Granny

"So your Granny's kind of intense..."

- Snow White

Widow Lucas, better known as Granny, is a supporting character on Once Upon a Time. The courageous and determined grandmother of Red Riding Hood, Granny was well aware of the power of the vicious, bloodthirsty wolves that tormented her village for generations... and also that her granddaughter was one of those wolves, a secret she kept from Red. Following the enactment of the Dark Curse, Granny became trapped in Storybrooke as the owner of a bed and breakfast and a diner.

Before the Curse
" If this wolf is like that one, there is no defeating it! It's already won just by existing in our world. Don't kill it... just hide."

After being let go by the Huntsman, Snow White finds herself taking shelter in Widow Lucas' chicken shed. Red discovers her there and invites her to come back to Granny's with her. While stopping at the well, Snow uncovers the site of a massacre. Red reveals that it is wolfstime, a time of the month when the moon is full and the wolf hunts. At a town meeting, Granny shows the villagers the scars of her first encounter with a similar wolf 60 years before. She warns the crowd that the wolf is truly evil and that the only thing people can do is hide until wolfstime is over. While chatting about Peter, Red's love, Snow learns that Red feels trapped like a rat in a cage. Granny has always been overprotective and Red feels Granny disapproves of Peter. Seeking to prove herself, Red comes up with a plan to kill the wolf while it slumbers in the daylight. Red and Snow track the beast but are shocked to find that the wolf's prints take a human form and lead back towards Granny's house... and specifically Red's window. Red and Snow become convinced that the wolf is Peter and Red tells him what she has found. Peter begs her to tie him up in chains in order to protect everyone from his murderous hunger. Red does as he asks and promises to stay with him through the night until wolfstime is over. Back at Granny's, Snow is pretending to be asleep with Red's cloak around her in order to fool Granny. Granny discovers the truths and tells Snow that Peter is not the wolf, but Red is. Snow learns that Red's cloak was designed by a wizard and helps to stop Red from turning into the wolf. Red has no memory of being the wolf and Granny has kept it from her all these years. They race to rescue Peter, but are too late to save him. Granny shoots the wolf with a silver tipped arrow and Red transforms back into human form. As the realization of what she has done sinks in, Red is left devastated, and a hunting party descends on them. Granny orders Red and Snow to leave quickly.

After Charming is imprisoned by the loathsome King George, Snow White and her troupe set out to rescue him, including Red, Granny, and the seven dwarfs. Red is sent to check out the perimeter and find the whereabouts and condition of the prince, and comes back - with the blood of someone on her chin - to report that even though the prince is still alive, she heard word that the Queen is also there. Snow realizes that Regina knew she'd come for the prince, and that it's a trap, but it doesn't matter at this point, she needs to go to him. She tells her friends that she'll understand if they want to give up, but they all reject this. They all get set, and Red questions why the Queen is doing this. Snow explains that she destroyed Regina's happiness, and now she wants to destroy hers. Snow finally makes it to the castle, with the help of her friends, but once she gets to the dungeons she learns that Charming isn't really there, but merely an enchanted mirror showing his reflection. Regina asks to meet with Snow at the stables, and she obliges. There, Regina tells her the truth about Daniel, the stable boy, and hands her a poisoned apple to bite on willingly. When she does, she will fall under a sleeping curse, and her prince will live. Snow does just this, and Granny and the others are horrified to discover her lifeless body, knowing that their friend sacrificed herself for the prince, and for all of them.

After the good guys take down King George and take over his kingdom, the Evil Queen is finally captured, and her powers temporarily taken from her. The royal council meets to discuss what to do with her, and Jiminy Cricket says that he believes the Queen may never change, and thus they need to suspense justice. The attendants throw suggestions around, and when Granny suggests that they banish her to another realm, Jiminy replies that it would be unconscionable to condemn another realm to the same pain they've endured, and Red agrees with him, saying that the Queen is their problem and they must deal with her themselves. Charming decides that the Queen must be executed, and excuses the council. Later, Granny attends the Queen's execution with her granddaughter, but Snow White prevents it from actually happening, much to everyone's surprise.

Once the good guys are able to overtake King George, Prince Charming and Snow White occupy his castle and get married, a wedding that Red attends. However, the Evil Queen shows up and announces to everyone that she will destroy their happy endings. The royal council meets, which includes Red and Granny, among many others, to come up with a plan. The Blue Fairy tells them of the enchanted tree that can be used to protect the savior from the curse if fashioned into a vessel, but warns them that only one person can go in it, although this turns out to be a lie hidden by her and Geppetto. Eventually, the curse hits, and the residents of the fairytale land are sent to Storybrooke, Maine. Granny is cursed as the owner of the local diner and run down bed and breakfast. ("Pilot"/"The Stranger")

Early Life
"When I put 'over-easy' on the menu, I was talking about the eggs!"

After the Dark Curse hits, Widow Lucas becomes trapped in the town of Storybrooke, Maine with the identity of Ruby's Granny, who works at Granny's Diner. On the very first day of the curse, Mayor Regina Mills, otherwise known as the Evil Queen, strolls through town to see Granny and Ruby arguing outside the diner, the latter moaning due to the fact that she has to work the early shift and doesn't want to. Regina smiles as she sees this, regarding this as Red's unhappy ending. The next day, she walks by and sees the same, Ruby and Granny arguing about shifts, and the next day, the same again. Eventually, Regina grows board of this repetition, and the many others. When Regina comes into the diner, she is served by Granny. After hearing the mayor and some newcomers, Kurt and Owen, talking about how they need a place to stay, Granny reveals that she owns a Bed and Breakfast.

