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"Friends on the Other Side" is the third episode of Walec's |Season Seven of Once Upon a Time.

Starring

 * Lana Parrilla as Regina Mills/Roni
 * Colin O'Donoghue as Hook (Wish Realm)/Rogers
 * Andrew J. West as Henry Mills
 * Dania Ramirez as Cinderella/Jacinda Vidrio
 * Gabrielle Anwar as Lady Tremaine/Victoria Belfrey
 * Alison Fernandez as Lucy
 * Robert Carlyle as Weaver

Guest Starring

 * Emma Booth as Witch
 * Mekia Cox as Tiana/Sabine
 * Adelaide Kane

Co-Starring

 * Simon Arblaster as Michael Griffiths
 * Dalias Blake as Palace Guard
 * Mike Carpenter as Guard #2
 * Jaren Moore as Construction Foreman
 * Richard Newman as Jeremiah

Uncredited

 * Unknown actress as Anastasia

Trivia

 * -|Production Notes=

Title

 * The title card features an excavator.
 * The title of this episode was revealed by Adam Horowitz via his Twitter account on July 24, 2017.
 * The title of this episode is a reference to the short story of the same name by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.
 * As she is a fan of the story, Brigitte Hales suggested this title for the episode to David H. Goodman, who loved the idea.

Production Notes

 * The overhead shot where Lucy jumps down the hole in the Community Gardens was filmed by having Alison Fernandez jump onto a green screen patch placed on an empty flowerbed at the filming location.


 * -|Episode Connections=

Event Chronology

 * The Seattle events take place in October 2017, after "A Pirate's Life" and before "Beauty".
 * The New Enchanted Forest flashback scenes where Cinderella meets Tiana take place between scenes in "Hyperion Heights", after Cinderella flees the ball and before Henry finds her glass slipper in the same episode. The rest of the flashback scenes take place after "A Pirate's Life" and before "Wake Up Call".

Episode Connections

 * Cinderella was framed for the murder of the Prince in "Hyperion Heights".
 * Jacinda previously lost custody to Lucy in "Hyperion Heights".
 * Lucy wanted to restore the Community Gardens during "Hyperion Heights".
 * Sabine works for Louie, who Jacinda got into an argument with in "Hyperion Heights".
 * Jacinda wonders if she really is cursed. "The Eighth Witch" shows the Dark Curse being cast before she, then known as Cinderella, was affected by it.
 * Roni, Rogers and Henry agreed to work together to take Lady Tremaine down in "A Pirate's Life".
 * Tiana was at the ball in "Hyperion Heights".
 * Why Tiana decided to form a Resistance is explained in "Greenbacks".
 * Cinderella's father, and his history with Lady Tremaine, is detailed in "One Little Tear".
 * Cinderella stole Henry's motorcycle in "Hyperion Heights".
 * Henry found Cinderella's glass slipper in "Hyperion Heights".
 * Rogers and Weaver became detective partners in "Hyperion Heights".
 * Henry is reunited with Regina and is joined by Hook in "A Pirate's Life".
 * The identity of Henry's father was revealed in "Tallahassee" and further explored in "Manhattan".
 * Lucy mentions the time Henry led Archie into the Storybrooke Mines, an event which happened in "That Still Small Voice".
 * During "Hyperion Heights", Henry attempted to visit the cemetery where his deceased family is buried, only to find there was no existing cemetery. His search for where his family is buried continued in "A Pirate's Life" when he asked Rogers to help him locate nearby cemeteries in Seattle.
 * Why Lady Tremaine holds a grudge against Cinderella for Anastasia's death is revealed in "One Little Tear". Her obsession with resurrecting Anastasia also began in the same episode.
 * Henry's backstory as the heart of the truest believer was explored in "The Heart of the Truest Believer" and "Think Lovely Thoughts".
 * Lady Tremaine obtained the Fairy Godmother's wand in "Hyperion Heights". In the same episode, she used the wand's magic for the first time to kill the Fairy Godmother. She used it a second time in "A Pirate's Life" to make Wish Realm Hook youthful so he could masquerade as the other Hook.
 * The Witch's cursed identity is made known in "Eloise Gardener". Her New Enchanted Forest counterpart is also seen for the first time in the same episode.
 * The animosity Victoria has towards the Witch is expanded upon in flashbacks in "One Little Tear".


