‘Once Upon A Time’ Season 4 Spoilers: Emma Swan And Snow White Meet The Author, A Wicked Villain Returns

“Once Upon A Time” Season 4, episode 17 aired Mar. 29 on ABC. In this weekend’s new episode, Emma Swan and Snow White finally meet the Author. Meanwhile, ABC’s promo clip for the next episode reveals a villain from OUAT Season 3 is returning.

The Author (spoiler alert), it turns out, is some cunning character who once lured Snow White and Prince Charming into Maleficent’s path. “Once Upon A Time” Season 4, episode 17 reveals Maleficent’s baby is alive, but Snow and Charming had inadvertently thrown her off into “a land without magic.” This episode explains how Ursula and Cruella wound up outside Storybrooke.

Emma Swan has yet to find out that Maleficent’s daughter is Lily, her best friend at the foster home. Emma and Lily had a falling-out, but Emma remembers the latter with some good memories. OUAT 4x17 also shows Emma’s deep-seated frustration over the truth that her parents hid from her.

Emma refuses to believe that her heart could be turned into darkness. Saying she’s not worried about becoming dark or evil, Emma unlocks the Author from the page in which the Sorcerer’s Apprentice had trapped him. The Saviour saves the Author, but he runs away before she could ask him anything.

In the next episode, the wicked witch Zelena is making a comeback. Titled “Heart of Gold,” “Once Upon A Time” Season 4, episode 18 will also feature Robin Hood and the Dark One from the past.

Emma Swan and Snow White have some sorting out to do. The viewers learned in the latest episode that the darkness in Snow’s heart started a long time ago, long before she’s killed Regina’s mother Cora. It all started when Snow became paranoid over the fate of their unborn child, Emma. It started when she and Charming inadvertently threw baby Lily out of Enchanted Forest.

Snow White decides in OUAT 4x17 that lying makes them act like Gold. Charming wants to destroy the page, but Snow later realises Regina may completely lose her happy ending if they do that. Still, Emma is unable to accept that her parents lied to her. Henry gets a taste of Snow and Charming's lies, too, but he has yet to fully react.

The next “Once Upon A Time” Season 4 episode airs Apr. 12 on ABC.

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