(11 years ago . At Night. Emma is waiting, in front on a wire fencing. Neal comes, two coffees in hand.)
Emma: When you said you owed me a drink, I thought you meant in a place like a bar or a restaurant or someplace with, you know, chairs.
Neal: Patience. I got somethin' better in mind. Here. Hold this.
(He gives her his coffee and starts to pick a padlock)
Emma: What the hell are you doing?
Neal: Tumblers. It's all about the tumblers.
(He finally opens it.)
Neal: Come on. It's worth it. I promise.
(They are now in a park with a carousel, lightening.)
Neal: What'd I tell ya?
Emma: Yeah. All right. It's pretty cool.
Neal: Come on.
(They sit in the seats of the carousel.)
Neal: Hop on.
Emma: So, what's your story, Neal?
Neal: That's an interesting choice of words. My "story" is that I left a screwed-up situation. And it kinda screwed me up.
Emma: Crappy home life? I get that.
Neal: Nah, but it wasn't always. That's the problem. It was Pretty great once.
Emma: So, why don't you go back and try to fix it?
Neal: I can't really go back. 'Cause of my father
Emma: Bad guy?
Neal: Not at first. But he changed. That's when things got really crazy.
Emma: But before that?
Neal: It was home. It was nice. That's how you know you've really got a home. 'Cause when you leave it There's this feeling that you can't shake. You just miss it.
(Back in the Enchanted Forest. In the past. Emma is thrown in a cage. The prisoner saw previously in the village is here.)
Woman: Are you all right?
Emma: Yeah, I think so. Thanks. I'm Leia.
Woman: I wish I could say It was nice to meet you.
Emma: Yeah, but under The circumstances, I get it. What's your name?
Woman: I dare not speak it here. The Queen doesn't know who I am, and my silence is the only thing keeping my family safe.
Emma: She's pretty ruthless, huh?
Emma gets some bread from her pocket.
Emma: Here. You hungry? I swiped it off a food tray on my way down.
(Emma finally recognizes her.)
Woman: What? What is it?
Emma: I saw you in the village with the Queen. I wanted to help, but--
Woman: It's all right. If you had tried to free me, you would have just ended up in here a day sooner.
Emma: What did she put you in here for?
Woman: I knew where Snow White was hiding, but I refused to tell the Queen.
Emma: You gave up your freedom to ensure Snow White's? Yes.
Woman: I believe her to be innocent.
Emma: How long are you in for?
Woman: Same as you. Just one more night.
Emma: Really? One night. W why? Is Regina going soft?
Woman: No. One night, because tomorrow everyone in here is to be executed.
(In the forest. Snow walks and gets trapped in the air. Charming appears, proud and laughing.)
Charming : I told you I'd find you. No matter what you do, I will always find you.
Snow: Is this the only way you can catch a woman? By entrapping her?
Charming: It's the only way to catch thieving scum.
Snow: Aren't you a real "Prince Charming.
Charming: I have a name, you know.
Snow: Don't care. "Charming" suits you. Now cut me down, Charming.
Charming: And why would I do that Snow White?
(He shows her the wanted poster.)
Charming: Relax. I'm not gonna turn you in. All I want is the ring you stole.
Snow: Not the jewelry type.
Charming: Indeed. I noticed.
Snow: I don't have your ring.
Charming: And why don't I believe you?
Hook: You should.
(Hook appears from nowhere.)
Hook: She's telling the truth, mate. Prince Charles. Lovely ball the other night. The mutton was a tad overcooked, but that happens. Snow White doesn't have your ring. But I can tell you who does. My princess. And I need your help to get it back.
Charming: She has my ring? That's two women who robbed me. Where is she?
Hook: Well, that's the problem. The Queen's castle.
Snow: Actually, that's not a problem at all. I know it well. It used to be mine. I can get us in there but not from up here. So you let me down and you get your princess, you get your ring, and I never have to see your charming face again.
(Charming cuts the rope and Snow falls down.)
(Snow and Charming are hidden in a cart which is driven by Hook.)
Snow: Aah!
Hook: Apologies, lass.
