Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20170417005933/@comment-5679696-20170730020659

Begfhn wrote: I know the show's characters are not known for being logical, but this occured to me. Rumpel gave Snow and Charming a door that could take them to their daughter. (Supposedly that door belonged to the apprentice, which Rumpel didn't know about until season 4, but that's beside the point.) Couldn't Rumpel have used the door to get to Bae? Especially considering where this fits in the timeline, Bae would have just escaped from Neverland and still be a teenager. Rumpel could leave Storybrooke and still get a chance to raise his son. It's not like Rumpel cares about what happens to anyone else. Because Rumple wanted magic. He needed to wait for Emma to break the curse in order to bring magic to Storybrooke and then go out and find Baelfire while keeping his magic.