Meanwhile, Merida doesn’t want to leave because she’s still upset that Arthur took her wisp, and she needs to save her brothers.

Merlin might have been a tree for a bunch of years, but that hasn’t stopped his power OR his looks. Turns out, just like technology, magic changes through the years, and though the bars of the jail cell have some strange powers, they manage to work past it thanks to a spell book and some smart thinking by Belle (always a clever one…what a puzzle to the rest of us is Belle).

In Camelot, we finally figured out what happened to Merida after she split from Emma in the season premiere: She was captured and brought to Arthur’s dungeon, which is where Merlin and the Storybrooke gang find her when they break in to rescue Lancelot. Bravery was given out in spades tonight on Once Upon A Time, and while Arthur continued to prove he wasn’t the world’s most trustworthy member of the Scooby gang, two of Once’s most underused characters - as well as a relationship that hasn’t been fully explored since last season - got some time to shine.

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