Snow: You are really enjoying this, aren't you, Charming?
Charming: It is not my fault your face is plastered on every tree in the forest. What's that around your neck? I thought you weren't the jewelry type.
Snow: Don't worry about it.
(Charming steals the jewel from her.)
Snow: Oh! No! Careful! That's a weapon.
Charming: Dust?
Snow: Fairy dust. From a dark fairy. It transforms the most fearsome adversaries into a form that's easily squashed. I'm saving it for a special someone.
Charming: The Queen?
Snow: Those charges on her posters are lies. Didn't stop her from trying to kill me. That's why I'm trying to get out of this kingdom. That's why I tried to steal from you to secure passage on a pirate ship.
Charming: What did you do to incur the Queen's wrath?
Snow: She blames me for ruining her life.
Charming: Did you?
Snow: Yes.
Hook: We're here.
(He stops the horses from a far distance to the Queen’s castle.)
Snow: We're going to need help to get past her guards. Wait here. We go at night. I'll be back with help.
(Snow leaves them. )
(At night. Hook and Charming are waiting around a fire.)
Hook: You excited for your nuptials?
Charming: I'm marrying Midas' daughter. What's not to be excited about?
Hook: I don't mean to pry, mate, but you don't exactly look like a man - who's doing this by choice.
Charming: Mm. I always thought I'd marry for love. And here I am about to enter into what amounts to a business transaction. A merger of two kingdoms. I don't know. This whole ordeal makes me wonder if there's even such a thing as true love.
Hook: I once felt as you did, mate, and all it took was meeting the right person and everything changed.
Charming: Princess Leia? The one we're rescuing?
Hook: Aye. I'd go to the end of the world for her or time.
Charming: And she for you, I take it?
Hook: I don't know.
Charming: What's the problem?
Hook: There are many complications.
Charming: Family? Because my father is making things quite difficult for me.
Hook: Aye. There's that. I'm not so sure her parents approve of me.
Charming: Given the lengths you've gone to to save her? They'd be crazy not to.
Hook: I hope you remember that.
(They hear noises.)
Charming What the hell was that?
Hook : I think we're about to find out.
Charming: Hey! Who the hell are you?
Red: Name's Red. I'm a friend of Snow's. She sent me to help get you into the castle.
Hook: How?
Red: You'll see.
(In the Queen’s jail.)
Woman: What's that?
Emma: It's my parents'. I guess you could call it their wedding ring.
Woman: And they entrusted you with it?
Emma: Sort of. I need to get it back to them.
Woman: Being away from family is a terrible, terrible thing.
Emma: Yeah. It is.
Woman: The longer I'm separated from them, the pain doesn't dull. It worsens. Maybe 'cause I know I'll never see them again.
Emma: If my mom was here, she would tell me to have hope. Maybe you should, too. Who knows? Maybe you will end up with them again.
Woman: I don't think so. I'm fairly certain they already think that I'm dead. And soon that'll be true.
Emma: Maybe not. Give me your spoon.
Woman: What are you doing?
Emma: It's all about the tumblers.
(Emma picks the padlock.)
Woman: You did it. What are you waiting for? Go. Get out of here! Go!
(In a sort of tunnel. Hook, Charming and Red get rid of the knight.)
Hook: I'm glad the wolf's on our side.
Charming: Yeah, she's a fearsome one. Better hurry. When he wakes, they'll be on to us.
Red: Wait. Someone's coming.
(Emma and the woman appear.)
Hook: Swan?
Emma : Hook!
Hook: What the hell are you doing? You're depriving me of a dashing rescue.
Emma: Sorry. The only one who saves me is me. Speaking of which I'm not gonna be around much longer unless we find where this belongs.
Charming: I think that belongs to me.
Emma: You guys have a way out of here?
Red: Follow me. Snow told me where to meet her.
Woman: Thank you, Leia.
Hook: Swan, you didn't --
Hook: She was supposed to be executed in the morning. I couldn't just leave her there to die.
Emma: Actually, if she's to die, she pretty much has to.
Charming : I hate to break up a reunion. But we have to keep moving. We have to find Snow White.
