The last Once Upon A Time in Wonderland is finally here! Jafar and Amara work together to change the laws of magic. The room is like a giant static ball. With the spell complete, Amara goes to her fallen son, but Jafar isn’t happy with another being his equal, and he moves to kill Amara. His father interrupts, telling him that to show real power sometimes you must show mercy. He father never loved him, and without the laws of magic in his way, he makes his father love him. His father turns into the loving doting father he always wanted, but that isn’t all Jafar wanted. He wants his father to feel what it feels like to be murdered by someone he loves. Jafar drowns him, but doesn’t get the satisfaction he was hoping for. He turns back to Amara, Alice and Cyrus, but they’re gone. Carrying Cyrus between them the ladies try to make a getaway, but they still have far to go, so Amara makes a carpet fly to assist her.

Jafar goes to find the Jabberwocky, to see what he fears now. She listens, and shockingly finds that he fears nothing. He turns her blade against her, and pins her like a butterfly to the wall. She asks what he will do with all his powers. He tells her anything that he wants.

The girls head over to the rabbit’s home, where Amara heals Cyrus, taking back his injuries. Cyrus comes back, and Alice realizes that she hasn’t been properly introduced, and introduces herself. The White rabbit fusses over the new bloodstains in is home, and Amara thanks her for everything that she’s done for Cyrus. Amara hopes that Alice has saved some of that luck, to bring down Jafar.

Jafar releases his Genie, the Knave Will, who still doesn’t have a high opinion of him. Jafar tells him that despite the fact that Will did not hold up his end of the bargain, he plans to hold up his. Jafar has brought back Anastacia, but there’s a barrier between them. Will isn’t sure why Jafar did it, but he thanks him. Jafar tells him that thanks are not necessary. Jafar brought her back, but she’s not the same, she loves Jafar now. Ana kisses Jafar, breaking the poor Knave’s heart. Will is done with the display, but the barrier keeps him from striking out. Jafar changed the laws of magic, and is using it to torture Will. He has big plans, ones that includes the Red Queen, and zombies.

Alice heads towards the palace. Amara wants to returns the water instead to the well of waters. With the water returned, the genies will be no more, and also Jafar’s magic. Cyrus points out that it will also disable Amara, but that’s what must be done, the laws of magic were put into place for a reason. Alice made a promise to Will to save the Red Queen, but Amara tells her that it cannot be done. Cyrus agrees, that to save the Red Queen she’ll sacrifice Will. She decides that returning the waters is the best option, that they should split up, because although losing magic will disarm Jafar, but it won’t defeat him. Alice will take the rabbit, and gather troops, so that once the water is returned they can storm the castle and rescue will. The lovebirds say goodbye for now.

Jafar welcomes him men back to the land of the living, telling them that he is the one they should thank, that they owe him a debt to repay. He wants them to help him preserve this land, and their lives. To do that they must just locate Amara and he allies. He warns that if anything or anyone gets in their way, break it burn it or kill it anything to bring Wonderland to its knees

Alice and her small band of troops creep through the woods. Alice tries to calm fears, to rally her men while the rabbits scout ahead. She tells the followers that what lies ahead is dangerous and important, that if they wish to turn back now she does not blame them, for they need to be resolute in battle. They’re not just fighting for themselves, but those they love, for Wonderland. With hope renewed they prepare to strike back.

