Once Upon a Time: Season Four
Episode 1 begins with the Airship, the Glory of Agrabah, flying through the air and gunning down Dragons. Charming explains to Aladdin and the nature of the ship, which is supported by several flying carpets inside the skeleton of thes ship with a mostly western crew including sharpshooters. The two are using a stolen map of gateways between the various worlds the Empire controls and are bombing them, hoping to decapitate the Empire by cutting off their easy transport. Another group enters the Homelands through a beanstalk. However, security around the Empire capitol is much more, leading to an intense battle when the beanstalk is discovered. In the real world, Cinderella escapes from Hansel and rescues Geppetto, shooting Hansel's kneecaps out in the process. In the Empire's capitol, the Fabletown to smuggle Aurora(Sleeping Beauty) into the city, where she pricks her finger and her curse activates, causing everyone in the castle to fall asleep except for the wooden beings, the Emperor among them, however fast growing vines envelop many of them. Everything seems to be going well. Then things start to go wrong.
Just as Cinderella and Pinnocchio prepare to return to Fabletown, the Empire Agents Rodney and June intercept them, and nearly kill Cinderella, forcing Pinnocchio to run away. The Emperor bursts out of the vines and leads an army on the Beanstalk. The Empire forces assaulting it bring out a single enchanted arrow in their posession that will kill any specific target given to it. The arrow is fired. Boy Blue sees it heading towards Bigby and leaps in the way, the arrow goes through Blue's witching cloak, through Blue and hits Bigby. Both collapse and are possibly dead.
At the orders of the Emperor, a single Dragon is hidden under some trees and flies above the Airship, the Glory of Agrabah. Because it's an airship made partly of wood, the Dragon's fire devastates it, forcing everyone to evacuate on flying carpets and killing the Zephyrs they were using since they were made of wind. As the Airship crashed, Sinbad found Charming, horribly injured. There is one gate and one bomb left. Charming carried a bomb, pulling it with flying carpets strapped around it. Charming says goodbye to Sinbad and tells him "Tell every woman I ever loved I was thinking of them in the end. That should keep you busy for a few years." and then carries the bomb into the gate, literally walking through a dark tunnel to a light. Shortly afterwards an explosion occurs and travels through the tunnel, Sinbad narrowly avoiding the burst of fire. Charming is dead.
Bigby Wolf wakes up in a tent being treated. Thanks to bringing guns, the Fables are doing well aginst the Empire. Bigby transforms into a massive wold and battles the Emperor, though since both are massive, Bigby is about the size of a regular wolf to the Emperor. Bigby is horribly injured and forced to retreat, returning in human form and this time able to beat the Emperor, using weapons and tactics, allowing Blue to decapitate the Emperor before he collapses from his injuries.
In the human world, Pinnocchio is able stop Rodney and June from killing Cinderella and use the logic that since he has loyalty spells on him that make him act in Geppetto's best interest, what he must be doing is therefore in Geppetto's best interest and that Geppetto is in more danger running an Empire than if he was not. This ends up working and Rodney and June surrender. Pinnocchio then goes to the Beanstalk and enters the Homelands and is there along with Bigby and the others to confront Geppetto, who is brought over and forced to sign the Fabletown Contract, which turns him into a resident of Fabletown and grants him amnesty provided he does not commit anymore crimes. Geppetto warns that since the head of the government has basically been decapitated, that all the different members of the Empire Council will either continue fighting or become serious threats without the Empire to keep them in line. Despite the warning he still signs the contract. Boy Blue is brought to the farm and on his deathbed, says goodbye to Rose Red. The doctors find that a piece of the Witching Cloak was stuck inside Boy Blue and is preventing him from healing. Boy Blue dies and is buried, being given a statue along with Prince Charming. The idea that the most popular characters can be revived is brought up, making it possible that Prince Charming could return, but Boy Blue cannot since he was only in a lesser known nursery rhyme. Some of the Animal Fables spread the belief that Boy Blue will return.