(In Regina’s room. Snow prepares to attack Regina with the fairy dust.)
Regina: I didn't think you were dumb enough to sneak back in to your own home. But then again, I suppose you were dumb enough to lose it.
Snow: Don't come any closer.
Regina: You think I'm scared of fairy dust?
Snow: This is dark fairy dust.
Regina: How did you get that?
Snow: Doesn't matter. What matters is I intend to use it on you.
Regina: Do you really think turning me into a bug will stop me?
Snow: No, but stepping on you will.
Regina: You plan to kill me? I don't think you have that in you, Snow White.
(Snow throws the dust on Regina who stops the attack thanks to magic.)
Regina: Dark magic is my strong suit. Not yours. Guards! It's about time you suffer as I did.
(Guards arrest Snow.)
Snow: It was a mistake, Regina. I didn't know telling your mother about Daniel would mean she would stop your marriage. I was a child.
Regina: A child who didn't learn the most basic lesson! All actions have consequences.
Snow: You can kill me, Regina. But this kingdom will never be yours.
Regina: She dies tonight.
(Hook, Emma, Charming, Red search for Snow. They finally see her from a window up stairs. She is about to be burned to death.)
Emma: What is it? Did you find Snow?
Hook : I'm afraid so.
Emma: We have to get down there before it's too late.
Charming: I don't think we can.
(Snow is attached, hands up. Regina fire a fire ball to Snow.)
Emma: No.
(Emma falls, in tears, in Hook’s arms.)
At night, in front of a fire. Emma and Hook are together.
Hook: After my brother passed, all I could do was relive that final, terrible moment. Don't do that to yourself, love. All we can do in times like these is try to live in the here and now.
Emma: Here and now. I'm still here. How is that possible? We saw her die. Which means I would never be born.
Hook: You should've faded from existence.
Emma: Exactly.
Hook: Well, then perhaps she's still alive?
(A bug flies around Hook, annoying him.)
Hook: If Snow is out there, we have to find her. Cursed vermin. We should head back to the Queen's castle. Take a look around. Perhaps it's a trick by Regina.
Emma: No. Whatever happened, Regina thinks Snow is dead.
(The ladybird lands on Emma.)
Hook: Stay still, love.
(He prepares to strike the bug with a branch.)
Charming: Wait! Don't harm that thing. When we were coming to rescue you, Snow told me what her dust would do to the Queen. She said it would turn her into a form that could easily be squashed a bug.
Emma: You think Snow turned herself into that?
Charming: Well, if she timed it right, she could've escaped that fireball. Faked her death, and flown away. Yeah, that's her. Just need to find a way to bring her back.
Emma: She's saying something.
Hook: Wonderful. Anyone fluent in bug?
Blue: She's calling for me.
Emma: Blue.
Blue: That's right. And you are?
Emma: Leia.
Blue: No, that's not it. But your secrets can be yours. I sense it's better that way.
Red: Can you bring Snow back?
Blue: Dark magic did this to her. Light magic can undo it.
(Snow is changed back into a human form.)
Emma: You're alive!
(She takes Snow in her arms but Snow is a bit shocked. )
Snow: Oh! It would appear so. Thank you.
Red: Snow!
Snow: Oh! Red! Oh, I'm so happy to see you.
Hook (to Emma) : Looks like we're back on track, love.
Emma: Yeah.
Snow: I suppose I should, uh, thank you. You saved me.
Charming: Well, it seemed like the honorable thing to do.
Snow: I'm going to the stream to get some water. I can fill your canteen if you'd like.
Charming: Thanks.
(Charming and Snow go away.)
Hook: They're warming up to each other.
Emma: This is good. This'll work.
Hook: That may be, Swan. But we have another problem.
Emma: Well, I had to save her.
Hook: Sure, you did the noble thing, but she's supposed to be dead. Her presence in the Enchanted Forest could have unforeseen consequences.
Emma: She's just a sweet, innocent woman.
Hook: What if she had a child who grows into a mass murderer? Or she gets tipsy some night and rides her horse into one of the dwarfs and there's only six of them? Who knows? We're best not finding out. She doesn't belong here.