After Regina adopts a baby boy, she finds herself having an excruciatingly hard time calming her child down. During one of Henry's incessant crying sessions over at Granny's Diner, Granny, seeing the baby for the first time, asks the Mayor who the "bundle of joy" is. Interpreting this as sarcasm, the former Queen lashes out at Granny, asking her if she has a problem with his crying. The elderly lady denies this, and Regina continues trying to calm the baby down, to no avail. Granny, who won't leave them alone right away, suggests to the new mother that she tell the child a bedtime story, saying it soothes babies, gets them used to the mother's voice. Granny even states that it used to work with Ruby... whose "problems" started later. Regina tries this, but the only result she gets is spit-up on her shoulder.

Season 1
"You're a tough act to follow."

- Ruby

Shortly after arriving into Storybrooke, Emma Swan, the savior, makes her way to a local resting place, Granny's Bed & Breakfast. When she enters, she overhears Granny herself arguing with her granddaughter, Ruby, about how she was out some night and is now going out again. Ruby tells her grandmother that she should had moved to Boston, and Granny ironically apologizes over her heart attack interfering with her plans to sleep her way through the Eastern seaboard. Ruby is the counterpart of Red Riding Hood, and Granny is Red's grandmother. Emma calls out for their attention, and says she'd like a room. Both women are surprised, and Granny asks Emma what view she'd like. Granny then asks what her name is, and she tells her it's Emma Swan. A male voice behind her then repeats the name "Emma"... she turns around to find the man - the counterpart of Rumplestiltskin. He tells her Emma is a lovely name. She thanks him. Granny then hands him a wad of cash, telling him 'it's all here'. He takes it, thanking her, and then says "Enjoy your stay... Emma." He then leaves. Emma asks who that was, and Ruby says, behind her, that it was Mr. Gold, who 'owns this place'. Emma asks if she means the inn, and Granny tells her he owns the town.

The first morning after the tower clock starts working again and time unfreezes, Granny heads to her diner, bringing with her the bread of the day, as her granddaughter Ruby puts up the sign. Ruby smiles at her grandma, but then looks disgruntled once she's walked by. Later, inside Granny's bed and breakfast, Emma uses her key to open the door to her room, but before she can come inside she is stopped by a voice calling for her. It's Granny herself, who tells the blonde that what she is about to say is terribly awkward, but she needs to ask Emma to leave. Emma is confused, and Granny says that they have a no-felons rule, a city ordinance. Emma smiles and guesses that the Mayor's office called to remind Granny of this. Granny's reaction seems to be a dead giveaway of this, and the elderly woman tells her tenant that she can gather her things, but Granny needs to take her room key back. Emma gives it to her nonchalantly.

A short while after Emma saves Mayor Mills from a fire in her house, a crowd is gathered outside. As Emma talks with Ruby, Granny, Archie and Mary Margaret, Henry asks a fireman if Emma really saved Regina's life. Nearby, Regina is sat on a gurney breathing into an oxygen mask, feeling fine, she takes it off. Sidney approaches her and takes a picture of her for the news, however this angers Regina as it means he is basically throwing the election to Emma, making her seem like a hero. Over in the group that Emma is talking to, Mary Margaret asks if Emma really saved Regina. Henry runs up to them saying she did, announcing that the fireman told him. Ruby calls Emma a hero and then Mary Margaret says they should find out if there is a picture of the rescue. Granny suggests making campaign posters, something Archie thinks is a great idea. They all then run off to discuss their plans, leaving Henry and Emma. After a debate in which Emma runs for the position of sheriff against Sidney Glass, Granny and a large crowd of other people head over to the diner to celebrate the former's victory.

Emma Swan meets with her friend and roommate, Mary Margaret Blanchard, at Granny's Diner one morning, to question her about how Henry, her biological son, has been doing ever since his foster mother, Mayor Mills, forbade Emma from seeing him. Mary Margaret explains that he misses her, and she should know, for she spends six hours with him everyday. Upon overhearing this, Ashley Boyd jokingly asks if she also takes newborns, because she would love to get six hours of rest per day. Ashley hands her baby, Alexandra, to Granny, who looks after her for a little while, and sits down with her friends, venting to them about the stresses of being a young mother and about how Sean is always working at the cannery so they haven't even had the time to get married yet.

Outside Granny's Diner, August pulls up on the side of the road on his motorcycle and waits there. Emma, who is being observed by Granny and Ruby, asks if he is going to come inside for the drink he wanted. He tells her he does want the drink, but he didn't say at Granny's. He tells Emma to "hop on" She asks if he wants her to get on the bike, so he mockingly tells her that is what "hop on" means. Emma suggests going somewhere that she can drive, so August suggests Emma stop controlling everything and take a leap of faith. Emma rolls her eyes. August states she owes him a drink so tells him to hop on. He tells her he knows a good watering hole. Emma seems reluctant, so Granny, who is watching from afar, jokingly tells Emma if she doesn't go she can take her place. August gets a helmet ready and Emma finally agrees to get on the bike. She sits down, wrapping her arms around August and the two drive away, with Granny smiling at them both. Later on, whilst walking down the street, Granny bumps into Mary Margaret, and having heard of her affair with David Nolan, she tells the teacher that she should be ashamed of herself. This comment deeply hurts her.

