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Character Name: Captain Hook/Killian Jones
Series: Once Upon A Time
Timeline: end of 3x22
Canon Resource Link: Hook on the OUAT wiki
Character History: When Killian Jones was a young boy, he and his father planned to sail the world together and explore new lands. Unfortunately, his father leaves him in the night, running from the law. The blow is devastating, but luckily, Killian has an older brother: Liam. Killian looks up to Liam and the two of them keep to a staunch moral code: insisting on good form in themselves and their crew, once Liam becomes a captain and Killian his Lieutenant.
They go on an expedition to Neverland to find a plant, dreamshade, rumored to heal all ills. Once there, they meet Peter Pan, who tells them the plant is actually a supremely deadly poison. Liam thinks the boy is lying, but Killian is more dubious. If dreamshade is that deadly, it could be devastating to use it, even on their enemies. To try and put Killian’s fears to rest, Liam cuts himself on the plant. Turns out the plant IS poisonous, and Liam passes out from the poison. Peter Pan appears again and tells Killian that he can save Liam… but for a price. That’s just fine with Killian, who would do anything to save his brother. He shows Killian the magical spring of Neverland water that can cure Liam’s poison, but vanishes without explaining the price. Killian gives Liam the water, and Liam recovers. They head back to their ship without the poison, ready to tell the world what bad form the king has shown.
Unfortunately, the price was that Liam could never leave Neverland without dying. They find this out the hard way when Liam collapses, dead, in the Captain’s cabin. Killian is devastated and goes out to give a rousing speech to his crew about how they were done living by the king’s law. They were going to become pirates and do what they want! The crew was pretty okay with sudden treason, probably going on the accurate assumption that as pirates, they’d be allowed to drink rum without getting a lecture from Killian. Over the next few years, they gained a reputation as pirates. Killian turned in his uniform for a lot of black leather and his uptight attitude for a scoundrel’s easy smirk.
Then he met Milah. She was the beautiful wife to a cowardly peasant, miserable and suffocating in her little town. Killian offered her a ride on his ship and a chance for adventure. Milah didn’t hesitate in taking it. But she couldn’t figure out how best to break it to her husband and child. So she had Killian lead her husband, Rumplestiltskin, to believe he’d kidnapped her. Killian offered Rumplestiltskin the chance to fight to win her back, but as a self-admitted coward with a lame foot, Rumplestiltskin refused, instead simply pleading and asking what he’d tell his son. Killian is disgusted. He tells Rumplestiltskin, “A man unwilling to fight for what he wants deserves what he gets,” and sends Rumplestiltskin off to tell his son.
Milah and Killian fall in love over the course of their travels together. They often discuss going back for Baelfire, Milah’s son, but they never carry through their plan. Milah gains status and new clothes among the pirates, and by the time they meet Rumplestiltskin again, they have a good life.
Rumplestiltskin’s life has not been nearly as good. In order to save Baelfire from being drafted into the army even though he’s just a child, Rumplestiltskin killed a powerful and dangerous being called the Dark One and gained his dark powers. Now, instead of a whimpering, miserable coward, he’s a leather-clad evil entity with sparkling, scaly skin. He also lost Baelfire when he refused to go with the boy through a portal to a world without magic where he wouldn’t have his powers. He hasn’t forgotten Killian, though, or Milah.
When they meet again, Killian makes fun of the scaly-looking beggar, calling him a “Crocodile,” but when Rumplestiltskin reveals himself, he becomes more serious and more wary. Killian feigns ignorance of Milah, saying that she died years ago to try and protect her from Rumplestiltskin’s wrath. Rumplestiltskin challenges Killian to a duel at dawn, like the one Rumplestiltskin backed out of once, and Killian accepts, even knowing that fighting the Dark One could mean his death. The fight goes pretty poorly, but when Milah sees Rumplestiltskin about to pull Killian’s heart out, she reveals herself and offers a trade: the extremely rare and valuable portal-creating magic bean she knows Rumplestiltskin wants in exchange for Killian’s life. Rumplestiltskin accepts, and they all head over to the Jolly Roger. When they get there, though, Rumplestiltskin, who is still mad, asks Milah why she never asked about Baelfire. He starts hurling accusations until Milah tells Rumplestiltskin she never loved him. He can’t handle the rejection and pulls out Milah’s heart with magic, crushing it into dust. She dies in Killian’s arms. He cuts off Killian’s hand to reclaim the bean. Killian tries to kill Rumplestiltskin, but it’s not so easy to kill the immortal dark one. Killian swears revenge, but Rumplestiltskin doesn’t take him very seriously. Rumplestiltskin vanishes… only to find that Killian tricked him. The bean had been in his other hand.
Killian had lost his hand, but he still had the magic bean and a newfound thirst for revenge. What he needed was a way to not die until he could kill his crocodile. He used the magic bean to take himself and his crew to Neverland, a place he’d sworn to never return after his brother’s death. But it was a good place to live forever while he tried to find a way to kill an immortal demon. He strapped a metal hook to the place where his hand had been and took on a new and memorable moniker: Captain Hook.
Peter Pan had grown more tyrannical since Hook’s last visit. He now has a collection of Lost Boys loyal to him and a tendency to have his Shadow viciously tear the shadow away from anyone who displeased him. In addition, mermaids ruled the water and made the seas even more perilous, and there wasn’t much hope of escaping Neverland without Pan’s help. And Killian still had no idea how to kill Rumplestiltskin.
One day, he rescued a boy floating in the water who had escaped from Pan’s shadow. This wasn’t a common occurrence. Most boys loved being part of Pan’s team, and even if they didn’t, escaping wasn’t really something that happened. Pan wanted the boy, which meant he’d be an important bargaining chip for Hook if he wanted to survive his time here. But the boy, who had a healthy hatred of pirates, turned out to be Baelfire, the son of Rumplestiltskin and Milah. Instead of using the boy to bargain for his own safety, he bonded with Baelfire, teaching him to sail and sharing stories of how his own father had abandoned him, just like Baelfire’s. Then Baelfire revealed Rumplestiltskin’s weakness: a certain dagger that could kill him or control him. Ostensibly, Hook was going to turn Baelfire over to Pan now that he knew what he wanted to know, but still he hesitated. He had come to care for the boy, seeing himself as the father he could have been if he and Milah had gone back for Baelfire.
Baelfire found a picture of Milah in Hook’s cabin and figured out the truth: Hook was the very same pirate that had supposedly kidnapped his mother. Hook revealed the truth: that he hadn’t kidnapped Milah, she had run off with him, and that Rumplestiltskin had murdered her, but Baelfire was unmoved. He wanted nothing to do with Hook. Hook couldn’t take this rejection and traded him over to Pan as he’d planned, declaring that Baelfire was right: Hook couldn’t change. All he cared about was killing Rumplestiltskin and not caring for Baelfire. Pan’s Lost Boys carried Baelfire away, and Hook hoped this would be enough to keep Pan from harassing them.
It took centuries, but eventually Hook made some sort of deal with Pan to get himself and his ship and crew out of Neverland. Once free, he headed to the Evil Queen Regina’s castle where a certain prisoner named Belle was being held. He pretended to be there to rescue her, but when she refused to tell him where the dagger was, he knocked her out and would have murdered her if Regina hadn’t intervened. She had a mission, and he seemed to be just the pirate for the job. She told Hook she was planning a curse that would take away all of Rumplestiltskin’s magic, leaving him easy to kill.
