Bullet Point: Once Upon A Time 404 The Apprentice

• Fantasia references! We see in the episode the sorcerer's apprentice.
• Title card features the apprentice's broom running across the screen.

There's the broom!

• Emma asks Killian out on a date making him miss the dart board completely! Hahaha!
• Anna is back! We missed her in the episode last week.
• I like that Killian asks for his hand back because he wanted to be complete for Emma. He may be thinking that he may hurt her with his hook. Unfortunately, his hand is now owned by Rumple, the man who cut it (his crocodile).
• Will Scarlett is also back in this episode!
• I love the fact that Henry accepts that both his mothers have boyfriends. Whilst he didn't have any problems with Walsh before, I expected him to be wary of Hook. But he was the one who pushed Emma to ask Killian out.
• David and Mary Margaret, proud parents. I like it, though, that they are really trying to make it up to Emma, the missed moments especially the important ones. I also like the opposing opinions: Mary Margaret sees how happy her daughter is with Hook and David cautious of him.
• Killian looking dapper in modern clothing.
• Emma is really happy and in love!
• Aw! Will breaking in to the library and was found by Belle clutching a copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and a torn page of the Red Queen. The Red Queen, whose real name is Anastasia, is the love of Will's life.
• I think that Hook's hand, before giving it back to him, was already enchanted by Mr Gold. They are still sworn enemies.
• We discover that Elsa's parents went to the Enchanted Forest to ask Rumple if her powers can be subdued. According to The Dark One, they were scared of their own daughter.
• So Anna is, technically, the first one to discover the limits of Rumplestiltskin's powers, that The Dark One can be controlled using the dagger.
• Anna, through Rumple's magic, got back safely to Arendelle. But because Elsa was trapped in the urn, she might not have remembered that her sister came back.
• The Snow Queen wasn't in the First nor the Second Curse because the name she uses, Sarah Fisher, doesn't appear in the Storybrooke census.
• Because Will Scarlett knows what it is like to love and lost, he didn't tell Emma that it was Hook who gave him the black eye.
• Anna had the sorcerer's hat with her back in Arendelle. How did it go back in Rumple's possession?
• The Dark One cannot be killed by any sabre. The dagger will be his only demise and the person who did will be the next Dark One, his name inscribed on the dagger.
• The sorcerer's hat can usurp any power and will give the owner/wearer unlimited powers apparently.
• Henry is the new sorcerer's apprentice.

Rumple is the only Dark One who can control the sorcerer's hat because of Anna. We discover in this episode that Anna is really pure of heart. It is the true personality of Anna. Whilst, she tried to kill Rumple, making her heart dark for a moment, she retracted and crumpled on the floor and cried. It gave Rumple what he needed, her tears, and the dagger was impregnated with them. It should have a meaning later in the season and not just to open the sorcerer's box containing his hat. Hopefully.

Dee