The Carrie Diaries - Series Premiere Recap

Hello SATC fans. SHE. IS. BACK. Yes, Carrie Bradshaw is back--well, the young her, that is. We enter the world of the young Carrie Bradshaw before she becomes THE Carrie Bradshaw of NYC.

The series opens in a 1984 setting. Carrie is strolling the streets of NYC. Then she wakes up. Turns out, she has been dreaming of being in New York since her teen years in Castlebury, Connecticut.

Since childhood, she has already been dreaming of being a writer. She lives in CT with her dad and sister, and just lost her mom to cancer. Just like the usual kids, she deals with sibling fights with Dorrit, and teenage what-nots.

It has just been three months since matriarch Bradshaw died and everyone in the family is dealing with her loss. Carrie couldn't decide on anything to wear for school as she is distraught with the fact that it was her thing with her mother--shopping for back-to-school outfits. She talks to her dad about it and he offers to take her shopping instead. Carrie declines and just wants her mom's purse. Just a piece of her to get her by in school. In life. His dad then opens Carrie's mother's closet and finds it untouched since the day she died. She narrates that everyone has been forbidden to enter... til now--er that day in 1984. You get what I mean! Haha! So she goes through her mom's stuff, and wears her mom's sunnies in exchange for the purse.

In school, everyone seems to be staring at her like the new freak. She sees Donna LaDonna and The Jens, the school's "it" girls. Donna thinks that being sensitive and trying to be super nice to people who just had tragedy in their lives would gain her some cred at school.

Carrie then walks over to her real friends, Jill, Walt and Maggie, who hugs her to comfort her from Donna's BS. They talk about the new kid in school--Sebastian Kidd. The stares for Carrie easily moved to Sebastian. Yep, I think the whole world can sense that he's gonna be one of the popular kids. Carrie's love interest too, maybe?

So he walks towards them and suddenly, he speaks to Carrie. He. Knows. Her! He gives his condolences to Carrie for her mom's loss and tells her, "See you around". Oh man, you gotta see the look on Donna LaDonna's face!

Later at the library, Carrie, Maggie and Jill talk about how she knew Sebastian. She tells them about Sebastian and her hanging out over the summer of '83 at the swim club. Jill gushes about a new guy in her life, Seth Glassman, as well as Walt and Maggie's relationship. Jill confides about losing her v-card to the guy, who is by the way, a freshman in college at DC. Speaking of sex, Maggie then confides to the ladies, in secrecy, about her and Walt. Making Carrie the only virgin now in the gang. Seems like Carrie's feeling the pressure now. Jill suggests that they go on a triple date--Maggie and Walt, Jill and Seth, and Carrie and Sebastian.

As she walks alone, she contemplates on her being a virgin. She then goes toward Sebastian, whose sitting on a bench at the school courtyard. She and Sebastian had a talk about her mother's passing, what's going on in Carrie's head, and Sebastian's mom leaving him and his dad for her tennis instructor.

A flashback of Carrie and Sebastian at the swimming pool is shown. The two of them were talking and hanging out when Sebastian almost kissed her. Nervous, Carrie pushed him to the pool, evading the kiss. But yea, the kiss still happened. Carrie's first kiss. Can't fight the chemistry right? Unfortunately, Sebastian will not be hanging at the swim club anymore. His parents had built a pool in their home, which means the end of what seems to be their perfect summer.

Back at school, Sebastian and Carrie walks to class and talks about swimming. She was about to ask Sebastian out when she sees her father in the school halls. Carrie faints and Sebastian catches her fall as her dad rushes toward her.

You see, last time Carrie's dad was at her school, he broke her the news about her mom's fate. Thinking it's gonna be another bad news, she fainted. Her father tells her that he's not there for some bad news, but rather to talk to their school's guidance counselor about bringing Carrie to New York. To take her mind off everything, she will start as an intern in Manhattan once a week for extra school credit. Of course, Carrie says YES! That's New York, for Pete's sake.


