Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-5899967-20150208192922/@comment-7720627-20150403110839

Hmcooper4 wrote: I think that both Merrin and Victoria are done with taping for OUaT as of "SFtDV". Since Merrin is appearing after getting her happy ending, it is likely just flashbacks (though they could pull her into present day again, depending on the story requirements). So I think that episode 4x18 probably ends the Queens of Darkness arc, and Merrin and Victoria will be off set (at least for this season, if they manage to keep Cruella alive as well, then who knows what future seasons hold).

4x19 through the Finale is probably a combination of Lily, Maleficent, Snow and David's dirty deed, potentially Dark Emma, and Operation Mongoose, which I am getting the feeling are very much intertwined, and compose a conclusion to this years action with the Author, and set up the next season, probably with some sort of major cliffhanger. I have this hunch, that after: "Mother through to Operation Mongoose (Both Parts)" this is when The Apprentice is released from The Sorcerer's Hat and the one who does it, is himself. bc The Apprentice is The Sorcerer... and as everyone has said it for months now, The Sorcerer is Merlin, it would relate to Heroes & Villains as how Rumple took the gaunlet from Camelot. I think once Blue figures it out, not to mention Cora/Zelena will both be in both parts. I'm very skeptical about whats gonna happen next?! bc I haven't seen anything that Rumple (Bobby) is going to be in the two hour finale yet. Ohmigod! Something's happened to Rumple?! I'm freaking out! bc after Mother, Rumple's not mentioned in the last two episodes of 4B. What just happened? Is he missing or dead again, or has Zelena taken him hostage once mor or has Belle finally taken control of her husband's actions towards the town of Storybrookers.