During the Season 4 finale of “Once Upon a Time,” Emma has transitioned to the dark side. Season 5 of the show will pick up where the show left off and during the teaser of the TV series shown during the D23 Expo held in Anaheim, California, it featured the attempt of Hook to summon a newly-turned Emma with the Dark One’s dagger.
The TV show had a panel at the D23 Expo which they called “Once Upon a Time: An Evening with Snow White & the Evil Queen” featuring Snow White, played by Ginnifer Goodwin, and the Evil Queen, played by Lana Parrilla.
The dagger’s rules state that Captain Hook can summon the Dark One in any corner of the world, but his attempt proves unsuccessful, which means that Emma was not in their world in Storybrooke.
It could be recalled that Emma tasked her parents Snow and Charming, played by Josh Dallas, with taking the darkness out of her even as Hook begged her to not to go through with it. But Emma went with it just the same and she was pulled into a vortex and was taken away somewhere.
The teaser actually showed Regina, Robin, Hook, Henry, Snow, and Charming reflecting on Emma’s disappearance. And interestingly, Regina gets sassy by calling Hook as ‘Guyliner.’
It was actually Regina who saw the problem right away. Because it was Emma’s effort to save her that she turned into the dark side, Regina will obviously play a crucial role in the upcoming season to bring Emma back.
This is basically their last ditch attempt to get their LGBT audience to keep watching after years of queerbaiting, and no one is interested in their token.