Once Upon A Time Recap: Witch Hunt
The Wicked
Witch digs through Regina’s things, marveling at all the stiff she left behind.
She sends her flying monkey off to find Regina.
Red wonders
if Regina has really changed, Snow thinks that she has, but she’s not doing
well with Henry gone. Regina has a plan though to get back in her castle. One
of the monkey’s comes in for the attack, but when Robin’s young son is nearly
attacked, Regina steps in and turns the monkey into a stuffed toy.
Snow and
Charming don’t remember any of their time in the Enchanted Forest. Snow doesn’t
think that Regina is involved in the curse. Hook got a note, telling him to get
Emma, but the Charmings didn’t send it. Worse, there are many people missing,
or turning up missing. Neil hasn’t been founded yet either. Emma decides the
best course of action would be to get their memories back.
Everyone
tries to make sense of what they’ve just seen. Belle knows of the only place
that has flying monkeys, Oz. If it’s Oz, Regina knows that who is in their
castle, and worse of all its not a personal vendetta. Regina has done nothing
this time to deserve it. Regina plans to go in alone to take down the shield,
and although Snow wants to help, Regina insists on going at it alone.
Red brings
Henry cinnamon for his pancakes, he still doesn’t remember Storybrook. Snow and
Charming come to meet up with Henry and Emma, and they make up a story how they
could know Emma. Regina drops her cup when she sees Henry, but Emma quickly
grabs her away. It breaks her heart that Henry doesn’t remember her. Regina
insists that she didn’t have anything to do with this latest curse, and Emma
doesn’t count her out yet.
Robin’s men
continue their thievery, but this time, its for a bow so that they can hunt.
Little John is a horrible shot, and he chases his Turkey to the Storybrook town
line, a flying monkey takes him away.
Robin tells
the others about Little John’s disappearance. They think that it may be because
he tried to leave Storybrook. Emma decides that maybe a town hall meeting may
be the best way to find out the guilty party. Accusations start to fly, all
pointing their fingers at Regina, but Regina maintains that she isn’t guilty,
even Emma doesn’t believe her. Backed into a corner, Regina becomes what they’re
all accusing her of being the Evil Queen, while the real culprit sits in the
front row watching it all gleefully.
Regina moves
the boulders, and Robin comes out of the woods to help her. He knows that the
Wicked Witch was after Regina not his son, but he still owes her for saving
him.
Emma comes
to meet with Regina. Her little stunt was just that a stunt, to make the real
culprit think they got away with the curse. The girls are working together, so
look out Wicked Witch, you’re going down. Emma gives Regina the potion bottle
so that she can replicate the memory restoring spell. Emma knows Regina well
enough now that she can tells when she’s lying, and this time, she isn’t lying
about laying the curse.
Regina and
Robin navigate the tunnels, to take down the shield, and they get to know each other.
Regina may own up to her mistakes, but so does Robin. They find that a door is
open, one that shouldn’t be. The crypt to Regina’s mother’s final resting place
is open, which means that the Wicked Witch is far more powerful than she thought.
Robin asks about the child Regina lost, and she admits to him that he’s lost,
but not dead. She has to forge forward, no matter what.
Snow reads
about cradle cap, not knowing anything about babies, and talks Henry into going
to the library with her. The Wicked Witch, Elina, tells her that cradle cap
doesn’t hurt the baby, and Snow quickly bonds with her as she acts overly
helpful and sweet as pie. When Snow asks Elina who she was back in the
Enchanted Forest, she tells her that not everyone is famous, and Snow buys the
story hook, line, and sinker.
Robin and
Charming track blood drops and find Little John.
Regina puts
Robin on watch duty, while Regina digs through her potions. When she doesn’t
answer his queries, he draws his bow on her. She mixes together a sleeping
potion, not for use against the witch or even Snow. She tells him it’ll be used
on someone no one will ever miss. Robin tells her that she can have a second
chance, but Regina doesn’t want it. The curse cannot be broken by anyone but
Henry. She’ll do as promised and lower the protection spell, and then go to bed
forever.
Regina tries
to duplicate the potion, but it doesn’t work. Emma thinks that maybe they’re
going about it all wrong, they need to smoke out the perpetrator. They just
need to get the word out that she’s close to making a memory potion so that the
culprit will try to stop her. Grumpy gets the word out and Zelina makes a run
for it.
Robin,
Charming and Hook take Little John to the hospital. He’s still in critical
condition, and as the doctors rush to save him he begins to seize. The seizure
gets worse, and Little John transforms into a flying monkey. Is it a spell or
some mutant flying monkey virus?
Regina and
Emma have a stakeout, but its long and boring. Regina asks about Henry, about
his friends and life in New York. Emma admits that she almost didn’t come back
because they had a good life, but she remembers, and says that Henry would say
that a hero would come back. Someone enters Regina’s office, and Regina and
Emma race to see who it is. They corner her, but she gets away.
Regina heads
to put out the flame, and thus take down the shield. The flame goes out with
little issue, and the shield drops. Charming orders everyone to move on the castle,
and Regina prepares to prick her finger. The Wicked Witch stops her, she
thought she’d get more of a hello. She introduces herself as Zelina. She acts
indifferent to everything. Regina wonders how she managed to break her spell,
saying that no one is that powerful. Apparently Mommy Dearest kept more than a
few things from Regina, one of them being that she has a sister, Zelina. They’re just
half sisters, and Zelina is the elder sister, and she’s not only green but a
little bitter over not having a mother. And furthermore she too has ties to
Rumplestiltskin. Regina tells her that both their mother and Rumple are dead,
but that’s fine because Zelina wants to take everything away from her. She
wants Regina to suffer, but Regina has nothing left to lose. Gauntlet thrown,
Zelina flies off. Now Regina has something to live for, someone to destroy.
Regina isn’t
sure meeting Henry is a good idea, but Emma tells her that she will be fine.
Emma introduces Henry to Regina. Regina tells Henry that his mother has told
her a lot about him, because she’s proud, and she offers to show him around,
and even take him out for ice cream. He likes the idea, and although odd, the
introduction went well.
Hook and
Charming tell Emma, Snow and Regina the news about the flying monkey. Now they
know who cursed them, just not why.
Zelina goes
to feed her prisoner. She’s brought back Rumplestiltskin, and he doesn’t
exactly look grateful, in fact he looks like he’s been stuck in crazy town.
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