On a rain-slick night, Fabletown learns the difference between reform—and reckoning. Neon bleeds into puddles as the city’s veneer starts to crack. A celebrated doctor leaves work with tidy plans and tidy principles; elsewhere, a judge balances ledgers and excuses. Neither sees the match being struck. Inside the detention center, Bigsby finds an unlikely ally whose simple decency is the riskiest currency of all, while the Horseman’s shadow lengthens across the yard. And high above the courthouse steps, Snow White climbs to a meeting she shouldn’t accept with Goldilocks—now the voice of a movement that speaks in ultimatums. Law or fire. Procedure or revolt. As the night unravels, institutions wobble, alliances harden, and a choice takes shape that can’t be unmade.