I’m doing better with the idea of the taser after reading all the tweets and theories here. Still don’t think it played too well during initial viewing, but maybe they can make it work better with more info.
There was a guy over in NY state in 2011 whose death made the news after he was tasered repeatedly during a rampage at a gym. He later went into cardiac arrest and died at the hospital. He was hit about 5 times, and the video was shown on tv. It caused lots of local news stories about his potential death from taser and police procedure around where I live. For a time the news was all about his death by taser. Then the autopsy finally came back saying the cause of death was actually agitated delirium related to his PCP use. Still tons of news stories come up to this day in a search attributing the poor man’s death to being tasered repeatedly. Tasers can certainly be dangerous, but normal tasers wouldn’t have the death rate and effect that Tamara’s device was shown with. Not by a longshot.
I get the impression that the gamechanger between Neal and Rumple is positive rather than negative from the way Robert phrased his comment. Perhaps, Rumple loses his power to Tamara’s taser while defending Henry. Then Henry is his “undoing” and Neal has a reason for his relationship with Rumple to improve.