Once Upon a Time: Season Two
Episode One begins by showing how the residence of Fabletown trying to settle into their new roles with Belle and Beast in their roles of Assistant to the Mayor and Sheriff. Bigby has gone into the Homelands in order to bring back Boy Blue, tracking his sent along with the Huntsman. A mysterious windlike Creature is seen entering a dungeon protected by a giant Spider, which it kills, seemingly by sucking out its breath. The Spider is revealed to have been guarding Grimhilde, who is a prisoner there. Also present in a cell with a wooden head from one of the wooden soldiers, which is still alive. The Wooden head does not need to breathe and so survives. While enchanted spells prevent Grimhilde from being killed, forcing the Zephyr to leave. Several main characters enter the dungeon. A woman runs to the dead giant spider, calling it "Mr.Webb" and begins to cry while holding it. She is revealed to be Miss Muffet, the dead giant spider presumably being the Spider from the nursery rhyme, who was acting as a guard.
A scene is shown in which a creature travels to an arctic wasteland and speaking to a mysterious entity, who travels to Fabletown. He identifies the culprit of the murders as a creature known as a Zephyr, and reveals himself to be the North Wind, Bigby's father. A Zephyr was summoned to target one person, Grimhilde. Grimhilde is questioned as to who would want to kill her. She points out that she has many enemies, inclduing the Adversay trying to silence her, Rumplestiltskin, and her own mother.
Bigby's backstory is revealed(and is Animated, which appears to be the case for most of the flashbacks to the Homelands, helping to convey the idea that the original Fairy Tales and life in the Homelands was much more pleasant and lighthearted due to it being done in the tradition Disney style).
The North Wind shapeshifted into the form of a wolf and fell in love with a female wolf but then departed. Bigby was born among a litter of cubs. He was the runt of the litter and bullied. Then his mother became sick and his siblings abandoned her, but Bigby stayed behind with his mother until she died and then defended her body from predators and scavengers, failing. As a result he vowed to eat bigger and bigger animals, growing overtime. He would travel to and confront his father, who he blamed for his mother's death, who simply swatted him away, using the wind to carry him a great distance away, only for Bigby to try again and again with the same result.
In Fabletown, a plan is hatched to exile Grimhilde into another land where the Zephyr can kill her without endangering others. The Homelands are not chosen as Grimhilde could reach the Adversary's forces which could kill the Zephyr or the Zephyr could endanger innocents including Boy Blue or Bigby Wolf. Grimhilde is instead sent through an enchanted mirror to the land of Oz, where death is impossible, by the Witch Ozma. The Zephyr follows and nearly kills Grimhilde but she is rescued by the Good Witch Glinda, who kills the Zephyr by trapping it in a bubble, where because there is no air, the creature cannot suck out any air and is made of air, it essentially cannibalizes itself. Glinda tells Grimhilde that she is there for reformation.
Episode 2 begins with two Orcs talking as they walk and haggle a woman for taxes. They then begin to discuss the stories of a Black Knight killing "Innocent tax collectors" in the woods but one of the Orcs dismisses that as just a myth. They are then confronted by a mysterious figure. One Orc believes him to be the Black Knight, but the other insists he's wearing Blue, causing an argument before the two are killed by the figure, who is revealed to be Blue when he removes his hood. "Actually it's Blue." The episode then continues to follow Boy Blue, who reaches a land known as the Rus, full of Russian Fairy Tales, this includes battling three knights who work for Baba Yaga, and spotting a group of mice carrying a sleeping cat. The residents of Fabletown, meanwhile investigate Boy Blue's trail, finding that he went to Wonderland first before traversing through the homelands and a group goes there. This leads into a battle with the Queen of Hearts, though they are able to escape after learning that Boy Blue stole the Vorpal Blade, the weapon Blue has been using in his scenes(the sword can at times be heard going "Snicker Snack" as a referenced to the poem).
Episode 3 is a breather episode following Bigby Wolf during World War II, where he is part of a squad to stop the Nazis from reviving the Frankenstein Monster, leading to a battle between the two. The Episode is entirely in Black and White with the exception of the scenes in the end set in the present day. Another crossover occurs here as since Disney was hesitant to depict Nazis, the Nazi Agents were made agents of Hydra instead.
