Given that Mr. Gold and Belle were out in the woods by themselves when Emma broke the curse, do you think he knew? He already remembered, and he might have taken Belle suddenly remembering as a fluke. (Especially since she’d just been reunited with him …)
I was thinking that if he knew the curse was broken, perhaps he wouldn’t have dumped the potion in the well. I mean, he was about ready to take off from SB last week, banking on the curse being broken in one way or another, so why completely change his goal?
Or did he realize what had happened, and maybe it changed what he went out there to do?
Something’s … off. I mean, he was ready to give up everything for Baelfire a few weeks ago. What changed? Hmm.
Maybe he thought the potion would let him leave SB to look for Bael, but when Belle showed, he realized (1) what Regina had done and (2) Belle couldn’t leave. Hence, the purple cloud … a full-on declaration of war against Regina, in a way. (But why, then, did she look so darned pleased with it?)
Still just thinking it out. 😀
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“Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
-- Dylan Thomas