Once Upon a Time recap: Henry Mills will get an support from … Henry Mills

Once Upon a Time

kind

TV Level to

style

Fantasy, Drama

lag date

10/23/eleven

performer

Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla

broadcaster

ABC

seasons

7

Most fresh Region

In Season

tvpgr

TV-PG

We gave it an A-

We’re correct a few episodes some distance from Once Upon a Time‘s sequence finale, and, yes, the feels are starting to position in. In tonight’s in particular emotional episode, Henry Mills’ family pull out the whole stops to abet him take into accout in voice that he can eventually defeat Gothel’s curse, but there’s handiest one particular individual that can snap Henry out of it: Henry … correct now not in the formula you is at risk of be attempting ahead to.

When stories originate with this voice’s title, there’s most steadily a “happily ever after” tagged onto the tip, and tonight, we collect a taste of what that extra or much less closure might in fact truly feel like. Let’s in discovering it from the tip.

The episode begins with Lucy in fleshy fright mode after seeing that Henry and Jacinda beget their first (well, now not first, but you realize) kiss, and it doesn’t rid the town of its curse. In level of truth, the do is much extra doomed than ever as the sky ignites with the fire of the flower baby, Mom Gothel. The pinnacle witch herself arrives to relate minute Lucy and Regina that the steadiness of nature is resetting, and humanity is now not going to continue to exist it. Regina and her loved ones can collect away the world’s wrath if she agrees to be Gothel’s eighth witch, but Regina wants none of it. She’s restful making a bet on Henry to drag them by arrangement of, even supposing Gothel assures her that her son, who restful doesn’t even know he is her son, is too some distance long previous in disbelief.

In a flashback to Storybrooke, Henry heads off for senior year of faculty and decides he wishes to allege to varsities birth air of Storybrooke. He’s basically the most convenient one in his class who isn’t a magical creature from Fairy Story Land, so perhaps he must restful give the birth air world a shot.

Rumple has had a swap of attitude about helping Henry. Though he doesn’t beget any magic to give her to enact the potion, he did arrange to siphon off some memory juice from Cut that will abet Henry collect his thoughts collectively. Rumple’s ready to play high quality now on fable of he’s starting to assemble it that he might by no reach collect abet to Belle, and on the least if he helps his family here, he won’t be on my own.

Within the period in-between, Tilly’s restful lockstep with the relaxation of Gothel’s coven, even supposing Rogers/Hook tries his handiest to persuade her to cease casting the corrupt witch’s spells. Our novel friend the Sergeant isn’t one bit phased when one amongst the chanting witches shrinks right into a tree correct in front of them, explaining she’s now fulfilled her accountability and has been rewarded with a do in the “Eternal Grove.” If the tip of the stakes wasn’t already glaring, that determined does the trick, and Rogers decides to take hold of Tilly to possess a destroy for it. Unfortunately, he’s restful cursed and is unable to switch her, literally tremulous by no topic’s holding them apart. He guarantees to approach abet for and runs for abet.

Help in Storybrooke, once Granny’s performed schooling Henry on the importance of moral car repairs, Regina sends her away to assemble some grilled cheese sandwiches. As a token of cohesion with his wanderlust, she brings him a bunch of faculty applications birth air of the role. She’s now not completely happy when he suggests he’s attracted to going to movie faculty in Los Angeles (podcasting clearly wasn’t on his radar on the time), but as Regina admits, “being a guardian also reach learning to let hurry.”

Exiguous does this model of Regina know, her replicate is attempting her handiest now not to let hurry of her baby. In Hyperion Heights, Roni/Regina tries to mosey Henry’s memory by providing him a grilled cheese sandwich and spiking his espresso with Rumple’s memory serum. She’s disappointed when nothing happens, and he can read the response all over “Roni’s” face. He’s determined, over once more, that they aren’t fairy story characters and, while he can’t reward away Cinderella’s glass slipper, he’s choosing to keep in mind in the trusty Henry and Jacinda (and Lucy) that he can behold and touch and take into accout correct now. 

“I’m performed buying for solutions in our imaginary previous,” he insists.

Lucy, however, is now not. She alerts Jacinda and Sabine, who’re jumpy about Drew being MIA all of a sudden, that Dr. Facilier a.okay.a. Mr. Samdi might beget something to attain with his disappearance, since he’s left a tarot card as his hold produce of non-Hansel-related breadcrumb.

Help on the do, an injured Rogers demands files from Weaver/Rumple about what’s going down spherical town. The sky is falling, and witches are turning into bushes, and he knows his associate knows something about it. In resolution to beating spherical the bush (pun intended), he decides to correct lay it out orderly. “Magic is trusty,” he tells him. “All of it, the entirety you read in Henry Mills’ book. We’re all from another realm.” Rogers is before the entirety flushed with disbelief, for certain, but he can’t utter what he’s seen — on top of the impossible formula which Cut used to be stabbed, for certain — so he can both keep in mind he’s indignant or that Weaver is correct. His subsequent question is easy: If all here’s resplendent, which of those characters used to be he? In due time, Cap’n. 

The two pay a hurry to to Margot at that bar and expect for her abet talking Tilly off the proverbial ledge. They don’t collect into all the particulars, so as now not to alarm the wretched lady, but they attain relate her she’s having another of her corrupt days.

Lucy joins Regina on the graveyard the do Victoria is buried, and her trusty grandma shows that since the potion is a bust, and the memory juice didn’t in discovering, she’s got another thought. If Henry’s reacquainted with the second book, perhaps that steadily is the take-fee name they’ve been buying for. Obvious, it reach exhuming the Contaminated Stepmother, but … eh. That’s now not great of a win 22 situation, morally on the least.

Storybrooke Henry is having a laborious time with the truth that he’s gotten into each faculty he applied to. [Insert tiny violins GIF here.] The scenario isn’t that he has this kind of wealth of choices before him, for certain, but barely that his admissions were all predicated on non-public essays that had nothing to attain with his trusty lifestyles amongst so many fairy story creatures. Love an exact mom, Regina refuses to agree that he must restful preserve home in Storybrooke correct to be on the salvage facet, so he won’t lose himself, even supposing there has to be a portion of her that wishes he would attain correct that.

The be troubled to reintroduce Henry to the book is indirectly in pointless, even supposing. As great as Regina and Lucy might dangle their hopes on this being the element that jars his memory, Henry’s thoughts is too listless do on his hold, curse-prompted sense of truth. He’s got a entire lifetime of recollections as this Henry Mills, and the effort of shedding his family here to endure to boot. It’s too trusty to now not be trusty… (Recap continues on subsequent web page)