Amara approves of the bravery Alice has shown as she and Cyrus get closer to the well. Alice looks for the rabbit, but finds a band of Jafar’s men. Cyrus and Amara, too are surrounded, but whereas Alice fairly kicks some major butt, Cyrus wishes to warn his attackers. Amara disarms the men with her magic, and forces them to use their own daggers against themselves. Cyrus realizes without magic, that Alice does not stand a chance. Alice fares well in her battle, but her men do not, and they’re slaughtered. She is taken hostage back to the castle. Will sees Alice’s arrival, and he’s powerless to help her, but Alice, ever feisty takes a swing at Jafar. Jafar stops her before he punch can land with magic, and plants her in a chair. She sees the Red Queen alive, and well on a nearby chaise, cozying up to Jafar. Another bout of PDA, turns both Alice’s and Will’s stomach. Jafar asks for Alice’s help to find Amara. He asks about the laws of magic, and checks them all off of things that he can now do. He can reach back into the past, and twist them. He ponders what means the most to her to change. He moves to make it as if she never came to Wonderland. Never met her true love, and is still just the ignored and lonely girl. Jafar prepares her for a new heartbreak, to have never loved at all. He spins her engagement ring around in a wine glass. Should she give up Amara, then she can keep her love. Will tells her that its over, to tell him, and save herself. Alice tells him to go ahead and change the past. Their love means everything to her, and he thinks perhaps that she’s underestimating his power. She tells him that he’s underestimating hers, believing that their love is more powerful than any magic. No matter what he does to her, Jafar can never feel true love for himself. Jafar asks what about the Red Queen, an illusion, a lie. All the magic in the world cannot measure up to the love that she has felt, and true love cannot be destroyed. A pair of guards come with news of Amara and Cyrus’s whereabouts, Amara went through a pair of red doors. Jafar asks Alice about the red doors, and she stonewalls. Jafar calls Anastasia forward, and asks her where the red door lead. Alice and Will both beg for her to not tell him, but she happily spills the beans.

Cyrus and Amara make it to the well of Wonders. Cyrus leans before the well, about to summon the Nyx, but Amara stops him, she already knows she’s there. The Nyx rise’s waters shimmer.

Will wonders if they won’t make it, Alice knows that they will. Anastasia tells them to give it up as she reads her magazine, but Alice tells her that they weren’t talking to her. She tells them not to talk at all them. Will notices the Rabbit creeping in, and he moves to distract Anastasia so that the rabbit can untie Alice. He asks for a drink, but she won’t do it. Anastasia spots the rabbit, and shoos him away from Alice. Will tells her that she’s not really in love with Jafar, but she still thinks that she is. He tells her that love isn’t that easy, its messy and complicated, and sometimes seems unworth the trouble, but it is. And in the end you forgive each other whatever you did. He forgives Anastasia for all that she’s done to him, because he loves her. He asks that if any part of her still has a shred of love inside, to help them. They’re just words to her, she thinks she knows what she feels. Will maintains that its just a curse, and she wonders if what she feels is just a curse what love really is. Will reaches through the barrier, and pulls her in for a kiss breaking the spell on her. She asks if she wants to stop Jafar, that he needs to hurry up. Will jumps forward, but the barrier is still in place, knocking him on his behind. Anastasia moves to untie Alice, she’s fully back.

The Nyx rises. Amara surrenders herself, surrenders the water to fix the balance, and release her sons. The Nyx tells her to step forward, and Cyrus stops her. Amara asks him to let her go, and he does. She goes to meet the Nyx, but Jafar has arrived, pulling her back to him with magic. He knocks Cyrus back, as he kills Amara with his magic. Amara dies on the foot of the well, all of the water draining away from her on the steps. Jafar asks him what he hopes to accomplish, and he does not answer still shocked. The rabbit and Alice arrive from the ground disctracting Jafar. He mocks her efforts, bringing just a sword and a rabbit to face him, and knocks the rabbit away. While he holds Alice immobilized, Alice tells Cyrus to go, get the water. Cyrus scoops what water he can into his hands and returns it to the well, but Jafar grabs the water before it falls. Jafar guesses that if the water is returned then the genies’ curses are broken. Jafar smashes the water, thinking that he’s won. He asks Alice what she plans to do now that he’s stolen the water. Alice tells him that she plans to do nothing, that she told him that he would be his own undoing. He didn’t steal the water from her, but from the Nyx. The Nyx rises, and bestows upon Jafar the same genie curse she had amongst Cyrus and his brothers, and sends him far away in his bottle before he can retaliate against Alice. From Nyx a surge of power sweeps out across the land, restoring the balance of magic. The brothers and Will are free, and Anastasia is dead once more. Cyrus and Alice reunite. The rabbit finds the battle over.

