On the previous episode of “Once Upon A Time ” we began with Jafar and the Rabbit going through a portal and coming through the ground and scaring a man painting on an easel. Jafar asks the man for directions and they end up at the asylum and then pretends to be ‘Dr. Sheffield’ and starts to questions Alice’s old doctor about Alice. The doctor pretends he doesn’t know who Alice is until Jafar pulls the rabbit out of the bag, startling him and forcing the doctor to tell him everything he knows about Alice.
Meanwhile, the Queen goes to Jafar’s dungeon and realizes that Cyrus has escaped and questions the remaining prisoner of Cyrus’ whereabouts. The prisoner tells her that she will never catch him because he carries the greatest power of all, true love. While the Queen searches for him, Cyrus is tracking Alice by following the glowing necklace around her neck that he’s able to see from miles away. Alice is doing the same by heading west, until she runs into a group of men but she manages to fight them off. Alice starts to make her way through the Black Forest even though she was warned to stay away, but she believes that Cyrus is on the other side of the forest.
Flashback to a year ago in Victorian England, Alice climbs out of a hole in the ground returning from Wonderland, and she sobs because she thinks the Queen has just killed Cyrus. A little girl sees her in the forrest and asks if she’s alright and Alice tells her that she’s lost, so the little girl calls for her father. Coincidentally, the little girl is actually Alice’s half sister that she never knew existed and Alice’s father welcome’s her home happily.
Back in the present, Knave wanders through the forest looking for Alice, he’s still under the impression Alice is the one who saved him and not the Queen. He then runs into the men that Alice beat up and they tell her that Alice was headed towards the Black Forest. In the forest, Alice sees a bright light and thinking she’s found her way out she runs towards it. Instead she emerges into a type of Grove with trees spraying purple gas through the air, and a creepy man standing there who says he’s the carpenter. He tells Alice to stay in the gore with him and she declines at first, but then she starts to inhale some gas which seems to be wiping her memory because she can’t even remember Cyrus’ name, so she decides to stay.
Flashback again, Alice is home again with her father and his new wife Sarah, who doesn’t seem very fond of Alice. Her father comes to talk to her and gives her an ultimatum of sorts, he tells her that she can stay with them but she isn’t allowed to talk about Wonderland, and that no matter how sad she is about Cyrus, she must pretend to be happy. When they’re eating dinner, Alice’s step-mother, Sarah, is trying to set her up with a suitor, but Alice isn’t ready to meet anyone new because she still isn’t over Cyrus.
In the present, the Queen is still trying to find Cyrus so she’ll find him before Jafar realizes he’s gone and have both the bottle and the genie.
The Knave finally made is through the Black Forest and found Alice in the grove, and realizes that there’s something not quite right with her. He tries to ask the Carpenter what’s wrong with her but then he realizes that he isn’t human from the waist down he’s a tree. When he looks closer at all the trees he realizes they all used to be people as well. He calls for Alice and tells her they have to leave but she looks at him and says, “Who’s Alice?” The Knave tries to get Alice out but she doesn’t want to leave because this is the happiest she’s ever been, and then the bottom half of her legs turn into tree trunks.
Flashback, Alice wakes up from a nightmare and finds her younger half sister Milly standing next to her bed wanting to know who Cyrus is because she keeps screaming is name. She tells Milly about him even though she was sworn to secrecy, then Sarah barges in and tells Milly to go to bed. Her father and Sarah are still appalled she believes in the nonsense of Wonderland.
The Queen tracks Cyrus in the woods using magic and starts to gain on him.
Flashback, Alice’s father tells her that he’s going to help her forget about Wonderland and then they get in an argument. He then kicks her out and tells her she is no longer allowed to live with them, and that she must go live in a mental hospital in London or let Sarah find her a husband.
Knave is still trying everything to get Alice to leave the grove, and has finally figured out that she has to want to leave. Knave throws her necklace that Cyrus gave her and when she touches it she remembers everything.
The Queen has finally caught up to Cyrus and he has nowhere to go put off the edge of a cliff.
Flashback, Alice decides that she would rather live in an asylum than let Sarah find her a husband.
Alice and Knave finally are out of the grove, and then Alice reveals to Knave that is was actually the Queen that freed him from the stone. The Knave then reveals to Alice that when he got his heart back he never put it back in his chest, because he never wanted to feel sadness again. So even if the Queen loved him back, he wouldn’t be able to love her back, because he literally didn’t have a heart.
While the Queen has Cyrus pinned telling him he has nowhere to go, we think it’s over, but suddenly, Cyrus jumps off the cliff when he sees the necklace.
Jafar arrives at the house of none other than Alice’s fathers.
Catch an all new “Once Upon A Time In Wonderland” tonight December 5th on ABC at 8pm.
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