Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3038174-20130306153125/@comment-24.59.131.149-20130412053733

In "The Crocodile", Rumple/TDO was meeting with Smee in the tavern because he was looking for a way to move between worlds; Smee had arranged the meeting because he'd heard about TDO's search and was offering him a magic bean in exchange for eternal life/youth. Rumple's obsession with finding a path between worlds was driven by his need to find the world that Bae was pulled to by the BF's portal.

Since it is after this meeting with Smee that Rumple kills Milah, there is no possible way that Bae could have found out about his mother's death before he left the EF.

Now "Crocodile" also shows Bae to have been very young when Milah was taken; possibly only about five or six. At that age, being focused on his mother in the moment and his mother being surrounded by strangers, it's not likely that he'd especially remember Hook from that night. So there's not much chance that he'd associate Hook with the men that his mother was with that night. We also don't know what Rumple told Bae about his mother's disappearance, so we don't know if Bae would associate the strangers in the tavern with Milah's disappearance from his life. He might associate village gossip about the incident with them, but then again, he might not.

Either way, if current fan theory is true and Bae was taken to Neverland and spent time as a Lost Boy, he very likely had an adversarial relationship with Hook during their simultaneous tenure there. So if he associated the pirates with his mother's disappearance and if he realized that Hook was one of those pirates, there's still only a very slim chance that Bae would even try to get Hook alone to question him about her.

Since Bae seems to be aware of how much time has passed in FTL since he left, I think it's quite likely that he assumes his mother is dead. He may even wonder if his father had a hand in it, since he has no reason to believe that TDO wouldn't hurt her if they crossed paths. But I doubt that Bae already knows the truth of what happened to Milah. And it's going to suck for Rumple when that bill comes due.