OUAT: The Mirror Blue Night

Last time on “Once”: We learn more about Ingrid and her sisters. They tried to keep Ingrid’s powers at bay and support her though they do pay a visit to Rumplestilskin. After a tragic accident, Gerda traps Ingrid in the urn. In Storybrooke, Emma captures Ingrid, a plot by Ingrid to mess with Emma’s head. Make her doubt her family and their love for her. When her powers go haywire, it looks like Ingrid might be right. Emma flees as her loved ones worry. Meanwhile, Robin gives into his feelings for Regina.

And Marian is still a popsicle.


We open a long time ago in Arendelle. Auntie Ingrid buries the container with the hat in a cave before heading over to visit the Apprentice. She offers to give the Sorcerer his hat back as long as he does something for her—find her third sister. Someone with magic, like her and Elsa. The Apprentice says the Sorcerer doesn’t make deals but he will talk with him.

(I don't make deals with villains)

(I got your hat)

Emma has been camping out in her yellow bug. Henry approaches the car, calling for his mother. She tells him to stay away but he still tries to go to her. Her powers continue to go berserk, knocking Henry back. He tries to assure he’s fine—it’s just a scratch, really—but the sight of blood frightens her. She tells him to get away from him. So Henry does run off—with me yelling “GO HENRY! GO GET EMMA HELP!”

(Run, Forrest, run!)

Meanwhile, back in Arendelle, Elsa prepares for a dinner with Anna. On the menu? Everything chocolate. It’s a PMS-ing woman’s dream meal. But Auntie Ingrid has some terrible news for her niece—Anna’s been lying to her. She has a magical hat that will strip Elsa’s powers. Elsa doesn’t think Anna will use it on her but Auntie Ingrid reveals Anna attacked her and almost used the hat on her. She had Anna imprisoned in the dungeons and is awaiting Elsa’s sentence. Elsa is distressed.

You know who is not distressed? Regina. Want to know why? Because she spent the night with Robin Hood. He wanders her vault in pants and a wifebeater, saying he enjoyed his sleep last night. Wink wink, nudge nudge. But Regina reminds him that it can’t happen again. She wonders what would’ve happened if she didn’t choose evil over going into the tavern that night.

Robin says she’s not the evil queen any more and can have a second chance. But Regina shows him the storybook and tells him that that disagrees. He points out that it’s only a record of their past, nothing more. Regina, though, says that whoever wrote it is still guiding her life and has determined she’s still a villain. So Robin offers to set him right. Regina tells him she doesn’t know who the writer is and she can’t find out. She keeps hitting a dead end. And no, Robin can’t help her.

She and Robin can’t do that again as well. He understand. But, he says, if they don’t leave, then it’s still the first time. He kisses her and Regina melts. Robin lifts her up and they fall off screen. Looks like they are going to make s’mores!

(I found next month's tumblr icon!)

In Arendelle, Elsa goes to the dungeons to visit her sister. She confronts Anna about everything Ingrid told her. Anna tries to defend herself but Elsa appears unmoved. She orders the guards to leave them alone. They oblige and Elsa drops the act. Yes, she’s been acting the entire time. She had to make the guards think she was mad at Anna so they didn’t report back to Auntie Ingrid. Which makes no sense because Elsa’s queen. She was crowned. It doesn’t revert back to Auntie Ingrid just because she showed up. Especially as there are no records of Auntie Ingrid at all. So why are the guards not loyal to Elsa? Why would they report to Auntie Ingrid? Hello?

(Reunion!)

Anyway, Elsa and Anna conspire to put Auntie Ingrid back in the urn. Oh yeah, there is no way this is going to backfire. Please note the sarcasm.

Gold opens his shop for the day and discovers everything going nuts in his shop. He tells Emma that if she’s trying to hide, she’s doing a poor job of it. She tells him that she’s just trying to make sure she doesn’t hurt him. Emma asks him for a way to remove her magic. Gold says he knows a way and Emma says she’ll do it, even though he hasn’t told her what it is. But Emma says she hurt Henry and she can’t chance that. She’ll do anything to be normal. Gold gives her a place to meet him later that day.

(Do not trust this man. Come on, Emma. You know this!)

At the loft, Elsa says that Henry’s fine. He has a scratch and she gave him so me ice to put on it. He’s just sulking because he wasn’t able to help his mother. At this point, Regina walks in and demands to see Henry. Mary Margaret wants the tracking spell she brewed up first. Regina slams it down and then says she’s going to see her son. Mary Margaret suggests she might want to finish buttoning her shirt. Regina covers by saying she was in a rush to check on Henry. She heads upstairs to see him.

(Busted!)

Elsa asks about the tracking spell. Mary Margaret explains that they put it on something of Emma’s, like her red scarf, and it will lead them right to her. And at that moment, Emma calls. Mary Margaret answers it and apologizes to her daughter right away. Emma asks if Henry got home and if he’s okay. Mary Margaret assures Emma that he’s fine. She asks when Emma’s coming home. Emma says she first has to get rid of her magic and then it’ll be safe for her to come home. She then hangs up.

