History Recap / OnceUponATimeS5E2ThePrice

* IdiotBall: The Dwarves are hesitant to cross the town line, knowing from experience that bad stuff happens. Dopey does it anyway.

* ThePowerOfLove: Is not enough via Hook and True Love's Kiss to save Emma, because like Rumple she has embraced the darkness and does not want to be saved. However, this plus ThePowerOfTrust is how Regina proves herself a Savior after all--by inspiring the others to join with her in standing up to the Fury, thus literally uniting them all the same way Emma once did figuratively.

* GenreSavvy: On the other hand, thanks to her previous knowledge of how Regina and Rumple cast/created the Dark Curse, Emma claims that her new curse is unbreakable because she didn't weave a Savior into it as a means to break it--and even if she had, there is no Savior any more now that she's embraced the Darkness.

* ArtisticAge: Percival. He describes Regina razing his entire village when he was a boy. Given how clearly he remembers both this and her, we can estimate that he was at youngest 6 or 7 years old, probably older. The curse lasted for 28 years and since Camelot was unaffected, he aged during this time. This should put him at around 40 years old, give or take. The actor playing him was in his mid-twenties when filming and didn't look a day older.
** It's established that the Dark Curse takes place ''after'' Lancelot's exile, and nobody in Camelot appears to have aged beyond a few years since well before then. Therefore, Camelot was likely frozen in time along with the rest of their world, so Percival would likely be in his 20's, and would've aged during Regina's reign and up until the curse was cast.

** The hand-holding scene was taken straight from Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy, albeit with lower-budgeted special effects.

* FlowerInHerHair: Emma wears a crown of flowers to King Arthur's ball.

* WhatTheHellHero: Arthur is furious that Snow, David, and Regina weren't honest with him about Emma being the Dark One. By contrast, he was ''not'' angry about them concealing Regina having been the Evil Queen once, saying Camelot "is about second chances." (Although to be fair he still thought she was the Savior at the time; if he'd known she lied about that too, he might have launched into her six weeks ago.)

* AchillesHeel: Although she blames everyone else for failing her, Emma backpedals slightly and says Henry did nothing wrong; this and how she is visibly upset when he recoils from her touch and tells him he doesn't have to be afraid of her proves she still loves him. Her lonely moment of watching everyone at the diner also suggests she does still love and miss her family, and wants to be with them. The voice of Darkness states that this [[LoveIsAWeakness love is her weakness]] and must be destroyed if she is to truly master her power.

* EquivalentExchange: The majority of the episode centers around this thanks to Regina asking Emma to save Robin's life after he took a hit for her from a poisoned sword. Emma saves Robin's life but takes no other life in return as TheRules dictate she must. In Storybrooke, a Fury shows up to exact payment for Robin's life being spared, and Regina begins to offer her life in exchange, but Mary Margaret, David, Grumpy, and Arthur all join her, and thus no one needs to die. It's likely safe to assume, though, that their lives have been shortened as a result.

* GenreBlindness: In a normal fairy tale, Sir Percival'd be a KnightInShiningArmor seeking revenge against the villain who burned down his hometown. However, Regina has since pulled a HeelFaceTurn and identities on ''Once Upon a Time'' are more complicated than that, which turns this into RevengeBeforeReason.

* ArtisticAge: Percival. He describes Regina razing his entire village when he was a boy, given how clearly he remembers both this and her, we can estimate that he was at youngest 6 or 7 years old, probably older. The curse lasted for 28 years and since Camelot was unaffected, he aged during this time. This should put him at around 40 years old, give or take. The actor playing him was in his mid-twenties when filming and didn't look a day older.

* AndThatLittleBoyWasMe: Percivals tells Regina the story of a horrible queen who destroyed a young boy's town, and how that young boy became a knight to avenge his fallen friends and family. She realizes she's the Queen he's talking about just before he attacks her.

* AntiVillain: Percival anting revenge for the burning of his hometown is understandable, but in doing so, he attempts to assassinate a reformed woman who is now the Savior of Camelot.

** Also applies to Regina. She puts on a strange, glowy pendant given to her by a stranger in a strange land and doesn't think to give it the once over. Doubly so, considering the type of magic used by the pendant is likely the same magic that she imbues mirrors with the spy on her enemies. Frequently.

* LeaveNoSurvivors: This seems to be the advice the voice of Darkness is giving Emma--that the only way to have full power is to kill everyone you loved before becoming the Dark One, whether friends, family, or lovers.