Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-4453062-20160217065238/@comment-24674051-20160223175148

Eskaver wrote: So, if a life for a life will be exchanged and some extras may want to escape as well, like Pan and James and Cruella, who do you think will swap their places?

Pan will swap with Zelena, with Rumple's help.

James will try to swap with David.

Cruella, I don't know. Maybe she's try to swap with Snow.

And of course, the man of the hour, Hook has to swap with someone? Actually, something that I read in a spoiler for SotD indicates that Pan may be trying to bargain with Rumple to change places. So the straight up exchange ("life for a Life") may definitly be in play, at least as far as Pan is concerned.

And there may be other factors in play with Hook, given that his inital status appears to be much darker.

However, the one thing I think would be fairly safe to say is that, knowing the quest to bring Killian back is called Operation Firebird, this is probably the end of that arc (similar to how operation Mongoose was the end of the author arc). That it is not the season finale seems to indicate that there is either fallout from the events that are set in motion, or the remaining 2-3 episodes are going to be setup for the next season. (and one of the remaining 3 I still anticipate being closure to the Camelot arc, which is still standing wide open at this point).