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** Emma's stubborn refusal to believe and manipulating her mind to see what she wants to see, despite August's pleas

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** Emma's stubborn refusal to believe and manipulating her mind to see what she wants to see, despite August's pleaspleas.
** The realization that Emma ''can't'' let herself believe because her self-esteem is just that low and she's terrified to have people relying on her.
--> '''August''': You're our only hope.
--> '''Emma''': *very sincerely* Then you're all screwed.



* ''An Apple As Red As Blood''
** Snow and Charming's conversation through the mirror and Snow choosing to take the apple to save Charming.
*** "Then congratulations. You've won."
** Emma's goodbye to Henry at the end of the episode. She fails to hold back tears as she insists that it's best for her to leave and that Regina will take good care of him.
*** Her defensive posture when she insists that all Regina has ever done is fight for Henry and "it just got out of hand." Emma ''knows'' that's not true (and the audience knows the full-extent of what Regina has done) so seeing her so helpless and just desperate to cling to the belief that her son will be safe is heartbreaking.
** "You may not believe in the curse--or in me--but I believe in you."



*** '''Mary Margaret''': You found me!
*** '''David''': [[MeaningfulEcho Did you ever doubt I would?]]

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*** --> '''Mary Margaret''': You found me!
*** --> '''David''': [[MeaningfulEcho Did you ever doubt I would?]]
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'''Mary Margaret''': You found me!
'''David''': [[MeaningfulEcho Did you ever doubt I would?]]

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*** '''Mary Margaret''': You found me!
*** '''David''': [[MeaningfulEcho Did you ever doubt I would?]] would?]]

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** May I once again point out ''everything'' about Graham and Emma.
*** Graham's increasing desperation and fear throughout the episode are bad enough--the opening scene where he pleads with Emma to understand that he doesn't feel anything and then the later scene where he insists to her that he doesn't have a heart. And she tries to comfort him by convincing him he does.
*** "It's okay. It's going to be okay." Oh, the irony...
*** The hesitant, almost frightened way Emma approaches Graham before their second kiss. And genuine, unguarded smile on her face after he thanks her. Emma barely ever smiles so freely. Combine that with her heartbroken sobbing about a minute later...
*** Graham being able to feel again and crying with relief after he and Emma kiss.



** Graham/the Huntsman not only spared Emma's mother, he actively defied the Queen to save her dad. And he's the only one who's dead here...



** Everone reuniting.

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** Everone reuniting. Everyone reuniting.
'''Mary Margaret''': You found me!
'''David''': [[MeaningfulEcho Did you ever doubt I would?]]
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** Rumpelstiltskin's complete freakout after Belle kisses him. He doesn't seem that upset about potentially losing his powers, he's mostly upset because he honestly believes nobody could ever truly love him, therefore Belle must be faking everything in an elaborate ruse to kill him for the Evil Queen. Even sadder because by the time he uncovers the mirror, the proof of Belle's love- the restoration of his human form- has faded away.

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** Rumpelstiltskin's complete freakout after Belle kisses him. He At that moment, he doesn't seem that upset about potentially losing his powers, he's mostly upset because he honestly believes nobody could ever truly love him, therefore Belle must be faking everything in an elaborate ruse to kill him for the Evil Queen. Even sadder because by the time he uncovers the mirror, the proof of Belle's love- the restoration of his human form- has faded away. It gets worse later, when he realises that she does love him, and decides to stop any possibility of losing his powers (and Bael) by breaking Belle's heart and sending her away. When the Queen drops by to inform him of her fate, he obviously wants nothing more than to have her back in the castle again, because he reciprocates her feelings.
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** Rumpelstiltskin's complete freakout after Belle kisses him. He doesn't seem that upset about potentially losing his powers, he's mostly upset because he honestly believes nobody could ever truly love him, therefore Belle must be faking everything in an elaborate ruse to kill him for the Evil Queen. Even sadder because by the time he uncovers the mirror, the proof of Belle's love- the restoration of his human form- has faded away.

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** [[spoiler: Baelfire falls into the portal without Rumplestiltskin.]]

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** [[spoiler: Baelfire falls into the portal without Rumplestiltskin.Rumpelstiltskin.]]
**[[spoiler: And then you find out that everything Rumpelstiltskin did was to get his son back.
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** Emma breaking into August's room - to see he's turned back into wood, and August's overwhelming belief that Emma can break the curse even though he knows it will happen too late for him.

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** Emma breaking into August's room - to see he's turned back into wood, and wood. Not to mention August's overwhelming belief that Emma can break the curse even though he knows it will happen too late for him.
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** Emma breaking into August's room - to see he's turned back into wood.

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** Emma breaking into August's room - to see he's turned back into wood.wood, and August's overwhelming belief that Emma can break the curse even though he knows it will happen too late for him.
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** Everone reuniting.
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** Henry's DisneyDeath - Yeah, you could see it from a mile off. Didn't make it any less of a hit.
** Emma breaking into August's room - to see he's turned back into wood.
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** The breaking of the curse, oddly enough. It's weirdly haunting to think that all the Storybrooke personas we've gotten to know and love over the course of the season are just...gone. Good-bye, Mary Margaret the lovelorn schoolteacher. Hello, Snow White, the battle princess.

