I think it makes perfect sense. And I think it adds to the “Malcolm loved Rumple in the most limited way possible.” For Malcolm it was all about HIM, not his son. It makes me wonder, if Rumple hadn’t gone looking for Malcolm once he got the bean, would Malcolm have ever come back for his son? Or just left him with the spinners?
The one thing that gets me is that A and E have said they don’t do “evil for the sake of evil.” But Malcolm, while he does have motivations outside of pure evilness, is about as close as it comes to “evil for the sake of evil” that we’ve seen on the show.
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