Cassandra's Revenge

**"Cassandra's Revenge"** is a one-hour special of *Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure*. It aired on January 26, 2020, to 0.35 million viewers and it is collectively the twelfth and the thirteenth episodes of season three, as well as it is the sixtieth and the sixty-first episodes of the series overall. DisneyPlus split this episode into two parts.

## Synopsis

When Princess Rapunzel feels ready to settle down and begin living a normal life, Cassandra returns to Corona with a personal score to settle. Princess Rapunzel must attempt get her once best friend to see reason or risk losing her whole realm to Cassandra and the mysterious, invisible ghostly figure who has been advising and mentoring her.

## Full Plot

### Part One

A new day begins as Rapunzel reflects on all her adventures and paints a mural, while a shadowed figure makes its way through the forest neighboring Corona, revealed to be Cassandra. Meanwhile, Eugene' is debating with himself on whether or not to propose to Rapunzel and decides to ask advice from Mrs. Crowley, who gets the wrong idea about him.

In the Palace's party hall, Rapunzel has gotten most of her and Eugene's friends together to plan a surprise Birthday party for him, but is having trouble keeping him from discovering the surprise, so she sends Lance Strongbow to keep Eugene distracted while she finishes the preparations. Rapunzel's parents, as well as King Edmund, assure her that everything will be okay, and she heads back to her room for her surprise birthday gift for her beloved. Once they are alone in her room, she reveals to Pascal that she plans to propose to Eugene before he blows out his birthday candles.

It is evening by the time Eugene and Lance return to the castle, and Pascal informs Lance to keep Eugene stalled for a few more moments, and then gives him the all-clear two seconds later. Once Lance pushes Eugene through the door, Eugene is overwhelmed with Rapunzel and their friends surprising him with the planned party. He is indeed surprised, especially when the cake is brought out, and everyone reveals that he is twenty-six years old when he himself thought he was twenty-five. Just as Eugene is about to blow out his candles, Cassandra enters the room, crashing the party. Rapunzel hopes to make amends with her former best friend, but Cassandra has other things on her mind: She came for the Graphtic Scroll, but Eugene tells Rapunzel not to hand it over to Cassandra, who mocks her former friend over her ability to make decisions. She leaves after telling Rapunzel that she'll give her time to decide on whether or not to give up the scroll.

Inside Rapunzel's room, Rapunzel, Eugene, and the gang convene on how to handle the situation. Eugene suggests hiding the scroll, but there's a problem. Rapunzel doesn't have the scroll; Varian has it, so they head to the Demanitus Chamber, where he has moved his laboratory. Varian reveals that, in addition to the Healing and Decay Incantations, there is a third incantation, one that can allow whoever holds The Moonstone Opal to control the Black Rocks, and there is also a fourth incantation, but he has not found it anywhere on the scroll, just as Cassandra enters the laboratory.

Rapunzel orders Varian to hide the scroll so Cassandra cannot get her hands on it, but he reveals that the Translation Key is needed to even read the scroll. Eugene tries to cover Rapunzel and Varian, but in attacking Cassandra, he realizes that her armor is made of the near-indestructible Black Rocks, and is knocked back down the stairs. Cassandra cuts off one of the giant orbs that decorates the Demanitus Chamber, resulting in Maximus and Eugene dangling off a ledge and Lance attempting to pull them back up.

Cassandra battles with Rapunzel, who tries to talk some sense into her, and Cassandra reminds Rapunzel again of what she saw in the House of Yesterday's Tomorrow. Rapunzel tries to remind Cassandra that Gothel kidnapped her and held her against her will, while Cassandra reminds Rapunzel of how Gothel was pushed out of a window to her death. Rapunzel tries to explain what actually happened, just as Ruddiger suddenly attacks Cassandra and escapes with the scroll. Cassandra chases after him but is tripped up by Rapunzel's hair, while Pascal reaches the scroll first and escapes with Ruddiger. After a few moments, Rapunzel snags the scroll away from Cassandra and tries to reason with her former friend once more, and her words seem to reach Cassandra, until the Enchanted Girl reveals herself and tells her not to doubt the path she has now gone down. The odd thing is, only Cassandra can see or hear the Enchanted Girl. When Rapunzel says she won't fight Cassandra, Cassandra cements the fact that she is now Rapunzel's enemy by bringing down the Demanitus Device with her Shadow Blade, causing a chain reaction that destroys the entire chamber.

