A prominent family meets their new neighbors in the only Departure-free town in America.
Snow, Charming, Regina, Zelena and Hook are trapped in a crumbling Fairy Tale Land and desperately try to figure out a way to be reunited with Emma and Henry.
Henry awakens to a cursed Storybrooke and discovers Emma has been in the mental hospital, and the Black Fairy is the new mayor. Henry attempts to help Emma regain her memory, while Gold tries to find out what has really happened to Belle.
After Rumple's mother learns from his fairy godmother that his destiny is prophesized, she does everything in her power to keep it from happening. Meanwhile, in Storybrooke, Rumple faces a similar delimma.
Trapped in Neverland, Hook aligns himself with Tiger Lily, hoping to find a way back to Emma. In Storybook, Regina works to break the sleeping curse that David and Snow are under, and Gold denies The Black Fairy, which brings the two of them to a fearsome impasse.
