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"Adventure Is Out There" is the first episode of Season Eight of ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written and directed by Lady Rapunzel. It is the one hundred and fifty-sixth episode of the series overall, and premiered on June 8, 2018.

Synopsis
Tilly has difficulty to accept Rumple's death and the fact that she never fulfilled her destiny as the Guardian, as Zelena teams up with Regina to try to find a way to contact Rumple and Belle, when an unexpected visitor is found at the pawnshop. Meanwhile, Lucy has the desire to live heroic and dangerous adventures without Jacinda's approval. In a flashback, Ivy and Anastasia arrive the New Enchanted Forest and find out they are living on the past, as they are about to live a dangerous and extraordinary adventure.

Recap
Flying Monkeys are heading to Oz in the middle of the United Realms. In Tilly's bedroom at the Emerald Castle, she is in her bed trying to go to sleep, but is sweating and has difficulty to fall asleep. She is very worried, and screams very loudly. She awakes, after having a terrible nightmare. Rogers enters the room. He is worried about his daughter, and runs until her bed. He asks her what happened, and Tilly answers that she's been having nightmares since their travel to the Wish Realm. Rogers asks if it is about the destroyal of her Guardian magic, revealing that Henry used the Author's Pen to reverse what Wish Henry did. Tilly reveals that her magic is not back, but that is not what she is worried about. She reveals that she is worried about Weaver, and that she needs to know if he reunited with Belle in the afterlife. Rogers comforts Tilly and hugs her, saying that they need to believe that Rumple is happy.

In the following morning, in the Emerald Castle's dining room, Rogers, Margot and Kelly are having breakfast.

Starring

 * Rebecca Mader as Kelly West
 * Colin O'Donoghue as Hook/Hook (Wish Realm)*/Rogers
 * Andrew J. West as Henry Mills
 * Dania Ramirez as Jacinda Vidrio
 * Alison Fernandez as Lucy
 * Mekia Cox as Sabine
 * Rose Reynolds as Tilly
 * Tiera Skovbye as Margot
 * Adelaide Kane as Ivy Belfrey
 * Giles Matthey as Gideon

Special Guest Starring

 * Lana Parrilla as Roni/Evil Queen (Wish Realm)
 * Jared S. Gilmore as Sir Henry (Wish Realm)
 * Ginnifer Goodwin as Mary Margaret Blanchard
 * Josh Dallas as David Nolan
 * Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan
 * Robert Carlyle as Weaver
 * Emilie de Ravin as Belle French
 * Michael Raymond-James as Neal Cassidy

Guest Starring

 * Beverley Elliott as Granny
 * Jeff Pierre as Drew
 * Lee Arenberg as Leroy
 * Meghan Ory as Ruby
 * Yael Yurman as Anastasia
 * Meegan Warner as Rapunzel
 * Anna Cathcart as Tween Drizella
 * Alejandra Pérez as Teen Cinderella
 * Emma Booth as Gothel
 * Kimberley Shoniker as /
 * Suzy Joachim as Madame Leota
 * Naika Toussaint as Seraphina
 * Cindy Luna as The Duchess

Co-Starring

 * Nisreen Slim as Hedgewitch
 * Chilton Crane as Blind Witch

Uncredited

 * Unknown as Prince Neal
 * Unknown baby as Hope
 * Christopher Gauthier as Smee (Wish Realm)*
 * Unknown baby as Alice*

Trivia

 * -|Production Notes=

Title

 * The title card features Belle and Gold's House flying in the sky raised by balloons.
 * The title of this episode was revealed by Lady Rapunzel via Once Upon a Time Wiki on May 27, 2018.
 * The title is a reference to the quote of the same name from the Disney/Pixar animated movie Up.
 * -|Episode Connections=

Event Chronology

 * The opening scene in the United Realms where Tilly is having trouble sleep in her bedroom at the Emerald Castle takes place in the same night, and after Roni's coronation in "Leaving Storybrooke", while the rest of the present-day events take place one day after this scene.
 * The United Realms flashback takes place before "Leaving Storybrooke".
 * The New Enchanted Forest events take place after "Sisterhood" and (due to the time travel revealed in "Is This Henry Mills?") some time after "One Little Tear" and before "Eloise Gardener".
 * The Wish Realm events take place before "Homecoming" and (due to the time travel) some time before "Eloise Gardener" and several years before "Homecoming".