Rapunzel is barely able to hold the downed apparatus away from Maximus, Lance, and Eugene to prevent it from crushing them, but as she is focused on helping them, Cassandra steals the scroll with ease and goes after Varian, who destroys the translation key to prevent her from deciphering the scroll's contents. Unfortunately, she ends up kidnapping him when he explains that he has memorized the incantations and the Translation Key, while our heroes narrowly escape with their lives.

Cassandra returns to the forest with Varian as a captive, and the Enchanted Girl, watching from up close, reminds her that defeat is not an option, now that they have the scroll. She also informs Cassandra that Rapunzel will come for Cassandra herself must be prepared when Rapunzel comes, which gives Cassandra the idea of building a stronghold, and she also has the idea of where that stronghold should be: the former location of Rapunzel's Tower.

Once Cassandra arrives at that location, she binds Varian to one of the Black Rocks, and as he stirs himself awake, she demands of him the third incantation on the Graphic Scroll, but he refuses, and she reveals that she found his truth serum and forced him to drink it (since he sleeps with his mouth open). Now under the effects of his own serum, he reveals the incantation to control the Black Rocks, which Cassandra uses to build her own tower and stronghold.

In Rapunzel's bedroom, Rapunzel reconvenes with her friends to find out what Cassandra plans to do with Varian and the stolen scroll, but the others are not as optimistic as she is, as Cassandra broke their spirits very much. Rapunzel convinces them to help her go after Cassandra, as she was once their friend, but Eugene notes that they don't know where Cassandra is, until Maximus reveals the tower outside in the forest near Corona.

Cassandra brings Varian up a flight of stairs as the Enchanted Girl reminds her that Rapunzel will come for him, and that is when they will face off against each other, with Cassandra using the full power of the Moonstone against her former friend, while Varian wonders who Cassandra is talking to. Once they get to the throne room, Varian tries to talk Cassandra out of her quest for revenge against Rapunzel, as he has been where she is now, but she refuses to be swayed by his words, as she states that they are not the same, and she has nothing left to lose. With that, she imprisons Varian in a cage and sends him to hang helplessly while she prepares for her imminent battle with Rapunzel.

Meanwhile, Rapunzel and her friends have finally reached Cassandra's Dark Tower and are searching for a way in, but every attempt they make ends in failure, and Cassandra finds it amusing, until the Enchanted Girl orders her to let Rapunzel in so they can finish their fight. Reluctantly, Cassandra agrees and opens a path for Rapunzel to follow into the tower. Once inside, Rapunzel and the gang decide to split up to find out which path is the correct to take. She and Eugene take one path, while Lance, Kiera, Catalina, and Maximus take another path.

Back at the top of the Tower, Varian is revealed to have awakened in a Dream World, where he encounters the Enchanted Girl, who explains that, to save Cassandra, the final incantation must be used by the vessel of the Sundrop Flower, and against the power of the Moonstone Opal. Varian protests that there is no final incantation, but the Enchanted Girl states that he just needs to know how to look, saying he must use the sun to see the Sun. Upon falling off the ledge to avoid a fire, he awakens back in his cage in which Cassandra trapped him, and unrolls the Graphtic Scroll, pondering the meaning of "Use the sun to see the Sun".

Meanwhile, Rapunzel, Eugene, and Pascal make their way through the tower, with Rapunzel thinking that they could be walking into a trap. Pascal has an idea of being able to get in without being seen, while Lance and the others seem to be getting lost at every turn they take. He finds his way into Cassandra's throne room, just as she reveals herself, causing him to turn invisible. However, she finds the chameleon anyway and scoops him up off the floor.

As Rapunzel is waiting for Pascal's all-clear, she decides to follow him, before Eugene cautions her that there may be no way to reach Cassandra, and she may have to kill her. Rapunzel insists that she's not dealing with a monster and that Cassandra will come around, and heads upstairs to find Pascal.

