Baelfire/Quotes

## Before First Curse

### *Desperate Souls* (Season 1, Episode 8)

**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.

### *Nasty Habits* (Season 3, Episode 4)

**Rumplestiltskin**: What would make you happy?

**Baelfire**: Leaving this place. I'm tired of staying in this hovel all the time!

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, that's easy to fix. How about a castle, huh? I could build you a palace so magnificent, its shadow would blanket the countryside.

**Baelfire**: That's not what I mean. I want to go out, have friends, see the world beyond these four walls. Papa, why can't you just trust me to do that?

**Rumplestiltskin**: I do trust you, Bae. It's others that I can't. You see, I have many enemies beyond that door. And once you leave, any one of them could hurt you.

**Baelfire**: You sure that's the only reason? Maybe what you're really worried about is if I leave, I might never come back.

**Rumplestiltskin**: No, no. I'm worried about your safety. This is the best place for you. I don't know what I'd do if I ever lost you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Baelfire. Are you all right?

**Baelfire**: I'm fine. Why are you here?

**Rumplestiltskin**: I know you think I don't care about you, son, but I do. And I'm here to prove it.

**Baelfire**: How?

**Peter Pan**: Go ahead, Rumple.

**Baelfire**: (*Rumplestiltskin begins teleporting himself and Baelfire home*) Papa! What are you doing?!

**Rumplestiltskin**: I'm protecting you.

**Peter Pan**: You're gonna regret not taking my deal, Rumple!

**Rumplestiltskin**: It's all right now, Bae. You're safe.

**Baelfire**: Safe? I was never in danger! The Piper was my friend!

**Rumplestiltskin**: He may have wanted you to think that, but you have to believe me. He would've hurt you.

**Baelfire**: Why? Who is he? Another person that you abused with your power?

**Rumplestiltskin**: His name is Peter Pan. I've known him since I was a boy. Growing up, we were incredibly close.

**Baelfire**: So you're saying he's immortal, too?

**Rumplestiltskin**: He wasn't always. He went to a place called Neverland. He betrayed me, Bae. He can't be trusted.

**Baelfire**: What happened?

**Rumplestiltskin**: All that matters is that he fooled me for a long time before I'd finally seen his true nature, and it is darker and more repulsive than you should ever be exposed to!

**Baelfire**: He can't be any worse than you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I had to protect you, Bae. I didn't have a choice.

**Baelfire**: Stop lying because I know that you did! I know about the deal Pan offered you. He said all you had to do was ask me if I wanted to come home!

**Rumplestiltskin**: He told you?

**Baelfire**: He said that way I'd know if you really trusted me, if you really cared.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, please, Bae.

**Baelfire**: You didn't need to. I would've chosen to come home! I would've chosen you! If only you asked. Maybe we could've found a way to be a family again.

### *The Return* (Season 1, Episode 19)

**Baelfire**: You're different now. You see it, don't you? You hurt people all the time.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I created a truce in the Ogres War, Bae. I walked into the field of battle, and I made it stop. I led the children home. Surely, a man who's saved a thousand lives -

**Baelfire**: Is done. A man who's saved a thousand lives can be done with it. You can stop doing things.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I can't. I need more power so I can protect you.

**Baelfire**: I wouldn't need protecting if you didn't have power.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, I can't get rid of it.

**Baelfire**: Have you tried?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Tried? (*holds up Dark One Dagger*) If someone kills me with this, then they gain the power. Now, you know that, Bae. Is that what you want?

**Baelfire**: That's not what I want. I just think there might be other ways to get rid of the power.

**Baelfire**: Papa! Papa, I found it. I found a way for things to be like they were. I want you to come with me. I can make things right. Have you heard of the Reul Ghorm?

**Rumplestiltskin**: The Blue Star. The Blue Fairy? Oh, son, please tell me you didn't. Fairy magic doesn't mix well with what I am.

**Baelfire**: But you promised. She can help us. To take us to a place without magic.

**Rumplestiltskin**: A place without magic? I'd be powerless. Weak.

**Baelfire**: Like everyone else. It wouldn't matter. We'd be happy.

**Rumplestiltskin**: We could be happy here.

**Baelfire**: Father, please. You're getting worse. And you promised. This can work. It can! You made a deal with me. Are you backing out?

