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"Ana, I, I can’t do this, the last two years have been happy but with you gone and Ella mad... what should I do"

- Ivy to the sleeping body of her sister

”Sleeping Sister" is the fourth 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-ninth episode of the series overall, it premiered on July 26, 2018.

==Synopsis Drizella needs help to wake up her sister and visits Storybrooke. Snow travels out of the friendly part of the Grimm Realm and Alice and Margot arrive in Wonderland. Nook and Ariel begin their adventure.

Recap
Ivy grabs Anastasia as she falls asleep and tries to kiss her but true loves kiss doesn’t work and she travels to Storybrooke to get help from the heroes. When she arrives carrying Anastasia and yelling help the Blue Fairy flies from the sky and offers to help her, taking her to the convent to see what can be done.

Snow says goodbye to Briar Rose and her husband and gets on a horse and rides off into the nearest kingdom, Königsberg. When she sets foot on the border she feels sadness crush down on her as she realizes happiness only extends to the Milled Kingdom. She sees a very tall tower and a frog with a crown hopping past her.

Mother Superior waves her wand over Anastasia and realizes what is wrong with her, she is under a sleeping curse that only truest love's kiss can break the curse, and Anastasia’s truest love is and forever will be her mother’s love. Jacinda and Lucy arrive and Jacinda runs to Anastasia but completely ignores Ivy.

Alice and Margot walk out of a gate into New Wonderland where a woman immediately walks up to meet with them. She introduces herself as the Duchess to Margot and gives Alice a big hug before trying to slap her. Alive explains that the Duchess has violent mood swings but that she is usually really nice.

While Mother Superior tries to see if anything will work on Anastasia Ivy tries to talk to her stepsister. Jacinda tells her that just because she is here for Ana doesn’t mean that she needs to forgive Drizella. She tries to apologize for everything that she did but Jacinda refuses to listen. Jacinda leaves the room to go see Henry and once she is gone Ivy collapses into tears, her two years of happiness gone down the drain.

Rogers and Ariel load their supplies into the now underwater Jolly Rogers when two giant krakens attack them. Ariel grabs her trident and starts fighting them. Rogers grabs himself a suit from the Wish Nautilus (he stole it). When he gets out he sees that both of them are dead and she tells him that they are going to meet a few friends.

Zelena is settling into her room in the Emerald Palace when suddenly the Tin Man runs and says that Munchkin Country is being attacked. In Munchkin Country Wilhelm is ripping out Munchkin hearts and absorbing all of the light out of the air.

Starring

 * Lana Parrilla
 * Colin O’Donoghue as Rogers
 * Jennifer Morrison
 * Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White
 * Rebecca Mader as Zelena
 * Andrew J. West
 * Rose Reynolds as Alice/Tilly
 * Tiera Skovbye as Robin/Margot
 * Adelaide Kane as Drizella/Ivy
 * Daniel Brühl as Wilhelm

Guest Starring

 * Yael Yurman as Anastasia
 * Keegan Connor Tracy as Mother Superior/Blue Fairy
 * Dania Ramirez as Ella/Jacinda Vidrio
 * Alison Fernandez as Lucy
 * Amy Adams as Duchess
 * JoAnna Garcia Swisher as Queen Ariel
 * Toby Kebbell as Nick Chopper/Tin Man
 * Blake Lively as Briar Rose
 * Theo James as Grimm Philip

Trivia

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Trivia

 * The title card features Ivy crying over Anastasia.
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Episode Chronology

 * The United Realms events are set directly after Sleeping Daughter.