Back in his cage, Varian becomes frustrated over the Enchanted Girl's riddle and tosses away the scroll and his goggles, which suddenly catch the sun's reflective glow and shine it at the scroll. On that, he realizes what the riddle meant, that the final incantation needs sunlight to completely read it, just as Rapunzel and Eugene enter Cassandra's throne room, where they find Varian in his cage. He reveals that he needs a concentrated beam of sunlight to see the final incantation clearly, but his goggles are too scratched up. Rapunzel has an idea of using the crystal in her engagement ring as a focusing lens, and has Eugene deliver it to him, just as the Tower starts rumbling and Cassandra reveals herself, having caged Pascal. She lets him go, and he runs back to Princess Rapunzel's shoulder. Cassandra informs Princess Rapunzel that she made a mistake coming to her stronghold, and Princess Rapunzel states that she will not leave until she resolves her differences with her former best friend. In response, Cassandra closes up all the openings in the tower, trapping the twosome inside and each takes a fighting stance.

### Part Two

.Cassandra explains that the entire tower is made up of the mystical Black Moon Rocks themselves, and she has complete control over them. As the Enchanted Girl orders Cassandra to show Princess Rapunzel just how powerful she has become, Princess Rapunzel states that she will not fight Cassandra, and Cassandra remarks that killing her will be very easy. She tries to crush Rapunzel with a monumental Black Rock, but Rapunzel is able to protect herself by shielding herself with her hair. Then Cassandra crumbles that same rock under Rapunzel's feet, but the Princess is able to save herself from falling by using her hair to hang from the ledge, while Eugene is barely able to deliver Rapunzel's ring to Varian, who uses it to read the final incantation on the Graphtic Scroll. Unfortunately, the sunlight from the crystal on the ring is too focused, and it ends up destroying the scroll, but not before Varian is able to write the translation of the incantation on another piece of parchment.

Rapunzel manages to climb back into the Tower, where Cassandra attacks with more Black Rocks and ultimately pins her opponent to the wall, despite the Princess' attempts to convince her to come back and her declaration that she will not fight her or justify her hatred. On this, Cassandra wills Varian's cage back into the tower, as she knows that Eugene is out there with him. She threatens to crush Eugene in a prison of Black Rocks if Rapunzel does not fight, but Varian reveals that he has the final incantation, and Rapunzel must be the one to use it, while Cassandra is wondering what he's talking about. As the Enchanted Girl orders Cassandra to finish the fight, Pascal snags Varian's new parchment with his tongue, and Princess Rapunzel chants the final spell of the Demanitus Scroll, the second and strongest Sundrop Flower spell, which causes her hair to glow and gives her the power to fight Cassandra on equal terms, both of their eyes glowing with the respective color- Bright yellow and white of the Ultimate Power of the Heavens!

As Cassandra tries to impale Rapunzel with more Black Rocks, Rapunzel fights back by disintegrating them. No matter how many times Cassandra unleashes the Black Rocks against Rapunzel, it's useless now against the Sundrop's full power. As the twosome battle, a portal opens above the Enchanted Girl, and she disappears inside, just as both Varian and Cassandra are blasted out of the tower, with the Moonstone chipped at one spot.

Varian is caught by Lance, who happened to be at the right spot to catch him, and is reunited with him, Maximus, Kiera, and Catalina, while Cassandra catches herself on a platform of Black Rocks. Rapunzel collapses from the expenditure of magic she used in the battle, but is able to get back onto her feet and share a hug with Eugene, who compliments her on such an amazing demonstration of her heavenly Sun Drop powers.

Back at Corona Castle, Rapunzel and Eugene decide to postpone their engagement once again after such an incredible adventure, and he finally blows out the candles on his birthday cake, which Lance, Kiera, Catalina, Maximus, and Varian bring into the room, while at the destroyed Black-Rock Tower.

Cassandra is revealed to have climbed back into the remains of her throne room, and she gets the shock of her life when she sees that the Enchanted Girl now has a physical form and is reveling in the fact that the clash of Sun and Moon has finally released her from her prison, saying, "It's good to be back", which confuses Gothel's biological daughter.

