Alice/Quotes

**Alice**: Father! Father, it's me! Come on, Father! (*Edwin opens the door*) You're never going to believe where I've been!

**Edwin**: Alice?

**Alice**: It all began with this white rabbit, and he wanted to take my hat and then I -

**Edwin**: Alice... Is that really you?

**Alice**: Who else would I be?

**Edwin**: You were gone a very long time. We thought you were -

**Alice**: You thought I was what?

**Edwin**: Dead.

(*Alice meets the genie Cyrus*)

**Alice**: Agrabah sounds beautiful.

**Cyrus**: I hope one day to see it again. What place do you call home?

**Alice**: England. Although it hasn't exactly felt like home, lately.

**Cyrus**: So we're both strangers in this most strange land.

**Alice**: Strange is one word for it.

**Cyrus**: Wondrous.

**Alice**: Dangerous.

**Cyrus**: I sense that you can take care of yourself. And you have to go back to your land soon?

**Alice**: Well, I do have what I came for.

**Cyrus**: Which is what?

**Alice**: Proof that all of this is real. (*pulls the White Rabbit out of her bag*)

**White Rabbit**: Proof? You want proof? Come here and I'll give you proof!

**Cyrus**: A talking white rabbit with a jacket and trousers?

**Alice**: No one can say I imagined that.

**Cyrus**: Yes, that much is said. So tell me Alice, who is this proof for? You've risked much to come back here. Is it a husband?

**Alice**: No. It's no one like that.

**Cyrus**: Good.

**Alice**: Good?

**Cyrus**: I just mean that you're not separated from your love. That would be a terrible fate.

**Alice**: Yes, that would. The proof is for my father. He thinks I'm insane.

**Cyrus**: Really? So you're risking your life for someone who doesn't believe in you? You know, when you really love someone you don't need proof. You can feel it.

**Alice**: Maybe where you're from. But in my land I'd wish things would -

**Cyrus**: You'd wish things would what? You found my bottle, Alice. Anything is possible. Mistress mine, my will is thine. Tell me your wishes three.

### *Trust Me* (Wonderland, Episode 2)

**Alice**: So I can wish for anything I want?

**Cyrus**: There are a few restrictions. The Laws of Magic as it were.

**Alice**: Laws of Magic?

**Cyrus**: Yes. There are four of them. I can't kill anyone, I can't bring anything from the dead, I can't change the past, and I can't make anyone fall in love.

**Alice**: Reasonable enough. After the third wish what happens then?

**Cyrus**: I get returned to my bottle. Then someone else finds me.

**Alice**: So you spend your entire life -

**Cyrus**: Serving the pleasures of my masters, yes.

**Alice**: What if I wish for your freedom?

**Cyrus**: It's been tried, and it's never gone well for either party. Wishes come with a cost, Alice. The bigger the wish, the greater the consequence.

**Alice**: Sounds dangerous.

**Cyrus**: I get the feeling you like a little danger. You're still not sure what to wish for? Perhaps we could take a walk. I could give you some suggestions.

**Alice**: I'd like that very much.

**Alice**: Is something wrong? You seem a little on edge.

**Cyrus**: Sorry. Being a genie is a lot like being a wanted man.

**Alice**: Someone's always after you. Do you know who that someone is?

**Cyrus**: At the moment, a man called Jafar. He carries this staff with the head of a serpent. If you ever see him...

**Alice**: What?

**Cyrus**: Let's just hope you never do.

**Alice**: What does he want with you?

**Cyrus**: What everyone wants. What they don't have.

**Alice**: You don't have to stay out here on my account. If your safe in your bottle you should -

**Cyrus**: No, this is the closest thing I've had to freedom in a long time.

**Alice**: I could say the same.

**Cyrus**: If your home is such a prison, why make your mission to return?

**Alice**: I have nowhere else to go.

**Cyrus**: You have the whole world, Alice. I can show it to you. All you have to do is wish.

**Alice**: But I have more questions.

**Cyrus**: What else would you like to know?

**Alice**: Everything. The people you've met, the things you've done. Have you ever slain a dragon?

**Cyrus**: Once. I can't recommend it. Required some deft swordplay.

**Alice**: I've never been comfortable with a sword.

**Cyrus**: You've never felt comfortable with a sword? Then how have you survived here for all this time.

**Alice**: There's other ways to fight. And in Wonderland you just have to be creative.

### *Down the Rabbit Hole* (Wonderland, Episode 1)

(*the Red Queen arrives with her soldiers to take Cyrus*)

