Does the Mad Hatter See His Daughter Again
GINNIFER GOODWIN, JOSH DALLAS
We all go a little mad sometimes, Oncelers — especially if nosotros're among the called few who know that the and then-called "real world" isn't the only world that's real. The show'due south mythology took a few bunny hops forward in this evening's episode, which revealed that hats don't just have the power to transform an outfit into an event: They tin also provide a portal into different lands. This ane, obviously, transports travelers to the Wubbulous Earth of Dr. Seuss.
Simply I digress. As our story begins, Mary Margaret is on the move. Henry is under the impression that Emma has ready her free — but Emma doesn't know how her roommate/mother escaped her prison cell. Though Gilded advises confronting it, the sheriff runs to her ambrosial yellow Beetle and hits the road, hoping to catch MM before she tin can completely screw up her innocence plea. Instead, she ends upwards about killing a guy who's taking an evening stroll. His proper noun is Jefferson, and like all the strangers Emma encounters in Storybrooke, he's a very good looking dude. More than similar The Mad Hotter, amiright? (You may recognize Sebastian Stan, the histrion who plays Jefferson, from his bonny turns in Captain America and Gossip Girl.)
After apologizing profusely, Emma offers to give Jefferson a lift habitation. She drops him off at an enormous mansion, address 316 — that's downright Oceanic, almost! Emma must have been absent-minded the day of her elementary schoolhouse's Stranger Danger assembly. She follows Jeff inside and accepts a cup of tea from him. Simply shortly after sipping, the sheriff starts feeling woozy. "Who are you?" she asks accusingly, right before passing out on his couch.
Skilful question. Similar Regina, Jefferson has the same name in both Storybrooke and Fairy Country. But in the involvement of keeping things from getting also confusing, I'll refer to the Jefferson nosotros come across in Fairybacks as the Hatter. Anyway: The Hatter lives in an idyllic woodland cottage with his adorable girl Grace. Though the 2 of them make a meager living selling mushrooms, the Hatter used to have a incomparably more colorful occupation. We go hints of this when Regina appears at his home, saying that she'd like him to aid her out by getting upwardly to his old tricks. The Hatter tells Regina that he's non interested; he lost his wife because of his work, and he doesn't want Grace to lose her father as well. He doesn't budge even when Regina promises to advantage him amply. Come on — like things could go any more handsome for this guy.
Eventually, though, coin talks. When walking through a marketplace, Grace becomes smitten with a stuffed white rabbit. (Howdy, March Hare!) Unfortunately, the Hatter doesn't have enough cash to buy information technology for her. By the fourth dimension they get home, he decides it would exist worth it to help Regina after all — and, afterwards sending Grace to stay with some neighbors, he grabs a giant hatbox and heads to Regina'southward CGI Castle of Evil.
Next: That old hat magic
Emma awakens to find herself spring and gagged. Luckily, the sheriff's got a few tricks upward her skinny jeans. Afterwards smashing her roofie'd teacup, she fashions a shard into a makeshift knife and cuts herself loose. Just escaping the business firm won't exist as easy every bit escaping her bonds — none of the windows in Jeff's living room seem to open. Things become curiouser and curiouser when Emma finds that Jefferson has a telescope that looks straight into her office — also equally a shiny pair of scissors he's sharpening menacingly in some other room. Emma takes a chance past sneaking into a hallway, and then ducking into another room. At that place, she finds that MM has also been captured by Storybrooke's resident kidnapper.
Though Emma frees her friend, their liberty is brusque-lived: Jefferson catches them in the hallway. And this fourth dimension, he's carrying a gun. Emma lies that she's called for backup, but Jefferson knows that Storybrooke only has one police officer — and besides, nobody knows they're at his madhouse. He asks Emma to tie MM upward again, and so tells the sheriff he's got a task for her. A millinery task.
