Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24846659-20140813193020/@comment-24769579-20140930103958

Dr. Kangaroo wrote: Crazy Theory Alert:

If Elsa was trapped in Rumple's vault, that means she must be in the Pawn Shop, right? That's where Gold's stuff went. So maybe there are 2 Elsa's now. The Elsa from the past (Georgina Haig) and the still trapped, present Elsa (Elizabeth Mitchell) who aged while in the goblet and turned evil because of the long years of solitude in the goblet, so becoming more of the original Snow Queen.

She was taken from the past before the curse hit.