 * -|Cultural References=

Disney

 * Tiana is named after the character from The Princess and the Frog. (Tiana first appeared in "Hyperion Heights", but this is the first episode where she is named on-screen.)
 * Cinderella's other stepsister is named Anastasia, just like in the Disney film Cinderella.

Lost

 * Roni looks up section 8 in the Hyperion Heights Building Codes, a reference to the second Lost number.

Fairytales and Folklore

 * This episode is a rendition of the Cinderella fairytale, with Cinderella and the Wicked Stepmother. Also appearing is Captain Hook from the Peter Pan story.
 * Cinderella's stepsister Anastasia also appears and is revealed to be deceased.
 * Eloise is kept prisoner in a tower, a reference to the Rapunzel fairytale, where Rapunzel is a prisoner in the witch's tower.


 * -|Set Notes=

Props Notes

 * The couch in Jacinda and Sabine's apartment is the same couch that was sitting in the lounge of Granny's Bed and Breakfast in the Season Two episode "Selfless, Brave and True", and the Season Three episodes "Witch Hunt" and "A Curious Thing".
 * If you look at Henry's laptop while Lucy shows him her mother's petition, you can see that he was reading a web page about how to "Build Ties With Local Police".
 * Jacinda's petition includes signatures from Amanda Stone, Ariane Gardner, Pamela Drake, Matthew Martin, Amy MacDonald, Kelly Allen, Tim Ramsey and James Green.
 * The yellow tent with green stripes on the roof which is sitting in the Resistance camp (the same tent where Wish Hook is kept after he is poisoned in "Pretty in Blue"), is the same prop used for one of the tents in the marketplace that adult Jiminy visited with his parents in the Season One episode "That Still Small Voice".
 * The same prop was used for the tent where Snow White and Prince Charming slept during their journey in the Season Four episode "Unforgiven". It also appeared in the tent camp where Snow White attempted to sell her jewelry in the Season Six episode "Heartless".

Set Dressing

 * A framed picture seen in the restaurant where Rogers meets Michael Griffiths can also be seen in Regina's living room in the Season Three episode "Bleeding Through".
 * The machinery seen in the top level of Belfrey Towers (the room where Eloise Gardener is kept) is the same prop used in the control room of Storybrooke Power Inc in the Season Four episode "White Out".


 * -|Other Notes=

Filming Locations

 * Burnaby's Central Park doubles as the New Enchanted Forest for the opening scenes with Tiana and Cinderella in the woods.
 * The resistance camp scenes were filmed on a camp set built in Vancouver's Stanley Park, at the north end of Pipeline Road.
 * The scene with Rogers on the bench was filmed in New Westminster's Hyack Square. A deleted scene where Sabine is sitting next to him was filmed in the same location.
 * The restaurant where Rogers confronts Michael Griffiths is a redressed version of the set for Henry's apartment. Notice how the doors, which were changed for the restaurant, are in exactly the same spots for both locations, and the wall with the cut-out by the doors is the same, as is the alcove in the wall that runs parallel to one of the doors (Henry has a bookshelf in his).
 * The same set doubles as the interior of Eloise's house in "Secret Garden".
 * The scene with Henry at the Hyperion Heights Cemetery was filmed at a cemetery set built by the Holy Trinity Cathedral in New Westminster, behind Columbia station.
 * The scene outside Belfrey Towers at the end of the episode, where the construction workers deliver Anastasia's coffin to Victoria Belfrey, was filmed in the rear loading bay of the Anvil Centre in New Westminster.