Once Upon A Time In Wonderland Recap S01E02: Trust Me

Many Years ago in Agrabah, in the market Jafar tracks down a man who is living way beyond his means, obviously a man who has everything he could wish for. Jafar asks who is granting the wishes, but Fazhir claims a family investments. He uses the kettle distraction to go into the other room, and use his final wish to wish Cyrus far away from Agrabah. Jafar doesn't get what he wants, and without the genie, Fazhir no longer has any leverage, and doesn't get Jafar's mercy. Cyrus meanwhile gets tossed around his bottle and lands in the Queens maze in Wondrland.

Alice uses the trees as target practice, waking the Knave. She has a plan and a new outfit. The clothes horse made a visit, but the Knave would rather a coffee horse. Alice tells the Knave her plan, to find Cyrus's bottle, rub it, and make some wishes. She's trusting the Knave to behave when they find the bottle and he becomes his new master. Cyrus feels a disturbance in the force.

The Queen listens to her subjects with little interest, when Jafar silences them. Neither are really happy with what they have, and spend most of the time nitpicking at each other. Theres no faith between the wicked. Jafar demmolishes the Queen's responsibilities, and leaves her to her task.

The Knave follows Alice, cautioning her to be careful what she's wishing for. Time changes people, and genies alike, but Alice believes that their love is unique, and that nothing will get in the way, until an entire sea does.

The Queen gets her pedicure on, while the rabbit tells a little white lie.

Alice prepares for a dip, but the Knave isn't so keen on it, or of water in general. He may be pretty but he's not much of a swimmer. The Knave would rather walk around, but Alice insists on taking a fairy. They do a little clapping, and fairy summoning. Silvermist answers their call, but she and the Knave has history. She swears shes a professional, and agree to take them.

Cyrus has a visitor, whose cage is different from his own. it seems that silver and genies don't mix, and Cyrus s in a gilded cage. He finally comes up with an idea. He remembers when he gave Alice the wishes, when she finally released the rabbit she'd caught. Wishes have limitation. Can't kill anyone, can't change the past, can't bring anyone back from the dead and  can't make anyone fall in love. Alice asks what if she wishes him free, but Cyrus tells her that it never ends well for him or the wisher.

Silvermist done with hearing Alice and the Knave's banter, drops him from the sky. Alice asks Silvermist to get him, and she refuses, so Alice drops herself after him. So much for Silvermist being a profession. I hope they file a complaint with the Better Fairy Bureau. Alice rescues a floundering Knave, too bad Ariel is in Neverland, they could have used a mermaid. Alice wonders how he became this way. The Knave tells her that her memories may betray her.

Flashback. And Cyrus looks around worried, all genies are wanted men. Alice learns of Jafar, and she worries about him. But curiosity gets the better of her, and she begins questioning her, from dragons to swordplay to surviving wonderland. Cyrus does his best to charm the naive girl, and she falls hook, line and sinker.

The Queen tends to her flowers, still not really doing anything. Jafar comes to check in on her, and of course she wants a token demonstration. Jafar doesn't take her demand for proof lightly, and he freezes her. He tells her how things really are, and reduces the lovely Queen to a pawn. She coughs up the genie bottle location.

Alice ponders how to get to the bottle now, and a little tantrum reveals that their island isn't so much an island, but a turtle. Alice awakens the turtle, and their little quest gets back on track.

Alice gets some sword lessons from Cyrus in the past. She's a fast learner. And when he disarms her, he advises to be smarter than your opponent, to know them. And Alice knows her opponent, and they share their first kiss.

The Knave tries to take a moment after getting onto solid ground. As Alice tries to hurry him, Silvermist appears again. She spills about him being in deep with the caterpillar, and when she pushes about Anastacia. She's gone too far. The Knave gives her a genuine apology, and asks her not to punish Alice because he's a bad guy. Hearing the first real bit of remorse, she leaves them.

Flashback. Alice wants to go see the world with Cyrus, but he urges her to make her wishes. He's falling in love, and it can't happen because once she does make her wishes, she'll be gone. And though he's use to a life of solitude, he can't imagine a life without her, and the longer they're together, the harder their parting would be. Alice promises to not make wishes so they can be together forever, and they set off to bury his bottle.

Jafar makes it to the field, and sends his scarabs off to locate the bottle. Alice and the Knave arrive and see that they aren't the first to arrive. The bottle isn't in the field, never was. She kept announcing where they were headed, to see who they were up against. It was also a test for the Knave, which he passes with flying colors. They go to where the bottle actually is, only it isn't there anymore, and Alice's faith in the Genie falters just a tad.

The genie enchants a letter, folded into a crane to find Alice. Jafar threatens the Genie with Alice's death, if he doesn't give up the bottles location. But the Queen has leveled the playing field. After his antics earlier, he broke her trust, and now she has the bottle.

Alice believes that he must have moved on. The Knave tries to reason that maybe someone else knew too, but Alice believe it's impossible, and without that hope, she's broken.

The rabbit believes his end of the bargain has been fulfilled. But the Queen believes otherwise. She asks him how he knew of the bottles location, and he saw them plant it in the ground and walk away.

The Knave urges Alice to get some rest, but she cannot. He apologizes for planting the idea in her head, and tells her not to believe him. She asks again about Anastacia, but he isn't ready to spill that heartbreaking tale. He tells her that when you truly love someone, you can't move on, but our dear old Alice has daddy issues that make her believe otherwise. Cyrus's papercrane lands just in time. She gets the proof she needed. His letter begs her to grant him a wish, to leave Wonderland. He cannot bear her death, and her staying would lead to that. Ever headstrong, Alice sends him back a message telling him that she's coming for him.