**Rumplestiltskin**: (*hesitates*) No.

**Baelfire**: (*at the portal to the Land Without Magic*) We have to go through!

**Rumplestiltskin**: No, no. I don't think I can.

**Baelfire**: We must. It's the only way!

**Rumplestiltskin**: No, no, no, no, no. It's a trick. It'll tear us apart!

**Baelfire**: It's not. It'll be okay. I promise. (*slips towards the portal and is caught by Rumplestiltskin*) Papa, we have to go through. What are you doing? Papa, it won't stay open long. Let go!

**Rumplestiltskin**: I can't. I can't!

**Baelfire**: Papa, please, it's the only way we can be together!

**Rumplestiltskin**: No, Bae. I can't.

**Baelfire**: Papa, please!

**Rumplestiltskin**: I can't.

**Baelfire**: You *coward*! You *promised*! Don't break our deal!

**Rumplestiltskin**: I have to. (*lets Baelfire fall through the portal alone*)

### *Second Star to the Right* (Season 2, Episode 21)

(*Baelfire arrives in London and breaks into the Darling House for food*)

**Wendy Darling**: Who are you? What do you want?

**Baelfire**: Please, I don't mean any harm. I was just -

**Wendy Darling**: Oh. You're hungry. (*hands him tray of bread*) Here. Take as much as you like.

**Baelfire**: Really?

**Wendy Darling**: Well, I'm not about to let you starve to death. What's your name?

**Baelfire**: Bae.

**Wendy Darling**: Bae? How unusual. I'm Wendy. Wendy Darling.

**George Darling**: (*to Baelfire*) How long have you been hiding in my house?

**Wendy Darling**: Only a few weeks, Father. He was hungry on the streets.

**George Darling**: I was talking to *him*. Where's your family?

**Baelfire**: My mother died. My father... He's dead too. Look, I'm sorry. I'll leave right away, sir.

**Mary Darling**: You're not going anywhere. The streets are no place for a boy.

**Baelfire**: Please don't send me to the workhouse!

**Mary Darling**: We'll do nothing of the sort. You'll stay right here.

**George Darling**: *What*?

**Mary Darling**: Welcome to our home.

**Wendy Darling**: A few weeks ago, right about the time you got here, this shadow - it came to the window. Only it's not attached to a body. And it can do so many wonderful things, like change its shape, and fly, and travel between worlds. And do you know why? Because it has magic!

**Baelfire**: Whatever you do, promise me you'll never open that window again. Promise me you won't talk to that shadow.

**Wendy Darling**: Don't be silly!

**Baelfire**: Magic is dangerous. It always comes with a price.

**John Darling**: You're just saying that 'cause you don't believe.

**Baelfire**: No. I *do* believe. That's the point. I come from another land. A land where magic is everywhere.

**Wendy Darling**: Is that really true? Because that sounds wonderful!

**Baelfire**: It isn't what you think. Magic is the reason I left. I lost everything because of it.

**Wendy Darling**: Your mother and father.

**Baelfire**: Magic destroyed my family. I don't want it to do the same to yours. If the shadow comes back, promise me you won't go anywhere near it.

**Wendy Darling**: All right, Bae. I promise.

**Wendy Darling**: (*returns from Neverland*) How long was I gone?

**Baelfire**: Just the night.

**Wendy Darling**: It felt like so much longer. As though time works differently in Neverland.

**Baelfire**: So, what was it like over there?

**Wendy Darling**: It's an island, where there are no grown-ups to tell you what to do, but there are mermaids and fairies and all sorts of mystical creatures.

**Baelfire**: Then why did you return?

**Wendy Darling**: Because when night fell, that's when all the children started to miss their parents, and cried through the night.

**Baelfire**: Well, why don't they go home?

**Wendy Darling**: The Shadow won't let them. There's a reason it's called Neverland. Because once you set foot on its soil, the Shadow never let's you leave.

