal." We quickly flash back to the castle in Arendelle, where Elsa stops and looks at the portrait of their parents and asks Anna if it was true that their parents really wanted to find a way to take away Elsa's powers. Anna tries to convince her they were just trying to do what they thought was best for her. In Storybrooke, Elsa takes Emma's scarf and the locator potion and slips out of the house.
Regina is in Henry's room asking what happened with Emma. He doesn't want to talk about it, but reluctantly shows her the cut behind his ear. She waves a hand over it and heals it. Henry laments that he's "ordinary" because he doesn't have magic. Regina reminds Henry that Emma is a hero and "heroes always win."
Hook storms into Mr. Gold's shop and finds him gone. He calls Emma again to tell her that Mr. Gold is setting her up to take all her powers and put them in the sorcerer's hat. He admits that he knows all this because he's been keeping Mr. Gold's secret from her, too. He apologizes and hopes she'll get the message. But he finds the circled spot on the map on the counter in the shop and takes off.
The Snow Queen feels around for any openings in the clear, circular trap around her. There are none, but she waves a hand and discovers she can still make her mirror work. She sees an image of Emma in her yellow Beetle. We cut to Emma driving through the woods fiddling with the radio. When she looks up, she sees The Snow Queen standing in the middle of the road and swerves to avoid her, crashing off the side of the road.
Anna goes back into her cell with the urn, with the big plan to lure Ingrid to the dungeon so that Anna can surprise her with the urn. As soon as Elsa is gone, though, smokes comes from the urn and shackles lock around Anna's wrists. Ingrid appears and tells Anna that she had to have a backup plan in case Elsa didn't believe her.
Emma comes to in her car and looks around, and The Snow Queen and tells her not to trust Rumplestiltskin. Emma realizes that The Snow Queen isn't really there and walks right through her to get back in her car and meet Mr. Gold.
Regina and Mary Margaret start to talk about Regina's tryst with Robin Hood, but Regina isn't giggling when she learns that Mary Margaret and David are going along with Emma's plan to get rid of her magic. She talks them into not letting Emma take her magic away. But they realize the locator potion is gone -- and so is Elsa.
We find Elsa following the scarf, which is apparently leading her to Emma.
In the dungeon, Ingrid forces Anna to tell her the story of a norse king who cast a spell over an entire kingdom so everyone would see darkness and turn on each other (sound familiar?). Ingrid doesn't have to cast a spell over the whole kingdom, for now, just over Anna. She does it.
While searching for Emma and Elsa, Mary Margaret tries to chat Regina up about Robin Hood. They have a big heart-to-heart about good and evil, with Mary Margaret trying to convince Regina that she's not all evil.
Robin and Will are at the library when Robin finds a folded piece of paper that he thinks Regina needs to see right away. He calls her, and Mary Margaret tells Regina to go meet him. She's hopeful that her theory that Regina can think and act positively and have positive things happen to her is actually working.
Emma shows up at the abandoned manor, where Mr. Gold is waiting for her, preparing the sorcerer's hat to take her powers. Mr. Gold tells her he's already cast the spell in another room. She just needs to step through the door. She tells him that The Snow Queen tried to warn her that he was trying to hurt her. Mr. Gold tries to remind Emma that The Snow Queen is "the villain" and that this whole thing was her own idea. Emma asks Mr. Gold what he would do and he says he wouldn't give up his magic because he always makes selfish decisions. He tells her she always does the right thing. She starts toward the room, then turns and sincerely thanks Mr. Gold.
Hook gets to the manor and Mr. Gold meets him outside, and casts a spell that binds him to the gate outside. Elsewhere, the scarf leads Elsa to another entrance of the manor and she goes inside.
Back in Arendelle, Ingrid's curse on Anna is working. She's turned on Elsa and unloads a bunch of vengeance on Elsa. Ingrid comes in and admits she cast the spell on Anna, but her deepest, darkest feelings are coming out. With The Snow Queen yelling at Elsa to freeze Anna, Elsa refuses and Anna opens the urn to pull Elsa into it. Ingrid, then decides to embrace the perception everyone has of her as a monster, then freezes Anna and Kristoff. She carries away the urn and vows to Elsa, inside it, that they will find their third sister.
Elsa finds Emma in the manor and stops her from going into the room where the sorcerer's hat is waiting for her. Elsa tells Emma that she learned how to control her powers with more than just Anna's love. She tells Emma she has to love herself -- the good and the bad -- and to embrace her powers. Elsa reaches out a hand and tells Emma it's time to stop being afraid. Emma reaches out and when they touch hands, the powers are under control.
Outside the manor, Mr. Gold sees that Emma has not gone through with giving up her powers, but he tells Hook that the day isn't totally lost. He says some stuff about needing the heart of someone who knew him before he had the dagger, because this big spell is going to separate him from it, and Hook is the only one who fits that description and is still alive. He rips Hook's heart out, then tells him he's going to be his puppet now. He tells Hook he will get the magic Mr. Gold needs, then he'll kill him.
Rumplestiltskin shows up at the palace in Arendelle and tells Ingrid he wants the sorcerer's hat. She claims she doesn't know where it is. Rumple steals the urn and offers to trade it back for the hat.
Hook goes into the manor and finds Emma and is relieved that she didn't give up her magic. He hugs and kisses her. He walks Emma and Elsa toward the door to leave, but stays inside so he can get the hat box, which is sitting harmlessly on the floor.
At the library, Robin Hood shows Regina what he found -- it's a page from some version of the fairy tale book that shows them kissing, rather than Regina leaving the pub where they had met. He tells her it "appeared" in his satchel. He calls it "hope" -- the word Regina was teasing Mary Margaret about using too much. She kisses him.
Mr. Gold's trap around The Snow Queen fades and she steps out of the circle. She waves a hand over the three yellow ribbons and they disappear, with one of them staying on her wrist.
Back in Arendelle, we see The Snow Queen going back to where she'd buried the hat box. She digs it up and starts to summons Rumplestiltskin. Before she can finish, the sorcerer's apprentice shows up and tells her that the third sister "will be a perfect match" -- she hasn't been born yet. He tells her that if she gives him the hat, she'll find her third sister and be reunited with the one she lost. He shows her a door and tells her it will lead her to another world. If she gives him the box, he'll let her through it. He hands her a scroll and tells her that "when the time comes, it will lead you to your third sister." She walks through the door and we see her arrive in "Our World, 1982."
Mary Margaret, Henry and David find Emma and are all happy she didn't give up her magic. She shows them she's in control of it again by conjuring up a fireworks show. They all look up happily, but Henry notices the yellow ribbon on Emma's wrist. Elsa sees she has one on her wrist, too. Emma says she feels like it's harnessing her magic. She has an idea where it came from.
Mr. Gold shows up at The Snow Queen's place and she mocks him over his inability to get Emma's powers. She tells him that thanks to him all three of them have embraced their powers. Now she wields the magic of all three, and now she can cast a spell over all of Storybrooke. Mr. Gold warns her not to overestimate her power, but she warns him not to underestimate it.
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