Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24304025-20140614160011/@comment-24304025-20140614173924

You don't understand what I mean.

Mr. Clark only remembered what happened from 1983 to a couple of months of 2012.

Smee would remember anything from that timeframe as well if the potion had not worked.

So Belle, BEFORE Regina's intervention, should remember her as someone captive in an asylum who one day was set free and told to look for Mr. Gold.