Emma: I know exactly what we can do. Take her with us.
(They propose this way to the woman.)
Woman: The future?
Emma: You can't stay here. You were supposed to die hours ago.
Woman: I don't understand. I just want to get back to my family.
Hook: They need to believe you're dead. Because that's what they've always thought.
Emma: Trust us.
Woman: All due respect, but I don't trust you. Or believe you, so unless you're kidnapping me, I'm going to go find my family.
(Emma takes a branch from the flour and hit the woman uncncious.)
Emma: Oh! Well, then, I guess we're kidnapping you.
Hook: I always knew there was a little pirate in you, Swan.
Charming: What happened to her?
Emma: She's, uh, resting. What's up?
Charming: Have either one of you seen Snow? She went to the stream, but she hasn't--
(He searches for his ring but it’s vanished)
Charming: The ring! She took it!
Emma: Really?
Charming: Do you know where she might be headed?
Hook: She was seeking passage on a pirate ship.
Charming: There's only one way to get to the harbor from here the troll bridge.
Emma: Oh, no.
Hook: Swan, wait. The bridge. Isn't that where you want them to be? Isn't that where Snow saved your father from the trolls?
Emma: Yes, but the only reason she was able to do that was because she had a weapon the dust.
Hook: Which she's already used on herself. Bloody hell.
Emma: Come on! They're gonna need help.
(At the troll bridge.)
Troll: All right. All right. Snow White. Tell the Queen she still lives.
Charming gets his sword, frees her and starts to fight the trolls.
Charming: Go! I'm right behind you!
Snow: Follow me. They don't know the forest like I do.
Trolls: Royal blood is the sweetest of all.
Snow: Stop! Drop the sword, or I'll turn you all into bugs. Dark fairy dust. So, you let him go, or I will be peeling you all off the bottom of my boots.
Troll: We don't want any trouble.
Snow: Good. And while you're at it, give me a reason to forget this ever happened.
(The trolls let some money on the bridge and flee.)
Charming: You saved me.
Snow: It was the honorable thing to do.
Charming: But how? You used the dust on yourself.
Snow: Mm. Sand. Trolls aren't exactly known for their cleverness.
Snow: Come on. We should go. In case they come back.
(Farther Charming and Snow give back their belongings while Hook and Emma spy on them.)
Charming: Wait. So, you probably want this.
Snow: Right. The gold.
Hook: It appears your parents didn't need our help after all.
Snow: And, um, you can't get married without this.
Charming: Ah. I know. Not your style, right?
Snow: Well, there's only one way to find out.
(Snow puts the ring on her finger.)
Snow: Yeah. Not me at all. I'm sure - your fiancé will love it.
(Emma sees it all and cry a few tears.)
Hook: It's okay, Swan. Not everyone gets a chance to watch their parents fall in love.
Charming: Well, wherever you're going, be careful.
Snow: If you need anything you'll find me?
Charming: Always. I almost believe that.
Hook: They're heading away from each other?
Emma: No, it's okay. That's how it happened the first time. It took my parents a while to accept their feelings.
Hook: Must run in the family.
(Emma looks into the book. Everything is back at its place.)
Emma: Look. We did it.
(At the Queen’s castle. Regina talks with a knight, 3 bugs at her feet.)
Regina: Do you know what this is? This is what happens to people or in this case, trolls who fail me.
(She steps on the bug/troll.)
Regina: Find Snow White. I shall destroy her happiness if it is the last thing I do.
(At Rumple’s castle. Emma and Hook, carrying the woman on his shoulder, come in.)
Emma: We did it.
Rumple: Your parents are together? They're right back on track. We're ready to go.
RumpIe: I see. - And you brought some luggage.
Emma: Long story. So, how's the portal coming? Can you open it?
Rumple: I cannot.
Emma: Then what are you working on?
Rumple: Oh, this is for me. A forgetting potion. I know too much about my future. The only way to protect it is to forget it.
Emma: Well, what about this wand? You said that could help us.
