@motormouth12 – I replied to you question here.
“Your father’s a distrustful fellow.”
I’m gonna go a bit cracky here. Was just listening to that Barbara Barnett podcast where she drops some hints about 302, and it struck me that she used similar wording to describe both a big Shadow moment, and the Rumbelle moment, (in particular she used the word “poignant” for both). She also talked about Rumple having been abandoned, then momentarily freaked that she’d let a spoiler slip. And we know we’re finding out about that doll in this ep too. So for this line, I’m gonna go with the Shadow, appearing in the form of Belle, reminding Rumple of things about his father, which is how we discover where the doll comes from.
I like it. We’re all about the crack-theories here. 🙂
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy