TEXT: -[Fairy Tale World]- (A human Rumpelstiltskin is spinning straw in a crude looking house. His son frantically rushes inside.) Baelfire: Papa! Papa! They've come for Morraine. (Rumpelstiltskin and his son go outside. They live in a village. They watch from a distance as several knights drag away a young girl from her screaming parents.) Mother: No! Father: No! Please, please! Mother: No! No, don't take her! No! No, you can't take her! She's my baby! Don't take my baby! Hordor: Nonsense. She's a fine, strong girl. She'll make a fine soldier. Father: It's a mistake - she's turning fourteen. Only fourteen! Hordor: Orders of the Duke! The Ogre Wars have taken their toll this season. More troops will turn the tide. Baelfire: They lowered the age again, Papa. Rumpelstiltskin: I know. Hordor: Take her. (The other knights grab the girl.) Hordor: She'll ride with me. (The girl is shoved onto the back of his horse.) Mother: No! Father: You can't have her! (The woman draws a knife and lunges towards the knight. Suddenly, she and the man are stopped by some invisible force. In the field behind them, there is a cloaked figure on a black horse, who appears to be the one that's controlling them. The man and the woman wither on the ground.) Hordor: The Dark One seems to think I can. (The dark figure relents and the Hordor, the knights and the girl ride off.) Baelfire: My birthday's in three days. They'll come for me in three days! Rumpelstiltskin: We'll find a way. We'll... We'll find a way. -[Real World]- (Mr. Gold is covering a piece of cloth with lanolin in the back room of his pawn shop. Emma enters through the front door
SUMMARY:
Emma makes the decision to run for a coveted Storybrooke public office following a devastating tragedy and Regina engages in dirty politics after Gold makes a bold move while a series of events are revealed in which a cowardly spinner embarks on a quest to help his son avert the horrors of a meaningless war.