With Emma's powers getting out of control and hiding from everyone else, Rumplestiltskin took advantage of the situation by leading her in the abandoned manor to help Emma with her affliction. Robin Hood, meanwhile, employed Will Scarlet to try to help Regina in finding the author of the storybook, only to find out that Regina may not be doomed to suffer after all. Back in Arendelle during the past, Ingrid did whatever it takes to get her happy ending—the kind she haven't known for a long time, even if it means embracing the villainess inside of her, leading her to cultivate and casting a spell very much like the Ancient Norse legend in her book.