Cyrus reunites with his brothers, and it’s a happy greeting, until they ask about their mother. He tells them that she gave her life for theirs, so that they could build the families she always dreamed of. Taj asks if it was all for nothing, but Cyrus tells him it wasn’t, it was for everything. The Red Queen is still gone, and Will mourns for her again. He tells Alice in the end she did the right thing, and he cannot believe that he has to go through the pain of losing her again. Alice tells him that it wasn’t her time. Cyrus has water from the well of wonders, but Will doesn’t want to risk it. The water was not stolen, but given by the guardian this time. The red Queen’s path was meant to go on. Will gives her the water, and she returns. She asks what happened, and he tells her that it’s a long story, but now she has the time to listen.

Alice and Cyrus look over the horizon. She tells him that she thinks that she’s ready, to leave Wonderland, to start a new adventure. The rabbit arrives with perfect timing, and Alice wishes to go home. Home in England, Alice’s father comes to get her. He tells her that she looks beautiful. He’s proud and happy to welcome Cyrus into their family. He thanks her for proving it was real, not Wonderland, but forgiveness. The bride arrives for her small ceremony full of people from both Wonderland, and her life in England. Alice and Cyrus wed with the rabbit officiating, with the Knave and Anastasia watching, the rabbit, Tweedle, and Cyrus’s brothers. The knave interrupts the wedding for but a moment, but it was just in jest. In sickness, and in health, for better or worse, until death doesn’t really apply for them, they’ve already been all those together, but they kiss and become one. The Knave prepares to head back to Wonderland, to fix it, and Alice tells him that he’s welcome there any times. Alice thanks the rabbit for bringing her to Wonderland, and he tells her that many people come to Wonderland, but few find the important thing there, themselves. It’s hugs and promises to see each other soon, all around, but both Will and Alice pause in going their separate ways. Alice rushes back to the Knave, and holds him tight. She thanks him for everything, telling him to hold onto his heart this time, and for her to do the same. She watches him leave, and it’s bittersweet. She heads back into her home.

Alice reads to her child a story of the White King and White Queen who restored Wonderland with the help of their rabbits. Her daughter asks what she’s going to call it, and she leaves it up to her to name it. She calls it Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. She asks if the stories are true, because their so unbelievable, and she tells her that anything is possible in Wonderland. Cyrus brings tea, and the family sits for tea as the rabbit watches.

And that folks is the series finale. Don’t despair that the series didn’t get picked up for a second season, it was only every intended as a one shot season. Personally I’ll be glad to be rid of Alice and her Genie, especially with the news that our favorite Knave will be heading over to Once Upon A Time, which you can catch on Sundays on ABC.

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Drink and merriment surrounds the Caterpillar, and Cyrus pays him a visit. It’s been a while since they’ve seen each other, and Cyrus breaks the news to him that he is no longer a genie. He’s come looking for the lost and found compass. The Caterpillar wants the Knave and Alice. A tiny Alice is much closer than he is aware of, as she crawls below his little stage and steals it. Cyrus grabs a beer, which starts a fight, just the distraction he needs to grab Alice and the compass.

The Jabberwocky watches Jafar carefully as he casts a spell over the genie bottles. Below in the ceilings threaten to fall over the Queen and the other prisoner, the work of magic.

Past, the Queen first meets the Tweedles. She’s delighted, but they have no names, they’re mere servants. Queen Cora comes for a visit. This is before Anastasia has wed the King. Cora was surprised to receive an invitation from the Red King. Cora tells Anastasia that she sees her potential, that she’s much closer to what she’d want in a daughter rather than what she has, she even offers to teach her some magic. Anastasia declines at this time, but Cora leaves the offer open.

