Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26159109-20151023040541/@comment-24674051-20151023181359

ChocolatEyes613 wrote:

The only way I can see Hook using Excalibur to kill Emma, is if she begs him to. However, you are probably correct as to why the Dark Swan needs a "hero".

While it would be a bold move, to have Emma die in the winter finale. I feel like the arc has been setting up, for Regina be to the one dying. Which would be an equally bold move. But they had Regina dead (or at least almost dead) at the end of Operation Mongoose. Similarly, Hook was killed within the context of Operation Mongoose. I don't know if they would go the killing route for either of these 2 so soon after near deaths in the previous finale.