Who’s Jefferson?

I did notice that too seems like an odd thing to lie about…

Yes, there’s more to Regina’s story with Jefferson than meets the eye. In the promo for upcoming episodes, there is a brief clip of Regina meeting Rumpel, and Jefferson is there. I think that could be when she was starting to learn magic for the first time in FTL. Also, I think she may have been playing dumb about Jefferson, because he knows a lot about magic and realm-jumping, and Regina doesn’t want to give away “state secrets” to Emma or the Charmings. She doesn’t want them to acquire magic, and she said it right before she found out Emma already has it. Also, Regina must have been surprised that Emma had met Jefferson and was trying to cover up her lack of knowledge about what happened in 1×17; Regina could be “saving face” so as not to appear vulnerable. Her default setting for 28 years has been one of total control and playing this pretense when Emma and Henry tried to pin the blame on her for events in S1.

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Yes, there’s more to Regina’s story with Jefferson than meets the eye. In the promo for upcoming episodes, there is a brief clip of Regina meeting Rumpel, and Jefferson is there. I think that could be when she was starting to learn magic for the first time in FTL. Also, I think she may have been playing dumb about Jefferson, because he knows a lot about magic and realm-jumping, and Regina doesn’t want to give away “state secrets” to Emma or the Charmings. She doesn’t want them to acquire magic, and she said it right before she found out Emma already has it. Also, Regina must have been surprised that Emma had met Jefferson and was trying to cover up her lack of knowledge about what happened in 1×17; Regina could be “saving face” so as not to appear vulnerable. Her default setting for 28 years has been one of total control and playing this pretense when Emma and Henry tried to pin the blame on her for events in S1.

Yes, I think she was just lying. There have been plenty of other times where it’s been debated whether Regina was actually lying, and most likely she was. Like in “Fruit of the Poisonous Tree”, there was a lot of debate on whether or not Regina actually had feelings for the Genie or was just acting like she did especially at the end of the episode, so I think Regina is just really good at lying except perhaps to Mr. Gold because he knows her too well and isn’t willing to give her any benefit of the doubt.

That was a very odd moment in the episode!!: I think Regina has a stronger connection to Jefferson, and we will eventually see it: and she does not want Emma to know about it and use it against her…i guess only time will tell!!!

I agree though that part, and a few other parts came across as odd instead of the episode flowing properly. So it wasn’t a perfect episode, but it was streets ahead of quite a few season one episodes for me.

I think that Regina was lying. She never knew about what happened in “Hat Trick.” And I also think that Emma made a working hat in that episode, but Regina doesn’t know that.

Yes, I’m not sure if they’ll get back via Emma’s Hat. I don’t believe so because I think they’re going to have to find another way back besides a hat, but I think that Emma’s Hat will be important later on.

The wraith got part of Regina’s soul, and the Jefferson memories went with it? Depending on what else went, this could interfere with her redemption before or after she gets the memories back.