Thread:VAMPF4EVR/@comment-25059297-20150511194514

But until then, Emma & Co. go hunting for the Darkness — but it finds them first, descending upon and swirling around and around Regina, gradually sucking the light from her. Robin makes a foolish attempt to free Regina from its grasp, to zero avail. Emma then declares that the Darkness needs to be tethered to a human host, lest it “destroy everything,” as the Apprentice foretold. So, despite pleas from Regina and Hook — to whom she finally says, “I love you” — and trusting that her loved ones can save her from darkness again, Emma uses the Dark One’s dagger to attract the cyclone of goo and invite it to attach itself to her. And after it blankets Emma and ultimately vanishes in a burst of light, all that is left behind is the dagger… now emblazoned with the name of the new Dark One.  