Leaving Storybrooke

"I thought my story came to an end a long time ago, and then new people came into my life... People who gave me a second chance. I can't wait to see what's in store for me next. Well, for everyone. I refuse to believe there won't be more adventures, more love, more family. And yes, there will be more loss, because that's just a part of life. And in the end, we can get past it all... with hope."

- Regina Mills

"Leaving Storybrooke" is the twenty-second and final episode of Season Seven of ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz, and directed by Ralph Hemecker. It is the one hundred and fifty-fifth episode of the series overall, and premiered on May 18, 2018.

This episode is the second part of the season seven finale and the series finale.

Synopsis
Wish Rumple's evil plan is revealed and Regina realizes the only hope to stop him is by turning Wish Henry from his path for vengeance. Meanwhile, Tilly and Margot try to get help in Storybrooke. With his hope of ever being reunited with Belle fading, Weaver struggles to find a way to defeat his evil alter ego; and when Rogers' life is threatened, he is faced with the ultimate sacrifice.

"In a Hurry"
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Henry riding down the street: Extended version
The scene with Henry riding down Storybrooke Main Street was originally accompanied by footage of Tilly, Margot and Rogers in front of Granny's Diner, and Archie and Pongo walking down the street. However, most of the footage was deleted in post-production, although Archie and Pongo can still be glimpsed in the lower left hand corner of the screen as Henry rides through Storybrooke.

Henry riding through a forest
Footage of Henry riding through a forest was also filmed, but was deleted from the episode.

Starring

 * Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen*/Regina Mills*/Roni
 * Colin O'Donoghue as Hook/Rogers
 * Andrew J. West as Henry Mills
 * Dania Ramirez as Jacinda Vidrio
 * Alison Fernandez as Lucy
 * Mekia Cox as Sabine
 * Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin*/Mr. Gold*/Weaver/ Rumplestiltskin (Wish Realm)

Special Guest Starring

 * Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White*/Mary Margaret Blanchard
 * Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan
 * Josh Dallas as Prince Charming*/David Nolan
 * Emilie de Ravin as Belle*/Belle French
 * Jared S. Gilmore as Young Henry*/Sir Henry (Wish Realm)
 * Rebecca Mader as Zelena/Kelly West

Guest Starring

 * Tony Amendola as Geppetto*/Marco
 * David Anders (Press release only)
 * Lee Arenberg as Grumpy*/Leroy
 * Beverley Elliott as Granny
 * Christopher Gauthier as Smee
 * Sean Maguire as Robin Hood
 * Rose Reynolds as Tilly
 * Tiera Skovbye as Margot
 * Raphael Sbarge as Archie Hopper
 * Keegan Connor Tracy as Blue Fairy*/Mother Superior/ Blue Fairy (Wish Realm)

Co-Starring

 * David Avalon as Doc
 * Jack Davies as Pinocchio
 * Faustino di Bauda as Sleepy*/Walter
 * Gabe Khouth as Sneezy*/Mr. Clark
 * Abigayle Laura Mutch as 5-Year-Old Margot

Uncredited

 * Cinder as Pongo
 * Unknown baby as Hope
 * Unknown as Prince Neal
 * Eric Keenleyside as Moe French*
 * Georgina Haig as Elsa*
 * Merrin Dungey as Ursula*
 * Kristin Bauer van Straten as Maleficent*
 * Victoria Smurfit as Cruella De Vil*
 * Mig Macario as Bashful*
 * Michael Coleman as Happy*
 * Jeffrey Kaiser as Dopey*
 * Sarah Bolger as Aurora*
 * Julian Morris as Prince Phillip*
 * Olivia Steele Falconer as Violet Morgan*
 * Jessy Schram as Cinderella*
 * Tim Phillipps as Prince Thomas*
 * Deniz Akdeniz as Aladdin*
 * Karen David as Jasmine*
 * Unknown baby as Emma Swan*
 * Unknown baby as Young Henry*
 * Dave Mathews as Doctor*
 * Meghan Ory as Ruby*
 * Unknown baby as Prince Neal*
 * Jakob Davies as Pinocchio*
 * Unknown baby as Gideon*
 * Michael P. Northey as Friar Tuck*
 * Jason Burkart as Little John*
 * Raphael Alejandro as Roland*
 * Amy Manson as Merida*
 * Jamie Dornan as Sheriff Graham*
 * Barbara Hershey as Cora*
 * Noah Bean as Daniel Colter*
 * Bernard Curry as Liam Jones*
 * Robbie Kay as Peter Pan*
 * Michael Raymond-James as Neal Cassidy*

Trivia


 * -|Production Notes=

Title

 * The title card features the "Leaving Storybrooke" sign.
 * It is also the third and last Season Seven title card to not feature the Seattle skyline. The two other are from "The Guardian" and "Homecoming".
 * The title of this episode was revealed by Adam Horowitz via his Twitter account on March 14, 2018.
 * This episode is named after the road sign with the same message at the Storybrooke town line.