Back at home, she asks Dorrit for her mom's purse back and sees her mom's purse in a stuffed bear. It was accidentally smudged with white nail polish, along with some other stuff inside the toy. Turns out Dorrit wants it for herself. To have something of their mom's as well. Like Carrie, Dorrit was trying to cope with their mother's passing. But unlike Carrie, she had nothing. Carrie had her sixteenth birthday and is now in high school with an NYC internship, while Dorrit's got nothing. Carrie realized that she's way luckier than Dorrit, what with the extra two years she had with their mother (she's two years older than her sister) that her younger sister would never have, now that she's gone. Carrie tries to comfort her sister, but Dorrit suddenly snaps at her and leaves.

That night, Carrie takes the now-ruined purse and tries to fix it by using her nail polish to glam it up, making the smudged white polish that Dorrit had on the purse seem like a part of it all. The next day, Carrie leaves with her dad for the city, on her first day as an intern.

Carrie and her dad arrives at Manhattan and heads to Wall Street for her internship. Before her dad leaves, she declines of her father's offer to fetch her at work. She wants to take the six o' clock train back to Connecticut, go straight to the school dance and be home before curfew. She then bids her dad goodbye.

As she marvels and takes in Manhattan, someone accidentally bumps into her, ruining her stockings. She then had to go to work with no stockings on. You have no idea how bad that means in the 80s! LOL. Carrie gets acquainted with her new job and the lady who is orienting her notices that she doesn't have a pair of stocking and adviced her to get a new pair at lunch.

On her way to get a pair of new stockings at Century 21, she sees how awesome the place is. A style editor spots her at the department store after seeing her newly glammed up purse. Thinking that she would be stealing her purse, she pushes the lady away. The lady then introduces herself and well, a mortified Carrie apologizes and quickly becomes friends with her. The name: Larissa Loughlin of Interview Magazine.

Carrie hangs with Larissa for the rest of her lunch time and becomes an enabler for Larissa, as she steals clothes at the mall. SHOPLIFTER!!! Carrie thinks that Larissa must need some money, thus the shoplifting. But Larissa tells her that she's been doing that since she was a teenager just because of the thrill.

Larissa invites her for a night out, not knowing Carrie is still in high school. Carrie lies about her age. She calls Jill from work and tells her about her first day in New York. Jill then excitedly tells Carrie that Sebastian called Jill to ask for Carrie's number. Thinking that Sebastian might call her at home, she dials her home phone, but Dorrit drops the call.

Lucky for Carrie, her supervisor at the office came in her area. Since she is not allowed to make personal calls, she gets off the hook since no calls were made. Well, none on her supervisor's watch, that is. Anyhoos, her supervisor comes in and brings Carrie a dress with a note from Larissa. Carrie tells her supervisor that it's from her dad, so she could wear it on her school dance that night. Her supervisor has to leave early and that she would not be able to take Carrie to the train station, but gives her instructions to take a cab to the station, rather than taking the subway.

As she leave work, wearing the dress Larissa sent her, Carrie hails a cab. When she was asked "where to?", she is torn with a decision between the school dance or a night out with Larissa. Miss Goody-two-shoes Bradshaw picked Indo-chine with Larissa and hangs out with her for the night.

Larissa introduces Carrie to a group of people she's with and Carrie is instantly fascinated with Larissa's world. And since Carrie ditches her high school dance, Sebastian is taken by Donna LaDonna instead. Carrie loses track of time and realizes it's almost midnight so she rushes home, leaving Larissa and everyone else at Indo-chine.


Back at Castlebury, Carrie is picked up by Walt. They see Sebastian at the parking lot of the train station with Donna. He sees Carrie and offers her and Walt a ride, but she declines. Boo-hoo!

Walking home, Walt confides to Carrie about his relationship with Maggie. How Walt wants to wait before he does the deed with someone. She then realizes that it wasn't Walt that she lost her virginity with, or that she may just be lying about sleeping with Walt in the first place.

