Henry, desperate to prove to Emma that the curse is real, takes a bite of the turnover and collapses to the floor unconscious. Since Regina knows Emma's true identity, however, she retrieves her poisoned apple (the same one she used on Snow White) to use on Emma in the form of an apple turnover. She finally makes a deal with Regina, in which she agrees to leave but will still get to visit Henry on occasion. Emma then attempts to take Henry out of Storybrooke forever but is then forced to reconsider when he refuses to go. He abandoned her out of fear and is slowly turning back into a wooden puppet as a result. Booth ( Eion Bailey), who is the first stranger ever to arrive in town after she did, is from the Enchanted Forest as well: he is Pinocchio, who was sent to our world through the same wardrobe that brought Emma to watch over her. She concludes that Regina orchestrated the conspiracy and forced Sidney to "confess."Įmma soon discovers that writer August W. When Daily Mirror chief editor Sidney Glass ( Giancarlo Esposito), previously the Magic Mirror, confesses to having abducted Kathryn to jump-start his career, Emma is not convinced. Gold double-crossed Regina and let Kathryn go to exonerate Mary Margaret. Gold plotted to frame Mary Margaret and force her out of Storybrooke, but Mr. As Mary Margaret is about to be prosecuted by corrupt District Attorney Albert Spencer ( Alan Dale). Mary Margaret is arrested for Kathryn's supposed murder and hires Mr. Sometime later, an antique jewelry box that belonged to Mary Margaret when she was a child is found buried near the old toll bridge and is revealed to contain a human heart, which is proven to be Kathryn's via DNA testing.
Kathryn eventually decides to go to Boston and let David be with Mary Margaret only to disappear before leaving Storybrooke. Unable to deny their love, David and Mary Margaret soon begin a secret relationship that becomes public and upsets Kathryn. David, however, is married to Kathryn Nolan, the woman who is (in the fairy tale world) his ex-fiancée Princess Abigail, daughter of King Midas. David wakes up after she reads Henry's fairytale book to him as a favor to Henry. Mary Margaret falls in love with David Nolan, a coma patient who is really Prince Charming. Gold, becomes heated when she learns he is still aware of his true identity as Rumplestiltskin. Regina's bitter rivalry with Storybrooke's wealthiest resident, Mr. Regina's antagonistic attitude raises Emma's suspicions and prompts her to move in with Henry's teacher Mary Margaret Blanchard, believed by Henry to be her mother, Snow White. In Storybrooke, Emma is soon elected as Sheriff following the sudden death of the previous Sheriff, Graham Humbert ( Jamie Dornan), believed by Henry to be the Huntsman. In exchange for the child's name, he told them their only hope was the child, who would return on her 28th birthday and begin "The Final Battle." The child, an infant girl, is born on the day the Queen enacts her curse and is placed in a wardrobe carved out of an enchanted tree which takes the child to our world, where she grew up in the foster system, rebelled in her teen years, and ended up having Henry at 18. In the fairy tale world, it is revealed that Snow and Charming, concerned for the safety of their unborn child, went to seek advice from the imprisoned trickster Rumplestiltskin ( Robert Carlyle). Henry also tells Emma that they are the only people who can leave Storybrooke, as others who try will suffer accidents. This action causes the hands of the clock tower to move for the first time in 28 years. Emma of course considers this theory to be completely outlandish and returns Henry home, but she still decides to remain in the New England town after becoming attached to him. Because of the curse, everyone in Storybrooke is frozen in time with no memories of their former selves-except for the Queen, who is Storybrooke's mayor and Henry's adoptive mother, Regina Mills. Henry possesses a large book of fairy tales, suspecting that Emma is the daughter of Snow White ( Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming ( Josh Dallas), who sent her away so she would be protected from a powerful curse enacted by the Evil Queen ( Lana Parrilla), a curse in which the queen is the only one with a happy ending. Gilmore)-the son she gave up for adoption ten years previous-who takes her back to his hometown of Storybrooke, Maine. On the night of her 28th birthday, bail bonds collector Emma Swan ( Jennifer Morrison) is reunited with Henry Mills ( Jared S.
The structure of the show cuts back and forth between the events happening in the real world and the corresponding events that happened in the fairy tale world. All of the classic fairy tales and other stories exist together in the same continuity, though many of the events played out slightly different to how the stories are told in our world.