I will say, that with all the comments about family, at the beginning, I almost felt like Regina and Jefferson were somehow related and estranged. So it would be interesting to know how they knew each other, especially since he told his daughter he didn’t know her, which means he hadn’t seen her for quite some time, but obviously he knew her when they talked in the house and had some sort of history.
I posted this about an hour ago on the forum thread Regina and the Queen of hearts 🙂
The way she told Jefferson he should never have left his daughter, when she left Wonderland with her father seemed to have an accusation to it. Jefferson said his wife was gone because of the magic (I assume hat) that he had. It seemed like he quit practicing whatever magic he had because of this. So perhaps his wife died or got caught somewhere and he inadvertantly had to leave her. The hat apparently has rules on traveling in and out of the worlds. Or perhaps there is some issue of abandonment/ estrangement between he and Regina some other way. Maybe he is her true love’s brother. Who knows where the writers will take us with that.
But yes, I agree there seemed to be more familiarity between them than just acquaintances.