As they arrive to Carrie's, they find cops outside their home. They thought her dad called the cops because she missed curfew, but it turns out that Dorrit's missing. Dun-dun-duuuun!


The next morning, Dorrit comes home to an anxious father and sister. They notice she's wasted and yells at her sister. Dorrit snaps at her saying, "Or what? You're gonna ground me? You're not my mom!"

Carrie breaks down in tears and lashes out on her sister about her being the mature one and how broken she is after losing their mother, trying to be her sister and all. She then walks out. Her father then follows her to her room and talks to her about losing her mom. How he sees a lot of her mother in her that time she yelled at Dorrit. How he dreads his new job of being the disciplinarian to them, since their mom used to be the one doing it. He also grounds Carrie for missing curfew the night before.


Later that day, Mouse (Jill) comes over to Carrie's. She tells Carrie that she feels that Seth may be breaking up with her soon. That she has called him a lot of times the night before and cries.

Afterwards, having the realization that their mother is never really coming back anymore, Carrie, Dorrit and their father opens their mom's closet to pack up her stuff. Daddy Bradshaw hands Carrie her favorite dress of her mom's, but she passes it to Dorrit instead. They then box up their mother's things.

It is also revealed that Walt is gay, reason why he never had sex with Maggie. Maggie is seeing a cop, two-timing Walt, and sleeping with the guy. At the swim club, Sebastian comes to see Carrie and is spotted by the Jens, Donna's minions.

At the end of the episode, Carrie's dad gives her her mother's blank diaries, to write her future journey with.


Cast and characters:


Anna Sophia Robb - Carrie Bradshaw
Austin Butler - Sebastian Kidd
Ellen Wong - Jill "The Mouse" Thompson
Katie Findlay - Maggie
Stefania Owen - Dorrit Bradshaw
Brendan Dooling - Walt Reynolds
Chloe Bridges - Donna LaDonna
Freema Agyeman - Larissa Loughlin
Matt Letscher - Tom Bradshaw

The New Normal Recap: See what the gang's plans are!

Our fave gay couple--well, on TV that is (my personal fave is NPH and David Burtka! HA!)--is back!

To start 2013, Brian is being interviewed by his favorite magazine, Ladies Home Journal. He talks about gloves, his family, him breastfeeding his doll (yes, you read that right!) and men's biological clock.

And just when you think Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha's looks are too much to take, in comes (drumroll please...) Matt Bomer! Pausing to let you ladies squee for joy. He and his abs guest star as Brian's ex-boyfriend, Monty. He tells Ladies Home Journal about his ex thinking less about children and more about getting drunk, and his plans on having more children in the future. That night, he talks to David about the interview and discuss their future children, spacing, etc. Turns out, unlike Brian's ex who wants zero kids, David also wants to have three.


Meanwhile, Nana Jane and Rocky (gurrrlfriends!) are reviewing for Jane's real estate license exams for California. Goggles (Shania) comes in to Jane's surprise. Shania says her mom dropped her off so she could pick up some fabric at Chinatown. Rocky notices that Shania seems sad and she opens up about some mean girls at school. She confides to Rocky and her Nana Jane about some bullies who posted a headless photo of a girl taking a dump at school declaring it to be Shania. Totally not true by the way. She says she only drops a deuce at home. But yea, them mean girls are making sure Goggles won't have any friends at school anymore.

Furious over what she heard, Rocky says she "better shut those bitches down NOW or your self esteem is shot for life". Nana Jane agrees and tells her that she needs a plan for total and complete dominance over those kids. Rocky adds that Shania better learn how to do that until she grows up so she won't be bullied and be as strong and independent as she and Jane are.


