With her eighteenth birthday approaching, Rapunzel has finally gained the courage to ask Mother Gothel if she can see the floating lights that always appear on her birthday.

Rapunzel says she has hidden it somewhere he will never find it. Flynn looks around for a few seconds and says, "It's in that pot, isn't it?" So she smacks him with the frying pan to knock him out so she can hide it again.

RAPUNZEL: [there's a rustle in the bushes. Rapunzel jumps on Flynn's back, terrified] Is it ruffians? Thugs? Have they come for me?
FLYNN: [a cute little bunny hops out of the bushes] Stay calm. It can probably smell fear.

Long ago, a drop of sunlight became a flower capable of healing illness, decay, and injury. For hundreds of years, the flower is used by Mother Gothel to retain her youth, until soldiers from a nearby kingdom, Corona, take the flower to heal their ailing queen. Shortly afterwards, the Queen gives birth to Princess Rapunzel. While attempting to recover the flower, Gothel discovers Rapunzel's golden hair contains the flower's healing properties.

RAPUNZEL: How did you find me?
MOTHER GOTHEL: Oh, it was easy really. I just listened for the sound of complete and utter betrayal, and followed that.

MOTHER GOTHEL: I brought back parsnips, and I'm going to make hazelnut soup for dinner, your favorite. Surprise!

MOTHER GOTHEL: I distinctly remember, your birthday was last year.

After realizing the sun on a piece of cloth she got from the kingdom is in a lot of her paintings, she figures it out from there.

After Mother Gothel stabs Flynn, Rapunzel agrees to submit forever willingly if she is allowed to heal him. But Flynn, dying, slices off Rapunzel's hair.

A heartbroken Rapunzel mourns for Flynn. However, her tear, which still contains some of the sun's power, lands on his cheek and restores his life.