Even Mr. Like his doppelganger in the Enchanted Forest, Mr. Gold strikes deals with town residents in exchange for things that he wants. Helping her, however, is not a gesture of goodwill; it is purely a selfish act because breaking the curse will bring back magic to Storybrooke and therefore restore his magical powers. Neverland is also where they find Baelfire. This meeting marks a turning point for Rumplestiltskin as he battles with his own conscience.
Baelfire is the light that keeps Rumplestiltskin human at his core. Tamara once stated that Baelfire hates mayonnaise and avoid Neal avoids it like the plague. This conversation happened in Season 2's twentieth episode titled "The Evil Queen.
Baelfire was talented in drawing. He could create the best drawings in just a short span of time. This was a talent he inherited from his mother Milah who drew hundreds of pictures too.
The drawings seen on Baelfire's cave walls all symbolize different events in his life. There was a drawing of a portal which is a reminder of how he was separated from his father. There is also a drawing of Captain Hook and his ship. Then there was a drawing of London where Baelfire resided for some time. There was also another drawing showing the Darling family who Baelfire also resided with.
It's a tiny detail that's easy to pass the eye of the viewer. Baelfire had a large clock collection that he had gathered over a period of time just like Mr. Gold and Henry. This detail also came to light in Season 2's premiere episode titled "Broken. Each clock tends to represent something different. However, when it came to Rumpelstiltskin's redemption arc, it was an epic fail. I'm not badmouthing Rumple. I actually think he's pretty great; I'm a Dearie, through and through. I just think Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis did a disservice to Rumple's character with how they handled his redemption and with how they handled him in general.
To understand how royally the writers screwed over our favorite imp, we must go back to the beginning. Once upon a time, ABC came out with a show about fairy tales. The show had a family of protagonists and two big, scary antagonists. The other was Rumpelstiltskin, a wild-card that left the audience scratching their heads. He was a mystery. Both characters had the potential to be the great villain of the series.
Regina was motivated by revenge. Her tragedy was sympathetic, but she blamed a relatively innocent ten-year-old for her abusive mother's murder of her true love. She was full of anger, and she took it out on a whole kingdom.
Rumple, meanwhile, was motivated by love, guilt, and regret. He made a mistake and lost his son. His goal was to find his son and apologize. He was willing to ruin and corrupt others to do so, but he also made David a prince, and helped him wake Snow White from a sleeping curse.
He was always interfering in people's lives. Sometimes he did nasty things. Sometimes he helped. He was morally ambiguous, but the story could not unfold without him.
He was deeply tied to all of their lives, and many of them might never have been born nor found love without his interference. Given those two descriptions, if you had to pick someone for the big bad of the series, who would you pick? I think it was supposed to be The Evil Queen, and I think the show was written with that intent. Raping him, and then heartlessly killing him was meant to show Regina as heartless, not to mention on Once Upon A Time Season 1 Episode 1 , when Regina tells Emma she loves Henry, and Emma's superpower tells her Regina is lying.
All of this can be explained away, but why should it be? Well, the rumor is, Regina was supposed to be the big evil on the show. She was meant to be sympathetic, and it had not been planned to give her a redemption arc. Then, the show got a lot of flack for being "anti-adoption. Lana Parilla fought for Regina to get a redemption arc on Once Upon A Time Season 2 , and the trajectory of the show was changed forever.
I'm not slamming Regina's redemption arc. It was the best on the series. I loved rooting for her. However, from a story perspective, this left the writers in a bit of a pickle because their big bad was going to be one of the good guys.
They needed a new big bad. I'm not entirely sure why they felt they needed one who lasted from beginning to end. It seems they did, though. Presumably, sometime after this, Mr. Gold drinks the potion to stop being "awake". Eight years after the memory wipe, Regina requests Mr. Gold's assistance in finding a suitable child for her to adopt as the agencies she looked up all have long waiting lists. He questions if she is ready to be a mother, though Regina attests it's something she needs.
Gold agrees to procure an infant, but advises once she becomes a mother, it means putting the child's interests before her own.
