History Recap / OnceUponATimeS2E14Manhattan

** Lampshaded by David.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Hook is knocked out by Regina and Cora once he reads the map.

* CrossReferencedTitles: To "Tallahassee". Both episodes have one-word titles named after cities, both involve Emma's past, and both involve big reveals relating to the show's overall mythology that will greatly change how events move forward from here.

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* WhamEpisode: Rumpelstiltskin is finally reunited with his son, who is reveal to be Neal Cassidy. In turn Emma is reunited with Neal and Henry meets his father. The seer tells Rumple the little boy (Henry) who will lead him to Baelfire will also be his undoing, to which he replies "Well, then I'll just have to kill him." Also, remember Greg? Yeah, he's sent footage of Regina using magic to "her".

* BlindSeer: Complete with EyelessFace, the Seer sense her environment through touch, hearing, and her prophecies which provide her with a disturbing amount of insight.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: On her freakin' hands. Interestingly, Season 3 shows Rumple making the same motions in an attempt to use the powers he stole from her in Neverland.

* ICannotSelfTerminate: Baits Rumple so he would be angry enough to kill her.

* ShoutOut: The seer has eyes in her hands, just like [[Film/PansLabyrinth The Pale Man]] (It has also been reference before, by the blind witch sensing the children when they eat her food in [[Recap/OnceUponATimeS1E9TrueNorth True North]])

* WhamEpisode: Rumpelstiltskin is finally reunited with his son, who is reveal to be Neal Cassidy. In turn Emma is reunited with Neal and Henry meets his father. The seer tells Rumple the little boy (Henry) who will lead him to Baelfire will also be his undoing, to which he replies "Well, then I'll just have to kill him.". Also, remember Greg? Yeah, he's sent footage of Regina using magic to "her".

* ShoutOut: The seer has eyes in her hands, just like [[PansLabyrinth The Pale Man]] (It has also been reference before, by the blind witch sensing the children when they eat her food in [[Recap/OnceUponATimeS1E9TrueNorth True North]])

* BlindSeer: Complete with EyelessFace

* ProphecyTwist[=/=]SelfFulfillingProphecy: A seer tells Rumpelstiltskin that his actions on the battlefield will result in his son losing his father. Rumple flees the battlefield, his wife leaves him for being a coward, he becomes the Dark One to save his son, and his son leaves the realm to escape from magic. Rumpelstiltskin is not happy when he catches up with the seer again.

* ExactWords: Meeting with the Seer years later, Rumple acknowledges that her words on what would happen to him because of his actions were correct but "It would have been nice to have known all those pesky <I>details</I>."

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While Mr. Gold, Emma and Henry go in search of Gold's son Bae in New York, Cora, Regina and Hook attempt to track down one of Rumplestiltskin's most treasured possessions. Meanwhile, in the Enchanted Forest that was, Rumplestiltskin realizes his destiny while fighting in the Ogres War.

* BlessedWithSuck: Rumplestiltskin explains to Henry that the gift of prophecy is this; it's almost impossible to puzzle out what the future contains, and once you do it's impossible to avoid.

* ProphecyTwist / SelfFulfillingProphecy: A seer tells Rumplestiltskin that his actions on the battlefield will result in his son losing his father. Rumple flees the battlefield, his wife leaves him for being a coward, he becomes the Dark One to save his son, and his son leaves the realm to escape from magic. Rumplestiltskin is not happy when he catches up with the seer again.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: The seer. She only gets two scenes, but when you think about it, the fact that she shared the SelfFulfillingProphecy with Rumplestiltskin leads to practically everything that happens in the show, including the Dark Curse itself.

* WhamEpisode: Rumplestiltskin is finally reunited with his son, who is reveal to be Neal Cassidy. In turn Emma is reunited with Neal and Henry meets his father. The seer tells Rumpel the little boy (Henry) who will lead him to Baelfire will also be his undoing.

* ProphecyTwist: A seer tells Rumplestiltskin that his actions on the battlefield will result in his son losing his father. Rumple flees the battlefield, his wife leaves him for being a coward, he becomes the Dark One to save his son, and his son leaves the realm to escape from magic. Rumplestiltskin is not happy when he catches up with the seer again.
%%* SelfFulfillingProphecy

%%* WarIsHell
* WhamEpisode: Rumplestiltskin is finally reunited with his son, who is reveal to be Neal Cassidy. In turn Emma is reunited with Neal and Henry meets his father.

* ShoutOut: The seer has eyes in her hands, just like [[PansLabyrinth The Pale Man]] (It has also been reference before, by the blind witch sensing the children when they eat her food in [[Recap/OnceUponATimeS1EP9TrueNorth True North]])

* IKnewIt: Half the fanbase saw the twist coming (see below).

* ContrivedCoincidence: Emma and [[spoiler:Neal's]] first meeting. It's {{lampshaded}} when she points out that it's too impossible to be believed, and (using one of the justifications for this device as noted on the trope's main page) [[spoiler:Neal]] goes with the ThereAreNoCoincidences line of reasoning.
* FountainOfYouth: Rumple's idea of making up for his mistakes is to offer to [[spoiler:turn the clock back, erasing his son's memories of growing up without him. Baelfire]] is less than impressed.

-->'''[[spoiler:Neal]]:''' I get it; we're all messed up. Let's just say we try to avoid that with him."

* WarIsHell
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Rumplestiltskin is finally reunited with his son, who is reveal to be Neal Cassidy. In turn Emma is reunited with Neal and Henry meets his father]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Hook is knocked out by Regina and Cora once he reads the map.

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-->'''[[spoiler:Neal]]:''' I get it; we're all screwed up. Let's try to avoid that with [Henry]."