She enchanted his hook so that it could tear out hearts and sent him to Wonderland to murder Regina’s mother: Cora, the Queen of Hearts. This would have worked out a lot better if Cora hadn’t taken out her own heart years ago so that pesky emotions wouldn’t get in the way of her ambitions. She reached into Hook’s chest and squeezed his heart until he spilled all of Regina’s plans. Instead of killing Hook, Cora told Hook the bit that Regina hadn’t mentioned: that Hook would lose his memories along with Rumplestiltskin and not know about the revenge he sought. She had Hook take her back to the Enchanted Forest, but instead of actually being dead, she was only faking it. She planned to kill Regina instead. She reconsidered when she heard Regina saying that she loved Cora and couldn’t kill her herself or let her live because Cora and Regina share the belief that love makes people weak, but Cora would have rather had her daughter on her side than against her, so she decided to wait until the curse broke and then strike. She protected herself, Hook, and a small corner of the land from the curse and there they waited, frozen in time, for 28 years until the Savior, Emma Swan, daughter of Prince Charming and Snow White, broke the curse.
The only downside to Hook and Cora’s plan was that they were stuck in the Enchanted Forest while Regina and Rumplestiltskin were in the World Without Magic. In order to get to Storybrooke, they needed a portal. Cora found the start of one when Snow White and Emma led her to a magic wardrobe. Emma burned the wardrobe to keep Cora from getting at it, but the ashes from the wardrobe still held power. They simply needed to find a magic compass that would let them navigate the portals. The compass was at the top of a magic beanstalk guarded by a giant, but Cora had magic wristbands that would allow them to climb the beanstalk safely. She sent Hook to spy on Snow and Emma and their friends, Mulan and Aurora. Unbeknownst to Cora, Hook stole the wristbands.
Cora murdered the entire village of refugee survivors, and Hook hid among the corpses. He pretended to be a humble blacksmith that had hidden until Cora had passed and tried to gain admittance to their group. Emma saw right through his lies and tied him to a tree, threatening to let him get eaten by the ogres wandering the countryside unless he told the truth. So he did. He explained that he had been working with Cora and that he was really Captain Hook and offered to help them instead of Cora. Emma was understandably suspicious, but Hook held no particular loyalty to Cora past her being conveniently powerful and helpful for getting him to Storybrooke and to the man he wanted to kill. He knew what he needed to get there: the compass and the wardrobe dust, and he knew Emma and her friends would help him. Besides, he much preferred their company to Cora’s. Despite his pirating nature and the darker turn he’d taken over the past centuries, he didn’t particularly LIKE being evil. He still wanted to murder Rumplestiltskin, but he liked being around people who didn’t murder. Besides, he was especially attracted to Emma Swan despite, or perhaps because of, her abrasive attitude.
Hook told them why he wanted to go to Storybrooke: that he wanted to kill the man who took his hand: Rumplestiltskin. It was the truth, if not the full story. It was convincing enough that Emma let him come along, though they kept him tied up. When they reached the beanstalk, Emma decided to be the one to go up with Hook. Despite her clear annoyance at his entire existence, Hook was not put off because he likes a challenge. They bonded a bit over their climb up the beanstalk, with Hook showing a lot of insight into Emma’s life and her issues. Emma, on the other hand, read Hook well enough to realize that it wasn’t his hand that made him want revenge, it was Milah, the woman whose name is tattooed on Hook’s arm. Hook, usually so focused and driven towards his goal of vengeance, seemed more interested in flirting and taking his time than finding an efficient way to find the compass. Emma, though, found herself far too reminded of her first love, Neal, and chained Hook to the rubble after she got the compass. The giant let Hook go after a while, but not before Hook managed to get his hands on a dried up old magic bean, devoid of magic, but good as a trophy anyway. Hook felt hurt and betrayed, not to mention hopeless, especially when Cora told him she wasn’t interested in teaming up with him anymore.
Desperate, Hook followed Cora after she captured Emma’s friend Aurora. When Cora left, he freed Aurora… but not before finally using the enchantment Regina had put on his hook to pull out Aurora’s heart. Magically removed hearts can not only be used to kill someone, they can be used to control someone’s actions. He let Aurora go free, but gave the heart to Cora, which convinced her both to let him live after freeing her prisoner and take Hook back as a partner. They trapped Emma and friends in a cell once used to hold Rumplestiltskin, took back the compass, and headed over to a magical lake that could revive anything. The lake itself had gone dry, but with Cora’s magic, it came back. They poured the ashes into the lake to create a portal, but before they could jump into it, Emma and friends arrived back after having freed themselves. He and Emma engaged in a battle of blades and sexual innuendo. At one point, Cora let Aurora’s heart fly towards the portal, but Hook caught it before it could be lost in the void and tossed it to Mulan. Partly, this was to even the odds to two on two of course, but it also showed a sliver of goodness still remaining inside him. He and Emma continued their fight until she finally got the better of him and knocked him out. Emma and Snow White jumped through the portal. Luckily, Hook had a back-up plan. He used the magical waters to revitalize the magic bean and created a portal with it. He and Cora sailed through.
Hook was all ready to go kill Rumplestiltskin again, but Cora quickly noticed the magic in the air and stopped him. His plan would need to wait until they had a way to get the better of him. Meanwhile, Cora would try to win Regina to their side. She framed Regina for the death of Archie, the town’s therapist and beloved cricket advisor Jiminy Cricket, but secretly kept him alive. Hook tortured Archie until Archie told Hook that Rumplestiltskin had a weakness: Belle. Rumplestiltskin’s true love. Hook went after her, but it was simply a ruse to draw Rumplesiltskin away from his pawnshop. Hook ransacked the shop and stole a cloak that Baelfire once wore because he knew it would hurt Rumplestiltskin, but couldn’t burn it because Milah had made the cloth. Plus, he cared for Baelfire too. Belle tracked Hook down with a gun, but Hook took it away from her. After a brief tussle, Rumplestiltskin arrived to save Belle and beat Hook severely with his cane. Belle talked him out of killing Hook, though Hook kept egging him on, thinking it would reunite him with Milah once he’d died. Rumplestiltskin told him to sail far away and left him.
Hook did not take his advice. He followed Rumplestiltskin to the magical border of town that would cause anyone to forget their memories of their fairytale lives if they crossed it and shot Belle right as she and Rumple were having their heartfelt goodbye as Rumplestiltskin planned to go find Baelfire, who was somewhere in the world without magic. Belle wasn’t seriously injured, but she fell over the line and forgot who she was. Before Rumplestilstkin could do more than hold Belle and heal her injury, a car showed up and crashed into Hook, injuring him even worse than he already was.
