Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20160121175149/@comment-24674051-20160123234325

I agree. I think Rumple is in for the Long Haul. And I'm not sure we're done with the darkness yet. It's just taken a different "form" with the way it is retethered to Rumple. I think there are new rules that Rumple will have to play by. For example, Either the dagger is a new dagger (and therefore not part of the Holy Grail/Excalibur) and has different rules, or the Dagger is still the same, which means that the rest of Excalibur probably still exists somewhere (regardless of what we think we saw in the mid-season finale), waiting for yet another hero to extract it from it's new hiding place.

If, for whatever reason, Excalibur does still exist, it kind of begs the quesion of how a "fake" Excalibur was able to vanquish Killian.

But I digress. We're supposed to be talking hints for Season 6. I don't think we've really had too much yet. and they may well use season 6 to tell some unfinished stories (such as Lily's).