## Characters

#### Major

* Cassandra
* Zhan Tiri
* Princess Rapunzel
* Eugene Fitzherbert
* Maximus
* Pascal
* Varian
* Lance Strongbow
* Kiera and Catalina

#### Minor

* Old Lady Crowley (cameo)
* King Frederic (cameo)
* King Edmund
* Hamuel (cameo)
* Queen Arianna
* Xavier (cameos)
* Pete and Stan (cameo)
* Feldspar (cameo)
* Big Nose (cameo)
* Shorty (cameo)
* Attila (cameo)
* Friedborg (cameo)
* Ulf (cameos)
* Vladimir (cameo)
* Nigel (cameo)
* Fidella (cameo)
* Ruddiger (cameo)

## Elements

#### Songs

* The Girl Who Has Everything
* Nothing Left to Lose

#### Spells

* Healing Incantation (mentioned)
* Decaying Incantation (mentioned)
* Black-Rock Incantation (first cast)
* Hope Incantation (first cast)

#### Locations

* Corona Castle
* The Throne Room
* Demanitus Chamber
* Cassandra's Stronghold (first appearance)
* Zhan Tiri's Prison

#### Objects

* The Scroll (final appearance)
* Eugene's Sword
* Princess Rapunzel's Satchel

#### Objects of Vast Heavenly Power

* Magic Blonde Hair
* Moonstone Opal
* Black Rock Spikes
* Shadow Blade
* Sundrop Flower (pictured on the scroll)
* Cassandra's Armor
* The Ultimate Power (referenced by Eugene)
* Moonstone Fragment (first appearance)

## Quotes

#### Part One

* **Zhan Tiri:** "So this is your plan, running away?"
* **Cassandra:** "I don't run from-"
* **Zhan Tiri:** "One would think that now you have the power of the black rocks, you wouldn't feel the need to hide."
* **Cassandra:** "I don't hide from anything!!"
* **Zhan Tiri:** "I don't need to remind you that defeat is not an option. And when Rapunzel comes for you, you must be prepared to protect what is rightfully yours. What you need is..."
* **Cassandra:** "A stronghold. And I know just where to build one."

* **Cassandra:** "Lucky for me, you sleep with your mouth open. So let me ask you again: What's the third incantation?"

* **Varian** (*reluctantly*)**:**
* *Crescent high above*
* *Evolving as you go*
* *Raise what lies beneath*
* *And let the darkness grow*
* **Cassandra** (*recites the entire shadow spell that generates pure darkness and fully controls the moon rocks*)**:**
* *Crescent high above*
* *Evolving as you go*
* *Raise what lies beneath*
* *And let the darkness grow*
* *Bend it to my will*
* *Consume the sunlight's glow*
* *Rise in the sky*
* *And let the darkness grow*
* *Let darkness grow*
* **Cassandra:** Home sweet home."

* **Ghost Girl:** 'You have done well, Cassandra. Soon Rapunzel will come for the boy."
* **Cassandra:** "And then what?"
* **Ghost Girl:** "Then you will face her with the full power of the Moonstone."
* **Varian:** "Who is she talking to?"
* **Cassandra:** "Look, I know this isn't your fault and i don't want to hurt you. So when Rapunzel comes for you, don't do anything foolish."
* **Varian:** "Cassandra, you're hurt and angry- I get it! Believe me, I know what it's like. But you are making a mistake. Cass, trust me! Becoming the villain isn't the answer."
* Cassandra: "Is that what you think I am!?"

### Part Two

* **Cassandra:** "You realize I have complete control over the rocks now, and you know what this tower is made of."
* **Ghostly Girl:** "Show her how powerful you have become."

* **Princess Rapunzel** (*pleading*)**:** "Cass, *please!!* This is not who you are!!"
* **Cassandra:** "Wrong!! I *finally* know who I am!!!"
* **Princess Rapunzel:** "I will never stop trying to get through to you!! I won't fight you, I won't justify your hated, and there is *nothing* you can do to change that!! *Nothing!!*"
* **Cassandra:** "Oh, there isn't!!? Cuz' I kinda think there is!!"