**Baelfire**: How did you escape?

**Wendy Darling**: He let me go. Because he didn't want me. He wanted a boy.

**Baelfire**: (*Peter Pan's Shadow arrives at Darling House to take Michael Darling*) Take me instead!

**Wendy Darling**: Bae! No!

**Baelfire**: (*to Shadow*) You have to promise never to bother this family again!

**Wendy Darling**: No, Bae you can't!

**Baelfire**: (*to Wendy*) I won't let magic destroy this family. This is the only way. You have to let me go. Thank you, Wendy, for making me a part of your family. (*lets the Shadow take him*)

**Wendy Darling**: Bae! Bae!

### *And Straight On 'Til Morning* (Season 2, Episode 22)

(*Baelfire escapes Peter Pan's Shadow only to find himself aboard the Jolly Roger*)

**Captain Hook**: Ahoy there. Aren't you lucky to be alive?

**Baelfire**: Lucky? I'm a prisoner of pirates in a land cursed with magic.

**Captain Hook**: Well, most children think they've found paradise when they lay their eyes on Neverland's magic. Why else leave home in the first place?

**Baelfire**: I came so a family I loved could live.

**Captain Hook**: Well, aren't you quite the hero?

**Baelfire**: What would *you* know about that? *Pirate*.

**Captain Hook**: A pirate saved your scrawny bones from the curse of the mermaids.

**Baelfire**: A pirate killed my mother and tore apart my family.

**Captain Hook**: What about your father?

**Baelfire**: He left me. He's a *coward*.

**Captain Hook**: (*suspicious*) What's your name, boy?

**Baelfire**: I don't have to answer you.

**Captain Hook**: Well, I *can* make you. But to prove to you that not all pirates are as you fear, I'll simply ask again. What's your name?

**Baelfire**: Baelfire.

**Captain Hook**: (*realizes who Baelfire is*) Welcome aboard, Baelfire. It's a pirate's life for you.

**Captain Hook**: You spoke of your mother's fate. But your father, what became of him? You say he left you?

**Baelfire**: It's a long story.

**Captain Hook**: It's one that I know well. When I was a boy, my father and I boarded a ship with plans to travel the realms. One morning, I awoke, and he was gone. Turned out he was a fugitive. He had fled in the middle of the night to avoid capture.

**Baelfire**: He abandoned you?

**Captain Hook**: Aye. That he did.

**Baelfire**: If I tell you something, will you promise not to tell the crew? They might become frightened. My father, the reason I don't speak of him is because... he's the Dark One. He once was a man, but when I got drafted to the Ogre Wars, he wanted to protect me. So he went in search of the Dark One's dagger. And once he got it, he grew obsessed with the power it gave him.

**Captain Hook**: He draws his power from a dagger?

**Baelfire**: Yes. It's the only weapon that can kill him. And the only thing he truly cares about anymore. He chose it over me. My papa abandoned me, too.

**Baelfire**: (*holds up an illustration of Milah*) I found this on your desk. It's my mother! How'd you get it?

**Captain Hook**: Bae -

**Baelfire**: *How*?! You're the pirate that killed her!

**Captain Hook**: I didn't kill your mother! We fell in love, and we ran off together. Your father *lied* to you. He was too much of a coward to tell you the truth. He tore her heart out and crushed it in front of me! And I've spent every moment since then wanting revenge.

**Baelfire**: She abandoned me?

**Captain Hook**: Not a single day went past where your mother didn't regret leaving you, Baelfire. We talked about going back for you when you were old enough. Perhaps fate brought us together to make good on those plans. We can live the life that Milah wanted for us, as a family.

