Emma owes Mr. Gold a favor

[the_savior]

Now that magic is back into the picture and the favor will be reinforced by magic, I wonder exactly what Rumpel has up his sleeve…. here are some of my theories.

1. The dagger will fall into the hands of Regina and Rumpel will ask Emma to retrieve it from her.

2. A plot not yet revealed will cause Rumpel to sacrifice himself for the greater good, and Emma will have to rely on another source of power (dark one powers) to defeat Regina or a not yet introduced evil.

3. Because Emma is one of the only people that can leave Storybrooke, Gold may ask her to travel somewhere to find Bae or to retrieve something.

4.He may ask Emma to protect Belle or Bae as a dying wish.

Obviously, it has to be something that Rumpel forsees happening and something that Emma would not do willingly. There are only a few things that I could see Emma having to be FORCED to do, and that would involve anything with her family, especially Henry, or something that is not good.

I think the Finale proved that she is willing to not only protect Henry, but also take on the burden of breaking the curse.

We shall see

[antbee]

Hello. First time poster here, but I enjoy reading all of your theories.

I’m guessing that the favor will have to do with finding Baelfire. However, the other three choices also seem very plausible.

For the first choice, I am really worried now that magic is back that the dagger will work again, and that of course Regina will get a hold of it by the show’s finale. However, I think that helping get rid of it for good will be something that falls on Rump, himself, perhaps he can sacrifice himself or tricks Regina one last time by having her kill him and taking the power, but having Henry and/or Emma be able to activate some kind of spell so that there’s no more Dark One curse that way Regina will be able to be defeated. Or it will fall to Bae somehow.

For the second option, I would guess then that Bae will turn out to be the ultimate Big Bad, although I really hope not because I do want him to find happiness later on in his life, and Rumpel has to sacrifice himself in order to save Bae. It’s certainly possible that Bae might be written as a Big Bad or the Big Bad because someone had to tell August about the book and the dagger, and right now it doesn’t seem like the Blue Fairy did which only leaves Bae. Plus, it does seem like an outside force was behind bringing Henry to Storybrooke and making sure the book ended up with him. I could see Baelfire being responsible for the latter and still being good or redeemable, but if he was willing to sacrifice a child, especially one that might be his, just for some kind of revenge against his dad or something along those lines, then I guess he could really be evil.

As for the fourth choice, I could also see that, but I wonder if it won’t be more along the lines of Rumpel cashing in his favor if Bae does turn out to be Henry’s father and uses the favor to get Emma to forgive Bae for whatever Bae did to her. Rumpel does seem to do a lot of match-making, so I could him doing that with Emma and Bae as something to try to make up for what he did to Bae before.

Most likely though, I’m guessing it will turn out to be the third option because I think Emma being a bail bondsperson was a bit of wordplay from the writers hinting at Emma being connected to Bael(fire) like Henry’s dad being a fireman story too. I could definitely see Rumpel cashing in his favor, and then Emma getting a shock when she finds out that Henry’s dad and Baelfire are one in the same.

[nonnie]

I have not read the comment in this forum, because…. I think Emma needs to look GOLD in the eye and say to him…

You know the FAVOR I OWE YOU? That egg marked it PAID IN FULL!!!

[antbee]

Oh, I agree that her getting the egg should repay the favor, but since it’s Gold, I’m guessing it’s not going to happen.

[nonnie]

@FairyTalePrincess wrote:

I wonder if Bae is also in the mental ward. If Rumple did ask Emma to find Bae and she finally realized people were being held down below and freed them all imagine Rumple’s anger and joy. Not only his son but the woman he fell in love with. True loves kiss may turn him back into the caring father Balefire remembered and the joker Belle knew. “It helps me forget.”. “Forget what?”. (pause…) “I guess it’s working.”

I do not think Bael is in SB as he left FTL eons before the curse… the writers have said Rumple had been working on the curse for YEARs / Centuries… I believe them because if you consider the costumes and props for FTL with Bael and Gold they were similar to the middle ages in Europe. But Belle, Regina, Snow and the rest of the FTL look like late 1700s in clothing, housing, mannerisms and props. The curse was enacted by Regina long after (centuries) RUMPLE became the Dark One.

NONNIE

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