Once Upon a Time Recap: "Smash the Mirror"

Written by Shae

THIS IS THE EMERGENCY SPOILER ALERT SYSTEM...YOU ARE ADVISED TO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK...

Once upon a time there were three sisters. Not related by blood, but by magic. Well, so thinks Ingrid the Snow Queen. It seems her plan is slowly coming together. However, there’s just one thing not going according to plan. Nothing ever goes according to plan in StoryBrooke. Emma, on the run from her family, seeks out Gold and asks for a favor…a spell that would take away her magic. He just so happens to have one…only, the spell isn’t quite what he’s making her think it is. Still, Emma is desperate to trust him and give up her light magic in order to save her friends and family.

Henry tried to speak with her about this, only, that didn’t go so well. Much like Elsa and Anna, Emma ends up hurting Henry. The boy is more upset that he doesn’t have magic to help with than actually being hurt by his mother. With that, he slinks off to his room to sulk. Snow and Prince Charming, however, seem to be okay with Emma giving up her powers. Why? Because being normal might actually help her. Or maybe they don’t want to be afraid of their daughter. While discussing this, Elsa overhears them and decides to take matters into her own hands. She steals a tracking potion Regina has brought over as well as Emma’s scarf. She sneaks off without anyone noticing. Hook is beyond panicked as he figures out what Emma has done. He calls her repeatedly…finally leaving a message telling her every last thing that had happened. The truth finally exposed to a voice mail does little to settle his guilt. After all, he did help Gold in some of this, and he isn’t about to let him take the woman he loves for a second time. 

Regina finally learns what Emma is going to do and essentially tells Snow and Charming off, getting them to go after their daughter and stop her. On the way, however, Regina gets a call from Robin and leaves to speak with him. What is the Prince of Thieves up to? He and Will have found a secret library under the clock tower. In it, they’ve been searching for a clue as to who wrote the magical storybook that seems to determine everyone’s fate. While they don’t find anything a page appears in Robin’s bag. It’s a duplicate of one of the pages, a picture of Regina and Robin kissing in the tavern where she left him. It would seem there were many options that night could have taken. Maybe Regina is rewriting her own fate after all. A happy ending for the former evil Queen? I hope so…

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But not all get a happy ending. Gold has trapped the Snow Queen for the moment, but she sends a projection of herself to warn Emma. It doesn’t work. Emma goes to where she’s meeting Gold, only to find she can’t find him right away. Gold has set the Sorcerers’ hat up…he has little problem betraying Emma to get what he wants. Giving the hat the power it needs, will free him from the control of the dagger. Fueled by his need to be free, he doesn’t seem to care about hurting his grandson’s mother. He leaves and stops Hook from getting to Emma. He doesn’t see Elsa slip in, nor does he see how the young Queen of Arendelle talks some sense into Emma. Finally, Emma accepts her powers and they stop going insane…Gold is livid, and takes Hook's heart. It seems part of the spell required to break his bond with the dagger means he needs the heart of someone who knew him before he was the Dark One…

When all seems well, ribbons appear on Emma and Elsa’s wrists, draining their powers. The Snow Queen has used them to channel their powers to her…and with that, she has cast the spell of Shattered Sight…The same spell she had used on Anna all those years ago to have the girl trap Elsa in the urn. Shortly after, she freezes the entire castle, including Anna and Kristoff…With the spell now unleashed on the whole town…what’s going to happen?

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