Desperate Souls/Quotes

## Quotes

**Emma Swan**: What's up? You've been ducking me for weeks.

**Henry Mills**: I think we should stop Cobra stuff for a while. You don't play with the curse. Look what happened to Graham.

**Emma Swan**: Henry, I told you they did an autopsy. It was totally natural causes.

**Henry Mills**: Okay, whatever. You don't believe... good! That should keep you from messing with it. And getting killed.

**Emma Swan**: You're worried about me?

**Henry Mills**: (*about Regina*) She killed Graham because he was good... and *you're* good!

**Emma Swan**: Henry...

**Henry Mills**: Good loses,good *always* loses. Because good has to play fair... evil doesn't! *She's* evil. This is probably best. I don't want to upset her anymore.

**Regina Mills**: (*about Sidney*) Please welcome your new Sheriff!

**Emma Swan**: Hang on a second!

**Regina Mills**: Oh, Miss Swan, this is not appropriate.

**Emma Swan**: The only thing not appropriate is this ceremony. She does not have the power to appoint him.

**Regina Mills**: The town charter clearly states the Mayor shall appoint -

**Emma Swan**: A candidate. You could appoint a candidate. It calls for an election.

**Regina Mills**: The term "candidate" is applied loosely.

**Emma Swan**: No, it's not. It requires a vote. And guess what, Madame Mayor? I'm running.

**Regina Mills**: Fine. So is Sidney.

**Sidney Glass**: I am? (*Regina glares at him*) I am.

**Regina Mills**: With my full support. I guess we'll learn a little something about the will of the people.

**Emma Swan**: I guess we will.

**Zoso** (*as Beggar*) Why do you think that someone as powerful as the Dark One would work for a useless fool like the Duke of the Frontlands?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Tell me.

**Zoso** (*as Beggar*): The Duke has the Dark One in thrall. He's enslaved him with the power of a mystical dagger, and on the blade is written a name – the true name of the Dark One. If you steal the dagger, then you would control the Dark One yourself. And then no one would be able to take your son away from you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: To keep a man like the Dark One as a slave? No, I-I can't. I'd be terrified.

**Zoso** (*as Beggar*): Then, perhaps, instead of controlling the power, you need to take it.

**Emma Swan**: (*Regina tries to ruin Emma's reputation by revealing that she birthed Henry in jail*) This was a juvie record! This was sealed by court order! I don't know how you got it, but that's abuse of power *and* illegal!

**Regina Mills**: Oh, I'm sorry, you didn't want people to know you cut his cord with a shiv?

**Emma Swan**: I don't care what people know, but this hurts Henry!

**Regina Mills**: He would've learned eventually. We all lose our heroes at some point.

**Emma Swan**: He doesn't need to lose anything more. He's depressed, Madame Mayor. He doesn't have any... Any hope! Don't you see that?

**Regina Mills**: He's fine.

**Emma Swan**: He's not fine! I mean, think about it; watching his adoptive mother throw an illegal smear campaign against his birth mother? You don't think that would be upsetting?

**Regina Mills**: All I did was expose him to the truth. And as for the legality, I did nothing wrong. But you and Sidney will have a chance to get into all that at the debate.

**Emma Swan**: Debate?

**Regina Mills**: Yes, Miss Swan, there's a debate.

**Rumplestiltskin**: That old beggar? He told me a fine tale; about the Duke and his magical dagger.

**Baelfire**: What does it do?

**Rumplestiltskin**: If I own that dagger, I control the Dark One. If I kill the Dark One with the dagger, I take his powers.

**Baelfire**: By God's name.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Imagine me with those powers. Can you imagine me with those powers, Bae? I could get to redeem myself. I could turn it towards good. I'll save all the children of the Frontlands – not just you, my boy.

**Baelfire**: I'd love to see that, but if the law says I'm to fight, I can fight.

**Rumplestiltskin**: No, no, no! The law doesn't want you to fight, son. The law wants you to die! That's not battle – that's sacrifice, son. You look at that red in the sky. That's not the fires of the battlefields – that's the blood of our people, son. It's the blood of children. The blood of children like you. I mean, what sane person would want to get involved with that?

**Baelfire**: So, it's true.

**Rumplestiltskin**: What?

**Baelfire**: It's true. It's true you ran.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I had no choice, son.

**Baelfire**: And Mother? Did she leave you like the knight said? You told me she was dead.

**Rumplestiltskin**: She is dead.

**Emma Swan**: (*Gold sets a fire so that Emma will save Regina and the townspeople will vote her as Sheriff*) You set the fire.

**Mr. Gold**: I've been right here, Miss Swan.

**Emma Swan**: Take a whiff. It smells like your sheep crap oil. Turns out it's flammable.

**Mr. Gold**: Oh. Are you sure? There's some construction working on at City Hall at the moment. There's loads of flammable solvents used in construction.

**Emma Swan**: Why did you do it?

**Mr. Gold**: *If* I did it. If I did it, that would be because you cannot win without something big. Something like, oh, I don't know, being the hero in a fire?

**Emma Swan**: How could you even know I'd be there at the right time?

**Mr. Gold**: Maybe Regina's not the only one with eyes and ears in this town. Or maybe I'm just intuitive – were I involved.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Submit, O Dark One! I control you!

**Zoso**: Yes, you do. Wield the power wisely. You can wield at any time now. It's almost dawn. That means it's your son's birthday. I bet Hordor and his men are already on their way to your house.

**Rumplestiltskin**: No, they can't take him!

**Zoso**: You don't control them. You control *me*. Have you ever wondered, was he really your child at all? Unlike you, he's not a coward and yearns to fight and die in glory.

**Rumplestiltskin**: No...

**Zoso**: What a poor bargain that would be – to lay down your soul to save your bastard son. So, I ask you; What would you have me do?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Die. (*Rumplestiltskin stabs Zoso, who transforms into the beggar*) It's you! You're the beggar!

**Zoso** (*as Beggar*): Looks like you made a deal you didn't understand. I don't think you're going to do that again.

**Rumplestiltskin**: You told me to kill you...

**Zoso** (*as Beggar*): My life was such a burden. You'll see! Magic always comes with a price, and now it's yours to pay.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Why me? Why me?

**Zoso** (*as Beggar*): I know how to recognize a desperate soul. (*Zoso dies, and Rumplestiltskin becomes the Dark One*)

**Mr. Gold**: (*Emma is elected Sheriff after publically exposing Mr. Gold as the arson*) I knew no one was going to vote for you unless we gave you some kind of extraordinary quality, and I'm afraid saving old Regina's arse from the fire just wasn't going to do that. We had to give you a higher form of bravery. They had to see you defy me – and they did.

**Emma Swan**: No way. There's *no* way you planned that!

**Mr. Gold**: Everyone's afraid of Regina, but they're more afraid of me. By standing up to me, you won them over. It was the only way.

**Emma Swan**: You knew I'd agree.

**Mr. Gold**: Oh, yeah. I know how to recognize a desperate soul.

**Emma Swan**: Why did you do this?

**Mr. Gold**: We made a deal some time back, Miss Swan. We established that you owed me a favor. I know that can be a bad feeling – owing someone. Now that you're Sheriff, I'm sure we'll find some way for you to pay back what you owe me. Congratulations.