When Miner's Day arrives in Storybrooke, Mary Margaret Blanchard decides to look for volunteers to help sell candles at the festival that night. She heads over to Granny's Diner to find volunteers, but nobody accepts the offer because of the affair she had with David Nolan. Later on, during the celebration, none of the candles appear to be getting sold as the store is being run by Mary Margaret, the town whore, and Leroy, the town criminal. In an attempt to sell candles, Leroy breaks the electricity in the surrounding area, causing a large amount of people to buy the candles and bringing everyone together. As they all light their candles, Granny helps light Mary Margaret's, suggesting that she has forgiven her, despite what she has done to hurt people.

At Granny's Diner, Ruby is flirting with August; she tells him about how she has never been outside of Storybrooke, as Granny calls her name persistently. After constant ignoring by Ruby, Granny shouts at Ruby and tells her to stop flirting. Finally, Ruby goes to meet Granny at the counter and the elderly lady tells her that she wants her to start working nights. Ruby immediately refuses and a fight escalates between the two, eventually leading to Ruby quitting her job at the diner. Mary Margaret offers her a place to stay, and Henry looks up jobs for her online at the sheriff's station. Ruby answers the non-emergency line at the station, which Emma overhears. Impressed, Emma offers Ruby a job at the station, which she accepts. Ruby then leaves to get lunch for Emma. Later, Ruby enters the diner and boasts of her new job to Granny, who is unfazed by the revelation. Ruby returns to the station and accompanies Emma and Mary Margaret to the woods, helping to find David Nolan. Searching through the woods, Ruby hears David, though Emma does not. Ruby takes off into the woods. Emma finds her standing over a bleeding and unconscious David. They manage to wake him up; however, he has a mild case of amnesia. As Emma takes David to the hospital, she asks Ruby to go to the Toll Bridge, to see if there is anything of importance there. There, she finds a small jewelry box. Ruby opens the box, and is horrified by its contents: a human heart. Later on, Granny tells Ruby that she was giving her a hard time because she wants Ruby to someday own the diner. Ruby is ecstatic and takes her old job back, having had enough of excitement.

After Ruby finds Kathryn Nolan alive, her friend Mary Margaret is acquitted from the ongoing accusations against her, and thus the townspeople throw her a "welcome home" party to commemorate her innocence, and Ruby is in attendance, along with Billy and Granny, and many others. Mary Margaret wonders why all these people came to welcome her home, to which Emma comments that she has a lot of friends... and the teacher is forced to reply that it didn't seem that way the day before. When Henry gives her a card from his entire class, Ruby smiles.

One night, Regina is has a terrifying nightmare in which the people of Storybrooke become aware of their past selves and seek vengeance against her. Ruby is a part of the dream, and ties her to an apple tree in the middle of the road, out on the town, along with Archie. Regina begs to be let go, to which Ruby replies that they won't, not after what she's done to them. Eventually, Ruby and the others watch as Emma proceeds to behead Regina. The mayor and former queen awakens from her horrid dream, shaken.

When the Dark Curse is finally lifted by Emma Swan's kiss of true love, planted on her beloved and presumably deceased biological son, Henry Mills - who had fallen victim to a sleeping curse, waves of magic spread through Storybrooke, Maine, and its residents, hit by them, are finally able to remember their true identities and past. Ruby and her grandmother are seen walking in front of the diner when they are hit by said waves, and are able to remember their pasts as Red Riding Hood and Widow Lucas, at last.

Season 2
"I know, no one would believe you if you told them my lasagna was frozen."

After the curse is broken and everyone is reuniting with one another, Granny shares a reunion with Red, Snow and Charming, delighted to remember her past. Snow is addressed as “Your highness”, and she is excited to see before her very eyes the seven dwarves, reunited, and taking a bow. They all exchange in a group hug. When they break it off, Grumpy asks if the curse has been broken, and Charming replies that it appears so. Charming and Grumpy then shake hands while Red asks what they do now. Grumpy asks why they’re still in Storybrooke, Charming tells him that that’s an excellent question. All the dwarves begin to ask questions about the curse and purple smoke until they’re interrupted by one short answer: “Magic”. The line comes from the Blue Fairy, who joins them, and says that magic is there as she can feel it. The group go to find Rumplestiltskin, the man responsible for the return of magic, but on their way, Jiminy approaches them and asks them to stop an angry mom from killing Regina.

The town is in despair after the wraith attacks and turn to Prince Charming for help. As he's being swarmed by citizens with questions and worries one morning, he tells them all to wait two hours and he will meet them at the town hall where he will reveal his plan to fix everything. Later, the meeting commences, and many of the citizens of Storybrooke, including Granny, are in attendance. The old woman is wielding a crossbow and her granddaughter, Ruby, asks her if it's really needed. Granny reminds her that they're living in a lawless town with magic, so yes, she does need it. Charming is absent from the meeting but Regina shows up, now with her powers back. She pushes people out of the way with magic and Granny fires an arrow at her from her crossbow, however, Regina catches it in one hand and sets it on fire, throwing it back into the crowd where it rebounds and sets the town crest behind her alight. The town becomes deep with worry after this and attempt to leave, however, Charming heads them off at the town line, giving a speech, where he mentions that they should re-open Granny's Diner, as well as the schools and other establishments, that convinces them all to stay.

