Smash the Mirror
| "Smash the Mirror" | |
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| Once Upon a Time episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 8 & 9 |
| Directed by | Eagle Egilsson & Ralph Hemecker |
| Written by | David H. Goodman & Jerome Schwartz |
| Production code | 408 A/B |
| Original air date | November 16, 2014 |
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"Smash the Mirror" is a 2-part story comprising the eighth episode of the fourth season of the American fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time, both parts of which aired on November 16, 2014 as a 2-hour special. This is the first time in the series' run that it aired a 2-part story without the second part having a separate title. The episodes were filmed with a single production code, as confirmed by Jane Espenson on her Twitter account, and later separated.
In this episode Emma Swan tries to control her magic, while flashbacks show The Snow Queen trying to pit Elsa and Anna against each other, and also making a deal with the Apprentice.
Emma Swan's yellow buggy is featured in the forest for Part 1, and snowflakes are featured in the forest for Part 2.
The Arendelle events take place after "Family Business" and more than thirty years before "Fall". The Enchanted Forest events take place after "Family Business". The Land Without Magic flashback takes place in 1982, after "Operation Mongoose, Part 1" and immediately before the flashback with the Snow Queen in Boston in "Shattered Sight". The Storybrooke events take place after "The Snow Queen".
Outside of the forest of Arendelle, Ingrid races off to find a place for the box containing the Sorcerer's Hat, freezing it over hiding it under a rock. Then, she heads to the Enchanted Forest to visit the Apprentice's cabin, and offers to make a deal with him: she'll return the box in exchange for the Sorcerer finding her a perfect match for a third sister she wants.
Back in Arendelle after the meeting, Ingrid is determined to use Elsa by manipulating her to turn on Anna. She 'warns' Elsa that her sister is plotting to trap her inside the urn, just as Gerda did to Ingrid in the past, instructing Elsa to talk to Anna herself in the palace dungeon cell. Unknown to Ingrid, Elsa is only pretending to believe her aunt, and when she visits Anna in her jail cell, the two sisters decide it's best to play along with Ingrid's lie. The two come up with a plan to place Ingrid back inside the urn when she least expects it; so Elsa breaks Anna out of the cell, and with help from Kristoff they search the closed-off east wing of the castle, and find the urn in a closet (along with a still-frozen Hans). They also find a cracked mirror with a missing fragment, which unknown to them, is the Mirror of Shattered Sight. Anna takes the urn into her cell to wait for Ingrid to come check on her. Unfortunately, Ingrid was on to their scheme; she had been waiting for Anna all along, and Anna finds herself trapped in the cell with her.
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