@thelonebamf wrote:
I’m not saying Gold went to fatedchildren.net and picked out a boy,
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but it does stand to reason that even if the outside world doesn’t come to Storybrooke (and nobody leaves) there is some amount of communication. Now, people can wander onto the map of Storybrooke, yes? Say into some of the forests- they just don’t see the town? Or if someone tried to walk across the town line would they be blown back? (I think maybe it’s implied that they just don’t see the town? Like it’s hidden from their views?) So I guess a possible (but needlessly complicated) possibility is Gold played it all shady. Made contact with someone who had access to children and had them “make a drop” out in the woods, pick up their cash and go. Then he went and retrieved Henry? (Aw, I just had a sort of cute thought of Gold spending an hour or two with baby Henry before he takes him to Regina. D’awwww.)
This would work for me. The fact that they’ve used the word “procured” more than once to describe how Gold got Henry definitely suggests that it was a shady deal. The type of people who deal in the illegal baby trade would totally play along with a baby drop off in the woods, and would also be fine with not seeing the person they were handing the baby over to, coz they don’t care as long as they get their money. If Gold was able to communicate with such people via the internets, then he could have paid them online and told them to just drop the kid in a certain spot that would exist in both worlds, like a distinctive rock or tree just on the SB side of the border.