* **Cassandra:** "You won't fight me, but will you fight...for him?"
* **Princess Rapunzel:** "Cass, leave him alone!!!"
* **Zhan Tiri** (*to Cassandra*)**:** "Break her spirit!!"
* **Cassandra:** "I just realized I forgot to give you my birthday present, Eugene."
* **Eugene:** "Don't give in to her!! Don't do anything she says!!!"
* **Varian:** "Rapunzel, I have the final incantation! You have to use it!!"

* **Cassandra:** "Final incantation? What is he talking about!!?"
* **Zhan Tiri:** "Never mind that! You are more powerful! Finish this!!"

* **Cassandra:**
* *Crescent high above*
* *Evolving as you go*
* **Varian:** "Rapunzel! Use it."
* **Princess Rapunzel** (*recites the Sunflower's strongest spell of hope*)
* *Power of the sun*
* *Gift me with your light*
* *shine in the dark*
* *Restore our fading sight*
* *Rise in the dawn*
* *Blazing star so bright*
* *Burn away the strife*
* *Let my hope ignite*
* *Let hope ignite*
* **Princess Rapunzel:** "Let him go, Cassandra!"
* **Cassandra** (*indignant*)**:** "I don't follow your orders anymore!"
* **Princess Rapunzel:** "*I said*...LET HIM GO! LET...HIM...GO!"

## Trivia

* Running Gag: Rapunzel's boyfriend Eugene talks about his age throughout the special one hour episode of season three and the series respectively.
* It is revealed that no one else but Cassandra can see or hear the Zhan Tiri.
	+ Varian was only able to see and hear her when she entered his dreams.

## Goofs

* Even though Rapunzel's paintbrush, palette, paints, and telescope are among the wreckage of the caravan that was destroyed at the beginning of the special one hour episode Destinies Collide of season two and the series respectively, Rapunzel seems to have a spare paintbrush, paints, and a palette, which are shown during "The Girl Who Has Everything" and its reprise at the beginning of the one hour special episode.
* When Shorty pops out of the birthday cake for Eugene, he has frosting on his face, although Shorty does not have frosting on his face when he is at the Snuggly Duckling alongside Ulf and Attila. However, at the end of the episode, when Lance, Varian, Kiera, Catalina, Maximus and Pascal bring the birthday cake to Eugene inside Rapunzel's room, Shorty has frosting on his face again.
* When Varian laughs while he holds hot cocoa, a part of his goggles disappears.
* When Rapunzel protects Varian from Cassandra, the Scroll appears back on the wall, even though Varian is also holding it; moreover, when Ruddiger takes the scroll from Varian to keep it away from Cassandra, the scroll is on the wall yet again. The scroll is also on the wall when Pascal is on Rapunzel's hair.
* Pascal disappeared when Rapunzel is shown close up while she holds her hair to protect herself and Varian from Cassandra.
* After Rapunzel's bag fell into the forest, it was not shown for the remainder of the episode.
* Varian's bag wasn't shown when he was inside the Demantius Chamber, but when Cassandra abducted Varian, she was shown to be carrying his bag.
	+ After Varian's bag was blown away by the powerful blast of solar and lunar energies, it was also not shown at the end of the episode.
* When Lance is at the entrance of Rapunzel's bedroom alongside Kiera, Catalina, and Maximus, Varian disappears and Pascal isn't sitting on Max's mane; however, when Lance wheels the cart to Eugene, Varian appears and Pascal is on Max's mane.
* The horse that Cassandra took while she abducted Varian and the Demanitus Scroll is back at the stables when Cassandra recites the Black-Rock Incantation to build Cassandra's Stronghold.
* After Varian and Eugene are brought back into the stronghold by Cassandra, Eugene is holding two of Varian's hands and the latter's two hands are next to each other; however, when Varian and Eugene are outside of the stronghold while Cassandra prepares to drag them back inside, Eugene holds only one of Varian's hands.
	+ Furthermore, after Varian and Eugene are brought back into the Stronghold by Cassandra, one of Varian's hands is in front of Eugene's hand, while Varian's other hand is behind Eugene's hand.