Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20161015022604/@comment-24674051-20161018182407

to add to speculation about the hooded figure, I have another guess. Assuming that we will not be done with the EQ by this point, it is possible that the hooded figure is The Dragon, under the EQ control. It would match the clues as far as someone that we've met before, and it is someone that Emma would recognize (from NYC). And I would imagine that he would be quite a strong practitioner of magic in Storybrooke where magic is easily accessible (he is already strong, and most of his work was seen in the LWM). and he does strike me as one that would be able to handle a blade just as easy as he can handle magic.