Once Upon A Time – An Untold Story

By: Stacy Miller

Dr. Jekyll (Hank Harris) wakes up and frees Snow, David, Hook and Zelena (Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas, Colin O’Donoghue and Rebecca Mader). He takes them outside and reveals the place is The Land of Untold Stories. It is basically a place for outcasts. He shows them the serum he created to separate good from evil. Suddenly, The Orderly (Arnold Pinnock) overpowers the doctor and makes him drinks the potion. Mr. Hyde appears. He takes the doctor’s serum, which allows the two to become two separate people and then Hyde runs off into the streets.

Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) is surprised to see Regina (Lana Parrilla) at his hotel room. She offers her help to get Belle (Emilie de Ravin) back, but he reminds her that he needs The Evil Queen and not the pathetic good woman she’s become. Regina says she can be The Evil Queen again, but it’s just a diversion so Emma (Jennifer Morrison) can sneak in and steal the Olympian Crystal. Gold knew Emma was there though because Regina is too good now to let the loss of one man turn her evil again. He needed to get Regina there to get something from Zelena. Henry (Jared Gilmore) bursts through the door and uses the other Holy Grail to get the Olympian Crystal and destroy magic. Henry tells Emma and Regina that he had to destroy magic because magic took away Regina’s one chance at happiness. He runs out when Gold tells him that when he destroyed magic, he trapped Snow, David, Hook and Zelena in another realm with no way of getting them back. However, Gold does reveal after Henry leaves the room that there is someone in town that may have the magic they need. He will only reveal that person’s identity if they all work together.

Emma finds Henry sitting at the fountain she used to bring him to when they lived in New York and had forgotten magic existed. Henry is saddened that because of him half his family may be gone forever. Emma tells her son about someone who may have the magic to bring the others back.

Gold takes Emma and Regina to Chinatown where they meet with a man known as The Dragon, who once had an encounter with Gold’s father, Peter Pan. The Dragon (Tzi Ma) doesn’t necessarily want to help Gold, but he will help Regina. However, when he attempts to open the portal, he is unsuccessful.

Henry is now optimistic about magic and hope and gives Emma, Regina, Violet (Olivia Steele Falconer) and Gold pennies to throw into the fountain because maybe if they wish the people they love back, their wish will come true. It doesn’t work, but the Olympian Crystal begins to have a strange glow. So, Henry thinks they need more people to help with the magic and delivers a rousing speech to the crowd. Soon, everyone is throwing pennies in the fountain and making a wish.

Snow, David, Hook and Zelena realize it is raining pennies during their pursuit of Hyde. Soon, a portal opens and the group join through. Hyde tries to join them but is too late and the portal closes. Emma and Henry are happy and relieved when Snow, David, Hook and Regina emerge from the portal in the middle of the fountain. Henry realizes that magic doesn’t have to be a bad thing when it’s used for a good reason. They also realize that Gold is gone.

Apparently, Gold went back through the portal to force Hyde to give him back the box with Belle’s soul. Hyde tells Gold that he knows a way to wake Belle and will share it with him if Gold takes him with him to Storybrooke.

Emma and Snow are worried about Regina. Snow brings Regina some hot cocoa, adding alcohol. Regina tells Snow when they were at the fountain she wished for The Evil Queen gone for good. Snow knows a way to make that happen. She tells Regina about Dr. Jekyll’s good from evil separating serum. Later with Snow and Emma present, Regina takes the serum. Out comes The Evil Queen, who is disappointed by the weakness in Regina. Snow and Emma urge Regina to destroy The Evil Queen. “You need me,” the Evil Queen sneers. “No I don’t,” Regina adamantly insists before pulling out her heart!

But Regina isn’t done facing evil for who should appear later that day in the town square, but Hyde. And to make matters worse, unbeknownst to Regina, The Evil Queen kills The Dragon and announces that although Regina doesn’t know it “This is war!”

Season Six is going to be huge! It will be Regina vs The Evil Queen with Hyde thrown in for good measure. Will Regina be able to conquer these two foes? Find out next season!