Looks like a flashback?

When I saw Portland, I immediately thought of the one in Maine. Emma’s been able to leave town before, so if that hasn’t changed, perhaps now that she’s back in town, she’s gone to Portland for something. Maybe she’s investigating the past of Henry’s father and is chasing down some police records on him, and that led her to the Portland police station?

Yay- cant wait for Emma’s backstory! Personally the bug looks a touch, untouched for it to be post storybrooke- poor car as seen what 2 crashes now lol 😉

That bug is from the 70s. She could have had that thing from before she was born. I love Emma’s car.

Oh Cool – Emma’s bug is indeed HERBIE!!!!! Awesome! 😎

Now this has me thinking that maybe all things & people magical/ not of ‘this’ reality/world, kind of find their way together- A bit like magnets I suppose- they are the only ones carrying an other worldliness with-in themselves in our non-magical world, so they are drawn to each other ❓

Just a thought, but it could explain how Bae could have hooked up with Emma in our world (out of all people!), to have Henry. He was married with a troubled past etc but that connection was still there with Emma, it ends messy with him disappearing & Emma having Henry in jail & so on ‘n’ so forth.

hjbau wrote: I hope Emma had her bug back then, but i also sort of wish that Emma would keep Henry for a bit. Like have him and then get out of jail and then get to keep him for a bit right after he is born.

Didn’t Regina say she got Henry when he was three weeks old? I have a feeling that if Emma had a baby in jail at age 16 or 17 then she probably didn’t keep him. It’s likely that Henry would have been taken into child custody and become a ward of the state from the time of his birth. I doubt many underage criminals are allowed to keep their babies behind bars. Even if her sentence came to an end just after she gave birth, we know she didn’t keep Henry very long at all (not more than a week or so).

Phee wrote: It’s a vintage vehicle from the right era, no doubt about that. But is a troubled teenager rebelling against the foster system gonna have her own car? Let alone one she’d keep in storage somewhere while she’s in jail so she can use it again after she gets out?

As much as I’d like for the car to have belonged to a young Emma, there is the practical issue that Phee raised. How would a young teenager just out of the foster system and caught up in a bad situation afford a car? Even if someone gave it to her (e.g. Henry’s dad), how would she have kept it while she served her time? She had no income to store it. I could see her getting it maybe at age 19 or 20 after being out of prison and working a few years to save up as she rebuilt her life.