@Naomi wrote:
There seem to be a lot of clues that the Mystery Man is the White Rabbit. And…I don’t think that idea is too farfetched, if the symbolism is taken less literally. Some time ago people were theorizing that Emma was supposed to be the “Alice” in the show, and that Storybrooke was her “Wonderland”. This is meant figuratively, of course, rather than the actual “Wonderland” we’ve already seen with Jefferson and Regina.
If that’s correct, then who would be Emma’s White Rabbit? Someone who can travel between worlds – as he did in the Lewis Caroll version – and causes her to fall down the rabbit hole. Henry’s father perhaps?
As a completely separate idea: If he is the White Rabbit, wouldn’t that make him loyal to the king and queen of hearts? I’ve heard on the podcast that people were thinking that the Queen of Hearts was actually Cora. It might be interesting if this “Mystery Man” was part of a group who helped Cora get to Storybrooke…
The more I think about it the more the White Rabbit thing makes sense to me. It’s possible that Bae ‘fell through a rabbit hole’ when he was sucked into the vortex taking him to Wonderland forcing him to work for the Queen of Hearts (and wouldn’t that just be something if Cora really is the QOH. Having Rumplestiltskin son working for her, haha). Maybe he even became friendly with Jefferson (after Jefferson got stuck there) again there would be a connection where they might share things with each other, Jefferson loosing Paige and Bae loosing father…When Regina cast the curse it pulled Jefferson into SB and somehow threw Bae into the real world where he met Emma.
I’m convinced there’s a connection between Jefferson and Bae either way. Because again, how would he KNOW where Belle could be found. Regina didn’t tell him. Rumple never said anything to anyone in town. There’s no records he could have looked up. Somehow, he knew from SOMEBODY that Belle was a major thing to Rumple and he would want revenge. That person had to have had someway of looking in on Rumple…..like through a ‘looking glass’. Someone that would want to know what he was up too but not necessarily want to be around Rumple. Bae.
Also, something that just popped into my head. The ‘Cleaner’s and Hatter’s’ sign in the Mystery Man’s apartment. A ‘cleaner’ is another word for a hit man. Now I’m not completely up on my Wonderland lore but wasn’t the White Rabbit one of the people that would announce when the Queen wanted somebody’s head removed or at least present at the beheading?
One thing that’s bothering me though. The dove. I keep going back to the commentary on the Skin Deep episode and remembering them discuss how they used a dove to relay the message from Belle (her father or Gaston, possibly) to Rumple that they needed help. The scene was cut though. I just, I can’t get past the form of communication. The dove. Or maybe, it’s like in HP and all fairy tale people use dove’s instead of owl’s. lol