The dwarves and Charming celebrate at Granny's Diner after they discover fairy dust in the town mines which may aid in getting Emma and Mary Margaret home. As this goes on, David goes into the back room where he sees Granny constructing a cage for Ruby, who is set to transform that night as it is the first wolfs' time since the curse broke, and thanks to Regina, Ruby hasn't turned in 28 years, meaning that she can no longer control her wolf-self. The next morning, Granny returns to her diner where she discovers that Ruby has escaped during the night, she worriedly begins searching for her granddaughter and she and David find her in the woods. On their way back, they discover the truck of Billy, the town's local mechanic, and find half of Billy's corpse by the side of it, his legs being in a skip. Ruby is devastated as she believes herself to be the culprit. David locks her up in the sheriff's office, however, when Spencer and his mob discover her whereabouts, Granny and David take Red to Belle at the town library. As Belle chains Ruby up, Granny and David go looking for answers and discover Ruby's red cloak and an axe that was used to kill Billy in Spencer's car, proving that he framed Ruby in order to make Charming look like a weak leader. The two of them hear a wolf's howl and realize that Ruby got out, they then drive to find the mob lead by Spencer, who has a gun aimed at Ruby's wolf self. Granny fires an arrow at a petrol tank, causing it to explode and for Spencer to lose his concentration, as David talks to Ruby. He helps her gain control of her wolf self before returning her to her human form via her red cloak. She thanks him but Spencer gets away, and Granny tells David to go and find him, Ruby follows.

At Granny's Diner, the chef in the kitchen gives two burgers with a side of fries to Granny as music plays around the busy diner. She takes the food over to a table, where Rumplestiltskin and Belle are sat, enjoying a nice chat. As she puts them on the table, Belle tells her they smell delicious, Granny says that are delicious. With an attitude, she looks at Rumple and adds it didn't take any dark magic either. She leans towards him and says she charges extra for the pickles, Rumple awkwardly acknowledges this. After Granny walks away, Rumple explains he has a complicated relationship with her, as he does with most people. Belle assures Rumple that it'll take people a while to get to know him, like it did for her.

After Emma and Mary Margaret return home from the Enchanted Forest, a party is held in their honor at Granny's Diner, to celebrate their homecoming. Granny is in attendance and the party honorees are greeted happily. Emma states that it will be nice to eat food that she doesn't have to kill first, and Granny agrees, saying that meatloaf back in their land is a bitch. As the party commences, David makes a toast, telling the guests that he and Mary Margaret have a saying: that they will always find each other. And though he believes that with all his heart, he raises his glass to not having to look for a while, as do the guests. Granny and the other attendants are shocked when Regina then walks in with her lasagna, and even more shocked to learn that Emma invited her. The party continues to run into the evening.

Granny and Ruby attend the funeral of Dr. Archibald "Archie" Hopper, who has allegedly been murdered by Regina. The residents of Storybrooke who knew and loved him as either Archie or Jiminy gather together to pay him their final respects, whilst Mary Margaret delivers a lovely eulogy dedicated to the deceased. During the wake, which is hosted at the Charmings' apartment, Grumpy speaks up on behalf of all the dwarfs, claiming that they'd all like to go back home, to the fairytale land they left behind. Emma and Mary Margaret try to explain to him that the land has changed and is dangerous, and that they fought long and hard to get back to their town, but Grumpy points out that, other than the fact that Regina killed Archie and therefore the town isn't very safe, they're a bit homesick. He also adds that, should an outsider come to town and face the sight of fairytale characters, they could get in trouble. Ruby, who is standing near Granny, sides with them, adding that if people were to witness a girl who could transform into a wolf, they might not be welcoming, like the people back in their land weren't.

Mary Margaret and David are taken to Hook's ship where they discover a sleeping giant, Anton, within a cage. Snow sets him free but upon seeing David, he becomes rather murderous. Hook reports this to Regina who sees it as a perfect distraction and proceeds to give Anton a magic mushroom that will grow him to his former size. He eats it and becomes giant once more, before rampaging through Storybrooke in hopes of killing the prince. As David, Mary Margaret and Leroy run away from him, they realize that they'll soon cross the town line, and so David offers himself as a sacrifice to the giant. Anton contemplates this before taking the deal, he then jumps towards David but instead makes a hole in the ground. At this point, the mushroom wears off and Anton is left hanging from a sewer pipe in a hole. David rallies up the entire town to help save Anton, including Granny. She, Ruby and many others grab hold of rope and help pull the giant from out of the hole. Later, at Granny's Diner, Anton reveals that he has a cutting of beanstalk that will be able to grow magic beans which can form portals to other lands, including the Enchanted Forest.

Granny is present in her diner when Mr. Gold drops by to ask advice from David, stating loudly that he didn't come for the overpraised lasagna, at which Granny lets out an evil stare. Later, Mr. Gold takes Lacey, formerly known as Belle, out on a date to the diner in which Granny, who takes her order, asks what the hell happened to her, noting her slutty clothing and asking her if she's been raiding the back of Ruby's closets. Mr. Gold ignores this and the two of them proceed to order. Later, Granny serves their food but only Mr. Gold is present, Lacey having gone to the bathroom and while earlier and never having returned. Mr. Gold investigates this and soon finds his date in the back alley of the diner making out with Keith, a guy she met at a bar.

