Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20131219213043/@comment-4975807-20131219220631

I want to theorize that the curse would take Neal anyway if he crossed out of town, and the circumstances of Emma being able to be unaffected is because she's the savior, and Henry wouldn't be affected since he was born in the LWM. If everyone could just cross out of town and flee the impending curse, why didn't they do that? I believe the curse would have taken them even if they tried to leave Storybrooke because that's the price of stopping the curse.