Everyone is speechless. Hook wonders if Emma tried to call him on his “talking phone.” David corrects him that it’s just a “phone.” Hook says that’s stupid and says he must’ve left his in the car. He goes to get it…except it’s all a ruse to get out of the apartment. Hook calls Emma but gets her voicemail. He tells her to not trust Gold because he’s going to suck her into a hat. He knows because he’s helped Gold do it before. And he doesn’t want Emma to suffer that fate.

In Arendelle, Kristoff keeps guard as Anna and Elsa search the East Wing for the urn. It’s mostly covered in white sheets and Anna says she had been forbidden from coming in there. She opens a wardrobe and finds…Frozen!Hans. That’s…downright creepy. 

(Seriously)

Anna is rightly freaked out and Kristoff comes in to check on them. She sends him back out to keep watch as the sisters find the urn. Step one of their plan is complete.

Gold pays Ingrid a visit. He taunts her still, telling her that Emma is going to remove her magic. She is going to be normal and Ingrid is going to be short a sister. Ingrid vow to stop Emma but finds she can’t move. Gold has trapped her using pieces of the urn Elsa broke. He says it’ll keep her contained for some time—long enough for him to remove Emma’s powers. *Insert evil laugh here*

Hook bursts into Gold’s shop but it’s empty. Not sure where Belle is. He figures out where Gold is taking Emma and hurries off, determined to stop them.

Will hangs out in Granny’s with a cup of tea. He then proceeds to add a copious amount of alcohol to it. Robin then takes it from him. He says he needs Will’s help and pulls out the storybook. Robin tells Will that he needs to figure out who wrote the book in order to make Regina happy. Will says that he spent some time in Storybrooke and that the curse centered around the clock tower. He asks Robin if he knows what is under the clock tower. Robin doesn’t. Will points out it’s a library. Where they keep books. Maybe they should look there.

Regina hangs out with Henry, heals him and asks him why he’s in a sour mood. He reveals that he couldn’t help Emma. He hates being normal. Regina tells him that he is anything but ordinary. He is the truest believer after all. She apologizes for ever trying to make him think he needed to be normal. This seems to cheer him up.

(All together now: Aww)

Downstairs, Mary Margaret and David talk about Emma’s plans to remove her magic. Mary Margaret thinks they have to support her. She believes this might be Emma’s best chance to have a normal life. Elsa overhears this and no doubt thinks of her own parents, who she believes were trying to remover her magic and make her normal. She grabs the locator potion and Emma’s scarf before sneaking out of the apartment.

Emma drives through woods, heading to where she needs to meet Gold. As she does, she spots Ingrid in the middle of the road. Emma swerves to avoid hitting her and hits the guardrail instead. She gets out of the car and confront Ingrid. Ingrid tells her she can’t go see Gold, she can’t get rid of her magic. And it doesn’t have to do with her desire to make Emma her new sister. Ingrid knows—like Hook—what Gold is planning to do. She doesn’t want Emma to get hurt. But Emma realizes that Ingrid isn’t really there. Since Ingrid is trapped, she’s using her mirror to great a spectral projection to talk to Emma. Emma walks though the image, gets back in her car and drives away.

(Poof!) 

Will tries to break into the library in broad daylight. He’s lucky one sheriff is too busy dealing with out-of-control powers while the other is busy dealing with what to do with the one dealing with the out-of-control powers. He talks about how he’s breaking in when Robin just opens the door. He points out that the library is open to the public during the day. Will’s like “Right. That.”

(Cannot even)

They go through the books but Robin realizes the answer isn’t going to be found alongside a car manual or “The Cat in the Hat.” Will wonders why Robin’s going crazy over this book. Robin tells him he just wants Regina to be happy. Aww. He looks in his bag and finds something folded up. He opens it and declares he has to talk to Regina. Whatever he’s found changes everything.

(Look at that face!)

Regina comes downstairs and asks why they aren’t out looking for Emma. Mary Margaret reveals that Emma called, she’s going to get rid of her magic and they’re supporting her. Regina tells them it’s the most idiotic thing they’ve done—including hiring the Wicked Witch of the West as their midwife. Mary Margaret and David, of course, are insulted. But Regina explains that she’s always regretted trying to convince Henry he wasn’t special, that he was normal and maybe crazy because she was too scared to lose him. And she pushed him away by doing so. She tells the two not to make the same mistakes. The Charmings decide to go after their daughter but find that Elsa’s taken the locator spell.

In Arendelle, Elsa sneaks her sister back into her dungeon cell. Elsa goes over the plan with Anna: Elsa will tell Auntie Ingrid to deal with her traitorous sister. When Auntie Ingrid comes down, Anna will trap her in the urn. Anna practices how to say “Surprise” for when Auntie Ingrid pops up. But once Elsa leaves, Auntie Ingrid surprises Anna. She asks Anna if she’s ever heard of an old folktale about a king and his mirror. Anna has—the king had a beautiful daughter and he had a mirror made so she could see the beauty he saw in her. But she died before he could give her the mirror. It then just reflected the ugliness of his grief. Auntie Ingrid reveals she has one such mirror in her room, collecting the pain of her childhood. She doesn’t have enough to use it on the kingdom, but she can use it on her niece. With that, she casts the spell of Shattered Sight on Anna, sending a shard of glass into Anna’s eye.

(You have to admit that's cool)

Uh oh.

Stay tuned for Part II!