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* CouchGag: The title card features Pleasure Island's Ferris wheel.
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* SadisticChoice: David and James were sick as babies and their parents couldn't afford medicine. [[AdultFear They had to give up one son to get the medicine or both their children would die]].

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* SadisticChoice: David and James were sick as babies and their parents couldn't afford medicine. [[AdultFear They had to give up one son to get the medicine or both their children would die]].die.

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* NotSoDifferent:
** Rumplestiltskin claims to want just a hair from Robert's head as "small things can lead to great things" but when the man leaves, he tosses it aside and admits [[ContinuityNod he knows what it's like]] [[PetTheDog for a father to do anything to get his son back]].

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NotSoDifferentRemark: Rumplestiltskin claims to want just a hair from Robert's head as "small things can lead to great things" but when the man leaves, he tosses it aside and admits [[ContinuityNod he knows what it's like]] [[PetTheDog for a father to do anything to get his son back]].



** It's also clear when Killian talks David out of vengeance how much he can understand how David feels (trying to kill the Dark One for centuries, actually killing his own father) and wants to keep him from going down the same path he did.
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* PetTheDog: Though he might be a cruel stepfather and an all round {{Jerkass}}, King George is fully prepared to reward Robert handsomely for finding James, until Robert mentions he has no intention of handing him over...

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** Before running through David's father, Hook intones "dead men tell no tales."


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* ShoutOut: Before running through David's father, Hook intones "[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales dead men tell no tales]]."
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** Pinocchio spent time on this world's version of [[WesternAnimation/Pinocchio Pleasure Island]].

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** Pinocchio spent time on this world's version of [[WesternAnimation/Pinocchio [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Pleasure Island]].
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* FreezeFrameBonus: There's a sign in the background on Pleasure Island that says "Open For Demolition." In the [[WesternAnimation/Pinocchio Disney movie]], there's a sign that says "Open For Destruction."

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* FreezeFrameBonus: There's a sign in the background on Pleasure Island that says "Open For Demolition." In the [[WesternAnimation/Pinocchio [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Disney movie]], there's a sign that says "Open For Destruction."
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* FreezeFrameBonus: There's a sign in the background on Pleasure Island that says "Open For Demolition." In the [[WesternAnimation/Pinocchio Disney movie]], there's a sign that says "Open For Destruction."


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** Pinocchio spent time on this world's version of [[WesternAnimation/Pinocchio Pleasure Island]].

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** [[CliffHanger Near the very end of the episode]], after Regina wonders why Wish!Robin was able to come to Storybrooke and what he wants there if it isn't her, [[AnswerCut we see him sneaking into her vault]] to steal an item she had earlier called "very powerful"...

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** [[CliffHanger Near the very end of the episode]], after Regina wonders why Wish!Robin Wish Robin was able to come to Storybrooke and what he wants there if it isn't her, [[AnswerCut we see him sneaking into her vault]] to steal an item she had earlier called "very powerful"...



** Now that the truth behind David's father's death has been revealed, it's even more clear how taunting him with the coin and Robert's fate was a form of this for the Evil Queen: because she must have learned of the truth via her magic mirror, and so she knew one of two things would happen--either David would kill George out of revenge and thus drive a wedge between him and Snow when she found out, or when the truth about Killian came out it would drive a wedge between David and Killian as well as Emma and Killian--or even David and Emma, if she stuck by Killian anyway. [[XanatosGambit So no matter which way it turned out]], her enemies would suffer and be torn apart.

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** Now that the truth behind David's father's death has been revealed, it's even more clear how taunting him with the coin and Robert's fate was a form of this for the Evil Queen: because she must have learned of the truth via her magic mirror, and so she knew one of two things would happen--either happen -- either David would kill George out of revenge and thus drive a wedge between him and Snow when she found out, or when the truth about Killian came out it would drive a wedge between David and Killian as well as Emma and Killian--or Killian -- or even David and Emma, if she stuck by Killian anyway. [[XanatosGambit So no matter which way it turned out]], her enemies would suffer and be torn apart.



* ShaggyDogStory: Played with but in the end averted. While David ends up tossing away his father's coin and allowing his spirit to rest while wrongly thinking it was George who killed him, it ''was'' George who ordered his death and it would have been carried out if not for Hook. Additionally, while TheReveal seems to make both David's choice not to kill George and Killian talking him out of it meaningless, not committing such an unheroic act is still critical for David (particularly since he was actually innocent of ''that'' crime)...and since Killian didn't know until seeing the pages from the storybook that he was the killer, his advice to David remains genuine and untainted. Whether David will remember it and still apply it when the truth finally comes out remains to be seen.