Episode 4, is another breather episode, at least seemingly, Jack Horner leaves Fabletown with a Lilliputtian named Jill and moves to Hollywood, where he purchases Jim Henson Studios(with Kermit the Frog making an appearance selling the Studio). Jack then begins to make a movie about himself, making him out to be the hero of the series. Jill is forgotten about and calls the Fabletown authorities, a call intercepted by investigator Nick Burkhardt, who meets a disgruntled Jack after all his wealth has been confiscated and Jack decides to reveal everything to him.
Episode 5 begins with a meeting between the Queen of Hearts and Captain Hook, who is hired by the Queen as his Ship has the ability to travel between universes. In Oz, Grimhilde decides to reveal that she has information that can help reach the Adversary, which is the knowledge of where a portal resides. Emma Swan,Bigby and the Huntsman track Boy Blue and all four along with Grimhilde leading the way, discover Maleficent. Who has been trapped in Dragon form. Grimhilde is able to escape, leaving the rest to die. Bigby transforms into his giant wolf form and battles Maleficent but is defeated. It is ultimately, Emma, wielding the Vorpal Blade, that kills Maleficent in her dragon form after Boy Blue ties up the enchanted Witching Cloak around the Dragon's mouth. It is revealed that portal was hidden inside the dragon when its body disappears, leaving a skeleton and a floating orb of light serving as the portal. The four then head inside.
Episode 6 follows the four as they find themselves in the Capitol of the Empire, revealed to be in Homelands version of Italy known Tuscane, with the capitol being called Calabri Anagni. The Four make a plan to assassinate the Adversary. Unfortunately, there plan to assassinate the Emperor is troubled by two things. One is neither have actually seen the Emperor and he is revealed to be a massive giant in a black suit of armor. It is mentioned that he is believed to be related to the Dark Lords Morgoth and Sauron and his visual appearance seems to support this. The othe one is the arrival of Jadis, the Snow Queen. The four attempt the assassination anyway. We are also following a newly arrived soldier who is asking a lot of questions about the Adversary that makes his superior suspicious. We are also told that Boy Blue is in disguise. When the word gets out of a spy in the room, the superior points out the soldier and he is murdered. Only for it to be revealed to have not been him. Boy Blue instead disguised himself as a cleaning lady. Boy Blue is able to decapitate the Emperor only to be frozen and captured by the Snow Queen, forcing the other three heroes to abandon him.
Episode 7, has Bigby, the Huntsman and Emma breach the Snow Queen's castle to rescue the frozen Boy Blue after he was taken there. The three battle the Snow Queen's forces and are nearly successful until Grimhilde arrives and begins to help the Snow Queen. Not only does this give enought time for Boy Blue to be moved to an unknown location, but the Huntsman is killed by Grimhilde and dies in Emma's arms.The episode ends with Boy Blue finding himself in a wooden cabin and meeting Geppetto, who reveals himself to be the Adversary.
Episode 8 dives into the backstory of how Geppetto became the Adversary. Essentially, after becoming human, Pinnochio kept leaving home to go on adventures and left Geppetto alone. He therefore created more children. The Blue Fairy brought them to life and usd her magic to make them more loyal, due to also being hurt by Pinnochio abandoning Geppetto. Some of them would go onto become human. Then on day, a group of townspeople requested a double of the King be created to replace him as he was starting to slip into insanity. Geppetto created a wooden double of the King which replaced him and the King suddenly became a more respected figure and good King until it came time for him to die naturally. His son was a corrupt spoiled brat and so the process was repeated.
Eventually overtime several rulers were replaced and due to the enchantments of the Blue Fairy, all were loyal to Geppetto. So by complete accident, Geppetto had become a ruler. However several problems arose. The Blue Fairy began to visit less and less. Geppetto kidnapped her and has been extracting the Blue Fairy Magic from her blood. He has used it to create a grove of enchanted wood, though because of the reach of the Empire, there is now a reliance on mortal allies with the Emperor being used as a figurehead and everyone who saw him beheaded was executed. Boy Blue revelas he hid the body of Pinnocchio in the Witching cloak, hoping Geppetto could revive him and bargains for the release of the real Red Riding Hood, not an imposter. Red Riding Hood is brought to the cabin only to not recognize Boy Blue, revealing that the Red Riding Hood, Boy Blue met and fell in love with was an imposter. Keeping his end of the bargain, Geppetto revives Pinnocchio, who is caught up. The Cabin is attacked by Bigby Wolf, who was able to sneak into its location following Blue's scent. However, Geppetto is revealed to be completely protected by magic spells and so cannot be harmed. Bigby settles for rescuing Boy Blue and uses C4 to blow up the sacred Grove, starting a fire. Boy Blue tries to convince Pinnocchio to go with him but he is conflicted between going with him and staying with his father despite the horrible things he's done and Boy Blue and Bigby flee the scene. Emma Swan is revealed to have planted enchanted Beanstalks, which grows and the group climbs up into the cloud kingdom of the Giant, detonating C4 and destroying the Beanstalk to mark their escape. It is explained the Cloud Kingdom has gateways to all universes and they are able to pass throught back to Earth by parachuting out of the clouds.
