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Oct 18, 2013 · In the second episode of Wonderland, we learn more about Alice and Cyrus history, and the lengths she'll go to to get him back.
Oct 17, 2013 · Trust Me: Directed by Romeo Tirone. With Sophie Lowe, Michael Socha, Peter Gadiot, Emma Rigby. A flashback reveals how Alice and Cyrus fell in love.
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—Alice to Cyrus
"Trust Me" is the second episode of ABC's Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. It was written by Rina Mimoun and directed by Romeo Tirone. It premiered on October 17, 2013.
In Wonderland, Alice concocts a plan to find Cyrus and uses his genie bottle as bait to find out who she's up against and who her real friends are. Meanwhile, the Red Queen and Jafar face off and in flashback, viewers find out how Alice and Cyrus fell in love and how Cyrus ends up in Wonderland.
Many years ago in Agrabah. Jafar is flying into town on a magic carpet, when he stops by a scarf shop in the marketplace. Once entering the shop, he speculates how it is possible for a man who earns low income can have a well-appointed home, a garden with many vegetables, and own two camels, when most men can barely afford one. The man states he's been very fortunate, to which Jafar agrees, and states it seems as if he has everything a man could wish for. He probes, questioning the man as to whether or not he has come across someone who can grant wishes. The man, who has grown particularly nervous and uneasy, plays it off, stating his wealth comes from a family investment that is “finally begun to pay off”. When Jafar questions this, a noises indicating that the pan of boiling water is burning goes off. The man excuses himself to the back room to fix it.
When he gets back there, he turns off the stove and immediately retrieves his genie's lamp, pulling it open. Cyrus appears. The man frantically states that the man Cyrus has told him about has come/ Cyrus explains that it's not his master he is after, but him. Despite Cyrus trying to convince the man that he can help him, and that he shouldn't wish him away, the man digresses. The man is frantic to get Cyrus away, and uses his last wish to wish Cyrus far away from Agrabah, as far away as “the earth is to the sun”. Jafar bursts into the room as he utters the last words of the wish, and Cyrus and the bottle is whisked away. Enraged, Jafar suffocates the man and asks where the genie went, to which he states he does not know. Jafar proceeds to kill him. The scenes moves to Cyrus, as he rattles about his bottle as it whisks far away from Agrbah until it lands. Cyrus looks out the window of his bottle to see where he is. The screen pans out to reveal the bottle is under one of the bushes in the maze at the Red Queen's palace in Wonderland.
In present day, Alice awakes a sleeping Knave with a branch. She is practicing her swordsmanship. They say they need to get moving, as they have been in Wonderland too long already, and their enemies know they are there. Talking, Alice states she has a plan. Though they don't know where Cyrus is, they know where his bottle is. Her plan is simple, she believes. Find the bottle, and then make three harmless wishes so he will be forcibly brought back to his bottle. The Knave will then rub the bottle; Cyrus will reappear, and be reunited with her. She reveals that she hid the bottle at a place nobody goes. They then proceed on their journey to retrieve the bottle, deciding to leave the still sleeping White Rabbit (who is actually awake and making snoring noises as he listens to their conversation) behind as he has already been through enough.
Cyrus awakens from his sleep in his cage and states Alice's name as he touches his heart. His urgency causes the olden man in the other cage to ask for his well being. Cyrus doesn't answer, but looks on nervously, breathing heavily.
At the Red Queen's castle, the people of Wonderland have come to share their complaints with the Red Queen. Disinterested, she listens to their pleas and tells them that their problems bore her. Before they could respond in full outrage, they are magically paused. The Red Queen inspects this, and smiles as she realizes it means Jafar is there. After telling him to reveal himself, they speak about her listening to the people's problems. Jafar states it's a flaw for her to try to earn their respect rather than just take it, to which she replies she took the throne and Wonderland. But Jafar observes that it's still not enough for her, to which she replies that he too, is not satisfied with the power he has, or else they both would not be messing around with Alice and her genie. They argue about if the other can do what they say they can do. It is here that it is revealed that what the Red Queen wants from Jafar is for him to change the laws of magic. Jafar states he can do that, but only with the bottle, to which she should focus on instead of her people. She disagrees, saying it's her job as Queen to listen. Jafar “clears her day” by killing all of those he froze, insisting she now proceeds to find the bottle.
Will and Alice are making their way to the bottle's location. Will questions whether or not Alice has thought about what will happen when she reunited with Cyrus, and asks what she'd do if he was nothing like she thought. She asks him what he means by that, to which he replies that she should protect herself by considering the possibility that things may be different since the last time she saw him. Alice doesn't like his response, and say Cyrus needs her. Will questions why he hasn't contacted her if he needs her, since he must know she is there if she knows he is there. She says it must be because he is in trouble, so they need to pick up the pace. Will doesn't drop the subject, though, and asks what if Cyrus has moved on. Fed up, Alice says what she and Cyrus had, Will would not understand. They are stopped in their journey when their ground ends and they come across a large ocean.
Starring
•Sophie Lowe as Alice •Michael Socha as Knave of Hearts •Peter Gadiot as Cyrus •Emma Rigby as the Red Queen •Naveen Andrews as Jafar •John Lithgow as the White Rabbit
Guest Starring
•Brian George as Old Prisoner •Jordana Largy as Silvermist
Co-Starring
•Michael Antonakos as Bearded Man •Ben Cotton as Tweedledum •Matty Finochio as Tweedledee •Sarah Hayward as Townsperson 1 •Gerry Rousseau as Townsperson 2
Title
•The title card features Silvermist. •The title of this episode was announced by Adam Horowitz via his Twitter account on August 9, 2013.
Production Notes
•REUSED ACTOR: Sarah Hayward, who plays Townsperson 1, also plays the Villager in the Once Upon a Time episode "Operation Mongoose Part 1", and the Villager in the Once Upon a Time episode "The Broken Kingdom". •REUSED ACTOR: Gerry Rousseau, who plays Townsperson 2, also plays the Miller in the Once Upon a Time episode "The Miller's Daughter". •REUSED FOOTAGE: The establishing shot of Agrabah is reused as stock footage in "The Serpent" and "Dirty Little Secrets". •HIDDEN DETAILS: During Jafar's visit to the Red Queen's palace, the vase of roses sitting in the Red Queen's throne room is full. By the time the Red Queen imprisons Will Scarlet in "The Serpent", the roses have dwindled in size. •ABANDONED IDEAS: Alice says that her mother used to play music and died when she was born. The show writers wanted to include a story about Alice's mother on the show but they never got the chance.
Event Chronology
•The Agrabah flashbacks occur after "The Serpent" and before Agrabah is trapped inside the diamond in the Once Upon a Time episode "A Wondrous Place". •The Wonderland flashbacks occur after Alice meets Cyrus for the first time in "Down the Rabbit Hole" and before "Home". •The present-day Wonderland events take place after "Down the Rabbit Hole" and before "Forget Me Not".
Oct 17, 2013 · A flashback reveals how Alice and Cyrus fell in love.
"Trust Me" is the second episode of the Once Upon a Time spin-off series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. Alice (Sophie Lowe) develops a plan to find Cyrus (Peter Gadiot) and uses his genie bottle as bait to find out who she is up against and who she can trust. Sophie Lowe as Alice Michael Socha as Will Scarlet Peter Gadiot as Cyrus Emma Rigby as the Red Queen Naveen Andrews as Jafar John ...
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