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"Shattered Sight" is the tenth episode of Season Four of ABC's Once Upon a Time. It was written by Scott Nimerfro and Tze Chun, and directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton. It is the seventy-sixth episode of the series overall, and premiered on December 7, 2014.
Synopsis
Storybrooke is in a state of chaos with all the residents under the Snow Queen's Spell of Shattered Sight at each other's throats. Emma and Elsa race against the clock to free themselves of the ribbons and take down the Snow Queen and her curse. David can only watch when Regina clashes with Mary Margaret in an epic battle. Meanwhile, Gold gathers Belle and Henry as he prepares to leave town forever, and Will Scarlet looks to square his tab with Hook. Kristoff's thick-headedness leads Anna to a heartwarming discovery.[2]
Recap
Ingrid arrives in Boston in 1982. She finds a psychic shop; a Fortune Teller named Madame Faustina and tries to receive her fortune, only to learn that the "seer" is a charlatan. Enraged, Ingrid attempts to freeze her, but then discovers that she has no magic. She leaves, vowing to wait as long as it takes to find Emma Swan.
In Richfield, Minnesota in 1999, Emma has just become one of Ingrid's foster children. Though Ingrid intervenes when one of her charges steals Emma's camera, Emma attempts to leave when the bully still demands the device. Ingrid encourages Emma to stay by telling her that her bully is afraid of spiders. The two bond in the short time and Ingrid files to adopt Emma. When a carnival claw machine sparks, Ingrid believes it proof of Emma's magical talent and attempts to test it by throwing the both of them in front of an oncoming car. However, this only has the effect of breaking their bond as Emma runs away.
In 2001, Ingrid travels to Maine, where she unravels the prophecy scroll and finds herself in Storybrooke. In November 2011, when Emma wanders into Any Given Sundae, she recognizes its proprietor Sarah Fisher as Ingrid. Ingrid attempts to convince her of Henry's claims about magic were true, only to be met with denial and anger. Ingrid then removes all memories of herself from Emma into a memory stone, explaining why Emma doesn't remember her in the present.
As everyone in Storybrooke begin to attack each other, fighting and riots break out across the town. At the sheriff's station Elsa, Emma, and Anna, the only ones aside from Ingrid and Rumple, immune to the curse, try to come up with a plan to stop Ingrid while at the same time deal with keeping Mary Margaret and David from each other's throats by separating them in different jail cells. Recalling the story that Ingrid got the curse from, Anna reveals that killing Ingrid, the caster of the curse, would potentially be the way to reverse its effects. Worried for Anna's safety, Elsa and Emma leave baby Neal with a reluctant Anna, while Emma and Elsa confront Ingrid at her ice cream shop, they discover their powers cannot work on her due to the ribbons on them. This gives Emma an idea: to go the Vault and face Regina, who was sealed inside for her own safety.
Meanwhile, the protection spell is causing Regina to believe that Emma trapped her inside, and as she sees herself in the mirror Regina changes her clothes to those she used to wear as the Evil Queen. When Emma and Elsa arrive and unseal the Vault, Regina uses her pyrokinetic powers against them and they shield themselves with the ribbons on their wrists; the ribbons burn away, freeing Emma and Elsa. Emma uses her powers to stall Regina from going after them. Regina, believing that Emma went to the Sheriff's station, shows up there, only to set up a battle between herself and Mary Margaret. Regina sends Anna and Kristoff back to the beachfront, from where they reunited with Elsa and met Emma back in the previous episode, "Fall". As Kristoff yells at Anna, saying that his life would've been better off if the two had never gotten engaged, a hurt Anna then trips on the bottle that her parents threw from their sinking ship in the episode "A Tale of Two Sisters". Anna picks up the bottle and hits Kristoff on his head knocking him out, allowing the letter that was inside the bottle to fall out. Anna then reads the letter, and she races off to the Snow Queen's lair.