Rumple: Oh, that. Well, apparently only those who used the portal can reopen it. So unless you can wield magic, I'm afraid you're going nowhere. Can you? Thought not.
Hook: So you just expect us to stay here? What about protecting your precious future?
Rumple: That's exactly what I'm going to do.
Hook: He means to kill us, Swan.
Rumple: No. I mean to put you someplace safe someplace even I dare not go. Where I store the magic that is too dark or unpredictable even for me.
Emma: Rumplestilt --
(They appear in a big a strange place.)
Emma: No
Hook: Oh. Well, at least he did us one favor. I'm devilishly handsome again.
(Hook takes an urn from a cupboard.)
Emma: Wait. Don't touch anything! If Rumple's afraid of this stuff, there's gotta be a reason.
Hook: I'm just trying to figure a way out.
Emma: I don't think there is one. And what's the point? You heard what he said. We can't reopen the portal.
Hook: But you can. All he said we need is magic. You're the Savior, Swan. You can do it.
Emma: Not anymore. I lost it.
Hook: When Zelena died, all of her spells were undone. Your powers should've been restored.
Emma: Believe me, if I could make it work, I would. You think I'm faking it?
Hook: I think not having magic makes it a hell of a lot easier for you to run back to New York and pretend to be somebody else. But listen to me, Swan. You're not. It's time to stop running.
Emma: You think I don't know that? Yes, I run away. That's how I've always survived. But believe me, I want this to work. I want to go back. I want to stop running.
Hook: What's changed your mind?
Emma: Watching my mother die. Thinking she was dead You saw what happened. I was so relieved when she was okay. And I hugged her. And you know what I saw in her eyes? Nothing. She didn't know who I was. I had saved her and lost her, too. And that's what I've been doing to her since I met her. It's got to stop. When Henry brought me to Storybrooke, he told me I was the Savior. I didn't see what he was really doing. He was not bringing me back to break a curse. He was bringing me home. Neal was right.
Hook: About what?
Emma: You don't have a home until you just miss it. And being with my parents the last few days but not really being with them? I've never missed them more. Storybrooke. It's my home. What?
Hook: Look down.
(The warn lightens.)
Hook: I'd say you've got your magic back. Now, shall we go?
(Emma closes her eyes. The portal opens.)
Hook: Well done, Swan.
(Hook gets in the portal with the woman. Rumple appears, restraining Emma.)
Rumple: You opened it?!
Emma: Wait! Let me go!
Rumple: My son. What happens when I find him?
Emma: I thought you wanted to forget!
Rumple: Before I do, I need to know - does he forgive me?
Emma: Yes. Yes.
Rumple: But what? What aren't you telling me? Tell me or you will never leave!
Emma: He dies. He forgives you. He loved you. He died to save all of us. Don't let that be in vain.
Rumple: No, I I can change what happened. I can save my boy!
Emma: You think you can change the future, but you might make it worse. I loved him, too. I wanted to save him. He died a hero. You can't take that away from him. You have to drink the potion. You have to forget everything I just told you.
(Rumplestiniskin finally drinks the potion and lets go of Emma.)
Emma: Aah!
Rumple: What the hell am I doing in here?
(Back at Storybrooke. Emma, Hook and the woman land violently.)
Hook : Whoa!
Emma: Hey, do me a favor. Fill her in. Make sure she doesn't freak out.
Hook: Where are you going?
Emma: I have some people I need to see.
(Emma goes to Granny’s.)
Mary Margaret: Emma.
(She hugs them.)
David: You weren't answering your cell. We were worried.
Emma: I'm fine. I'm home.
Mary Margaret: Do you mean that you're not leaving?
Emma: No. I'm not going anywhere.
Henry: We're staying in Storybrooke?
Emma: Yeah, kid. This is where we belong. This is where our family is. Mom Dad, I missed you.
(The Charming’s family is around the book opened at a page showing Emma and Hook dancing at the ball.)
Mary Margaret: Wait. You're Princess Leia?
Henry: Nice alias.
Emma: I was in a pinch.
David: Well, there you go. You're officially one of us.
Mary Margaret: A fairy-tale princess at last.