Cyrus looks over the compass, but its not showing him anything yet. Tweedle arrives, and breaks the news to Cyrus and Alice that the Queen was forced to make all of her wishes, that Jafar has all of the genies and that they should leave. They ask for a way into the castle, and there is a way, but he has another piece of bad news. Jafar has released the Jabberwocky. Alice is horrified by the news, Cyrus has no clue what that means.

Jafar continues his spell casting with no luck. The Jabberwocky wants to know what he hopes to accomplish, she can’t read his mind only his fear that he’s doing something wrong. Jafar releases Will, but he was trying to nap. Jafar blames him for his failure, thinking he’s blocking him somehow. Jafar wants to know how he’s resisting the spell. The Jabberwocky wants to play with the Knave, and Jafar lets her. She sniffs around, listening for his deepest fears, but the knave is willing to give them to her willingly: Water, hairy spiders, being stabbed in the head, and raisins. The Jabberwocky tells Jafar that Will is different, she cannot read him. Jafar concludes that the Red Queen must have put a protection spell on him. They decide that they’re talking to the wrong person.

Will comes to visit Anastasia, he sneaks over her balcony, and all she can do is ask him what he’s doing here. He wants answers. Cora listens while Will tries to justify her actions. Anastasia thinks that what she is doing is for the both of them. But Will remembers what they had, what she’s throwing away. The guards come, and Will tells her that he will wait for her at dawn.

The prisoner tells The Queen that they make their own prisons. Cyrus and Alice comes through the prison. She told them to run, but Alice vows to stop them. The Queen thanks them for coming back, even if it wasn’t for them. Jafar and the Jabberwocky intrude on the reunion, sending Alice and Cyrus into hiding. Jafar asks what the Queen has done to the bottle. First she gave him a counterfeit bottle, and now a broken Genie, now he wants answers and he uses his magic to manhandle her to get them. But the Jabberwocky tells him to stand down, she has found the answer. She knows why the Knave isn’t responding to the spell, why she couldn’t read the fear, he doesn’t have a heart. Jafar turns to the Queen thinking that she kept the secret from him, but she tells him that it was not her that revealed that secret, that they have guests.

Jafar has the dungeon searched, and the guards report that they’ve found a secret tunnel. The Queen knew about the tunnels, the King used them to ferry in his hussies. Jafar wants her to help him find the Knave’s heart, but she doesn’t know where it is, she didn’t know it was missing. Her value is going down, but its not gone yet.

Alice and Cyrus get away, and Alice admits that the Jabberwocky was slithering around her head. Alice knows that its only a matter of time until they get inside of the Knave’s head. Cyrus’s solution: they find the Knave’s heart first. Alice knows where it is, it’s the getting there that will be challenging. It’s not in Wonderland.

Jafar asks Will where his heart is. He tells him that he doesn’t remember, and that sleeping in a dungeon won’t bother him. Jafar asks if sleeping next to a corpse will, and brings forth the Queen. She struggles against him, and Will watches with little interest as Jafar holds a knife to her throat. He debates saving her, but she tells him not to bother, that he’ll kill her anyways. As the knife bites into her throat, Will capitulates, and will reveal the location. His heart has caused him enough suffering he says, and no one needs to die, not even her for it.

Past, Will awaits Anastasia, but she does not come. Cora does. He bows, but he’s unsure what he’s suppose to do. Cora tells him that Anastasia sent her, and that she is not coming. Anastasia’s decision breaks Will’s heart, Will has kept hope that she would change her mind, but Cora tells him that he needs to get over it, that Anastasia will never come back. Will’s purpose was to bring Anastasia into Wonderland. Will asks Cora to take his heart, to help him. Cora makes sure that he understands without it he’ll never be able to love again. Will accepts that fate, and Cora snatches Will’s heart, instantly relieving his heartbreak. He’s feeling much better, and Cora keeps the heart. Will is off.

