'''Season 3, Episode 5''':
!Good Form

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With the deadly Dreamshade coursing through David’s body and he close to death, Hook takes him on one last journey to find a sextant that could help them decipher a map that would lead them off Neverland.

Meanwhile, in the Fairy Tale Land that was, Killian Jones – aka Hook – and his brother, Captain Liam, sail off under orders of the King to find a powerful indigenous plant in an uncharted land that could help heal any injury.

!!Tropes

* TheAtoner: Hook saves Prince Charming's life and claims to have done so to try to be a good man again. Pan isn't buying it.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Regina takes the heart of a Lost Boy to give the heroes a mole in Pan's camp. Snow White is aghast at this, but Emma allows it, seeing it as necessary to give Henry a message of hope.
* BigDamnKiss: Between Emma and Hook, after he saves David's life.
** It was also Emma and Hook's FirstKiss together.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: The King whom the Jones Brothers serve under in the Navy. They believe him to be an honorable man, until they find out what Dreamshade ''really'' is, and promptly are ready to expose him.
* CliffHanger: Not only has Pan revealed to Hook that Neal is alive, leaving him with the choice of telling the others and losing his chance at romance with Emma or not doing so and risking they'll find out later that he lied, but at the end Pan and the Lost Boys put Neal in a cage next to one holding another unknown prisoner...
* CouchGag: The title card features the ''Jewel of the Realm''.
* DealWithTheDevil: Pan offers Hook a chance to run away home happily with Emma, all he has to do is kill Charming. Hook, trying to become TheAtoner, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark doesn't take it]].
* EnlightenedSelfInterest: Played with. David and Pan both accuse Hook of this in different forms, that the only reason he is helping in the rescue of Henry is to get close to Emma, and that he will do whatever it takes to survive, respectively. In the end Hook does not take Pan's deal, risks his life against the dreamshade, and gets the magic water to save David's life. He claims after doing so that he didn't do it for David--implying it was indeed to get in both his and Emma's good books, with the reward of a FirstKiss after David tells an edited version of what happened to give the pirate the credit he was due. But the flashbacks seem to suggest he also did it for himself, to make up for having goaded and then lost his brother by ensuring another family doesn't lose a loved one.
* FaceHeelTurn: The crew of the ''Jewel of the Realm'', under Killian's direction, perform this to become pirates. The suddenness of it suggests either extreme loyalty to Liam--whose death can be plausibly laid at the king's feet for both lying about the dreamshade's true nature and sending them after it in the first place--or past cruelties and injustices in the kingdom, making this simply the last straw.
* HonorAmongThieves: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Killian when declaring that the crew will become pirates.
* LyingToProtectYourFeelings: David has been doing this for some time, keeping the Dreamshade poisoning from everyone so [[SelfSacrificeScheme they can focus on saving Henry]] [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown instead of futilely trying to save his life]]. After Hook tricks him into a cure, David then switches to HalfTruth mode (stating Hook saved him from dreamshade, but in different and more recent circumstances to imply he was never poisoned) for the same reason--to keep his family from knowing the magic waters mean now he can't leave Neverland.
* MeaningfulRename: After Killian and the rest of the crew's mutiny, the ''Jewel of the Realm'' of course becomes the ''Jolly Roger'' (complete with lowering the kingdom's flag and the raising of the pirate flag of the same name).
* MotivationalLie: It turns out the trip up Dead Man's Peak to reclaim the sextant was this; not only is the sextant not there (presumably it's still back hidden on the ''Jolly Roger'' somewhere, and can't decode the map), but Hook deliberately dropped his brother's military insignia as the excuse to tell the story and get David to insist they go after it--because he knew he'd never do anything to distract from Henry's rescue even if it would save himself, and so he made up the story about the sextant being able to help them escape, all so he could get David to the magic spring that could cure him.
* MythologyGag:
** Killian's constant references to bad form are straight out of the original Peter Pan book.
** A literal one in the form of Pegasus, the winged horse from Greek mythology, whose feathers are used to make a sail that enables the Jones brothers' ship to fly. (And this in turn is also a reference to [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan the Disney animated movie]], wherein pixie dust enables Hook's ship to fly the Darlings home from Neverland.)
* NeverMyFault: When Henry starts apologizing to the Lost Boy whose face he cut, Pan interjects and tells him that Lost Boys never have to apologize and thus never have to take responsibility for their actions.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Pan had a good day when the Jones brothers arrived on his shores. He told them about dreamshade's true qualities and gave them honest directions to the plant. Liam, Killian's elder brother and captain, [[CassandraTruth refused to listen to the warning]]. When Liam started succumbing to the poison, Pan offered a cure and warned a heavy price would be paid - then conveniently disappeared and failed to explain what the price was, indicating that he may have just been screwing with them all along and [[ReversePsychology most likely suspected they wouldn't believe anything he told them]].
* PaperCutting: Henry does this to a Lost Boy in a sword fight.
* PowerAtAPrice: The waters of Neverland can heal any injury or poison and grant immortality... but only if you stay in Neverland. If you leave, you die.
* PragmaticHero: Emma, realizing they need to get a message to Henry and that her and Snow's attempts to appeal to the captured Lost Boy's better nature are not working, [[IDidWhatIHadToDo allows Regina to take his heart]], even to the point of holding her mother back from stopping Regina. Interestingly, after Snow warns InUniverse of the price if they succeed in saving Henry but [[MoralEventHorizon fall into darkness doing it]], Regina immediately points out [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork that's why she's there to take the risks, not them]]...and after the plan works and they give Henry hope through the mirror message, Snow apologizes and admits there are times when different methods might be called for.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: After Henry engages a Lost Boy in a sword fight while the rest egg him on, it becomes clear fairly quickly that he is starting to enjoy it, and ends up cutting the boy's face. Although he's immediately remorseful, Pan's reprimand very much suggests he wishes Henry to fulfill this trope (at least to the point of becoming another loyal Lost Boy so he will help Pan achieve his ultimate goal), and it's now a race against time for the heroes to prevent Henry from doing so.
* RousingSpeech: Killian gives one of these to his crew.
* ShoutOut: [[Film/ThePrincessBride As you wish.]]
* StartOfDarkness: This time for Captain Jones/Hook. We discover that he and his brother who was the original captain sailed to Neverland on orders from their King to find a magical cure-all plant that turns out to be a very deadly UniversalPoison. His brother tries the poison to prove that the King wasn't lying about its purpose and dies. This sends Jones into a HeroicBSOD and a FaceHeelTurn (yet he sees it as a HeelFaceTurn) where he chooses to become a lawless pirate along with his crew.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Hook. He was a genuinely good man before becoming a selfish pirate.
* VillainHasAPoint: Pan did warn the Jones brothers about the dreamshade and what it really does and what the real intentions of the King they served really were all along.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[ManipulativeBastard Pan]] [[KickTheDog inflicts it on Hook]] to interrupt his HeelFaceTurn. Will he risk his own romance with Emma, which for the first time seems like a definite possibility, or hide the fact that Neal is alive from her?