Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9232373-20130524180705/@comment-8954026-20130525112951

108.49.79.202 wrote: OldBid wrote: Stonicus wrote: Rumple passes along to MM, through David in the Netherworld, that the best way to stop Cora is with the squid ink in his old jail cell. But, that's not true. The squid ink does jack. All it does it allow them to escape the cell, which they would have never been in if Rumple didn't tell them to go look for it. The ink didn't help them one bit, all it did was allow Aurora (controlled by Cora) to shut the gate on them in the cell and let Cora get the compass.

Was it just a plot device to get us to see how Rumple got his memory back?

I just thought that they used the squid ink to get out of the cell instead  of using it on Cora. We have no idea what would have happened if they'd left the cell and used it on her. It seemed to work as a disintergration substance - it might disintegrate anything that it touched - including people!! No.

The original plan was to use it like Cinderella used it on her modified contract with Rumple that ended him locked up in that cell-remember he got paralyzed? To get Cora to use it somehow so she ends up paralyzed, and then they can imprison her or whatever.

They ended up needing to use it to get out though, and well, yeah, the original plan went to shit.

I admit that could have been done better, yeah, but that's what happened.

So you're saying the original plan was for them to get Cora to write something so she would become paralysed??? How would that have worked?? I don't think so! How could they have got her to write with it if it was already on the paper?

Maybe the ink does whatever is needed to be done - in Cinderella's case, it needed to freeze Rumple (and don't forget he set himself up for that!) and in the cell it disintegrated the bars so they could escape.

I suppose unless they use it again (maybe the squid lives in NL) we will never know! :)