Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20151207015752/@comment-25355646-20151207154743

Rumple usually confesses his true intentions to only Belle and sometimes Regina. So hopefully, his plan was to become the Dark One again so he would not be targetted as a precaution, go look for Belle past the town line, and maybe look for the others in the Underworld, plus Neal. He does everything for a reason, and the switch seemed too random.