Once Upon A Fan

We've seen Once Upon a Time travel to many lands, both magical and real world, but this Sunday the ABC fairy tale drama will venture somewhere it's never gone before: Into Emma's past!

This week's Once will travel back to when Emma (Jennifer Morrison) was vulnerable and wide-eyed, attempting to make it on her own as an adult for the first time. "You really get to see the difference of where she was at 10 years ago as opposed to now," Morrison tells TVGuide.com, explaining that at 18, though damaged, Emma still had hope that life could change after being raised in the foster care system. "By the time we meet her on her 28th birthday in the pilot of Once, she doesn't really have as much hope that things can change. She's a little more resigned to the fact that life is always going to be hard and lonely. This show is her journey of rediscovering some of that hope, I think."

Having lived most of her life on her own, Emma feels invincible at that age, making her way as a common thief to survive. "She feels like she survived so much already by 18," Morrison says. "You get to see the difference between someone at 18 under those circumstances and then 28 when, at that point, she's spent time in prison, she's had a child she didn't expect. Life has hit her on a whole other level in those next 10 years."

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