Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20170803053127/@comment-33277706-20171021032232

I believe that rumple is awake, and despite seeming to be a criminal, he always has his reasons. Maybe he's working diagonally (as Emma once said) with Victoria so he can get the curse broken and go fing Belle and Gideon.

As for the Alice thing maybe in the past he told her to kill him if he started going too dark.