Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25703308-20151007044703/@comment-4427410-20151010114217

'' Rumple was wanting to turn her dark to harvest her blood for the ink for the Author, but technically Emma shouldn't be able to go dark. ''

Technically, the writers should have never added that scene in which the Apprentice used a spell to transfer Emma's inner evil to Lily. Because Emma's past as an unrepentant thief and murder of Cruella contradicted this.