Once Upon a Time (TV Series)

The Crocodile (2012)

Robert Carlyle: Mr. Gold, Rumplestiltskin

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• Killian Jones : Where are my manners? We haven't been formally introduced. Killian Jones. Now, what are you doing aboard my ship?

  Rumplestiltskin : Well... You have my wife.

  Killian Jones : I've had many a man's wife.

• Belle : Be honest with me. Why did you bring magic here?

  Mr. Gold : I've told you. Magic is power.

  Belle : Why do you need it? Tell me.

  [Gold doesn't answer] 

  Belle : [sighs]  You don't need power, Rumple. You need courage, to let me in.

• David Nolan : Do you remember turning a butcher into a pig?

  Mr. Gold : Can't say that I do. Why?

  David Nolan : Well, he does. Apparently it was his father. I'm beginning to understand why nobody wants to help you.

  Mr. Gold : Well, what... H-has he seen Belle?

  David Nolan : Afraid not.

  Mr. Gold : Okay, so, what's next?

  David Nolan : Granny's. We can see who else you terrorized there.

• Mr. Gold : Look, uh... Can I ask you a question? A-about you and Mary Margaret. H-how... How does that work?

  David Nolan : [stunned]  Are you asking dating advice?

  Mr. Gold : Course not, no.

  David Nolan : [sighs]  Honesty. That's how we did it. Hard work, and being honest with one another.

  Mr. Gold : Well... I don't lie.

  David Nolan : There is a difference between literal truth and honesty of the heart. Nothing taught me that more than this curse.

• [Gold has just saved Belle from being sent across the town line] 

  Belle : Thank you for what you just did. But that doesn't change that you're too cowardly to be honest with me.

  Mr. Gold : But Belle, I...

  Moe French : I tried to tell him that, Belle. Come with me, darling.

  Belle : After what you just tried to do to me? You're no better, Father. You don't get to decide what I do or how I feel; I do. If either of you cared about me, you would've listened. I don't wanna see either of you again. Ever.

• Mr. Gold : I came because... you're right... about me. I am a coward. I have been my entire life. I tried to make up for it by collecting power; and the power became so important that I couldn't let go. Not even... when that meant losing the most important person in my life.

  Belle : Your son.

  Mr. Gold : Baelfire... is his name. After he left, I dedicated myself to finding him. I went down many, many paths, until I found a curse that could take me to the land where he'd escaped.

  Belle : Here.

  Mr. Gold : And I found myself in this little town, with only one thing left to do: wait for the curse to be broken, so that I could leave, and find him.

  Belle : But instead of looking for him, you... you brought magic.

  Mr. Gold : Because I'm still a coward. Magic has become a crutch, that I can't walk without. And even if I could, I now know I can never leave this place.

• Mr. Gold : [quoting Lubbock]  "We may sit in our library, and yet be in all quarters of the earth."

• Rumplestiltskin : You have responsibilities.

  Milah : You mean like being a man and fighting in the Ogre Wars? Other wives became honored widows while I became lashed to the village coward. I need a break. Run home, Rumple. It's what you're good at.

• Rumplestiltskin : You don't really wish I'd died... during the Ogre Wars, do you?

  Milah : I wish you'd fought. Don't you?

  Rumplestiltskin : Well, I-I'm alive. And I'm here with you. With Bae.

  Milah : This isn't a life. Not for me.

• Rumplestiltskin : I remember you... from the bar.

  Killian Jones : It's always nice to make an impression.

• Killian Jones : You. I remember you.

  Rumplestiltskin : Always nice to make an impression... Where are my manners? We haven't been properly introduced. Rumplestiltskin - or as others know me, the Dark One.

• Rumplestiltskin : [to Jones]  We didn't get a chance to finish our duel. Not now. Tomorrow at dawn. I am not a cruel man. Get your affairs in order. Also, you can spend tonight knowing... it'll be your last.

  [giggles] 

  Rumplestiltskin : Maybe I *am* cruel.

• Killian Jones : You may be more powerful now, demon, but you're no less a coward!

  Rumplestiltskin : I'll have what I came for now.

  Killian Jones : You'll have to kill me first!

  Rumplestiltskin : Ah-ah! I'm afraid that's not in the cards for you, sonny boy.

  [he cuts off Jones's left hand with his sword] 

  Rumplestiltskin : I want you alive, because I want you to suffer, like I did.

  [Jones grabs a metal hook and plunges it into Rumplestiltskin's chest] 

  Rumplestiltskin : [giggles]  Killing me is gonna take a lot more than that, dearie.

  Killian Jones : Even demons can be killed. I will find a way!

  Rumplestiltskin : Well, good luck living long enough.

• Milah : I let my misery cloud my judgment.

  Rumplestiltskin : Why were you so miserable?

  Milah : Because I never loved you.

• William Smee : [about a trade]  You haven't heard my price.

  Rumplestiltskin : I spin straw into gold. Price shouldn't be a problem.

  William Smee : Oh, I don't want money. I want eternal life.

  Rumplestiltskin : [giggles]  Only the Dark One has life eternal. Tell you what, my son. What I can do, what about... youth? Spin the clock back, till you're a little boy again.

  William Smee : Close enough. Deal.

  Rumplestiltskin : But remember - you fail to deliver, I spin the clock forward, and turn you into dust.

• Mr. Gold : It's not lost on me that I'm now here to ask for your help.

  David Nolan : Well, then it shouldn't be lost on you when I say no.