Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26184894-20150813005948/@comment-26184894-20150813230949

I don't think rumple specifically wanted Regina to cast the dark curse. I think he wanted to get to Neal by any means necessary. It seemed( at least to me) that rumple only knew of one way to get to Neal. In its not easy being green he saw that Zelena was also Cora's daughter and started to consider her casting the curse instead of Regina. He also tried to take the slippers when he realized they could take him to Neal. I just think it's bad writing/poor planning that rumple didn't use any other portal. It seems beneficial for merlin to send the dark one were he couldn't use magic or for rumple to send his shadow to find and get Neal like pan's shadow did. You can say it was fate but that's basically the same thing as plot.