Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20171129175600/@comment-25926288-20180320154948

CoolDudeAl wrote: Yep, this. Either the writers completely failed, or Alice was not being totally honest with Ella. As the writers have never made a mistake that large (having a character not even be alive when said events happened), I'm inclined to believe that something that Alice said maybe wasn't the whole truth. Since we think 718 might be an Alice-centric, maybe this gets explained in that episode, because I don't think we have room for it in this episode.

The only time that was real wonky was when they inserted a whole flashback within a seamless and continiuous scene from 2x09 in Swan Song. Like, that was atrocious. I can headcanon that Emma and Hook’s time travel adventure changed things, but officially, the writers act like 2x09 didn’t have a seamless and continuous scene. They did that bad retcon to give validity to the retcon that Regina gave Hook a heart-ripping potion.

We can headcanon that Alice lied if it isn’t answered, but I hope so. This episode will probably tell us if and when she escaped and maybe a little bit of her in Wonderland...maybe.