Alice got the Knave his heart back, but the Knave didn’t want it she tells Cyrus. They go to the Rabbit’s house and finds soldiers leaving. The rabbit has been looking for people to go up against Jafar. The campaign is going poorly, the people have nothing to believe in. Alice tells the Rabbit that they have to take a trip, that otherwise it won’t matter how many people they find, Jafar will be too powerful. Alice tells the Rabbit to take them to Storybrook.

Alice and Cyrus arrive in the very modern Storybrook. It’s a very odd land, a very noisy one. They head to the Knave place. Cyrus marvels over the electricity, and Alice is shocked over all of the Knave’s things. It’s all overwhelming.

The Queen tells the Knave that he should have let them kill her. He didn’t want the blood on his hands, he would have done the same for anyone. She tells him that he’s no Knave, but the good man that she fell in love with. But she never loved him he says, only the times they had. If she did love him, she would have come to him at the wagon that day.

She prepared to leave, but Cora stopped her cold feet. She tells her that she was making a horrible mistake, thinking that perhaps it was all her fault. Anastasia tells her that it wasn’t. Cora prattles on, thinking that the accolades she laid on her before were too much, but Anastasia has never had such praise. Cora tells her she sees a desire to make a mark in the world. She asks when she leaves the world does she want an unmarked grave behind a rickety wagon, or to be beloved by scores. Anastasia wavers, and Cora tells her that she chose power over weakness, that Will’s words lie like all men. Anastasia may be weak, but she knows that Will does not lie, and she turns to go to him. Cora shows her in the mirror, that Will is not waiting, that the wagon is empty. She tells her that Anastasia tossed him aside for a crown, and betrayed him, that he will never forgive her, and never love her again. No mention of the fact that she relieved him of his heart though. Anastasia doesn’t believe her words, but Cora tells her to turn the other cheek, start a new chapter and be a wonderful Queen. Anastasia asks her to teach her how, and Cora is delighted to.

Alice bumps about, and knocks over Will’s lamp. Alice blames herself for Will’s current predicament. Cyrus points out that he fetched her for a reason, she wasn’t the only one who left someone in Wonderland, that the Knave though surrounded by shiny new things, wasn’t happy. She realizes he was there for Anastasia. Cyrus asks her if she was him, where would she keep her heart. She chooses behind his Queen dartboard, and low and behold his heart is indeed there. She opens the box, and inside is the shining heart.

Anastacia didn’t realize he was heartless, but he couldn’t take feeling the way she made him. He points out that she said she wanted to learn magic so that she could change the past their past. He asks her what she would change? Marrying the King? Losing the jewels? She’d take back them coming to Wonderland. They would have stayed in Sherwood. The start of magic, was the start of their trouble. As Anastasia and Will they had all the magic they needed.

Past. Cora teaches Anastasia magic, how to conjure fire, but Anastasia struggles. Cora tells her that it starts with respecting power, understanding your place. Anastasia asks what she uses magic for, and she tells her to get what she wants. But there are drawbacks to magic, familiar genie ones. You can’t bring back the dead, you can’t make someone love you, and the doozy, you can’t change the past. Anastasia asks if any can be broken, but they cannot. Cora knows that something is holding her back, but Anastasia claims that she fears that the Red King will stop them. Cora wants Anastasia to challenge her pain, her fears, to channel it into her power and prove them all wrong. The fire flares to life, and the Red Queen is born.

Alice and Cyrus make it back to Wonderland. They plan to hide the heart, some place where neither of them know in case the Jabberwocky picks their brains. The compass goes crazy, it knows his mother is near. Jafar comes from the forest, ready to claim the heart. Alice refuses to give it to him, and Jafar uses the staff to knock Alice and Cyrus away. Jafar goes to destroy Alice and Cyrus, and when he raises his staff against Cyrus, the staff balks, a mother would never harm her son. Jafar tries to take the staff back, but it will not go. Jafar runs, and Alice thinks it was Cyrus who did it. Cyrus stares at the staff. He hands the compass to Alice to see what she sees, and she sees that the needle is following the staff. Bingo! Cyrus tells her that the staff fought back against Jafar when he tried to use it against him. He tells her that it makes sense, that his mother was obsessed with serpents, with their ability to change. With his mother recovered, Alice wants to free her, they just have to figure out how to.

