Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24304025-20140614160011/@comment-4975807-20140614194749

FrancisPaul wrote: 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. But can we be so sure they retained memories from that entire time period? They could have just had their memories wiped clean to their cursed selves from the very first day the curse was enacted. The first day already gave them false memories of who they were and what lives they led as if that had always been the case. That would make the most sense (in my head) considering Belle, Mr. Clark and Smee all lost their EF memories from going across the line. It wouldn't make sense for Mr. Clark and Smee to lose their EF memories, revert to their false memories and remember everything that happened from the first day of the curse to just before the curse broke *if* the same did not happen for Belle. I agree that if this is the case, Belle should indeed remember, after crossing the town line, Jefferson freeing her and telling her to find Mr. Gold.