"Islands Apart" is the fifty-ninth episode of Tangled: The Series. It premiered on January 19, 2020, and is the twelfth episode in the third season.
Plot
Rapunzel and her father are reminiscing on past adventures, revealing that King Frederic has finally regained his memories. Suddenly they receive an unexpected visit form Cassandra's pet Owl. He shows up exhausted after a long flight, but has come alone and only has a piece of fruit that only grows on Terapi Island in his possession, leading Rapunzel and Eugene into action in their pursuit to find Cassandra. While Eugene is skeptical that Cassandra would willingly return to Terapi Island, especially after all the encounters they have faced during their stay, Rapunzel believes that they have no other options since they haven't seen or heard from their fallen friend since they left the Dark Kingdom months ago. However, they find the village strangely quiet, but after some searching, they find the Lorbs. They also find themselves reunited with the Captain of the Guards. Surprisingly, he is quite happy and cheerful.
The Captain has had the time of his life on the island. Apparently the Lorbs really like his mustache. The Captain goes into detail about his absence, revealing that after learning of Rapunzel's return to the kingdom and Cassandra's "other arrangements", he found himself on Terapi Island as well as a shocking surprise, a child version of Cassandra. Rapunzel and Eugene suspect something fishy is going on, especially when they see this Cassandra has no shadow. While Rapunzel keeps a close eye on the Captain and "Cassandra", Eugene and Owl try to figure out the magic behind it. Eventually, Rapunzel and Eugene find Alfons, who explains that the Captain has come for a magic wishing fountain on the island and locked him up when he refused to listen to his warnings about the coin's magic. Rapunzel and Eugene realize that the Captain used it to make child Cassandra appear, but also learn that after nine days, the pure wish turns into a full-on nightmare unless the wisher takes back his wish.
Rapunzel and Eugene confront the Captain and finally learn the full story. It turns out after learning what Cassandra had done, the Captain changed his plans and went in search of her where they reunited at the ruins of the maze that Rapunzel and Eugene previously visited. The Captain confronted Cassandra over her actions, leading Cassandra to lash out at her father for hiding the truth about Mother Gothel and refused to have anything else taken from her. He could not recognize his own daughter after their encounter and after finally seeing what she had become, he was too ashamed to return to Corona to face everyone after what she did and basically went into a self-induced exile on Terapi Island. The Captain blames himself and now he wants to make up for it by having a second chance at being a better father to a young Cassandra.
Eventually the sun goes down and the craziness finally happens when various clones of Cassandra appear (including her bird form in "Freebird" and her kid form in "You're Kidding Me!") and start attacking Rapunzel and the others. Rapunzel and Eugene once again attempts to reason with the Captain, only to find him attempting to flee in their hot air balloon with child Cassandra in his arms. All hopes seems lost for the Captain, but he finally comes to his senses after seeing that child Cassandra does not have a shadow. He sets course back to the island to make things right. After a hard goodbye, the Captain undoes his wish; this makes all the Cassandra clones disappear. Rapunzel, Eugene, and the Captain finally set out to return home.
Meanwhile, Cassandra and the Enchanted Girl return to the Great Tree in hopes of finding any usable scrolls for the Moonstone, only to find that they are all destroyed. However, upon a single mention of the Demanitus Scroll by the Enchanted Girl, Cassandra changes their destination to Corona.
Cast
- Mandy Moore as Rapunzel
- Zachary Levi as Eugene Fitzherbert
- M. C. Gainey as Captain of the Guards
- Eden Espinosa as Cassandra
- Hudson D'Andrea as Little Cassandra
- Cassie Glow as Kid Cassandra
- Flula Borg as Alfons
- Richard Steven Horvitz as Jorn
- Clancy Brown as King Frederic
- Jennifer Veal as Enchanted Girl
Gallery
Trivia
- The title is a play on Worlds Apart.
- Lance, Varian, and Shorty do not appear in this episode.
- Rapunzel and Eugene return to Terapi Island for the first time since their departure in "Max and Eugene in Peril on the High Seas".
- According to Rapunzel, it has now been months since the events of "Rapunzel's Return".
- Cassandra's skin tone has become paler.
- Rapunzel's journal contains pages from previous adventures, such as "Tangled: Before Ever After", "In Like Flynn", and "Secret of the Sun Drop".
- King Frederic is revealed to have fully regained his memories after he previously got amnesia in "Rapunzel's Return".
- There are several references from Rapunzel and Eugene's time on Terpai Island.
- Eugene mentions the firefly from "King Pascal".
- When the Captain is dancing, it is similar to Lance and Hook Foot's dancing in "Happiness Is...".
- Rapunzel, Eugene and Alfons all make a reference to the Lorbs' dark magic, including the Idol of Vershaftsbezeigungengien from "Happiness Is...".
- Rapunzel and Eugene reunite with the Captain in this episode.
- Cassandra returns to the Great Tree for the first time since it's destruction in "Rapunzel and the Great Tree". The corpse of the plant monster that tried to eat Eugene and Lance can be seen amidst what remains of the tree.
- When all the fake Cassandras dissipate, the effect resembles the ending of Avengers: Infinity War when half of all life in the universe is killed by Thanos.
- The Captain's line, "No one's going to harm, you little one. You're safe with me." are the exact same words he said to a young Cassandra when he first met her in "Rapunzel's Return".
International Premieres