The Queen apologizes to Will. She’s sorry she resorted to magic to try to get him back. She knows that he will never love her, but asks if she could forgive her. He tells her that anything is possible. She doesn’t want Jafar to succeed, but she does hope he gets his heart back so that he can feel something, love someone even if it isn’t her. She’s about to get her wish. Jafar and the Jabberwocky return with Will’s heart. The Jabberwocky holds him as Jafar shoves it in. Anastasia calls him to look at her, and he does. They kiss passionately, forgetting where they are for a moment. The Jabberwocky pulls him away, throwing him into his cell, while Jafar pulls Anastasia from her. He tells Will be wants to make sure that his heart is working as he plunges his blade into her back, killing her. Will is brokenhearted in a whole new way, poor Knave.

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Many years ago in Agraba, Cyrus plays cards. The stakes go above Cyrus’ cash,  and he raises a magic compass. Cyris has the winning hand, but his opponents call foul. There’s a little scuffle, but Cyrus and his brothers come out without a scratch. They remark on his good luck, which may have been cheating, but he did get away with it. The brothers find the men that they swindled at their home, racing away. The house is burning with their mother still inside.

Now, Cyrus wonders he never noticed that Jafar had his brothers lamps when he was being held. The Queen points out that Jafar didn’t know they were his brothers otherwise he would have used it against him. The Knave laments about his new digs. Alice tries to figure out where the bottles are being kept. The Queen knows that they’ll need an army to go up against Jafar, but Cyrus points out that she was never a beloved Queen and the people will not rally behind her. He wants to break the curse that was laid upon his brothers, and free them all. They just need to get back to Agraba, and the Queen knows a way, through The Well of Wonders. The Queen worries about what happens if he fails, what will happen to Will. They decide to split up.

The Villagers sleep off the previous night’s celebrations as the Jabberwocky slithers in. She choses a victim, and whispers in his ear, awakening her. She wants to know about the genie, and she’ll torture the poor man and his family if she has to. He doesn’t know where the genie is, but he gives up the genie’s masters location, as he begs for his life. She doesn’t need to kill him, he’s scared to death, literally. She finds Lizard, still dead, and looks around for clues. She has an idea, and a very sharp knife.

The Jabberwocky gives Jafar Lizard’s eyes, a parting glance. The Jabberwocky thinks that Jafar can use the eyes to his benefit. He mixes up a potion, and casts upon the eyes. If shows him a vision of the Queen.

Past, Cyrus and his brother try to figure out a way to save their mother. She’s badly burned. There’s a legend that Cyrus wants to pursue, a well that has the power to heal, the Well of Wonders. The other brothers aren’t sure, but Cyrus is, so the three set out.

Alice asks how they got cursed into the bottles in the first place. Cyrus says they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Alice presses him, but he says it doesn’t matter it happened long ago, and they really need to get to The Well of Wonders. Just what is Cyrus hiding?

The Knave knocks on Rabbit’s door, but he doesn’t want to see him. Robin rants, and the Knave presses and he finally opens the door. Seeing the Queen instills him with fear, but she promises not to hurt him. Her threats and actions are too fresh in his mind. She apologizes for her past actions. He asks what he could give her. She wants to be the Queen that everyone deserves, she needs him to help spread the word that she’s changed. The Knave isn’t sure she’s changed, but commends her for trying. Rabbit spills that Jafar has released the Jabberwocky, and even the Queen is shocked. Rabbit doesn’t know how or why, but he supposes that they want out of Wonderland. Knave doesn’t know the real threat of the Jabberwocky, but he can’t wait to leave Wonderland. The Queen on the other hand refuses to leave. She said she was going to save Wonderland, and she meant it. She’s not going to force the Rabbit, but asks him to portal to every corner of Wonderland and tell the people that the Battle to save Wonderland is beginning.