Episode 2. In the Homelands, Hades approaches the Queen of Hearts, Grimhilde, Madame Mim and Baba Yaga and forges an alliance with them, out of his anger for Flycatcher's actions. Hades resurrects Maleficient, Ursula, and Cruella De Ville(it is questioned why she was brought back since she lacks magical abilties but Hades explains that she has important knowledge that will be revealed to the group after they succeed in their task. Hades also teases other videos by having their souls appear(which are animated). This results in many cameos including Amos Slade, Charles F.Muntz, Clayton and Sabor, Edgar Balthazar, Claude Frollo, Gaston, The Horned King, Long John Silver(specifically from Disney's live action adaptation of Treasure Island, not Treasure Planet due to its future setting), Lady Tremaine, Lyle Tiberius Rourke, Mor'dru(as a Bear, presumably due to his curse in Hell), Mother Gothel, Oogie Boogie, Percival C.McLeach, Governor Ratcliffe, Ratigan, Shan Yu, Shere Khan, Stromboli, and Yzma. Hades promises to unleash all these souls at the group's disposal.
While this is going on, life resumes with the rest of the Fables, Geppetto being given a tour around town. Many in the town refusing to service him and showing hatred for him while Geppetto refuses to apologize, still believing he did the right thing. Its as uncomfortable as Hitler touring a jewish community. Nick Burkfield, still having glass in his eyes that allow him to see only the evil inside a person's souls, sees Geppetto and gouges out his own eyes, being unable to bare the sight of all the people Geppetto killed. In the Homelands, an unknown figure releases Rumplestiltskin, holding the Dark One's Dagger to control him. Geppetto senses this and wanrs Frau Totenkinder but cryptically and insists on being put in charge to stop it. The controlled Rumplestiltskin attacks Fabletown, causing an earthquake and everyone inside the buildings to flee outside. The entire area is destroyed as the episode ends. The one responsible, and the one controlling Rumplestiltskin is revealed to be the Wicked Witch of the West, of Oz infamy.
Episode 3 shifts the perspective to Jack Horner, who was released and has made it big in Hollywood. Jack Horner hears about the destruction of Fabletown and decides to head over there. On the way he is abducted and brought to an area known as the Golden Boughs Retirement Home. He is brought to meet Mister Revise. Revise reveals that he is not a Fable, but a literal, a personification of a literary concept, in his case, a story being revised. He demonstrates his powers on Jack by splitting him into several people, revealing that Jack is actually a Composite of several characters from different stories and nursery rhymes such as Jack and the Bean Stalk, Jack the giant Killer, Jack from Jack and Jill, little Jack Horner, Jack be Nimble and so on. He then returns Jack to normal, letting him off with a warning. Revise apparently has the power to change stories and his powers impact how people remember those stories. Jack decides to plan to escape, something never done before. He is sent to his house while there, only to find someone has eaten his porridge and is sleeping in his bed. It is revealed to be Goldilocks, who Mr.Revise found near death and rescued. Jack begins working with her to escape along with a group of fables including Sam the Janitor, an older african american caretaker who can't remember his own name. He tries to tell Humpty Dumpty and Mother Goose, they have to stay since they can't pass off as human. Humpty Dumpty reveals he knows where a treasure is, so Jack keeps him on while rejects Mother Goose(who comments that she was originally human but Mr.Revise turned her into a giant Goose over time). Jack also starts to attempt to seduce Mr.Revise's three daughters, the Paige Sisters, who all work there.
The details of the Prison are explained to Jack by Sam and Gary, who is revealed to be another literal called the Pathetic Fallacy(the personification of giving inhuman objects human traits, which also extends to his power. He can animate Inanimate objects). The security at the Golden Boughs consist of creatures called Bagmen. Human guards. Tigers and if anything takes to the air, then birdlike creatures called Rooks. Jack also meets a group of fairies(from A Midsummer Night's Dream and also the original Cottingley Fairies), who consider Jack a hero. It is revealed Jack saved them by stepping on a monster that was about to eat them. Not even noticing he'd done so. Jack devises his plan to escape. The Paige Sisters learns of this but Mr.Revise reveals he already knows as there is a spy among Jack's ranks, they just don't know when and how he'll try to break out.
