I like that idea sacric! It would make total sense that he would mistakenly agree with them for a moment and then try to fight to get away later.
The only problem I have with this is wouldn’t Henry know not to trust them based on the events from tonight? I would think Emma would have to tell him what happened to NealFire but perhaps at that moment hadn’t gotten a chance to in all the excitement and pulled a classic Charming family move of we’ll talk about it later (I could totally see Henry going around trying to find NealFire and wondering where he is but Emma having bigger things to deal with). Granted she told him about Archie which at the time was pretty much equally devastating and thank goodness untrue.
Basically I’m torn but I like the line of thinking!
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