OUAT 6.13 Ill-Boding Patterns - Press Release

GOLD TAKES ACTION TO PROTECT GIDEON FROM THE TAINT OF DARK MAGIC,  AND EMMA LEARNS THAT HOOK IS HIDING SOMETHING FROM HER,  WHILE ROBIN AND ZELENA FORM A DANGEROUS ALLIANCE,  ON ABC’S ‘ONCE UPON A TIME’

Sean Maguire Guest Stars as Robin of Locksley and Giles Matthey Returns as Gideon

“Ill-Boding Patterns” – When Gideon resumes his mission to kill Emma and become the Savior, Mr. Gold steps in to ensure that the use of dark magic does not poison his son. Meanwhile, Robin proves willing to ally himself with anyone offering the possibility of escape from Regina and Storybrooke. Hook gathers the courage to come clean to Emma, but not before she discovers he’s been keeping a secret. And in a flashback to Fairy Tale Land, the legendary folk hero Beowulf sets his sights on Rumplestiltskin after the Dark One uses his powers to defeat the ogres and win the war for humanity, on “Once Upon a Time,” SUNDAY, MARCH 19 (8:00–9:00 p.m. EDT), on The ABC Television Network. 

“Once Upon a Time” stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as the Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O’Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Rebecca Mader as the Wicked Witch/Zelena and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.

Guest starring are Sean Maguire as Robin of Locksley, Keegan Connor Tracy as the Blue Fairy/Mother Superior, Raphael Sbarge as Jiminy Cricket/Dr. Archie Hopper, Giles Matthey as Gideon, Brandon Spink as Baelfire, Torstein Bjørklund as Beowulf, Samuel Patrick Chu as Frightened Soldier, Chris Loubardeas as Reveling Soldier and Angela Moore as Villager.

“Ill-Boding Patterns” was written by Andrew Chambliss & Dana Horgan and directed by Ron Underwood.

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Once Upon a Time Duo Preview David and Hook's Life-Changing Team-Up

“Josh doesn’t do well with no sleep,” Once Upon a Time‘s Ginnifer Goodwin says of her on- and off-screen husband. “And neither does David,” Josh Dallas adds. And thus sets the stage for this Sunday’s episode (ABC, 8/7c), in which Charming aims to settle some unfinished business while his misses continues her unbreakable slumber.

As revealed earlier this season, the death of David’s father, long-ago back in The Enchanted Forest, may have been no accident. So while Snow White remains zonked by a sleeping curse, Charming will set out to uncover the truth.

“He’s got so many things that he wants to fix before she wakes up, so he stays up a little longer than he should,” Dallas shared with TVLine during our visit to the Once set this week. “That erratic, up-all-night, haven’t-slept-for-days kind of takes over David, and he becomes single-minded in not only trying to save Emma [from Gideon], but trying to figure out the truth of his past. He’s visited by the ghost of his father (played by Van Helsing‘s David Cubitt), and his past is not what he thought it was.”

Charming, though, will need a helping hand (singular) in his mission, so he turns to a certain resourceful buccaneer. “He forces Hook a bit into helping him,” Dallas says, “and thank god he does, because Hook ends up saving him in many ways, and forcing him to see clearly.”

Hook, in turn, sees an opportunity to prove himself more than a pirate to David, whom he just might be thinking of calling “father-in-law” at some point.

“Hook knows that he wants to be with Emma,” Colin O’Donoghue explains, “so he kind of wants to get David’s permission to propose to her.”

But as seen in promos, things between the gents get tense, possibly derailing Hook’s bid to repair his reputation. “Yes, something will bite him in the butt…,” O’Donoghue hints.

In the end, though, what Charming comes to discover will have significant ramifications. “It changes the course of his life from here onward,” Dallas teases, “because he thought it was one way and it was actually another.”

Surveying the two-hander (as it were) as a whole, O’Donoghue says, “It’s always great to have two-person scenes on the show, and it was great to have those scenes with Josh, and really get to explore that relationship of Hook and Charming.

“I’m hundreds of years older than him, but I want him to be my father-in-law,” the Irishman notes with a laugh. “And we’re friends, we’re not friends…. It’s complicated, so it’s really good!”