Episode 9 as Emma Swan be approached by Nick Burkhardt. Burkhardt implies that he knows about Fabletown. Emma then talks to the rest of Fabletown which gathers. It is decided to arrange meetings with the Fable residents of other lands still opposing the Adversary. This includes Mulan as the ambassador from China(Ming Na Wen), Sinbad of the Arabian Fables, and an adult Mowgli. Mowgli visits Bagheera on the farm and discovers that he is imprsoned for his role in the Coup on the Farm. Bagheera vows to release him and is pleased to learn Shere Kahn is dead. Mowgli expressed a desire to dance on his grave. Bagheera reveals that Baloo dances on Shere Kahn's grave every night, puts on a show and a Sunday Matinee where he charges tickets. Mowgli and Baloo are seen relaxing comfortably.
The conflict of the episode emerges due to the failure to understand the Arabian Fables and the disgust over the Arabian Fables posessing slaves, which are illegal in Fabletown. Mayor Charming is forced to bring in King Cole as an ambassador since he speaks Arabic. Thanks to subtitles, it is shown that Cole is actually intentionally lying about what the other is saying during translations to create a positive impact. Sinbad learns english and he and Charming become friends. Sinbad decides to free his slave, angering his vizier, Yusuf, who released a Djinn in Jaffar's posession. Something Frau Totenkinder secretly witnesses. Yusuf orders the Genie to travel to Agrabah and kill all of Sinbad's allies there and then return to kill all of Fabletown. The third wish being to make Yusuf a powerful ruler. Frau Totenkinder reveals what she saw to Sinbad and Charming. Sinbad explains to Charming that long ago the Wise King Solomon sealed the Djinn away because he saw them as too powerful to run free(in the animation, Genies resembling that from Aladdin and Jeanie from I dream of Jeanie). The Djinn travels to Baghdad, encountering several American soldiers there who the Djinn in a human female form flirts with, insulting them in Arabic, while they call the language beautiful. The Djinn then heads through a portal and kills several people before returning to Fabletown as they are confronting Yusuf. However, Frau Totenkinder reveals that while she could not alter a Djinn's magic, she used her magic to make Hakim make different wishes then he thought he heard himself say. The wishes were to kill Yusuf's allies, then kill him, and then return to the bottle, which the Djinn does, ending the threat.
Episode Ten appears to be a side story until the very end. The story follows two wooden soldiers named Rodney and June, who fall in love. Rodney is a soldier and June is a nurse. They fall in love and send a letter to Geppetto to be turned into humans. They choose to go on a journey together to meet Geppetto personally. Geppetto offers them the chance to become human in exchange for a deal. The deal turns out to spy on Fabletown and the two pose as humans, spying on the residence.
In Episode 11, the meeting within Fabletown is underway. This is parralleled by the forces of the Empire in the Homelands having a similar round table discussion. Both sides discussing the inevitable war that will occur between them. The Empire table is filled with cameos with the Queen of Hearts, Grimhilde, Captain Hook, The Nome King, Baba Yaga, witchhunter Hansel, and the Snow Queen being in attendance. The Snow Queen proposes a genocidal plan of releasing several deadly plagues. The scene of Humanity being wiped out by disease, winter, nuclear war and fires is animated. Pinnocchio is horrified and brings up what he thinks would happen. His hypothetical scenario is animated and voice. In it, the residents of Fabletown, decide to reveal their existence to the world and do so, Bigby transforming in front of the UN. The armies of the Earth then use Beanstalks to invade the Homelands. Leading to several "Heavy Metal album cover-esque" scenes of a midieval fantasy land being blown apart by modern technology. This includes controversial scenes of Fighter Jets devastating the city of Agrabah and gunning down people on flying carpets. The Aftermath of the war having the nations of Earth return to colonization and taking the Homelands for themselves. This stuns the members of the Empire council. When the possibility of Pinnocchio lying is brought up. He points out that he wouldn't be able to lie without them knowing about it as his nose still grows. After the meeting, Geppetto tells the Snow Queen to make plans to attack Fabletown first before attacking the rest of the world. Captain Hook corners Pinnocchio and begins to question him, realizing that Pinnocchio's lies can allow him to learn information that is truthful even if he doesn't know it. Hook abducts him and begins to interrogate him about the location of Peter Pan, which Pinnocchio can reveal. Hook curiously asks if Geppetto truly is the adversary and Pinnocchio is shocked when he answers that he isn't. Hook asks who is but the answer is not seen by the viewer.
