Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20161101150057/@comment-24674051-20161101213325

8Rob wrote:

Also, are we sure Daddy Charming died when the twins were 6 y.o.?

Because that's what David believes, but now we know he doesn't know what really happened. It could be another Milah case, and Ruth lied to David. George never knew because Rumple procured the child for him. And Rumple probably never told George about the twin (whether intentional or not is still unknown, though I suspect Rumple deliberately concealed that fact). In fact, I doubt George knew about Ruth or David or the farm, at least not until David became his "son".

As for Ruth lieing, I am not sure Ruth is the one that told David. I'd have to go back and watch White Out again, but my take away was that the constable that brought the news just told the news to the family, so David might have been present when the news was broken. (The cottage they lived in was small enough that there were probably not too many places to hold a private conversation).

Now, that's not to say that the constable didn't lie, and was perhaps put up to telling the lie by whoever actually committed the murder. (or may have even been the murderer himself?) but regardless, I don't think Ruth was aware of anything. In fact, I'm not even sure if Ruth was aware that Daddy Charming was murdered (though we may find out if/when the scene is played), and was just left thinking that he had died in a drunk driving accident.

One final supposition. What if Daddy Charming is not dead? What if someone (perhaps even Rumple) hired him to murder some other person. Or what if he got into a fight with someone and killed them. in either case, he realized he could never go home, put the dead body on the wagon and staged the accident, then fled (perhaps to the land of Untold stories).

In fact, how about this twist. Charming Daddy is a twin Brother (and Ruth was not aware of the Twin since Daddy Charming ran away from home). The twins are the ones that fight (or one murders the other), which helps to obfuscate the fact that Daddy Charming is not, in fact, dead. (and it's not that far of a reach, as the capacity for identical twins can be passed along genetically, though I do think it tends to be more maternal. I'm not completely up on my genetics research).