Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24271102-20150612100132/@comment-24674051-20150626175757

I'm afraid I have to disagree, but the Jury is still out on whether the Apprentice actually died. The way that scene was filmed, it could have been a death scene, but it could just as easily been the Apprentice passing out after his close call with the Darkness. They did not confirm whether the Apprentice died. That he was on death's doorstep, I won't argue, and that would be a good reason to divulge the information that he did.

Another interpretation of the ending scenes from the finale is that Rumple died (again) and was ressucitated when the Apprentice extracted the darkness. Let's face it, Rumple just had a major heart transplant, and during a heart transplant, the patient "dies", since there is no heart for a brief amount of time. The death is just not to the irreversible point yet, since artificial means are used to keep vital systems operating. and let's face it, they left Rumple on "life support" at the end of the episode as well. he's by no means out of the woods (though I do expect him to make a recovery).