Jack has the Fairies be released and distract the Rooks. They also summon outside birds, which distract the Rooks. The rest of the Fables breach the gate and begin to flee. Sam the Janitor reveals that he posesses superspeed. The Tigers chase him and are next seen having been turned into butter, to a confused Jack. The group escape but Humpty is shattered, with Jack collecting all his pieces so he can know where the treasure is. The rest of the Fables take the time to escape. This includes the Tortoise and the Hare, who mention being captured after returning to the Homelands.
Mr.Revise finds the Tigers turned into butter and explains that Sam is Black Sambo, a story seen as Racist by the Humans, so Mr.Revise hid him away and censored him but the story was about Sambo outrunning tigers until they turned to butter. The African American Older man from before is seen walking away humming "Zippity-Doo Dah Zippity Doo Dah. My oh my. What a wonderful Day."
On the outskirts and in front of a well, Jack reveals that he found out Goldilocks is a spy because she has glasses and all of Mr.Revise's people have glasses, which Goldilocks finds stupid. A fight ensues, ending with Jack punching Goldilocks down the well and fleeing. Mr.Revise pulls her out. Jack meets up with the other Fables who escaped and tells them that they are heading to the Farm as he guesses that's where they'll go. Mr.Revise is shown to be guessing the same thing.
Episode 4 has the Fables from the Golden Boughs arrive at the Farm, where it is revealed that the Tortoise and the Hare were captured and replaced by Mr.Revise imposters during the battle at the Beanstalk. It is then revealed that the Tortoise is still back at the Golden Boughs, still walking and the fake Tortoise and Hare are captured. After Boy Blue's death, some of the animals have started a religion believing he will come back. Jack goes and meets Rose Red, who is still mourning the death of Boy Blue. Jack is unaware he is dead and ends up sleeping with Rose Red in her grief. Because the animals hear her cying out Blue's name, they come to believe that Jack is Boy Blue in another form, this combined with the Fables who followed Jack being loyal to him, leads Jack to gain a cult following. Jack is visited by a mysterious teen who reveals himself to be Jack's son. It is revealed in flashback that Jack once wooed the Snow Queen into giving him her powers for a time, wherein he acted out as Jack Frost, only to have to take those powers away when he refused to give them back. Unknown to Jack, the Snow Queen was pregnant with his son, which became Jack Frost(technically Jack Frost Two). Not wanting to put his new son in danger, Jack sends his son to meet with Elsa and Anna, who intend to retreive the unconscious Snow Queen from the Empire's Capitol and talk to her as she may be Elsa's mother. They find that both Aurora(Sleeping Beauty) and the Snow Queen have been taken away somewhere.
Episode 5 begins with with Jack Horner doing the impossible and successfully putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. This allow Humpty to guide Jack to the treasure, which he reveals is in Americana, the Homelands version of America. Jack and Humpty sneak into the Homelands, following by Hillary Page, who was tracking down escaped Fables and just captured Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. While Mr.Revise had used magic to shrunk Paul Bunyan. He starts to get gradually bigger once they enter Americana as the magic is fading. Followng Humpty Dumpty's map, which was on part of his shell. The two groups end up joining together to get the treasure and travel through Americana in a montage. Among the lands included seen are a Wild West land, Gangsterland(a gangster themed land), Antebellum(The South) and finally they reached a 60's style town that is filled with Zombies. The group fight their way through to a library where they are aided by a mysterious man. Inside the man is shown to be burning all the books in the library. He then reveals himself to be named Bookburner. Hillary reveals she went along because she believes Book Burner is her father, but he denies this. Hillary recalls growing up and not fitting in with her family. She began reading stories about how Book Burner was once a nice made that was a lot like her and wanted to confirm her belief. Book Burner turns out to want to destroy all stories. Unfortunately Jack lets it slip that the Golden Boughs has weakened defenses. Page explains to Jack that Mr.Revise keeps the original copies of most of the original books under the Golden Boughs and that if they are destroyed the fable will die. The group is forced to make a retreat while Booker Burner sends Zombies after them. Humpty Dumpty is killed and Paul Bunyan sacrifices himself as the Zombies overwhelm him, and he is turned into a giant zombie while the rest of the group escapes. Book Burner is revealed to be able to revive beings as Zombies and has been building army of forgotten Fairy tale characters that he intends to also kill once they are the only things left. The group heads back to the Golden Boughs while sending messages to ask for help from anyone to aid in defending the Boughs. On the way there, they realize that none of them can remember who Paul Bunyan is.
