Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20140331010917/@comment-8345449-20140331133818

I am still confused with some of the things that happened in this episode. So Rumple absorbed Neal into himself and they sort of switched back and forth. Is that how Rumple escaped - when he became Neal the dagger could no longer control him?

I also don't get the part where Neal had just left the hospital and then the next thing we see is Emma and Charming running into Rumple. So did Neal turn into Rumple, get chased by the flying monkeys, run off, turn back into himself and then bump into Emma again as Neal? But how come he didn't remember turning? I thought the pain was excruciating. Also didn't he notice that part of his memory blanked out while he was Rumple?

I thought magic couldn't bring back the dead? Why is the Dark One an exception?