have taken their toll, and he is going to need lots of rest and lots of strength if he's going to make a full recovery. He later wakes up just fine, able to tell Emma the truth about the Author and how it's a profession as opposed to a single person. The one that's trapped inside the page she has isn't the only one, just the most recent, and he was entrapped in the first place because he had forsaken his holy duty and began to manipulate events instead of just record them. Emma sets him free, however, because she has a lot of questions for him, and he is sure that she does... proceeding to knock down a curtain rail in order to cause a distraction andrun away, out into the streets. ("Best Laid Plans")

With the Author now having the enchanted ink he needs in order to rewrite everyone's stories, Emma and the others head to the Sorcerer's mansion in order to search through all the blank books to see if any are being filled out. None are, and they almost declare their plunder pointless; that is, until August shows up and advises them to find the man who turned Isaac into the Author in the first place - the Apprentice. He shows them an illustration of the old wizard and Hook, having been blackmailed by Rumple to trap him in the hat, is able to recognize him, leading the group to his house. Mother Superior is implored to help free him, and she