Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20141027013232/@comment-25602483-20141104012127

Andrew.scott.503 wrote: Has it been established that the Snow Queen was in the LWM very close to when baby Emma came through in 1983? Sara had a file on Emma, which had we saw had a newspaper clipping about Emma (and Pinocchio) being found next to the freeway in 1983, but this doesn't establish when she crossed over.

At first I thought Ingrid was an agent working for Rumples... now I am not so sure of this.

I think Ingrid learned something about Rumples through Anna though. With her plans to reestablish a family (her two lost sisters) with Anna and Elsa in Avondale didn't work out, I wonder if she started to spy on Rumples (and eventually Regina - through their mirrors of course - it has been established she's an expert with magic mirrors. Hey if Zelena\WWotW was able to do this, I don't see why the Snow Queen wouldn't).

Through the spying, she figured out about the dark curse and that Emma would be the savior. Somehow, she inserted herself into Regina's dark curse (perhaps by hitching a ride by inserting herself into Regina's mirror, or into one of Rumples\Gold's artifacts - Sara Ice-cream parlor was after all next to Gold's pawn shop). If that is correct, she would still need to protect her memories from the dark curse and be able to come and go from Storybrooke without raising Regina's suspicions and suffering "bad things" when crossing the border... Perhaps not being officially in the town records is a hint that she was not subject to the dark curse effects? Maybe not. ( Maybey not) First, in the episode of "The Family Business", she had the scroll that contained a prophecy, which I think means she didn't need to know about rumplestiltskin's plan. Secondly, it is likely that The Snow Queen had managed to cross over before the curse hit, and it is extremely unlikely that she was part of the curse for the fact that retaining memories had nothing to do being able to cross over the town line. If you remember, even though Mr. Gold retained his memories all those years that Regina thought he had lost them, yet he wasn't able to really cross the townline after Emma broke the curse, and he still can't afterwards without the help of a spell he made to retain his memories. Although, your theory about hitching a ride can be intepreted this way. What is she can travel across mirrors to go to other realms, in this case, a land without magic, then it is plausible.