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It's also interesting to note that in Fairytale Land, Regina used Jefferson to retrieve her father, the man she later killed in order to supplement her dark power. Gold pulling a reverse-Sidney and playing loyal to Regina, when in actuality, he's working against her with Emma? Only time will tell, but it's nice to know that we're still unable to predict Rumple's motivations in either world. Gold had planted the key in Mary Margaret's cell and allowed her to escape, because he's seemingly in league with Regina, who wanted to make sure Mary Margaret ran off and missed the arraignment. Perhaps the episode's most intriguing development, though, was the revelation that Mr. Of course, Regina used him and double-crossed him, as she always does, leaving him stranded in Wonderland to be captured by the Queen of Hearts, forced to make thousands of hats in an attempt to recapture the magic that would allow him to get back to his world and his loving daughter. Feeling inadequate that he couldn't provide her with the white rabbit toy she wanted (a clever guilt-trip executed by our Evil Queen while disguised as an old crone) he agreed to do one last task for Regina - using his magic hat to transport the queen into another land. In Fairytale Land, he was a devoted father who had some kind of past experience with Regina, but had since ended his association with her and retired to the woods to live with his precocious daughter, Grace. Sebastian Stan played our sympathetic Mad Hatter, known as Jefferson in both worlds, and I choose to believe that this name was picked wholly because of the association between Jefferson Airplane and their trippy song "White Rabbit," based on the Alice in Wonderland tales.