"Heartless" is the seventh episode of the sixth season of the American fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time, which aired on November 6, 2016.

In the Enchanted Forest before the first curse, Snow White, hunted by the Evil Queen but not yet a bandit, sells her last heirloom to a nobleman for a pittance, only for him to betray her to the Woodcutter, a bounty hunter whom she fights off with help from the Blue Fairy.

Disguised as a peddler, the Woodcutter drugs David in order to use his sheep dog, Wilby, to track and capture Snow.

As their hands touch, a magical spark of true love gives birth to a sapling at David's feet.

Mother Superior believes that a magical sapling could be powerful enough to entrap the Evil Queen, and Regina hatches a plan by sending a note to Zelena demanding that she meets her other half at Gold's Pawn Shop.

Later on at the cemetery, the Evil Queen gathers the town to tell them her plan to kill them all if Snow and David don’t appear in the next few minutes.

Just as Emma is ready to fight, the couple arrives and asks Regina to lift her protection spell from them, allowing The Evil Queen to rip out their hearts and hold them in her hands.

The Evil Queen calls it a sleeping curse with “a little twist,” and she makes Snow’s body disappear and taunts David to go find her.