Heroes And Villains

Chapter 4: Geysers

Opening Sequence,
The four geysers from The Wizard of Oz's Palace fires up the forest.

Flashback: In the Emerald City of Oz, The kingdom Zelena watches Rumplestiltskin train Regina through the portal, as she plans her scheme to destroy her half-sister. Glinda then arrives to tell Zelena about her true destiny, and wants her to meet her real sisters, who then offer her a chance to become the Witch of the West after she is introduced. Glinda tells them that Zelena doesn't have to be wicked, but believes that she can be good, if she can put aside her vengeance against Regina. However, foretells the princess of Oz, and Zelena is led to believing that she was the one they were looking for. Glinda, on the behalf of her sisters, then give Zelena the light pendant that will harness and protect her as it grows her powers, but tells her that once it is removed she will be powerless. After she takes the pendant her green skin disappears. Moments later after Glinda shows her the land she is giving to Zelena, both Glinda and Zelena witness a princess in a carriage, a young princess from the wealthy kingdom of Oz, who Zelena finds among the rubble. She tells them that her name is Dorothy Gale, Dorothy tells them that her kingdom's name is Kansas. When Glinda suggests that they take Dorothy to meet the sisters, Zelena's jealousy starts to reemerge. It appears that Dorothy has won over the other witches, except for Zelena, who now has become more envious of this latest visitor to their world and as she watches from the well, Glinda comes over to talk to her. However, Zelena, having read the book of prophecies, believes that princess Dorothy will replace her, saying that she is the greatest evil and a threat to Oz. Later on, Zelena surprises Dorothy at the well, where Zelena's green skin returns, making her evil as ever and vows to threaten Dorothy by creating a fireball that she will aim at her. This prompts a confused Dorothy to take a bucket of water from the well and throw it at her, causing Zelena to melt. Dorothy then runs and tells Glinda what had happened, but Glinda tells her that what she did to Zelena was the right thing to do; it turns out that Zelena was the evil threat all along. Glinda then offers Dorothy a chance to join the council of witches, but Dorothy turns her down and says she's sorry and wants to go back to her kingdom. Glinda tells her that the Wizard will return her to Kansas. When they arrive to the Wizard's palace, Glinda and Princess Dorothy arrive to see the unseen Wizard, who then grants Dorothy her wish by giving her a pair of silver slippers and disappears back to her kingdom. However, after princess Dorothy disappears, Glinda discovers that the person that was behind the curtain was none other than Zelena, who was pretending to be the Wizard and survived the "melting" by reappearing after the incident. Now that she knows about her being the true threat and revealing her as the greatest evil, Zelena banishes Glinda to a pocket dimension within the northern region of the Enchanted Forest, where she can never tell the others. After she disappears, Zelena's pendant turns green, indicating Zelena's new power. End of Flashback

In present day Storybrooke, Mr.Hucher continues to teach Grace, who is still trying to convince him that he is Robin Hood. Meanwhile, Sheriff Darkbloom officially makes Renee Gale his new deputy. An explosion soon after causes the town to shake, followed by a sinkhole that emerges at an abandoned mine shaft. As Renee, Grace, Jason, and the sheriff show up to see the damaged area, Zelena arrives to try to keep everyone from going any further and is ready to replace it with new apartments and refuses to listen, even if is for Grace's sake. After stopping by Roni's diner, Roni tells Hope the only way to stop Zelena's plan is to launch a petition that would lead to an injunction in order to prove that the abandoned mine shaft is viable to the town. The petition campaign gathers enough signatures for Hope to get the injunction, but Zelena shows up with a offer to give up the petition in favor of giving Hope a condominium for her and Renee. Unfortunately, when Grace sees this, she turns on Hope for giving in to Zelena's scheme. Hours later, Hope decides to fight back against Zelena by gathering the residents to sign the petition again, which impresses Renee and Grace. When an excavator hits an object that they cannot break, Grace believes that there's something in the abandoned mine shaft and jumps into the hole and Jason follows. They come across one of Dorothy's Silver slippers that Grace believes.

The following day, Zelena goes to the police station and reports that Grace is missing again. Renee begins to investigate the area and comes across Grace's backpack. As Grace and Jason try to escape, an aftershock blocks off the main entrance, leaving an injured Jason and Grace trapped. They find an elevator shaft, not knowing that above ground Renee and Zelena have taken the suggestion of blasting the main entrance from destruction workers, which results in the elevator carrying Grace and Jason being lowered even further after the blast takes place. Inside the elevator, Grace asks Jason why he refuses to believe that he is Robin Hood. Jason acknowledges that he might share Robin Hood's personality and in a similar fashion to his alternative past, yearn to steal from the rich and give to the poor. Meanwhile, above ground, Renee finds the opening of the elevator shaft and volunteers to go down the shaft, where she succeeds in rescuing Grace and Jason. Jason tells Zelena that he will continue to see Grace and that if she attempts to interfere he will take action against Zelena and have her declared an unfit mother. Zelena backs down after Jason's threat, she looks at the silver slipper she had in her purse and throws it down the shaft, where it lands on top of Dorothy's broken carriage.

That night, Hope continues to visit the amnesiac Elias at the hospital. At the same time, Lisa also continues to visit Elias, showing him pictures to jog his memory but later admits, although he claimed otherwise to Lisa, to Hope that he doesn't remember anything that he saw in the pictures. As Hope notices Elias becoming more attracted to her, she still feels threatened by Lisa's presence. This prompts Hope Ash to submit her letter of resignation as a volunteer at the hospital.