Mickstemp,
I like the idea of them putting a spin on the Golden Cap, though I’ve never considered that the Flying Monkeys were save-able before. I’ve sort of assumed that Walsh was the favoured monkey who got to transform between human and monkey, but the rest of her monkeys were just doomed to always be monkeys. I don’t think the sword Charming has in that pic is the sword he lost in 314. The round bit on the end looks a different size, and the hilt on the one he lost in 314 was patterned, but the one in the pic looks smooth. So even if the pendant IS something Zelena uses to control Neal, and Emma finds it by 319, I don’t think they also find Charming’s sword (yet). If the pendant WAS used to control Neal, and Zelena loses it, that means she’d need someone else’s heart to control if she needs the trifecta of heart, courage, brain to do what she wants to do, and that could be interesting if we see her having to scramble to enslave another heart now that she’s lost control of Neal’s. Maybe she’d go after Robin’s if he and Regina have connected by then?
Phee, Emma can help Neal get his family back this time… she can save Gold
I wonder what saving Rumple will involve? Just stealing the dagger from Zelena and giving it back to Rumple so he’s back in control of himself? I kinda want it to be a case of Zelena having brought the Dark One back when it wasn’t supposed to have happened, so fate will course correct somehow and the Dark One WILL be undone, leaving mortal Rumple.
But yes, I’d love to see Emma helping Neal get his family back, the same way he helped her get her family back.