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Home.
Father!
Father!
Father!
Father!
Father! Father, it's me!
Come on, father!
You are never going to believe
where I've been!
Alice
It all began with this white rabbit,
- and he wanted to take my hat and then
- Alice?
Is that really you?
Who else would I be?
You were gone a very long time.
We we thought you were
you thought I was what?
Dead.
White rabbits, smoking caterpillars?
Giant mushrooms? Who does
she think I am, a fool?
Why would she lie?
Your child is delusional.
She's delusional.
She's making it up.
But I can cure her of this.
So she's a liar.
She is a liar.
I'm not a liar.
It was real.
And I'm going to prove it.
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland 1x01
- Down the Rabbit Hole -
Original air date October 10, 2013
Looks like you closed down
the joint again, Leroy.
You're really gunning for that customer
of the week plaque.
It's a win/win, Ashley.
You get my mug on the wall,
- I finally get whoa!
- Sorry, brother.
Closing time.
It looks like a storm's coming.
You better find a place to keep dry.
I'll get right on that.
There you are.
Bloody hell! What are you doing here?
I'll tell you on the way.
We're late.
No, I'm not interested
in your important dates, Rabbit,
or your unimportant dates,
for that matter.
No, no, no, no.
We're not late for something.
We're late for someone.
Who?
Alice.
She needs help.
You're the Knave of hearts.
She needs you.
Answer the question, please.
Alice?
Alice?
I don't remember.
Oh, I think you do.
It's been a year now,
and you've been quite clear
in your statements.
An invisible cat,
a hookah-smoking caterpillar,
food and drink capable
of altering your physical form,
a murderous red queen.
And you encountered all these things by
literally falling down a rabbit hole.
Hearing it out loud, it all sounds
quite preposterous.
Wouldn't you agree, Alice?
Yes.
Good.
Just a few more questions,
and maybe this time,
we can send you home.
When your father finally
brought you to us,
he was at his wit's end.
It wasn't just
your multiple disappearances
that had taken a toll.
It was your ludicrous explanation
that you'd been searching for proof
of this place, this
Wonderland where you had
miraculous, strange,
and terrifying adventures.
Do you still believe that to be true?
Hey, that's mine.
Give it back.
Trespassers! Halt!
She's headed into the maze!
By order of the Queen, stop!
Don't let her get away!
She's headed for the Queen's garden!
After her!
I thought she went this way!
She mustn't get away!
Where's the girl?
Has anyone seen her?
I thought she went this way!
Alice?
Alice?
Alice!
No.
It wasn't true.
I never left England.
So you just made it all up?
Why? For attention?
Well, you certainly got it, didn't you?
The question we have to answer today is
which is the real performance
little girl with tales of
tea parties and barbaric queens,
or the young lady who says
it was just her imagination?
That little girl was a fool.
And the lady?
She knows what really happened.
Search everywhere!
She has to be here somewhere.
There's nowhere left!
Don't let her get by.
Where did she go?
What are you doing in my bottle?
Turn me in, and I get big.
Right here, right now, burst your house
into a million shiny pieces.
We wouldn't want that now, would we?
Good bottles are so hard
to find these days.
My name is Cyrus.
My home is your home.
When you finally resurfaced,
you claimed to be in this Wonderland.
Can you tell us where you really were?
With a friend.
Where?
Agrabah sounds beautiful.
I hope one day to see it again.
What place do you call home?
England.
Although it hasn't exactly
felt like home lately.
So we're both strangers
in this most strange land.
"Strange" is one word for it.
Wondrous? Dangerous.
I sense that you can
take care of yourself.
And you have to
go back to your land soon?
Well, I do have what I came for.
Which is what?
Proof that all this is real.
Oh! You want proof? Come here.
I'll give you proof.
Uhh!
A talking white rabbit
in jacket and trousers?
No one can say I imagined that.
Yes.
That much is certain.
So tell me, Alice,
who is this proof for?
You've risked much to come back here.
Is it a husband?
No.
There's no one like that.
Good.
Good?
I mean, just that you're not
separated from your love.
That'd be a terrible fate.
Yes.
That it would.
The proof is for my father.
He thinks I'm insane.
Really?
So you're risking your life for someone
who doesn't believe in you?
You know
When you really love someone,
you don't need proof.
You can feel it.
Maybe where you're from,
but in my land, I wish things would
You wish things would what?
You found my bottle, Alice.
Anything is possible.
