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Daveyelmer wrote: Elizabeth Mitchell just conducted an interview with TVLine in which she said the following:

TVLINE |  What have you gone and done that they needed to add an extra hour to this week’s episode? MITCHELL | Oh, you know…. [ Laughs] We had this amazing director, Eagle [Egillson, for Part 1], and when we were shooting it, I just liked what he was doing. I thought it was so fun and dramatic and kind of just wonderful, like a sweeping, epic fantasy. I guess [the producers] felt like it was so much fun, they wanted to add more. And there’s a lot more, too, with Lana [Parrilla]’s character, which is joyful for me because I love watching her.

I bolded the reference to Part 1 because it proves my point about the episode being split into two parts in the future.

epguides.com and TV Guide also have "Smash the Mirror" listed as comprising 2 episodes, as you can see here:

Ep Guides Listing:

http://epguides.com/onceuponatime/

TV Guide Listing:

http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/once-upon-a-time/episodes-season-4/319533 And yet, my DVR and other tv guides are showing it as one episode. Furthermore, Adam and Eddy still labled the script for Darkness On The Edge Of Town as 412, not 413. And even if it is split in the future, I think in will be refered to as 408A and 408B. So while it is technically another episode, thus making the season 23 hours, the season is still only 22 episodes long.