At the local kids' park in Storybrooke, Henry is seen swinging as Granny sits close by, a cross bow in her hands. She appears to be standing guard of Henry as he swings back and forth as from afar, Mr. Gold is using magic to make the rope supporting the swing snap, which would cause Henry to go flying into the sharp rocks. However, Emma, David and Mary Margaret arrive before Gold can go through with it, and the boy goes on to live another day. It is soon learned that the curse's fail-safe has been activated and Storybrooke is on its way to destruction, and its residents to their graves. Most of the townspeople group at Granny's Diner, including the woman herself, as David and Hook bring news that they've procured a bean to take them to safety. However, Emma tells them that Regina will die holding off the self-destruct, and they decide to send that down the portal instead and save her. When there, they discover that Hook has taken the bean, but Emma and Regina use their shared magic to shut down the self-destruct and reverse its affects, saving the town.

Season 3
"Did you not read the sign? No shirt, no shoes, no service."

After the town is saved, the Jolly Roger crew go after Henry through a portal to Neverland, leaving a saddened Belle behind to protect the town. Later that week, Belle is sitting at Granny's Diner looking glum, when Granny asks what's wrong, thinking the problem is due to something being wrong with her burger. But Archie intervenes and asks if it is about Gold leaving. Ariel then enters the diner with Grumpy, and Granny comments on Ariel's attire - or lack thereof - but Leroy retorts he recalls some Ruby outfits that are seared into his brain. Ariel brings news that Rumple is alive, and also that he needs Belle's help, so she and Ariel leave the diner to make their way to Gold's shop.

Granny, and all the other members of the town, are shocked and happy to see the Jolly Roger flying towards Storybrooke, bringing with it the likes of Henry, Emma, Snow, Charming and all others who ventured out to Neverland, along with a few new arrivals. She happily reunites with all those aboard and later everyone heads to Granny's Diner in order to celebrate. However the Blue Fairy is soon murdered by the shadow, meaning Peter Pan is still at large. Soon enough, all the people of Storybrooke are  put under threat when Pan, who's grafted himself into Henry's body, steals the Dark Curse from Regina's vault, that's capable of wiping the minds of every Storybrooke resident all over again.

When the Mother Superior is revived, due to the defeat of the Shadow, a spell is cast with the Black Fairy's wand which returns Pan and Henry to their own bodies. Granny then helps find Henry, who has the curse scroll, by following his scent. However it isn't long before Pan, having apprehended Rumple, emerges and immobilizes the villagers, wanting to kill those most loved by his son. But before he can, Rumple emerges also, and stabs Pan with his Dark One dagger after being reunited with his shadow. This act brings about Rumple's death as well, and his loved ones mourn him whilst Regina explains that the price she has to pay for stopping the curse is Henry, who she can never see again. When Regina makes this sacrifice, she will be able to replace Pan's curse with one of her own, but this will return everyone to the Enchanted Forest and wipe Storybrooke from history, meaning Henry and Emma (who's able to leave because she's the savior) won't be able to remember it or its people at all. Meanwhile, Granny and everyone else is enveloped by the curse, which is made safe by Regina, and transported back home.

Before the Second Curse
"We're back."

- Snow White

When Prince Phillip and Aurora are enjoying food together in their gazebo, they are disturbed by a mass of purple smoke on the horizon. This smoke disperses Storybrooke's former townspeople across the land, and Granny is part of the group led by Snow White and Prince Charming, along with the seven dwarfs and her granddaughter, among others. They explain to the frightened couple they just interrupted what's going on. Those who have returned soon decide to begin heading to Queen Regina's old palace, for it has remained untouched by the original curse. However, when Granny arrives along with the rest of the group, everyone is surprised to learn that the castle is bound by a protection spell that wasn't cast by Regina, meaning someone powerful is currently inside.

Granny is present when another flying monkey attacks Regina and she rescues Robin Hood's son Roland from the creature, turning it into a stuffed animal with her magic. It is soon identified as being from the land of Oz, which many people are surprised to learn is real, and Regina deduces that this means they're up against the Wicked Witch of the West, who's in the Dark Palace. Regina and Robin manage to get inside and disarm the protection spell, meaning Granny and the others are able to get inside when Charming orders them to storm the castle. After a hostile confrontation with Regina, during which time she reveals herself as the Evil Queen's half-sister, the Wicked Witch vacates the palace on her flying broomstick.

Granny sits on the royal council whilst it's decided by Snow White, Prince Charming, Queen Regina, Grumpy, Belle and Robin Hood what is to be done about the threat Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, poses to Snow's unborn child. As the discussion takes place, Granny is seen to be knitting a blanket for the baby, rolling her eyes at occasional comments as she gets on with her task. Ultimately, it's discovered that the only way to defeat Zelena is with the light magic which resides within Emma Swan, and so Snow, Charming and Regina re-enact the Dark Curse to take them back to her. However, Zelena drops a forgetting potion into the mixture at the last minute, meaning no one will remember the year spent back in the Enchanted Forest.

Season 3
"Stick to the lasagna, lady."

- Regina Mills

After the new Dark Curse is cast and no one can remember the last year they spent back in the Enchanted Forest, Granny is amongst those who gathers at Storybrooke's town hall after Emma returns to the town from New York. She assures the people that she will get to the bottom of what happened to them, but Granny and the others are adamant that Regina is to blame again. The Mayor insists that this isn't true, but they advance on her and force her to cause an earthquake with her magic before she teleports away. However, this was a rouse planned by Emma to buy her more time to catch the real culprit. Granny is in her diner when Leroy rushes in to tell everyone that Regina has nearly concocted a memory potion to find out the truth, but the old woman retorts that she wouldn't drink anything given to her by the Evil Queen. This, however, was another rouse to get the true culprit to break into Regina's office. The perpetrator is nearly caught red-handed but manages to teleport away in time. When they learn that the people disappearing from town are being turned into flying monkeys, it is deduced that the real curse caster is the Wicked Witch of the West.