Back to David and Brian, they discuss their options about their future with Gary Snyder at the surrogacy office. Sine baby #1 is David's sperm, they are planning #2 using Brian's, while baby #3 as a mix of both dads' genetic matter. Suddenly, Gary cries and says he's gonna die alone. David suggests to Brian that they set up Monty with Gary. They have learned that he wants to have a child soon and well, with Gary's biological clock ticking down, he thinks Monty and Gary should have the kid they both have been dreaming of--together. Desperate, Gary agrees, saying, "as long as he's got a pulse, I'm in."


Nana's plan for Shania didn't work. Shania coming to school in a suit made it more difficult for her as the girls bullied her even more. Rocky steps in with her own plan: reading. She teaches Shania how to talk those girls down like how the drags taught Nana and Rocky in WeHo. Reading.

That night, Brian and David double date with Monty and Gary. While having dinner, Goldie comes in and Monty suddenly asks if he could touch her pregnant belly. The whole set-up-Gary-with-Monty-dinner was a bust when Monty decides to leave with Goldie. Yes, he was THAT fascinated with her that he blew the rest of their dinner to come with her. Poor Gary.


Monty comes back and declares his plans for the future. He tells everyone that he wants to pull a Sandra Bullock and raise a kid on his own. Aaaand he asked to have Goldie as his surrogate when she gives birth to David and Brian's. Uh-oh. So much for baby number 2 and 3!


Later on, Brian and David were angry because Monty's trying to steal Goldie from them. David thinks they should warn Monty to back off. So they pay Monty a visit--and a yelling, to tell him to leave Goldie alone.


At school, Shania gets her drag on and starts talking down to her bullies. Oh man, is she good! Who's the new queen bee now!


David and Brian talks to Goldie about their plans and learns that she turned down Monty's request to be his surrogate. The couple were relieved and asks her if she could be their baby #2 and 3's surrogate. Goldie stops them as she informs them of her dreams and her plan to open up a shop and make a children's clothing line. She says that as much as she wants to get knocked up with the couple's second child, she cannot commit just yet as she wants to stick to her plan. The couple agrees.

Now queen bee speaks to her new minions and declares that from then on, there should be no more queen bees. That they should stop pointing at peoples' flaws and rather see them as just mere people. Then she makes the mean girls her new girlfriends.

Brian and David comes over to Monty's to apologize. They were shocked upon seeing Gary welcoming them and finds out that the two are finally together. They were surprised to see how fast the two quickly got together and learns that they are currently testing the waters of parenthood by taking care of Gary's niece. The two thank David and Brian for showing them what it is to have a loving family and how they became good models for them.


Shania sees her mom's creations and was amazed by Goldie's awesome girl apparel. Goldie tells Shania that she is her awesome girl inspiration after seeing her with the mean girls, how she inspired them to be better people.

Later that day, Goldie launches her store at the farmers' market and is an instant hit.

The Cricket Game - Once Upon A Time Recap

New year, new post. Hello 2013!

After the holiday break, Once Upon A Time comes back with a new exciting episode. Cora and Hook has arrived with vengeance both in mind--Captain Hook's croc, Rumplestiltskin; and Cora's peachy (or should I say, witchy!) daughter, Regina.

As the two alight the ship, Hook bids farewell to Cora, thinking that coming to Story Brooke is where they part ways. However, Cora thinks otherwise and tells Hook that he might want to rethink things through. Hook wants nothing to do with Cora anymore and says that they had a deal. Now that he's carried out his part of the bargain, it means that they're over. She thinks that the two should stick together as a favor to Hook. Now that magic is back in Story Brooke, Hook is helpless if he faces off with Gold/Rumplestiltskin.

Their talk was disrupted when a townsfolk interrupted them. Since no one should know of their arrival, Cora used her magic and transformed the man into a fish. Cora made Hook's ship invisible to avoid prying eyes to have an "element of surprise" before they reveal themselves to Regina and Gold. The two went on their way to explore Story Brooke.

