<P> Emma asks Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) about the compass and he searches his records . He finds a card that supposedly says Michael Tillman purchased the compass, and gives Emma this name . The card is revealed to be blank . Michael is the garage mechanic, and tells Emma he can barely handle the garage let alone twins . Emma has no choice but to take Ava and Nicholas to Boston on Regina's orders, despite Henry's warnings that no one can leave Storybrooke . That evening as the three are leaving, the vehicle breaks down as they reach the city limits, prompting Emma to call for help . Moments later, Ava notices her compass working . Michael arrives in his tow truck, and Emma explains that he at least has to see his children, as she could not leave Henry after seeing the life he had . Seeing Ava and Nicholas face to face changes his mind, and Michael accepts them into his life . Later, Emma shares Henry's theory with Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin), that she is Snow White's daughter and Mary Margaret is Snow White . Mary finds this laughable, but seeing Emma's blanket triggers some sort of reaction from her . After a minute, however, she is quick to dismiss it as nothing . </P> <P> In the meantime, Henry asks Emma about his father . Emma tells Henry that his dad was a trainee fireman who used to frequent the diner where she worked . The two of them "hung out" a few times, resulting in Emma being pregnant with Henry before she went to jail . Once there, she tried to tell him about Henry, only to discover that he had died while saving a family from a burning building . However, she later admits to Mary the story she gave Henry was a lie and he should never know the truth about his father . After Emma's reunion of the children with Michael that evening, Henry arrived with pumpkin pie to give Emma in order to thank her for explaining about his birth father . They are interrupted by a stranger (Eion Bailey) on a motorcycle with a unique box . Without giving his name, he asks Emma about finding a place to stay . After referring him to Granny's Bed & Breakfast, she reminds Henry that he said no one else ever comes to or leaves Storybrooke and Henry replies that they don't . </P> <P> In the Enchanted Forest, Hansel (Lord) and Gretel (Collins), are searching for kindling while their father (Lea) chops firewood . He gives Gretel a compass so they won't be separated, but when they return, he is nowhere to be found . As they search they run into The Evil Queen (Parrilla) and are captured . She tells the two that she can help find their father, on the condition that they retrieve an item belonging to her from The Blind Witch (Emma Caulfield). They must enter her gingerbread house when The Blind Witch is asleep and fetch The Evil Queen's leather satchel, but they must not eat a thing . They break in safely, but Hansel gives in to the temptation of taking a bite of a cupcake, causing The Blind Witch to wake up . While she cannot see the children, she can smell their scent . The Blind Witch locks them up and prepares the oven to roast them . The two, working together, are able to push the witch into her own oven as The Evil Queen, who is gleefully watching the events from her mirror, magically sends a bolt of fire through her mirror into the witch's oven, roasting her alive . </P> <P> When the two return to The Evil Queen's palace, she opens the satchel to reveal a poisoned apple . The Evil Queen offers Hansel and Gretel a home at the palace, but they are adamant about returning to their father . She sends them back into the forest and summons her newest prisoner, Hansel and Gretel's father . The Evil Queen asks why the children turned down the luxurious life of the palace and he answers that they are family, and family finds each other . Frustrated, she sends him away to see if they indeed find each other . </P>

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