All I Ask of You

***All I Ask of You*** is the fourth episode of the eighth season of *Once Upon a Time*, and the 159th episode overall. It was preceded by *Which Witch is Which?* and followed by *Wicked Revenge*.

## Plot

### Past

Evanora finds herself banished in 19th Century France. She is taken in by stagehand Joseph Buquet, and they eventually become friends; Joseph recognises Evanora’s singing talent, and urges her to join the opera at the Palais Garnier where he works, but she refuses. One day, Joseph is found dead at his work, and the legendary Phantom of the Opera is blamed. Believing in the tale of the Phantom, Evanora decides to join the opera for Joseph, and in the process find the Phantom and get revenge.

Evanora becomes the opera’s leading soprano and is a success. Afterwards, she is congratulated by vicomte Raoul de Chagney. They become friends; Evanora falls in love with him. Meanwhile, she finally locates the Phantom late one night; he is a masked, charming man. Evanora ambushes him and demands to know the truth of Joseph’s death. The Phantom refuses to tell her, and kidnaps her instead. Later, Raoul helps the staff at the Palais Garnier search for her; they find her locked in the attic. Evanora reveals that the Phantom is real and evil. Despite her kidnapping experience, she returns to the Palais Garnier one night, finding the Phantom practicing incredibly simple magic, but failing. Evanora proposes a fake deal; if he tells her why he killed Joseph, she will teach him magic in the Enchanted Forest. The Phantom reveals that, a long time ago, Joseph bullied him for his deformed appearance behind his mask. Evanora refuses to believe him; then says that even if he did, he had changed. Evanora leaves, never intending to teach him magic.

Evanora is highly protected and guarded by the opera staff, but the Phantom kills a spectator and threatens the other singers in exchange for Evanora. She surrenders to him, and in private removes his mask unexpectedly, to find that he really is deformed. Seeing innocence in his eyes, she realises his story about Joseph was not a lie. He reveals his true name; Erik. Erik begins to fall in love with her, and secretly disregards learning magic for her. Meanwhile, Evanora tells Raoul about her encounters with Erik, and asks him to move away with her, where Erik can never find them. The next night, Erik reveals he heard about Evanora’s plans to leave; enraged and jealous, he kidnaps her and tries to force her into marrying him. Raoul joins govenment inspector, Ledoux, in journeying through the tunnels under the opera house to rescue Evanora. However, Erik traps them in a room and attempts to drown them. However, he stops at the last second after recognising Ledoux as his only friend from many years ago, searching for him. Evanora accepts Erik’s proposal and the men are freed. Evanora insists she will remain safe, and stays with Erik one last night. Erik reveals that he loves her; the two embrace and bond. Erik reveals his backstory; he was abandoned for his deformities as a baby, eventually abducted in freak shows but then shunned for being “too freaky”. He become passionate about drama and music, where he meet and become rivals with Joseph. It was Joseph who caused his descent into “evil”, and the whole opera saw him as a “joke” and an “animal”; he dedicated his life to getting revenge on all those at Palais Garnier, and planned to eventually blow it up.

Evanora and Erik part ways. Evanora returns to Raoul, but he rejects her for choosing Erik over him. Heartbroken, she finds that Erik has also mysteriously left the opera house. In pain, Evanora decides to leave and move to the Land of Untold Stories, leaving Raoul a note. Later, after her departure, Raoul reads it and forgives her, but accepts that she has already left.

### Present

Wish Pan reveals to Wish Cruella that he is now mortal and desperate to find a way to get his immortality back. However, Wish Ursula is angered that he would rather care about himself than helping her get revenge on Wish Hook. Meanwhile, Maui confronts Evanora, as they have a common goal; revenge on Zelena.

Meanwhile, Ozma is moved to the Royal Castle, still under the Sleeping Curse. Zelena, Dorothy, Ruby and Glinda know that it is time to find Sherlock Holmes to wake Ozma. Feeling neglected from her mother, Robin confides in Regina. Alice opens up to Wish Hook about wanting her own power, but Wish Hook tells her she has the most important skill of all; her unique brains.

Evanora and Maui kidnap Sherlock Holmes to prevent Zelena's group from finding him first, but when Evanora and Sherlock prove to have history, Maui abandons Evanora to pursue his mysterious vengeance on Zelena by himself. Elsewhere, former Lost Boy Devin reunites with Wish Pan and offers his loyalty to him once more. Devin tells Pan about the existence of Rumplestiltskin's relatives Gideon and Henry.

Zelena tells Glinda, Dorothy and Ruby to return to their duty in the Land of Oz and let her atone for his mistakes by finding Sherlock Holmes to wake Ozma. Regina tries to talk to Zelena about Robin, but Zelena is too focused on her quest; a heartbroken Robin eavesdropes. Regina later confides to Henry about the estrangement she feels between her and this version of Zelena, and Henry agrees that the team need to be on the same page if they want to work together. Wish Pan reveals to Wish Cruella that they can work together to target Henry.

## Characters (in order of appearance)

* Peter Pan (Wish Realm)
* Cruella De Vil (Wish Realm)
* Ursula (Wish Realm)
* Maui
* Wicked Witch of the East
* Joseph Buquet (first appearance)
* Raoul de Chagney
* Phantom of the Opera (first appearance)
* Princess Ozma
* Wicked Witch of the West
* Dorothy Gale
* Red Riding Hood
* Glinda the Good Witch of the South
* Robin Hood, Jr.
* Evil Queen
* Alice Jones
* Captain Hook (Wish Realm)
* Inspector Ledoux (first appearance)
* Sherlock Holmes (first appearance)
* Devin

## Timeline

* The past events occur after Evanora is banished in *Which Witch is Which?* and before Regina meets Tinker Bell in *Quite a Common Fairy.*