Episode 12 and 13 are a two parter titled "Second Star on the Right" and "And Straight on Till Morning". Frau Totenkinder summons the dark one Rumplestiltskin and asks him for help in combatting the forces of the Empire due to his power. Rumplestiltksin is said to have ended the Ogre wars. Rumpelstiltskin agrees to help if they find the son he lost. Flashbacks reveal his origin, including how he got his powers by killing the Previous Dark One. His son wishes a normal life and maes him promise that if he found a way to be normal, he would take it. His son Baelfire, finds a way to open a portal to the human world where they can live normal lives and does so, but Rumplestiltskin refuses to be pulled in, leading to Baelfire being pulled in alone.
In the present, the cast searches for Baelfire, who is discovered to be Nick Burkhardt. Burkhardt is revealed to be immortal and is Henry's father. After this revelation, Captain Hook appears with Pinnocchio and reveals to the Fabletown group that Peter Pan is the true adversary. After this is revealed, Henry is abducted by what is implied to be Peter Pan. A team is formed that will board Captain Hook's ship and travel to Neverland to retreive him and discover the validity of the claim he is the Adversary. The group includes Emma Swan, Prince Charming, Snow White, Rumplestiltskin(who is oddly insistent in coming), Hook, Nick Burkhardt and Bigby. As the group leaves, The Empire is seen preparing for war on Fabletown.
Episode One begins by showing how the residence of Fabletown trying to settle into their new roles with Belle and Beast in their roles of Assistant to the Mayor and Sheriff. Bigby has gone into the Homelands in order to bring back Boy Blue, tracking his sent along with the Huntsman. A mysterious windlike Creature is seen entering a dungeon protected by a giant Spider, which it kills, seemingly by sucking out its breath. The Spider is revealed to have been guarding Grimhilde, who is a prisoner there. Also present in a cell with a wooden head from one of the wooden soldiers, which is still alive. The Wooden head does not need to breathe and so survives. While enchanted spells prevent Grimhilde from being killed, forcing the Zephyr to leave. Several main characters enter the dungeon. A woman runs to the dead giant spider, calling it "Mr.Webb" and begins to cry while holding it. She is revealed to be Miss Muffet, the dead giant spider presumably being the Spider from the nursery rhyme, who was acting as a guard.
A scene is shown in which a creature travels to an arctic wasteland and speaking to a mysterious entity, who travels to Fabletown. He identifies the culprit of the murders as a creature known as a Zephyr, and reveals himself to be the North Wind, Bigby's father. A Zephyr was summoned to target one person, Grimhilde. Grimhilde is questioned as to who would want to kill her. She points out that she has many enemies, inclduing the Adversay trying to silence her, Rumplestiltskin, and her own mother.
Bigby's backstory is revealed(and is Animated, which appears to be the case for most of the flashbacks to the Homelands, helping to convey the idea that the original Fairy Tales and life in the Homelands was much more pleasant and lighthearted due to it being done in the tradition Disney style).
The North Wind shapeshifted into the form of a wolf and fell in love with a female wolf but then departed. Bigby was born among a litter of cubs. He was the runt of the litter and bullied. Then his mother became sick and his siblings abandoned her, but Bigby stayed behind with his mother until she died and then defended her body from predators and scavengers, failing. As a result he vowed to eat bigger and bigger animals, growing overtime. He would travel to and confront his father, who he blamed for his mother's death, who simply swatted him away, using the wind to carry him a great distance away, only for Bigby to try again and again with the same result.