Episode 6 consists almost entirely of a battle between the Fables protecting the Golden Boughs, including several Fabletown and Farm residents, fighting the forces of Bookburner. Bookburner's forces are lampshaded in universe as characters you've never heard of due to Bookburner wiping them from human memory, such as Little Lindsay Lairet, Meltzinger Moose and his magnificent Juice, the Comanche Skeleton, Omar the Camel, the Knife Johns(soldier siwth knives for hands) and so on. Of these Meltzinger Moose became a meme as he appears to be carring a barrel of alcohol and a bottle of moonshine, though his name is often shortened to "Moose with the Juice" in a similar fashion to "You've heard of Elf on a Shelf. Now get ready for..."
Before the battle, with most of the Fables gathered, Jack Horner makes a speech before a giant American flag dressed as George S. Patton and delivering a speech parodying the film
Patton. Goldilocks gathers her own team to stage a revolution, believing that Bookburner is actually liberating those Mr.Revise has been keeping hostage, quoting 'The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend". Mad Hatter and the March Hate contemplate if this means that "the Friend of my Friend is my Enemy" and come to believe that this means the sleeping Dourmouse is their enemy and decide they should kill him while he's unaware. The Dourmouse is not seen again, making it unsure if they actually went through with it.
The battle then begins, during which the group is attacked by an undead Demonic Humpty Dumpty who has been transformed by Bookburner into what Jack refers to as a "Deviled Egg". The group is nearly killed but is rescued by another literal called Deus, a large machine man, the personification of the concept of the Deus Ex Machina concept. Deus arrived to save Gary the Pathetic Fallacy but refuses to help as if he continued to help he would get old and rust, however he reveals that under the Golden Boughs is something that could help them. The group asks Mr.Revise and opens a vault to reveal the original stories, which are handed out to the various characters. The Cowardly Lion reads the original copy of the Wizard of Oz, and remembers that he was actually a large savage lion. He was looking for courage because he was ashamed that he felt fear deep inside. The Cowardly Lion therefore transforms from his humanoid scared MGM based depiction to a giant realistic Lion that leaps into battle. A similar effect begins to happen to the other Fables such as Cu Chulain, Kiviuq, and others. Jack even writes in the original manuscript of the Wizard of Oz script(to Revise's anger as he compares it to drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa), causing the Tin Man to gain buzz saw arms and cannons. Other transformations are less impressive but serve as nods for example Little Black Sambo turns into an indian boy(since the character was originally Indian before becoming Black in later versions), and Aladdin turns into a Chinese man(since the original story is Chinese), though Aladdin requests to be changed back due to feeling weird. Another minor. change is the appearance of a pif, who claims to be the Fourth Little Pig who built his house out of cloth. Snow White recognizes him, saying he was her favorite but then realizing she had forgotten about him. The Fourth Pig is excited to reunite with his brothers, only for Snow and Red to nervously hesitate saying anything. Goldilocks's attempt to aid Bookburner falls apart very quickly as Bookburner's forces shoot them down. Goldilocks sees Snow and attempts one more time to kill her, but the Fourth Pig jumps in the way of the bullet, before Bookburner's forces kill Goldilocks.
