Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5571357-20131216051805/@comment-4908032-20131218032820

Mtensmey wrote: I don't think the shadow had anything to do with it. Well, maybe that's why Pan didn't break away from Rumple. It was said several times earlier in the season that the only way Rumple could kill Pan would be for him to die too. This wasn't elaborated on or explained and I'll concede it's possible Rumple might have meant he wouldn't survive mortal combat with Pan. Rumple wouldn't have survived mortal combat with Pan and yet Pan wasn't strong enough to break away from Rumple. Do you see the contradiction of your statement?

In a scene 3x11, when Pan wakes up in his body he said" I thought you would have killed me in my sleep laddie.." It means if Rumple wanted he could kill him in sleep. Since in the end Rumple has no magic he did use power of shadow to kill Pan otherwise Pan's magic was too powerful to breakaway from Rumple .But I agree the storytelling bit needed more elaboration on the lines why Rumple had to die with Pan?