In Fabletown, a plan is hatched to exile Grimhilde into another land where the Zephyr can kill her without endangering others. The Homelands are not chosen as Grimhilde could reach the Adversary's forces which could kill the Zephyr or the Zephyr could endanger innocents including Boy Blue or Bigby Wolf. Grimhilde is instead sent through an enchanted mirror to the land of Oz, where death is impossible, by the Witch Ozma. The Zephyr follows and nearly kills Grimhilde but she is rescued by the Good Witch Glinda, who kills the Zephyr by trapping it in a bubble, where because there is no air, the creature cannot suck out any air and is made of air, it essentially cannibalizes itself. Glinda tells Grimhilde that she is there for reformation.
Episode 2 begins with two Orcs talking as they walk and haggle a woman for taxes. They then begin to discuss the stories of a Black Knight killing "Innocent tax collectors" in the woods but one of the Orcs dismisses that as just a myth. They are then confronted by a mysterious figure. One Orc believes him to be the Black Knight, but the other insists he's wearing Blue, causing an argument before the two are killed by the figure, who is revealed to be Blue when he removes his hood. "Actually it's Blue." The episode then continues to follow Boy Blue, who reaches a land known as the Rus, full of Russian Fairy Tales, this includes battling three knights who work for Baba Yaga, and spotting a group of mice carrying a sleeping cat. The residents of Fabletown, meanwhile investigate Boy Blue's trail, finding that he went to Wonderland first before traversing through the homelands and a group goes there. This leads into a battle with the Queen of Hearts, though they are able to escape after learning that Boy Blue stole the Vorpal Blade, the weapon Blue has been using in his scenes(the sword can at times be heard going "Snicker Snack" as a referenced to the poem).
Episode 3 is a breather episode following Bigby Wolf during World War II, where he is part of a squad to stop the Nazis from reviving the Frankenstein Monster, leading to a battle between the two. The Episode is entirely in Black and White with the exception of the scenes in the end set in the present day. Another crossover occurs here as since Disney was hesitant to depict Nazis, the Nazi Agents were made agents of Hydra instead.
Episode 4, is another breather episode, at least seemingly, Jack Horner leaves Fabletown with a Lilliputtian named Jill and moves to Hollywood, where he purchases Jim Henson Studios(with Kermit the Frog making an appearance selling the Studio). Jack then begins to make a movie about himself, making him out to be the hero of the series. Jill is forgotten about and calls the Fabletown authorities, a call intercepted by investigator Nick Burkhardt, who meets a disgruntled Jack after all his wealth has been confiscated and Jack decides to reveal everything to him.
Episode 5 begins with a meeting between the Queen of Hearts and Captain Hook, who is hired by the Queen as his Ship has the ability to travel between universes. In Oz, Grimhilde decides to reveal that she has information that can help reach the Adversary, which is the knowledge of where a portal resides. Emma Swan,Bigby and the Huntsman track Boy Blue and all four along with Grimhilde leading the way, discover Maleficent. Who has been trapped in Dragon form. Grimhilde is able to escape, leaving the rest to die. Bigby transforms into his giant wolf form and battles Maleficent but is defeated. It is ultimately, Emma, wielding the Vorpal Blade, that kills Maleficent in her dragon form after Boy Blue ties up the enchanted Witching Cloak around the Dragon's mouth. It is revealed that portal was hidden inside the dragon when its body disappears, leaving a skeleton and a floating orb of light serving as the portal. The four then head inside.
Episode 6 follows the four as they find themselves in the Capitol of the Empire, revealed to be in Homelands version of Italy known Tuscane, with the capitol being called Calabri Anagni. The Four make a plan to assassinate the Adversary. Unfortunately, there plan to assassinate the Emperor is troubled by two things. One is neither have actually seen the Emperor and he is revealed to be a massive giant in a black suit of armor. It is mentioned that he is believed to be related to the Dark Lords Morgoth and Sauron and his visual appearance seems to support this. The othe one is the arrival of Jadis, the Snow Queen. The four attempt the assassination anyway. We are also following a newly arrived soldier who is asking a lot of questions about the Adversary that makes his superior suspicious. We are also told that Boy Blue is in disguise. When the word gets out of a spy in the room, the superior points out the soldier and he is murdered. Only for it to be revealed to have not been him. Boy Blue instead disguised himself as a cleaning lady. Boy Blue is able to decapitate the Emperor only to be frozen and captured by the Snow Queen, forcing the other three heroes to abandon him.
