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The Summer Home[1] is a Land Without Color location featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the fifth episode of the second season.
The summer home is based on Victor Frankenstein's lab from the classic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
History
In the Land Without Color, Alphonse Frankenstein has two sons, one of which, Victor, is a scientist experimenting with ways to bring dead people back to life. Alphonse allows Victor the use of the family's summer home for his research, but eventually, he commands him to join the army as a physician. Though Victor protests against the change, Alphonse thinks little of his son's antics in experimentation. To have the final word, Alphonse cuts off the monetary expenses to discontinue Victor's scientific work.
With no other alternative to continue funding the experiments, Victor goes to the summer house and packs up his equipment when suddenly a man named Rumplestiltskin appears out of nowhere and strikes up a deal with him. Rumplestiltskin is interested in learning how Victor restores life since such a feat is not possible in the land he is from, and promises him a large sum of money in exchange for these details. After Victor accepts the deal, Rumplestiltskin conjures an enormous pile of gold for him. Just then, the lab assistant Igor enters the lab, to which Victor begins introducing him to Rumplestiltskin, but the man is already gone. Victor excitedly instructs Igor to bring the equipment back so they can search for a body to experiment on.
During the night, Victor travels to a graveyard where he goes digging for a body. He is approached by his younger brother Gerhardt, who thinks negatively of his brother's strategies for scientific work. They are caught by the graveyard guard, who shoots at them and Gerhart sustains a gunshot wound and passes away shortly after. Victor takes his corpse to the lab, and prepares to bring him back to life via experimentation, but Gerhardt's heart can't handle the strain and burns to a blackened, charred state. Alphonse arrives and asks about the corpse Victor had brought with him. When he notices the corpse is Gerhardt's, Alphonse furiously blames Victor for his death. Despite trying to explain he wants to bring Gerhardt back so his father can have both his sons back, Alphonse angrily replies that now he has no sons. ("In the Name of the Brother")
Gerhardt's body is shifted to a tank filled with boiling water. Suddenly, Rumplestiltskin comes to Victor again and asks if his experiment worked. When Victor explains about the problem with the heart, Rumplestiltskin reveals that where he is from, there are hearts that can withstand anything because of magic. The Dark One promises him a stronger heart if he will help fake a failed attempt to restore Queen Regina's deceased lover in the Enchanted Forest. Victor takes the deal and is given an enchanted heart. Following a return to the Land Without Color, Victor successfully transplants the enchanted heart into Gerhardt as his brother's body begins showing signs of life. Astonished, Igor is in awe of the magic, but Victor is certain that science made this possible. ("The Doctor", "In the Name of the Brother")
Trivia
Filming Locations
- Victor's lab in "In the Name of the Brother" was a real-life set used for filming, despite that the backgrounds and surrounding elements were CGI-made.[2]
Appearances
| Once Upon a Time: Season Two | ||||||||||
| "Broken": | "We Are Both": | "Lady of the Lake": | "The Crocodile": | "The Doctor": | "Tallahassee": | "Child of the Moon": | "Into the Deep": | "Queen of Hearts": | "The Cricket Game": | "The Outsider": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "In the Name of the Brother": | "Tiny": | "Manhattan": | "The Queen Is Dead": | "The Miller's Daughter": | "Welcome to Storybrooke": | "Selfless, Brave and True": | "Lacey": | "The Evil Queen": | "Second Star to the Right": | "And Straight On 'Til Morning": |
| Appears | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
References
- ↑ "I've already allowed you the use of our summer home for your foolish purposes. Isn't that enough?" (Alphonse Frankenstein to Victor Frankenstein, "In the Name of the Brother")
- ↑ Man on the Move. Once Upon a Fan (February 2, 2013). Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. “Chad: Although the backgrounds and surrounding elements were CGI, on Once Upon a Time they created fantastic little sets that we stomped around on – "Viktor's lab", my cell at the end of the episode, and the Frankenstein manor.”