@EvilQueen wrote:
I actually think that Hook DOES know about the dagger. He said himself, he won’t stop until he finds a way to kill Rumplestiltskin and he was looking for the answer in Neverland.
Because he’s not in Neverland any more and, in fact, he can’t wait to get to SB and meet Rumple again, it makes me think he already knows how to kill Rumplestiltskin and of all the ways WE know, you could do this with the dagger and the dagger only.
I think he knows about the Dagger too; hence, the tattoo that he now has on his arm.
And in regards to the dagger, I have a feeling Cora told Hook about the dagger. Cora was one of Rumpel’s pupils, so I wouldn’t be surprised if she somehow gained knowledge of its existence.
This is my head canon for too now. It would make sense since Cora is the Miller’s daughter in the original Rumpelstiltskin story that the way she bested him was finding out about the Dagger since apparently learning his real name doesn’t really have any control of him that we know of right now. So besides wanting revenge on Cora and wanting to turn Regina into the person that would enact the Curse, I could see him wanting Cora out of the way because she was one of the few that knew about where he got his powers from.
So my theory is Hook knows about it and will stick around SB trying to find it and, while on his search, he will stumble upon Belle and will realise that a much better opportunity has just arrived. Not that he will kill her – I think he wouldn’t do it, out of the shear respect for his Milha but he might find a way to separate the two…
I don’t know if he knows about Belle or not. It seems unlikely but Jefferson knew about Belle and Rumpel too, so it’s possible that Hook found out somehow too. Either way, I do think he will kill her if he thought it would hurt Rumpel, but I don’t think he’ll do so right away. He’ll try to make Rumpel suffer as much as possible, and then eventually kill Belle and watch Rumpel witness it.
I said this in another topic, but what if Hook orders Rumpel (with his dagger) to kill Belle himself? I’m not saying he would do it, though that would be craaazy epic…but its a cool idea. It would be cool if he like broke his curse with his true love for belle before he killed her.
I could definitely see this happening. I don’t believe it will work because I believe that Belle will get a happy ending by the end of the series, but I think this idea would be one that would cause the most amount of pain to Rumpel. Either this plan or something perhaps involving Bae, that is if Hook finds Bae before Rumpel does, and making Rumpel have to choose between Belle and Bae or having Bae be the one that gets his heart torn out by Rumpel. I’m thinking that Hook targeting Belle is more fitting though because Belle is Rumpel’s true love like Milha’s was Hook’s. Plus, it could go either way how Hook feels about Bae. He might hate him because his father is Rumpel, but it’s also possible that he loved Milha enough that he wouldn’t want to harm Bae directly.
More importantly if Neal is Bae, I think he has enough problems to deal with before they use the Rumpel has to choose between Belle and Bae card. I’m sure it will come eventually, but I think it’s too soon to use it since it feels more like a last season going out with a bang type of idea.