Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20180421005904/@comment-25375217-20180421033200

AnimationFan18 wrote: Truest Believer wrote: What happened in this ep? what was the revelation about the dagger? who was the Guardian? whats Facilier up to? how did scaly Rumple come back? why did Rumple and Robin fight? what happened and the flashbacks? and present day? Alice is the Guardian, she was back then but when she was about to absorbe the Dark One’s Magic and free Rumple, but he stopped her as soon as he realized that he would force her into another tower, the immortality. However in the present, the DO dagger was all the time in Tilly’s Backpack, as she was guarding it without knowing, it was calling her, meaning she’s actually The Guardian! Facilier is trying to get Rumple's power, plain and simple, although he didn't do much to accomplish that in the episode. Rumple became scaly because he was succumbing to darkness again; presumably, the thing about him "locking up his memories" he said in The Eighth Witch" was to preserve part of his humanity. Rumple and Robin didn't fight. In flashbacks, Rumple tested Alice by trying to get her to kill Facilier (telling her that if she did, she could break the poison on Nook's heart).