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** The breaking of the curse, oddly enough. It's weirdly haunting to think that all the Storybrooke personas we've gotten to know and love over the course of the season are just...gone. Good-bye, Mary Margaret the lovelorn schoolteacher. Hello, Snow White, White the battle princess.
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** The breaking of the curse, oddly enough. It's weirdly haunting to think that all the Storybrooke personas we've gotten to know and love over the course of the season are just...gone. Good-bye, Mary Margaret the lovelorn schoolteacher. Hello, Snow White, the battle princess.
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* ''A Land Without Magic''
** Seeing both Emma and Regina heavily distraught over Henry.
** Regina telling Henry that no matter what, she does love him before she flees.
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* "The Stranger"

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* "The Stranger"''The Stranger''
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** August seeing his father again, whom he feels he has failed, for the first time in twenty-eight years -- and his dad has no idea who he is.
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** Gepetto weeping over the seemingly dead Pinnochio, and reminding Jiminy of exactly why he took the job he has.
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* "The Stranger"
** Emma's stubborn refusal to believe and manipulating her mind to see what she wants to see, despite August's pleas
** The scene in the orphanage where August decides to abandon Emma.
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* ''The Return''
** [[spoiler: Baelfire falls into the portal without Rumplestiltskin.]]
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* ''Stable Boy''
** Regina's mother has ignored all of her daughter's wishes for her own personal happiness, has killed Regina's lover Daniel, and is forcing Regina to marry the king. Then Snow comes in and reveals that, yes, she did in fact tell Regina's mother. Regina very quickly puts two and two together, and silently places the blame on Snow, formulating her revenge plot in the process.
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* ''Hat Trick''
** Jefferson spent years in Wonderland trying to build another world-hopping hat in the hopes that he could return to his daughter in the Fairy Tale world. It didn't work, and now he has to watch her Storybrooke counterpart live and be happy with a different family every day, without any memory of him, while he sits in the lap of luxury with full knowledge of everything that's transpired.

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** Storybrooke's treatment of Mary Margaret after they find out about the affair- especially with David seemingly not being given the same. DoubleStandard much?

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** Storybrooke's treatment of Mary Margaret after they find out about the affair- affair - especially with David seemingly not being given the same. DoubleStandard much?


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* ''Heart of Darkness'':
** Snow White's back to normal - but first she shot Charming, and now they've been seperated yet ''again''. In the real world David has turned against Mary Margaret because his memories are returning with the wrong context entirely, and out of desperation she does a jail break and is presumably on the run.
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* ''Red Handed'':
** Red's a werewolf, she's killed and half eaten her true love Peter, the villagers are coming to kill her, she has to go on the run and leave Granny behind, and all this while she's still reeling, confused and horrified at what's happened to her.

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* ''Dreamy'':
** "It's Grumpy now."
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Changing the format for \'W Ht F\'.


* 'What Happened to Fredrick'

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* 'What ''What Happened to Fredrick'Fredrick'':
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Forgot an example. There were a lot in last night\'s episode...

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** Storybrooke's treatment of Mary Margaret after they find out about the affair- especially with David seemingly not being given the same. DoubleStandard much?

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Adding a LOT of tear jerkers from the latest episode.



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* 'What Happened to Fredrick'
** YMMV, but Mary Margaret and David breaking up and not knowing Kathryn left a note behind saying they could be together (because Regina burned it).
** Kathryn/Abigail in general this episode.
*** Kathryn/Abigail being kept from her true love (Fredrick) in Storybrooke due to Regina's plan for no happily ever afters.
*** Kathryn calling Regina the closest thing she has to a friend, and shortly afterwards it's highly probable Regina is the one who made her disappear.
*** Kathryn having to come to terms that her marriage is over, and might have only been an illusion all along (not in the curse sense, but whatever). And that her husband has fallen love with someone else.
*** Abigail having tried to get over Fredrick but failed.
** Prince Charming on the run with Red from King George with no idea how to find Snow White.
** No sign of Mr. Gold; either he's still in jail or THAT messed up from 'Skin Deep'.
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Changed to his fairy tale name since that\'s who it happened to.


** Mr Gold's small HopeSpot when he hears that Belle has been shunned by her father. His first thought is "so she needs a home, then?", with a smile creeping across his face, before the Queen tells him she died.

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** Mr Gold's Rumpelstiltskin small HopeSpot when he hears that Belle has been shunned by her father. His first thought is "so she needs a home, then?", with a smile creeping across his face, before the Queen tells him she died.
died (a bluff). Props to Robert Carlyle (Rump's actor) for the subtle but ever growing wide eyed look of horror as the Queen tells him that she didn't just die... she was tortured to the point of suicide because of him.
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Given that she was in Storybrooke, the story the Queen told is certainly a lie.


** Mr Gold's small HopeSpot when he hears that Belle has been shunned by her father. His first thought is "so she needs a home, then?", with a smile creeping across his face, before the Queen reveals her true fate.

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** Mr Gold's small HopeSpot when he hears that Belle has been shunned by her father. His first thought is "so she needs a home, then?", with a smile creeping across his face, before the Queen reveals her true fate.
tells him she died.
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** Mr Gold's small HopeSpot when he hears that Belle has been shunned by her father. His first thought is "so she needs a home, then?", with a smile creeping across his face, before the Queen reveals her true fate.
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** Good news, Belle's not dead! Bad news, Regina's held her captive for who knows how long...and Gold ''has no clue she's still alive.''

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** Good news, Belle's not dead! Bad news, Regina's held her captive for who knows how long...and Gold ''has no clue she's even still alive.''

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