She is now an older, matured dark-brown haired young woman with emerald green eyes. At a young age, following her second adventure, she was orphaned when her parents were burned alive in an accidental fire caused by her cat Dinah — the black kitten featured in her second adventure. Distraught, she fell into a catatonic state after a failed suicide attempt and was condemned to Rutledge Asylum for treatment. There she remained for roughly 10 years (as alluded to in the game's complementary casebook), faced with her own survivor's guilt, and mistreatment by other patients at Rutledge. One night the White Rabbit comes to her, and tells her she must return to Wonderland to undo the wicked deformities brought on by the dictatorship of the malevolent Queen of Hearts. It is revealed later that by overthrowing the Queen of Hearts, Alice will not only save Wonderland, but her own sanity as well. This is evident when, in the aftermath of her victory, Wonderland and its inhabitants can be seen reverting to their original forms, and Alice leaving the sunny gates of Rutledge Asylum accompanied by her cat and carrying a packed suitcase. Alice has been confirmed to appear in the game's sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, as seen in concept art where she is seen combating a giant mechanized snail on top of a lighthouse. After leaving Rutledge Asylum, Alice is moved to a psychiatrist in London, but the move makes her insanity worsen and Wonderland is warped a second time. Madness Returns takes place immediately after the events of its predecessor. Alice was released from Rutledge Asylum for the Wayward and Lost Souls at the end of the original game, and now lives at an orphanage in Victorian London under the care of a psychiatrist name Doctor Angus Bumby, where she is still traumatized with memories of her parents' deaths. While heading to a Highstreet chemist, Alice follows a cat to an alley, where, after being confronted by monstrous half-human Jabberwok creatures, she meets up with Nurse Witless from the asylum. Witless implies that Alice has revealed secrets about her family's demise while in the asylum and mentions she believes Alice is still very unstable. While at Witless's place, Alice suddenly has a vision of her changing and appeared in Wonderland, and the Cheshire Cat appeared and tells Alice a new law reigns on Wonderland. Now back in Wonderland, Alice begins to uncover her submerged memories of the fire. Thanks to a bath in Drink Me potion, she gains the ability to shrink at will and then acquires Vorpal blade. She also meets the Ruins, oily monsters with doll's faces, and the Duchess (who had lost her cannibalistic appetite from the previous game). The Duchess gives Alice her [Pepper Grinder] and asks her to retrieve pig's Snouts for her, which become a side-quest throughout the rest of the game and will reveal hidden items when peppered with the grinder. Alice continues on to the Mad Hatter's realm, as she and the Cheshire Cat believe that Hatter may have something to do with the ruin destroying Wonderland. After arriving in Hatter's realm, Alice discovers that the now-monstrously mechanized March Hare and Dormouse have violently taken over the land, dismantling Hatter into individual limbs and enslaving the Dodos. After finding his head and torso in a junkpile, the Hatter requests Alice help him recover his lost limbs. Hatter's Arms are with the Dormouse and his legs are with the March Hare. Alice rebuilds Hatter and he takes Alice to where March Hare and Dormouse are hiding, who reveal that they have built a terrible train that will destroy Wonderland. They then try to kill Alice using a giant robotic suit but are killed by Hatter before they can do so. He then mourns his friends and attmepts to have one, final "tea party" with them as his realm collapses. Before being crushed to death under the crumbling machines, Hatter tells Alice to seek the Mock Turtle, as he used to run the trains and he should know more about the Infernal Train. A wave of tea overtakes Alice and she begins to drown. She then wakes up and realises that she is not drowning in tea in Wonderland but instead drowning the river Thames in her world. She sees the Cheshire cat again and follows it into a bar called "The Mangled Mermaid". In the bar she sees her old nanny, now a prositute, who invites her up. However, when she arrives, Alice witnesses Nanny being beaten by a pimp. The man knocks Alice out and sets fire to the bar. Alice returns to Wonderland and hunts for the Mock Turtle, who she locates in his ship, which is under attack be mecahnical sharks. The turtle tells Alice that they should go to the Carpenter's show as he says what they don't take seriously can't hurt them. However, they flee from the sharks by diving under water. The sharks pursue and, combined with other underwater obstacles, the ship is destroyed. Mourning his vessel, Mock Turtle advises Alice to find Caterpillar, since he should know how to destroy the train. To find Catepillar, he recommends going to Carpenter's new show and gives her a ticket. As Alice makes her way to the show she remembers that she was the last one in the library in her house on the night of the fire. She remembers putting a new log