For the Seattle character, see Eloise Gardener (character). For the criminal case, see Eloise Gardener case. |
"Eloise Gardener" is the seventh episode of Season Seven of ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by David H. Goodman & Brigitte Hales, and directed by Alex Kalymnios. It is the one hundred and fortieth episode of the series overall, and premiered on November 17, 2017.
This episode is the first of a two-episode airing.
Synopsis
In pursuit of revenge, Hook seeks a dark and powerful magic, but an encounter with Rapunzel could alter his fate forever. Meanwhile, in Hyperion Heights, Ivy's plot to take down Victoria intensifies and has unexpected consequences for Jacinda and Lucy. Rogers enlists Henry and Tilly's help in his ongoing quest to find the missing Eloise Gardener, but what he discovers isn't what meets the eye.[2]
Recap
In the Wish Realm, shortly after Snow White and Prince Charming have stopped Regina from casting her curse, Regina approaches Hook to inform him of the turn of events and tells him that she's in need of magic if they are to have any hope of carrying out their planned missions. Hook agrees to venture off into another realm to obtain magic for her from a witch.
Upon reaching the top of the witch's tower, Hook finds a woman named Rapunzel, who claims to have been magically locked in the tower by the witch and instructs him to locate a golden flower that could help the both of them. While in the garden, Hook and Smee awaken a giant gnome but are able to find the flower. Hook sends Smee back to the crew, while he goes back to Rapunzel and offers his assistance. Rapunzel thanks him, but suddenly starts seducing him, and they have intercourse. The next morning, a baby appears in the tower as Rapunzel reveals herself to have been the witch Gothel in disguise. Gothel explains to Hook that the baby is a product of their night together and that she had planned it so that she could escape, as the tower's spell requires someone in her bloodline to be left behind in her place. Gothel jumps out of the tower and leaves Hook and the baby behind.
Hook returns to his crew and decides to hand over the Jolly Roger to Smee, as he tells Regina that he's calling off his mission against the Dark One to deal with a more important matter. He returns to the tower to raise his newborn daughter, whom he decides to name Alice, after his mother.
In Hyperion Heights, Rogers is more determined than ever to find out what happened to Eloise Gardener. Henry insists on helping him get to the bottom of the case and they also recruit the street-wise Tilly. However, Victoria has been made aware of Rogers' mission and tells Weaver to throw him off of the case. After some digging, Tilly reports back to Rogers and Henry and tells them that some fellow street kids had informed her that Eloise had died a while back. Rogers is devastated by the news but is still feeling as if something isn't quite right. In a talk with Weaver about the conclusion of the case, Rogers realizes that Weaver and Tilly had conspired to feed him false information. Weaver warns Rogers that the Eloise Gardener he seeks is not who he thinks she is. Despite this, Rogers heads over to Belfrey Towers to confront Victoria.
Around the same time, Victoria is about to carry out a different consequence to a continuously un-cooperative Gothel. However, Rogers arrives and finds the two women, mistakenly believing that Gothel is the missing girl and addresses her as Eloise, an identity she is all too willing to assume as he rescues her from Victoria. The police show up to arrest Victoria, who tells Drizella that she has yet to comprehend the true threat Gothel poses to the world. Tilly also shows up to the scene to apologize to Rogers for lying but he only tells her how disappointed he is in her. He drives away from the scene in an ambulance with Gothel, and Gothel glares at Tilly, recognizing her as the child she abandoned.
In between the events, Regina tries to put some distance between Henry and Jacinda, who are working together on the food truck. She offers Jacinda a job at the bar, and when Jacinda is about to take the next step with Henry, Regina suggests that getting involved with a man might not be the best move in the eyes of Child Protective Services. Jacinda ends up blowing off a date with Henry due to this advice. Henry shows up later that night to deliver the good news that Belfrey has been arrested, and Jacinda runs off to get Lucy, only to be greeted by Child Services, who takes Lucy away from Jacinda.
Cast[2]
Starring
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Guest Starring
Co-Starring
Uncredited
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Trivia
Title
- The title card features the entrance of Gothel's secret garden and the garden gnome.[3]
- The title of this episode was revealed by Adam Horowitz via his Twitter account on September 8, 2017.[4]
Production Notes
- Despite being promoted since "Greenbacks," the press release does not credit Mekia Cox as series regular.[2]
- It also mistakenly credits Adelaide Kane as "Drizelle" instead of "Drizella."[2]
- It also misspells "Eloise Gardener" as "Eloise Gardner" in the episode summary.[2]
Event Chronology
- The Seattle events take place on November 17. and November 18, 2017,[5] after "Wake Up Call" and before "Pretty in Blue." (For more details, see the Land Without Magic timeline)
- The New Enchanted Forest flashbacks take place after "One Little Tear," and several years before "Knightfall."
