Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151207015752/@comment-1894786-20151209004229

8Rob wrote: I have some questions about this episode:

-The Dark Ones never returned to the Underworld, so why Charon didn't come to take those who were marked (He returned because they summoned him)

-Why didn't Regina ask Hook to use his father's heart to cast the Dark Curse instead of using her father's. We saw the heart was the final ingredient, so at this point Henry Sr was still alive.

-If Hook absorbed all the Dark Ones inside Excalibur, how come he didn't absorbe Emma? She was still Dark Swan at this point The first and third questions are one and the same in terms of an answer, honestly. The Dark Ones never left Storybrooke, yes. But they also never gained corporeal bodies. They were absorbed back into the Dagger, which is like a total reset. Emma did have a material body, so she wasn't absorbed.