

David wakes up after she reads Henry's fairytale book to him as a favor to Henry. Mary Margaret falls in love with David Nolan, a coma patient who is really Prince Charming. Gold, becomes heated when she learns he is still aware of his true identity as Rumplestiltskin. Regina's bitter rivalry with Storybrooke's wealthiest resident, Mr. Regina's antagonistic attitude raises Emma's suspicions and prompts her to move in with Henry's teacher Mary Margaret Blanchard, believed by Henry to be her mother, Snow White. In Storybrooke, Emma is soon elected as Sheriff following the sudden death of the previous Sheriff, Graham Humbert ( Jamie Dornan), believed by Henry to be the Huntsman. In exchange for the child's name, he told them their only hope was the child, who would return on her 28th birthday and begin "The Final Battle." The child, an infant girl, is born on the day the Queen enacts her curse and is placed in a wardrobe carved out of an enchanted tree which takes the child to our world, where she grew up in the foster system, rebelled in her teen years, and ended up having Henry at 18. In the fairy tale world, it is revealed that Snow and Charming, concerned for the safety of their unborn child, went to seek advice from the imprisoned trickster Rumplestiltskin ( Robert Carlyle). Henry also tells Emma that they are the only people who can leave Storybrooke, as others who try will suffer accidents. This action causes the hands of the clock tower to move for the first time in 28 years. Emma of course considers this theory to be completely outlandish and returns Henry home, but she still decides to remain in the New England town after becoming attached to him. Because of the curse, everyone in Storybrooke is frozen in time with no memories of their former selves-except for the Queen, who is Storybrooke's mayor and Henry's adoptive mother, Regina Mills. Henry possesses a large book of fairy tales, suspecting that Emma is the daughter of Snow White ( Ginnifer Goodwin) and Prince Charming ( Josh Dallas), who sent her away so she would be protected from a powerful curse enacted by the Evil Queen ( Lana Parrilla), a curse in which the queen is the only one with a happy ending. Gilmore)-the son she gave up for adoption ten years previous-who takes her back to his hometown of Storybrooke, Maine. On the night of her 28th birthday, bail bonds collector Emma Swan ( Jennifer Morrison) is reunited with Henry Mills ( Jared S. The structure of the show cuts back and forth between the events happening in the real world and the corresponding events that happened in the fairy tale world. All of the classic fairy tales and other stories exist together in the same continuity, though many of the events played out slightly different to how the stories are told in our world.
