^^^ I thought he let her win and just played dead
One line here really got me; that he was there when Cora tried to steal her heart. I thought he was knocked out during all that.
I picked that up too- I just thought maybe he had started to come too about then & saw it.
It just occurred to me! He purposefully lost that fight to help her and Mary Margaret get away from Cora and escape back to Storybrooke. He never intended to keep Emma away from her son. He was just “playing possum”!
I LOVE that idea guys! How cool would that be to have as cannon/fact
If I didn’t believe it before, I certainly do now. I love the fact that he knew about her abilities all along and didn’t give her a hard time over it (ahem, Neal), he just accepted that it was part of her, full stop.