Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5571357-20131216051805/@comment-9241531-20131220190010

Rubelle wrote: Peter has no soul and no shadow, so he cannot be killed. Rumple's shadow and soul enters peters' body through back and that is why Peter could not escape Rumple's clutches. When Rumple stabs and kills peter, he stabs his own shadow as well thus apparantly killing himself. I use app because it is entirely possible he is not dead and we will find that out in march. I like this. It's how I viewed the scene, too.

Rumple will be alive in the secon half of the season, whenever they decide to reveal it. I feel like they'll chalk it up to the "boy being his undoing". I had always thought it'd be Henry to undo the DO. But now I'm leaning towards the boy being Pan. To undo the DO. So the DO will be dead (the dagger was used, afterall) and Rumple will be alive and well, ready to live on the next, honorable phase of his life.