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"On her sixteenth birthday she will fall fast asleep, and never wake up ever again."

- Maleficent (Grimm Realm)

”Sleeping Daughter" is the third 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-eighth episode of the series overall, it premiered on July 26, 2018.

Synopsis
The Miller’s Daughter’s daughter, Briar Rose, has been put under a sleeping curse by a jilted fairy. Snow arrives in the Grimm Realm while Rogers sails the high seas with an old friend.

Recap
The Miller’s Daughter is giving birth once more and a young girl comes out. She throws a celebration and invites six of the most powerful fairies in the land to see it. As five of them give blessing spells a seventh one bursts in. It’s Maleficent and when she sees that she wasn’t invited she curses Briar Rose to an eternal slumber when she pricks her finger on a Spinning Needle. The Blue Fairy is able to change the curse so that Truest Love’s Kiss can break the curse.

Snow says goodbye to David and Neal and travels through a gate to the Grimm Realm. She sees the Milled Kingdoms and how happy everyone is and wonders why people are so unhappy and how no one from the Grimm Realm has joined the Royals Council.

Rogers is sailing when he sees Ariel land on his shop and asking him for help to defeat Ursula. He agrees and finds some magic left for sea travel on the ship and turns the ship into a sub.

Emma returns home from work to pick up Hope from Regina and Henry and thanks them for caring for her. They are happy to help and to spend some time together alone to just enjoy mother-son time together.

On Briar Rose’s sixteenth birthday Maleficent is mad that she hasn’t been able to curse her yet but Wilhelm appears and offers her a Spinning Needle to imbue with the curse, no price necessary. Briar Rose gets into bed as the clock ticks toward midnight but the Needle appears in her blanket and puts her fast asleep.

Snow meets up with an older Briar Rose and they discuss how they were both put under sleeping curses and how happy the Realm is. She says that her mother has been a powerful queen and has kept the kingdom safe despite the catastrophes of the Grimm Realm. She agrees to join the council as her mother seems to have disappeared.

The Jolly Rogers dives into a submerged ruin of a castle where Ariel explains what happened. After she let King Henry vote for her in the Royals Council the goddess Ursula led a revolt against her and chased her out of her kingdom.

Several years after the curse hit a cleaning boy is sleeping the room of the cursed princess and feels a connection and kisses her, as true love’s kiss spreads throughout the land Anastasia pricks her finger on the back of her fork and collapses in her sister’s arm.

Starring

 * Lana Parrilla as Regina Mills/The Good Queen
 * Colin O’Donoghue as Rogers
 * Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan
 * Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White
 * Rebecca Mader
 * Andrew J. West as Henry Mills
 * Rose Reynolds
 * Tiera Skovbye
 * Adelaide Kane as Drizella
 * Daniel Brühl as Wilhelm

Guest Starring

 * Yael Yurman as Anastasia
 * Josh Dallas as David Nolan
 * Rose McGowan as the Miller's Daughter
 * Blake Lively as Briar Rose
 * Dove Cameron as Young Briar Rose
 * Philip Short as Young Grimm Philip
 * Theo James as Grimm Philip
 * Kristin Bauer Van Straten as Maleficent (Grimm Realm)
 * JoAnna Garcia Swisher as Queen Ariel
 * Keegan Connor Tracy as Blue Fairy (Grimm Realm)

Trivia

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Trivia

 * The title card features Briar Rose passing out with a background of the United Realms (background lasts for the rest of the season).
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Episode Chronology

 * The United Realms events are set soon after The Grimm Curse while the Grimm Realm events are set at a few years to a few decades after A Grimm Return and a few decades before The Grimm Curse.