@zlfh4 wrote:
Just a thought but I think it might be the real deal or at least it was at the beginning of season 1 because if you think about it the clock only started to move after she decided to stay and met Gold and he got his memories back…and if the real dagger was at the end of the minute hand that would make a lot of sense…
I don’t believe the dagger was in the clock tower when Emma decided to stay in SB; I think the hand of the clock moving was just a sign that her presence as the savior was enough to weaken the curse. If you recall, Mr. Gold decided to hide his dagger in the woods. In 1×7, Heart of a Lonely Hunter, Graham came across Mr. Gold “doing a bit of gardening” in his suit in the forest. In reality, Mr. Gold was burying his dagger in the ground. Later, in 1×19, The Return, when Mr. Gold thought August was his son, we saw the dagger again buried underground.
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