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@mia wrote:
What really bothers me with the whole Moe thing, is that it took him so long to do it? The time started flowing months ago and yet he goes against Moe in that moment?? The storytellers should’ve built up something. Seems rather random. =/
I think what triggered the whole beating scenario was the burglary. Gold repo’ed Moe’s van, but that was pretty much all in a day’s work for Mr. Gold. Regina used that to manipulate Moe into stealing from Gold, and it was the stealing of the cup that set Gold off and made him go all Preston Brooks on Moe. (A cookie for anybody who gets that reference! 😀 )
I think the timing was all on Regina. She saw an opportunity to use Moe, and she really wanted to figure out if Gold knew who he really was. Maybe also wanted to see how emotionally invested he still was in Belle.
As for How Rumpel didn’t know–I’ll buy Nightreader’s theory that EQ locked Belle up and spelled her family to believe the suicide story. OR maybe she got Belle’s father to flee and go into hiding, telling him that Rumpel was coming after him. Then if R went looking for Belle he would have found her father’s estate abandoned, which would fit the scenario. Gold definitely believes she’s dead. When he said “she’s gone forever–she’s not coming back” I think he meant not in this world or any world. It also explains shy Rumpel didn’t care if the whole world got cursed. He really had nothing to lose. Or so he thought.