@HMVerhagen wrote:
My guess? Regina went to Wonderland and pulled Cora and Jefferson out, and left everyone else there. Maybe she was successful in getting Jefferson to Storybrooke, but her mother somehow got to the area of Fairy Tale Land that wasn’t affected by the curse.
I think that Cora got back to FTL by her own scheming, somehow. Just can’t see Regina wanting to bring her back, especially if Cora stole Papa Mills, and then Regina had to go back to get him. Regina wouldn’t want Cora anywhere in the world where she and her father were.
@HMVerhagen wrote:
I thought the same thing for Jefferson’s wife.
Part of me really hopes that she is Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, and that she jumped into his hat when the twister came for her. Since Oz was a dream in the original movie, they would have to find a way for Dorothy to survive being dropped hundreds of feet without dying. The hat would explain things.
I’ve instantly fallen in love with the theory of Jefferson’s wife being Dorothy, that’s a really cool idea! Another thought on this possibility…maybe she accidentally got sucked into one of the “twisters” that’s created when his hat was activated, and for some reason he couldn’t follow or find her, so he gave the job up.