Tangled: The Series S3 E12

## Plot

In the previous episode, Pascal became friends with a dragon, who grew up fast and left to be with his own kind. Nigel hated dragons because they destroyed his home village, but he got over it by the end of the episode. Rapunzel quizzes her dad on events that happened in the past, and he gets them all right. His memories have fully returned. Suddenly, Owl shows up, which means Cass might be nearby. Owl has a fruit in its talon that only grows on Tirapi Island, home of the Lorbs, little leaf people that see humans as inferior to them. The gang was stranded on the island for six weeks in season 2 after a storm, waiting for a cargo ferry to take them back to the mainland, rebuilding the caravan, and dealing with crazy hijinks and deadly magic. Rapunzel, Eugene, Pascal, and Owl head there in the hot air balloon. The Lorb village is empty, and they follow a lone Lorb to a party they're having with another human. They wonder if it's Cass, but this human has a mustache. It's the captain of the guard, who has grown a beard. After searching for Rapunzel for a long time, he and the other guards received word that she had made it back to Corona… and that Cass had chosen a different path. He claims that he's not having a difficult time with it at all. He also introduces them to… four year old Cass, who is basically his second chance and coping mechanism. He claims that she just appeared one day. Eugene and Rapunzel realize that this is why Owl brought them here. They see that toddler Cass doesn't have a shadow. She's not real. Rapunzel and Pascal will keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn't hurt the captain or anyone else, while Eugene and Owl try to figure out what kind of magic this is and how to get rid of it. While running away from an angry Lorb mob that wants to capture him as their pet, Eugene and Owl find someone trapped in a cave. Rapunzel starts to wonder if she was wrong about toddler Cass. She may not be the real one, but she makes the captain happy, and he shouldn't have to lose her again. Eugene and Owl show Rapunzel and Pascal the cave, where Alfons, the leader of the Lorbs, was locked up. The captain did it so no one would stop him from bringing his daughter back. He came to the island for a magical fountain that grants wishes. When Alfons found him digging for the fountain's magical coin and warned him about the danger, the captain ignored him and locked him up. If the wisher doesn't take the wish back by sunset on the 9th day, then the wish will turn wicked. And the captain made the wish nine days ago. They tell him that they know about the fountain. He reveals that he lied earlier when he said he stopped looking for Cass. They confronted each other in a maze. He asked her why she turned her back on Rapunzel. She was angry at him for never telling her who her mother was. She thought he only did what was best for himself. She claimed that was all anyone in her life had ever done, and now, that's what she's doing. The moonstone is hers now, and this is her destiny. Her father ordered her to surrender, but she refused, trapped him in an old rock building, and disappeared. She was filled with a rage he had never seen before. That person wasn't his daughter anymore. He thinks this is the only way he can fix his mistakes. Oh, stop blaming yourself! You have no legitimate reason to feel guilty. You are *not* responsible for your daughter's choices! You raised her the best you could! That's all anyone can do! Sundown comes and goes, and the others are attacked by different versions of Cass. Rapunzel sees some of them trying to break into the captain's hut. She goes around to the other side of it and looks through the window. No one is inside. She sees the captain trying to escape with toddler Cass in the hot air balloon. She tells him that he doesn't just get to forget about the real Cass and start over. Family sticks together. The captain says this is his only chance and starts to leave. Rapunzel grabs onto the balloon with her hair, and Eugene grabs onto the rest of it to escape with Pascal and Alfons. However, the captain sees that Cass doesn't cast a shadow, and he turns the balloon around. The others continue to fight all the versions of Cass while he heads to the fountain to take the coin out and undo his wish. They're suddenly confronted by a unique moonstone version of Cass. Every version of her disappears, confirming that none of them were real, moonstone one included. They head back home, and now they're more determined than ever to find the real Cass and make her see reason. Meanwhile, she and the ghost girl reach the remains of the Great Tree. All of the incantations for the moonstone were destroyed, which was the only way to unlock its full power. The only other way is with the Demanitus scroll, but the ghost girl thinks it was destroyed millennia ago. Cass recognizes Demanitus's name, and realizes that the scroll is in Corona.