Gold (Robert Carlyle) dreams of Henry's (Jared S Gilmore) birthday party where he lets him have anything he wants from the shop, he picks a wand and Gold shows him how to use it and turns Henry into porcelain, before smashing him to bits! Adding he would have been his downfall. Gold and his red sheets! Good to see he always has his signature red around him. Regina (Lana Parrilla) comes across Gold and she finds out he's Henry's grandfather. Gold: "Guess that makes us family. He's got my eyes don't you think?" She says he won't have him for long when he finds out what he's really like. She tells Gold he was the one who procured him so he already knew who Henry was. He was the one who orchestrated the curse. Also strange in some ways that Gold dreams of eliminating Henry when Belle (Emilie de Ravin) dreamt about Gold earlier on and his dark side. Kind of a reversal for him to be doing this now when the ep is about the two of them.
Gold goes to Charming (Josh Dallas) for help and asks how he got with Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) even when he was David and was with Katherine. Charming tells him that there was always something of them deep down even with the curse, which he must look for in Belle. Gold goes to the hospital to get her discharged to spend more time with her (took him long enough to show her he's still alive after that call - yes the one that had everyone in tears) and he tells her she brought out the good in him so he needs her back and he will help her remember. This of course sets Regina off on her usual evil ways and she goes to the hospital after he's already been there. She introduces herself, cos yeah the Mayor will really take an interest in the little people and she picks up a matchbook which she says belongs to Belle. Funny how Regina still thinks the Mayor represents any position of power in Storybrooke since she only tells it to people who don't really know her, she told Greg (Ethan Embry) last ep and tells Belle here.
Gold flashes back to being Rumples and how Belle sobs at night after he first took her. He comes in telling her he can't spin for her noise, he does his best thinking when spinning, oh well, judging by what he taught Cora to do on the spinning wheel, curse those she hates, seems like his thinking has a different meaning. He gives her a pillow which she thinks is to help hr sleep, but rather, it's to prevent him hearing her crying. Cue Robin Hood (Tom Ellis) who comes to his place to steal a magic wand and tries to shoot Rumples with an arrow, which he manages to do, but he removes it. Rumples tortures him and Belle wants him to stop cos there's good in him, "you don't know what someone is like until you get to know them and see the good in their heart." She tells him. When he's out waiting for his apron to dry, she lets Robin go but can't come with him cos she made a deal with Rumples to protect her family. Rumples wants to go after him and she'll accompany him.
Snow and Charming take Emma (Jennifer Morrison) to the bean field which is entirely the wrong thing to do considering she didn't really want to go back to the Enchanted Forest and doesn't want Henry to go there either, even if they can be a family and fight the ogres. Snow has a change of mind too, but it's her heart that made the decision. Maybe she will become good again if she rid evil from the forest. Emma meets with Tiny (Jorge Garcia) again and Grumpy (Lee Arenberg) drags him back to work. Emma tells Regina she was going to tell her about Henry's father but she and Cora were trying to kill her family. Letting slip that one day she'll lose Henry cos he won't always be around. Trust Emma to spill the beans all the time! They really should not tell her anything. Regina realizes she's hiding something which she will find out.
Rumples chances upon the Sheriff of Nottingham (Wil Traval) who tells him he knows who stole his wand and where he can be found but he wants to "spend a night with your wench." Rumples takes his tongue and will tell him where he can find the thief. In Sherwood Forest of course. Funny how all these lands just seem to converge onto the Enchanted Forest in one way or another. Sheriff being the same man who was coming onto Lacey/Belle in the bar, The Rabbit Hole. Where Charming tells him Gold should ask her out, which she agrees to. Rumples gets talked out of killing Robin by Belle cos he used the wand to cure his woman, Marion, who is with child and Rumples shoots to miss, then feigning he missed, but he can't really miss. She hugs him. Lots of talk about him being the Dark One and being even darker than people say! "Much darker, dearie!"
At Granny's (Beverley Elliott) she orders chicken and not burgers and also wine. She then repeats the line she said as Belle about, not knowing what someone's like until you see it into their hearts and he spills the drink on her cos he thinks there's still a chance she'll remember. But Regina told him she will only recall her cursed life since she crossed the town line. Surely with all his powers Gold is unable to help get his Belle back. She doesn't return but he goes after her and finds her with the sheriff, the same man she turned down at the bar, cos she really wanted to be with him. He later returns and hopes they're good since he didn't realize he was with Lacey. Gold takes his tongue again and uses his stick to beat him. Lacey returns and is attracted to his dark side, she was only being polite before when she agreed to the date. SO he shows her how dark he can really be. Guess if you an't beat 'm, join 'em, hey, one way to be with Belle.
