Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26179634-20141219181118/@comment-24674051-20160408174551

That's all well and good. but I think Zelena could have used anyone's "brain" (and she didn't acutally use his brain, but rather some representation of that brain). and knowing as we do now that the vault can be opened, she probably could have gone down and taken the dagger if that was all she wanted. Other than as a plot contrivance (and a rather poor one at that in retrospect), what was Zelena's reasoning for wanting Rumple alive? That has never really been explained.