In a short time, he informs her of a baby from Phoenix who was previously placed with a family in Boston , but the adoption did not go through, leaving her with the open opportunity. Much later, she bursts into the pawnshop carrying the baby, Henry , in a crib while angrily confronting him over something she learned about the child's birth mother , who was apparently found in the woods eighteen years ago.
Gold understands even less when she starts rambling on about things he apparently told her in a previous life. He takes these furious outbursts as the pressures of motherhood getting to her head. In ten years time, Mr. Gold heads into the bed and breakfast to collect the monthly rent from the owner, Granny , and meets a new town visitor, Emma.
Upon hearing her name, he regains his memories from his former life as Rumplestiltskin. At night, Mr. Gold takes a stroll and ends up in Regina's backyard as she is tending to her apple tree.
He notices she is in in high spirits and congratulates her for banishing Emma, to which Regina replies that she has triumphed. Even so, he tells her not to get ahead of herself because he saw Emma and Henry together and that he would have been able to help her for a price. Suspiciously, she inquiries if Emma arriving in town was something he planned, but Mr.
Gold asks her to drop the subject by saying "please", an enchantment that was part of a previous deal he made with Regina in their past lives, in which she must obey him if he ends the sentence with "please".
Gold walks past as a shocked Regina is unable to disobey his command. A few nights later, Mr. Gold locks up his shop for the evening. After he is gone, a pregnant Ashley breaks in to steal back adoption papers she previously signed for her unborn child. When caught in the act by Mr. Gold, she pepper sprays his face; causing him to knock his head and pass out. By the time he comes to, Ashley is gone and so are the adoption papers. Putting on the mask of a concerned citizen, he asks Emma to help him find Ashley as it is dangerous for a pregnant woman to be all on her own.
Emma tracks down Ashley as she is going into labor. After bringing her to the hospital, she gives birth to a healthy baby girl. Gold comes to collect the child, but Emma promises to owe him a future favor if he will leave Ashley alone. He agrees to the deal and leaves the hospital empty-handed. Gold remains in his shop. When leaving, he passes a couple of puppets resembling a young man and woman.
One evening, Mr. Gold gives David directions to the Toll Bridge after he gets lost following Regina's instructions. David goes over to Emma's mobile from the Enchanted Forest , but then takes notice of a windmill. David stares at it, transfixed, and seems to gain some recollection of the windmill having belonged to him in the past. Gold smirks as David remembers his previous life pre-coma in the hospital as opposed to being Prince Charming.
To prevent Regina from gaining the upper hand over him, Mr. Gold buries his magic dagger in the forest when he sees Sheriff Graham stumbling about. Graham tells him about the wolf and strange dreams he has been having. With a casual smile, Mr. Gold indirectly hints at Graham's previous life as the Huntsman by saying that some believe dreams are memories of a former life, which does nothing to calm the sheriff's nerves.
After the sheriff's death, he offers Emma some of Graham's old things, which she declines. When he learns the mayor fired Emma, he brings over the town charter to her as it might help her contest Regina's decision to elect Sidney as the new town sheriff. Gold offers his assistance to Emma by becoming her benefactor. The next day, he purposely sets fire to the town hall building while Emma and Regina are inside.
Emma carries Regina out from the danger and is branded a hero by the public. Gold is confronted by Emma with her suspicions about the fire. Emma plays right into his hand, beginning to feel guilt about winning the townspeople's favor through trickery, and at the electoral debate, she steps out of the running after publicly indicting Mr. Gold as the fire-starter. As planned, this is the exact path he wanted Emma to take so Regina would not gain the upper hand and become more powerful by setting Sidney as a puppet sheriff.
He pays Emma a visit at the station the next morning to congratulate her on the victory, and lets her know everything was premeditated on his part. He explains the residents of Storybrooke had to see Emma is capable of standing up not only to the mayor, but himself, too. When Emma is trying to help out two orphans, Ava and Nicholas Zimmer , from becoming a part of the foster system in Boston, she goes to Mr. Gold's pawnshop in hopes that he recognizes a compass that once belonged to the siblings' mother.
