Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24304025-20150213160711/@comment-26103640-20150213165213

Gold is such a puppet master, it took him years to setup the dark curse. He always has a plan, and then a backup plan, and alterior motives. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I can't imagine that he would just randomly want to take Belle to NYC to "see the world," he must have had something else planned. Did he somehow have Ursula and Cruella sent to NYC during the first curse? I agree, that if he'd won, he'd want to gloat to them.