**Red Queen**: Sorry to interrupt. Mind if I borrow him?

**Alice**: Cyrus! No, Cyrus!

**Cyrus**: Alice!

(*the Red Queen telekinetically pushes Cyrus off the nearby cliff*)

**Red Queen**: Oops.

**Alice**: Cyrus!

### *Who's Alice?* (Wonderland, Episode 6)

**Edwin**: A doctor in London, Lydgate - he runs a psychiatric hospital.

**Alice**: A madhouse?

**Edwin**: It's not like it is in the books. This place is very nice, very modern.

**Alice**: But I'm not mad! Why can't you just believe?

**Edwin**: What part do you want me to believe? The genie or the talking rabbit?

**Alice**: *Me*! You should believe in *me*.

## After First Curse

### *Down the Rabbit Hole* (Wonderland, Episode 1)

**Dr. Lydgate**: It's been a year now and you have been quite clear in your statements. An invisible cat, a hookah smoking caterpillar, food and drink capable of altering your physical form, a murderous Red Queen. And you encountered all these things by literally falling down a rabbit hole? Hearing it out loud, it all sounds quite preposterous, wouldn't you agree, Alice?

**Alice**: Yes.

**Dr. Lydgate**: Good. Just a few more questions and maybe this time we can send you home. Now when your father finally brought you to us, he was at his wits' end. It wasn't just your multiple disappearances that had taken a toll, it was your ludicrous explanation. That you had been searching for proof of this place, this Wonderland, where you had miraculous, strange and terrifying adventures. Do you still believe that to be true? Alice? Alice. Alice!

**Alice**: No. It wasn't true. I never left England.

**Dr. Lydgate**: So you just made it all up. Why? For attention? Well, you certainly got it, didn't you? The question we have to answer today is, which is the real performance? A little girl with tales of tea parties and barbaric queens, or the young lady who says it was just her imagination?

**Alice**: That little girl was a fool.

**Dr. Lydgate**: And the lady?

**Alice**: She knows what really happened.

**Dr. Lydgate**: When your father found you, you were inconsolable. You said the love of your life was gone. Murdered by some -

**Alice**: No. It's not what I said.

**Dr. Lydgate**: Alice, you were an ignored little girl who wanted to be loved so you created a fantasy land full of characters who would help you become who you wanted to be; tall, brave, beautiful. You wouldn't be the first child to do this. You're just the first to grow up and still believe it was real.

**Alice**: No. I don't believe it anymore.

**Dr. Lydgate**: We know you're lying. You still cry out for him in your sleep.

**Alice**: What?

**Dr. Lydgate**: In your sleep. Every night, it's the same. You cry out for Cyrus.

(*Will breaks into Bethlem Asylum to free Alice*)

**Alice**: *You*!

**Will Scarlet**: "You?!" That's what I get. "You?" Well, nice to see you too, Alice.

**Alice**: What are you doing here?

**Will Scarlet**: Right, come now. We have to go.

**Alice**: Go? No, you're not real!

**Will Scarlet**: Oh, I'm very real. And we must leave now. I've cleared some of the guards so we should be able to get out.

**Alice**: No, I can't. I can't.

**Will Scarlet**: Alice, you need to listen to me.

**Alice**: No, I'm not going anywhere.

**Will Scarlet**: Why must you always be so bloody stubborn?

**Guard**: There he is! (*guards grab both Alice and Will*)

**Alice**: Hey, I didn't do anything!

**Will Scarlet**: It's true; I mean, if she was the least bit helpful, we'd be gone by now! Ow!

**Alice**: Get him out of here.

**Will Scarlet**: Alice, no! You know me, remember!

**Alice**: I don't want to remember. I want to forget.

**Will Scarlet**: Alice, listen to me.

**Alice**: No!

**Will Scarlet**: He's alive! The Rabbit saw him. Cyrus! He's alive.

**Alice**: That's impossible.

**Will Scarlet**: You know as well as I do, Alice. Nothing is impossible in Wonderland!

(*Alice, Will and the White Rabbit return to Wonderland*)

**Alice**: Okay, Rabbit. Where's Cyrus? Tell us where you saw him.

**White Rabbit**: Well, I didn't exactly *see* him. (*to Will*) Did you tell her I saw him?

**Will Scarlet**: That *is* what you said.

**White Rabbit**: Well, it was a figure of speech.

**Will Scarlet**: Nope! I'm pretty sure it wasn't!

**White Rabbit**: What I *meant* was I was having tea with the Dormouse, and he said that *he* saw him.

**Will Scarlet**: So we came all the way here on the word of a narcoleptic rodent?

**Alice**: Ignore him, Rabbit. Go on.

**White Rabbit**: He said Cyrus was at the Mad Hatter's old place; it's abandoned. The Hatter, he hasn't been in Wonderland for quite some time.

