OK, so I was trying to think through the logic of what happened with the stabbing, and ended up with a couple of questions.
Rumple got the Dagger back, then his shadow reattached, so he became whole again.
Rumple stabbed Pan.
Black smoke, like when the Shadow was burned up, and Pan changed into Malcolm, so I guess that was the magical Dagger being able to deactivate Pan’s powers, leaving him mortal?
Rumple twists the knife, increasing the wound, killing Malcolm’s mortal body, and the magical lights which make them vanish start bursting forth.
Typically, when the Dagger kills someone, it transfers the DO curse to the stabber from the stabee, but in this case, the stabber was already the DO. So did the DO curse essentially get confused, because the Dagger had killed someone, but there was no new host for the curse, so instead it just fizzled out?
If so, does that mean that it was just the DO curse that “died”, but Rumple’s mortal body remained alive?
If so, does that mean that just his mortal, but still alive body, got transported somewhere?
The other Curse we saw being undone in this ep had the effect of people returning from whence they came, because they didn’t belong where they were.
So if the same is true for the DO curse being undone, is Rumple’s now mortal body back in FTL as well?
Maybe?