When Emma (who is also sheriff of Storybrooke) showed up, they brought Belle and Hook to the hospital. Rumplestiltskin demanded Emma’s help in getting Baelfire back, threatening to kill Hook if she didn’t come with him. She and Henry accompanied him to New York and found Baelfire, also known as Neal, Emma’s ex and Henry’s father. Meanwhile, Hook escaped custody and teamed up with Regina and Cora to try and find the dagger. As soon as he figured out a possible location, they proceeded to betray him. Hook sailed to New York and attacked Rumplestiltskin with dreamshade, which even more incurable in the world without magic than it is in Neverland. Emma knocked him out with an umbrella stand and ties him up in Neal’s storage unit. Outside of Storybrooke, Rumplestiltskin didn’t have the immortality granted by being the Dark One, so they rushed him home. Neal still remembered how to steer Hook’s ship, so he used it to get them back.
Neal’s fiancée, Tamara, was actually evil and working with the guy who’d crashed into Hook, Greg, to try and destroy all magic. Tamara brought Hook back with her and they showed him that not only had the others managed to heal Rumplestiltskin, he had also reunited with Belle. Hook was angry enough that he agreed to help them, after hearing their promise of a way to kill magical creatures. He helped them capture Regina, though he refused to help Greg torture her as his interest in torture that didn’t help him get his revenge was pretty much non-existent. Once he realized that Greg and Tamara’s plan would kill himself and everyone else in Storybrooke, however, he changed his mind. He’d tried revenge and found it relatively unsatisfying, and now he no longer was willing to die for it. They activated a crystal that would destroy everything magical, and Hook headed off to join the good guys.
Emma, Prince Charming, Neal, and Hook went after Greg and Tamara to try and get a magic bean while Regina tried to forestall certain doom with magic, even knowing that it would kill her, but also knowing it would give everyone else a chance to get away. They succeeded, but the cost was high. Neal fell through a portal after getting shot, and things didn’t look good for him. Greg and Tamara got away. Then, Snow White had the idea of throwing the magical crystal into the portal instead of sailing into it, which would save Regina’s life. Potentially. It could also mean they all die instead. Hook didn’t like the risk and snagged the bean. Emma asked if he really wanted to be alone when he could instead be a part of something and have friends. He gave her back the pouch, but he’d already slipped the bean out. When he asked her why she really wanted to save Regina, she told him Henry had already lost one parent and didn’t want him to lose another. That told Hook that Baelfire was dead, a fact which noticeably shook him. He took off with his bean, but he couldn’t bring himself to throw it. The combination of Emma’s words about being a part of something and the memory of how he’d almost had something with Baelfire were too much. He didn’t want to be a villain. He wanted to be part of the good guy family. He sailed back to try and help.
Emma and Regina had already used their magic to shut down the crystal, but they still needed help. Tamara and Greg had captured Henry and taken him to Neverland. Hook offered his ship and services and told Rumplestiltskin he was done trying to kill him. He tossed the bean into the water and they sailed off to Neverland.
They were met with stormy waters and mermaids and barely made it to shore alive, though they did make it. Their troubles were just beginning. It turned out Peter Pan was quietly pulling the strings on Greg and Tamara and his entire goal was to get Henry and steal Henry’s heart, as Henry was the Truest Believer. Rumplestiltskin left the group quickly, thinking he’d make more progress on his own, but neither side made much progress initially. Instead, Charming got himself poisoned by dreamshade. Hook was the only one who noticed, since he was so familiar with how it worked. Charming wouldn’t let him tell the others, but Hook tricked him into following him on a supposed side-mission to find a possible way out while the others worked on getting a message to Henry. Pan snuck up on him and tried to get Hook to betray his friends, but Hook ignored him and saved Charming’s life. The same catch remained, however. Charming would be stuck in Neverland if he wanted to stay alive. It was a price Charming was willing to pay to save his family. When they returned, Charming told a story about Hook saving his life. The details were made-up, but the fact that Hook had saved him wasn’t. Emma thanked him with a passionate kiss.
Pan was disappointed. To try and push Hook into not doing the right thing, he told Hook that Neal was still alive. He was testing Hook. Since Neal was a romantic rival for Emma’s affections, it would be better for Hook to not tell her, but it would leave Neal rotting away in Pan’s cage. Hook chose his friend. At this point, Regina left to find Rumplestiltskin because she had no interest in a side-mission to save someone who wasn’t Henry who Pan may have been lying about and certainly was planning to trap them with.
It was a trap, though not one so simple as to actually endanger their lives. Instead it forced them to reveal secrets. Hook told Emma that he’d started to develop feelings for her for the first time since Milah. Snow White, Charming, and Emma finally revealed their secrets and freed Neal. Hook saw them share a moment that looked romantic and got jealous. Later, he told Neal about the kiss, assuming Emma had already told him. They proceeded to act petty and bicker and endanger the mission until Emma finally told them to stop that shit. Despite their immaturity, Emma managed to capture Pan’s shadow so they would have a way home. The team met up with Tinker Bell and they managed to rescue Henry… but a little too late. Pan already had stolen his heart. Regina, Emma, and Snow get the heart back, but Pan’s still alive. He follows them to Hook’s ship and switches bodies with Henry. They all sail back to Storybrooke, Henry trapped in Pandora’s box in Pan’s body.
Emma’s the first to realize something’s up, but it isn’t until Pan frees his shadow that they release Pan’s body from the box and figure out that it’s Henry. Hook, Neal, Tinker Bell, and Charming team up to fight the shadow. Meanwhile, Pan sets off a deadly curse. Rumplestiltskin manages to kill his father and himself and they both vanish. Regina can undo the curse, but at the cost of never seeing Henry again. Because Emma’s the savior, she can take Henry and evade the curse, but everyone else will be sent back to the Enchanted Forest, all traces of magic wiped away. Hook tells Emma he’ll think of her every day, which Emma appreciates, though she can’t share the sentiment, as she and Henry will lose their memories. They drive off, and Storybrooke vanishes.
Back in the Enchanted Forest, Hook quickly takes leave of the others and goes to find his ship. He likes them well enough, but Emma’s the real reason he’s stuck around, and she’s gone. He tries to go back to being a pirate, but he can't find his ship, and he can't find the joy in it that he used to have. Ariel finds him since she believes Eric, her love, is being held on the ship, and they work together to find it, but when it comes down to it, he chooses his ship over helping Ariel.
But even with his ship returned to him, he isn't happy. He misses Emma too much, and his pirating days are over, even if it's hard for him to accept it. When he receives a mysterious message that Emma’s family is in danger, he trades the ship for a magical bean and tracks Emma down. One failed true love's kiss and a lot of badgering later, she drinks the magical memory potion that came with the message and remembers him. She tries to break up with her almost-fiance, but he turns into a flying monkey. She fights him off, then she and Henry accompany Hook back to Storybrooke.
Unfortunately, no one can actually remember what happened in the Enchanted Forest. The fact that Mary Margaret is very pregnant tips them off that a lot of time passed, but why they are back or what terrible danger Hook was warned about are all mysteries. And people are being kidnapped and turning into flying monkeys. This leads them to conclude that the Wicked Witch of the West is behind the attacks. Further investigation points out Gold as her prisoner, despite Gold being very much dead last time they saw him. Gold has, however, escaped, and they don't know where he's going.
