Victoria strikes a deal with Weaver in an attempt to free herself from jail and wake Anastasia. In flashbacks, Rapunzel steals from Mother Gothel’s garden to save her family, and is trapped in a tower in exchange. After six years of captivity, Rapunzel escapes using her hair, but finds her husband Marcus has married Cecilia, gaining a stepdaughter, Ella. Gothel tempts Rapunzel with a Wonderland mushroom, which she uses to poison Cecilia’s heart, leading to Cecilia running away. One day, Anastasia and Ella fall through thin ice but, to Rapunzel’s disbelief, Marcus only manages to save Ella. Rapunzel seeks Gothel’s help, who magically seals Anastasia’s last breath with the price of keeping Anastasia in the tower. However, Rapunzel tricks Gothel, who becomes trapped in her own tower until someone in her bloodline takes her place. In the present, Victoria strangely gives full custody of Lucy to Jacinda, claiming to be a changed person. Victoria retrieves the Once Upon a Time book and shows Lucy her unfortunate life story as Rapunzel, convincing Lucy to give up her belief in happy endings. As Lucy sheds a tear, Victoria uses it to awaken Anastasia as Lucy falls unconscious. So grab a cup of tea and join us as we explore the magical world of Storybrooke and beyond with Chelsea and Roger.

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In flashbacks, Hook is reunited with Alice, who claims that they have been cured of their curse. However, when they try to embrace, Hook gets hurt and Alice runs away in fear. Henry and Cinderella chase her to Wonderland. Cinderella finds Alice, who tells her that she met Cinderella’s mother before and that she was also afflicted with the Curse of the Poisoned Heart. Drizella appears in Wonderland to curse Henry, but Alice and Cinderella save him. Henry and Cinderella then share their first kiss. In the present day, Jacinda contacts Nick, a lawyer whom she has been cursed to believe is Lucy’s father. He agrees to help her regain custody of Lucy, to Henry’s dismay, and Lucy encourages Henry to fight for Jacinda. Drizella and Gothel plan to revive Anastasia but find her body is missing from her coffin. After Regina confronts Weaver, who refuses to confirm that he has woken up from the curse, she tells Henry she’s heading to San Francisco to meet with someone who was pushed out of town by Victoria. He agrees to join her on the trip. So grab a cup of tea and join us as we explore the magical world of Storybrooke and beyond with Chelsea and Roger.

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In a flashback in the Wish Realm, shortly after the Charmings stopped Regina from casting her curse, Hook agrees to grant her passage on the Jolly Roger in exchange for leading him to powerful magic guarded by a witch. When he arrives at the witch’s tower, he finds Rapunzel instead. She instructs him to retrieve a golden flower from the witch’s garden. When he returns with it to help her, they spend the night together. The next morning, it is revealed that Rapunzel is actually Gothel and their night together produced a baby, whom Gothel leaves behind so she can escape the tower. Hook gives the Jolly Roger to Smee and decides to stay with his daughter, who is unable to leave due to the tower’s spell. He names her Alice after his own mother. In the present day, Rogers is on a mad hunt for Eloise with help from Henry and Tilly. Tilly later informs him that Eloise has died, but it turns out that the news was planted by Weaver to throw him off the case. When Rogers finds Gothel, he believes that she is Eloise and frees her from Victoria, who gets detained by police for kidnapping. So grab a cup of tea and join us as we explore the magical world of Storybrooke and beyond with Chelsea and Roger.

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In a flashback, Regina comes across Drizella, who is looking for magic to escape from her mother. When she reveals that she was actually born with magic, Regina begins to train her. However, after Regina runs into Rumple, who tells her that Lady Tremaine must have been aware of the magic lessons, the two women realize that Lady Tremaine was counting on using Drizella’s heart to revive Anastasia. Drizella ends up blackening her own heart by killing the prince, making it unusable for revival, and vows to cast a curse like Regina’s to make her mother suffer. In the present day, Roni struggles with what to believe about the mysterious photo, which is complicated by newly discovered information about “Regina Mills” into which Lucy encouraged her to look. Drizella gathers the ingredients for a plant that the witch then cultivates and, when she serves its essence to Roni, she wakes up and remembers her life as Regina. Drizella then reveals that she cast the curse and blackmails Regina into keeping Henry and Jacinda apart, reminding her of a special contingency that was put into the curse that would hurt her family if she didn’t comply. So grab a cup of tea and join us as we explore the magical world of Storybrooke and beyond with Chelsea and Roger.