on the fire and fears that she may be responsible for the fire. Alice arrives at the theatre where she finds that the Walrus and the Carpenter can't start the show as the writer and the cast have gone missing. She agrees to find them in return for information on the train. After locatin the octopus writer in a game of hide-and-seek, noisily battling crabs to wake the oysters, and completing the music, Alice goes back to the theatre just in time to witnes the Walrus devouring the cast and the audience. Carpenter tells her that she has been misled, although he does not tell her by whom, and reveals that the train only arrived when she did. The train suddenly barrells through the theater, apparently running over the Walrus and the Carpenter. Once again, Alice wakes up in the real world, now on the back of a cart with nanny. She asks Nanny what happened the night of the fire, but Nanny refuses to speak of it, but does tell her that the lawyer Radcliffe has Alice's stuffed rabbit. She takes Alice to Radcliffe's house, where he insists that the cat started the fire by accident, which Alice staunchly denies. He also mentions Alice's older sister Lizzie died in her bedroom, apparently in her sleep, and says he believes Alice may have had a hand in starting the fire, calling her a pyromaniac. The scene changes and, instead of Radcliffe's office, Alice is standing in an abandoned house. As she ventures outside, it is revealed that she is indeed back in Wonderland and has arrived in the Mysterious East, populated by meek, origami ants. However, the ants have been slaughtered by Samurai and Daiymo Wasps and beg Alice for help, promising her passage to Caterpillar if she does. She ventures through the realm and sacred caves of the ants, which look like scrolled Japanese woodcuts, and recovers a memory that her cat Dynah was not in the library, having gone to bed with Alice before the fire started. Dynah showed Alice the open window she was able to escape through. Therefore, the cat could not have started the fire. Her memories also implied that her parents died trying to get Lizzie, who was asleep in her bedroom, out of the house. Apparently, Lizzie locked her bedroom door. She died in her sleep and Alice's parents died before they could get out. Alice finally arrives in Caterpillar's domain, only to have him tell her to find the Red Queen. Caterpillar then turns into a giant butterfly, as Alice wakes up in London. Alice wakes up in gaol, having been taken there after a confrontation with Jack Splatter, the pimp who beat Nanny, where she raved at him before fainting. The police mention that Bumby had found her there before and grew extremely angry at her being in the police station and ordered her released immediately. As Alice walks outside, she finds herself again in Wonderland, this time in Queensland. Pursued by the gruesome and invincible Executioner, Alice searches for the Red Queen, and picks up a memory that he sister Lizzie hated locked doors, which is odd because it was mentioned earlier that Lizzie's door had been locked when she was discovered dead after the fire. It seems that Lizzie's room was further from the fire than Alice's, and Lizzie had mentioned being able to sneak out of her window at night, so she certainly should have survived. Alice deduces that someone killed Lizzie in her bed and set the fire to cover their crime. As Alice searches further, her mind is thrown back into the asylum, as her memories begin to come together. After navigating the grisly place, she arrives back in Queensland, and, finally given an Eat Me cake, grows to a gigantic size. At this size, she is able to defeat the Executioner and leagues of Card Guards, and finally reaches the Red Queen, who has taken the face of Alice's deceased sister, Lizzie. The Red Queen names a new creature called the Dollmaker responsible for the horrors foisted upon Wonderland and directs Alice to his domain. Searching through the Dollmaker's frightening and twisted realm, Alice pieces together what happened the night of the fire and the years since. She realizes that Dr Bumby was the culprit all along. She remembers Lizzie had complained of a "slimy" undergraduate named Bumby and implies that she has been molested by him. Bumby raped Lizzy and then started the fire to cover it up, intending to kill the entire family. Bumby has been trying to hypnotize Alice into forgetting the fire and his part in it, and almost succeeded. She also apparently has either witnessed or sensed that he has been abusing other children and hypnotizing them out of their memories before selling them into prostitution. As she comes out of Wonderland, she confronts Bumby in a trainstation. He scoffs at her declaration that she will go to the police to see him punished and, as she will not be believed. He says that, while he was unable to make her forget the past, he has crumbled her into a lunatic, an insane wreck that no one will believe, even if she did go to the authorities. As he laughs at her, Wonderland blurs into reality and Bumby sees her for a moment as her Wonderland self. Oddly calm, Alice shoves him in front of an oncoming train. Her mind released, The Cheshire Cat comes to her again and tells her all is well... for now...
