Get ready, Once Upon a Time fans: Jennifer Morrison will be reprising her role as Emma Swan for what the OUAT bosses are calling “an emotional curtain call” — and EW has the exclusive first look.
At the close of season 6, Morrison exited the ABC fairy tale drama. However, her character, Emma, will return for one episode in season 7, the Hook-centric second outing aptly titled “A Pirate’s Life.” Details surrounding the hour are being kept tightly under wraps.
“We get to find out what has happened with Emma and Hook [Colin O’Donoghue] since our happy ending we showed last year,” executive producer Adam Horowitz tells EW. “We will be getting closure on her story in what we feel is a satisfying way.”
“What we’re not doing is a flashback story where we’re seeing stuff prior to, or during, the previous six seasons,” EP Edward Kitsis adds. “We’re moving forward past the end of season 6, seeing what happened with Emma and Hook, and how it relates to the events in Hyperion Heights. It’s an emotional curtain call.
As he waited, his thoughts drifted back to that
afternoon in this very field. That day had been the first time that Emma had
kissed him, her lips soft and sweet against his own. It had been a chaste
thing, but special. It had made him feel special, special enough that he
forsook all propriety and the vows he made to the kingdom just so he could kiss
her again, and to never stop kissing her.
If things went according to plan, he would have that chance for the rest of his
life.
No, his beautiful yet prickly partner-in-crime insists that he make an amendment to that statement, for sake of clarification for the record past, present, and future: he’s pretending to be a psychic.
And as an amendment to that statement: it’s not really pretending if you grew up overly observant thanks to your older brother’s way of teaching you to be a cop like him, right? It’s practically the real deal.
Okay, to amend yet again: technically, he’s just really smart (and remarkably good looking).
Logistics aside – Or is itsemantics? I’ve heard it both ways – he’s a psychic. To the Santa Barbara Police Department at least.
With the help of his partner Emma Swan (or as he once called her while questioning a mother whose son went missing, Cocoa n’Cinnamon), they run a business called Psychwherein they use their kick-butt detective skills to take down Santa Barbara’s worst and most dangerous criminals. (C’mon son!)
Although, despite his dashingly good looks and impeccable comedic timing, she hasn’t fallen for him yet. He might just have to get serious for the first time in a long time in order to win her over…
It All Starts With a Dance 