In 1983, after the Dark Curse has brought people of various lands to Maine, some time after leaving Storybrooke, young Owen Flynn (who would grow up to become Greg Mendell) returns to the site where he'd run off from the evil Mayor - leaving his father behind -, accompanied by two police officers. However, he can't find the town. Owen turns to them and says that this is where they took his dad, but the police captain tells him that there is nothing there. Owen insists that this is where Storybrooke was, by the rock next to them. The captain tells him that there isn't a town called Storybrooke anywhere in Maine. Owen asks if he doesn't believe him, and the captain squats down before him and simply comments that he's been through a lot. Owen is further frustrated and runs away from him. He s