Only You (Episode)

"Emma Swan: This is, uh, Henry and Violet's song. Regina Mills: They have a song? Emma Swan: He really likes her. She's a nice girl."

"Only You" is the twenty-second episode of Season Five of ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by David H. Goodman & Andrew Chambliss, and directed by Romeo Tirone. It is the one-hundredth and tenth episode of the series overall, and premiered on May 15, 2016.

This episode is the first part of the season five finale.

Synopsis
Regina reels from the death of Robin Hood, and everyone tries to give her room to grieve, but when the heroes discover Gold has stolen Hades’ Olympian Crystal and tethered all of Storybrooke’s magic to it, they set out to stop him. Henry decides he no longer can stand all the pain magic has caused his family, so he goes rogue, with Violet in tow, to destroy magic once and for all. Meanwhile, Zelena, Snow, David and Hook attempt to open a portal that will return Merida and the other Storybrooke guests to their homes, but things go awry, and the group winds up in a deranged new world.

"Loaded"
This scene was cut for time, as the episode was fifteen minutes too long. Since Henry and Violet already had a lot of moments in the season finale, it was decided that the scene wasn't really needed.

Starring

 * Ginnifer Goodwin as Mary Margaret Blanchard
 * Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan
 * Lana Parrilla as Regina Mills
 * Josh Dallas as David Nolan
 * Emilie de Ravin (Credit only)
 * Colin O'Donoghue as Hook
 * Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills
 * Rebecca Mader as Zelena
 * Sean Maguire as Robin Hood (Voice)
 * Robert Carlyle as Mr. Gold

Guest Starring

 * Lee Arenberg as Leroy
 * Beverley Elliott as Granny
 * Hank Harris as the Groundsman
 * Amy Manson as Merida
 * Sam Witwer as the Warden
 * Arnold Pinnock as the Orderly
 * Olivia Steele Falconer as Violet

Co-Starring

 * Raphael Alejandro as Roland
 * Jason Burkart as Little John
 * Candus Churchill as Librarian
 * Michael Coleman as Happy
 * Faustino di Bauda as Walter
 * David-Paul Grove as Doc
 * Gabe Khouth as Mr. Clark
 * Mig Macario as Bashful
 * Flossie McKnight as Bus Driver
 * Michael P. Northey as Friar Tuck
 * Chris Olson as Toll Operator

Uncredited

 * Unknown baby as Robin
 * Unknown as Guinevere
 * Unknown as Floyd

Trivia
Production Notes=

Production Notes

 * The title card features the logo on a flying dirigible.
 * The title of this episode was announced by Adam Horowitz via his Twitter account on March 9, 2016.
 * "Only You" is the name of a song by Yazoo, which has previously been featured in the fifth season:
 * Henry plays it on his iPod and on the diner's jukebox when he first meets Violet in Camelot and Storybrooke, respectively.
 * Henry reuses the song during his date with Violet, and Emma mentions that Neal did the same thing with her.
 * The recap video in the beginning of the episode, contains an alternate angle of a shot from Emma and Hook's reunion in "Last Rites"; the moment where Emma kisses Hook's cheek as he says, "He must have sent me back".
 * Originally, the episode was going to open with Mr. Gold in the clock tower with the Olympian Crystal, followed by the scene where Hook and Emma are walking down the street. During editing, they realized that it made more sense open with Regina, since the story focuses on her a lot. In the script, Regina's scene took place after the scene with Emma and Hook.
 * The scene where Mr. Gold activates the crystal, and the ensuing scene where the heroes investigates, were originally going to take place out in the woods. For production reasons, the scenes were moved inside the clock tower, since the episode already had so many scenes that needed to be shot on location, making it more practical to shoot these two scenes in studio.
 * The scene where the heroes are inside the clock tower was originally scripted as everyone being on the same area. It was the director's idea to have them on two different levels.
 * The shot of Emma and Regina driving out of Storybrooke was filmed during "Darkness on the Edge of Town", for the part where Emma and Regina head for the town line. If you watch Emma, you can see that she's wearing the same outfit that she was wearing in that episode.
 * The two scenes by the magic door was originally written as one scene. During editing, it was decided to split the scene in two, with Henry and Violet's arrival in New York City in between.
 * The name on the bus that brings Henry's mobile phone from Maine to Boston, and the bus that brings Henry and Violet from Maine to New York, is Polar Star Coach Lines. The same company brought Robin Hood and his family from Maine to New York in "Heart of Gold". The same bus company name appears on the sign at the bus stop where young Emma meets Lily in Mankato, Minnesota, in "Lily". As Henry and Violet's bus leaves, you can see the words "Moving Maine forward" next to the logo.
 * In the script, the heroes were sucked through the magic door. The visual effects company re-imagined it as the watery substance that comes out of the door and grabs them.
 * The scene with Emma and Regina in the Yellow Bug was originally going to take place outside, but since it was raining that day, it was decided to move the scene inside the car. This, the rain on the car windows is completely real.
 * The part where blood is used to track someone was originally an idea that writer Andrew Chambliss had for an episode of The Vampire Diaries, which he was a writer of. However, it never made it in that form. Since then, he'd wanted to use that element for years, so when Regina needed a way to track Henry, he realized that his old idea would work.
 * A sequence where Mr. Gold came into Neal's apartment, told Emma and Regina that he was going after Henry, and locked them up with chains to keep them behind, was cut from the episode. The director shot the little moment with Gold listening outside the door, which was not originally scripted, and gave them the option to just use that instead.
 * The computer-generated imagery model used for the Rare Reading Room in the New York Public Library is recycled from the model created for the Dark Castle great hall, foyer and vault. This can easily be seen from the identical design of the columns and archways. The same model was used for the Netherworld in "Child of the Moon" and "Into the Deep".