Meanwhile, the Hatter arrives in Regina's boudoir. Before opening his box of tricks, he makes the queen promise that if he does what she asks, his child volition desire for nothing. Regina gives her word… and the Hatter believes information technology, proving that he really must exist mad. And so he pulls out a top hat and spins it like a dreidel. Soon enough, it'due south go a purple, swirling vortex — the kind of tornado that could carry a traveler or two to Oz. He and Regina spring into the middle of the tempest.
Still holding his gun, Jefferson brings Emma into a room with an unusual design element: a set up of shelves filled with seemingly identical top hats. So Jeff reveals that he captured MM because he knows about the curse. Jefferson says he was trying to forestall her from getting into an accident while attempting to go out Storybrooke. He further explains that though he had been trapped in his house for 28 years, everything started changing when Emma and her leather jackets rolled into town. (That explains why the sheriff institute him wandering beyond his mansion'south gates.) Though Emma thinks he'south insane, Jefferson insists that she'due south special — special enough to make his sometime portal hat work.
The Hatter and Regina have left the confines of Fairy Land and arrived in a sort of in-between world. It's a room filled with doors to other realms, sort of like the holiday wood at the very beginning of The Nightmare Before Christmas. They walk through a looking glass and into a place filled with tall light-green grass, behemothic mushrooms, and puffy white clouds. It'due south Super Mario Earth! No, await: It'south Wonderland, complete with hookah-smoking caterpillar. He even says "whoooo are yoouuu" as Regina and Hatter walk past; unfortunately, it isn't set to vocal, even though the fauna'south voiced by Roger Daltrey.
NEXT: "The walls should stay away from me!"
Soon, the world-jumpers arrive at a giant hedge maze — belongings of the Queen of Hearts. In its center lies something that that monarch has stolen from Regina. Before heading within, the Hatter warns Regina to stay away from the maze's walls, which are designed to devour anything that touches them. "I've got a better idea," says Regina smugly. "The walls should stay away from me!" Then she unleashes an enormous inferno, called-for a straight path through the labyrinth. Crawly! Did she just eat a Burn down Flower?
Regina nabs a box containing her treasure, and she and the Hatter plow to leave. Just before they tin can get dorsum through the looking glass, the Queen of Eye'south guards announced — and they're non looking to play a game of croquet. Using some nifty magic, the Fairy Land duo manages to evade their captors. Though the Hatter urges Regina to hurry, she stops to catch a bit of a Wonderland mushroom and places information technology inside the box. There'south a swirl of magic, and suddenly, Regina's male parent appears. It seems that a miniature version of him had been trapped within the Crimson Queen's maze; nibbling on that mushroom fabricated him abound back to his normal size.
There's but i problem: Since two non-Wonderlanders walked through the looking glass, only two people can go out through it. And after sternly telling the Hatter that if he truly cared for his daughter, he never would have left her, Regina grabs Henry Senior and heads back to the Neitherlands. Having been left stranded, the Hatter is quickly defenseless past the Knave of Hearts and his cronies. He'd be even more bummed if he plant out Regina screwed him over to rescue someone she'll eventually murder.
The Hatter is brought before the Queen of Hearts, a mysterious figure who keeps her face up hidden behind a veil and speaks only via her right-mitt man. When her prisoner won't reveal how he came to Wonderland, she orders a baby-sit to chop off his caput — and the lackey complies. Whoa, Once just went all Game of Thrones! But since this is a family unit prove, apparently, decapitation isn't fatal — it simply causes mild discomfort. Later on promising to reunite the traveler'due south top with his lesser, the Knave tells the Hatter that if he wants to return to his own world, he'south going to need to make a magic chapeau. The quest to create such a cap is what will eventually bulldoze the Hatter mad.
