Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24674051-20150721171256/@comment-25926288-20150721201947

Yeah, because the very, powerful Apprentice faced Countless Dark Ones and is essentially immortal shouldn't die so easily. Now, I can get that he could die, but it was really contrived that the Darkness would kill him. If the Darkness kills that quickly then Regina should have been dead before Emma sad good by to any of her loved ones. This is my dispute.

I will go with he hasn't died yet, and even if they say so in show, I'll probably just ignore it because how else would they discover the Apprentice's wand and even know where to go etc.

Also, who's going to look after Rumple? Who's going to look after the hat? The Sorcerer's scroll that they never retrieved? And the host of other magic stuff? Can't just put that in the shop with comatose Rumple and put a protection spell up and then leave....which is what i expect they will do.