Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6036560-20130126124445/@comment-5355525-20130127051430

August Booth wrote: I agree, but maybe he can't heal himself. Also, why hasn't he turned back into the Dark One appearance? My guess is that it's similar to why Archie and Billy didn't turn back into a cricket and a mouse.

When Emma broke the Dark Curse, she broke ALL Curses. Ruby and Granny's Curse, Storybrooke's, and The Dark One's Curse as well. (Archie wasn't cursed, he was blessed, so he doesn't count.) For a very short time, ALL in storybrooke were free to go, free to live where they chose, including Mr.Gold. He should have left to find Baelfire right then and there.

But, because of his greed and cowardice, Mr.Gold believed he needed magic,.... not to find Baelfire, but simply because magic had become a crutch he could not live without,.. it became his "Precious."

Rumple's plan, to this point, had come to fruiton flawlessly, but, he was about to make his only mistake. Thinking he could use the well to "return that which one has lost" would only affect him, alone. But, the well could only do what the well could only do,.... so when Mr.Gold tossed that bottle of Magic, produced by True Love, into that well, the well, not only returned Mr.Gold's Curse,...it returned ALL of their Curses back to everyone. Ruby and Granny's, Storybrooke's and anyone who was suffering from being cursed in any way.

But, since Magic works differntly here in Our world, the well returned their curses with a bit of a twist to their original rules. Mr.Gold is now the Dark One again, but now with a twist!. Mr.Gold now walks with a limp and has a normal complexion. His "Please Clause" is either gone,... is another word that he doesn't know about,.... or may have fipped to Regina's side,.... we don't know.

Ruby's senses have been inhanced in her Curse, and Storybrooke's bounderies are now bound by the rule that if you leave you will lose your FTL memories, keeping only your Storybrooke false memories.

Mr.Gold was acting emotionally and didn't think this move through completely. It wasn't until Charming came into his shop and told Mr.Gold what had happened to Sneezy at the city limits, that he realized what he had done,.... And CRASH!! went the counter glass with his cane. He realized he had recursed them all over again and that he was again trapped in Storybrooke by a new version of the original Dark Curse,... and was going nowhere!