Gold pretends to take out a paper with the name of the item purchaser, though it is actually blank, but states a man named Michael Tillman bought it. This leads Emma directly to the orphans' biological father. On Valentine's Day, Mr. Gold is dissatisfied with Moe French 's late rent fees, and takes away the man's flower delivery truck until he pays up. Regina attempts to start a conversation with Mr.
Gold, but he dodges her with a well-placed "please". He returns home later in the day to see many of his home belongings are gone. He reports the robbery, to which Emma arrives to investigate. He relates what occurred with Moe earlier as a possible reason for the robbery. She manages to recover nearly everything, but Mr. Gold is furious that an item of utmost importance to him, the chipped cup , is still missing.
Emma is unaware of which item is it, but promises to find it. However, Mr. Gold decides to take the matter into his own hands. That evening, he buys duct tape and rope from the pharmacy. While on line, he sees David is buying two Valentine's Day cards.
Gold can tell each one is for a separate woman, though David lies. Briefly, he talks about love, which is a delicate flame that can snuffed out forever. Then, he kidnaps Moe into a van and brings him to an abandoned cabin for interrogation about the item's whereabouts. While physically beating him, Mr.
Gold becomes emotional about the cup's significance, which is in memory of " her ", and is enraged at the man for causing her downfall, though Moe has no idea what he is going on about. Emma breaks into the cabin to stop the assault. When she questions him about the "her" he kept talking about, his refusal to answer prompts Emma to arrest him for physical battery charges. While he is holed up in the sheriff department jail cell , Regina bribes Emma into spending free time with Henry while she speaks with Mr.
Regina reveals she did indeed persuade Moe to rob him, but he did not take his precious belonging. She won't give it back unless he gives her an answer about his real name.
At first, Mr. Gold sticks to the name he has always had in Storybrooke. When she presses further for a name he had in another place, Mr. Gold admits his name to be Rumplestiltskin. Satisfied with the answer, she hands back the cup and leaves. In a deal with Regina, Mr.
Gold agrees to make David's wife, Kathryn , disappear so Mary Margaret will be blamed for murder if she pulls some strings for the District Attorney to drop the physical battery charges pending against him. Additionally, he gives Regina the suggestion that when Mary Margaret is arrested, she could slip a key in the cell for her to escape since bad things happen to those who leave Storybrooke.
Just as Kathryn is driving out of town to Boston in pursuit of her dream in law school, he kidnaps her. In a room, she is kept alive with food and water, but he never allows himself to be seen by her. A few days later, Mr. Gold is led out onto the docks by Leroy , who wants to sell his boat in exchange for five-thousand dollars. Gold is unimpressed by the asking price, and insists three-thousand dollars is more reasonable. As an alternative, Leroy requests waiving a month's rental payment for the nuns, though Mr.
Gold gladly remarks that he wouldn't mind kicking them out of the convent for good. He refuses either deal with Leroy. When Mary Margaret is arrested for the suspected murder of Kathryn, Mr. Gold offers to be her attorney. Emma is skeptical of his motives and advises Mary Margaret against trusting him.
However, Mary Margaret knows that she will need all the help that she can get and accepts his help. He rejects money from Mary Margaret and simply claims that he is "invested in her future". Later, Emma relates to Mr. Gold her suspicions that Regina is framing Mary Margaret for Kathryn's murder. She is not only willing to do anything, but also go further, so Mr.
Gold agrees to help her and concedes that fighting Regina and winning will be tough, but believes Emma is more powerful than she realizes. Regina follows through with Mr. Gold's advice and plants a key in Mary Margaret's cell. As he and Emma enter into the sheriff's station, Henry is sitting in the hallway and notifies them that Mary Margaret is gone.
Emma goes on a search and successfully convinces Mary Margaret to return. The following morning, Regina is astonished to see Mary Margaret is still in the jail cell. To the mayor, Mr. Gold credits Emma's resourcefulness in the situation.
Regina presses that their deal only occurred so she could get results. He assures that she will since Mary Margaret is still a murder suspect. Gold advocates to Emma that Mary Margaret's personality could get the charges dropped if the District Attorney sympathizes with the schoolteacher. In an interview with the District Attorney, Mary Margaret accidentally admits she "wanted Kathryn gone", which is taken as a murder confession.