Production Notes

 * This episode contains the most number of guest starring members in the whole series. It also contains the most number of uncredited cast members in the whole series.
 * Sleepy and Dr. Whale's names are misspelled "Sleep" and "Dr. Wale", respectively, in the press release.
 * The credit of Dr. Whale is a mistake in itself as David Anders does not appear in the episode. It is likely that the release was meant to read David Avalon instead, since Doc does appear and is missing in the press release.
 * An establishing shot of the Wish Realm version of the Dark Castle is stock footage from the background plate used for the view of the Dream World version of the original Dark Castle in the Season Six premiere "The Savior", and from an establishing shot of the same building in the Enchanted Forest in the Season Six episode "Changelings".
 * Another establishing shot is taken from a shot of original Dark Castle in the Season Two episode "Lacey".
 * Fans and harnesses were used to achieve the scenes where Tilly and Rogers are being sucked into their prison realms.
 * Jakob Davies, who portrayed Pinocchio for most of the show, being replaced by his younger brother Jack Davies by the time of the Season Six episode "The Song in Your Heart", accompanied Jack to the set on the last day of filming for the series finale.
 * Originally, Emma and Hook's baby was not going to appear on the show.
 * The scenes for Roni's coronation took two days to film.
 * Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Dallas and Rose Reynolds were not present when Jennifer Morrison filmed her scenes.
 * Jennifer Morrison and Lana Parrilla worked on the first day, while Ginnifer Goodwin's and Josh Dallas' scenes had to be shot on the second day. According to Adam Horowitz, the only interactions that had to be digitally "faked" were between Emma, Snow and David.
 * According to Rose Reynolds, each side of the crowds were filmed separately.
 * At a fan convention in 2018, Rebecca Mader proposed the series finale would involve everyone from all the realms ending up all together in Storybrooke, despite not knowing at the time that this is exactly what would happen in the episode script.
 * The shot of a garden pinwheel of Tinker Bell on a house lawn in Storybrooke at the end of the episode is stock footage from the "Pilot" episode.


 * -|Episode Connections=

Event Chronology

 * The Wish Realm events take place after "Homecoming" and (due to the time travel revealed in "Is This Henry Mills?") several years before "Breadcrumbs".
 * The Storybrooke events take place after "Homecoming" and (due to the time travel) before "Hyperion Heights".
 * The United Realms events take place several years later, several months after "A Pirate's Life" (where Emma was pregnant with baby Hope, who is an an infant in this episode).
 * The Mount Olympus events take place after "Last Rites".

Episode Connections

 * The Wish Realm version of Rumplestiltskin kidnapped Lucy and Jacinda in "Homecoming", with Roni, Henry, Weaver, and Rogers attempting to rescue them in the same episode.
 * Leroy whistles the song "Heigh-Ho" when going to the Granny's Diner. He also whistles the same song in "Dreamy", "We Are Both", "Tiny" and "Siege Perilous".
 * Tilly and Margot arrived in Storybrooke in "Homecoming".
 * The Dark Curse was cast in "The Eighth Witch". It was broken in "Is This Henry Mills?".
 * Henry's graduation takes place in "Is This Henry Mills?".
 * Robin told Alice about Storybrooke in "The Girl in the Tower".
 * Zelena lost her magic in "Where Bluebirds Fly".
 * Zelena learned how to drive in "The Black Fairy"
 * She also expressed her hatred against driving, comparing the cars to "deathtraps" in "A Bitter Draught".
 * The Wish Realm version of Belle was found to be dead in "Tougher Than the Rest".
 * Belle died in "Beauty".
 * Wish Hook's heart is poisoned with the Curse of the Poisoned Heart by Gothel in "Knightfall".
 * The Evil Queen declared that she would cast the Dark Curse in "Pilot".
 * Regina killed Queen Snow and King David in "Wish You Were Here".
 * Robin Hood was killed by Hades in "Last Rites".
 * Robin and Regina first met in "New York City Serenade".
 * Robin's feather plays a plot point in this episode. It also did in "The Savior".
 * Mr. Gold and Wish Hook first became friends in "The Guardian".
 * Maui's Fish Hook was first seen in "Knightfall".
 * The reason of Rumplestiltskin's hatred against the fairies was seen in "The Black Fairy".
 * Weaver uses a dreamcatcher even though he has no magic at the time. Hook uses the same method in "Page 23".
 * Mr. Gold and Belle got married in "There's No Place Like Home".
 * The Wish Realm version of Henry removed the power of the Guardians in "Homecoming".
 * Robin chose using a bow over magic in "Secret Garden".
 * Robin and Alice first met and fell in love in "The Girl in the Tower".
 * Mary Margaret and David were last seen in "The Final Battle Part 2".
 * Prince Charming and Snow White led the war council in "Pilot".
 * Wish Rumplestiltskin uses the word "Guilty" to describe himself when Weaver confronts him. Rumplestiltskin also used the exact word when confronted by Maleficent, Ursula and Cruella De Vil in "Darkness on the Edge of Town".
 * Rumplestiltskin became the Dark One in "Desperate Souls".
 * Weaver's plan to destroy the Darkness is finally concluded, which he began in "Beauty".
 * Regina's lessons with Rumplestiltskin take place in "We Are Both", "The Doctor", "Quite a Common Fairy" and "Enter the Dragon".
 * The Dark Curse was also cast in "Pilot", "Going Home", "A Curious Thing", "Broken Heart", "The Song in Your Heart" and "The Eighth Witch".
 * Lily wanted to find her father in "Operation Mongoose Part 2".
 * Zelena regained her magic in "Secret Garden".
 * Emma opens the door of the Royal Castle and says, "Sorry, I'm late", just like the Evil Queen did in "Pilot".
 * Emma revealed that she was pregnant in "A Pirate's Life".
 * While Regina is giving a speech to the kingdom, clips from "Pilot", "Snow Falls", "The Price of Gold", "That Still Small Voice", "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter", "Dreamy", "The Stable Boy", "The Stranger", "A Land Without Magic", "Broken", "Queen of Hearts", "The Outsider", "The Miller's Daughter", "The Heart of the Truest Believer", "Good Form", "Going Home", "New York City Serenade", "Quiet Minds", "Snow Drifts", "There's No Place Like Home", "A Tale of Two Sisters", "Breaking Glass", "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "Poor Unfortunate Soul", "Sympathy for the De Vil", "Operation Mongoose Part 1", "Dreamcatcher", "The Bear and the Bow", "Souls of the Departed", "Last Rites", "A Wondrous Place" and "The Final Battle Part 2" are seen.