At Emma's urging, Hook stays with Belle to protect her in case Gold shows up again and is... less than in his right mind. Gold doesn't show up. Instead, Neal, who has been missing, bursts through the door and collapses. They bring him to a hospital, and Hook and Neal hug it out and talk through their differences. Then Hook lets Neal go, since he understands Neal's need to find and protect his family even though it would probably be better for Neal to sit in the hospital and recover. It turns out that Neal and Gold are magically sharing one body, and in order to save them, Emma is forced to separate them, which kills Neal. When Hook finds out, he is devastated.
In order to deal with his own feelings on Neal passing, and to teach Henry about the father he has forgotten, Hook spends the day with Henry out on the docks. The two of them bond. Hook tells Emma that Henry deserves to know the truth, but she will have none of it.
Then, Ariel shows up out of the blue trying to find Eric again. Hook believes Eric to be dead, and that it is his fault for choosing to slay Blackbeard and keep his ship rather than help Ariel, but he tries to help her anyway. They find Eric's cloak, and use a tracking spell to try and find the owner, but it sinks to the bottom of the ocean, insinuating that he is dead. Hook confesses, and swears on his love, Emma Swan, that he believes in love and regrets what he's done. But it turns out the woman in front of him is actually Zelena, the wicked witch herself. Ariel is fine, it turns out, and reunited with Eric after all. Zelena uses his vow to curse his lips so that if he kisses Emma, her powers will be stolen away. She threatens to harm Henry if he tells anyone about this curse.
Hook tries to distance himself from Emma, who is suddenly more interested in him than ever, flirting and showing off her magic powers. He still tries to help the group, but he doesn't let himself get closer than that. Zelena kidnaps him to yell at him for not kissing Emma and threatens Henry again. Hook tries to send Henry away on a boat without telling Emma in hopes that it will keep the boy safe, but they are accosted by flying monkeys. Hook fights them off as best he can, but it isn't until Emma shows up that they kill the last one. Using the book, Henry regains his memories, and Regina gives Henry True Love's Kiss, restoring the memories of the entire town. Hook confesses to both the cursed lips and to what he was trying to do with Henry, and Emma tells him off for lying and keeping secrets. Mary Margaret and David also accuse him of lying about the note he received, but Hook truly doesn't know who else could have sent it.
Despite Emma's anger at Hook, David convinces her to let him come along when she goes after Zelena. He can, at the very least, prove useful as cannon fodder. He does prove very useful in that respect. Gold sends Hook flying into a well of water and holds him there with magic until he dies. Emma is forced to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or let Hook die. Unfortunately, that's close enough to a kiss that it drains away her powers, leaving the hospital without protection and letting Zelena steal David and Mary Margaret's new baby. It also leaves the Savior without her light magic, but it turns out that Regina has some light magic of her own. She defeats Zelena and leaves her to be locked up.
But Gold isn't done with his revenge. He sneaks into the prison and kills Zelena, making it look like suicide. Killing her sets off her last spell and creates the time travel portal she'd wanted to use the baby for. Meanwhile, Emma still wants to take Henry back to New York, even though Henry remembers his life now and wants to stay with his family. Hook follows her to try and talk sense into her, taking the fairytale book with him. Before he manages it, they see the portal and run to investigate it. Emma gets sucked in, and Hook jumps in after.
They end up in the Enchanted Forest, right before Emma's parents meet. Hook tries very hard to keep Emma from changing anything, insisting that if they want the present to stay how it is, they have to be very careful. Even if that means letting Regina kill an innocent woman. They get Emma less conspicuous clothes and... accidentally prevent Emma's parents from meeting. They find Rumplestiltskin and tell him the problem, and he agrees to help so long as they fix their mess and try not to make it worse. In order to do it, they need Hook's ship. The problem is, Hook exists in the past, and they can't exactly let him know what they're up to. Emma distracts past!Hook while present!Hook hires Snow to break into the castle and steal Charming's mother's ring, thus recreating roughly their first meeting. When past!Hook tries to take Emma back to his cabin, present!Hook decks him. Past!Hook doesn't remember any of the night due to all the rum he drank.
Then, Emma and Hook go to the ball. Rumplestiltskin changes their clothes and faces magically so they can attend the ball without being noticed or remembered. They introduce themselves as Prince Charles and Princess Leia. Hook and Emma dance together, and he remarks she's a natural at this. Then Snow breaks in, meeting Charming as intended, but when Snow escapes, she loses the ring. Also, Emma is seen trying to help her and gets captured.
Hook gets Charming, Snow, and Ruby to help him try and free Emma, but they meet her halfway as she has already escaped, and taken Marian with her. Unfortunately, Snow tries to use the distraction to face Regina, and it doesn't work out for her. They watch Snow White get executed. Emma is distraught, but thankfully, it turns out to be a trick. Snow turned into a bug to escape. The Blue Fairy turns her back, and Snow and Charming get back on track to falling in love.
Hook and Emma decide to take Marian with them since otherwise she will change the past. Luckily, she was supposed to be executed, so no one will realize anything is amiss. They return to Rumplestiltskin's castle, but he can't help them. He has a wand, but it can only be used by one who traveled through it. He traps Emma and Hook and Marian in a vault to protect the future. Luckily, Emma has an epiphany about Storybrooke being her home and how much she misses her family, and gets her magic back in time to reverse the portal and get them home. She and Hook have a talk afterwards and he reveals that he sold his ship to get the bean that took him back to this world. She sees how devoted to her he really is, and they finally share a sweet, loving kiss.
Abilities/Special Powers: Hook has no magical powers of his own. However, as a 300 year old pirate, he’s a particularly exceptional fighter and captain of his ship.
Third-Person Sample: Hook blinks as he opens the door and finds himself... in a garden. He looks behind. The building he's in is certainly not Granny's diner.
"Emma?" he says cautiously, stepping into the garden. "David? Mary-Margaret?"
No one responds. He's not sure why he expected them to, since he can't see them. But it's bloody strange, expecting to be somewhere and ending up somewhere else. It's not the first time it's happened, of course. But usually there's a portal involved, or at least more alcohol than anyone should consume in one sitting. He's not drunk. And he certainly wasn't expecting to fall through a portal again.
He keeps walking, a hand on the hilt of his sword. So far, he hadn't seen anybody, but it was really just a matter of time. And the next person he saw? He'd be willing to bet they wouldn't be friendly. They never were, in these situations.
Some movement caught his eye and he whirled around, drawing his sword.
A swan flew out of the bushes, taking flight and honking.
Hook lowered his sword, frowning. Not an enemy, then. But now any enemies that were lurking about would be drawn straight to his location.
He rolled his eyes and started walking faster. This time, he keeps his sword out.
First-Person Sample: [There's a pirate in the view screen. And he only looks mildly confused about the fact that he's being recorded. He's been in Storybrooke long enough. He understands computers. Sort of. He knows they exist, anyway.
He taps the camera with his hook.]
Hello? Does this mechanism function? Can anybody... see me?
[He grimaces, feeling kind of foolish.]
Look, I'll be honest, I bloody hate Wonderland. It's nearly as bad as Neverland. So if anyone'd like to direct me to the nearest bean, hat, or enchanted bit of dust, I'll be on my way.
[He moves to turn the camera off, then hesitates, throwing a large, insincere smile at the camera.]
And Cora? If you're somehow still alive out here? Consider any arrangements we may've had in the past over. I have better allies now. You're on your own.
