Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151207015752/@comment-25926288-20151207155148

WorldHopper22 wrote: Rumple usually confesses his true intentions to only Belle and sometimes Regina. So hopefully, his plan was to become the Dark One again so he would not be targetted as a precaution, go look for Belle past the town line, and maybe look for the others in the Underworld, plus Neal. He does everything for a reason, and the switch seemed too random. It's because he's evil! Not that I think that's a valid reason, but the writers seem to think so. He's addicted as they would say.

That's about it. Rumple is devolving into a cartoon villain.