Emma meets Regina, Mary Margaret, David and Hook at Granny's Diner before opening hours so that they may gain some privacy to discuss the Wicked Witch, and Granny tells them to hurry up for the diner's almost open and, when it does, no one gets between Leroy and his bacon. Emma, Hook, Mary Margaret and David soon leave to talk to Belle at Gold's shop, telling her that Rumplestiltskin is alive, whilst Regina heads off to find clues regarding the Wicked Witch at her farmhouse, where she meets and bonds with Robin Hood. Ultimately, Neal Cassidy returns and dies whilst it's revealed that Zelena, Mary Margaret's midwife, is the witch.

After Baelfire's sudden death, Granny attends his funeral and watches as multiple townspeople shovel dirt into his grave, before heading to the wake that'd held in his honor at her diner. It is here that Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West, bursts in and announces herself to be Regina's half-sister, before challenging the Evil Queen to a fight that night on Main Street; Regina agrees to the terms, and that night, Granny watches as the two witches do battle. Regina is soon flung through the face of the clock tower by Zelena, who tries in vain to take her heart before flying away on her broom. Knowing that the witch already has David's courage, and now wants her heart, Regina deduces that she's gathering ingredients for something... something bad.

When David and Mary Margaret are strolling along the beach of Storybrooke with one another, discussing the fact that Henry finds them boring, they come across a large crowd gathered round someone who's washed ashore. They manage to get through all the people and discover that it's Ariel, who's been wrapped up in a coat and smiles awkwardly at her old friend, Snow White. As the Charmings begin to ask the mermaid where she's been and what she's been doing, Granny hands her a nice hot cup coffee, which Ariel happily accepts, and the old woman heads off to continue minding her diner whilst Ariel explains that she's been searching for Prince Eric, who's been missing ever since the new curse struck and brought them all back to town; she has searched every known realm looking for him but there is no trace. It's later revealed, however, that "Ariel" is Zelena in disguise and the real Ariel is living happily with her prince back in the Enchanted Forest, on an island that was outside the curse's proximity.

Granny hosts a coronation at Granny's Diner where the name of Snow and Charming's newborn son is to be announced. Leroy is seen talking with her, and he confirms that the Wicked Witch is indeed taken care of, commenting that it's a good thing because if that sleeping beauty - Aurora - was a monkey a day longer, she would have given birth to a monkey baby. Granny laughs, and Leroy comments further that he wouldn't want to be changing those diapers. Meanwhile, Emma is provoked into leaving when a comment is made by Hook, and everyone soon becomes distracted when it's realized that Zelena's time portal is open, having been activated by her pendant upon her death. Emma and Hook then accidentally fall through it, ending up in the Enchanted Forest of the past. Whilst there, they witness the Evil Queen torment a village which Granny is a part of, wanting to know the whereabouts of the bandit Snow White.

After having changed the past and put it right again, Emma and Hook manage to return to the present day and head back to Granny's Diner, where the coronation is still taking place. Granny stands witness as the royal baby's name is announced. Charming says that his son is to be named after a hero; someone who sacrificed himself for everyone in attendance, and more; someone who loved the town, and who they loved back. Snow then says it's an honor to introduce everyone to her son, Prince Neal. Granny and the others clap, knowing that Neal Cassidy gave his own life to expose the Wicked Witch of the West, and remains at the diner as the celebrations continue.

As Neal's name is announced, Ruby appears sad and heads into the back room of the diner, unable to get into the swing of the festivities that surround her. Mary Margaret soon follows and, with Granny seen working in the kitchen in the background, she points out that they just defeated the Wicked Witch and survived a time travel adventure they didn't know they were a part of, but Ruby insists that she's fine. Snow doesn't believe her and finally gets her to admit that ever since they returned to Storybrooke she hasn't felt like she fit in; at first she figured it was because of the curse, but then it was broken and the feeling didn't go away. Mary Margaret figures that it's because Ruby's the only one of her kind in this land and Granny's granddaughter thinks this might be the case, wanting to be able to find more people like herself. With Granny still in the background, Ruby explains that she's been helping Anton work on his burnt fields, back when they thought they were going to have to escape Zelena, and they weren't able to accomplish much but they were manage to grow one bean, which Ruby has with her now. Realizing her best friend wants to go back to the Enchanted Forest, Snow locks her into an embrace, telling her that she thinks she should do whatever makes her happy while assuring her that that doesn't mean she isn't going to miss her. The two of them tear up as Red assures in turn that she'll miss her more, before leaving.

The night goes on, and Granny is seen sitting down to chat with both Aurora and Mother Superior when Regina shows up with Robin, the latter is reunited with his wife Marian, who Emma and Hook brought back from the past. Regina cites Emma as being just like her mother in that she doesn't think about the consequences of her actions. The savior tries to apologize but Regina just tells her that she better hope to hell that she didn't bring anything else back. At that moment, across town, a magic urn which was also brought through the time portal opens... and a certain Ice Queen forms from the contents, proceeding to destroy her former prison and walk free amidst Storybrooke.

Season 4
"You know, if that old bag still wolfed out I would turn her into a coat for my collection."