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* ShaggyDogStory: Played with but in the end averted. While David ends up tossing away his father's coin and allowing his spirit to rest while wrongly thinking it was George who killed him, it ''was'' George who ordered his death and it would have been carried out if not for Hook. Additionally, while TheReveal seems to make both David's choice not to kill George and Killian talking him out of it meaningless, not committing such an unheroic act is still critical for David (particularly since he was actually innocent of ''that'' crime)... and since Killian didn't know until seeing the pages from the storybook that he was the killer, his advice to David remains genuine and untainted. Whether David will remember it and still apply it when the truth finally comes out remains to be seen.



* TrackingDevice: David turns his father's coin into this to try and find out his actual fate. Played with in that while the spell he casts on it is supposed to show the place it was last with his father/when he was last alive, we eventually see it was on him right to the moment he was killed and thrown in the ravine with his cart, but the coin leads David instead to Pleasure Island on the map--because that is where he encountered King George, which is what set him on the path to his death.
* UnfinishedBusiness: David's father appears to him as a ghost because he can't pass on until David learns the truth about him--not what actually happened to him, since David still thinks at the time it was George and he still dissipates, but that Robert genuinely was trying to turn his life around and fix his family.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: James used to be an innocent child - running away from King George [[ChildrenAreInnocent because he was appalled by the idea of becoming]] [[DramaticIrony a knight who would kill people]].

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* TrackingDevice: David turns his father's coin into this to try and find out his actual fate. Played with in that while the spell he casts on it is supposed to show the place it was last with his father/when he was last alive, we eventually see it was on him right to the moment he was killed and thrown in the ravine with his cart, but the coin leads David instead to Pleasure Island on the map--because map -- because that is where he encountered King George, which is what set him on the path to his death.
* UnfinishedBusiness: David's father appears to him as a ghost because he can't pass on until David learns the truth about him--not him -- not what actually happened to him, since David still thinks at the time it was George and he still dissipates, but that Robert genuinely was trying to turn his life around and fix his family.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: James used to be an innocent child - -- running away from King George [[ChildrenAreInnocent because he was appalled by the idea of becoming]] [[DramaticIrony a knight who would kill people]].



* YankTheDogsChain: It looked like Hook's life was improving, getting David's respect and his okay to propose to Emma. Then Hook finds out that he killed David's father years ago and never even knew it and is now racked with guilt and fear over David finding out.

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* YankTheDogsChain: It looked like Hook's life was improving, getting David's respect and his okay to propose to Emma. Then Hook finds out that he killed David's father years ago and never even knew it and is now racked with guilt and fear over David finding out.out.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Hook had presumably killed so many people in his pirate days that he honestly never put together how David's father was one of them until he saw the picture of the man.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The coin. First the Evil Queen used it to taunt David about the past, after which Gold identified who it came from. In this episode it appears along with his father's ghost and is used by David to cast a tracking spell so he can learn the truth about his death; was the means by which Rumple chose which twin would go to George; was nearly stolen by Pinocchio on Pleasure Island ([[ContrivedCoincidence so as to allow August to tell David of his father being there to find James and getting captured by George]]); and bound to his father as he was thrown into the ravine. David finally tosses it into the harbor to let go of the past. Whew!

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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Hook had presumably killed so many people in his pirate days that he honestly never put together how David's father Robert was one of them until he saw the picture of the man.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: The coin. First the Evil Queen used it to taunt David about the past, after which Gold identified who it came from. In this episode it appears along with his father's ghost and is used by David to cast a tracking spell so he can learn the truth about his death; was the means by which Rumple chose which twin would go to George; was nearly stolen by Pinocchio on Pleasure Island ([[ContrivedCoincidence so as to allow August to tell David of his father being there to find James and getting captured by George]]); and bound to his father Robert as he was thrown into the ravine. David finally tosses it into the harbor to let go of the past. Whew!



** Rumplestiltskin claims to want just a hair from James's father's head as "small things can lead to great things" but when the man leaves, he tosses it aside and admits [[ContinuityNod he knows what it's like]] [[PetTheDog for a father to do anything to get his son back]].

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** Rumplestiltskin claims to want just a hair from James's father's Robert's head as "small things can lead to great things" but when the man leaves, he tosses it aside and admits [[ContinuityNod he knows what it's like]] [[PetTheDog for a father to do anything to get his son back]].



* {{Retcon}}: "The Shepherd" implied that Ruth was the one who made the deal giving one of her sons to George, and did so to save the farm. Instead it was his father, and it was done to obtain the medicine that would save both boys' lives.

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* {{Retcon}}: "The Shepherd" implied that Ruth was the one who made the deal giving one of her sons to George, and did so to save the farm. Instead it was his father, father Robert, and it was done to obtain the medicine that would save both boys' lives.



** Now that the truth behind David's father's death has been revealed, it's even more clear how taunting him with the coin and his father's fate was a form of this for the Evil Queen: because she must have learned of the truth via her magic mirror, and so she knew one of two things would happen--either David would kill George out of revenge and thus drive a wedge between him and Snow when she found out, or when the truth about Killian came out it would drive a wedge between David and Killian as well as Emma and Killian--or even David and Emma, if she stuck by Killian anyway. [[XanatosGambit So no matter which way it turned out]], her enemies would suffer and be torn apart.

