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There is one small part of Emma's plan I don't get, if you kill the Dark One then you become the next Dark One. After transferring her and Hook's Dark Ones to Zelena she would then have to get Zelena to stab herself with Excaliber. When Rumple stabs Zoso with the dagger he becomes the next Dark One but when Rumple stabs himself with the dagger (and his dad) it kills him and the Darkness is returned to the vault (which I'm guessing leads to the underworld as those who have come out of it have been reborn in one way or another) with no vessel to bring it into the world. I don't see Zelena killing herself with Excaliber to rid the world of dark magic, nothing she has done so far makes her seem like the self-sacrifice type.