Our resident love birds, Mary Margaret and David, are finally back in each others arms and wasted no time in making up for lost time. Henry and Emma walked in on them in bed as the two were "catching up" on the 28 years they have lost. Talk about afternoon delight huh? Good thing Henry has no idea. But yea, Emma's pretty scarred upon seeing that! Lols. David's pretty impressed though--28 years and they were still able to give Emma a traumatic glimpse of what her childhood should have been. Haha!

Flashback on Regina's past in Fairy Tale World. Her royal highness was overseeing the ogre wars from afar and was informed by one of her men that Snow White and Prince Charming has defeated King George. That the kingdom has already fallen under their hands. Now that he's done for, Regina and her men are now alone in carrying out their plans to take over Fairy Tale Land. Regina instructs her men that no matter how many lives are to be lost, they MUST keep them away from each other longer before the queen finds Snow. She is not going to let them defeat her that easily. And she makes her way to find Snow.

Regina finds Snow in the woods. Snow offers Regina the terms to her surrender. Regina's term is quite simple though--Snow's death for her to surrender. As Regina was about to charge on Snow, Blue (Fairy) flies down to disable Regina, stunning her in place. It was all a trap. Knowing that she's fixated on her revenge with Snow White, Charming and Snow devised a plan to capture her using Snow as their bait. Regina's kingdom has finally fallen into Snow and Charming's hands. Her reign of evil is now over.


Back in Story Brooke, a fully-clothed Mary Margaret and team Snow comes in Granny's diner to celebrate her triumphant come back with Emma after being trapped on the other side--what was left of Fairy Tale World.

Ruby rushes in to hug BFF Mary Margaret, ever so glad that she has come back. Archie Hopper also hugs her, happy with their return. Emma tells Granny her relief after she confides on her about how they survived Fairy Tale World by hunting for food. David makes a toast to cheer for his wife and daughter's return, and to hoping that he won't have to look for her again.

Talk about awkward entrance. Regina enters the diner to bring her share of pot luck to join team Snow in celebrating their return. Grumpy/Leroy quickly pulls a knife thinking that Regina came uninvited. Emma tells everyone that she invited her. Emma explains to her parents why she invited Regina. That they owe her gratitude for helping them come back from Fairy Tale World. She tells them that she wants to make things right with her for Henry, knowing that she's trying to change for the best, for Henry. The two then agrees with Emma's decision and lets her stay. Henry is glad too that Regina came.

Moments later, the party was a success. So is Regina's homemade lasagna. Unfortunately, as the night draws to a close, she feels that she's still not welcome in Snow and Charming's circle. She notices that
everyone else are with company except for her. She decides to leave. Emma sees her as she leaves and she asks her to come back for Archie's cake. Regina declines, but thanks Emma for being gracious enough to invite her on their party. She tells her that she did it for Henry. Regina extends her hospitality and invites her so she could come visit or even sleep over at her house some time. Emma turns down Regina's offer, saying it won't be best. Disappointed and hurt, Regina lashes out on Emma about her being a "good parent". Regina quickly apologizes for snapping at Emma. Emma tells Regina about her talk with Archie, and learns that he spilled their confidential talks to Emma, thus convincing Emma to give Regina a chance.

Unknown to Regina, she is being spied on by her mother and Hook from a rooftop, with a spotting scope.

The next morning, Regina confronts Dr. Hopper at the docks on his conversation and confidentiality breach. Archie explains that he only told her of the part where Regina consulted him, merely citing to Emma that Regina has been trying her hardest to stop using magic as part of her commitment to change for the better. That he never revealed to Emma the specifics of their consult. Ruby runs in on them and notices their "chat". Ruby stops by to diffuse the situation, but Regina slams her shut, telling her that she and Hopper are having a private conversation, thus leaving the two of them. Archie then assures Regina that he can be trusted. Regina then warns him that he's lucky she has changed and leaves him alone.

Flashback. Jiminy Cricket declares his fear that Regina may never change. He tells the council to suspense justice and they decide on what to do with the queen. Charming states that so long as the queen is alive, the kingdom is in danger. Thus, deciding that the queen must be executed.