Episode 7, has Bigby, the Huntsman and Emma breach the Snow Queen's castle to rescue the frozen Boy Blue after he was taken there. The three battle the Snow Queen's forces and are nearly successful until Grimhilde arrives and begins to help the Snow Queen. Not only does this give enought time for Boy Blue to be moved to an unknown location, but the Huntsman is killed by Grimhilde and dies in Emma's arms.The episode ends with Boy Blue finding himself in a wooden cabin and meeting Geppetto, who reveals himself to be the Adversary.
Episode 8 dives into the backstory of how Geppetto became the Adversary. Essentially, after becoming human, Pinnochio kept leaving home to go on adventures and left Geppetto alone. He therefore created more children. The Blue Fairy brought them to life and usd her magic to make them more loyal, due to also being hurt by Pinnochio abandoning Geppetto. Some of them would go onto become human. Then on day, a group of townspeople requested a double of the King be created to replace him as he was starting to slip into insanity. Geppetto created a wooden double of the King which replaced him and the King suddenly became a more respected figure and good King until it came time for him to die naturally. His son was a corrupt spoiled brat and so the process was repeated.
Eventually overtime several rulers were replaced and due to the enchantments of the Blue Fairy, all were loyal to Geppetto. So by complete accident, Geppetto had become a ruler. However several problems arose. The Blue Fairy began to visit less and less. Geppetto kidnapped her and has been extracting the Blue Fairy Magic from her blood. He has used it to create a grove of enchanted wood, though because of the reach of the Empire, there is now a reliance on mortal allies with the Emperor being used as a figurehead and everyone who saw him beheaded was executed. Boy Blue revelas he hid the body of Pinnocchio in the Witching cloak, hoping Geppetto could revive him and bargains for the release of the real Red Riding Hood, not an imposter. Red Riding Hood is brought to the cabin only to not recognize Boy Blue, revealing that the Red Riding Hood, Boy Blue met and fell in love with was an imposter. Keeping his end of the bargain, Geppetto revives Pinnocchio, who is caught up. The Cabin is attacked by Bigby Wolf, who was able to sneak into its location following Blue's scent. However, Geppetto is revealed to be completely protected by magic spells and so cannot be harmed. Bigby settles for rescuing Boy Blue and uses C4 to blow up the sacred Grove, starting a fire. Boy Blue tries to convince Pinnocchio to go with him but he is conflicted between going with him and staying with his father despite the horrible things he's done and Boy Blue and Bigby flee the scene. Emma Swan is revealed to have planted enchanted Beanstalks, which grows and the group climbs up into the cloud kingdom of the Giant, detonating C4 and destroying the Beanstalk to mark their escape. It is explained the Cloud Kingdom has gateways to all universes and they are able to pass throught back to Earth by parachuting out of the clouds.
Episode 9 as Emma Swan be approached by Nick Burkhardt. Burkhardt implies that he knows about Fabletown. Emma then talks to the rest of Fabletown which gathers. It is decided to arrange meetings with the Fable residents of other lands still opposing the Adversary. This includes Mulan as the ambassador from China(Ming Na Wen), Sinbad of the Arabian Fables, and an adult Mowgli. Mowgli visits Bagheera on the farm and discovers that he is imprsoned for his role in the Coup on the Farm. Bagheera vows to release him and is pleased to learn Shere Kahn is dead. Mowgli expressed a desire to dance on his grave. Bagheera reveals that Baloo dances on Shere Kahn's grave every night, puts on a show and a Sunday Matinee where he charges tickets. Mowgli and Baloo are seen relaxing comfortably.
