Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4050367-20140717023819/@comment-4839682-20150216225119

It's always seemed to me that Rumple doesn't see everything... just enough to know what to do, and he makes assumptions based on what he sees.

He saw that a child of Cora's would cast his curse, and when he met her and had no child, he assumed she had never given birth.

What I find most disturbing about that was that he was willing to use his own child to cast his curse, knowing what it would cost the caster.