At her lair, Ingrid proceeds to the next part of her plan is to restore the good memories of Emma and Elsa back to them, while stating that they do not have it in them to kill her. Anna then arrives with the letter (written by her and Elsa's mother, Gerda) that revealed the truth of Ingrid and Helga being Elsa and Anna's maternal aunts, while stating that Arendelle deserved to know all about Ingrid and Helga. Ingrid then begins to attack Anna by telekinetically choking her to death, against Elsa and Emma's protests to let her go, and manages to knock her down. As Elsa and Emma rush to Anna's aid, making sure she's alright, and upon reading the note, a tearful and repentant Ingrid sees that Anna is right as she touches the memory stone which shows her memories of her sisters and begins to regret her actions. Ingrid then undoes the Spell of Shattered Sight by sacrificing her own life. Before she dies, Ingrid states that Emma has found her family and returns the lost memories of Emma and Elsa to them now that she has her own younger sisters' love. She also finally accepts Anna as a part of the family and apologizes. She was so caught up in anger and revenge she forgot what was inside of her love, and they both reconciled, mending their aunt-niece bond. Ingrid says the three of them are special and to never forget that, then disappears into the afterlife where she reunites with Gerda and Helga. After Elsa and Anna embrace, they decide that once they return home, they will bring back their kingdom's memories of Ingrid and Helga.
Meanwhile, Hook comes to see Gold about the chaos going on around Storybrooke, and Gold says that as long as he has his heart, he is immune to the curse. As Gold prepares to pack up and leave town, he tells Hook to grab Henry and meet him and Belle at the town line, since he will not use his magic to bring Henry to him. When he reached New York City, Gold would make sure they would never remember any what happened in Storybrooke but explain that the town was destroyed. Hook heads to the Mayor's office to see Henry and tells him to come with him. Henry, affected by the curse, calls Hook a dirty pirate and says he did not like him before and likes him less now that he's with his mother, Emma, and asks him to leave. Hook uses the potion that Gold gave him to break the spell and he heads in, but Henry has spread marbles all around and Hook goes down, allowing Henry to flee for his safety. Hook chases him but is confronted by Will, who initiates a fist-fight. Hook knocks out Will, but the delay allows Henry to escape.
Thanks to Anna helping get through to Ingrid, the Spell of Shattered Sight is finally broken; the shards turn into snow and Storybrooke returns to normal, including Regina and Mary Margaret, who immediately stop fighting and start laughing. Mary Margaret and David run up to Emma to hug her, while Henry runs to Regina and hugs both her and Emma. As Neal begins to wake up, David tells Mary Margaret to forget what happened under the curse, then the couple kiss as a reconciliation while Emma, Elsa, and Anna embrace each other. Finally, Gold checks on Belle as she is sleeping, when Hook arrived to the pawnshop and tells him Henry got away. Gold asks how he failed at kidnapping a child, only to have Hook respond to that answer by saying his heart wasn't in it. Since Gold knows that the Snow Queen's plan failed, he tells Hook it's his last day on earth. Hook makes a final request as a dying wish to leave Emma and the rest of Storybrooke intact. Gold says as long as Emma doesn't get in his way, she'll survive. He says once he steps over the line with his magic, they have nothing to fear from him – but says he can't make that promise for the rest of the world. Confident that he will go through with his plans, a smug but sinister Gold leaves the pawnshop to walk out into the fresh Storybrooke snowy air.
Deleted Scenes
"The Ice Cream Lady"
This scene is included on Once Upon a Time: The Complete Fourth Season.