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In flashbacks, Tiana seeks a prince to help save her kingdom and is guided by Dr. Facilier to a man named Robert. She soon realizes that Facilier had enlisted Robert to steal a magical ruby from her in exchange for reuniting him with his lover, who had been turned into a frog. In the present day, Sabine decides to run a pop-up beignet shop out of Mr. Cluck’s with Jacinda’s help. Victoria sends someone to burn the place down, which then causes friction between the two roommates. Rogers comes across a detainee at the police station who he thinks is connected to Eloise Gardener, the missing girl he’s been trying to find. Meanwhile, Roni decides to investigate Ivy’s interest in helping Henry. Ivy takes her to the top of the towers and Roni finds a photo of herself and a young Henry taken in Storybrooke. However, it is later revealed that Ivy hasn’t been cursed either and has her own dealings with the witch, of which her mother is unaware. So grab a cup of tea and join us as we explore the magical world of Storybrooke and beyond with Chelsea and Roger.

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In a flashback to Gideon’s first birthday, Rumple and Belle decide to leave Storybrooke to travel the world. Years later, Rumple tells Belle that he wants to stop being the Dark One, so he can be mortal again and live out his life with her. Over the years, they search for ways to get rid of his Darkness. When Gideon is 18, Belle comes across a prophecy that leads them to the Edge of Realms, where they must wait for the sun’s brightest set before they can be guided to the path Rumple must take to get rid of the Darkness. They build a home there as they wait for the event to occur. However, an aging Belle eventually admits that the “sun” of which the prophecy spoke was actually herself and that her death will mark the start of his journey. When Belle dies, Rumple sets off to search for a Guardian who will be able to take the Darkness from him, so that he can ultimately be reunited with Belle. In the present day, Tilly, who is actually Alice, begins to wake up from the curse after she stops taking pills given to her by Victoria and, after several attempts, manages to get Weaver to remember his true identity. So grab a cup of tea and join us as we explore the magical world of Storybrooke and beyond with Chelsea and Roger.

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In a flashback, Cinderella arrives at the spot in the forest where she is supposed to meet Henry, but does not find him there. She then meets Princess Tiana, who recruits her to be part of the resistance against Lady Tremaine. She leaves one of her glass slippers behind for Henry to find. A short while later, Henry, Regina, and Hook arrive at their campsite and join the efforts. Later, Cinderella sneaks into Tremaine’s castle alone, where Tremaine reveals that she has kept her almost-deceased daughter Anastasia preserved since her “death” at age 14 and needs a pure heart to revive her. She tasks Cinderella with stealing Henry’s, since he has the heart of the truest believer. In the present day, Jacinda tries to save Lucy’s beloved community garden from Victoria, while Lucy takes a skeptical Henry on a trip under the garden lot in hopes of finding proof of everyone’s fairytale pasts. Meanwhile, Henry, Roni, and Rogers find their first lead against Victoria. Rogers captures the man working with her, but is irritated to find Weaver setting the man free to use him as a future connection. It is then revealed that Victoria is not cursed and has been keeping a witch as her prisoner at the top of Belfrey Towers. So grab a cup of tea and join us as we explore the magical world of Storybrooke and beyond with Chelsea and Roger.

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In a flashback to Storybrooke, Hook is training an 18-year-old Henry as Emma watches. She confesses to Hook that she worries that Henry is about to leave on his own. In order to comfort her, Hook shows her a bottle Henry can use to call on them if he gets into trouble. Many years later, as Henry is about to be captured by Lady Tremaine, he uses the bottle to call on Emma, Hook, and Regina for help, unwittingly calling in Wish Realm Hook as well. In the present, Victoria hires Rogers and Weaver to drive Henry out of the neighborhood. Rogers does not agree with Weaver’s methods and helps Henry, instead. Rogers, Henry, and Roni end up forming an alliance against Victoria. Meanwhile, Jacinda has to find another way to be at Lucy’s ballet recital after Victoria makes things difficult for her. So grab a cup of tea and join us as we explore the magical world of Storybrooke and beyond with Chelsea and Roger.

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