The Queen and the Knave traipse through the woods. He asks about the Jabberwocky, and the Queen doesn’t explain the beast, except to say that she preys on fear. He asks for her real motivation for staying in Wonderland, never knowing her to be selfless. She is trying to fix her mistakes, and she wants Will by her side. She’s trying to at least make things better for everyone else if nothing else. She stops suddenly, telling Will to get back in his bottle. Will doesn’t want to go, but she forces him to, so that she can hide Will and meet the Jabberwocky head on. The Jabberrwocky toys with her a bit, before taking up a position behind her to greet her. The Jabberwocky continues to taunt the Queen, and the Queen uses her magic to arm herself. She thinks she has the upperhand on the Queen, and the Queen uses her magic blade to pin her to a tree. The Jabberwocky cuts the celebration short when her body slides off the blade. Only one blade can hurt her, and that wasn’t it. She knocks the Queen out, and retrieves Will’s bottle.

According to Alice’s map the well should be straight ahead. But what they find is a pair of doors, and a knight with a riddle. Alice asks which door they should chose, but he doesn’t respond. Cyrus tries to just walk around the doors, but they’re spelled. Alice asks for help, and Cyrus resorts to yelling. The Knight responds to neither. She tells him sometimes you just have to play the hand you’re dealt.

The brothers come upon a well. They each fill their bottles, and a woman rises from the Well of Wonders. Nyx is the guardian. Cyrus tells her that they have come on behalf of their mother. Nyx sees their mother, and her pain. They’ve come for the healing waters, but she tells them that her water can only heal those whose destinies have yet to be written, but their mother’s fate has already been sealed, she will die. Cyrus is unwilling to believe, Nyx tells him that her water is not meant for him. He doesn’t want his mother to die for his mistakes. She tells him to return the water or pay the price, and she goes back under. The two brothers prepare to return the water, but Cyrus goes to leave. They all heard the warning, but Cyrus believes they have no choice, that they have to fight fate. He believes that the water is the only thing that could atone for his mistakes. His elder brother asks if he is asking them to steal the water for him or their mother. Cyrus says its for their mother, and they agree.

Alice tries to figure out the riddle, while Cyrus plots. Alice thinks she has the Knight figured out, when he gives her an answer she knows to be false. He’s a liar, and so she chooses the opposite door. When she opens it, he disappears, and inside they see the well. Cyrus hesitates, and Alice wonders why. He doesn’t want her to come any further, telling her that its his curse to break. She doesn’t understand, and rather than explaining he lashes out at her. He quickly apologizes, and she lets him go alone.

The Queen awakens and Will looks less than pleased. They’re both tied up in a cage, and Jafar taunts them about their disastrous reunion. Jafar has almost everything that he wants, but she still has all her wishes. He has to force her to use all the wishes so he can take control of the Genie. He can’t kill her, or Will, so she thinks that he has nothing to use against her. She wants to team up again with him, but he had a partner once, and that partnership didn’t end well for Amara, he turned her into his staff. Jafar tells her one way or another he will make her make her wishes, its just a matter of time and pain. Will bitterly tells her to make them, telling her to wish him out of Wonderland. The Queen goes to make that wish, but before she can complete it, he silences her. The Queen is unable to make a sound. Jafar tells her that it would have never worked out between them, that he’s found someone else, the Jabberwocky. He tells her to do what she wishes, and not to stop until the Queen is broken.

Cyrus approaches the Well. It’s no longer stuck in a desert oasis, but in the forest. Cyrus puts his hands into the water, and Nyx appears displeased to see the water thief. He tells her that he’s not there to steal her water, but to get her mercy. She doesn’t give mercy, he of all people should know that. She tells him that all things happen for a reason.

In Agraba he rushed home in time to give his mother the water. He gave her all of the water he had, and douses her in the water of his brothers, but it did not work. Her nurse says that perhaps it was fate all along. The mother suddenly gasps, and as she removes the wrappings the mother is healed. Cyrus’s mother is Amara.

