Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6252544-20140726190607/@comment-4839682-20140727233615

Emma has a job to do, when someone confesses to kidnapping, she would have held him for that charge (to no do so is gross misconduct). We can assume that she herself might have called a higher agency, or Regina arranged for him to be "picked up" for it. Regina would never get rid of someone as valuable as Sidney, so of course he ends up in the hospital.