Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24589671-20150301134730/@comment-24936039-20150304003510

Really liked the episode. Here are my questions (and speculation).

1) What is the Snowing's 'Dark' secret, especially they want to keep from Emma? I think it will have to do with the first dark curse.  At this point in time in the EF, the QoD's would have absolutely no love for Rumples.  Maleficent certainly will loathe Regina as she just stole the dark curse from her and nearly killed her prized black unicorn.  The Snowings desperate to thwart the curse must of made some sort of dark pact with the QoD.   Also, maybe by means of the Snowings dark pact, this is how Cruella and Ursula ended up in the LWM but outside of Storybrooke with memories intact.

2) Why did not Regina/Emma get Ingrid's scroll back when they let Ursula and Cruella into Storybrooke? It would also seem that as long as a person or group has Ingrid's scroll, that group can come and go from Storybrooke.  Maybe Regina uses that to go to NYC to find Robin?

3) Maybe I missed it, but when\how did Regina become the Mayor again? Did MM basically quit (or just taking a leave of absence?).

4) It was a very quick scene at Great Neck NY mansion where Cruella's husband (Feinberg) was being led out in cuffs by the FBI. Any clue who the actor was (I'm still going with the speculation of Lily being their adoptive daughter and that was the step dad, much aged of course).

5) Chernabog - the CGI was pretty good. And yes, I like many others picked up on the Gargoyle cartoon similarities.  Just because Chernabog was thrown across the town line, doesn't mean that he disintegrated, but could of been transferred to somewhere else.  Or as someone speculated that if magic starts to leak out of Storybrooke, maybe Chernabog would just reform...  Then again, like the wraith, Chernabog is just a one shot monster\plot device which would really be a pity IMOP.   This also raises the issue of Walsh who turned back into a flying monkey in NYC...  How was this accomplished?  If he was able to exist as a flying monkey (magical) then should not Chernabog be able to exist in LWM?