User:Schroeswald/The Grimm Curse

"I’m sorry Bae, I have to do this so that I can get a happy ending. -Rumpelstiltskin to Baelfire (Grimm Realm)"

”The Grimm Curse” is the second episode of Season Eight of ABC’s Once Upon a Time. It was written and directed by Schroeswald. It is the one hundred and fifty-seventh episode of the series overall, it premiered on July 23, 2018.

Synopsis
Rumpelstiltskin prepares to cast a Dark Curse to take away every happy ending in the Grimm realm while Regina sends her friends out to deal with consequences of her light curse.

Recap
The older Miller’s Daughter is sitting in her castle enjoying time with her daughter and son-in-law when Rumpelstiltskin appears in her castle offering her a deal. He says that he is about to cast a curse to get rid of everyone’s happy endings, but he will spare her family if she gives him the needle that cursed her daughter which confuses her but she gladly gives it up in exchange for her happy ending.

In the present Regina tries to do some bureaucratic work to pass the time but sees protesters outside her door who are mad at her for the curse but she tries to tone them out. At lunchtime she tries to leave but the people are so mad she has to teleport to Granny’s right next to the five doors. She orders a meal but before she can get it King Midas appears and tries to start a fight because he didn’t vote for her and didn’t want her to be queen. She has to leave right after grabbing her meal.

When she returns to her office she calls her friends to her to discuss what to do about the protests. They decide that she should send people throughout the realms to work on public relations. Alice and Margot volunteer to go to New Wonderland because Alice has friends there. Snow notices that an entire world called Grimmoiria or The Grimm Realm has sent no people to meetings and volunteers to travel in its most populous realm the Kingdoms of the Forest.

Emma interrupts the splitting up of the realms by noting that she and Killian can’t leave because Hope is still young and they can’t leave her. David says that he would like to make sure that Neal spends time in Storybrooke and that he will stay behind too. Zelena says that she isn’t busy and volunteers to go to Oz to rebuild the families reputation there while Rogers offers to sail the Wish Realm.

In the past Rumpelstiltskin is preparing to cast his curse and needs one more ingredient, the heart of the thing he loves most. Neal walls into the room at the same time with some potions when Rumpel tells him that he is sorry and rips his heart out. In the New Enchanted Forest Wilhelm watches Anastasia and Drizella set up a home and plants the cursed needle to slightly stick out of Anastasia’s fork. ==Cast=

Starring

 * Lana Parrilla as Regina Mills/ The Good Queen
 * Colin O’Donoghue as Rogers and Killian Jones
 * Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan
 * Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White
 * Rebecca Mader as Zelena
 * Andrew J. West as Henry Mills
 * Rose Reynolds as Alice/Tilly
 * Tiera Skovbye as Margot/Robin
 * Adelaide Kaine as Drizzela/Ivy
 * Daniel Brühl as Wilhelm

Guest Starring

 * Robert Carlyle as User:Schroeswald/Rumpelstiltskin/Rumpelstiltskin
 * Barbara Hershey as Miller’s Daughter
 * Josh Dallas as David Nolan
 * Yael Yurman as Anastasia
 * Blake Lively as Briar Rose
 * Theo James as Grimm Philip
 * Beverly Elliott as Granny
 * Alex Sahara as King Midas
 * Michael Coleman as Happy
 * Faustino di Bauda as Sleepy/Walter
 * David Paul Grove as Doc
 * Gabe Khouth as Sneezy
 * Mig Macario as Bashful

Trivia

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Trivia

 * The title card features a curse covering the title with a background of the United Realms (background lasts for the rest of the season).
 * -|Episode Conections=

Episode Chronology

 * The United Realms events are set several days after A Grimm Return while the Grimm Realm events are set at a similar time as The Final Battle Part 2 and more than three decades after A Grimm Return.