Once Upon A Time in Wonderland is closer and closer to the finish line and in the penultimate episode, entitled “To Catch a Thief”, Jafar finally gets what he wants when he forces some heroes to work beside him.

In flashbacks we find out how the beautiful and strong friendship between Alice and the Knave started, and even though Cora didn’t make an appearance this time, she was definitely the one pulling the strings. These flashback scenes weren’t actually very relevant to the story, since we already knew that Alice was the one who stole Will’s heart from Cora and that Will didn’t put it back in his chest, but it was still nice to see these two start bonding, and it was also quite funny in some scenes. But what I enjoyed most in these flashbacks was the very last scene of it. After Will helped Alice kidnap the Rabbit to show Edwin that Wonderland is real, these two mates go down separate paths and the last thing Will tells Alice is “A great girl like you won’t be alone for long. I have a feeling your happy ending is right around the corner”. And this was exactly what happened because Alice was then seconds away from meeting Cyrus and starting the greatest adventure of her life.

Back to the present now, Jafar is definitely the kind of guy who works alone, because for the past 11 episodes his partnerships never last long. In this episode another one of his companions leaves him. And the best thing about it is that when she does, he doesn’t even know it. Positively sure that Jafar won’t live up to his word, the Jabberwocky joins the heroes in an attempt to regain her freedom. In the scene they cross paths, we find out that a happy ending can also be provided to this villain. Once again, Evil isn’t born, it’s made, but so is good. The Jabberwocky thinks she might change once Jafar is gone for good, in a scene that made me feel bad for her. That is what Once Upon A Time does: it makes you love all characters, no matter in which side of the chess board they are on.

The serpent staff now being the last thing Jafar needs to complete the spell, this sorcerer enlists Will’s help to get it, giving him hope that perhaps he will bring Anastasia back to life. With no other option of getting his love back, Will goes to Alice and Cyrus to do just that. After another beautiful scene between Alice and Will, he realizes that there is always another way, and with the Jabberwocky’s help they come up with a plan to free Amara and stop Jafar. But plans never end up the way we want them to, and, though they were able to free Jafar’s father from prison and Amara from the staff, things take another very surprising turn when, like in the previous episode, another major character is killed by the ruthless Jafar, this time it was Cyrus. Proving that Cyrus and Alice share true love and are soulmates, Alice was able to feel Cyrus’ death, even though she wasn’t very near him nor wasn’t she seeing how things were unfolding.

Those last final minutes (expect Cyrus’ death) were very enjoyable to watch. With the season finishing it was to assume that Jafar was finally going down, but it turned out to be the other way around, because it seems he gets more and more powerful every episode, and especially now. I never get tired of seeing Alice kicking ass, and so I found it awesome watching her fight all those guards. Watching the magical battle between Amara and Jafar was also really great. I do love watching two sorcerers fight. Hearing Amara say that no matter who would win the fight, Jafar would lose anyway, made it seem even more like things were getting to a closing point, but as usual Jafar outsmarted everyone, doing with Amara the same thing he did with Will, doing something that is almost irreversible, unless you can break the laws of magic.

Once Upon A Time in Wonderland is really getting better and better and things are really getting to a looming point. I am giving this episode a 9.4/10.

With only the season/series finale remaining, and with Jafar finally getting what he wanted from the beginning, things promise to get really intense, so don’t miss my next review of “And They Lived…”.