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Character Name: Captain Hook/Killian Jones
Series: Once Upon A Time
Timeline: end of 3x22
Canon Resource Link: Hook on the OUAT wiki
Character History: When Killian Jones was a young boy, he and his father planned to sail the world together and explore new lands. Unfortunately, his father leaves him in the night, running from the law. The blow is devastating, but luckily, Killian has an older brother: Liam. Killian looks up to Liam and the two of them keep to a staunch moral code: insisting on good form in themselves and their crew, once Liam becomes a captain and Killian his Lieutenant.
They go on an expedition to Neverland to find a plant, dreamshade, rumored to heal all ills. Once there, they meet Peter Pan, who tells them the plant is actually a supremely deadly poison. Liam thinks the boy is lying, but Killian is more dubious. If dreamshade is that deadly, it could be devastating to use it, even on their enemies. To try and put Killian’s fears to rest, Liam cuts himself on the plant. Turns out the plant IS poisonous, and Liam passes out from the poison. Peter Pan appears again and tells Killian that he can save Liam… but for a price. That’s just fine with Killian, who would do anything to save his brother. He shows Killian the magical spring of Neverland water that can cure Liam’s poison, but vanishes without explaining the price. Killian gives Liam the water, and Liam recovers. They head back to their ship without the poison, ready to tell the world what bad form the king has shown.
Unfortunately, the price was that Liam could never leave Neverland without dying. They find this out the hard way when Liam collapses, dead, in the Captain’s cabin. Killian is devastated and goes out to give a rousing speech to his crew about how they were done living by the king’s law. They were going to become pirates and do what they want! The crew was pretty okay with sudden treason, probably going on the accurate assumption that as pirates, they’d be allowed to drink rum without getting a lecture from Killian. Over the next few years, they gained a reputation as pirates. Killian turned in his uniform for a lot of black leather and his uptight attitude for a scoundrel’s easy smirk.
Then he met Milah. She was the beautiful wife to a cowardly peasant, miserable and suffocating in her little town. Killian offered her a ride on his ship and a chance for adventure. Milah didn’t hesitate in taking it. But she couldn’t figure out how best to break it to her husband and child. So she had Killian lead her husband, Rumplestiltskin, to believe he’d kidnapped her. Killian offered Rumplestiltskin the chance to fight to win her back, but as a self-admitted coward with a lame foot, Rumplestiltskin refused, instead simply pleading and asking what he’d tell his son. Killian is disgusted. He tells Rumplestiltskin, “A man unwilling to fight for what he wants deserves what he gets,” and sends Rumplestiltskin off to tell his son.
Milah and Killian fall in love over the course of their travels together. They often discuss going back for Baelfire, Milah’s son, but they never carry through their plan. Milah gains status and new clothes among the pirates, and by the time they meet Rumplestiltskin again, they have a good life.
Rumplestiltskin’s life has not been nearly as good. In order to save Baelfire from being drafted into the army even though he’s just a child, Rumplestiltskin killed a powerful and dangerous being called the Dark One and gained his dark powers. Now, instead of a whimpering, miserable coward, he’s a leather-clad evil entity with sparkling, scaly skin. He also lost Baelfire when he refused to go with the boy through a portal to a world without magic where he wouldn’t have his powers. He hasn’t forgotten Killian, though, or Milah.
When they meet again, Killian makes fun of the scaly-looking beggar, calling him a “Crocodile,” but when Rumplestiltskin reveals himself, he becomes more serious and more wary. Killian feigns ignorance of Milah, saying that she died years ago to try and protect her from Rumplestiltskin’s wrath. Rumplestiltskin challenges Killian to a duel at dawn, like the one Rumplestiltskin backed out of once, and Killian accepts, even knowing that fighting the Dark One could mean his death. The fight goes pretty poorly, but when Milah sees Rumplestiltskin about to pull Killian’s heart out, she reveals herself and offers a trade: the extremely rare and valuable portal-creating magic bean she knows Rumplestiltskin wants in exchange for Killian’s life. Rumplestiltskin accepts, and they all head over to the Jolly Roger. When they get there, though, Rumplestiltskin, who is still mad, asks Milah why she never asked about Baelfire. He starts hurling accusations until Milah tells Rumplestiltskin she never loved him. He can’t handle the rejection and pulls out Milah’s heart with magic, crushing it into dust. She dies in Killian’s arms. He cuts off Killian’s hand to reclaim the bean. Killian tries to kill Rumplestiltskin, but it’s not so easy to kill the immortal dark one. Killian swears revenge, but Rumplestiltskin doesn’t take him very seriously. Rumplestiltskin vanishes… only to find that Killian tricked him. The bean had been in his other hand.
Killian had lost his hand, but he still had the magic bean and a newfound thirst for revenge. What he needed was a way to not die until he could kill his crocodile. He used the magic bean to take himself and his crew to Neverland, a place he’d sworn to never return after his brother’s death. But it was a good place to live forever while he tried to find a way to kill an immortal demon. He strapped a metal hook to the place where his hand had been and took on a new and memorable moniker: Captain Hook.
Peter Pan had grown more tyrannical since Hook’s last visit. He now has a collection of Lost Boys loyal to him and a tendency to have his Shadow viciously tear the shadow away from anyone who displeased him. In addition, mermaids ruled the water and made the seas even more perilous, and there wasn’t much hope of escaping Neverland without Pan’s help. And Killian still had no idea how to kill Rumplestiltskin.
One day, he rescued a boy floating in the water who had escaped from Pan’s shadow. This wasn’t a common occurrence. Most boys loved being part of Pan’s team, and even if they didn’t, escaping wasn’t really something that happened. Pan wanted the boy, which meant he’d be an important bargaining chip for Hook if he wanted to survive his time here. But the boy, who had a healthy hatred of pirates, turned out to be Baelfire, the son of Rumplestiltskin and Milah. Instead of using the boy to bargain for his own safety, he bonded with Baelfire, teaching him to sail and sharing stories of how his own father had abandoned him, just like Baelfire’s. Then Baelfire revealed Rumplestiltskin’s weakness: a certain dagger that could kill him or control him. Ostensibly, Hook was going to turn Baelfire over to Pan now that he knew what he wanted to know, but still he hesitated. He had come to care for the boy, seeing himself as the father he could have been if he and Milah had gone back for Baelfire.
Baelfire found a picture of Milah in Hook’s cabin and figured out the truth: Hook was the very same pirate that had supposedly kidnapped his mother. Hook revealed the truth: that he hadn’t kidnapped Milah, she had run off with him, and that Rumplestiltskin had murdered her, but Baelfire was unmoved. He wanted nothing to do with Hook. Hook couldn’t take this rejection and traded him over to Pan as he’d planned, declaring that Baelfire was right: Hook couldn’t change. All he cared about was killing Rumplestiltskin and not caring for Baelfire. Pan’s Lost Boys carried Baelfire away, and Hook hoped this would be enough to keep Pan from harassing them.
It took centuries, but eventually Hook made some sort of deal with Pan to get himself and his ship and crew out of Neverland. Once free, he headed to the Evil Queen Regina’s castle where a certain prisoner named Belle was being held. He pretended to be there to rescue her, but when she refused to tell him where the dagger was, he knocked her out and would have murdered her if Regina hadn’t intervened. She had a mission, and he seemed to be just the pirate for the job. She told Hook she was planning a curse that would take away all of Rumplestiltskin’s magic, leaving him easy to kill.