Emma: Yeah, and as my first princess-y request I would like to know the name of the baby.
David: Right, that. Ready?
(David takes his glass of beer.)
David: Excuse me, if I could have everyone's attention just for a moment. This coronation ceremony is something we've looked forward to for a long time. The arrival of our new son has been the cause of great joy for our family. And we hope you can share in it as we name him for a hero. Someone who saved every one of us. Who we loved and he loved back.
Mary Margaret: People of Storybrooke, it is our great joy to introduce you to our son Prince Neal.
Emma: It's so nice to meet you, Neal.
(Outside of Granny’s, Hook is sitting alone. Emma comes to him.)
Emma: So do you think Rumplestiltskin is right? I'm in the book now. He said everything, besides our little adventure, would go back to normal. Do you think that it is?
Hook: He's right. Otherwise I'd remember that damn bar wench I kissed.
Emma: How would that prove anything?
Hook: I know how you kiss. I'd have gone after her. But I didn't. My life went on exactly the same as before.
Emma: Yeah, must've been the rum.
Hook: Everything's back to normal. You're a bloody hero, Swan.
Emma: So are you. I wanted to thank you, Killian. For going back for me in the first place in New York. If you hadn't --
Hook: It was the right thing to do.
Emma: How did you do it? How did you get to me?
Hook: Well, the curse was coming. I ditched my crew and took the Jolly Roger as fast and as far as I possibly could to outrun it.
Emma: You outran a curse?
Hook: I'm a hell of a captain. And once I was outside of the curse's purview, I knew that the walls were down. Transport between the worlds was possible again. All I needed was a magic bean.
Emma: Those are not easy to come by.
Hook: They are if you've got something of value to trade.
Emma: And what was that?
Hook: Why, the Jolly Roger, of course.
Emma: You traded your ship for me?
Hook: Aye.
(They deeply look at each other and kiss.)
(In a meadow. Rumple and Belle get married, with her father as witness and Gimily as officer.)
Gimily: It is my great honor to officiate this most lovely union. If you'd like to begin your vows. Belle: Rumplestiltskin. This thing we have, it's it's never been easy.I've I've lost you so many times. I've lost you to darkness, to weakness, and and finally, to death. But now I realize I realize that I have not spent my life losing you. I've spent my life finding you.
(While Rumple speaks, we can see Hook and Emma kissing and Robin Hood and Regina happy.)
Rumple: Belle When we met, I wasn't just unloved and unloving. I was an enemy of love. Love had only brought me pain. My walls were up. But you broke them down. You brought me home. You brought light into my life and chased away all the darkness. And I vow to you I will never forget the distance between what I was and what I am. I owe more to you than I can ever say. How you can see the man behind the monster, I will never know.
Belle: But that monster is gone. And the man beneath him may be flawed but we all are. And I love you for it. Sometimes the best book has the dustiest jacket. And sometimes the best teacup is chipped.
(At Grannys. Regina, Robin and his son enter.)
Robin: Oh, let's sit here.
(Emma, the woman from the past and Hook are having a drink. She sees Regina.)
Woman: It's the Evil Queen.
Emma: It's okay. She's different now. She's not the same person anymore. You'll see. I I'll Just stay here. Regina, there's something you should know. I brought someone back from the past. This woman, and she still thinks of you as --
Regina: Evil.
Emma: I'm gonna bring her over. I already told her that it's okay, but it's a little delicate. And I feel like If she met you, she'll see --
Regina: I understand.
Emma: Regina, -- I would like you to meet--
Robin Hood: Marian? Marian?
Marian: Robin? I thought you were dead. I thought I'd never see you again.
Marian: And I you.
Roland: Mama?
Marian: Roland? Oh, my baby! Roland!
Regina: You. You did this.
Emma: I just wanted to save her life.
Regina: You're just like your mother never thinking of consequences.
Emma: I didn't know.
Regina: Of course you didn't. Well, you just better hope to hell you didn't bring anything else back.
(Back at the ranch. A blue liquid goes out from the urn and takes form as a woman which is the princess from Frozen.)