Snow White is contemplating on Charming's decision, but he is adamant as he thinks that they have no other option. Snow then tells him that there is always a choice. That there can be another way. Charming thinks otherwise.

As Regina walks to Hopper's clinic, a suspecting Ruby sees her. Inside, it was revealed that it was Cora disguising as Regina and kills Hopper while stunning his dog. Leaving the scene, Cora changes back to her old self as she walks down a dark alley.

Over breakfast at Granny's, Emma recollects her memories of Fairy Tale World to her son. She was about to walk Henry to school when a frantic Pongo runs to them. Emma realizes something's wrong when she notices that Archie's nowhere in sight. Ruby runs to them telling them that there IS something wrong, as she listens to Pongo. Yes, wolf thing. She speaks canine remember?

Emma lets Henry walk to school alone due to the emergency, and she and Ruby rushes to Archie's. There they find his dead body lying on the floor. Ruby, seeing Regina (Cora in disguise) that night, thinks that she may have killed him.


Regina, being held prisoner in the castle, was visited by her father, Henry. He feels that it was his fault that Regina was captured. That he failed her as a father, for not protecting her enough. She says that she doesn't blame him. That she can never blame the person she loves most--her father. He convinces her to change. That they can probably spare her if she gives them a reason.

Her recollection of the past was interrupted when Emma--Sheriff Swan and her deputy-slash-daddy came into the interrogation room as Regina was summoned for questioning. She learns that Archie was killed. David tells her that Ruby saw her the night Hopper was killed. To her defense, Regina says she was home all night. Unfortunately, David does not believe her.

Once again. a flashback is being shown of Regina's execution. She declares her regret to cause more pain, death and kill Snow. As the archers were about to kill Regina, Snow cried stop. The archers have already released their arrows, but was stopped by Blue's magic, in time to spare Regina. She says that killing her is not the way, and David sends her back to her cell.

Emma is not convinced that Regina killed Archie. Upon profiling, she noticed the genuine reaction Regina showed upon knowing that Archie died. David and Mary Margaret thinks that she's lying, but Emma is adamant that she knows what she saw--Regina is innocent. And that she believes Regina. She then declares Regina is innocent until proven guilty. She decides that they should let her go, and they will find the truth behind everything.


Back at the castle, Charming and Snow were arguing about Snow sparing Regina's life. He says that he has seen her kill many innocent lives and that he thinks he will never change. But Snow knows the Regina before she became possessed by her dark powers. That she was once a good person, who saved her when she was young. That showing her mercy is the first step in rehabilitating the queen to bring her back to her old good self. Charming says that sparing her life would only put the kingdom at risk, but Snow knows that there is no going back from killing. That if the queen will be killed, there is no way to bring her back anymore, to save her soul from the dark path its taking. Charming agrees, but warns her that even if the queen is spared, there is no turning back from then on either.

Snow proceeds to the courtyard where the queen was supposed to be executed earlier that day. She was surprised when Rumplestiltskin appears sitting at the throne. Snow says she is not apologizing for sparing the queen's life as she thinks she can still change. Rumple lets out a loud laugh, finding Snow's statement amusing. He asks how she could accomplish Regina's redemption. Rumple offers Snow to give Regina a test to know if she is indeed redeemable. Snow asks Rumple how would she trust him, knowing he wants the queen dead. And that he wouldn't want to make deals without anything in return. Rumplestiltskin says that he doesn't want anything in return for the deal.


At Archie's home/office, David, Mary Margaret and Emma are searching for evidence and David notices that Regina's file is empty. Mary Margaret assumes that Regina must have wiped out her file to make sure that no one knows of her consult. Emma still doesn't agree to it. David reiterates the sequence of the story, stating that the evidences all point to Regina. She thinks that Regina must have been framed. Unfortunately, they were barking at the wrong tree--Mr. Gold that is.

