Down the Rabbit Hole (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
| "Down the Rabbit Hole" | |
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| Once Upon a Time in Wonderland episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Ralph Hemecker |
| Written by | Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz & Zack Estrin & Jane Espenson |
| Original air date | October 10, 2013 |
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"Down the Rabbit Hole" is the first episode of the Once Upon a Time spin-off series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland.
The premiere received generally positive reviews from critics, despite low ratings; the episode was watched by 5.8 million viewers.
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Alice (Sophie Lowe) returns home to her father (Shaun Smyth), who tells her that everyone thought she was dead. Her imaginative stories about a talking White Rabbit (John Lithgow) and a mystical place called Wonderland end up get the attention of Dr. Lydgate (Jonny Coyne), a psychologist from an asylum. She is admitted into an asylum, where it is revealed that she continued frequent visits to Wonderland in search of proof of its reality. After capturing her proof in the form of the White Rabbit, she encounters Cyrus (Peter Gadiot), a genie with whom she falls in love. The two lovers have several adventures, leading to a fateful day on the cliff of the Boiling Sea, where Cyrus proposes to Alice. They are interrupted by the Red Queen (Emma Rigby), who has her henchmen attack them. In the end, the Red Queen throws Cyrus off the cliff into the sea, where Alice looks into the mist of where he's fallen. In a final flashback, it is revealed that Cyrus actually survived the fall into the Boiling Sea, as Jafar saved him with his flying carpet.
In present day, the Knave of Hearts (Michael Socha) resides in Storybrooke, Maine, stealing coffee in the dead of night from Granny's diner, until the White Rabbit interrupts him via bursting through a newly made rabbit hole. He convinces the Knave to help him save Alice, who is in Victorian England.
Dr. Lydgate tells Alice that there is a new treatment that will take away all of her memories of Wonderland, which she agrees to allow them to use on her. The morning of the procedure, the Knave and White Rabbit come to save Alice, and the three of them escape the asylum and journey through a rabbit hole back to Wonderland, after convincing Alice that Cyrus has been seen alive.
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