The glass slipper shatters

Cinderellas back!

Is she a zombie?

In debt to Rumple?

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Credit: ABC/Jack Rowand

Or simply alive again?

The new price of access to Hydes mind, he informs our heroes, is removal of his cuffs.

Meanwhile, newcomers are flooding Storybrooke and Henrys working his tail off to keep tabs on everyone.

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Ellas hopeless and sad and has only one friend in the world: an ebullient mouse named Gus.

Maybe he should counsel dalmatians instead of people?

Like daughter, like mother, Snow White is also having something of an existentialist crisis.

You know, after they do away with the Evil Queen.

This defeat and repeat savior business is for the birds.

On Emmas end, the situation is two-fold.

Only, theres a twist.

NEXT: Evil step-sister?

Charmings also dealing with some inner turmoil as he decides to track down the origin of his fathers coin.

Rumples got some information to share, but, as always, theres a price for it.

The twists continue in Ellas backstory when we find out that Clorinda wasnt really so bad after all.

Ashley eventually finds Clorinda hiding out in a pumpkin patch, but shes not alone.

Clorinda wants some homegrown revenge, which involves putting a stop to Ellas happy ending by blunt force.

Thankfully, Emmas able to pull herself together long enough to heal the wounds, and voila!

Evil stepmother finds herself working as a farmhand, and all is right in the world again.

Well, except for the fact that David/Charming finds out that his dad was actually murdered way back when.

But back to the happy bits.

Episode grade: B+