Once Upon a Time season 4, episode 4, “The Apprentice,” just aired on ABC. Find out who fared worse dealing with Rumpelstiltskin and relive Hook and Emma’s date here!

Sweep, sweep, sweep: No Mickey in sight, but another Sorcerer’s Apprentice sweeps the floors surrounding his master’s enchanted secret. Many Dark Ones have attempted, in this case it is Zoso’s turn to try. The Apprentice reveals that no one who has succumbed to their inner darkness can ever break it.

That is until it arrives in Storybrooke years later and Rumple taps it open to reveal the Sorcerer’s hat.

In a different sweep of the town, Emma Swan takes a break from protecting her heart and lets a pirate have a shot. Let’s hope Hook’s shot at romance is better than his dart throwing after Emma asks him out on their first date. Agreeing to let him plan the evening (free from pillaging and plundering), Hook takes his first stop on the Tour de Romance.

All the better to hold her with: Seated in Mr. Gold’s shop, Hook strikes another deal with the leverage of the dagger’s true allegiance. His hand restored on his arm, Gold warns him that it still holds allegiance to the man Hook once was, a dark pirate with a temper. Stop two on the tour, new clothes!

Emma may be all grown up, but her parents are not missing the opportunity to give her a hard time. When Hook knocks at the door, Mary Margaret whips out the camera and coos to Neal Jr. that his sister is going on a date and looks very pretty. Hook walks in with two hands, a new jacket, and eyes that may hold the power to melt any woman (or man’s) heart.

“Scenes From an Italian Restaurant”: On their date, Emma and Hook dine at a place where a couple shares a plate of spaghetti straight out of Lady and the Tramp. Ready to top Walsh’s date, Killian holds both of Emma’s hands for the first time, but it is not enough to distract his old hand for long. When Will Scarlett tries to slip out unnoticed, he gets on Hook’s bad side after knocking over a glass of wine on Emma.

Hook’s hand becomes the focus of his attention, not Emma. She tries to capture it back all evening, but even when he has her in his arms, it is his hand that worries him. With a goodnight, Emma walks into the loft to find her parents waiting up to ask how the date went. (But not too many details for David…)

On his way back to Mr. Gold’s shop, Hook stumbles upon a drunk Will Scarlett attempting to break into the library. Instead of letting him carry on, Hook punches him out and threatens him to keep quiet. Hook is able to catch Rumpel at his car and demand his hook be returned. Use leverage once on Rumpel, shame on you. Get away with it twice, you are lucky. Use it three times, and you are forever in his debt.

Some Easter eggs for your viewing pleasure: Rumpelstiltskin has a new minion to toy with when Anna shows up at his door to get answers about Elsa’s powers. With a deal struck and a contract signed, Anna takes a vial of presumed poison to a house at the foot of the dark mountains. Instead of placing the liquid in the Apprentice’s tea, Anna dumps it over the fire.

When she returns to Rumpelstiltskin, he reveals that the liquid was not a poison, but an antidote. Anna watches as the Apprentice turns into a mouse. (GET IT?!) Back at the hut, Anna and Rumple prepare to fulfill the other end of their bargain, where Anna must find her inner darkness. She refuses to believe that she has anything dark within her, but Rumple’s taunting and threat to keep her from her sister makes her consider killing him. When Anna decides to turn away from the desire, her tears enchant his “wavy sword thing” so that he holds the power to open the Sorcerer’s box.

Anna manages to grab the dagger from Rumpel and sees the limits of the Dark One’s powers. She demands to return home, the safety of her sister, fiancé, and that the Apprentice return to his human form. Anna takes one memento with her, the box containing the hat.

The final clause: A few more Easter eggs to consider arrive in Storybrooke when Hook and Rumple set out on their first repayment mission. Mr. Gold enchants the Apprentice’s broom and it marches them straight to his doorstep. Gold opens the hat and traps the Apprentice inside, right where he will need him.

Back in Arendelle, Anna arrives home to Sven and Kristoff’s pleasure, but a heavy secret burdens her. Elsa’s powers are what drove her parents to seek a cure for them in the first place. Inside the box she holds the hat can absorb any type of magic and make the user harness them all. With a 1,000 years worth of magic in her hands, Anna’s hand in Rumpel’s past and present becomes known. But for now, what does Anna tell Elsa?

Back in Gold’s shop, Hook gains his hand back, but the bargain is not quite over. While the threat of the dagger is no longer useful, Rumple reveals a piece of technology that Hook does, somehow, know how to work: a VHS tape showing their latest venture. Positive that he can convince Emma of his intentions, Rumple is again one step ahead.

Erasing himself from the tape is one thing, but Rumple reveals that Hook’s hand was never cursed nor tied to his past. Instead it gave him an excuse to act on the dark ways that still course through his veins. Both men will prove to be ruthless victims of their pasts who will stop at nothing to protect the women they love and move on from their history. However, it seems that in order to protect Emma and Belle, Hook and Gold will be spending a lot more time together.

Stray observations:

•Will Scarlett’s time in the library led him to find a copy of Alice in Wonderland and a torn out page of the Red Queen. (Sad!)

•Regina and Henry are onto a new leg of their secret mission. Henry enacts his biological mother’s traits to go undercover and work in Rumple’s shop as a way to “get to know his father.” Truly, he is there to discover the secrets of the author of the storybook.

Watch Once Upon a Time season 4, episode 5, “Breaking Glass,” Sunday, October 26 at 8:00 p.m. ET on ABC.