Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-8345449-20151128142008/@comment-8345449-20151129073524

The one that gave him a pass to behave like a jerk. Moreover, remember how he wasn't controlled when he put the apprentice in the hat and he never confessed about it to anyone... Belle knew about that. During the Darkness at the Edge of Town ep, in the scene at the library with Hook, she said getting the fairies out of the hat would help release the "poor old man" Hook put in there.