- Cruella De Vil

Elsa, the Ice Queen, decides that no one is leaving town until she finds her sister, Anna, and so she erects an ice wall around the perimeter of Storybrooke and unintentionally cuts off all the electricity as she does so. With David and Emma off dealing with the ice threat, Granny, Grumpy and Happy head over to Mary Margaret's place in order to goad her into getting the power back on, pointing out that they helped her take back the kingdom and she cast the new curse, so Storybrooke is her kingdom now and she has to rule it. At the local power station, Snow struggles to accomplish anything and yells at her apparent royal subjects when they complain at her, causing them to storm off and leave. When baby Neal needs feeding, Mary Margaret gets the idea that the reason the power isn't turning back on is because fuel is needed, and so she follows the fuel pipe and manages to turn it on, thus restoring electricity to the town.

As Mayor, Mary Margaret decides to host her very first fireside chat in what used to be Regina's office. Granny is in attendance and becomes aggravated along with everyone else when the ice wall isn't the first item on the agenda, and even more so to learn that it surrounds the whole of Storybrooke. This causes a lot of ruckus and Leroy begins to fear the person who made it, believing Elsa to have malicious intentions; these beliefs are heightened when Marian collapses due to some sort of ice-based magic curse. Emma and David, who believe Elsa to be innocent, begin investigating who the real culprit is, whilst Grumpy riles up the townspeople, including Granny, into thinking that Elsa needs to be punished. However, it's soon proven to be the Snow Queen who's caused all this, having been posing as the local ice cream shop owner for quite some time.

With the Snow Queen having successfully cast the spell of Shattered Sight, a curse designed to make it so that everyone becomes their worst selves, the entirety of Storybrooke begins tearing each other apart. Granny and the seven dwarfs can be seen brawling with one another in the center of town, with Granny having retrieved her crossbow. The Snow Queen soon walks by, happy with what she's accomplished, and just barely avoids an arrow fired by Happy, but still she smiles. Later, however, she sacrifices herself in order to break the spell, and this falls down on Storybrooke in the form of snow. When the spell is obliterated totally, Granny and Doc are seen hugging one another, while the rest of the townspeople can be seen rejoicing in the street, joyous for their sight no longer being shattered.

After it's unveiled that Rumplestiltskin has been formulating his own evil plot to leave Storybrooke with his magical powers in tact with his dagger's control over him cleaved, Belle, his wife, uses the dagger to banish him from the town, and, six weeks later, all the residents appear to have moved on. Regina takes Henry to school, where Mary Margaret has resumed teaching; meanwhile, Emma - whose relationship with Hook has moved forward as he works alongside Belle to try and free the town's fairies from the Sorcerer's hat, which Rumple would have used to aid his empowered departure - has too resumed her career: that of sheriff. As she retrieves her sheriff's badge from the closet, she looks down and sees her brother, Prince Neal, being cradled by Granny, who's been hired to babysit as opposed to the currently occupied Belle. However, the town's newfound sense of peace is soon disrupted by a demon named Chernabog, as well as two villainesses by the names of Cruella and Ursula who help defeat said demon in exchange for safe passage into the now closed-off Storybrooke.

Ursula and Cruella are sitting at the counter of Granny's Diner awaiting drinks; however, the service is less than stellar, and it appears they're going to be waiting a long while, receiving nothing but indignant stares from Granny. Will Scarlet then comes in, cheering Granny up with his presence, and he asks for his usual. Immediately, Granny grabs two to-go cups of coffee and hands them to the lad, meaning that he's gone in mere moments. This deeply annoys Ursula and Cruella, and the latter comments that if Granny still "wolfed-out" then she would have her turned into a coat and have her added to her collection. After deciding that they're never going to get served in this place, Ursula and Cruella decide to leave and, that night, they go on to resurrect Maleficent and the full force of the Queens of Darkness is free in Storybrooke.

Mr. Gold and Isaac - also known as the Author, capable of manipulating people's stories - are sitting in Granny's Diner and discussing their plans; the latter asks what the food in front of him is, and Rumple tells him that it's a bagel, which doesn't impress Isaac. Granny remains in the background, behind the counter, as all of this takes place, and Hook soon barges in so that he can announce to the Dark One that Emma didn't turn dark as he planned. This comes as dismay to the two villains because without the blood of a dark savior, no new stories can be written because the ink can't be enchanted. They decide to find a new way to rewriting everything, starting with Gold teleporting him back to his shop.

After Isaac finds the ink he needs to write a new story for everyone, the residents of Storybrooke are transported inside his book, where the tables are entirely turned on heroes and villains alike. Granny is a part of the dark council, serving alongside the seven dwarfs under the Evil Queen Snow White's reign. They're tasked with killing the bandit Regina and the boy she's with, but when they return to the Dark Palace empty-handed, Snow is bitterly disappointed. Grumpy assures that they would have succeeded were it not for Blue and her trail her dark fairy dust paralyzing their axes, but Granny chimes in and suggests that the dwarf start taking responsibility for his actions once in a while as opposed to always blaming the fairies for his mistakes. He threatens her in return, and Snow demands that the argument ceases, going on to say that their failure amounts to her failure because she's failed to lead them properly. As Queen, it is her job to motivate her subjects. As such, she rips Doc's heart out and crushes it to dust, again telling her council to find Regina and the boy and kill them before leaving. However, Henry becomes the new Author and is able to write everyone back home to Storybrooke. A celebration is held in Granny's Diner to commemorate everybody's safe return.

Season 5
"You... brought Granny's?"

