@SpinningGold wrote:
It is her name that brings his memory back. He make it that way by himself. In the first episode he says: “Emma what a lovely name.” and goes outside with a smile. This is the second he get his memory back.
As far as I know that’s a theory, and I don’t buy it. Rumpelstiltskin’s memory might be vague in parts, but I think he has squirreled away clues for himself throughout Storybrooke, that’s why is always digging away in the forrest, looking for whatever he has put there that can further his plan. How else would he know saying please to Regina always works. It has taken him 300 years to perfect the curse and 28 yrs to get ready for Emma’s arrival. He’s ready.
That’s not a theory, it’s fact. Kitsis and Horowitz have confirmed many times that Rumple only got his memory back when he heard Emma’s name at Granny’s. He had no memory prior to this nor did he have any magic. That’s why he had the squid ink in his jail cell back in the Enchanted Forest. The more he wrote Emma’s name, the greater the chances he’d remember it once he heard it in Storybrooke.
As for always burying things out in the wood, he was only out there once, when he buried his dagger to keep it out of Regina’s reach. That was well after Emma came to town and his memory returned.
I don’t think we can compare the cane to the dagger because there seems to be continuity errors when displaying the dagger. Last season, in Desperate Souls, we saw two sides of the dagger. One with name spelled hilt to tip and the other side with name spelled tip to hilt. This season, in Broken, when he summons the Wraith, dagger has name hilt to tip and on reversed side no name but ornate decoration.
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