Tangled: Before Ever After

## Plot

Rapunzel and Eugene give a quick recap of the film and the short where they got married. Then they talk about their new adventure after Rapunzel was reunited with her family. Her father is King Frederic and her mother is Queen Arianna. It had been six months since the end of the film, and life was perfect (supposedly). Rapunzel is going to have a coronation to officially become princess. This means that she's really busy. Cassandra is her handmaiden and her best friend. She's still getting used to being a princess, and asks her dad for some downtime soon. She wants to explore the world outside of Corona. Eugene plans to propose to her that night. A rat takes a flyer for her coronation and gives it to a woman named Lady Caine. Eugene and Rapunzel talk in a boat about their dreams living up to reality, mirroring a scene that happened in the movie. Rapunzel is given the morning off, but she's annoyed that her dad sent a platoon of guards with her. Cass says that she could sneak her in and out before anyone even knew that she was gone. At the banquet that night, Eugene proposes to Rapunzel. She's ecstatic at first, but gets more and more distressed when he keeps talking about staying in the castle, and excuses herself by saying she needs some air. She takes Cass up on her offer to sneak out. Cass's dad is the Captain of the Guards, so she knows how to fight. They go beyond the wall of Corona. Eugene discovers that Rapunzel is missing. Lady Caine's plan involves all of Corona's criminals being caught and thrown in the dungeon intentionally. Cass has a scouting owl named… Owl. Okay. Cass shows Rapunzel some indestructible black rocks. They sprouted up about a year ago. The weirdest part is that this was where the Golden Flower was. Rapunzel touches one of the rocks. She and Cass are both blasted back. More rocks sprout up, and they both run. Rapunzel's long blond hair magically grows back. She and Cass narrowly avoid dying. They sneak back into the castle and attempt to cut her hair. However, it's just as indestructible as the rocks. Eugene finds out and asks how it happened. Cass doesn't want Rapunzel to tell Eugene, or she won't be her handmaiden anymore, plus she doesn't trust him. Rapunzel hides her hair in a large wig. Arianna talks to her daughter and shows her an old journal. She was quite the adventurer and explorer back in the day. She also gives Rapunzel her own journal, with a saying that means there is more in you. Plus est en vous is French, and it literally means more in you. Which I only bothered to look up over two years later when I found out that the name of the season 3 and movie length series finale was that phrase. Rapunzel's coronation is finally underway. It turns out that Lady Caine was actually disguised as a duchess. She breaks all of the criminals out and storms the throne room. The guards were too busy looking for outside threats. Her father was a petty thief who was harshly punished years ago. This is because after Rapunzel was taken, the king cracked down hard on all crime. Caine wants revenge, and plans to take Frederic and a bunch of other important people away. However, Rapunzel reveals her hair, and a fight ensues. All of the criminals are arrested. That night, Rapunzel tells her dad that she snuck out on her own. He's angry, because her hair was the reason she was kidnapped in the first place. He uses his authority as king to confine her to the walls of Corona indefinitely. He forbids her from talking about the rocks, or magic of any kind, to anyone. She cries and runs off. Eugene promises that he'll wait until she's ready to accept his proposal. Until then, he'll support her, no matter what. Rapunzel vows to figure out how her hair returned. Afterwards, a mysterious figure is seen examining the black rocks. This is later revealed to be Quirin, a character we'll be meeting briefly in the first episode, and again in episode 16. This doesn't lead to anything except him knowing that the black rocks are growing and are a threat.