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** Now that the truth behind David's father's death has been revealed, it's even more clear how taunting him with the coin and his father's Robert's fate was a form of this for the Evil Queen: because she must have learned of the truth via her magic mirror, and so she knew one of two things would happen--either David would kill George out of revenge and thus drive a wedge between him and Snow when she found out, or when the truth about Killian came out it would drive a wedge between David and Killian as well as Emma and Killian--or even David and Emma, if she stuck by Killian anyway. [[XanatosGambit So no matter which way it turned out]], her enemies would suffer and be torn apart.



* UnfinishedBusiness: David's father appears to him as a ghost because he can't pass on until David learns the truth about him--not what actually happened to him, since David still thinks at the time it was George and he still dissipates, but that he genuinely was trying to turn his life around and fix his family.

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* UnfinishedBusiness: David's father appears to him as a ghost because he can't pass on until David learns the truth about him--not what actually happened to him, since David still thinks at the time it was George and he still dissipates, but that he Robert genuinely was trying to turn his life around and fix his family.
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* ChekhovsBoomerang: The coin. First the Evil Queen used it to taunt David about the past, after which Gold identified who it came from. In this episode it appears along with his father's ghost and is used by David to cast a tracking spell so he can learn the truth about his death; was the means by which Rumple chose which twin would go to George; was nearly stolen by Pinocchio on Pleasure Island ([[ContrivedCoincidence so as to allow August to tell David of his father being there to find James and getting captured by George]]); and bound to him as he was thrown into the ravine. David finally tosses it into the harbor to let go of the past. Whew!

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* ChekhovsBoomerang: The coin. First the Evil Queen used it to taunt David about the past, after which Gold identified who it came from. In this episode it appears along with his father's ghost and is used by David to cast a tracking spell so he can learn the truth about his death; was the means by which Rumple chose which twin would go to George; was nearly stolen by Pinocchio on Pleasure Island ([[ContrivedCoincidence so as to allow August to tell David of his father being there to find James and getting captured by George]]); and bound to him his father as he was thrown into the ravine. David finally tosses it into the harbor to let go of the past. Whew!

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'''Season 6, Episode 12''':
!Murder Most Foul



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** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/OnceUponATimeS2E19Lacey Last we saw of the Sheriff of Nottingham in Storybrooke]], he was tongueless and being beaten by Gold. This episode reveals that not only did he not die from this, he has his tongue back.

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** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/OnceUponATimeS2E19Lacey [[Recap/OnceUponATimeS2E19Lacey Last we saw of the Sheriff of Nottingham in Storybrooke]], he was tongueless and being beaten by Gold. This episode reveals that not only did he not die from this, he has his tongue back.
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David and Hook team up to find a way to break the sleeping curse on Snow. However, when he discovers his father is involved, David may go to extreme methods to save Snow.

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Hook agrees to help David and Hook team up to find a way to break uncover the sleeping curse on Snow. However, truth about his father's death, hoping to gain his respect, but when he discovers his father is King George may be involved, David may go to extreme methods lengths to save Snow.
achieve justice. Meanwhile, Regina discovers that Robin too has a dark side that may complicate his acclimation to life in Storybrooke.

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* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Pinocchio just happened to be on Pleasure Island at the same time James ran away there and his father came looking for him, all so he could witness what happened between them and King George so as to tell David about it in the present day.



** King George was last seen as a KarmaHoudini after killing Gus, trying to incite the town against Ruby, and destroying Jefferson's hat. We finally find out he was locked up after that (probably by David) and has been there ever since. (Whether he was still locked up in the Enchanted Forest after the curse was undone in Season 3, or free until Snow and Charming recast it, isn't known.)

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** King George was last seen as a KarmaHoudini after killing Gus, Billy/Gus, trying to incite the town against Ruby, and destroying Jefferson's hat. We finally find out he was locked up after that (probably by David) and has been there ever since. (Whether he was still locked up in the Enchanted Forest after the curse was undone in Season 3, or free until Snow and Charming recast it, isn't known.)

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Or Gold simply put it back when he was done beating him.


** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/OnceUponATimeS2E19Lacey Last we saw of the Sheriff of Nottingham in Storybrooke]], he was tongueless and being beaten by Gold. This episode reveals that not only did he not die from this, he has his tongue back. While we can guess this is because once Belle came back to herself she wanted him restored and prevailed on Blue and the other fairies (since she was still only a novice at magic back then), we don't know for sure.

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** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/OnceUponATimeS2E19Lacey Last we saw of the Sheriff of Nottingham in Storybrooke]], he was tongueless and being beaten by Gold. This episode reveals that not only did he not die from this, he has his tongue back. While we can guess this is because once Belle came back to herself she wanted him restored and prevailed on Blue and the other fairies (since she was still only a novice at magic back then), we don't know for sure.

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