Plot
Opening sequence
The Spell of Shattered Sight appears in the forest.Event chronology
The Land Without Magic flashback with the Snow Queen in Boston takes place in 1982, immediately after "In the Characters' Past
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 findIn Storybrooke
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 her previous experience right before being under the spell's influence, as seen in "Smash The Mirror", Anna reveals that killing Ingrid, the caster of the curse, would potentially be the only option 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 "Any Given Sundae" where 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 free Emma and Elsa, and 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 her and Mary Margaret. Regina then makes Anna and Kristoff disappear, and they end up back on the beachfront, from where they reunited with Elsa and met Emma back in the previous episode, "Fall". As Kristoff argues with Anna, believing that life would've been better off much stable if the two weren't engaged and blames her for postponing their wedding, a hurt Anna then trips her leg on a bottle. Anna picks up the bottle and hits Kristoff on his head knocking him out, allowing the letter that was inside the bottle to fall into Anna's hands. 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 where she restores the good memories of Emma and Elsa 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 reconcile, 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 is happy to join her beloved little sisters, Helga and Gerda. After Elsa and Anna embrace, they decide that once they return home, they will bring 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.Reception
Reviews
The episode received positive reviews. Hilary Busis of ''References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shattered Sight 2014 American television episodes Once Upon a Time (season 4) episodes