"Mistress mine,"
"my will is thine.
"
"Tell me your wishes three.
"
Alice, if you wish to be
released from this facility,
- you need to
- I don't wish for anything!
Would this have
something to do with the genie
you believe you met?
You told your father that you
you set him free,
that the two of you traveled
from world to world,
fighting pirates,
swimming with mermaids.
And then
Men and women being what
they are, you fell in love.
Are you ready to admit that
that was a lie as well?
Curiouser and curiouser.
I've heard of the boiling sea,
but in person, it's even more amazing.
As are you.
Oh! Careful.
I've never met a human
quite like you, Alice.
I've never met a genie quite like you.
Well, actually, I've never met a genie,
so
Okay.
Forgive me.
I'm not used to
I was always the one granting
the wishes, not making them.
Making them? What?
For 100 years,
I was tethered to a bottle,
a slave to the faulty dreams of man,
and all that time, I only had one wish
to never be a prisoner again.
And now
I have another.
Wait.
I I think
the people in you world
do this down on one
Yes.
What?
Yes, yes, I will.
No, but I had a whole speech.
It was charming and eloquent and had
Our hearts are entwined.
From now on, I'll know
when you are near,
and you will know.
Alice, run!
When your father found you,
you were inconsolable.
You said the love of your life
was gone, murdered by some
No, that's
that's not what I said.
Alice, you were an ignored little girl
who wanted to be loved,
so you created a fantasy land
full of characters who'd help you become
who you wanted to be
tall, brave, beautiful.
You wouldn't be the first child
to do this.
You're just the first
to grow up and still believe
it was real.
No.
I don't believe it anymore.
We know you're lying.
You still cry out for him in your sleep.
- What?
- In your sleep.
Every night, it's the same.
You cry out for Cyrus.
Sorry to interrupt.
Mind if I borrow him?
Cyrus, no!
Cyrus!
Alice!
Oops.
Cyrus!
Cyrus!
No!
Cyrus.
Alice?
We have a new procedure
that can take away your pain.
Make you forget
whatever
Or whomever you're holding on to.
One treatment.
It all just slips away.
Does it hurt?
A little.
But far less than the pain
you're in right now.
Just sign here.
Good girl.
Now go get some sleep.
Tomorrow your life begins anew.
Cyrus.
It's time.
Fetch the girl.
Could you at least give me time
to get dressed?
You.
"You"?
That's what I get?
"You"? Well,
nice to see you, too, Alice.
What are you doing here?
Right.
Come now.
We have to go.
Go? Oh, no.
You're not real.
Oh, I'm very real,
and we must leave now.
I've cleared out some of the guards,
- so we should be able to get out
- No, I can't.
I can't.
Alice, you need to listen to me.
No, I'm not going anywhere.
Why must you always be
so bloody stubborn?
There he is.
- I didn't do anything.
- It's true.
I mean, if she was
the least bit helpful,
we would have been long gone by now ow!
Get him out of here.
Alice, no! You know me! You remember.
- I don't want to remember.
I want to forget.
- Alice, listen to me.
- No!
- He's alive.
The rabbit saw him.
Cyrus.
He's alive.
That's impossible.
You know as well as I do, Alice.
Nothing's impossible in Wonderland.
Uhh!
Uhh!
Aah!
Was that your idea of a rescue?
Well, it was supposed to be
more of a message delivery
type situation.
I wasn't planning to
Right, let's go then.
You're late.
What a surprise.
To you, everybody's late.
True.
I do have high standards.
Nice world you got here.
Oh.
What the hell is this stuff?
It's pretty *** the paws.
Alice! Stop.
Don't do this.
I can help you get better.
Are we really going to stand
here and listen to this guy?
Seeing things, doctor?
I hear there's a procedure for that.
Well, what do we do now?
We run.
Look out!
Out of the way!
Out of my way!
Oh, no.
We'll be pinched for sure.
No, we won't.
- They're coming.
- Rabbit!
Here? Couldn't we find somewhere
with softer ground, like a field
Dig!
All right.
Here goes.
What are you waiting for?!
Alice, I didn't exactly leave
that place on good terms.
Neither did I, but if Cyrus is
Then you have to go, not me.
Listen, Knave.
Once long ago, I got you
back your heart.
Now you need to help me
get back mine.
Down there!
Or you can take your chances with them.
Bloody hell.
All right, then.
Next stop
Wonderland!
Uhh!
Aah!
Humans.