- The Wish Realm flashbacks take place several years before "Knightfall."
Episode Connections
- Roni regained her memories in "Wake Up Call."
- Rogers discovered the dead body in "Wake Up Call."
- Jacinda and Sabine bought a food truck in "Greenbacks."
- Victoria gained custody over Lucy in "Hyperion Heights."
- It was revealed that Ivy had her memories and was working with the witch in "Greenbacks."
- Tilly helped Rogers with the Eloise Gardener case in "Wake Up Call."
- Tilly's love for marmalade sandwiches was previously established in "Beauty."
- Magic was previously used to speed up a pregnancy in "Birth" and "Changelings."
- What "Gothel's revenge" is explained in "Flower Child" and "Is This Henry Mills?."
- Wish Hook's daughter escapes from the tower in "The Girl in the Tower."
Disney
- "Rapunzel" arms herself with a frying pan when she first meet Wish Hook, a reference to the scene where Rapunzel knocks out Flynn Rider with a frying pan in the movie Tangled.
- This episode contains a number of other references to Disney works. See the list of Disney references for more.
Fairytales and Folklore
- This episode is rendition of the "Rapunzel" fairytale, with Rapunzel and Dame Gothel. It also features Captain Hook and Smee from the Peter Pan story, Alice from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the evil queen from the "Snow White" fairytale.
- Hook also takes the place of the prince from the "Rapunzel" fairytale.
- Victoria Belfrey finds Ivy's shoes under the desk and later remarks, "Why is women's footwear the constant bane of my existence?" a reference to the events of the "Cinderella" fairytale.
- Alice's Land Without Magic counterpart Tilly sells stolen watches and remarks that "time is always slipping away" and you need a good timepiece "before it's too late," a reference to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where the White Rabbit has a pocket watch and worries about being too late.
- Tilly likes marmalade sandwiches, a reference to the scene where Alice grabs a jar of orange marmalade from a shelf while falling down the rabbit hole.
- HIDDEN DETAILS: A statue of a griffin can be seen in Gothel's garden.[6] A griffin is a legendary creature which has the front half of an eagle and the hind half of a lion.
- ♫ MUSIC: In order to reveal the golden flower, Wish Hook sings the song "Dead Man's Chest" from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island.
Popular Culture
- ♫ MUSIC: The lullaby which Wish Hook sings, first to locate the golden flower and later to his newborn daughter (the same song his mother used to sing to him and his brother), is "She Moved Through the Fair," a traditional Irish folk song.
- Colin O'Donoghue, who is from Ireland, picked out this song himself.[7]
- When Tilly lies to Rogers about Eloise Gardener, she claims that the girl "loved Salinger," a reference to the American writer J. D. Salinger, known for the novel The Catcher in the Rye.
Props Notes
- PAUSE AND READ: When Rogers is working on the Eloise Gardener case at Roni's, a missing person document in front of him[8] (some words are blurred or obscured onscreen but can be seen on a document prop auctioned off on eBay in February 2019; the missing text is set in fuchsia)[9] says:
File #: 1-17343
Sex: Female
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 120lbs
Hair: Light brown
Eyes: Dark brown
Friends and family have not been able to contact her.
She has blue eyes, blonde hair and is approx. 100lbs. Eloise was known
to be a stable and normal girl and it is out of character for her to
have gone missing.
the Hyperion Heights Police Department at 555-0151.
SUSPICIOUS LOOKING MAN LURKING [illegible]
2ND AVENUE. HE PROCEEDED TO APPROACH [illegible]
THIS MAN IN A PARKING LOT. LT. LANE [illegible]
TIME THE SUSPICIOUS LOOKING MAN [illegible]
PROCEEDED TO DRIVE NORTHBOUND [illegible]
VEHICLES. LT. LANE OBSERVED BOTH VEHICLES [illegible]
LT. LANE ESTIMATES THAT BOTH VEHICLES [illegible]
LIMIT IN THIS RESIDENTIAL AREA [illegible]
SPEEDING VEHICLES. I WAS AT [illegible]
BOTH VEHICLES APPROACHING 14TH [illegible]
15TH AVENUE AND PINE STREET. [illegible]
TWO PASSENGERS CAME OUT OF THE [illegible]
EARLIER. PERPETRATOR [illegible]
- CREW NAMES ON PROPS: Lt. Lane is a reference to Mark Lane, a set decorator on the show.