The Battle continues for sometime and BookBurner offers the Golden Boughs forces a chance to surrender. Jack ruins the negotations by repeatedly shooting Bookburner, causing the amount of time they have left before the second attack comes to shorten each time by half an hour with every bullet. Mr.Revise is prepared to accept defeat and the end to all the stories inside, but lets it slip that he has one final fable contained, a dark and ancient entity named Chernabog. This gives the Fables an idea. BookBurner's forces enter the Golden Boughs but find nothing, only for Chernabog to burst through the Golden Boughs, destroying the building with Bookburner's forces inside while the Golden Boughs Fables have already fled. Chernagob bursts out from what appears to be a Volcanic eruption he causes when he emerges. Bookburner is burned alive in a homage to
Raiders of the Lost Ark. Bookburner's fedora is seen on fire, slowly floating down. Chernabog then battles Paul Bunyan in a massive battle. The loss of the magic of the Golden Boughs causes Babe the Blue Ox, who had been shrunk to dog size by Mr.Revise and travelled with the group, to grow to its full size, and be forced to kill the undead Paul Bunyan with its horns(Babe the Blue Ox has a closeup of the eye revealing it is crying). Chernabog then disappears, evidently escaping. The Fables then begin to head back to the Farm while carrying the rescues original versions of their stories. The Tortoise from the Tortoise and the Hare is seen fleeing, evidently from his perspective, still escaping the Golden Boughs retirement home from a few episodes earlier.
Episode 7 reveals that the Farm now has a newly built town around it to house the human Fables and is now known as Storybrooke. The characters now go about their lives. However in the Homelands,the Wicked Witch, who has refuses to join the group of villains known as the Queens of Darkness is commanding Rumplestiltskin, revealing that the Dark One's power is needed to confront Pan's Shadow. Under the Wicked Witch of the West's command, Rumplestiltskin arrives at the ruins of Fabletown in New York. The Wicked Witch discovers Nick Burkhardt in the ruins. He was present inside and was unaware of what had happened around him due to gouging his own eyes out previously. The Wicked Witch has Rumplestiltskin kill Nick, something which he attempts to struggle against doing as Nick is his son, but is unable to and Nick is killed. A Dark One ability is revealed when Rumpelstilskin takes Nick's skull and eats the teeth, revealing that he can summon Nick's spirit a total of 32 times depending on the number of teeth the victim has. Through Nick's spirit, The Wicked Witch of the West learns of the enchantments hiding Fables from humans and the mirror that shows only ugliness. In Response, she has Rumplestiltskin create a massive dark castle in the middle of the New York, clearly visible to all.
The Wicked Witch of the West is approached by Hades, who reveals that a recent death has led to access to new information. Hades has the soul of Bookburner and a memory is shown of a being known as the author named Isaac thorn, being thrown down a well by younger versions of Mr.Revise and Bookburner. His crime is evidently for abusing his power in trying to destroy the universe and all stories so he could start over. The Author is thrown down the well, which Revise explains is a memory hole. Anyone thrown down it will lose their memories. After the Author is thrown, Bookburner comments that maybe the Author was onto something. Hades reveals that he already knows this and shows another memory. This one belonging to Cruella De Ville, who is seen briefly meeting a man who drunkenly reveals that he was chosen as an author, one of several being entrusted with the power to create worlds. Hades finally reveals that this was the information he traded with the Queens of Darkness and that he's giving it to the Wicked Witch because he "Kinda has the Hots for her." The Wicked Witch then vows to find the Author before the Queens of Darkness do. Bookburner will neither talk nor will his memories show as Revise hid the Author from him.
Episode 8 is the famous Tron Episode, directed by James Rolfe(Get it because Tron is from the Eighties). Hades is talking to Bookburner and comes and comments that no matter how many books you burn a story will continue to exist on the Internet and convinces Bookburner to go after that. He reveals that through a deceased employee of ENCOM, Hades knows of a way to enter the digital world and through it the Internet where Book Burner can destroy it, jokingly calling Book Burner "Facebook Burner" or "Data Purger". The Main cast is investigating the large Castle when they see Book Burner travelling to the old Flynn's Arcade and follow him. Book Burner entered the digital world with several of the main cast. At this point the plot becomes much more simple, stop Book Burner in the digital world with the aid of Tron(Guest star Bruce Boxleitner) and Flynn(guest star Jeff Bridges). The effects were highly praised. The Episode ultimately ends with Book Burner being destroyed with Tron's assistance. Hades reveals that he actually planned for Bookburner to die since he was already too powerful to be completely controlled and by entering the digital world he was reduced in power to a form that the program could process, and thus make him easier to kill.
