At this point, I’m wondering if Bae had any inkling that he has only seen Belle as Lacey whom I imagine he wouldn’t like at all. He may have a distrust of Belle at first! I agree though- Belle is going to end up being the peacemaker between them.
It seemed like “Lacey” was common knowledge, Grumpy and Blue knew about it at least. So Neal may have known that the woman he met on street in SSTR wasn’t the same Belle Rumple made that phone call to, even if that also wasn’t really Belle. But I can see him being distrustful of what Belle says about Rumple at the beginning, it’s going to be very hard for him to believe what Belle tells him.
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