Once Upon a Time (TV Series)

Leaving Storybrooke (2018)

Robert Carlyle: Rumplestiltskin, Weaver

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• Mr. Gold : Becoming the Dark One was the act of a coward, but I'm no longer that man. You are. And that weak coward will not be the Rumplestiltskin the world remembers.

  Rumplestiltskin : So what's your plan, then? Talk me to death?

  Mr. Gold : Oh, my plan is... to do whatever it takes.

  Alice : No, the line of the Guardians is gone. You'll never be with Belle.

  Mr. Gold : I know that. But I also know... you don't do the right thing for a reward. You do it because it's right. Now, I've been selfish for too long. I've been living on stolen time. Now I will finally face the unknown.

  [he rips out his own heart and gives it to Hook; Rumplestiltskin turns to ash and begins to dissolve into nothingness] 

  Rumplestiltskin : No more Rumple?

• Mr. Gold : [trying to break through Wish Rumple's snow globe]  Our spirit's gonna break long before that glass.

  Wish Realm Captain 'Hook' : We should try another area. There must be a weak spot.

  Mr. Gold : There's that unshakable determination, however misguided. That's the reason I kept you as a partner, Detective. That and your good heart.

  Wish Realm Captain 'Hook' : Well, seeing as we're allowing certain death to bring up secret truths, I do have to ask you... Given the amount of power that you once held, how come you never used it to destroy me?

  Mr. Gold : Because you were the closest thing I ever had to a friend.

• Wish Realm Captain 'Hook' : I don't understand. Why are you cold? The Dark One doesn't get cold.

  Mr. Gold : I'm afraid... Rumplestiltskin used the Author's pen for more than he let on. He stripped me of my immortality, and of my powers. So I can neither escape, nor stop him.

  Wish Realm Captain 'Hook' : From doing what?

  Mr. Gold : Well, that's the question. You see, he is me, but with the darkness unchecked by the love of Belle. He will use this new power to hurt anyone he can, and drag us all into the darkness where he wallows.

  Wish Realm Captain 'Hook' : Seems like wallowing is something you have in common.

• Rumplestiltskin : [after trapping the Blue Fairy]  That was really impressive. You've got great darkness in you, dearie.

  Wish Realm Henry Mills : Where's the fairy?

  Rumplestiltskin : Trapped in a prison made just for her. Don't you just love a happy ending?

• Mr. Gold : [viewing memories of Belle through an enchanted dreamcatcher]  Oh, Belle. Look at your face. Now the Guardian's gone. And no matter what I do, I can never earn my way back to you. I tried, and I've failed. And I'm so sorry.

• Mr. Gold : This is all your fault.

  Rumplestiltskin : Guilty.

• Rumplestiltskin : Look at you. You're pathetic. So weak.

  Mr. Gold : I'm not weak.

  Rumplestiltskin : You could've fooled me.

  Mr. Gold : You see, what you don't understand is I am the strongest version of us. Because I... I've evolved.

  Rumplestiltskin : You have evolved into a pathetic shell of us. But don't worry. You will soon just be a faded memory, and I shall be the Rumplestiltskin the world remembers.