She is later taken away by the police for the trial, while Emma blames Mr. Gold for not trying harder to defend her. He asks her not to lose faith when there is still time for him to "work a little magic. Gold picks the perfect time to drug Kathryn and leave her unconscious at a field outside of town, to which she crawls all the way to the diner and is discovered by Emma. Using Henry as a distraction, August tries to infiltrate Mr.
Gold's back office in the pawnshop. Once caught, he feigns innocence, but Mr. Gold is suspicious. When news breaks about Kathryn being alive, Regina comes to him in a panic upon realizing all the fabricated evidence setting Mary Margaret up as a murder will point back to herself.
She accuses him of breaking their deal since they both agreed "tragic" would happen to the woman. Gold attests Kathryn did suffer a terrible fate by being abducted, which fits the bill of their deal. He attends a party held in honor of Mary Margaret's return home. Emma has reason to suspect Mr. Gold was involved in Kathryn's kidnapping. Gold evades the probe by asking her if she thinks he is working with or against Regina. He questions her about August, but she knows nothing about him except that he's a writer.
After leaving the party, he breaks into August's guest room at the bed and breakfast and is stunned to find a drawing of his magic dagger. At the nunnery, he spies on Mother Superior in deep conversation with August. Once Mother Superior is alone, he threatens the convent's status for information about what she and August spoke of. She acknowledges that August sought advice and counsel on how to approach his estranged father, whom he has not seen or spoken to in years. Shocked, Mr. Gold takes all this to mean August is possibly his long lost son.
Anxious and unsure, he goes to talk with Dr. Hopper about how to approach his son. The doctor replies that, despite everything that may have happened between them, honesty is his best solution.
Gold resignedly agrees. Gold catches up to August in the woods, and gives him an emotional apology. The two embrace as August forgives him and asks for the dagger as proof he's changed. He digs it out and gives it to August, who then tries to control him with it.
Stunned, Mr. Gold quickly realizes this is not his son and threatens August until he coughs up a reason for trying to use the dagger as a cure for his own terminal illness. August demonstrates knowledge that a " little fairy " told him that getting Rumplestiltskin's magic was one of his two hopes for survival while the other option is to get the savior to believe in the curse, but did not think he was going to live long enough to see it happen.
Gold decides to let him go, and relishes in the fact August is going to die anyway, but Emma believes in the curse, he himself will "get something out of it. Regina comes into his pawnshop in a huff over her apple tree dying. He casually remarks that she should change her fertilizer, though they both know the real reason is because Emma's presence in town is causing the curse to slowly weaken over time.
She desperately wants to get rid of Emma so Henry will be hers alone, but of course, there is a catch. Emma can't be killed, lest the curse will break, so she decides to use the Sleeping Curse on her. Regina returns later to gloat about her success in the plan. Gold heeds there will be a price to pay for the use of magic, which occurs when Henry, not Emma, takes a bite of Regina's poisoned apple turnover instead and is befallen by the Sleeping Curse.
After the breaking of the curse , Belle pressures Mr. Gold to renounce vengeance on Regina and others who have wronged him. He promises, but his animosity cannot be contained. Gold goes on to mark Regina with a medallion and summons a Wraith to hunt her down. When confronted by Belle, he insists his promise was kept, since he will not kill Regina, but the Wraith will. Angered at his word games, Belle leaves; insisting she never wants to see him again. The Wraith fails to suck out Regina's soul after a portal is opened with Jefferson 's hat through which the creature is sucked into another world.
Afterward, Belle returns; concluding that she needs to be a civilizing influence in his life. While Mr. Gold is in the shop , Regina storms in, looking through books and papers in the room. Regina tells him she needs "the book" and he chuckles at the fact she Mr. Gold refuses at first, stating that for Regina to regain her magic is "not in his best interest," but when Regina threatens to tell the truth of what happened to the Enchanted Forest , Mr.
