Charming helps a trapped Rapunzel conquer her fear and returns her to her family.
Charming has nightmares about failing as a father. The Witch plays on those fears with a magical root that has Charming in a sword fight with himself. When he admits his fear, he destroys it but his broken sword disappears in a mist of green. Regina tells him the sword held his courage and the witch took it.
Emma, Hook, Charming, and Regina find the witch's farmhouse but it's empty. When they enter the storm cellar to find an empty cage with a spinning wheel and spun gold, they realize that Rumpelstiltskin must be alive.