Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-86.143.190.179-20130201010818/@comment-5521796-20130201015028

''So potentially there is a gap? When hook tries to get info out of her - to when she is seen in Storybrook.''

There technically isn't a gap. From the time Hook tried to get info from her when she was captured by the EQ, then Hook went to Wonderland and brought Cora back, Regina said her "goodbyes" and then a day or so later cast the curse. I don't think that's enough time for Belle to have somehow escaped and gone to Neverland & then be captured by Regina again.