He tells her that he’s been released from the bottle, and asks that she release his brothers. He was foolish and arrogant, and he understands that now. Having served as a genie and granting countless meaningless wishes he understands now. He asks that she not punish his brothers for his mistakes. Alice lurks in the grass hiding in the foliage listening to his confession. Cyrus falls upon his knees begging. She tells him that only when the water is returned can her curse be lifted. But Cyrus cannot return he water he tells her, his mother is dead. She corrects him. His mother is very alive. he doesn’t believe, and asks where he can find her, but she tells him only to return the water, before sinking back beneath its depths.

Amara is rejuvenated after the water. She feels rested and refreshed. She draws her sons to her, the nurse remarks on her coming back. And Amara begins to question her recovery. The youngest tells her that they used the magic from the Well of Wonders, and Amara wants to know exactly what happened. Cyrus admits that they stole the water. He tells her that the guardian said that she couldn’t be healed, but she is. Amara asks if they all stole the water, and they did. She tells them that they need to leave immediately, that Nyx is coming for them. Amara wants to get them out of Agraba before Nyx finds them, but it’s was too late. Nyx rises from some of the spilled water behind them. She tells them that they let their desire override fate, so it will be their fate to serve the desire of others. All of the boys are put into bottle, and set off.

The Jabberwocky toys with Will’s bottle, fascinated that it looks so ordinary, much like the Queen’s head. He taunts her, threatening to dive deep into her head. Will tells her that the Jabberwocky can’t hurt her. She sees the Queen’s inner thoughts, twisting them. Sees her old fears, the what ifs, if the prince had chosen her rather than her sister, her mother would have loved her. The Jabberwocky brings tears to the Queen’s eyes as she describes the deep dark hole in her heart. She tells her that there’s a darkeness in her like a disease. She ran away from the only love she had, and now she fears that she’ll never get it back. The Jabberwocky finds common ground in the Queen. She tells her that she can’t ever get his love back, which is not what she really wants. If she wanted to keep Will’s love she would have never donned the crown in the first place. Poor Will, all he can do is sit and listen. The Jabberwocky tells her to wish for the crown, tells her that if she does it all her suffering will go away. Will urges her not to do it. Jafar makes him suffer. The Jabberwocky tells her if she wishes for her crown, all of Will’s suffering would go away, and Anastacia wishes for her crown. The Jabberwocy tells her to wish for her jewels, and she does. There’s just one more wish to be made. She tells her to wish for her to stop. The Queen whispers the wish, and it is granted, sending Will back to the bottle. Jafar has his bottle, and the Queen looks broken.

In a new cage, the Queen is still rattled. Tweedledee comes to her. He wants to help get her away, and he’s brought her something. He’s smuggled in a bit of food, and he wants to break her out of her jail, but she asks why. She is his Queen. She tells him to warn Alice and Cyrus. Tell them that Jafar has released the Jabberwocky, that he has all three bottles, and defeated her to get them. Warn them that they have to get out of Wonderland as fast as they can, and to never look back. He asks what about her, she tells him to forget about her.

Cyrus stands before the pool, and Alice comes out of hiding. Rather than calling him a lying bastard, she ask why he didn’t tell her. He’s been the cause of all of her troubles, they’re all products of his punishment. Alice tells him that everyone makes mistakes. She admits that she gave up on them before Will came to wonderland. She admits that she agreed to a procedure that would make her forget him and Wonderland forever, because a lobotomy is totally on the same level as the havoc of Jafar. Cyrus embraces her, tells her that he wishes the bottle made him a better man. She doesn’t want to look to the past, but to the future. If his mother is really alive, its time they found her, and they head out.

Jafar strokes his staff. The Jabberwocky is a little jealous of his fondness of Amara, pointing out that she was the one he asked her for help, not Amara.But it’s a mutual benefit, they’ve helped eachother. Jafar tells her that now that he has everything he ever wanted, there’s not a person in the world that can stop him. 

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