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Is Emma starting to believe in magic? At first, she played Jefferson, allowing him to think she had faith so she could knock him out and escape. Still though, she called him crazy. It wasn’t until she saw the huge scar on his neck that she seemed to start to believe. When Jefferson fell out the window, there was no sign of him anywhere, except for his top hat. Did he escape through the hat? Did Emma manage somehow to make a magic hat? Also, how did Emma and MM end up back at the police station so quickly before Regina showed up at 8 AM? Did she and MM use Jefferson’s hat or did Mr. Gold somehow play a part? By the end, Emma asked to hold onto Henry’s book. She noticed the resemblance of Paige to a picture of her fairytale counterpart, Grace (aka Alice in Wonderland). Also, Emma noticed the resemblance of Jefferson to the Mad Hatter. Does Emma believe? Henry certainly looked hopeful.
[adrotate group="5"]"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
It’s food for thought. Since Emma escaped FTL before the curse, maybe she has some “superpower ” that she hasn’t discovered yet.
And is the key to her finding her magic, believing, as Jefferson said? I am very interested to see what happens if she believes. Mr. Gold knows she has something or he wouldn’t mess with her.
I think Emma was looking in Henry’s book to see if it showed that the Hatter had a daughter because that is a change from the Alice in Wonderland story she knows.
I do think that the key to everyone getting their memory back is Emma believing.
If Emma keeps the book, then she bound to stumble across pictures of Charming and Snow and Regina. They are in there. We’ve seen them. They are often used as transitional pieces to get us into FTL from SB via Henry’s POV. Maybe that will lead her to accepting the truth of FTL. And then, and only then, can she start to really break the curse.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"In Emma’s case, perhaps magic is believing. I think she’s going to come to believe the tales as she read Henry’s book for herself. She already wants to believe.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Remember too that August told Henry that although he and Henry believe because they have faith, Emma is someone who needs proof in order to believe. I believe now that August added pages to the book in order to give Emma the proof she needed in order to help her believe. So I think that August has added some things to the book that will definately make Emma stop and think that something is not quite right in SB. The question I have is how August would know what to add. It makes me wonder, yet again – going back to another original theory after going back and forth – if August might be Bae. If Rumple supposedly has the ability to see the future, or at least read people well enough to be able to predict the future, maybe August is Bae’s son and he has inherited Rumple’s ability to either see the future or read people really well. If that is the case then he would know what he would need to add to the book to help Emma realize that the book isn’t just a book of made up stories.
I also wonder if Emma doesn’t necessarily need to be magical in the true sense of the word to have magical abilities to the FTL/SB characters. Emma is the only character so far that bridges FTL, SB, and the real world. So, in a way, if Rumple, Henry, or August can get Emma to believe in the book she would be pretty powerful because of the knowledge she would have and because of the ability she would have to travel between lands (especially now that we have seen the Mad Hatter episode). Like Rumple said at the end of the Heart of Darkness episode she could be more powerful than she knows even if she can’t do any magic in the true sense of the word – especially if the FTL characters can’t do any real magic in SB. And I wonder about that now because of the scene between Mr. Gold and Regina outside the Sheriff’s office last night – if they could do magic, it seems like whatever went wrong, would not have gone wrong.
It seemed like Emma actually succeeded in making a magic hat that transported Jefferson out of SB. Since Mr. Gold said Emma is more powerful that she knows to her face and told Regina Emma’s more resourceful than expected, I’m thinking he wants Emma to realize her full potential magically. But, because he’s so subtle, he won’t spell it out for Emma but will let her come to it on her own. Perhaps she has to be the one to figure it out by seeing (as August said to Henry) for the magic to work. It was Mr. Gold who encouraged her to become sheriff in the first place. Also, he planted a key in MM’s cell, which means he must’ve known Emma would go after her, encounter Jefferson, and the whole incident with that hat would trigger Emma’s belief in magic. I’m left wondering if it’s really Mr. Gold’s intention to rid the world of magic or to restore magic. I’m not sure why Mr. Gold would encourage Emma on the one hand, but then try to undermine her. I think Mr. Gold wants Emma not just to have power as a sheriff, but for her to realize her true identity and potential for magic. Not only were we left wondering if Jefferson really did get transported out of SB via a magical hat, but we’re also left wondering how on earth MM managed to return to her jail cell just as the tower clock struck 8, so as to tick off Regina. How could MM have been gone from outside Jefferson’s house as clock first struck 8 and then appear in the jail cell just in time? Magic?
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
@RumplesGirl wrote:
If Emma keeps the book, then she bound to stumble across pictures of Charming and Snow and Regina. They are in there. We’ve seen them. They are often used as transitional pieces to get us into FTL from SB via Henry’s POV. Maybe that will lead her to accepting the truth of FTL. And then, and only then, can she start to really break the curse.
I’m hoping that Emma DID actually recognise Jefferson and his daughter in the pictures, beyond just, “Huh, turns out the Mad Hatter really did have a daughter.” If she actually noticed the resemblance, then I hope she also recognises other book illustrations if she looks through it a bit more.
@rumplegoldfan wrote:
I also wonder if Emma doesn’t necessarily need to be magical in the true sense of the word to have magical abilities to the FTL/SB characters. Emma is the only character so far that bridges FTL, SB, and the real world. So, in a way, if Rumple, Henry, or August can get Emma to believe in the book she would be pretty powerful because of the knowledge she would have and because of the ability she would have to travel between lands (especially now that we have seen the Mad Hatter episode). Like Rumple said at the end of the Heart of Darkness episode she could be more powerful than she knows even if she can’t do any magic in the true sense of the word – especially if the FTL characters can’t do any real magic in SB. And I wonder about that now because of the scene between Mr. Gold and Regina outside the Sheriff’s office last night – if they could do magic, it seems like whatever went wrong, would not have gone wrong.
It’s seemed to me up to this point that no new magic can be conjured up by anyone in Storybrooke. There’s residual magic that came over with the curse, like poor Graham’s heart, but it’s not like Regina can cast new spells. So if in fact Emma did create a magical hat, that’s quite an intriguing development.
We don’t actually have confirmation that the hat WAS magical. It’s reasonable to assume that it was, and that Jefferson got transported somewhere, but there’s always the chance that they’re messing with us and he just landed safely and scurried out of sight.
There’s no doubt though, that as you say rumplegoldfan, traditional magic aside, Emma’s knowledge and belief will be a powerful thing. More powerful than the curse.
@slurpeez108 wrote:
Not only were we left wondering if Jefferson really did get transported out of SB via a magical hat, but we’re also left wondering how on earth MM managed to return to her jail cell just as the tower clock struck 8, so as to tick off Regina. How could MM have been gone from outside Jefferson’s house as clock first struck 8 and then appear in the jail cell just in time? Magic?
After re-watched the episode I observed a headlight in the left corner coming up the road to Jeff’s house. It could be August driving up. Maybe he brought MM back. 🙂
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