LilRed, those are seriously amazing! I agree with most of your thoughts. The green bandage could simply be where the special effects team will use CGI green-screen effects to make Dr. Whale look like he just lost a limb. Maybe he’s keeping his detached limb on ice in the cooler until Mr. Gold can use magic to reattach it (hence Robert Carlyle being in the shots). Also, the blood stains on Dr. Whale’s shirt, and the fact he’ missing a sleeve are indications he’s just suffered a trauma.
Could this go along with the Peter Pan theory? Could Hook have finally gotten his revenge for when Peter fed Hook’s hand to crocodile all those years ago in Neverland?
Hair-brained moment: I wonder if Dr. Whale is both Peter Pan and the crocodile who ate Captain Hook’s hand 😮 (Only half serious, though Red was also the wolf, so not impossible). Oh, now that’s just a wee bit silly, as Bobby Carlyle might say. 😆
Remember the earlier picture of him with reptile scales of sorts – although that could be a bogus picture, and yet, maybe Lil’Red’s idea about scales isn’t so crazy after all.
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