She enchanted his hook so that it could tear out hearts and sent him to Wonderland to murder Regina’s mother: Cora, the Queen of Hearts. This would have worked out a lot better if Cora hadn’t taken out her own heart years ago so that pesky emotions wouldn’t get in the way of her ambitions. She reached into Hook’s chest and squeezed his heart until he spilled all of Regina’s plans. Instead of killing Hook, Cora told Hook the bit that Regina hadn’t mentioned: that Hook would lose his memories along with Rumplestiltskin and not know about the revenge he sought. She had Hook take her back to the Enchanted Forest, but instead of actually being dead, she was only faking it. She planned to kill Regina instead. She reconsidered when she heard Regina saying that she loved Cora and couldn’t kill her herself or let her live because Cora and Regina share the belief that love makes people weak, but Cora would have rather had her daughter on her side than against her, so she decided to wait until the curse broke and then strike. She protected herself, Hook, and a small corner of the land from the curse and there they waited, frozen in time, for 28 years until the Savior, Emma Swan, daughter of Prince Charming and Snow White, broke the curse.
The only downside to Hook and Cora’s plan was that they were stuck in the Enchanted Forest while Regina and Rumplestiltskin were in the World Without Magic. In order to get to Storybrooke, they needed a portal. Cora found the start of one when Snow White and Emma led her to a magic wardrobe. Emma burned the wardrobe to keep Cora from getting at it, but the ashes from the wardrobe still held power. They simply needed to find a magic compass that would let them navigate the portals. The compass was at the top of a magic beanstalk guarded by a giant, but Cora had magic wristbands that would allow them to climb the beanstalk safely. She sent Hook to spy on Snow and Emma and their friends, Mulan and Aurora. Unbeknownst to Cora, Hook stole the wristbands.
Cora murdered the entire village of refugee survivors, and Hook hid among the corpses. He pretended to be a humble blacksmith that had hidden until Cora had passed and tried to gain admittance to their group. Emma saw right through his lies and tied him to a tree, threatening to let him get eaten by the ogres wandering the countryside unless he told the truth. So he did. He explained that he had been working with Cora and that he was really Captain Hook and offered to help them instead of Cora. Emma was understandably suspicious, but Hook held no particular loyalty to Cora past her being conveniently powerful and helpful for getting him to Storybrooke and to the man he wanted to kill. He knew what he needed to get there: the compass and the wardrobe dust, and he knew Emma and her friends would help him. Besides, he much preferred their company to Cora’s. Despite his pirating nature and the darker turn he’d taken over the past centuries, he didn’t particularly LIKE being evil. He still wanted to murder Rumplestiltskin, but he liked being around people who didn’t murder. Besides, he was especially attracted to Emma Swan despite, or perhaps because of, her abrasive attitude.
Hook told them why he wanted to go to Storybrooke: that he wanted to kill the man who took his hand: Rumplestiltskin. It was the truth, if not the full story. It was convincing enough that Emma let him come along, though they kept him tied up. When they reached the beanstalk, Emma decided to be the one to go up with Hook. Despite her clear annoyance at his entire existence, Hook was not put off because he likes a challenge. They bonded a bit over their climb up the beanstalk, with Hook showing a lot of insight into Emma’s life and her issues. Emma, on the other hand, read Hook well enough to realize that it wasn’t his hand that made him want revenge, it was Milah, the woman whose name is tattooed on Hook’s arm. Hook, usually so focused and driven towards his goal of vengeance, seemed more interested in flirting and taking his time than finding an efficient way to find the compass. Emma, though, found herself far too reminded of her first love, Neal, and chained Hook to the rubble after she got the compass. The giant let Hook go after a while, but not before Hook managed to get his hands on a dried up old magic bean, devoid of magic, but good as a trophy anyway. Hook felt hurt and betrayed, not to mention hopeless, especially when Cora told him she wasn’t interested in teaming up with him anymore.
Desperate, Hook followed Cora after she captured Emma’s friend Aurora. When Cora left, he freed Aurora… but not before finally using the enchantment Regina had put on his hook to pull out Aurora’s heart. Magically removed hearts can not only be used to kill someone, they can be used to control someone’s actions. He let Aurora go free, but gave the heart to Cora, which convinced her both to let him live after freeing her prisoner and take Hook back as a partner. They trapped Emma and friends in a cell once used to hold Rumplestiltskin, took back the compass, and headed over to a magical lake that could revive anything. The lake itself had gone dry, but with Cora’s magic, it came back. They poured the ashes into the lake to create a portal, but before they could jump into it, Emma and friends arrived back after having freed themselves. He and Emma engaged in a battle of blades and sexual innuendo. At one point, Cora let Aurora’s heart fly towards the portal, but Hook caught it before it could be lost in the void and tossed it to Mulan. Partly, this was to even the odds to two on two of course, but it also showed a sliver of goodness still remaining inside him. He and Emma continued their fight until she finally got the better of him and knocked him out. Emma and Snow White jumped through the portal. Luckily, Hook had a back-up plan. He used the magical waters to revitalize the magic bean and created a portal with it. He and Cora sailed through.
Hook was all ready to go kill Rumplestiltskin again, but Cora quickly noticed the magic in the air and stopped him. His plan would need to wait until they had a way to get the better of him. Meanwhile, Cora would try to win Regina to their side. She framed Regina for the death of Archie, the town’s therapist and beloved cricket advisor Jiminy Cricket, but secretly kept him alive. Hook tortured Archie until Archie told Hook that Rumplestiltskin had a weakness: Belle. Rumplestiltskin’s true love. Hook went after her, but it was simply a ruse to draw Rumplesiltskin away from his pawnshop. Hook ransacked the shop and stole a cloak that Baelfire once wore because he knew it would hurt Rumplestiltskin, but couldn’t burn it because Milah had made the cloth. Plus, he cared for Baelfire too. Belle tracked Hook down with a gun, but Hook took it away from her. After a brief tussle, Rumplestiltskin arrived to save Belle and beat Hook severely with his cane. Belle talked him out of killing Hook, though Hook kept egging him on, thinking it would reunite him with Milah once he’d died. Rumplestiltskin told him to sail far away and left him.
Hook did not take his advice. He followed Rumplestiltskin to the magical border of town that would cause anyone to forget their memories of their fairytale lives if they crossed it and shot Belle right as she and Rumple were having their heartfelt goodbye as Rumplestiltskin planned to go find Baelfire, who was somewhere in the world without magic. Belle wasn’t seriously injured, but she fell over the line and forgot who she was. Before Rumplestilstkin could do more than hold Belle and heal her injury, a car showed up and crashed into Hook, injuring him even worse than he already was.