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Once Upon a Time's Josh Dallas teases dark turn for David

Now that his daughter is back in Storybrooke, David will turn his focus to more pressing matters in Sunday’s episode of Once Upon a Time.

With the help of Hook (Colin O’Donoghue), David (Josh Dallas) sets out to uncover the truth about what really happened to his late father, with a blast from his past kicking him off on this journey. “He’s visited by the ghost of his father that urges him to push forward to find out exactly what happened,” Dallas tells EW.

The visit couldn’t come at a more inopportune time. David’s lack of sleep and the fact that he’s now long been separated from his moral center Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) means David is ruthless in his determination to get at the truth. “He’s gone through his whole life thinking that a story he had heard his whole life was the truth, and all of a sudden he found out that it wasn’t the truth, that there was a different story,” Dallas says. “So somehow it might change his story, and how he feels about himself, how he feels about his life, how he feels about his father, how he feels about being a father, how he feels about being a husband, all of that stuff. So he’s super determined to figure out the truth.”

“It’s forcing him to go really dark,” Dallas warns. “On his quest to find out the true story of what happened with his father, and the true story of who his father was, he gets so caught up in that madness that he’s almost willing to go to really, really dark places.”

While Snow is unable to help her husband, Hook is on hand to keep David from going over the edge. “The one person that pulls him back from that is Hook,” Dallas says. “Hook and David create a whole different part of their friendship, and their bromance, and there’s a newfound respect because — particularly during that period when he’s crazed with this madness of finding out who really killed his father — Hook is actually being the hero.”

The hour also features flashbacks to young David and James, revealing how the twins were split at a young age — expect Alan Dale’s return as King George on Sunday! “We go way back into why David’s father gave up his brother, and we find out the real reasons,” Dallas says. “We find out that maybe he thought it was a mistake, and maybe he did try to make things right, which is also another big piece to the puzzle for David in finding out that his father wasn’t what he thought, that maybe he was a good man, and he was just trying to do his best.”

As for when Snow and Charming will finally be reunited, awake from the sleeping curse at the same time, Dallas is staying mum. “They don’t get out of it easily,” he offers.

Once Upon a Time airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

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OUAT 6x12 - Murder Most Foul Press Release

DAVID ENLISTS HOOK’S EXPERT SERVICES  WHEN HE SETS OUT TO DISCOVER THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS FATHER’S DEATH,  AND REGINA HELPS ROBIN ADJUST TO LIFE IN STORYBROOKE,  ON ABC’S ‘ONCE UPON A TIME’

Eion Bailey Guest Stars as Pinocchio/August  Sean Maguire as Robin of Locksley

“Murder Most Foul” — Before Hook takes the next step in his relationship with Emma, he wants to make sure David sees him as more than just a pirate. So when David asks Hook to help him uncover the truth about his father’s death, Hook agrees. Meanwhile, Regina works to acclimate Robin to life in Storybrooke, but soon discovers he has a dark side that makes the task much more complicated than she anticipated, on “Once Upon a Time,” SUNDAY, MARCH 12 (8:00–9:00 p.m. EST), on The ABC Television Network. 

“Once Upon a Time” stars Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret, Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan, Lana Parrilla as the Evil Queen/Regina, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David, Emilie de Ravin as Belle, Colin O’Donoghue as Hook, Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills, Rebecca Mader as the Wicked Witch/Zelena and Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold.

Guest starring are Sean Maguire as Robin of Locksley, Raphael Sbarge as Jiminy Cricket/Dr. Archie Hopper, Eion Bailey as Pinocchio/August, Alan Dale as King George/Spencer, Wil Traval as the Sheriff of Nottingham/Keith, David Cubitt as Robert, Tara Wilson as Ruth, Matt Ellis as Francisco, Bart Anderson as Innkeeper and Luke Roessler as Young David/Young James.

“Murder Most Foul” was written by Jerome Schwartz & Jane Espenson and directed by Morgan Beggs.

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“Hook was there to talk to David about something I can already hear the fandom squeeing &/or gritting their teeth at all at the same time, he asks David if he has his permission to ask Emma to marry him. Yes, you read that right Oncers. But what will Emmas father, and the man who handcuffed him to a bike rack earlier in the day say? Well, he says "Yes, of course", before the pair walk away together. I guess the question now is..... what will Emma say?“

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