Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-72.10.90.149-20130514155456/@comment-67.130.166.175-20130515004154

I'm glad someone else is thinking on the same line as me. Because really, if you think about it, for the last half of the season who has had reason to want Henry dead (not saying he'll def go through with it)?

Rumplestiltskin/the Dark One.

I think years ago he gave the picture to Peter in exchange for something else (whatever Peter wanted/needed, who knows?) so that Peter Pan can do what he does best (kidnap young boys) but specifically target ones that might look like Henry, and then kill the Dark One's Downfall.

OH! but re-reading through the main topic post, Spy suggests that Rumple went to NL to get help with making his curse. Maybe, since Rumple is a very crafty creature, and he makes many people do the things that he wants them to do without them realizing what they're doing (Cora, Regina, etc), he DID initially go there to get ingredients/spell work/whatever for his curse, but in exchange Peter Pan wants the Dark One to give him a boy. The DO sees this as an opportunity to kill 2 birds with 1 stone and gives Peter a drawing of his "downfall" (who turns out to be Henry - and now maybe Rumple doesn't want Henry killed?) as a 'boy' that Peter can have, if he can find him.