They arrive at Gold's shop and walks into Belle and Gold. They then find out that Hopper had been killed and that Gold is a suspect in the frame-up. He says, he's "afraid to disappoint them" as it was not him who framed Regina. David doesn't believe him, but Gold thinks that they have a witness--Pongo. They then summoned Pongo so they could extract Pongo's memories to find out what has really transpired the night Archie was killed... but Emma would be the one to do it.

Emma agrees so they could solve Archie's mysterious death by using a dream catcher. Emma is told by Gold to will it so she can see what the dream catcher has extracted from Pongo's memory. They see Regina and they see her kill Archie. Emma rushes to arrest Regina, but is stopped by her parents. They think that coming to her without any plan may endanger them.

Back at the castle cell where Regina is being held, Snow comes to talk to her. She tries to talk some sense to her thinking that she can still bring back the good queen. That even though she tries her hardest to bury the good Regina inside of her, Snow thinks that she's still inside of her. But Regina says she's not. Snow opens her cell and lets her out. She is letting the person who once saved her life go. That she can start anew, leaving all the evil Regina behind in her jail cell. Just. Like. That. Regina then attacks her as she steps out of her jail cell, stabbing Snow White with Snow's own dagger. Regina doesn't know that it was all a ruse to test Regina. If she was still up for change, or if she's still the sinister queen that she is. Surprised that Snow was not affected by the stabbing, Charming steps in to inform her that Snow is under a protection spell Rumplestiltskin have created to help them out in testing Regina's resolve. She then was banished by Snow White and Prince Charming to live alone, outside of the kingdom. Before leaving, Snow tells her that they are now even--her life that was once spared when she was young for Regina's life spared from execution. She then warns that if Regina tries to kill anyone again in the kingdom, Snow will kill her.


At Regina's doorstep, Emma, David and Mary Margaret come to arrest her. She was then informed that Emma has seen through Pongo's memory (and magic) what has happened the night Archie died. How Regina choked the life out of him. Shocked, Regina thought it was Gold behind everything until she learns that Emma used her own magic to see what happened. Regina then told her that everytime she uses magic, there is always a price. Emma knows that there IS that stipulation and jumps into conclusion that it's Henry's heart that will cost Regina. Regina wants Henry to hear her side of the story, but a furious Emma would never let Regina near her son again.

Blue comes out from behind a tree to stun Regina, just like she did 28 years ago. This time, Regina wasn't surprised. She then uses her magic to thrust Emma away and Emma tells her that Regina will always be a evil no matter how hard she tried. Regina then uses her magic to escape in front of them.


Waiting for Henry at the bus stop, Emma doesn't know how to tell him that Archie has been killed by Regina. She is now frantic and is thinking of how to do it as well as be the sole guardian of Henry, now that Regina's out of the picture. Mary Margaret and David assures her that they will figure things out together, as a family.

Henry approaches them from the school bus and Emma breaks the news about Archie's death. Nearby, an emotional Regina watches them from her car. She sees a broken-hearted Henry crying over Archie's death. Regina tears up, knowing that Henry will never take her back again.


Rumplestiltskin visits the queen in her castle. He tells her of Snow and Charming's wedding. Regina is quite angry with Rumple's aide to Snow and Charming, making the queen unable to harm them ever again in Fairy Tale World. He then suggests that they can bring everyone to a different land, thus the loophole to the deal he made with Charming and Snow--hinting the reason behind the curse Regina created 28 years back. Delighted with the news, Regina then crashes Snow White and Prince Charming's wedding.

Back at the docks, Cora returns to Hook telling him that she has finally broken Regina, leaving her now with nothing. She also informs Hook that she has something--er someone for Hook to use against Gold. Someone who knows everything about Story Brooke--even Gold's weakness/es. It is revealed that Archie is still alive and is being held captive inside Captain Hook's invisible ship. It is implied that Hook and Cora might torture the truth out of their captured cricket.