We open in Neverland as Felix, one of the Lost Boys, has captured Neal. Neal tells him that he'll get Henry back from Pan then knocks Felix out and escapes.
Flashback to the past. Rumplestiltskin now "The Dark One" brings young Baelfire a present but he tells him that he doesn't "want gifts from people you terrorize." "The Dark One" then asks Baelfire what would make him happy and he replies that leaving would because he "wants to have friends, see the world." "The Dark One" replies that Baelfire must stay in the hose because he has many enemies who would hurt Baelfire to hurt him. Baelfire thinks the real reason is that "Papa" is afraid that if he leaves, he'll never come back but "The Dark One" denies this. He insists that Baelfire staying confirmed is bet and tells him that he wouldn't know what he would do if he lost him.
Back to the present. Gold is in the jungle putting war paint on when Belle appears to him again. She notes that he is putting back on a mask and he says he'll need it to rescue Henry. Belle says that she "knows your intentions are good but a lifetime of rage and self-interest is a nasty habit that you've never been able to break." Gold replies that things are different and Belle asks how. "Because I have nothing to Live for," replies Gold. Belle reminds him that she's back in Storybrooke waiting for his return. He says she shouldn't and they both knew that his lat goodbye was it. Belle replies that she thinks he'll return and Gold says that even if he did, she'd leave him eventually because she "sees me for what I truly am...a monster.
Emma goes over the plan for Tinkerbell to get them inside Pan's compound. Tinkerbell warns them again about the Dreamshade poison but David quickly changes the subject to when they can get going. Tinkerbell says that she is ready to go as soon as she hears their escape pan. Everyone is silent. Tinkerbell then reminds then that no one leaves Neverland unless Pan allows it. Tinkerbell then shows them Tamara's watch and adds that she got it off of her dead body. She then says that she won't help them without an escape route. David remembers that Hook figured out how to leave. Hook says a magic portal must be opened, which he got through a deal with Pan, but that Neal managed to find a way to get off without Pan's permission. Emma and Hook want to find out how.
Gold knocks out two Lost Boys at the entrance to Pan's compound with sleeping dust. Then, Neal appears and Go l d can't believe his son if alive. Gold thinks that he's just another image he conjured, like Belle and lunges at him. Neal is able to convince Gold that he's real.
Back to the past, "The Dark One" returns home and finds Baelfire is gone. He goes into town and accuses the townspeople if hiding him but they tell him that all the children have disappeared. They all heard pipe music, which the parents couldn't hear and were lured away into the forest. "The Dark One" then vows to find this "pied piper" and make him pay for taking his son.
Gold tells Neal where Emma is when Neal tells him that he plans on rescuing Henry. Neal knows about Gold's intention on sacrificing himself to save Henry and tells him that there's another way. Yet, Gold still thinks that Pan is too powerful. Neal then shows Gold that certain seashells can make the ocean come to them. Neal calls a huge squid from the ocean then kills it with a Dreamshade-tipped spear. Neal then asks Gold to extract squid ink from the squid, which they can use to immobilize Pan. Neal then says he just needs a clear shot at Pan to get Henry back but Gold replies, "Leave that to me."
Hook shows the gang how Neal left Neverland. Once they're alone, Hook urges David to tell Mary-Margaret and Emma of his impending death courtesy of a Dreamshade-laced arroe but David doesn't see the point when there is no hope he'll survive and the only thing they need to focus on is saving Henry. Hook then shows the gang that he brought them to where Neal lived in Neverland when he was a boy. Emma asks Hook if Neal left a clue there about how he escaped from Neverland. Hook hopes so.
Back in the past, "The Dark One" watches other children being lured away by the pipe music. He follows them and finds them all dancing around a fire while the piper plays the pipe. He looks for Baelfire but can't find him. He then unmasks the piper and it's Pan and he and "The Dark One" know each other. Pan praises Rumplestiltskin for growing up to be 'The Dark One,'" and he correctly assumes that Pan is there to take Baelfire. Pan says that the boys that can hear his pipe feel "unloved and lost." Pan then decides to name them "The Lost Boys." Pan then says that's why "The Dark One" can hear it but he tells Pan that he doesn't know him. Pan begs to differ. "The Dark One" tells Pan that Baelfire will not be a "Lost Boy" but Pan says that he already is. Pan then asks "The Dark One" what he's willing to give up to get Baelfire back??Pan then says that he isn't afraid if Baelfire being taken from him but that he will leave. Pan then reminds "The Dark One"
how his wife and father left him, so why should Baelfire be any different? Pan then asks him to ask Baelfire if he wants to come to Neverland with him or stay with "The Dark One."