Emma doesn't immediately beginning finishing the lid. Instead, she tries to talk sense into Jefferson, saying that the tales in Henry'southward book are "just stories. The Mad Hatter is in Alice in Wonderland, a book — a book I really read!" Oh, Emma, if you had read the book, you'd know it's actually called Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Jefferson, of form, isn't convinced. He tells Emma that in that location are multiple existent worlds, all of which have different rules — some have magic, some don't. So he gets to the heart of the thing: His daughter Grace is also in Storybrooke, except here her name is Paige and she thinks a couple of strangers are her parents. (Though I can't tell for sure, these might be the same actors who played the Hatter's neighbors in the Fairyback.) Jefferson doesn't dare tell Graige the truth, but if he can become back to Fairy Land, he'll exist able to finally reunite with his daughter. Cue sniffles.
Side by side: Snow fights! Kinda.
Jefferson's revelation seems to motion Emma. She slowly says that if his tale is true, so MM is actually her mother — and she wants to believe that more than anything in the world. A relieved, weepy Jeff turns around… and Emma promptly smacks him with the telescope he uses to go on tabs on Graige, calling him a "crazy son of a bowwow" for proficient measure. So much for condign a believer!
Emma grabs the gun and races to the room where Mary Margaret is trapped. Information technology's not long before Jefferson as well runs in, clad in his fancy fightin' chapeau. There's a scuffle, and Jefferson virtually shoots Emma. Luckily, MM suddenly goes full Snow and manages to knock him nigh unconscious with a croquet mallet. She finishes by kick their aggressor out a window. You go, Snow!
Jefferson and his kicky headwear plummet to the world below. But when MM and Emma expect out the window, his torso is nowhere to be establish — the only affair that's left is the chapeau. Approximate Emma'southward got some magic in her after all.
Shaken but all the same alive, the ladies head out to notice Emma's automobile. The sheriff surprises the teacher by tossing over the keys, telling her that she's free to run if she wants. Emma doesn't advise escape, though — she wants Mary Margaret to trust that Emma will evidence her innocence. She cares about MM so much because she'due south the closest affair she has to family — and she'd practice anything to keep from losing that.
Mary Margaret takes her girl'southward words to center. When Regina arrives at the sheriff's office after that morn, she finds a equanimous Mary Margaret calmly reading The Daily Mirror in her prison cell. The queen is furious; she was, of course, the one who left the key for MM to find. Gold had told her that MM would take the allurement and run away. In the hallway, the shopkeeper/lawyer/evil mastermind quietly assures the Queen that even though MM didn't run away, Regina will still get the results she craves. But whose side is he really on?
Emma's sitting exterior the simple school with Henry when Graige walks past. Seeing the girl triggers something in Emma, and she asks Henry for his story book. She flips to a set of illustrations showing the Hatter — and even though they don't actually look too much similar Jefferson, she asks her son if she can agree onto the tome. Peradventure Emma's closer to assertive than we thought she was.
Breadcrumbs
– Regina had a few great lines this evening. My favorite: "So now you're foraging for fungi?"
– I besides loved seeing her done up in old lady garb. Methinks that toy seller might also have a few apples stashed in her cart.
– Among Grace's tea party guests is a stuffed turtle named Mr. Tortoise. I'thou guessing that's a reference to the Mock Turtle.
– Regina's decor seems to include a tiger-skin rug. Rajah?!
– She and the Hatter also have a history; think they used to date?
– Where do we call back those other world doors atomic number 82? I saw a few that might be portals to Oz and Narnia. Maybe there's also one that goes to a universe without shrimp, and i that goes to a universe with zippo only shrimp.
– Like Granny, Jefferson's nonetheless got the scar he caused in another earth. No wonder he favors scarves.
– I loved the Mirror's headline for its front end page story virtually Mary Margaret: "Heartless!"
Nosotros're in for a big episode next week — promos hope that we'll finally observe out why Regina hates Snow. But first, tell me your thoughts on "Hat Trick." Did you like the episode? And are you lot hoping we'll see the Hatter again before Flavor 1 is over?
GINNIFER GOODWIN, JOSH DALLAS
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Source: https://ew.com/recap/once-upon-a-time-season-one-alice-in-wonderland/
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