I hate
This bloody
Place!
Careful, Knave.
We've landed in the mallow marsh.
Of course we did,
because a pond made out
of dessert topping
- makes perfect sense.
- Come on.
Shake a leg.
Shake two legs.
Ugh! What a mess.
Okay, Rabbit.
Where's Cyrus?
Tell us where you saw him.
Well, I didn't exactly see him.
Did you tell her I saw him?
- That is what you said.
- It was a figure of speech.
Nope.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't.
Uh, what I meant was,
I was having tea with the Dormouse,
and he said that he saw him.
So we came all the way here
on the word of a narcoleptic rodent?
Ignore him, Rabbit.
Go on.
He said Cyrus was
at the Mad Hatter's old place.
It's abandoned.
The Hatter he hasn't been in
Wonderland for quite some time.
And he ain't never coming back.
He's found himself a nice little life
back in the place I was makin' mine
a place, I might add
where the dragonflies
aren't actually dragons.
Rabbit, are you getting taller?
Yeah, quite possibly.
That kind of thing happens
quite a lot around here.
We're sinking.
I can't move me feet.
Rabbit, where is it?
Where's the Hatter's house?
Where else? The Tulgey Woods.
Knave, we need to get out of here.
Really?
Uh, everything's gonna be fine.
I'll just, uh uh, uh,
I'll go get help!
Don't worry! Everything's
going to work out just fine!
Stop moving.
We'll just sink faster.
Oh, because a slow death
is so much more pleasant.
This is humiliating.
I'm gonna die like a bloody s'more.
A what?
It's biscuits and chocolate,
and you get toasted marsh
never mind.
The point is,
we're gonna die.
Knave, that's brilliant.
What the bloody hell are you doing?
- I'm making a smore.
- S'mores!
Whatever.
I'm starting to think you
were in the nutter for a reason.
See?
Come on.
Where's that rabbit?
It's getting late,
and I plan on sleepin'
in me own bed tonight.
You can't leave.
We haven't found Cy
Cyrus.
Exactly.
You heard what the rabbit said.
He never even saw him.
If I'd known that,
I wouldn't have done any of this.
I mean, for all we know,
he isn't even alive.
What if he is?
Alice
I left Wonderland because I did
a lot of bad things here.
A lot of people wanna see me dead.
They have their reasons,
and to be honest,
they're good reasons.
I left this place
for a future I'm quite keen to see,
and you want me
to risk all that for a hunch?
I can pay you.
How?
You don't have anything
to pay me, Alice.
That's not entirely true.
I have something better than money.
Wishes.
I don't get it.
Why don't you just use 'em
to bring Cyrus back?
Wishes can be unpredictable.
If I used one to bring Cyrus back,
he might arrive hanging from a tree
with a noose around his neck.
See, with wishes,
sometimes there's literally
a string attached.
Then one just has to be careful
what they wish for.
Make it consequence-proof.
Yeah, I can do that.
So does that mean you'll stay?
We find Cyrus, I get a wish.
Anything I want.
Just get me to Tulgey Woods.
So you really believe the rabbit, then?
I know you have your doubts,
but, yes, I believe the rabbit.
Oh!
Oh, no.
Huh.
Oh.
- There you are, Rabbit.
- Oh!
My ears!
Oh! Uhh! Do you mind?
Your Majesty, I can explain.
You're late.
I know.
I know.
I I'm so sorry.
I came as soon as I could.
So you told Alice what you heard?
Yes, that Cyrus was alive.
Is he?
I'll be the one asking questions.
Right.
Right.
So this makes us
all square then?
You said if I got her here, I'd get
I said we'd settle up
when the game was complete.
We are still setting up the board.
Now as for your friend Alice,
I need you to report
everything she does,
where she goes, who she talks to,
what she is thinking.
I need more than my eyes.
I need your ears,
and you will either help me, darling
Or decorate this room.
Understood?
Yes, Y Your Majesty.
Now leave.
The Tulgey Woods.
The Hatter's place is on the other side.
Aren't you worried this is all a trap?
If there's a chance that Cyrus is alive,
we have to take it.
Right.
Let's go.
The Red Queen you said it was also her
who threw Cyrus into the boiling sea.
Why would she do that?
I don't know, but I'd love to ask her
and see the look on her face
when she realizes
I'm not the forgiving sort,
particularly when said face
meets this branch, repeatedly.
Doesn't sound like you.
The doctors said I'm a danger
to myself and to others.
