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"Flower Child" is the fifth episode of Walecs' Season Seven of Once Upon a Time.

Starring

 * Lana Parrilla as Regina Mills/Roni
 * Colin O'Donoghue as Hook/Rogers
 * Andrew J. West as Henry Mills
 * Alison Fernandez as Lucy
 * Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold/Weaver
 * Mekia Cox as Tiana
 * Daniel Francis as Dr. Facilier/Baron Samedi
 * Kyla Pratt as Jacinda
 * Emma Booth as Gothel/Victoria Belfrey

Guest Starring

 * Gabrielle Miller as Flora
 * Jeff Pierre as Drew
 * Emily Tennant as Isla
 * Naika Toussaint as Seraphina/Belfrey's secretary

Flashbacks
Around 300 years ago a young Gothel becomes intrigued by seeing a group of women trying out dresses that they plan to wear to an upcoming ball. After they leave, Gothel sneaks in and touches the dresses and causes a small rose to magically bloom, only to be caught by the women after they return. It appears that they're intrigued by Gothel, so they ask her to teach them magic by inviting her to the party. When Gothel arrives to a garden-like location, she unlocked a special door that enters a world in which it is revealed that Gothel is actually a wood nymph and isn't human. Unfortunately, her mother is not happy about Gothel being involved with humans and wants to groom her to become her successor. She is hoping that Gothel can embrace her destiny.

At the party, Gothel arrived, ready to interact with her newfound friends and show them magic. But it turns out that it was all a setup to embarrass Gothel, as they wanted to disgrace her in front of the humans by calling her an abomination. It also turns out that the humans had used this party to destroy and kill the nymphs because when Gothel returned to the garden she saw her mother clinging to life, and implores Gothel not to seek revenge on the humans and embrace her destiny by restoring their world. Gothel doesn't take her mother's words to heart and begins a mission to destroy the humans. Gothel returns to the party and begins destroying everything she touches with deadly plants and kills the person who befriended her. However, one of the friends decided she wants to join Gothel as she also kept a secret that she too has magic powers but kept it hidden in fear that she would be killed. Gothel then rids the region of humans before returning to her destroyed home with her friend.

Gothel confesses to her friend that the the tree nymphs were the only magical creatures in this realm and without her sisters Gothel can no longer use magic in the land without magic. Using a magic bean, Gothel and her friend decide to leave for another realm to find others like them to prepare for their return to the Land Without Magic to rid the land of humans once again after the would-be civilization begins.

Present Time
Gothel/Belfrey meets with Weaver in her office. Gothel shows the photo of a dead woman. Belfrey says he must find whoever is responsible for the woman's death and arrest him. When Weaver leaves, Gothel calls Samedi and tells him 'Leota was killed'.

Henry and Lucy meet to talk about their operation to break the curse. Lucy offers to sneak into Belfrey's office to find some evidence about what she's working on, but Henry refuses because that would be too dangerous.

Lucy sneaks into Belfrey's office anyway and starts searching everywere until Belfrey and her secretary enter. Lucy hides between a closet and the wall and listens as they discuss about finding 'the other witches'. The secretary says she may have found Fidelia working at a grocery store, then she asks Belfrey how they're going to replace Leota. Belfrey says Samedi is taking care of that. When both leave the room Lucy runs away.

Belfrey enters a grocery store and feignes to be a client and looks for Fidelia's cursed identity. When she eventually catches Fidelia Belfrey exits the store and calls her secretary informing her 'they found her'.

At Roni's, Henry tells Roni he has feelings for Jacinda but she doesn't look interested in him and asks for advice. Lucy enters the bar and asks Henry to talk privately. She tells him what she's heard in Belfrey's office and Henry scolds her for taking such a risk, but eventually tells Lucy she got precious information. He tells her he suspects Belfrey is trying to awake her sisters.

That night, as Fidelia is locking the door at the grocery store, a hand covers her mouth and she is stabbed a few times.

Trivia

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Title

 * The title card features a carriage


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Event Chronology

 * The Seattle events take place after "| Feeling Fuzzy" and before "|Can't help feeling in love"
 * The Land Without Magic events take place about 100 years before Second Star to the Right.