Regina uses a spell to track the tyres of Charming's truck when he brings the dwarves back to town and finds the bean harvest. Greg and Tamara (Sonequa Martin-Green) hatch their plan and she tells him the package is easily accessible, this being Hook! (Colin O'Donoghue). SO after a long absence, we get to see Hook,but he's all tied up! I mean if he's not getting beaten up, he's in ropes!! ha.
Strange Belle's alter ego was Lacey at The Rabbit Hole of all places, seems she fell down the rabbit hole and ended up the polar opposite of who she really was. But then Regina had her locked up in the hospital when Jefferson let her go last season, so how could she have been Lacey? So Jefferson knew everyone's alter ego and where they were, shame he isn't around still! Doesn't reallyn make sense, cos if Regina found her the bar and brought her to the hospital, that means she should have been there for the duration of the curse, some odd 28 years. Not really along time to become like she really is.
Belle getting to call Rumples a "beast" over and over! As said I like how Rumple's red shows up everywhere and how he's meant to be a little imp and his surroundings are much larger than him. Proving Rumples still may have a heart beating some good, he lets Belle clean his library. Oh does that sound right? ha. So Lacey was a hustling barfly and nothing more than the town's scarlet woman! As for Granny saying she raided the back of Ruby's closet, blue was not Ruby's colour at all!
Gold asking Charming for help since he'll owe him a favour, didn't see him making that deal with him when he was on the hunt for Belle after the curse was broken and she had been kidnapped by her father. Oh what would Henry say if he saw what Gold was up to know. Seems just like Regina he has to revert back to his evil self cos they have their heart's broken, for them and there just doesn't appear to be any way out. Actually scratch Henry, what would Bae (Michael Raymond-James) say if he knew what he was up to again?! Proving his point when he said he wanted nothing to do with him. But we have seen the extent of his cruelty especially with Milah.
As for Robin, well a bit of a wuss, can I say that? without the fans beating down on me, ha, look he needs magic arrows to ensure he hits his target, so much for being an expert marksman!! Besides his story of stealing Marion from the sheriff was just like Hook stealing Milah so it was a surprise to see Rumples let him go and not be reminded of that scenario. Robin next time will be played by Sean Maguire in season 3. Funny how they manage to find actors who end up with other filming schedules, yes I mean Sebastian Stan!!
SO when is Henry's birthday? It would be good to see how exactly Gold got Henry to be adopted by Regina. Oh and why didn't Snow return to teaching at the school?
Aladdin's magic lamp is shown in Gold's shop used by the genie of course, turned into Regina's looking Glass, aka Sidney, who should be back soon, it seems.
Also Rumples has in his stash Thor's Hammer and the Golden Fleece. Oh and loved Rumple's little Aussie accent! Gold adding he made a deal with Don Juan too, is there anyone he hasn't come across?
Belle's golden dress is like the one she wore when dancing with the Beast at the ball in Disney's Beauty and the Beast, which was an obvious observation. As worn in season 1 Skin Deep when Rumples came for her. Also Robin's bow is meant to be the one he gave Snow in 1.16 Heart of Darkness, hmm, funny that title since that's what her heart is now after she listened to him and got her to kill Cora through Regina! But Snow is an expert marksman and doesn't need the magic the bow possess, or does she? Belle was reading The Rise and Fall of Galaga, which became an arcade video game in 1979 and is the logo at the end of the episodes for Kitsiss/Horowitz. Of course the Rabbit Hole is a reference to the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland.
What I thought was that when Regina found the matchbook, well magicked it and handed it over to Belle, she implanted the suggestion in her memory that she was Lacey. When in fact Regina had her locked up as Belle all this time, so when did she get out and have a life as Lacey? Also the bar was called The Rabbit Hole and we all know the connotations associated with Alice and drugs. That belle was/could in this place seemed uneasy, rather it was more like an illusion Belle had, as Lacey of being there. If that makes sense?
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