Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24674051-20150126185712

I got to thinking about it, and Ingrid may have very well outfoxed the master.

FIrst of all, she knew all about the magic at the town line (it was hers after all), and that it would be a one-way trip. She Also know how magic did, or in this case didn't, work in the LWM, having lived there for around 18 years. And she fully expected that even Rumple, cleaved from his Dagger, would be unable to retain his powers in the LWM.

Also, for her "sisterly" plan to work, she would need to get rid of Hook. And while she did not know the full history, she had probably been around Storybrooke long enough to know that Rumple and Hook were OLD enemies.

So using all of this information, she came up with the ultimate plan to allow her to win, and remove a potential threat at the same time.

1. By telling Rumple that he needed the heart of a person that knew him before he became the Dark One, She put Hook in Rumples sights, and She know that Rumple could easily defeat Hook.

2. She knew that Rumple would not want to stick around with the Spell of Shattered Sight in play, and even when Rumple modified the deal to include Belle and Henry, she was sure that one across the town line, dagger or no dagger, he would be powerless, and with no way to come back to Storybrooke, he would stay that way.

3. If the dagger had actually been cleaved (by the hat alone, since Hook's heart was just a ruse), then Rumple would have been none the wiser until he was actually across the town line, and by then it would have been too late.

4. If, for some reason, the dagger was NOT cleaved, She could just express, honestly, that there must not have been enough power in the hat, even with all of the fairy's magic. This one scenerio would leave Rumple alive and in town, but I think Ingrid probably had a backup plan just in case.

Point being, She defeated Rumple, not by Magic, but by his own weapon, which is manipulation.

Thoughts? 