Episode Connections

 * Roni adopted Sir Henry in "Leaving Storybrooke".
 * Weaver sacrificed himself for Rogers in "Leaving Storybrooke".
 * Weaver reunited with Belle in "Leaving Storybrooke".
 * Roni created the United Realms by casting the sixth Dark Curse in "Leaving Storybrooke".
 * Sir Henry became the deputy sheriff of Storybrooke in "Leaving Storybrooke".
 * Roni was crowned as the Good Queen of the United Realms in "Leaving Storybrooke".
 * Sir Henry used the Author's Pen to destroy Tilly's Guardian magic by Wish Rumple's command in "Homecoming".
 * Wish Rumple jails Jacinda and Lucy into a Snow Globe in "Homecoming".
 * The time travel effect of the Dark Curse was revealed on "Is This Henry Mills?".
 * Gothel's family is slaughtered by human race in "Flower Child".
 * Gothel leaves the Land Without Magic with Seraphina searching for women to join the Coven of the Eight in the New Enchanted Forest in "Flower Child".
 * Anastasia lost her magic in "Sisterhood".
 * Ivy and Anastasia left Seattle to escape Eloise in "Sisterhood".
 * Ivy lost her magic in "Secret Garden".
 * Drizella curses Henry's heart in "The Eighth Witch".
 * The fifth Dark Curse was cast in "The Eighth Witch", and broken in "Is This Henry Mills?".
 * Gothel locks Rapunzel in her tower in "One Little Tear".
 * Gothel tried to lock Anastasia in her place at the tower in "One Little Tear".
 * Rapunzel locked Gothel in the tower in "One Little Tear".
 * The Wish Evil Queen made a deal with Wish Hook to a trip aboard the Jolly Roger to escape Queen Snow and King David in extent for some magic that Hook could use to defeat Wish Rumple, which leads to him going to Gothel's Tower and impregnating Gothel with Alice, in "Eloise Gardener".
 * Mr. Gold and Belle left Storybrooke in "Beauty".
 * Gideon left the Edge of Realms to study at Elphame Academy in "Beauty".
 * Belle died in "Beauty".
 * The Evil Queen magically created the Wish Realm in "Wish You Were Here".
 * Emma abandoned Sir Henry in the Wish Realm in "Wish You Were Here".
 * Gideon was turned back into a baby in "The Final Battle Part 2".
 * Merida used the Ale of Seonaidh to contact her father in "The Bear King".
 * Zelena was responsible for Neal's death in "A Curious Thing".
 * Regina, Mary Margaret, David, Emma and Hook tried to contact Cora's spirit in "Bleeding Through".
 * In this episode, Kelly tells Lucy: "...And your mom is going to kill me... Then Regina... Then me again...", similar to what Emma told Henry about Regina in "Snow Falls".
 * -|Cultural References=

Disney

 * Belle and Gold's House starting to fly raised by balloons in Weaver, Belle and Neal's farewell scene is a reference to the Disney/Pixar animated movie Up, where the same thing happens to Carl's House.
 * Madame Leota from Disney's The Haunted Mansion appears.
 * The magic ritual made by Gothel, Seraphina and Leota to bring Ivy and Anastasia's magic back is composed by the literal lyrics of the song, "What Once Was Mine" from the Disney animated movie Tangled. The ritual says: Flower, gleam and glow... Let your power shine... Make the clock reverse... Bring back what once was mine... Heal what has been hurt... Change the Fates' design... Save what has been lost... Bring back what once was mine... What once was mine.
 * Mother Gothel from Disney's Tangled appears.
 * The "witch who lives in a cave" mentioned by Anastasia is a reference to Ursula from The Little Mermaid.
 * It is also a reference to the title of the Season One episode, "Desperate Souls.
 * The Wicked Fairy who is threatening Neverland's peace is a reference to the Disney Fairies franchise.

Fairytales & Folklore

 * This episode features Cinderella, the stepmother and the stepsisters from the Cinderella fairytale, Rapunzel and Dame Gothel from the Rapunzel fairytale, the Witch from the Hansel and Gretel fairytale, the Duchess from the Alice in Wonderland story, and the Evil Queen from the Snow White fairytale.