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Fairy tale Flashback:
Human Rumpelstiltskin excitedly informs his wife Milah that he has received notice that he is requested to join the army in battle. While in the campgrounds, Rumpel is instructed to guard a "tricky" prisoner; a young girl with a giant scar covering her non-existent eyes which happen to be embedded in the palms of her hands. She calls herself a "Seer" and has the ability to see into the future. For a sip of water, she explains to Rumpel that Milah is currently with child and that Rumpel's actions on the battlefield will leave his son fatherless.
Fearful of the Seer's vision, Rumpel takes a sledgehammer and smashes his foot...which would explain his permanent limp. Wounded and unable to fight in battle, Rumpel returns to his home and finds Milah holding his newborn son Baelfire, or Bae for short. Milah outraged from Rumpel's actions explains that the entire town knows what he did and are calling him a coward. She even goes so far as to say it would have been better if he died because now Bae will grow up having a coward as a father. Harsh much?
Fast forward a few years, Rumpelstiltskin is now "The Dark One" and runs into a now older Seer. Angry that she had failed to give him the full details of her vision, Rumpel threatens to kill her unless she tells him how to find his son (who he dropped in a portal). She tells him that the road to finding his son won't be easy, will take many years, and mentions a curse plaguing the land but is unable to see further than that. The Seer explains that if he wants to know more about the future he will have to take the burden from her for himself. Rumpel obliges but unfortunately is unable to puzzle which events are certain and which are possible. As gratitude, the Seer tells Rumpelstiltskin that a young boy will lead him to his son's whereabouts but will also be his undoing. As a true "Dark One", Rumpel simply replies that he'll just have to kill this young boy.
Welcome to the City that Never Sleeps:
A hop, a skip, and a jump later, Emma, Henry and Mr. Gold (a.k.a. Rumpelstiltskin) finally arrive in Manhattan where they believe Gold's son to be. As they try and ring his apartment, they see the son running down the fire escape and down the street. Emma pursues him and after a brilliant tackle made by Emma, Gold's son is finally revealed. So who is Bae? Low and behold it is Emma's former lover and Henry's father, Neal! While this may not have been a surprise for many fans, it was still a legitimate "gasp-er". Looks like Gold is now part of the Charming family.
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Separate from Gold and Henry, Emma and Neal go to a bar and discuss this huge discovery. Emma is horrified and is convinced that both Gold and Neal have played her. Neal explains that he has spent his entire life running away from his father and had never known who Emma was until August (a.k.a. Pinocchio) told him during their run in. Neal believes that him meeting Emma was fate and no mere coincidence. He tries to convince Emma that if she lies to Gold and tells him that she lost him in the chase, Emma will never have to see him again. Unsure of what to do, Emma rings her mother Snow White who advises that Henry has a right to know who his father is. Despite Snow's excellent guidance, Emma lies and tells Gold that his son got away from her.
Refusing to give up, Gold breaks into his son's apartment to try and learn more about him as well as wait for his return. In the apartment, Emma notices a dream catcher hanging on the window that she just can't seem to disregard which prompts Gold to believe that she is hiding something from him. Just as Gold is about to lose his temper, Neal enters the room and demands he leave her alone. In an enticingly awkward reunion and a great domino-effect of revelations, Gold realizes Emma and Neal know each other, Neal realizes that Emma has a son and unsuspecting Henry realizes that Neal is his father. The ball has officially dropped!
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Meanwhile in Storybrooke:
Hook is determined more than ever to go after the now powerless Rumpelstiltskin; however, Regina and Cora rationalize that now that Rumpel is out of town, they can search for the one magical item that can kill him, his dagger. Where to start? How about with the one person Rumpel trusts the most. Regina visits Belle in the hospital who has completely lost her memory. With a simple wave of her hand, Regina puts Belle to sleep and snoops through her purse by causing all it's contents to float in the air. She finds an index card with random letters written on it. She, Cora and Hook decide to try the library in the hopes that Belle has hidden the dagger in one of her favorite books. They come across a map in an empty space of a book shelf that will lead them to the location of the dagger.
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Now that mother and daughter have what they need, they double cross Hook and Cora reveals her plans. If they acquire Rumpelstiltskin's dagger, they can command him to kill Snow White, Prince Charming, and Emma so they can finally have Henry to themselves. These ladies mean serious business..
Speaking of which, the stranger from outside of Storybrooke named Greg presumably will be stirring up some trouble for the fairy tale folk. Greg speaks to his wife on his cell phone and says that although he is able to come back home, he wants to stick around. With that, he sends her a video message of Regina using magic in Belle's hospital room. Uh oh! Any ideas on what repercussions will occur from that revealing video? Me neither, but I can't wait to see what they come up with!
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