Gold uses magic, making the book appear and gives it to her, saying that the spells could be "rough on the system. Later, David enters the shop, causing Mr. Gold to bemoan the wasted money of a closed sign. David asks for help using the hat to find its owner, which Mr. Gold agrees to, providing that he will be left alone.
He agrees, asking for the same courtesy. Gold inquires about the commotion outside and David reveals that if anyone tries to leave Storybrooke they will lose all memories of their Enchanted Forest selves.
After David leaves, Mr. Gold reacts in a fit of anger, smashing the glass of his counters and displays. Then, he drives to the edge of Storybrooke and stares out at the border that binds him from going out of town.
Gold has not given up his goal to find his son and continues to practice magic. Belle discovers this and she asks him to explain what he is seeking to do. Gold only restates that "Magic is Power. Gold enlists the help of David Nolan to find Belle, however the people of Storybrooke are less than willing to help the man who has caused such misery.
With the help of Ruby's skills in tracking, they follow Belle's trail to a flower shop owned by Moe French. Moe has kidnapped his daughter and arranged to have her cross the barrier so that she will forget about her true love and be safe from Mr. Gold's power. Gold uses magic to pull Belle back from the town border, but Belle has not changed her mind about his cowardice and tells Gold she does not ever want to see him again. Later, Mr. Gold sends Belle the key to the library and tells her she is welcome to stay in the caretaker's apartment upstairs.
Belle says this will not cause her to change her mind, but Mr. Gold only says that he wants her to know the truth and explains the story of the loss of his son and that power has become a crutch that he cannot live without. He admits that he is a coward and has always been so. He says that he has lost so much that he loved, he could not bear to lose Belle without her knowing the truth.
After saying goodbye to Belle, he turns to leave. Belle stops him, suggesting that they have a hamburger sometime. Gold enters his basement where he has tied Smee up and asks him where his captain is. He learns that Jones escaped the curse and asks again where he is. Gold is in his shop, polishing his items when Dr. Whale enters, carrying a cooler, which contains his severed arm.
Placing the container in front of Mr. Gold, Mr. Gold quips that "charging an arm and a leg" is only a figure of speech. Whale asks Mr. Gold to restore his arm. Before Mr. Gold does, he questions Whale's purpose in bringing Daniel back. Whale comments only that he hoped if he brought Daniel back, perhaps she would be able to return Whale to his home.
Gold shrugs at the futility of Dr. Whale's plan. Whale again asks Mr. Gold to fix his arm, but Mr. Gold first tells him to "Say it", meaning he wants Whale to admit that he needs magic.
Once Dr. Whale has done so, Mr. Gold restores his arm. Regina calls Mr. Gold to Mary Margaret 's apartment to help Henry Mills as he is tortured by dreams where he is in a room on fire. Gold chastises Regina for knowing so very little about a curse she cast. Fiddling with various bottles in his case, he pours one bottle into a pendant. Handing it to Henry, he explains that the sleeping curse puts the sleeper in a place between life and death until they are woken.
However, the potion will allow Henry some control over the dream and he will be able to come and go at will. As he hands it to Henry, Regina asks the price. Gold smiles wryly and says that she could never afford such a house call; however, he is doing this for Henry on his own. Gold and Belle are having a hamburger lunch at Granny's Diner, Regina comes to inform him about Cora's presence in Storybrooke.
He believes himself capable of handling Cora on his own, but Regina assures that their shared nemesis is a bigger threat to him now that he has someone that actually needs his protection—Belle. He joins David, Henry and Regina in the pawnshop. To Henry, Mr. Gold tells him about some squid ink in his old jail cell in the Enchanted Forest, which is capable of stopping Cora. In turn, he wants Henry to deliver this vital information to Aurora in the Netherworld.
Henry tries to follow through with the task, but awakens since the connection with Aurora was cut off and she wasn't able to hear him. Upon discovering Henry is suffering from burns due to constantly returning to the Netherworld, David volunteers to be put under the Sleeping Curse and deliver the message. After Regina brews the curse, a spinning needle is dipped into the substance to enchant it.
Lastly, Mr. Gold pricks David's finger on the spinning wheel and puts him under the curse. While David remains asleep, Mr.
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