Posted by Dustin on 02.13.2012 at 9:51 pm

In Fairy Tale Land, Sir Maurice’s town is going to fall victim to the Ogre Wars, but Rumple can offer help . . . for a price! He wants his daughter Belle, who is engaged to Gaston. Belle agrees . . . and basically the storyline follows “Beauty and the Beast,” though without the dancing furniture. There is a tea set with “chip” though, but he doesn’t talk or anything. Belle falls for Rumple, and during an errand he sends her on she meets The Queen. The Queen and her talk about Rumple, and The Queen tells Belle that any curse can be broken by true love’s kiss. When Belle returns to the castle and kisses Rumple, he starts to turn back into a man. When she quotes The Queen, Rumple is furious. He soon suspects the entire thing is a trick that the Queen set up and he throws her into a cell, screaming that nobody could ever love him. Eventually he lets her go, telling her to go back to her home . . .

In the real world, Mr. Gold takes his fury out on Storybrooke’s version of Maurice, who is a florist of course. Mr. Gold loaned him money, but he can’t pay it back just yet. Gold ends up confiscating his van and goods. Later Gold’s house is broken into and something precious stolen. He tells Sherriff Emma that it had to be Moe the Florist. Emma finds some of his things at Moe’s, but what Gold wanted back Moe didn’t have . . . . Gold eventually kidnaps Moe and holds him hostage to torture him, again it seems his fury goes further than just a loan . . . He’s screaming about a lost love, and where “it” is. Emma soon saves Moe and arrests Gold.

In jail, Regina shows up to see Gold alone, giving Emma some time alone with Henry as a bribe. She has the chipped cup Gold wants, the cup we saw him almost smash after locking Belle away in Fairy Tale Land, but he didn’t . . . She offers a trade . . . she’ll give him the cup for the truth. She wants to know his real name. He plays coy for awhile, but eventually says Rumplestiltskin!

Back in the fairytale world, The Queen visits Rumple after Belle has left. He thinks she set him up, she was trying to take his powers away (by turning him back into a man?), to be stronger than him. The Queen claims she just came here to talk about a problem she’s having with a mermaid. She tells Rumple that Belle, upon returning home, was locked up by her father as he was disgusted with her for loving a beast. She claims Belle ended up killing herself . . .

Back in the real world, we see Regina go deep into a hospital basement to check on a patient. A nurse insists nobody has been to see her. We see that Regina has the alternate version of Belle locked up!

My Thoughts . . . . I loved the entire twist on “Beauty and the Beast” with Rumple being the beast. Of course the best part of the whole episode was the two twists at the end. We learned the Gold, like Regina knows the truth! Of course the two people behind the curse would know the truth. What does this mean though? Will Regina become paranoid he’s out to take her down? She’s already wondered where he got Henry from, why Emma . . . how can she not have figured it out yet? Then at the very end we learned that Regina has Belle locked in a hospital, which obviously must mean she didn’t kill herself in the Fairy Tale world as she told Rumple. Otherwise she wouldn’t be in this world. If Gold ever finds out . . . . something tells me that he might unravel The Queen’s spell for another chance with Belle.

Once again Rumple’s son came up, and all we learned was that “he lost him” and he wouldn’t talk to Belle about him any further. He’s gotta come back into play at some point. Wouldn’t it be a twist if his son is Henry’s dad?