You're listening to Once, episode 281, Murder Most Fowl, initial reactions.

Music Welcome back to another episode of Once, the unofficial podcast for ABC's TV show Once Upon a time.

I'm Daniel J. Lewis.

I'm Aaron. And we have just watched this fantastic episode, Murder Most Fowl. Of course, this greatness was an esponzoad, as we call it.

It was written by Jane Espinson and Jerome Schwartz. About halfway through, I thought,

this has got to be an espinssohn, and I looked it up.

Sure enough, it was. Jane Espinsohn writes some of the best episodes, I think.

She does, and I really felt like this episode was very true to the once upon a time we sort of

knew back in the day, and it followed a lot of those same principles and tied up a lot of storylines or at least

one major one that I was wondering about.

Yeah.

So.

Which is what happened to Spencer.

Yeah.

And other things, we got little loose ends tied up.

Some of them, I think, that we'd forgotten about or never really had quite the answer.

Like, we haven't seen Spencer since season two.

He was put into that hospital prison cell, basically.

And in season two, when he killed Gus, you remember that horrible thing, trying to blame it on Ruby,

and he also burned Jefferson's hat.

We haven't seen him since then, and clearly he's aged a little bit, so Alan Dale, hope

you're in good health.

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