**Will Scarlet**: And he ain't never coming back! He's found himself a nice little life back in the place where I was making mine. A place I might add, where the dragonflies aren't actually dragons!

**Will Scarlet**: Alice, I left Wonderland because I did a lot of bad things here. A lot of people want to see me dead. They have their reasons, and to be honest, they're good reasons. I left this place for a future I'm quite keen to see. And you want me to risk all that for a hunch?

**Alice**: I can pay you.

**Will Scarlet**: How? You don't have anything to pay me, Alice.

**Alice**: That's not entirely true. I have something better than money. Wishes!

**Will Scarlet**: I don't get it. Why don't you just use them to bring Cyrus back?

**Alice**: Wishes can be unpredictable. If I use one to bring Cyrus back, he might arrive hanging from a tree with a noose around his neck. See, with wishes, sometimes there's literally a string attached.

**Will Scarlet**: Then one just has to be careful what they wish for. Make it consequence proof. Yeah, I can do that.

**Alice**: So does that mean you'll stay?

**Will Scarlet**: We find Cyrus, I get a wish. Anything I want.

### *Trust Me* (Wonderland, Episode 2)

**Alice**: I have a plan, Knave.

**Will Scarlet**: And a new outfit? Where'd you get that?

**Alice**: The clothes horse came by.

**Will Scarlet**: Of course it did.

**Alice**: Our biggest problem is that we don't know where Cyrus is. He could be trapped somewhere or captured -

**Will Scarlet**: Look, is there any chance of a coffee horse coming by? I can't really -

**Alice**: But then I realized, we don't *need* to know where he is.

**Will Scarlet**: Oh, we don't?

**Alice**: Because we know something, something nobody else does. We know where the bottle is hidden.

**Will Scarlet**: I'm not sure if you're clear on what the word "we" means.

**Alice**: It's a two step plan. Step one: We find the bottle. Step two: We make three harmless wishes and no matter where he is, he'll just get drawn back inside!

**Will Scarlet**: Okay, look, I made a horrible mistake. The thing is, you were right about everything. I felt bloody awful after what happened between us.

**Silvermist**: If you ever had a heart, I don't know what happened to it. But then again, maybe, your precious Anastasia used it all up.

**Will Scarlet**: You're right. I don't feel terrible. Not even a little bit. But that's because I don't feel much of anything anymore. So why don't we both agree that I'm a right bastard and go our separate ways? We don't need to bring the Caterpillar into this.

**Silvermist**: Why should I care about your fate?

**Will Scarlet**: You shouldn't. (*about Alice*) But care about hers. She's a decent person and so is the man she loves whose life is literally hanging in the balance as we speak. Don't make the good guys pay for the bad guys' mistakes. I am sorry, Silvermist. For everything.

**Silvermist**: Be on with you then.

**Will Scarlet**: Really?

**Silvermist**: Get out of here. Go. (*exits*)

**Alice**: Was that you apologizing?

**Will Scarlet**: It happens. Don't dwell on it. Come on.

**Alice**: So, who's Anastasia?

**Will Scarlet**: Nobody.

### *The Serpent* (Wonderland, Episode 4)

**Alice**: You're not going to put me in prison? Torture me? Let me rot till I do your bidding?

**Red Queen**: Don't you see, darling? You *are* in prison. What do you think Wonderland is?

### *Heart of Stone* (Wonderland, Episode 5)

**Red Queen**: Perhaps we can help one another.

**Alice**: Why would I do *anything* to help you?!

**Red Queen**: You'd be surprised what people are willing to do when the right circumstances present themselves.

**Alice**: There's not a circumstance that you could present that would *ever* -

**Red Queen**: Not even finding out where your precious genie is being held? Yes. So why don't you get off your high horse and we can make a deal?

**Alice**: What sort of a deal?

**Red Queen**: The sort of deal that can handle the one problem we both share - Jafar.

**Alice**: You're working together! How is he a problem for you?

**Red Queen**: He's simply a means to an end, darling. But when that end comes I need to ensure I have the power to protect myself.

**Alice**: What exactly do you hope to gain from all of this? You have power, wealth... What more could you possibly need?

**Red Queen**: There are some things that all the wealth and power cannot get you.

**Alice**: Like what?

**Red Queen**: We all come to Wonderland looking for something more, darling. I seem to remember a little girl in a blue dress wanting her father's love.

