After the fast paced events of the previous ep we where then subjected to another little borefest which concentrated on Merida (Amy Manson) and how her father wanted her to be a warrior in preparation for when she'd become queen. Giving her his crossbow so she could use it in ere first battle, but before that he brought along a masked warrior to help her hone her skills. Who turned out to be Mulan (Jamie Chung). Wandering around all this time and we find that she's become a thief (must've met Robin (Sean Maguire) on her journeys somehow, ha) and was stealing from an inn keeper when Merida arrived cos her country of Dun Broc needed help. She gave Mulan gold too.
The army was invading from the south which immediately clicked as being Arthur (Liam Garrigan) cos there wasn't anyone else around then and so her father, The Bear King, aka Fergus (that's the only Scottish name they could come up with, seeing as Crowley in Supernatural is also named Fergus!! Well it's that or Angus!!) Merida found he signed over his gold in order to defeat the invaders. And the witch (Lily Knight) came to get her price after his death. Either gold or the helmet, now called the helm. Merida found her father (Glenn Keogh) before the battle and they had a heart to heart. Knew he threw the helmet into the lake. Merida went in search of it and needed Mulan's help. Not knowing Arthur and Zelena (Rebecca Mader) were also on the trail of the helm. Another one of Arthur's quests to get his kingdom back.
Mulan agreed to help if she didn't question why she'd become a thief. As another jumping back in time shows her father only got Mulan to teach Merida to fight cos he didn't want her in the battle. She sees the knight about to attack her father and then misfires her arrow as she misses the knight, leading to her father being killed. As the knight steals the helm, she doesn't wait around to see who was under the helmet, see it was Arthur. As Mulan gets to the witch's house, she's attacked by a wolf but she notices the wolf is actually a girl, cue Ruby (Meghan Ory) and the witch was keeping her under a spell. Ruby says she can find the man who killed Fergus cos of the scrap of cloth they found and she can sniff him out. Also we get to see that back in Storybrooke, Ruby wanted to go back to the enchanted forest cos she was the only one of her kind here, or a convenient way for her not to appear in the show, as she shows Snow (Gennifer Goodwin) a small magic bean they grew.
Ruby finds Arthur and Zelena and tells Merida his scent is all around him and he killed her father. But he demands the helmet, which she doesn't have. She finds her father didn't wear the helmet into battle but flung it into the sea, as said so he lost the battle but didn't lead innocent men to their deaths. As Arthur and Zelena are about to attack, Ruby uses sleeping powder on her as she did on her in the witch's cabin. As Mackintosh (Paul Telfer) saves Merida from Arthur, both leaving for Camelot to plot some more. Seems Merida sees Mac in a new light now as he bows down before his queen. Mulan admitting she turned bad cos she lost someone she loved! Hey it's all about lost love which turns people over to the dark side isn't it!!
Another pointless ep! As the quest for the helm turns out to be a test by the witch to see if Merida was strong enough to be queen. Just a rehash of the scene where Belle substituted water for her magic potion to turn her into a bear cos she knew she could save her brothers by her arrows alone! Seems like we were just meant to be distracted from seeing Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) dark for now!! Well he always had the potential to be dark and we just had to wait longer to see what happens next!
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