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Eskaver wrote: I just said that. But Rumple's whole stopping Emma plan was not this. That plot point was dropped because Rumple didn't think about becoming the DO until this epsiode (aka Broken Heart-Swan Song).

Oh, really.... Emma's plan was to destroy the Darkness, and Gold stopped her by becoming the Dark One.