Episode 9 dived into the origin of Grimhilde, Cora(the Queen of Hearts) and Elphaba(The Wicket Witch of the West) as they all sit and talk. Cora, who is revealed to also be the Miller's daughter from the original tale of Rumpelstiltskin. However prior to that Cora had a daughter which she was abandoned. The daughter was taken to Oz by a cyclone. Cora thwarted Rumpletstilskin and gave birth to Grimhilde. When Grimhilde was young she was forced to marry the father of Snow White, however she actually loved a stable boy. The young Snow White revealed the relationship and Cora had the Stable Boy killed, beginning the long hatred between Snow White and Grimhilde. Elphaba then tells what happened to her, which is largely baed on the musical Wicked(Oz the Great and Powerful not existing ITTL). Elphaba faked her death and decided to go on and live a life elsewhere, eventually finding her mother. Cora accepts Elphaba fairly quickly and turns against Grimhilde. Grimhilde in anger, departs and is going to the heroes.
Episode 10 begins with the Fables asking Mr.Revise about where he put the author so that they could find him before the Queens of Darkness or Rumpelstiltskin. It turns out Isaac Thorn's last request before having his memory erased was to be near his creations. He has actually lived as a normal human(and has actually appeared in the background of several scenes since the first episode, always writing when he did appear). At the same time, Rumplestiltskin finally finds him and restores his memories. However, he doesn't have his pen, which Mr.Revise is revealed to posess. In the present, Rumpletstilskin immediately travels to the Storybrooke and to everyone's surprise, despite efforts to stop him, injures Mr.Revise(causing him to need a wheelchair) and takes the Pen, before teleporting away.
Episode 11 is a Rose Red centered episode. Rose Red has sunken into depression following Boy Blue's death when a spirit visits her. The Spirit talsk to Rose Red and this leads to a flashback, revealing the source of her depression. Snow and Red's mother is caring for a group of white and red roses. She pricks her finger and sees the blood touch the snow. She then wishes for children. The end result is two daughters named Snow White and Rose Red. Then their mother dies, after the funeral it is revealed that Cora poisoned her, which she brags to her corpse. The Roses evidently having been a gift from Cora. When Grimhilde becomes Queen, Frau Totenkinder takes Snow White and Rose Red and hides them in a cabin. The two grow up in the Black Forest in Germany.
The two sisters end up giving shelter to a talking bear, which continues to visit. One day the sisters find a Dwarf with its beard stuck in a tree and help it. The Dwarf is not thankful but angry at them for cutting off his beard. it is revealed each time the Dwarf was actually trying to steal Gold from each of them. The Children save the Dwarf from different situations wher ehis beard is stuck(being pulled into the water by a giant fish or being pulled by an eagle) and continue to cut the Dwarf's beard, which the Dwarf is angry about due to the beard being the source of his magic power. The third time the Bear suddenly emerges and reveals the Dwarf cursed him and has been stealing his treasure. The Bear kills the Dwarf now that the Dwarf's beard has been cut and he is powerless. After which the Dwarf turns into a Prince named James. James promises to marry Snow White and that he has a brother that can marry Rose Red. However, James's father King George disapproves of the marriage and King George explains that James's brother is living on a farm unaware of his true origin. King George lets it slip during a meeting with Grimhilde that Snow White is the name of his would be bride and Grimhilde launches an attack on Totenkinder's cabin. She tells Snow and Red to run. Frau seemingly vanishes and Red is taken hostage. Red remembers being imprisoned by Grimhilde, who one day tells her that she will be executed. Red in the present realizes she can't remember how she got out of that one. The next thing she remembers is being found by Snow White and her husband Prince Charming. She then ended up seducing Prince Charming, causing the two to divorce.
