Once Upon a Time has Frozen over, but things
weren't all icy when we returned to Storybrooke in the Season 4
premiere, "A Tale of Two Sisters." In fact, one Rumpelstiltskin and
Belle scene almost had me tearing up from all the Beauty and the Beast nostalgia. However, any happiness was offset by Regina back in Evil Queen mode
(with her newly returned mirror sidekick Sidney Glass), Emma's
resistance to Hook's advances, and well ... all of the frozen fractals
Elsa dragged all over town. But before we could get into the action, we
had to start with a time jump, of course. In the episode's opening scene, we get the backstory of Elsa and Anna’s parents' death that Frozen
never gave us. Maybe it was the film's G-rating that prevented
animators from showing the former king and queen of Arendelle dying on a
boat, Titanic-style, but the episode kicked off with their mom
quickly scrawling a note with “the truth” about Elsa to send back home
in a bottle.
Spoiler alert: it never made it home, because when we flash forward
five years later, Anna and Elsa are just as confused about their
parents' death as ever. Regina knew exactly what she needed from Sidney (Giancarlo Esposito)
— the exact moment she captured Miriam back in the day. She didn’t
wanted Sidney to kill Miriam, just change the future. Regina planned to
go back in time and undo Emma’s mistake. Her master plan was to kill
Miriam before she could be saved. The only way Sidney could help with all of this was to become the Magic Mirror again. Poof. He’s back! As expected, he did her bidding. But how long is he going to be willing? Meanwhile, Emma, Hook, Charming, Miriam and Robin ran into the woods
to seek refuge from the big and mighty Marshamallow. The only thing they
thought could save them was Emma’s magic. Unfortunately, that didn’t do
the trick. Thankfully, Regina was there to save the day.
After their icy brush with death, Hook attempted to talk to Emma. HE JUST WANTS TO SPEND TIME WITH YOU EMMA. GEEZ. “Right now, I just feel too guilty,” Emma said. She quickly kissed him and told him to be patient. I can only wait so long, Emma. Emma went to see Regina and explained that she wasn’t going to stop
until she gave Regina a happy ending. This sparked new curiosity for
Regina. Now, Regina wanted to change fate, but Sidney said that wasn’t
possible. She explained that in the storybook, the villain never wins.
She’s out to find the writer of the book and force him/her to give the
villains a happy ending. After Gold’s romantic dance with Belle, he went back to the object
he’d had his eye on the second they arrived in their new home. He used
his sword to unveil the Sorcerer’s Hat! Oh lord. Back in the Arendelle days, Elsa headed to see Kristoff (Scott Michael Foster)
after she couldn’t find Anna. She found him in the stables with Sven.
Despite Kristoff’s attempts at lying, he confessed that Anna had booked
passage on a ship to Misthaven. Elsa was baffled that Kristoff let Anna
go alone, but Kristoff was needed in Arendelle. Anna didn’t want Elsa to
be alone. (Aw, sisters!)
“She sometimes acts before she thinks,” Elsa told Kristoff. Yep, Anna
did just that. Kristoff dropped the bomb on Elsa (and everyone else)
that Misthaven was also known at the Enchanted Forest! In the present day, Elsa broke into Gold’s shop and found something
she recognized! It was the snowflake necklace Anna was wearing went she
traveled to Misthaven!
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