When Emma (who is also sheriff of Storybrooke) showed up, they brought Belle and Hook to the hospital. Rumplestiltskin demanded Emma’s help in getting Baelfire back, threatening to kill Hook if she didn’t come with him. She and Henry accompanied him to New York and found Baelfire, also known as Neal, Emma’s ex and Henry’s father. Meanwhile, Hook escaped custody and teamed up with Regina and Cora to try and find the dagger. As soon as he figured out a possible location, they proceeded to betray him. Hook sailed to New York and attacked Rumplestiltskin with dreamshade, which even more incurable in the world without magic than it is in Neverland. Emma knocked him out with an umbrella stand and ties him up in Neal’s storage unit. Outside of Storybrooke, Rumplestiltskin didn’t have the immortality granted by being the Dark One, so they rushed him home. Neal still remembered how to steer Hook’s ship, so he used it to get them back.
Neal’s fiancée, Tamara, was actually evil and working with the guy who’d crashed into Hook, Greg, to try and destroy all magic. Tamara brought Hook back with her and they showed him that not only had the others managed to heal Rumplestiltskin, he had also reunited with Belle. Hook was angry enough that he agreed to help them, after hearing their promise of a way to kill magical creatures. He helped them capture Regina, though he refused to help Greg torture her as his interest in torture that didn’t help him get his revenge was pretty much non-existent. Once he realized that Greg and Tamara’s plan would kill himself and everyone else in Storybrooke, however, he changed his mind. He’d tried revenge and found it relatively unsatisfying, and now he no longer was willing to die for it. They activated a crystal that would destroy everything magical, and Hook headed off to join the good guys.
Emma, Prince Charming, Neal, and Hook went after Greg and Tamara to try and get a magic bean while Regina tried to forestall certain doom with magic, even knowing that it would kill her, but also knowing it would give everyone else a chance to get away. They succeeded, but the cost was high. Neal fell through a portal after getting shot, and things didn’t look good for him. Greg and Tamara got away. Then, Snow White had the idea of throwing the magical crystal into the portal instead of sailing into it, which would save Regina’s life. Potentially. It could also mean they all die instead. Hook didn’t like the risk and snagged the bean. Emma asked if he really wanted to be alone when he could instead be a part of something and have friends. He gave her back the pouch, but he’d already slipped the bean out. When he asked her why she really wanted to save Regina, she told him Henry had already lost one parent and didn’t want him to lose another. That told Hook that Baelfire was dead, a fact which noticeably shook him. He took off with his bean, but he couldn’t bring himself to throw it. The combination of Emma’s words about being a part of something and the memory of how he’d almost had something with Baelfire were too much. He didn’t want to be a villain. He wanted to be part of the good guy family. He sailed back to try and help.
Emma and Regina had already used their magic to shut down the crystal, but they still needed help. Tamara and Greg had captured Henry and taken him to Neverland. Hook offered his ship and services and told Rumplestiltskin he was done trying to kill him. He tossed the bean into the water and they sailed off to Neverland.
They were met with stormy waters and mermaids and barely made it to shore alive, though they did make it. Their troubles were just beginning. It turned out Peter Pan was quietly pulling the strings on Greg and Tamara and his entire goal was to get Henry and steal Henry’s heart, as Henry was the Truest Believer. Rumplestiltskin left the group quickly, thinking he’d make more progress on his own, but neither side made much progress initially. Instead, Charming got himself poisoned by dreamshade. Hook was the only one who noticed, since he was so familiar with how it worked. Charming wouldn’t let him tell the others, but Hook tricked him into following him on a supposed side-mission to find a possible way out while the others worked on getting a message to Henry. Pan snuck up on him and tried to get Hook to betray his friends, but Hook ignored him and saved Charming’s life. The same catch remained, however. Charming would be stuck in Neverland if he wanted to stay alive. It was a price Charming was willing to pay to save his family. When they returned, Charming told a story about Hook saving his life. The details were made-up, but the fact that Hook had saved him wasn’t. Emma thanked him with a passionate kiss.
Pan was disappointed. To try and push Hook into not doing the right thing, he told Hook that Neal was still alive. He was testing Hook. Since Neal was a romantic rival for Emma’s affections, it would be better for Hook to not tell her, but it would leave Neal rotting away in Pan’s cage. Hook chose his friend. At this point, Regina left to find Rumplestiltskin because she had no interest in a side-mission to save someone who wasn’t Henry who Pan may have been lying about and certainly was planning to trap them with.
It was a trap, though not one so simple as to actually endanger their lives. Instead it forced them to reveal secrets. Hook told Emma that he’d started to develop feelings for her for the first time since Milah. Snow White, Charming, and Emma finally revealed their secrets and freed Neal. Hook saw them share a moment that looked romantic and got jealous. Later, he told Neal about the kiss, assuming Emma had already told him. They proceeded to act petty and bicker and endanger the mission until Emma finally told them to stop that shit. Despite their immaturity, Emma managed to capture Pan’s shadow so they would have a way home. The team met up with Tinker Bell and they managed to rescue Henry… but a little too late. Pan already had stolen his heart. Regina, Emma, and Snow get the heart back, but Pan’s still alive. He follows them to Hook’s ship and switches bodies with Henry. They all sail back to Storybrooke, Henry trapped in Pandora’s box in Pan’s body.
Emma’s the first to realize something’s up, but it isn’t until Pan frees his shadow that they release Pan’s body from the box and figure out that it’s Henry. Hook, Neal, Tinker Bell, and Charming team up to fight the shadow. Meanwhile, Pan sets off a deadly curse. Rumplestiltskin manages to kill his father and himself and they both vanish. Regina can undo the curse, but at the cost of never seeing Henry again. Because Emma’s the savior, she can take Henry and evade the curse, but everyone else will be sent back to the Enchanted Forest, all traces of magic wiped away. Hook tells Emma he’ll think of her every day, which Emma appreciates, though she can’t share the sentiment, as she and Henry will lose their memories. They drive off, and Storybrooke vanishes.
Back in the Enchanted Forest, Hook quickly takes leave of the others and goes to find his ship. He likes them well enough, but Emma’s the real reason he’s stuck around, and she’s gone. He tries to go back to being a pirate, but he can't find his ship, and he can't find the joy in it that he used to have. Ariel finds him since she believes Eric, her love, is being held on the ship, and they work together to find it, but when it comes down to it, he chooses his ship over helping Ariel.
But even with his ship returned to him, he isn't happy. He misses Emma too much, and his pirating days are over, even if it's hard for him to accept it. When he receives a mysterious message that Emma’s family is in danger, he trades the ship for a magical bean and tracks Emma down. One failed true love's kiss and a lot of badgering later, she drinks the magical memory potion that came with the message and remembers him. She tries to break up with her almost-fiance, but he turns into a flying monkey. She fights him off, then she and Henry accompany Hook back to Storybrooke.
Unfortunately, no one can actually remember what happened in the Enchanted Forest. The fact that Mary Margaret is very pregnant tips them off that a lot of time passed, but why they are back or what terrible danger Hook was warned about are all mysteries. And people are being kidnapped and turning into flying monkeys. This leads them to conclude that the Wicked Witch of the West is behind the attacks. Further investigation points out Gold as her prisoner, despite Gold being very much dead last time they saw him. Gold has, however, escaped, and they don't know where he's going.