The conflict of the episode emerges due to the failure to understand the Arabian Fables and the disgust over the Arabian Fables posessing slaves, which are illegal in Fabletown. Mayor Charming is forced to bring in King Cole as an ambassador since he speaks Arabic. Thanks to subtitles, it is shown that Cole is actually intentionally lying about what the other is saying during translations to create a positive impact. Sinbad learns english and he and Charming become friends. Sinbad decides to free his slave, angering his vizier, Yusuf, who released a Djinn in Jaffar's posession. Something Frau Totenkinder secretly witnesses. Yusuf orders the Genie to travel to Agrabah and kill all of Sinbad's allies there and then return to kill all of Fabletown. The third wish being to make Yusuf a powerful ruler. Frau Totenkinder reveals what she saw to Sinbad and Charming. Sinbad explains to Charming that long ago the Wise King Solomon sealed the Djinn away because he saw them as too powerful to run free(in the animation, Genies resembling that from Aladdin and Jeanie from I dream of Jeanie). The Djinn travels to Baghdad, encountering several American soldiers there who the Djinn in a human female form flirts with, insulting them in Arabic, while they call the language beautiful. The Djinn then heads through a portal and kills several people before returning to Fabletown as they are confronting Yusuf. However, Frau Totenkinder reveals that while she could not alter a Djinn's magic, she used her magic to make Hakim make different wishes then he thought he heard himself say. The wishes were to kill Yusuf's allies, then kill him, and then return to the bottle, which the Djinn does, ending the threat.
Episode Ten appears to be a side story until the very end. The story follows two wooden soldiers named Rodney and June, who fall in love. Rodney is a soldier and June is a nurse. They fall in love and send a letter to Geppetto to be turned into humans. They choose to go on a journey together to meet Geppetto personally. Geppetto offers them the chance to become human in exchange for a deal. The deal turns out to spy on Fabletown and the two pose as humans, spying on the residence.
In Episode 11, the meeting within Fabletown is underway. This is parralleled by the forces of the Empire in the Homelands having a similar round table discussion. Both sides discussing the inevitable war that will occur between them. The Empire table is filled with cameos with the Queen of Hearts, Grimhilde, Captain Hook, The Nome King, Baba Yaga, witchhunter Hansel, and the Snow Queen being in attendance. The Snow Queen proposes a genocidal plan of releasing several deadly plagues. The scene of Humanity being wiped out by disease, winter, nuclear war and fires is animated. Pinnocchio is horrified and brings up what he thinks would happen. His hypothetical scenario is animated and voice. In it, the residents of Fabletown, decide to reveal their existence to the world and do so, Bigby transforming in front of the UN. The armies of the Earth then use Beanstalks to invade the Homelands. Leading to several "Heavy Metal album cover-esque" scenes of a midieval fantasy land being blown apart by modern technology. This includes controversial scenes of Fighter Jets devastating the city of Agrabah and gunning down people on flying carpets. The Aftermath of the war having the nations of Earth return to colonization and taking the Homelands for themselves. This stuns the members of the Empire council. When the possibility of Pinnocchio lying is brought up. He points out that he wouldn't be able to lie without them knowing about it as his nose still grows. After the meeting, Geppetto tells the Snow Queen to make plans to attack Fabletown first before attacking the rest of the world. Captain Hook corners Pinnocchio and begins to question him, realizing that Pinnocchio's lies can allow him to learn information that is truthful even if he doesn't know it. Hook abducts him and begins to interrogate him about the location of Peter Pan, which Pinnocchio can reveal. Hook curiously asks if Geppetto truly is the adversary and Pinnocchio is shocked when he answers that he isn't. Hook asks who is but the answer is not seen by the viewer.
Episode 12 and 13 are a two parter titled "Second Star on the Right" and "And Straight on Till Morning". Frau Totenkinder summons the dark one Rumplestiltskin and asks him for help in combatting the forces of the Empire due to his power. Rumplestiltksin is said to have ended the Ogre wars. Rumpelstiltskin agrees to help if they find the son he lost. Flashbacks reveal his origin, including how he got his powers by killing the Previous Dark One. His son wishes a normal life and maes him promise that if he found a way to be normal, he would take it. His son Baelfire, finds a way to open a portal to the human world where they can live normal lives and does so, but Rumplestiltskin refuses to be pulled in, leading to Baelfire being pulled in alone.
In the present, the cast searches for Baelfire, who is discovered to be Nick Burkhardt. Burkhardt is revealed to be immortal and is Henry's father. After this revelation, Captain Hook appears with Pinnocchio and reveals to the Fabletown group that Peter Pan is the true adversary. After this is revealed, Henry is abducted by what is implied to be Peter Pan. A team is formed that will board Captain Hook's ship and travel to Neverland to retreive him and discover the validity of the claim he is the Adversary. The group includes Emma Swan, Prince Charming, Snow White, Rumplestiltskin(who is oddly insistent in coming), Hook, Nick Burkhardt and Bigby. As the group leaves, The Empire is seen preparing for war on Fabletown.