“Once Upon A Time” Season 4 Episode 13 aired Sunday, Mar. 1, on ABC. This mid-season premiere shows what happens next to Emma Swan and Regina, as well as Gold and Ursula. Toward the end, it reveals a piece of mystery about Emma, which is part of Gold’s vast knowledge about the Saviour and her mother Snow White.

Spoiler alert: This episode recaps the highlights of “Once Upon A Time” Season 4 Episode 13. Read on at your own risk.

“Once Upon A Time” Season 4 Episode 13’s story starts at the Forbidden Fortress in a flashback sequence. Ursula, Maleficent and Cruella de Vil have their first encounter. They find themselves being tricked into gathering in one place. Rumplestiltskin then reveals himself.

OUAT spoiler readers have been reading about the second half of “Once Upon A Time” Season 4. Rumple declares it out loud to the three Queens of Darkness: villains should get their happy endings.

Things are generally back to normal in Storybrooke in the beginning of OUT 4x13. Henry is a student, Mary Margaret aka Snow White is teaching again, Regina aka the former evil queen is back as mayor, and Sheriff Emma Swan is back in her post.

There are some changes, though: Mr Gold’s pawnshop is closed. Captain Hook and Belle confide in each other, and Belle establishes research contacts through the internet. Meanwhile, in New York, the Dark One, Ursula and Cruella de Vil reunite. “Once Upon A Time” Season 4B is only one queen short.

In “Once Upon A Time” Season 4B, Emma and Regina are lunch dates. They both hear from Belle a ritual to free the fairies – just the fairies - from the Sorcerer’s hat. It supposedly came from a professor in Oxford. No one’s skeptic about it since the fairies are freed using the ritual.

Later, however, a dark winged creature emerges in Storybrooke. Emma and Regina get ready for battle. No one in Storybrooke is aware, but this thing wants an evil heart – one that has potential for great darkness. The flashback in the “Once Upon A Time” Season 4B opening is about this truth.

Everything about the fairies and the bat-like creature, as viewers would have guessed, is part of Gold’s plan. Regina thinks the creature wants her heart. Toward the end of “Once Upon A Time” Season 4 Episode 13, it is revealed that the dark winged creature wants Emma Swan’s heart.

The Saviour’s heart has potential for great darkness. Gold knows it, and it appears nobody else does. He tells Cruella de Vil and Ursula. Now they are out to set Maleficent free.

Because of Gold’s scheme as an Oxford professor, the Dark One is back in Storybrooke shortly before the end of “Once Upon A Time” Season 4 Episode 13. Now it’s time for Prince Charming and Snow White to get back to frontrunner-level action.

“Once Upon A Time” Season 4 airs Sundays on ABC.

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