- Emma Swan

With Emma having become the new Dark One and vanished to the Enchanted Forest, Regina tricks her sister Zelena into using the Apprentice's wand to summon a portal that will help them find her. The portal hits Storybrooke in the form of a cyclone, and everybody files into Granny's Diner to be taken away to where Emma is. Granny herself is ordering people about and loading fragile objects into boxes before the entirety of the diner is whisked away to the Enchanted Forest. Emma's about to succumb to the darkness and kill the warrior princess Merida, but her loved ones are able to stop her and bring her back to Granny's in the woods. She is surprised to see it there, along with Granny herself - who says that the backup generator's working but the fryers are shot - and then Leroy, but the surprise is cut short when King Arthur and his knights arrive to whisk everyone away to Camelot, having known of their arrival thanks to a prophecy made by the wizard Merlin.

Before the Third Curse
"I like any party I don't have to cater."

Granny and the others are welcomed into Camelot by King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, who soon reveal that, due to their guests' arrival being prophesied, enough time was had to prepare a ball in their honor. Granny is happy to hear this, commenting that she loves any party that she doesn't have to cater, and Leroy agrees that he does too. That night, Granny dresses up and proceeds to have a good time at the ball. Everyone's night is ruined, however, when Sir Percival attacks Regina and dies because of it; the struggles leaves Robin Hood in a critical condition, and Emma is forced to use dark magic to heal him.

When it is exposed that Arthur is in fact a villain, the Storybrooke folk turn on him after successfully freeing Merlin from the tree and proceed to retire to Granny's Diner out in the woods. Merlin tells everyone that he and Emma are to quest for the Flame of Prometheus which will allow them to reunite both halves of Excalibur - that is, the Dark One's dagger and Arthur's broken sword - but, first, he needs for the heroes to collect the sword. Before Emma sets off on her quest with Merlin, Hook approaches her, and walks past Granny as he does so. She remains standing by her diner as the pirate proceeds to give Emma his lucky ring, in hopes that she will return safe. She points out that she doesn't need it because she's immortal now, but he points out in turn that the Dark One is immortal, but Emma Swan isn't; he wants her to bring her home to him. She is touched and wears the ring as a necklace throughout her quest. ("Nimue")

Emma returns to Granny's Diner, concerned by the fact that the others should have been back hours ago, and when Granny attempts to lock the place up for protection, she, Henry and the key all freeze thanks to Merlin's magic, and the powerful Sorcerer reveals that Arthur has Emma's family hostage out in the woods and will kill them if she doesn't hand over the dagger and the Promethean spark. She goes outside to attempt lighting the latter, but the returning vision of Rumplestiltskin points out that maybe she can't because she's not ready to let go of the darkness. Henry tries motivating her by revealing that he and Hook were looking at available houses in Storybrooke to move her into when they got home, and she comes to realize that the vision was right: she doesn't want to let go of the darkness because she needs to use it one last time. She saves the others and is later able to light the flame. Granny and the others watch as she prepares to reunite Excalibur, but Hook collapses because the cut he earlier sustained in his neck which Emma healed reopens, due to Excalibur's properties which stop scars inflicted by it from being able to really heal. The pirate is dying and Emma uses the Promethean flame to un-tether Merlin from Excalibur and bind his powers to Hook instead, thereby turning herself fully dark and making Hook into a new Dark One.

Season 5
"You went to Camelot to get the darkness out of me... and you failed."

- Dark Swan

After spending a total of six weeks away in Camelot, Granny and the others who were sent to said realm in Granny's Diner are abruptly returned to Storybrooke. Sleepy and Sneezy, the latter of which has been working as the town's sheriff, even having gone as far as to start sporting Emma's signature red leather jacket, overhear the diner's crash landing and so go to check it out. They're shocked to discover everyone has returned, but Granny and the others have zero memory of anything that has happened since entering into Camelot for the first time. The two dwarfs reveal they've all been gone a total of six weeks, and Emma's parents wonder where she is. She soon makes herself known, appearing to be responsible for their return, as well as everyone's loss of memories. She now looks how a Dark One would be expected to look, and Mary Margaret asks what happened to her. Emma, who proceeds to turn Sneezy to stone for wearing her jacket, wonders if it's not obvious, recalling that they all came to remove the darkness from her... and they failed. Now they have to pay. When asked why, Emma simply states that it's because she is the Dark One, before disappearing.

Granny serves drinks to everyone as they attend her diner; she walks past Hook, who's drowning his sorrows at the bar before being approached by Belle, so that she may serve Mary Margaret, David and Henry, the former of which is cradling her baby Prince Neal. Regina then enters along with Robin Hood and his small son Roland. As the night goes on, Henry re-meets his first crush from Camelot, Violet; Mary Margaret laments the current situation with Emma; Belle and Hook do shots together; and Regina is able to use her magic to turn Sneezy back from stone after the dwarfs arrive for the evening. He is able to finish his sneeze.

Robin is sitting at the counter of Granny's Diner when Hook approaches, and the two of them soon start lamenting their equally complex love lives. It isn't long before Granny herself approaches, shoving a bag on the counter in front of Hook and telling him that his order's up. Hook is confused, since he didn't order anything, and thanks to the note on the bag he realizes that the food's from Emma, who requests that he meet her on his ship. Later, Belle comes into Granny's to collect her lunch order, bringing her magic rose with her. Granny insists that Belle stay for some real food, but Belle refuses, thinking that Gold doesn't have long left to live. However, Granny soon notices that the rose (which represents Gold's life force) is regrowing its petals, meaning that Belle's husband is waking up. Shocked, Belle drops and smashes one of Granny's plates before rushing out. However, Gold has been removed from the back room of their shop, now in Emma's lair.

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