My Theory on Hook, Zelena, Rumple, Cora, Ariel, and Once's Madness

Now, I am not here to make every Hook fan mad. Which, while there is evidence to support that he’s working for Zelena, I also believe that he’s working for someone different: Rumple.

Yeah. If (and this is a big IF) Hook is working for Zelena I think he’s working “diagonally” meaning he’s working against her by working for her. I can’t see him working for Zelena by choice unless he knew he could beat her at her own game.

Working for Rumple is an interesting idea but we’re not sure how sane he is right now or ever. Time will tell. There is another option.

Neal.

I think (and until proven otherwise) will continue to think that Neal and Hook are working together. Neal and Belle bring back Rumple. Neal looses his heart or the totem of his heart to the Witch but keeps a semblance of free will (just like Graham could make his own decisions when his heart was in the vault). Neal joins Rumple in being locked up but Neal remains SANE. Neal learns of Zelena’s plan but underestimates how in control she is. Neal gets word to Hook with a potion, “get to Emma. Do whatever you have to do. Just get to her and get her home. Her family is in danger.” But Neal has one additional request, “don’t tell Emma. If she knows I’m in danger, it’s a distraction. She’ll want to go after Henry’s father and right now her focus needs to be on saving SB and her family. So lie to her. Do what you have to, but keep this secret”

bring back Cora, our beloved, malevolent, heart-clutching (literally) woman, from the land of the dead.

I have two problems with this: 1.) Zelena clearly wasnt aware Cora was dead, nor did she seem to have any interest in the matter. She basically goes, “Oh really, she’s dead? hmm, well i only needed u anyway, Regina” when regina told her. Why would she WANT to revive Cora? Again, Zelena is going after Regina. 2.) This is already being done on WL. And we know for a fact that Jafar will succeed in changing the laws soon, so i dont want this to be the case on Once. Idk. It would seem like a rehash to me.

think Ariel is there for a specific reason: she knew Cora

Alice did say she and Cyrus swam with mermaids…

Its an interesting theory Corbin but I have to agree it could only be a “diagonally” sort of situation.

I’ve been pondering that for awhile.  We have Wicked. We have our heroes, but in S1, we had 3 separate camps more or less.   Regina, destroying people’s happines.  Emma and the Charmings–finding their lost family.   Then there was Rumple, secretly trying to use that war to his own advantage to find his own family, little suspecting the twisted family wreath that would spring forth and unite them all.  Or maybe he knew and that’s why he went insane, but I digress.

So this season we have Wicked, our heroes–but could someone be using  this battle for their own purposes?   Neal and Hook both spring to mind as someone with incentive to cross worlds potentially at the expense of others, particularly if so to speak, they weren’t causing the calamity, just taking advantage of something already in motion.  I do think Neal has had a strong moral center in the past, so I feel its out of character for him actively choose to work with Wicked, to team up with someone who has  questionable morals and aims.  Hook on the other hand, much as I cannot see him wanting to directly harm Emma, does have this history of working with whoever can help him achieve what he wants, without really questioning his associates  goals–except to the extent it might affect his goals of course.   He changed goals as he entered NL from revenge to winning Emma–but did he change his concept of what’s honorable, his pirate’s sensibility ?  He’s not going to do something that Emma might reject him for doing–unless he can do it without her knowing about it.

It’s possible he gave up his ship to get to Emma, but it is also possible he found out his ship had been taken over by someone and that to get it back, he had to do a favor for someone who needed to trap Emma in SB.   The question I have is I can’t see Walsh being sent by the same person who might want to lure Emma to SB to trap her.

Wicked did have more than one flying monkey, as one was turned into a stuffed animal.  So maybe Walsh was the one who attacked Regina and took the blood, but then we have to ask the question: How did he get to NYC? Did he fly to NL, then to the world without magic?  Regina seemed sure there was no way to travel without that curse, but really we heard  out-of-show about “adjacent worlds” and why would the world without magic stop being adjacent to NL and NL to EF if all that structure was in place long before Regina’ s curse ever took place?

So I don’t know.  I like the idea of Hook and Neal working together, perhaps both playing the Wicked but its also possible one is her unwitting pawn or willing ally.   Maybe there’s a troop of free Monkeys, led by Walsh, who have their own agenda.  All I know is, whoever sent that note to Hook doesn’t seem to have the same goal as the person who deployed Walsh.  One wanted Emma to come to SB, and one wanted to keep her away from it.   It makes the most sense right now that Wicked sent Walsh, so I think it cuts against assuming Hook is somehow mixed up with Wicked too.

There’s just one more thing though.  I wonder how Walsh knew about the potion.  Emma doesn’t tell him HOW she got her memories back or even that she did.  She just says to him that she has family stuff and has to go, and he  immediately says “I wish you hadn’t taken that potion”.  I found that a little curious.  (appropriate for a monkey I guess!)