During the Dark Curse, after Ingrid comes to Storybrooke in search for Emma, Regina is walking down the street, unhappy with the emptiness in her heart. She stops at Any Given Sundae, confused at why it's there. She looks through the window and sees Ingrid. Not knowing who she is, she looks back, confused, and enters the shop asking her who the hell she is. Ingrid replies that she's the ice cream lady, offering her some Chunky Monkey ice cream. An angry Regina asks her, "Do you see this figure? Do I look like I eat Chunky Monkey?." She then proceeds to approach Ingrid, asking why hasn't she seen her before. Ingrid says that she doesn't know and says "I've worked here since... well..." as Regina cuts her off and says "forever?" Ingrid agrees and says that she hates the cold and doesn't know why she even has this job. She adds, with a chuckle, "It's like I pissed someone off in a past life and... they cursed me." Seeing that Regina isn't amused, she asks her if she's sure she doesn't want something. Regina says no and leaves the shop, with one last glance of confusion. Ingrid crouches behind the counter, revealing Dopey tied up. She says that he has to remain silent and forget, adding that there may not be magic in this world, but that she brought her own. She then pulls out a memory crystal and says that the Evil Queen needs to stay blissfully unaware.[3]
Cast[2]
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Note:
*: Only in archive footage
Trivia
Title
- The title card features a blizzard.[4]
- The title of this episode was announced by Adam Horowitz via his Twitter account on October 21, 2014.[5]
Production Notes
- HIDDEN DETAILS: When Hook walks through Storybrooke, in the background, you can see Floyd, the cook at Granny's Diner, being harassed by two of the diner waitresses.[6] After the spell is broken, Floyd and the waitresses are standing next to each other as the townspeople are happily crowding in the street.[7] In the opening montage in Storybrooke in "Darkness on the Edge of Town," you can see Floyd crossing the street, side by side with one of the waitresses.[8]
- ♫ MUSIC: The background music that plays when Ingrid sacrifices herself would be used again when Henry and Jacinda are about to kiss in the Season Seven episode "Flower Child."
Event Chronology
- The Land Without Magic flashbacks occur in various places of the overall timeline.
- The events that feature Snow Queen and Madame Faustina takes place in 1982, immediately after "Smash the Mirror," and approximately 1 year before the birth of Emma.
- The events where Emma moves into Ingrid's home takes place in 1999, the year after "Breaking Glass" and 2 years before "Tallahassee" and "There's No Place Like Home."
- This story also takes place in the same year as "Lily."
- The scene with Ingrid and Emma at the funfair takes place about six months after they began living together,[9] between August 26. and September 1.[10]
- The flashbacks where Ingrid tries to make Emma explore her magic powers take place a week later. (For more details, see the Land Without Magic timeline)
- The Storybrooke flashbacks also occur in various places of the overall timeline.
- The first flashback takes place in 2001, the same year as "Tallahassee," "There's No Place Like Home," "The Heart of the Truest Believer" and "Save Henry," and 8 years before "Firebird."
- The second flashback with Ingrid and Emma takes place in November 2011, between "The Price of Gold" (Emma is wearing her blue leather jacket, which arrives with the rest of her things in this episode[11]), and "That Still Small Voice," where Emma becomes deputy sheriff (Emma is about to call Sheriff Graham to have him arrest Ingrid; if she was already a deputy, she would have the power to arrest Ingrid herself).
- The present day Storybrooke events take place after "Fall" and before "Heroes and Villains."
Episode Connections
- The Spell of Shattered Sight was cast in "Smash the Mirror" and hit the Storybrooke residents in "Fall."
- HIDDEN DETAILS: The dress Regina magics up when under the influence of the Spell of Shattered Sight[12] is the same dress that she later magic up when selecting a dress for the ball in Camelot in "The Price."[13]
- Hook had his heart stolen by Mr. Gold in "Smash the Mirror."
- David mentions Mary Margaret's one night stand with Dr. Whale, which took place between the episodes "The Shepherd" and "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," and was discovered by David in "Broken."
- David and Mary Margaret recount their injuries from when they first met; something which happened in "Snow Falls." An alternate version of these events is shown in "Snow Drifts" and "There's No Place Like Home."
- Kristoff mentions Anna postponing their wedding by thirty years. Anna postponed it in "A Tale of Two Sisters," and they discover that they were frozen for thirty years in "Fall."
- HIDDEN DETAILS: The ring that Emma wins at the funfair[14] is in her box of keepsakes in "Breaking Glass"; it is one of the items that Hook picks up.[15]
- A picture of Emma's reunion with Ingrid appears in "Breaking Glass."
