So I’m thinking last night after listening to the podcast about the summary given for this episode:
“Hat Trick” – While searching for a missing Mary Margaret, Emma is kidnapped by a man whose affinity for hats has him teetering on the edge of madness. Meanwhile, viewers will be transported outside of the fairytale land that was for the first time when the Evil Queen persuades a skillful man of magic to come work for her one last time and travel to Wonderland in order to help steal something from the Queen of Hearts,
Two things stand out in this episode summary — Jefferson is called a skillful man of magic and the Queen persuades him to work for her one last time.
The working for her one last time lends credence to her having know him previously, and him having worked for her other times. I think she says to him when confronting him at his home “this one last thing” when she hands him the paper to read.
She also comments on his position in life now, asking how he can live there, making me think he once had a lot more and had been used to a much richer kind of life, if you will.
The summary also states he is a skillful man of magic, not that he is a man with a magic hat.So I am wondering if there is more to Jefferson than we know?
What I thought of last night was who would have magic and be in a position of wealth? Perhaps a court magician. Which then made me think of Merlin, which then made me think of Wart, who was the magicians apprentice in Sword in the Stone, which then made me think of Mickey Mouse as the magician’s apprentice in Fantasia. So then I thought, what if Jefferson was a magician’s apprentice with great promise, who worked for Regina at one time, but who had something go terribly wrong and “lost” his wife, and so he gave up magic?
That’s where my train of thought took me, so wanted to get it down before I forget. Choo! Choo!