 * -|Episode Connections=

Event Chronology

 * The Land Without Magic events take place after "Last Rites" and before "An Untold Story".
 * The Land of Untold Stories events take place before "An Untold Story".

Episode Connections

 * Robin Hood died in "Last Rites". Hook returned to the land of the living in the same episode.
 * Emma says that the Evil Queen cursed an entire kingdom when she lost her first love, referring to events in "Pilot" and "The Stable Boy".
 * Belle was put under a Sleeping Curse in "Ruby Slippers" and was put into Pandora's Box in "Firebird".
 * Mr. Gold failed to get Moe to wake Belle up in "Last Rites".
 * Henry says that magic turned his mother into a Dark One, an event that took place in "Operation Mongoose Part 2".
 * Henry shows Violet the wooden puppets, and says that they're Geppetto's parents. Stephen and Donna were turned into puppets in "That Still Small Voice".
 * Violet talks about the death of her mother, something that was first brought up in "Dreamcatcher".
 * Henry's plan to destroy magic succeeds in "An Untold Story".
 * This is not the first time Henry tries to destroy magic. In "Welcome to Storybrooke", he attempted to do the same by trying to blow up the Storybrooke Wishing Well.
 * Emma has a GPS on Henry's mobile phone, something that was first established in "A Curious Thing", where she used it to track him to the Storybrooke Harbor.
 * Emma and Regina have both been to Boston before. Regina was there when she adopted Henry in "Save Henry", and Emma lived in Boston during "Pilot".
 * Henry's last trip to Boston by bus was in "Pilot".
 * The bus company that brings Henry's mobile phone from Maine to Boston, and Henry and Violet from Maine to New York City, is Polar Star Coach Lines, the same bus company that brought Robin Hood and his family from Maine to New York in "Heart of Gold".
 * Regina uses the blood of a relative to track Henry. Mr. Gold did the same to find Neal in "In the Name of the Brother", and to track down Henry in "And Straight On 'Til Morning".
 * The last time Henry was in New York, was when he lived there with his mother in "Going Home" and "New York City Serenade".
 * This is the second time Henry steals money and travels out of Storybrooke on his own. The first time was when he stole Mary Margaret's credit card and tracked down Emma in Boston in "Pilot".
 * Henry, Violet, Emma and Regina return to Storybrooke in "An Untold Story".
 * Zelena previously conjured a twister portal with the Apprentice's Wand in "The Dark Swan" whilst the Apprentice created a door portal with the wand in "Smash the Mirror" and "Operation Mongoose Part 1". Regina conjured a cyclone in "Swan Song".
 * The arrow that Roland wants Regina to have, is mentioned again in "The Savior".
 * The magic door created by Zelena is the same as the door leading out of Glinda's Winter Garden in "A Curious Thing", and the door created by the Apprentice in "Operation Mongoose Part 1".
 * David, Hook, Mary Margaret and Zelena return to the Land Without Magic in "An Untold Story".
 * Mr. Hyde is surprised to learn that Rumplestiltskin found love, an event which took place in "Skin Deep" and "A Land Without Magic".
 * Henry takes Violet out for pizza in New York, just like Neal did with Henry in "The Queen Is Dead".
 * Henry says that magic tore his family apart when Rumplestiltskin became the Dark One, referring to events in "Desperate Souls" and "The Return".
 * Henry reveals that the reason why Neal was in New York, was to find a way to destroy magic in order to protect himself in case his father found him. Neal's stay in New York was shown in "Broken", "Manhattan" and "The Queen Is Dead", although this is the first time his motive has been revealed.
 * Robin Hood moved into Neal's old apartment, and tried to make things work with "Marian", in "Heart of Gold".
 * Emma finds an album by Yazoo in Neal's apartment, and says that it's Violet and Henry's song. Henry played the song "Only You" for Violet in "The Price" and "Dreamcatcher", and in the latter, Emma says that Neal used to play the same song for her.
 * Regina reminds Emma that she ripped Violet's heart out, which happened in "Dreamcatcher".
 * Emma uses a recovery unit on her keychain to retrieve Henry's search history, just like she did when she restored his deleted inbox in "Pilot". She also used a device on her keychain to hack into Greg Mendell's mobile phone in "In the Name of the Brother.
 * Regina says that years ago, Snow White told a secret, referring to events in "The Stable Boy".
 * Henry says that magic took away his father, which happened in "Quiet Minds".
 * Mr. Gold waves his hand and uses his magic to make Henry and Violet fall asleep, the same tactic that the previous Dark One, Emma, used on Hook in "Broken Heart".
 * How Dr. Jekyll's Serum was created, how Mr. Hyde knew Rumplestiltskin, and how Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ended up in the Land of Untold Stories, are revealed in "Strange Case".