- In the 2011 flashback:
- Emma is seen having curly hair, reflecting her early look from most of the Season One episodes.
- Emma hesitates calling Henry her son, which is a nod to her adjusting her new role in his life and her walls.
- Ingrid gives Emma some Rocky Road ice cream at Any Given Sundae, the same flavor that she served Roland in "Rocky Road." Emma also mentioned Ingrid's Rocky Road when she broke into her ice cream truck in "Family Business."
- Will attempts to get revenge against Hook for punching him in "The Apprentice."
Religious
- A statue of an angel can be seen next to the heart vault.[16]
- As Emma and Elsa run away from a furious Regina, one of the headstones in the Storybrooke graveyard is shaped like a Celtic cross.[17]
Disney
- This episode features Elsa, Anna and Kristoff from the movie Frozen.
- Mary Margaret snidely remarks, "Still wanna hold hands, sing "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"?," a reference to the famous song from Song of the South.
- This episode contains a number of other references to Disney works. See the list of Disney references for more.
Lost
- In the first scene at the sheriff's station, the clock shows 8:15,[18] a reference Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 from Lost.
- This episode contains a number of other references to ABC's Lost. See the list of Lost references for more.
Fairy Tales and Folklore
- The episode features the Snow Queen from the fairy tale of the same name, the ugly duckling from the titular fairy tale, Captain Hook from the Peter Pan story, and the Knave of Hearts from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, who is also Will Scarlet from the Robin Hood ballads.
- The shards of the trolden glass turns everyone into their worst self and makes them turn on each other; a reference to the events of "The Snow Queen" fairy tale, where the shards of the troll mirror makes people see only the bad and ugly in people and things.
- Teenage Emma wins a stuffed dalmatian at the fair,[19] a nod to the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians and a foreshadowing of the introduction of Cruella De Vil in the next episode.
Popular Culture
- Young Emma makes references to Harry Potter, the title character of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
- In the 2011 flashback, Ingrid gives Emma some Rocky Road ice cream at Any Given Sundae.
- Mary Margaret refers to Anna as Swiss Miss. This is the name of a real-life brand of cocoa powder and pudding products sold by the American company ConAgra Foods.
- When Ingrid tells Emma that she "can accomplish anything" by focusing enough, Emma replies, "Ingrid, that's a plastic ring; not a scholarship for Yale," a reference to the university in New Haven, Connecticut.
Props Notes
- REUSED PROPS: The mug which Ingrid drinks hot cocoa from in the Minnesota flashback[20] is the same cup that Emma is drinking hot cocoa with cinnamon from when she first visits Mary Margaret in the Season One episode "The Thing You Love Most."[21] It is also the same cup that the Desk Sergeant is drinking from when Henry first drops by the Hyperion Heights police station in the Season Seven premiere "Hyperion Heights."[22]
- Emma[23] and Mary Margaret[24] both drink hot cocoa from cups of the same design when they discuss Henry's plan for Mary Margaret and John Doe in the Season One episode "Snow Falls."
- The cup can also be seen sitting on Mary Margaret's kitchen counter in the Season Two episodes "The Crocodile"[25] and "Child of the Moon."[26]
- The envelope which Ingrid shows Emma, is from Twin Cities Adoption Services,[27] a fictional company used in an online adoption social worker resume sample from resume builder Live Career.[28] While the online version is located in Saint Paul, the show version is in another city in Minnesota: Minneapolis, where Emma lived as a child, according to the Season Five premiere "The Dark Swan" and the Season Six episode "Tougher Than the Rest."