 * -|Cultural References=

Disney

 * Tiana from The Princess and the Frog appears.
 * A garden pinwheel of Tinker Bell appears on a house lawn in Storybrooke.
 * Robyn Hood wants to ask Hook (Wish Realm) his blessing, but she states that she's not sure it's "the best time", to which Hook answers that this might be her only time. This might be a reference to Pirates of the Caribbean where Will asks Emma to marry him, and they have a similar exchange.

''Lost

 * In the beginning of the episode, the time on the clock tower in Storybrooke is 8:15, a reference to Oceanic Flight 815. The same time is on the clock at the end of the episode.

Fairytales and Folklore

 * This episode features Rumplestiltskin from the Rumplestiltskin fairytale, Captain Hook, Smee, and Tinker Bell from the Peter Pan story, Robin Hood from the ballad, Pinocchio and the Blue Fairy from the The Adventures of Pinocchio, the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz story, Maleficent from the Sleeping Beauty fairytale, Pongo from The Hundred and One Dalmatians story and the Good Queen from "Snow White" fairytale.
 * Zorro from the story of the same name is mentioned and revealed to be Lily's father.
 * According to Edward Kitsis, they couldn't get the rights to the character, which is the reason why he doesn't appear in the episode.


 * -|Set Notes=

Props Notes

 * The council table first seen in the Season One premiere reappears in the Wish Realm in the same color scheme from the alternate reality in the Season Four finale "Operation Mongoose Part 2", but with a new centerpiece.
 * An excerpt from the Grimm fairy tale "The Pink" can be seen in Snow White's storybook.
 * When Regina is crowned the leader of the United Realms, Wish Henry is wearing Storybrooke's deputy sheriff's badge.

Costume Notes

 * Mary Margaret is wearing a Ted Baker Embellished Collar Sweater (exact style no longer available).
 * The dress Kelly is wearing during Roni's coronation is the same dress worn by her Enchanted Forest counterpart in the Season Three episode "Kansas".
 * The dress Mary Margaret is wearing during Roni's coronation is the same dress worn by the Wish Realm counterpart of her original persona in the Season Six episode "Wish You Were Here".
 * The ensemble David is wearing is the same attire worn by his Enchanted Forest counterpart in the Season One episodes "Pilot" and "A Land Without Magic".


 * -|Goofs=

Goofs

 * In the scene where Leroy, Doc, and Walter arrive in front of Granny's Diner to receive their packed lunches from Granny, Archie is nowhere to be seen. After Leroy accepts the lunch bags and turns around as the Rollin' Bayou comes down the street, the next shot shows Archie is suddenly there with his dog Pongo.


 * -|Other Notes=

Filming Locations

 * The Dream World tavern scene with Roni and Robin Hood and the scene in the snow globe cabin were both filmed on a television set at The Bridge Studios.
 * The scene where everyone is gathered around the council table in the Wish Realm version of the Royal Castle, the scenes in Wish Rumplestiltskin's great hall and Roni's coronation in the Wish Realm version of the Royal Castle, were all filmed on green-screen sets at The Bridge Studios.
 * Ginnifer Goodwin and Josh Dallas couldn't be there when the others filmed and instead filmed their part later with a body double for Emma, and the family was reunited digitally in post-production.
 * Burnaby's Central Park doubles as the Wish Realm for the scene with Rogers, Margot and the Black Knights.
 * A deleted scene with Henry riding a horse through the forest was filmed by Central Park's upper pond.
 * The scene where Weaver is reunited with Belle on Mount Olympus was filmed on a smoke-filled television set with the Storybrooke Wishing Well prop against a black background at The Bridge Studios.