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”Escape” is the tenth episode of Season Eight of ABC’s Once Upon a Time. It was written and directed by Schroeswald. It is the one hundred and sixty-fivth episode of the series overall, it premiered on September 3, 2018.

Synopsis
Rogers and his friends arrive in New Wonderland to save his daughter and future daughter-in-law. Snow gets help from an unexpected source while Regina and Ivy arrive home dejected. In the past Alice and the Duchess get help to escape the Queen’s clutches. Moana makes a deal with Wilhelm.

Recap
Rogers is sailing his ship into a harbor in New Wonderland and when it docks he, Ursula, and Wish Ariel jump off and start to fight off some Hearts troops. They push their way into the tower where they pass the King of Hearts who is locked up.

Alice and the Duchess are sitting in their cell when a sword emerges from one of the guards backs. Another guard appears behind him and offers to free them. They don’t trust him until he pulls back part of his uniform and reveals that he is the Jack of Diamonds, the man who killed the last queen and they follow him out of their cell.

Snow sits in her cell and when one of the guards passes by her she protests that she has done nothing to the queen and isn’t even from the realm but he ignores her. A new guard comes down and whispers something in his ear and they swap places. He walks up the stairs, and into the queen’s chambers. He takes off his helmet which reveals that he is the Huntsman of the realm. Queen Snow is lying on the bed and takes his heart out of her pocket and commands him to close the door.

Alice and the Duchess are following the Jack out of the castle when they see the Ten and Nine of Hearts with the king and pushing him into a cell. They are able to slip past them, but on the horizon they see that a large force of Spades are surrounding the Heats Kingdom.

Alice and Margot hear some rumbling up the stairs and think that Rogers is coming to get them but it turns out to be the Duchess who has two swords who knocks out the Ace and Jacke. She unlocks the door and gives them both the swords but then locks herself ep, She explains that the Queen still has her heart, she just doesn’t have a command in her telling her not to do this and she’s locking herself up so she won’t hurt them.

Regina and Ivy arrive in Storybrooke with Anastasia’s coffin and when Henry sees them he can tell that they failed. Ivy bursts into tears and starts to cry on his shoulder. He comforts her but slowly moves her head off to Regina.

The Huntsman is guarding Snow White who has sort of given up on escaping when suddenly he gets out his keys and unlocks the door. She asks what he’s doing and he says nothing and she tries to protest but he drags her out of the prison. He leads her all the way to the courtyard, where Regina and Robin are waiting for them with the Huntsman’s heart in their hands. They return it to him and tell them to follow them before the Queen sees them.

As the Spade army closes in on the castle the Jack tells Alice and the Duchess to leave, he’ll hold back anyone who tries to get to them, it's his fault they’re in this situation and he’ll get them out of it. A group of Spades attack him as they run away from him, unfortunately they run directly into the Queen.

Wilhelm sees a note emerge from a pool of water and reads it and realizes that Moana is offering to destroy the wall, if she can do it with Maui’s fish hook and tells Rumpelstiltskin to find it which he poofs away to do.

Alice and Margot are running down the staircase when they run into Rogers, Ariel and Ursula. Right after Alice hugs her father some guards start running up towards them. After a few seconds of trying to find somewhere to go Ursula finds a window and breaks it. She tells them to go as she fends off the soldiers. They jump from the window and 3 of Ariel’s sisters appear to catch them.

Alice and the Duchess see the Queen and try to back away but she commands Alice to stay with her heart. The Duchess stays with her and gets out a sword, when the Jack comes back, one leg bleeding and lunges towards the Queen. He grabs the heart and throws it to the Duchess who presses it into Alice. The Queen stabs him but his last words are to tell them that he fixed what he caused. Alice and the Duchess start to run.

Snow, Regina, Robin, and the Huntsman are leaving when they find one of the gates to Storybrooke. Snow tells them that they can come with them there as she rules a kingdom there and can protect them from Queen Snow. They all agree and travel through the gate.

Alice and the Duchess reach a safe distance but they are tired and the Queen is coming for them while the Spades are closing around everyone. The Duchess takes a magic bean out of her shoe and gives it to Alice telling her to go, she’ll buy her time. They kiss and as Alice runs the Duchess holds back the Queen. As Alice travels through the portal she sees the Duchess stare at her and run away, not knowing that the Queen took her heart.

Rogers, Alice, Margot, Ariel and her sisters get back on the Jolly Roger and start to sail away and see Ursula’s tentacles occasionally breaking parts of tower. Eventually the fighting seems to stop and New Wonderland fades away. Ariel asks Rogers where they are going and he replies Storybrooke.

Alice is walking through a market when she sees Wilhelm at a stall with Cecilia's locket and asks how much for it. He says that it's pretty useless and she can have it for free. She takes it and puts it around her neck. As she leaves he hears a voice asking why he did that. Wilhelm says it won’t help him find him, he knows exactly where it is and it will help bring a curse about that will open his way to find him and unleash the plan.

Moana is sitting by the wall when Maui’s fish hook appears in her hand from water. She hits the wall with it and fades into water with the fish hook.

Starring

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

Guest Starring

 * Azra Akin as
 * JoAnna Garcia Swisher as Queen Ariel
 * Amy Adams as
 * Lupita Nyong’o as
 * Logan Lerman as
 * Merrin Dungey as Ursula
 * Yael Yurman as Anastasia
 * Sean Maguire as
 * Cate Blanchett as
 * Robert Carlyle as
 * James Denton as
 * Tom Wlaschiha as

Co-Starring

 * Craig Ress as Ten of Hearts/Ace of Hearts
 * Joaquin Phoenix as Nine of Hearts/Jack of Hearts
 * Vanessa Hudgens as
 * Chloe Grace Moretz as
 * Selena Gomez as

Trivia

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Trivia

 * The title card features a jail cell unlocking and opening.
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Episode Chronology

 * The United Realms events are set immediatly after Ghosts of the Past. The New Wonderland are set a few days after