**Alice**: You and I are *nothing* alike.

**Red Queen**: We both want something we don't have, Alice. It's just a matter of what we're willing to do to get it.

### *Who's Alice?* (Wonderland, Episode 6)

**Alice**: Who are you?

**Carpenter**: I'm the Carpenter. Who are you?

**Alice**: I'm not sure I want to give you my name. Do you know where we are? I've been trying to find my bearings.

**Carpenter**: We are in the Boro Grove, the most beautiful place in the world. Why don't you put down your sword and stay awhile?

**Alice**: I couldn't possibly. I've got quite important things to do.

**Carpenter**: What could be more important than basking in the sun?

**Alice**: Saving... saving someone's life. I've been... following the sun. I mean, I'm trying to find, uh... there's this genie and he's, uh... he's in trouble. And, uh... at least I *thought* he was. Suddenly I can't quite remember.

**Carpenter**: Then you must *stay*.

### *Bad Blood* (Wonderland, Episode 7)

**Edwin**: I never treated you as a real father should. Instead, I blamed you. I blamed you for your mother's death. I blamed you for all my unhappiness. And then, when you were finally able to find joy, I doubted you. Doubted your ability to distinguish fantasy from reality. Doubted your love.

**Alice**: Father... The times I ran away, I was just trying to find proof so you'd understand where I'd been.

**Edwin**: You shouldn't have had to prove it to me. For all those reasons and a thousand more, I will not ask for your forgiveness because I do not deserve it. And I will not ask for your mercy or compassion because it is better spent elsewhere. I do not want to take another thing away from you, dear Alice. I only want to give you something, the only thing I can, and that's hope. Cyrus has escaped.

**Jafar**: That's enough!

**Alice**: Cyrus?

**Edwin**: Don't save me, save him!

**Jafar**: Stop! (*causes Edwin to drop toward the water below*)

**Alice**: I wish my father back home! (*Edwin is sent back to Victorian England*)

**Jafar**: Two down, and one to go. Now, Alice, it's not a matter of *if* I'll have your genie, but *when*.

### *Home* (Wonderland, Episode 8)

**Alice**: Tell me why. Why you did all of this? Why you made an alliance with a madman? Then I'll go. But I need a reason. I need *something*.

**Red Queen**: I thought he could get me what I want.

**Alice**: And what was that?

**Will Scarlet**: You're got everything! What more could you need?

**Red Queen**: *You*, Will. I wanted *you*. I want you back.

**Will Scarlet**: More lies.

**Red Queen**: No, I'm telling the truth now. I'm telling the truth.

**Will Scarlet**: You had me. All of me. My heart, my soul, my life! And you tossed me aside like a piece of rubbish, all for a little red crown.

**Red Queen**: I made a mistake, I see that now! Don't you see? That's why I've done all this, so Jafar can change the laws of magic so we can undo the mistake, change the past, Will! (*Will begins to walk away*)

**Alice**: Will, wait.

**Red Queen**: I would give up my crown, I would give up anything, *everything* just to go back to a time when you loved me. Please, Will. I want you back.

**Will Scarlet**: You'll never have me.

### *Nothing to Fear* (Wonderland, Episode 9)

**Cyrus**: Those other genies, they're my brothers. The three of us were cursed into the bottles at the same time. I spent a hundred years searching for them. Eventually, I assumed they were lost. But if Jafar truly has them -

**Alice**: Then we'll stay. And we'll save them.

**Cyrus**: Alice, are you sure?

**Alice**: Happily ever after can't just be for us. It has to be for *everyone*, all of Wonderland.

**Will Scarlet**: I guess this is where we part company, then.

**Alice**: Why is that?

**Will Scarlet**: Because I don't think this one's sticking around for any of that. And with her being my master and all...

**Red Queen**: Will, since when have I been to give up a fight?

**Will Scarlet**: Since, as long as I've known ya. You've always looked for the easy way out, Ana. The shortest way to get what you wanted, no matter who else it hurt. Now you got the three wishes in your pocket, you've got the mother of all short cuts. Seems to suit you perfectly, don't it?

**Red Queen**: We're staying.

**Will Scarlet**: We are?

**Red Queen**: Yes, we are. I have been a terrible queen. These people, they deserve better than what I gave them. So we are staying, and we are *fighting*. Besides, there's four of us. Jafar's on his own. He doesn't stand a chance!

### *To Catch a Thief* (Wonderland, Episode 12)

**Alice**: What do you want?

**Jabberwocky**: I want what anybody wants. *Freedom*.