- REUSED PROPS: The sword Mary Margaret is using against the Evil Queen[29] is the same design as the swords King George's guards use against a dragon in the Season One episode "The Shepherd."[30]
- MYSTERIOUS WRITINGS: Gerda's message in a bottle is written in Elder Futhark runes.[31] The actual translation is longer and slightly different than the one that is read aloud on-screen:
you need to know the truth about why we went to this voyage. It wasn't what we told you. I wish we could be telling you in person but alas that does not appear possible. |
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not know if your father and I will ever get back to you but I need you to know we were so wrong. We were wrong to tell Elsa to conceal her powers. You must know this. I feel terrible. This happened before and I cannot let it happen again. |
don't know if your father and I will ever get back to you, but I need you to know we were wrong to tell Elsa to conceal her powers. I feel terrible that it happened before and I can't let it happen again. |
mistake with my sister Ingrid. |
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I never told you about my sisters Helga and Ingrid. |
I never told you about her or my other sister Helga, but I should have. |
were beautiful and kind and Ingrid they they were beautiful [sic] and kind and wonderful and I [sic] was fearful and I let that fear guide me. |
and kind and wonderful, and I was fearful. And I let that fear guide me. |
of letting Ingrid hide when we should have celebrated her for how she was. I loved her so much. |
should have celebrated her for the person she was. I loved her so much. |
of my sisters which I stole from the people of Arendelle. Please return them. My sisters deserve to be known. In a cave in the north valley, you will find an urn that contains my sister Ingrid. Please do what I should have done years ago and release her. |
of my sisters, which I stole from the people of Arendelle. Please return them. My sisters deserve to be known. In a cave in the North Valley, you'll find an urn that contains Ingrid. Please do what I should have done long ago and release her. |
be remembered and more importantly like you, Elsa and Anna, she deserves to be loved. | |
I love her and that I am sorry. Tell her I would give anything to take back what I did, to hold hands with her just one more time. |
I love her and I'm sorry. I'd give anything to take back what I did, to hold her hands one more time. |
Set Dressing
- HIDDEN DETAILS: One of the carousels at the funfair that Emma and Ingrid visit, has pirate flags.[33]
- HIDDEN DETAILS: According to a sign, the funfair that Emma and Ingrid visit, takes place in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, between August 26. and September 1.[10] Interestingly, when Lily tracks Emma down in "Lily," she lies about her and Emma having been in the same group home in Falcon Heights.
Filming Locations
- The Boston flashback was filmed in Gastown, Vancouver.[34] The antiquities store[35] Salmagundi West doubles as Madame Faustina's psychic shop.[34]
- Vancouver's Stanley Park doubles as the Storybrooke graveyard for this episode.[38] The same location was used to film the Storybrooke beach scene with Anna and Kristoff.[39]
- The scene with Ingrid and young Emma at the funfair was filmed in Vancouver's Playland amusement park.[34]
- RECYCLED SET: The scene with Emma and Neal at the Portland amusement park in part two of the Season Three finale, "There's No Place Like Home," was filmed in the same location.[40] The amusement park was also used as a background plate for Emma's dream/vision of Neal in the Season Five episode "Souls of the Departed"[41] (the scene itself was filmed indoors on a soundstage).[42]
Goofs
- In the 1999 flashback, Emma mentions Harry Potter's ability to transport anywhere in seconds. That kind of magic, called apparition by author J. K. Rowling, while first referenced in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998), was not experienced by Harry himself until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was released in 2005.
- In the 2011 flashback, when Emma opens the door of Any Given Sundae, the curtain used to insert the Storybrooke's main street as background is seen, thanks to its shadow in the middle of the road and a few folds reflecting the light.[44]
International Titles
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| Language | Title | Translation |
| Finnish | "Vääristynyt näkö" | "Shattered Sight" |
| French | "Ultime Sacrifice" | "Ultimate Sacrifice" |
| German | "Im Zauber der zersetzenden Sicht" | "In the Spell of Shattered Sight" |
| Italian | "Sguardi infranti" | "Shattered Sights" |
| Polish | "Zaburzone widzenie" | "Disturbed Sight" |
| Portuguese | "Visão Partida" | "Shattered Sight" |
| Spanish | "La vista hecha añicos" | "The Shattered Sight" |
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