- HIDDEN DETAILS: The golden flower petal that Gothel left for Wish Hook is lying on the table next to him when he is holding his newborn daughter.[11]
Set Dressing
- REUSED PROPS: The bottle candle sitting on the table in the Perp's house[12] is a cleaned up and modified version of the bottle candle that was sitting on the table in the restaurant where Emma and Hook had their first date in the Season Four episode "The Apprentice"[13] and on their lunch table aboard the Jolly Roger in the Season Five episode "Siege Perilous."[14] A similar prop was seen inside the ship when Belle lived there in the Season Six episode "The Other Shoe."[15]
- REUSED PROPS: A statue of a griffin can be seen in Gothel's garden.[6] The same statue, painted in a different color, can be seen on top of the grave that Hook, Emma and Mary Margaret are hiding behind in the Season Five episode "Her Handsome Hero,"[16] and among the gargoyles that the children are throwing bottles at on Pleasure Island in the Season Six episode "Murder Most Foul."[17]
- REUSED PROPS: Two decorative boxes that were sitting on the coffee table in Regina's living room in the Season Three episode "Bleeding Through"[18] and the Season Six premiere "The Savior"[19] (one of them can also be seen on a side table in the Season Six episode "Murder Most Foul")[20] are used to decorate the living room in Gothel's tower. One is sitting on a shelf,[21] while the other one is sitting on the bedside table.[22] One of them is also sitting on a shelf next to young Alice's bed in "Knightfall."[23] One of them can also be seen in adult Alice's cottage in "The Guardian."[24]
Costumes Notes
- USE IT AGAIN: The Evil Queen from the Wish Realm is wearing[25] the same coat her Enchanted Forest counterpart wore in the Season One episodes "Heart of Darkness"[26] and "An Apple Red as Blood,"[27] the Season Two episodes "The Outsider"[28] and "The Evil Queen,"[29] the Season Three episode "Snow Drifts"[30] and the Season Four premiere "A Tale of Two Sisters."[31]
- BRAND INFO: Ivy is wearing[32] a RED Valentino Star Sweater.[33]
- The sweater was also worn by the character Liv Moore (played by Once Upon a Time's Rose McIver) on the iZombie episode "Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Brain."[34]
- BRAND INFO: Jacinda is wearing[35] a Maje Boyan satin bomber jacket[36] (the exact color is no longer available).
- BRAND INFO: Roni is wearing[37] an All Saints Sweat T-shirt in Tiger Print[38] and an Alexander McQueen Skull and Star Print Scarf.[39]
- USE IT AGAIN: She wears the same scarf in "Sisterhood."[40]
- BRAND INFO: Victoria is wearing[41] a Roland Mouret Farrant crepe dress.[42]
- BRAND INFO: Weaver is wearing[43] an AllSaints Survey Regular Fit Leather Blazer.[44]
- USE IT AGAIN: He wears the same blazer in "One Little Tear,"[45] "The Eighth Witch,"[46] "Secret Garden,"[47] "A Taste of the Heights,"[48] "Sisterhood,"[49] "Breadcrumbs,"[50] "Chosen,"[51] "The Guardian,"[52] "Is This Henry Mills?,"[53] "Homecoming"[54] and "Leaving Storybrooke."[55]
- A darker color of the jacket was worn by David Nolan in the Season Five episodes "Broken Heart,"[56] "Swan Song,"[57] "Souls of the Departed,"[58] "Labor of Love,"[59] "Devil's Due,"[60] "The Brothers Jones,"[61] "Our Decay,"[62] "Her Handsome Hero,"[63] "Ruby Slippers"[64] and "Sisters."[65]
- USE IT AGAIN: After David is locked up at the Underworld sheriff's station "Sisters," his brother James wears the same jacket in order to impersonate him.[66]
- The blazer was also worn by the character Klaus Mikaelson on The Originals episode "Heart Shaped Box."[67]
Filming Locations
- The scenes at the Wish Realm harbor were filmed on a green-screen set at The Bridge Studios. While many of the background props were real, the surroundings was added digitally in post-production.[68]
- The scene with Wish Realm Hook and Smee in Gothel's garden was filmed in Lynn Canyon Park in the District of North Vancouver.[69]
- The park scene with Henry, Rogers and Tilly was filmed in CRAB Park at Portside in Vancouver.[70]
- The short scene where Rogers parks his car outside the abandoned building was filmed outside a decrepit building next to 1050 Glen Drive in Vancouver.[71] The scene with Tilly, Rogers and Eloise outside the building was filmed outside an unidentified warehouse[72] (the same or a different building).
International Titles
International Titles | ||
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Language | Title | Translation |
French | "Eloise Gardener" | "Eloise Gardener" |
German | "Ein Zwerg zu groß... und Rapunzel hoffnungslos" | "A dwarf too big... and Rapunzel hopeless" |
Italian | "Eloise Gardener" | "Eloise Gardener" |
Portuguese | "Eloise Gardener" | "Eloise Gardener" |