Rapunzel's Return

"Rapunzel's Return" is a one-hour special episode of Tangled: The Series. It premiered on October 7, 2019 and is the first and second episode in the third season.

Plot
Inside The House of Yesterday's Tomorrow, Cassandra discovers that she is the daughter of Mother Gothel, who abandoned her on the night she kidnapped Rapunzel. Enraged that Rapunzel has been overshadowing her for the entirety of her life, and that she will always be living in her shadow, Cassandra stole the Moonstone and declared Rapunzel's destiny as her own. She manages to escape from the group and cuts all ties with them, with Rapunzel unable to wrap her head around the entire situation. The group returns to Corona and find that it has been taken over by Varian, who has aligned himself with the Separatists of Saporia to erase the memories of everyone in Corona with a new concoction of his. When Varian realizes that the Separatists plan on using his potion's destructive properties to destroy Corona, he and Rapunzel work together to stop it. They succeed, and Rapunzel uses the decaying incantation to free Quirin from his amber prison. After order is restored to the kingdom, Rapunzel finally begins to open up about Cassandra to Eugene.

Cast

 * Mandy Moore as Rapunzel
 * Zachary Levi as Eugene
 * James Monroe Iglehart as Lance Strongbow
 * Eden Espinosa as Cassandra
 * Jeremy Jordan as Varian
 * Clancy Brown as King Frederic
 * Julie Brown as Queen Arianna
 * Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Xavier
 * M. C. Gainey as Captain of the Guards
 * Jonathan Banks as Quirin
 * Bruce Campbell as King Edmund
 * Kelly Hu as Adira
 * Steve Blum as Attila
 * Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel
 * Dean Winters as Andrew

Songs

 * Waiting in the Wings (Reprise)
 * Crossing the Line
 * The Reverse Incantation
 * Stronger Than Ever Before

Trivia

 * Cassandra discovered she is the daughter of Mother Gothel and was adopted by the Captain of the Guards the night she kidnapped Rapunzel from the House of Yesterday's Tomorrow.
 * Rapunzel and the group return to Corona in this episode.
 * Varian redeems himself and becomes friends again with Rapunzel.
 * Quirin is freed from the amber.
 * Due to King Frederic and Queen Arianna's memory loss, Rapunzel becomes acting queen of Corona.
 * Maximus and Pascal losing and chasing after Rapunzel's Crown is a reference to the future events of Tangled Ever After when they lost and retrieved Rapunzel and Eugene's wedding rings.