Once Upon A Time Season 3 Episode 16 It Not Easy Being Green

In Oz in the past there's a great big green storm that drops a baby into the road. To be found by a couple heading down the Yellow Brick Road (I wonder if it was a conscious choice to give her a very lower class accent and him a professor's accent or if the casting director just said "British accents! THAT'LL DO!"). Despite the little baby's (Zelina's) disturbing talent ability to move half a tree, the woman is adamant they take her in and care for her.

In present day Storybrooke, everyone is gathered and tragic for Neal's funeral (woo-hoo! Tragic funeral means much less chance of them bringing him back! Oh... that's not the emotion we're going for here? Right. Sad and solemn. Sad and solemn). Everyone places a shovel full of dirt on the coffin (it is really sad and solemn and beautifully done and the fact I'm thinking "it'll take you ALL DAY filling it like that! Hurry up, the sooner he's buried the less chance he'll come back" is totally my fault).

Zelina still controls Rumple and taunts him about the death of his son - and Rumple fires back that she doesn't understand family. That calls for a flashback of her much older with her adoptive father and the advice he passed on we've heard before - always put on a good face, no matter what you feel inside. He's harsh over her mistakes and clearly terrified of the magic she can't control; he refuses to let her learn because it would make her - him - look bad. He also calls her Wicked (and her wickedness drove him to drink) and not really his daughter. Since her mother wasn't evil, she's long dead. When Zelina starts to cry he tells her to "put on a good face." She storms out to see the Wizard of Oz.

In Storybrooke, Emma chooses anger as her outlet for grief, especially since she can't talk about Neal with Henry without revealing he knows more about him than the absent father Henry remembers. Hook offers to talk to him (and not about "leather conditioner and eye-liner" though that was an awesome come back) since he knew Neal when Neal was a child in Neverland.

Robin and Regina continue their circling and Tinkerbell notices Robin's lion tattoo meaning he is Regina's prophesised love. Tinkerbell criticises Regina again for not leaping into True Love whether she wants to or not.

And Zelina gate crashes the wake - which is just rude and tacky - brandishing the Dark One's dagger to hold everyone at bay. She's there to reveal she's Regina's big sister and calling her out to a duel at sundown where everyone can see the Evil Queen lose to the Wicked Witch. Afterwards everyone discusses the challenge (Regina still has the best lines "I think I would have remembered my mother saying she had a love child with the Scarecrow"). Of course, everyone assumes Regina has done something terrible to Zelina to justify the attack.

That calls for a flashback - Zelina going to see the Wizard of Oz in his awesome castle - who shows her her family, her mother who abandoned her when she was a disappointment and Regina who was everything Cora wanted. She's also showed Rumple - "the most powerful wizard in all the realms". She demands to meet Rumple so he can teach her rather than Regina. So Ozzy gives her Emerald Slippers to travel to Rumple... so long as she brings something of Rumple's back. She travels to Rumple who is very very surprised to see Cora had another daughter.

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