I did see that and immediately, I thought, there is no way the Stranger is Pinocchio. I really don’t think there are many people in FT world who actually knew about the dagger.
Horder’s dead, the original Dark One is dead. The only other person who knew about the dagger’s existence is Baelfire, so it makes sense that the Stranger’s real purpose for coming to Storybrooke all along, it was to find the dagger so he can stop his father.
Thank you Lissy for the screen-caps! 😀 😀
THIS is also the episode where Geppeto and Pinocchio are seen… AND Rumple and his son Bae interact…. so there could be a combination character or …. more RED HERRINGS are thrown out to give us more surprises.