Back to the present. Pan asks Henry why he isn't celebrating. Henry replies that there's nothing to celebrate. Pan says that the party is to celebrate Henry because he's going to save magic. Pan starts to play his pipe but Henry says he doesn't hear anything. Pan finds that "interesting" and tells Henry that the pipe can on l y be heard by certain people. Henry asks Pan who, but before can answer, Felix, the Lost Boy Neal knocked out appears. Pan tells Henry that she'll find out soon who can hear it then goes to talk to Felix. Felix tells Pan that Baelfire escaped and Pan isn't pleased. Felix then tells Pan the he found two other "Lost Boys" knocked out by a sleeping spell. Pan reduces that "The Dark One" us in Neverland, that Baelfire and him gave been reunited and that they'll be coming for Henry. Felix suggest they move him but Pan doesn't want to lessen "the adventure."
Emma looks at Neal's boyhood drawings hoping he left a clue in them on how to leave Neverland. Emma didn't know he liked to draw and Hook says that he got it from his mother. Then, Mary-Margaret finds some bowls with holes in them. Emmaa figures out its a highlight that projects stars on the ceiling and Hook figures out its a map that will lead them home.
Gold immobilizes the Lost Boys and Henry with a sleeping spell and confronts Pan while Neal lurks nearby ready to shoot Pan with a Dreamshade-laced arrow. Pan know he's come for Henry and calls Baelfire/Neal out of hiding. Neal shoots Pan with an arrow and huts him. Pan goes on about "remembering nothing" but Neal says he remembered to not coat the tip of the arrow, which immobilized Pan. Neal throws a sleeping Henry over his shoulder as Pan asks, "Are you really saving him?" Pan then tells Neal about the prophecy. Gold tells Neal nit to listen to Pan but Pan reveals Gold plans to murder Henry...not save him. Away from Pan, Neal asks Gold what Pan was talking about. Gold tries to brush it off saying that Pan us playing mind games with him. Neal then tries to wake Henry but Gold says that waking him up could be dangerous and that he'll wake up naturally in a few hours. Neal still wants to know what Pan meant and Gold said he just said it put a wedge between them. Neal doesn't believe him and then Gold tells him about the seer' s prophecy that Henry would be his undoing.
Neal knows Gold was going to kill Henry and Gold doesn't deny it. Then, Neal demands that Gold move away from Henry. Gold then says that things have changed and that he came to Neverland to SAVE Henry...NOT kill him but Neal doesn't believe him. Gold begs Neal to trust him but Neal replies, "How can I?"
Back in the past, "The Dark One" zells young Baelfire that and he and Pan used to be friends. He then tells him about Neveraland and how Pan betrayed him.Baelfire asks what happened but "The Dark One" won't elaborate. Baelfire then says he knows about the deal with Pan and all he had to was ask him to come hone...and He would have. Then, Baelfire leaves.
Back in the present, Gold asks Neal what he has to do to earn back his true. Neal knows Gold brought his magic spear with him but Gold says that he had The Shadow hide it. Neal still thinks Gold is lying and that he thinks that Henry is still his enemy. Plus, if they get home and Gold is reunited with Belle, he will see Henry as his only obstacle to his happiness. Neal then takes a still sleeping Henry and tells Gold that they are safer away from him. Gold cries.
Hook tells the gang that he taught Baelfire/Neal how to navigate using the Stars but it's in code. Then, Emma says, "So, the only person who can read it us dead." Emma then runs away and David and Mary-Margaret go after her. Emma tells them that she isn't sad but angry because she wasted all that time thinking Neal didn't love her when he did. She then says that she never stopped loving him and runs away again. Mary-Margaret tells David that she doesn't know how to comfort Emma and says that if he died, she couldn't move on either. David tells her that she must, back tracking that if something happened to him, he'd want her to be happy.
Neal puts a still sleeping Henry down on the ground but then is surrounded by Pan and the Lost Boys. Felix picks up the sleeping Henry as Neal tells Pan that she'll get Henry back, no matter what it takes. Pan tells Neal that his real problem is there is no escaping Neverland without his permission. Neal says he's done it before. Henry starts to wake up as the Lost Boys take Neal away as he screams for Henry.
Gold conjures up Belle again, who says that Neal should gave trusted him. He doesn't see how he could but Belle says she can see what is in his heart that he would have given his life to protect Henry to show Neal that he had changed. Belle then says that Gold has something to Live for since Neal is alive but he reminds her that the prophecy remains. Belle tells him his "nasty habit of self-preservation can be broken." Gold then tells Belle to go away and that he doesn't want to talk. She disappears.
Henry wakes up back at Pan's compound. He tells Pan that he could have sworn he heard Neal calling for him. Henry writes it off as a dream because he thinks Neal is dead. Pan apologizes and says that we often dream about things we've lost but then you dream of new things. Pan then tells Henry that he can bring new dreams back to Neverland. Pan then plays his pipe, Henry hears it and starts Daniel n Xing around the fire. Pan smiles wickedly.
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