Belle (Emilie de Ravin) sees Gold (Robert Carlyle) spinning, er, gold and then next day she asks him what he was doing. He lies and she runs away. Prompting Gold to think about his own wife, Milah (!) (Rachel Shelley) who he found at the tavern with a pirate. He wants her home as she has responsibilities but she hates it there, and only goes since Bae (Sebastian Wilkinson) is here. Rumples wants her to stay and try to be happy but she hates it and thus runs off with said pirate.
Belle ends up at Granny's and meets Ruby (Meghan Ory) who thinks Granny may have a room for her. Belle's in need of a job and likes books, so she sends her to the library, where she's abducted by William Smee (Chris Gauthier) the same man who offered the Dark One the magic bean in exchange for eternal life. He abducts her for her father, Moe French (Eric Keenlyside). He wants her to stay with him and to promise not to go near Gold, but she wants her own life. He gets Smee to take her away.
Charming (Josh Dallas) helps out in the mines but not for long as he's acting sheriff now and Gold comes to him in search of Belle since none of the townsfolk will help. Not surprising since he turned the butcher into a pig and all sorts of other magic. He asks why he can't use magic like the tracking spell he gave him for Jefferson, that only works if they have something of the person's. Gold asks Charming about him and Snow and how they work. Is he asking dating advice? He replies honesty, from the heart.
Rumples sees the pirate back in town whilst in the tavern and he confronts him. He refers to Rumples as a crocodile. He has a showdown with him and wants a duel the next day so he can recall his life now. He, Killian Jones (Colin O'Donoghue) tells him Milah's dead. Yeah that's the type of yarn gold would spin, no pun. They fight and Rumples would like to kill him with his own sword, said Captain having no name yet. Milah turns up to save him from having his "heart ripped from his chest." She loves him and she has the magic bean in exchange for their lives, as she shows him the red hat/beenie worn by Smee.
Ruby denies seeing Belle, Charming pleads with her, he's got him covered, she should trust him. She has wolf scent now and can track her from her cape and leads them to her father's shop. He won't let Rumples destroy Belle like he does others. Gold realizes he's sending her across the town line so she can forget about him, even if she forgets her own father. Charming sees dust on his hands, she's going through the tunnels which lead out of town. They've got patrols so people don't cross by mistake.
Rumples says to Milah how she has the family she couldn't have with him and she throws Killian the bean. Rumples doesn't forgive her, instead he rips her heart out and turns it to dust, just like Regina does. She left Bae and he had to tell him she was dead. She was miserable since she never loved him. The pirate refuses to give the bean and so Rumples takes his hand, he can now use a hook, hence his name, Captain Hook. Obviously there's no bean there. He's left alive to suffer. Notice when Gold opened the hand it was a real hand, but then turned into a fake one when he overturns the table.
Smee places Belle in the cart and Gold manages to use his power to pull her back. He's too cowardly to speak to her and she doesn't want to see either one of them again. Ruby gives her a box left for her, the key to the library. Gold: "we may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth." He made enquiries about her interests. He's here cos she's right about him, he's a coward and has been his whole life. Collected power and it became important so he couldn't let go, even when it meant losing Bae. Wanted to find him down many paths and found a curse to take him to the land where he could find him. He had to wait for the curse to be broken to find him, he's got magic here cos he's still a coward, "magic has become a crutch." He can't walk without it. He can't leave here cos he'll forget him and won't know him. "Magic comes with a price," he has to break this new curse, that's when she saw him in the basement. He doesn't want to lose her again without telling her everything. Belle asks him for a hamburger sometime. Could you picture Gold eating a burger, hey reference to the crocodile wanting more meat, ha.
Killian takes the the bean and heads off to Neverland. He meets up with Cora (Barnara Hershey) who shows him her bottle of ash, he refers to as "sparkly dust," it's the portal to the other world. Where she is and so is he. Gold asks Smee about Hook/Killian and wants to know where he is. Well obviously if he's not in Storybrooke, he'd be in the Enchanted Forest. Sure they didn't want to call William Smee, Will Turner. Okay I know he's from Peter Pan, as was the Crocodile. "Tick tock" reminds me of the town clock and how it stood still until Emma came in season 1. Though obviously it's an allusion to the Disney movie where the "Tick Tock Crocodile" ate Hook's hand
Apparently Hook has made a huge impact with fans as they like he didn't have a fake wig, together with pirate swagger, but plenty of eye make-up and a bit of a looker to boot. At least this version has known the tragedy of lost love and is after the crocodile in revenge for Milah. Thus he would team up with Cora since they both have a common purpose: to get to Storybrooke. SO why can't Snow hitch a ride and why hasn't Mulan come across Hook?
Gold, like Regina in some ways, is trying to be good in Storybrooke as we interchange and delve into his evil past and deeds before the curse. Also we get an explanation as to why he wanted the curse and why he gave it to Regina to use. He was motivated only by fatherly love. Let's see if Belle does have a lasting effect on him and whether he will fully change, but don't hold any purple breath though. Speaking of Belle she really tries to be independent and stick up for herself instead of letting the two men she loves dictate her life to her and what she should do.
Gold making breakfast so we could get a glimpse of the kettle, re Mrs Potts in Beauty and the Beast, since we get mention of the library already. Of course her father's shop is called 'Game of Thorns'. Ruby with her trusty basket of food, re Little Red Riding Hood when she gives Henry (Jared S Gilmore) the muffin. Gold's quote to Belle in the library was from the book The Pleasures of Life, written by British banker from the nineteenth century, John Lubbock.
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