Yeah, you can't believe
everything you read now.
I don't.
In fact when I thought
Cyrus was dead,
I stopped believing in much of anything.
Well?
She's back.
And what is the girl doing now?
Looking for her genie, of course.
Isn't that what we wanted, Jafar?
What we want can't be accomplished
until we have the genie's bottle
and the girl's made all her wishes.
So I'd say
perhaps you shouldn't be
so pleased with yourself.
Do not talk down to me, Jafar.
I'm the Queen.
That's the thing about power.
Hmm.
It can be so fleeting.
Is that a threat?
No.
Threats are for people
who aren't prepared to act.
Wait.
You need me.
Not anymore.
But I did what you could not.
I
I brought Alice back to Wonderland.
Which means your work
and your usefulness to me is done.
I'll take it from here.
Do you know
where she is?
Do you?
That's right.
You don't.
Now you're not in Agrabah
anymore, darling.
This is my world,
which means only I know
exactly where she is.
Only I know exactly where she's going.
So if you want my help,
yes our deal remains.
I will get you those wishes.
In return for what, exactly?
All in due time.
So why don't you get on that
raggedy carpet of yours
and fly away?
And let me take care of Alice.
For your sake
I hope you do.
We've been walking forever.
We should be
at the Hatter's house by now.
Oh, bloody hell.
What exactly did you do after I left?
Don't ask.
Now which way?
Up.
I'm tired of wandering around.
We need a different point of view.
What do you mean?
If I get high enough,
I can see the Hatter's house.
Enough of these.
I can see it! The Hatter's
place it's not that far!
Knave?
Will?
Cheshire.
It's you.
You gave me a fright.
Chesh?
You remember me, right?
It's Alice.
Yes, I remember.
You look different.
Everything does, doesn't it?
Wonderland has grown stranger.
I'm stranger.
You're stranger.
Together we are strangers.
Well, then how do you do?
Now that we're friends again,
you wouldn't want to eat a friend now
Would you?
Mmm, certainly not without pepper.
The pickings are slimmer these days.
These woods used to be full of food,
but now the only thing it's full of
Is you.
Aah! Aah!
The Red Queen promised
you would be the sweetest meat
I've ever tasted.
Let's see, shall we?
Oi!
Now then
Go pick on somebody your own size.
I can't believe it.
You.
You were
Brave?
Daring?
Stealing my wishes.
Oh, that.
I think maybe you misunderstand.
I was just protecting the wishes.
You expect me to believe that?
Not really, no.
But can we focus on the part
where I came back
and saved your life?
You know you can't steal a wish.
It has to be granted.
Of course I did.
Everybody knows that.
Let's go get Cyrus.
Knave.
Over there! Hurry!
Cyrus?!
The Hatter's house.
Cyrus.
Cyrus!
Cyrus!
Cyrus.
I'm here.
Alice.
He must be here.
It's too dark to tell,
or maybe he's sleeping or something.
Oh, here you are.
I've been looking all over.
I showed up with a whole troop
to pull you out of that marsh,
but you were gone.
It's okay, Rabbit.
Just dig us back home.
Cyrus ain't here.
No, he must be here.
Alice
Alice.
I'm sorry.
But he's not here.
And as far as I can tell, he never was.
Maybe
Maybe the Dormouse just named
the wrong house, or
Rabbit, enough.
If Cyrus were here,
wouldn't he have shown himself by now?
So he really is gone.
Alice.
You made her lose Cyrus twice.
Why would you do that?
Will, Rabbit, come quickly!
I found this.
It was Cyrus's.
Where did you get that?
It was just here in the grass.
He's alive.
Nothing could survive the boiling sea.
If it survived, so did he.
Alice, that necklace it's magic.
That's why it survived.
The guy wearing it
he was just flesh and blood.
He's gone.
I'm sorry.
Now let's get out of here.
The rabbit can dig his hole.
You can make a new life,
meet somebody else.
- No.
- No?
I'm not going.
Alice, this isn't the time
to be stubborn.
I'm not being stubborn.
Yes, you are.
If you want to leave, leave.
But I'm staying.
Because of a necklace?
Because he's here.
But you have no proof.
When you really love someone,
you don't need proof.
You can feel it.
He's here.
I'm gonna find him.
Only question is
Are you coming with me?
I was afraid you were
going to ask me that.
Is that a "yes"?
Bloody hell.
Come on then.
Alice.
No!