Yay, the annoying kid is in a coma! Can he stay that way for all of next season?
Probably not, here's my guess for next week. We have Jefferson's hat, back in action, just in time for the finale. But nobody can use it, because there's no more magic, except...Emma is magic enough to have created a hat (the same hat, I presume, unless Regina had another in storage, but same diff, she made a hat that worked) so it stands to reason that she's the only person who could use the hat without tossing in more trinkets, of which there are none to be found.
So! Regina learns to her horror that Henry ate the apple tart. The kid is a tad too young to be having any "true loves," so a kiss is out of the question. No doubt, Regina will remember some magical doodad that is The Only Thing That Can Save His Life.
Of course it's in Fairytale Land, probably owned by someone like Malificent who is powerful enough to be immune from Regina's curse and still living in her castle. Realizing nobody but Emma can use the hat, Regina scares the shit out of her by ranting about fairy tale lands and curses and telling her she needs to go jump into a hat.
Flummoxed at the notion that Regina, of all people, is now buying into the mass insanity gripping the town, and desperate enough over Henry to try anything, Emma accompanies Regina and maybe also Jefferson to the hat, where it senses her presence and starts spinning on its own. Emma says, what the hell, and jumps, lands flat on her ass in Fairytale Land, fade out, see ya in Sept.
Then Malificent will turn into a dragon (didn't someone say something about "awaking a sleeping dragon"?) and Emma will have to do battle for the doodad, but that won't happen till S2 so I'm getting way ahead of myself.
Since Emma has personal experience that Jefferson is known to drug people, his presence even gives the writers their wiggle room, to make Emma doubt whether what she experienced was real, if they want to keep dragging this shit out into next season.
PS, Why didn't Regina simply pretend that the apple tart was a new recipe and ask Emma for her opinion by giving her a bite right in the kitchen? Emma couldn't refuse - not to even sample someone's cooking is a BIG dis among girls, and they were trying to be friends, right? - and that would have ensured that Emma didn't just chuck the thing in the trash right after she left. (You don't keep a figure like that by porking out on apple tarts.) Regina was an idiot for not insisting on seeing Emma take a bite; at that point, it was inevitable that Henry would eat it instead.
I wonder if the Winter Soldier (Bucky in the Comics played by Jefferson in the movie, was found in the ice by the Russians and programmed into being an assassin since the late sixi5ts put into cryofreeze between missions.) is going to be in the next Avengers movie?
I say the Nazis got him instead, but you're onto something - as the First Rule of Science Fiction states,
If you didn't see the body, they're not really dead.
