Yeah- I agree with Faux Pax as well- Rumple wanted to go back, why stay in our world where he is one of millions who has no magic, no power, no status in society.
I think he always intended to collect Bae & then convince him he had changed & to go back to FTL where Rumple already had the ability to have a comfortable life, esp sans Regina.
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