At Emma's urging, Hook stays with Belle to protect her in case Gold shows up again and is... less than in his right mind. Gold doesn't show up. Instead, Neal, who has been missing, bursts through the door and collapses. They bring him to a hospital, and Hook and Neal hug it out and talk through their differences. Then Hook lets Neal go, since he understands Neal's need to find and protect his family even though it would probably be better for Neal to sit in the hospital and recover. It turns out that Neal and Gold are magically sharing one body, and in order to save them, Emma is forced to separate them, which kills Neal. When Hook finds out, he is devastated.
In order to deal with his own feelings on Neal passing, and to teach Henry about the father he has forgotten, Hook spends the day with Henry out on the docks. The two of them bond. Hook tells Emma that Henry deserves to know the truth, but she will have none of it.
Then, Ariel shows up out of the blue trying to find Eric again. Hook believes Eric to be dead, and that it is his fault for choosing to slay Blackbeard and keep his ship rather than help Ariel, but he tries to help her anyway. They find Eric's cloak, and use a tracking spell to try and find the owner, but it sinks to the bottom of the ocean, insinuating that he is dead. Hook confesses, and swears on his love, Emma Swan, that he believes in love and regrets what he's done. But it turns out the woman in front of him is actually Zelena, the wicked witch herself. Ariel is fine, it turns out, and reunited with Eric after all. Zelena uses his vow to curse his lips so that if he kisses Emma, her powers will be stolen away. She threatens to harm Henry if he tells anyone about this curse.
Hook tries to distance himself from Emma, who is suddenly more interested in him than ever, flirting and showing off her magic powers. He still tries to help the group, but he doesn't let himself get closer than that. Zelena kidnaps him to yell at him for not kissing Emma and threatens Henry again. Hook tries to send Henry away on a boat without telling Emma in hopes that it will keep the boy safe, but they are accosted by flying monkeys. Hook fights them off as best he can, but it isn't until Emma shows up that they kill the last one. Using the book, Henry regains his memories, and Regina gives Henry True Love's Kiss, restoring the memories of the entire town. Hook confesses to both the cursed lips and to what he was trying to do with Henry, and Emma tells him off for lying and keeping secrets. Mary Margaret and David also accuse him of lying about the note he received, but Hook truly doesn't know who else could have sent it.
Despite Emma's anger at Hook, David convinces her to let him come along when she goes after Zelena. He can, at the very least, prove useful as cannon fodder. He does prove very useful in that respect. Gold sends Hook flying into a well of water and holds him there with magic until he dies. Emma is forced to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or let Hook die. Unfortunately, that's close enough to a kiss that it drains away her powers, leaving the hospital without protection and letting Zelena steal David and Mary Margaret's new baby. It also leaves the Savior without her light magic, but it turns out that Regina has some light magic of her own. She defeats Zelena and leaves her to be locked up.
But Gold isn't done with his revenge. He sneaks into the prison and kills Zelena, making it look like suicide. Killing her sets off her last spell and creates the time travel portal she'd wanted to use the baby for. Meanwhile, Emma still wants to take Henry back to New York, even though Henry remembers his life now and wants to stay with his family. Hook follows her to try and talk sense into her, taking the fairytale book with him. Before he manages it, they see the portal and run to investigate it. Emma gets sucked in, and Hook jumps in after.
They end up in the Enchanted Forest, right before Emma's parents meet. Hook tries very hard to keep Emma from changing anything, insisting that if they want the present to stay how it is, they have to be very careful. Even if that means letting Regina kill an innocent woman. They get Emma less conspicuous clothes and... accidentally prevent Emma's parents from meeting. They find Rumplestiltskin and tell him the problem, and he agrees to help so long as they fix their mess and try not to make it worse. In order to do it, they need Hook's ship. The problem is, Hook exists in the past, and they can't exactly let him know what they're up to. Emma distracts past!Hook while present!Hook hires Snow to break into the castle and steal Charming's mother's ring, thus recreating roughly their first meeting. When past!Hook tries to take Emma back to his cabin, present!Hook decks him. Past!Hook doesn't remember any of the night due to all the rum he drank.
Then, Emma and Hook go to the ball. Rumplestiltskin changes their clothes and faces magically so they can attend the ball without being noticed or remembered. They introduce themselves as Prince Charles and Princess Leia. Hook and Emma dance together, and he remarks she's a natural at this. Then Snow breaks in, meeting Charming as intended, but when Snow escapes, she loses the ring. Also, Emma is seen trying to help her and gets captured.
Hook gets Charming, Snow, and Ruby to help him try and free Emma, but they meet her halfway as she has already escaped, and taken Marian with her. Unfortunately, Snow tries to use the distraction to face Regina, and it doesn't work out for her. They watch Snow White get executed. Emma is distraught, but thankfully, it turns out to be a trick. Snow turned into a bug to escape. The Blue Fairy turns her back, and Snow and Charming get back on track to falling in love.
Hook and Emma decide to take Marian with them since otherwise she will change the past. Luckily, she was supposed to be executed, so no one will realize anything is amiss. They return to Rumplestiltskin's castle, but he can't help them. He has a wand, but it can only be used by one who traveled through it. He traps Emma and Hook and Marian in a vault to protect the future. Luckily, Emma has an epiphany about Storybrooke being her home and how much she misses her family, and gets her magic back in time to reverse the portal and get them home. She and Hook have a talk afterwards and he reveals that he sold his ship to get the bean that took him back to this world. She sees how devoted to her he really is, and they finally share a sweet, loving kiss.
Abilities/Special Powers: Hook has no magical powers of his own. However, as a 300 year old pirate, he’s a particularly exceptional fighter and captain of his ship.
Third-Person Sample: Hook blinks as he opens the door and finds himself... in a garden. He looks behind. The building he's in is certainly not Granny's diner.
"Emma?" he says cautiously, stepping into the garden. "David? Mary-Margaret?"
No one responds. He's not sure why he expected them to, since he can't see them. But it's bloody strange, expecting to be somewhere and ending up somewhere else. It's not the first time it's happened, of course. But usually there's a portal involved, or at least more alcohol than anyone should consume in one sitting. He's not drunk. And he certainly wasn't expecting to fall through a portal again.
He keeps walking, a hand on the hilt of his sword. So far, he hadn't seen anybody, but it was really just a matter of time. And the next person he saw? He'd be willing to bet they wouldn't be friendly. They never were, in these situations.
Some movement caught his eye and he whirled around, drawing his sword.
A swan flew out of the bushes, taking flight and honking.
Hook lowered his sword, frowning. Not an enemy, then. But now any enemies that were lurking about would be drawn straight to his location.
He rolled his eyes and started walking faster. This time, he keeps his sword out.
First-Person Sample: [There's a pirate in the view screen. And he only looks mildly confused about the fact that he's being recorded. He's been in Storybrooke long enough. He understands computers. Sort of. He knows they exist, anyway.
He taps the camera with his hook.]
Hello? Does this mechanism function? Can anybody... see me?
[He grimaces, feeling kind of foolish.]
Look, I'll be honest, I bloody hate Wonderland. It's nearly as bad as Neverland. So if anyone'd like to direct me to the nearest bean, hat, or enchanted bit of dust, I'll be on my way.
[He moves to turn the camera off, then hesitates, throwing a large, insincere smile at the camera.]
And Cora? If you're somehow still alive out here? Consider any arrangements we may've had in the past over. I have better allies now. You're on your own.