Pilot

Opening sequence for Season 1

**Pilot** is the first episode of the first season. It is also the season premiere of Once Upon a Time.

## Character's past

The episode opens up with Charming garbed in red clothes as he goes foreward and gives Snow White true loves kiss, awakening her from the sleeping curse infliced on her by the Evil Queen. On their actual wedding day, Regina breaks into the castle and swears vengeance on Snow White and the entire kingdom. Seeing no other results, pregnant Snow White grows worried and asks Charming if they can see Rumplestiltskinf or advice. The prince at first refuses, but does it to at least Snow's mind. Rumple agrees to help, but only if they give up the name of their unborn child. Snow agrees and they learn that the Queen's curse will take them to a new land, along with their happy endings vanishing. Rumple prophesies that their daughter is the only one to break During a war council, the Blue Fairy, along with Snow White's and Charming's guards, brings forth a tree they can turn into a wardrobe with Pinocchio and Gepetto's help.

When the curse gets to the Forest, Snow White is forced to give birth to her daughter at that time. Emma is transported safely into the wardrobe to "give her her best chance". However, Charming is mortally wounded and when Snow finds him, attempts to give him true love's kiss, but fails multiple times. THe evil queen gloats, coming to kill the baby, but is too late. Just then, the Curse hits, transporting everyone to another land.

## Present day events

Emma Swan grows up without having no parents and no other family members. On her birthday, she catches a convict named Ryan and just then, her son Henry appears to her after she gave him up for adoption. She later dropped Henry off at Regina's house. Along the way, Henry shows her a large book of fairy tales he has, insisting that all of the stories in it are real. When they arrive in Storybrooke, Henry informs her that everyone in town is in reality a fairy tale character, exiled by the curse and with no memory of their real identities. This includes his therapist Archie Hopper (Raphael Sbarge), who is really Jiminy Cricket, and his teacher Mary Margaret Blanchard (Goodwin), who is really Snow White. Henry claims that time is frozen in Storybrooke and the people are unable to leave, but that the curse will be broken by Emma. A skeptical Emma returns Henry to his adopted mother, the town Mayor, Regina (Parrilla), who is really the Evil Queen. Emma attempts to leave but after having drunk apple cider given to her by the Mayor and nearly hitting a wolf she has a car accident where she is knocked out. She is arrested and taken to Storybrooke Jail. When Henry runs away again, Emma makes a deal with the Mayor and Sheriff Graham (Jamie Dornan): if they release her, she will find him. After exhausting all possibilities she speaks with Mary Margaret, who tells Emma to "Check his castle." After finding Henry at a wooden jungle gym (which bears a resemblance to Prince Charming's castle), they talk and Emma decides to stay in Storybrooke temporarily, especially after Regina warns her to leave town. This leads Emma to be suspicious of the mayor's motives.

Shortly after her conversation with Emma, Mary Margaret Blanchard volunteers at Storybrooke Hospital, placing flowers at the bedside of patients. She stops in the ICU where a John Doe (Dallas), Prince Charming, is sleeping in a coma. Mary Margaret is unaware of who he is. Meanwhile, at the Mayor's home, Regina takes the book from Henry's room and goes downstairs to look at her mirror, with an expression that seems to acknowledge she is aware of her fairy tale existence.

As Emma arrives at Granny's Bed & Breakfast, she is given a key to her room by the elderly proprietor (Beverley Elliot), who is actually Granny from Little Red Riding Hood. She comes downstairs after yelling at Ruby (Meghan Ory), her granddaughter, followed by a man who came to collect money: Mr. Gold (Carlyle), Rumpelstiltskin who also helped build and owns the entire town. When Emma mentions her name, Mr. Gold pauses as if he knew something about her. Emma's decision to stay in Storybrooke causes the hands of the town clock, previously frozen at 8:15, to begin moving again.

## Cast/Characters

* Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard
* Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan
	+ Unknown baby as baby Emma
* Lana Parrilla as Evil Queen/Regina Mills
* Josh Dallas as Prince Charming/David Nolan
* Jared S. Gilmore as Henry Mills
* Raphael Sbarge as Jiminy Cricket (Voice)/Archie Hopper
* Jamie Dornan as Sheriff Graham
* Robert Carlyle as Rumplestiltskin/Mr. Gold
* Tony Amendola as Geppetto/Marco
* Lee Arenberg as Grumpy/Leroy
* Peter Bryant as Jailer
* Warren Christie as Ryan
* Beverley Elliott as Granny/Granny
* Meghan Ory as Red Riding Hood/Ruby
* Keegan Connor Tracy as Blue Fairy
* James Bamford as Black Knight
* Michael Coleman as Happy
* Keith Blackman Dallas as Cabbie
* Jakob Davies as Pinocchio
* Faustino di Bauda as Sleepy
* Darla Fay as Old Woman
* David Paul Grove as Doc
* Jeffrey Kaiser as Dopey
* Gabe Khouth as Sneezy
* Mig Macario as Bashful
* Tom Pickett as Bishop
* Cinder as Pongo (uncredited)

## Trivia

* The Enchanted Forest flashbacks occur in various places of the overall timeline.
* The Land Without Magic events of this episode occur after "Firebird", and before the present-day events of "The Thing You Love Most". The scene where Emma accepts the room key at the inn takes place concurrently with the opening scene of "Selfless, Brave and True"..
* Emma's jacket was originally black, but was changed to red to match that of her father's outfit int he opening pilot sequence.
* On that note, Emma was originally going to have three children who turned out to be combined into Henry.