Episode 12 kicks off with the Fable group(with Grimhilde and Rose Red included) running to confront The Wicked Witch of the West and the Author. Before leaving, Grimhilde is given by Frau Totenkinder an enchanted spell capable of cleaning evil. Cora is also present and helps to fight the Fable Group. Cora boasts about having killed Snow White and Rose Red's mother. Grimhilde is shown in flashback to have discovered Cora's involvement and that motivated her to switch sides. Grimhilde uses the evil purging spell on Cora(as she lacks powers ITTL) and she appears to smile, only to then be decapitated by Rose Red to Grimhilde’s horror. Rose Red delivers the one liner of “Of with her head” and doing so out of anger for Cora's killing of her mother. The Wicked Witch retreats in shock and sadness.
The Wicked Witch of the West, in exchange for giving the pen to the author, asks to be sent back in time. The Author uses his pen to open a portal that will take whoever steps in to anytime they choose. Emma and Captain Hook end up falling into the portal. Grimhilde ends up disrupting the spell and causing Elphaba to be lost in the time stream, gleefully proclaiming “Over the Rainbow Bitch!” before she seemingly falls into some unknown place in time. Emma and Hook are in the past and realize they need to find a way to get back to their own time. They end up guiding Prince Charming to Snow White, however they are also briefly captured by Grimhilde of the past and escape, rescuing a captive which turns out to be Rose Red in the process. The group then begin to return to their own time but Rose Red hangs on as Grimihilde's forces are advancing on them. She ends up letting go and as a result ends up appearing a few years later, with amnesia of the time travel event. This leads her to reuniting with Snow White and Prince Charming years into their marriage. Emma and Hook successfully return to the present.
Episode 13 shows Issac using his author powers abusively. It is also shown that a wizard known as Yen Sid was searching for an Author and Isaac lied about being his mentor to receive the enchanted Pen. In the present he is shown to be abusing his power. He has a man who looked at him funny be torn apart by raptors. A neighbor he finds annoying he decides to write that his wife cheats on him with his best friend. He then begins walking in the park and causes horrbile deaths to everyone around him before creating a house for him. He decides he's going to destroy the universe and start over. Searching for inspiration he summons personifications of the Genres. This includes Action(Played by Arnold Shwarzenagger dressed as Rambo), Western(who resembles John Wayne), Science Fiction(wearing a space suit and a space gun), Fantasy(resembling an old wizard), Mystery(a cloaked figute), Horror( a dark hooded figure with red eyes and sharp teeth), and Comedy(who resembles Groucho Marx and frequently makes puns).
The Main cast(now joined by Jack Frost) launch an attack at Isaac's mansion, where the personifications attack them. Isaac attempts to use his power to kill them by dropping a car on them, but is confused when he writes the word "Nearly". Isaac is able to use his powers to turn Bigby into a little girl, which ironically ends up helping in the battle with the Genres, a girl Bigby maintains their wolflike abilities and begins killing the genres, especially since Western and Action refuse to hurt a child, though Action can accept is as collateral damage.
Unable to write successfully, Isaac summons Mr.Revise and Sam, who is pushing the wheelchair bound Mr.Revise. Isaac then discovers what is happening, using his ability to reveal who is stopping him. It turns out to be another Literal named Writer's Block, who was invisible to Isaac before. Mr.Revise is all for Isaac's plan to destroy the universe and recreate it. He even begins to kill Writer's block, but Sam uses his superspeed to take Mr.Revise in his wheelchair to the top of a cliff and drop him off. When he returns he makes an impassioned and touching speech about what stories are and what they mean. A speech intended to get Isaac to stop. Isaac seems swayed only to then immediately murder Writer's Block and prepare to destroy the universe. Sam delays the process by commenting that if Isaac wants to destroy the world he should change clothes and use a new page since he's covered in Writer's Block's blood. While he is away Sam tries to use the pen but it somehow overloads his mind, leading Isaac to gloat and promise to punish Sam further for the attempt.
After the Fables finally defeat the Genres(Comedy leaves of his own accord in a parody of Michigan J Frog's "Helloy my Baby" as he leaves offscreen with a top hat and cane). The Fables confront Isaac. Just as he writers "And then the World Ende" he is frozen by Jack Frost. In the aftermath, the Fables move the frozen Isaac to the land of the North Wind, hoping he never unfreezes.