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Disney

 * Merida from Brave appears in this episode.

Fairytales and Folklore

 * This episode features Captain Hook from the Peter Pan story, Little John and Friar Tuck from the Robin Hood ballad, the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz story, Hank's daughter from the novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and Mr. Poole from the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story.
 * The voice of Robin Hood from the ballad can be heard from the letter.

Lost

 * The Toll Operator charges Mr. Gold 15 dollars, a reference to the third Lost number.

Popular Culture

 * When Henry takes Violet out for pizza in New York, a USA Today vending machine can be seen in the street.
 * Pleading Guilty by Scott Turow, a hardcover edition of Closing the Ring by Winston Churchill (from The Second World War book series) and Howard Ruff from A to Z by Howard Ruff are sitting on Neal's bookshelf.
 * Howard Ruff from A to Z is also sitting on a shelf in the Underbrooke Library in "Firebird", indicating that it's a re-used prop.
 * Emma finds the LP record Upstairs at Eric's by Yazoo in Neal's apartment, and says that it's Henry and Violet's song, referring to the duo's famous ballad Only You. In "Dreamcather", Emma says that Neal used to play this song for for her.
 * Over Neal's bed, there are two promotional poster for the Canadian garage rock band The Pack A.D. While one of them was first seen in "Manhattan", the other one is new.
 * However, the other one was seen on Neal's apartment building in "The Queen Is Dead".
 * The way Zelena says, "We're certainly not in Storybrooke anymore", a reference to Dorothy's line from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, "I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
 * Emma mentions that it was Regina's idea to get food from Hardee's, an American fast food restaurant chain.
 * According to Adam Horowitz, Hardee's was a favorite of his on road trips with his family when he was a child.

Religion

 * In one of the storybooks Henry finds, angels and archangels are mentioned in an excerpt from Charles Kingsley's children's novel The Water-Babies.
 * The Holy Grail Twin is decorated with cross pattées.


 * -|Set Notes=

Props Notes

 * The author of the book Robin Hood: Myth & Legend, which Regina gave to Robin Hood, is Neil Westlake, a graphic designer and productions staff member on the show.
 * Neil Westlake is also listed as a complainant in a police report in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".
 * He is also listed as a land surveyor on a document in "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree".
 * Neil Westlake is also credited as a photographer on the front page of the Storybrooke Daily Mirror in "The Stable Boy".
 * He is also listed as one of the reviewers on the book blurb for Isaac's novel Heroes and Villains in "Operation Mongoose Part 1".
 * Neal Westlake is also listed as a Storybrooke entrepreneur on a sign by the town hall in "Last Rites".
 * When Henry is flipping through the other storybooks, excerpts from the following stories are seen:
 * Chapter I of Gulliver's Travels, with an illustration of Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians.
 * Chapter XIX of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, with a black and white version of an illustration from an 1871 edition of the book, illustrated by the French painter Alphonse de Neuville and the French painter and illustrator Édouard Riou. It shows Captain Nemo taking observations of the deck of the Nautilus.
 * Chapter IV of Charles Kingsley's children's novel The Water-Babies.
 * Chapter VIII of Don Quixote, with a colorized version of an illustration by a G.A. Harker, which can be found on several online websites. It shows Don Quixote fighting windmills that he imagines are giants.
 * The "Paul Bunyan" folktale, accompanied by an illustration of Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox.
 * In the script, David would drop the wooden shiv after realizing that it was the Groundsman who entered the room, and not the Warden. It was Josh Dallas' idea to hold on to the weapon because he felt that David might not let his guard down so quickly.
 * If you watch closely as Mr. Gold enters the hotel, you can see that the name on the doors is Hotel D'or, which is French for "Gold Hotel".
 * The name is seen more clearly on Mr. Gold's "do not disturb" sign in "An Untold Story".


 * -|Other Notes=

Filming Locations

 * Vancouver's Gastown doubles as New York City's SoHo district for this episode.
 * The episode was filmed at the same time as the movie Fifty Shades Darker, starring Once Upon a Time's own Jamie Dornan, which was shot in many of the streets in that area. Therefore, it was very hard to find a street corner in Gastown that they were not shooting on.
 * 1000 block West Cordova Street and the Cordova tunnel in Vancouver doubles as the New York toll station for the scene where Mr. Gold drives into town.
 * The asylum scenes with the cage were shot on the same set as the scenes in Dr. Jekyll's laboratory. The cage was removable, and the set was redressed as the laboratory. Some of the walls were removed, and windows put in.
 * The scene with Mr. Gold in the hotel lobby was filmed on location, while the scene where he walks to his hotel room was filmed in a hallway set.