Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-25926288-20161115161303/@comment-24674051-20161201174234

Definitly not unheard of for Rumple to have multiple centrics. In season one, you had 3 main centrics (Desparate Souls, Skin Deep, and The Return), and you also had "The Price of Gold", which while not totally Rumple Centric had a heavy dose of Rumple. I would compare "Strange Case" to "The Price of Gold" in terms of a Rumple Centric.

Point is, Rumple typically gets a number of centrics during a season, plus his usual man in the background involvement in other flashbacks.

I think the question with the episode is what else is there to learn about Rumple that is not already known. Particularly if this episode has parallels to "Nasty Habits" as someone suggested. In Nasty Habits, we saw the conflict between Rumple and Pan (who we know now to be Rumple's Father). So, it is possible that we might see something that relates to the conflict between Rumple and his Mother. Another possibility, given the presence of Blue, is that we might see a conflict between Blue and Rumple, and see that conflict starting in the Past and continued to the present. and I'll even extend the possibility to include both of these items, as there may very well be some inter-relationship between these 2 topics.