**Baelfire**: No! Stay back! You used me! You wanted to kill my father!

**Captain Hook**: Yes. I did.

**Baelfire**: You tore apart my family! As sure as if you ripped her heart out yourself!

**Captain Hook**: Bae, don't.

**Baelfire**: Take me back to my *real* family, the Darlings.

**Captain Hook**: I can't. It's not possible to leave Neverland. But you can stay here, under my protection.

**Baelfire**: I'd rather fend for myself than be with *you*. I want off this ship, *pirate*.

## During First Curse

### *Tallahassee* (Season 2, Episode 6)

**Neal Cassidy**: (*Emma steals a Yellow Bug and is suprised to find Neal inside*) Neal Cassidy.

**Emma Swan**: Yeah, I'm not telling you my name.

**Neal Cassidy**: No, I don't need it to have you arrested when the robbery's in progress.

**Emma Swan**: ...Emma. Swan.

**Neal Cassidy**: Good name.

**Emma Swan**: So do you just live in here, or are you just waiting for the car to be stolen?

**Neal Cassidy**: Why don't I tell you over drinks?

**Emma Swan**: *Excuse me*?

**Neal Cassidy**: Hey! Eyes on the road.

**Emma Swan**: I am *not* having drinks with you. You might be a pervert!

**Neal Cassidy**: I might be a pervert, but you're definitely a car thief.

**Emma Swan**: I said I was sorry!

**Neal Cassidy**: You didn't, actually.

### *There's No Place Like Home* (Season 3, Episode 22)

**Emma Swan**: So what's your story, Neal?

**Neal Cassidy**: That's an interesting choice of words. My "story" is that I left a screwed up situation and it kind of screwed me up.

**Emma Swan**: Crappy home life? I get that.

**Neal Cassidy**: Nah, it wasn't always. That's the problem. It was really great once.

**Emma Swan**: So why don't you go back to try and fix it?

**Neal Cassidy**: I can't really go back. It's my father.

**Emma Swan**: Bad guy?

**Neal Cassidy**: Not at first. But he changed. That's when things got really crazy. But before that? It was home. It was nice. That's how you know you've really got a home: When you leave it, there's that feeling that you can't shake. You just miss it.

### *Tallahassee* (Season 2, Episode 6)

**Neal Cassidy**: We've been on the road long enough, baby. It's time we retire the Bonnie and Clyde act. So I think... I think it's time.

**Emma Swan**: Together?

**Neal Cassidy**: Don't you want to?

**Emma Swan**: Like where? Neverland?

**Neal Cassidy**: I'm serious. We could do this.

**Emma Swan**: Where?

**Neal Cassidy**: Where? I'll tell you where. (*grabs a map of the United States*) Close your eyes and point. Whatever spot you pick, that's our home.

**Emma Swan**: (*points and opens eyes*) Tallahassee.

**Neal Cassidy**: We got a winner.

**Emma Swan**: Is it near a beach?

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah, it's Florida. Everything's near a beach.

**Emma Swan**: Okay then, Tallahassee it is.

**Neal Cassidy**: Tallahassee it is.

**Neal Cassidy**: I was a janitor in Phoenix – this high-end jewelry place. The manager was a drunk. He would forget to lock the case to the expensive watches.

**Emma Swan**: Neal...

**Neal Cassidy**: I resisted – twice! The third time, this guy's just asking to get took. So I grabbed a couple cases of watches, and I hopped on a train to Portland. The store's got insurance. Anyway, I stashed 'em in a locker at the train station. They're still there. It's not - It's hardly stealing.

**Emma Swan**: So you got away clean.

**Neal Cassidy**: I didn't get away clean. The manager may have been a drunk, but the security cameras are stone sober. I thought this heat had died down, but it hasn't. I'm sorry. Tallahassee's out. I got to go to Canada.

**Emma Swan**: That's fine. I like maple syrup.

**Neal Cassidy**: I got to go to Canada alone.

**Emma Swan**: Why?

**Neal Cassidy**: If I get caught and you're with me, you're in trouble -

**Emma Swan**: You're not going to get caught.

**Neal Cassidy**: How can you say that? You think crossing the border's easy?

**Emma Swan**: We get fake IDs and passports.

**Neal Cassidy**: Those cost money. We have a stolen car.

**Emma Swan**: We make it legit. We take a VIN number off of another car.

**Neal Cassidy**: Emma, I'm not going to have you in the seat next to me with twenty thousand -

**Emma Swan**: Wait, wait! Seriously. Wait, wait, wait. What if *I* go and get the watches out of the locker? No one's looking for me. We can - We can fence them, and then we have the money. We can do whatever we want. We can go wherever we want, right? We could change our identities and go to Tallahassee.

**Neal Cassidy**: So you want to steal the watches, to help me with get away with stealing the watches?

**Emma Swan**: Yes. That is exactly what I want to do.

**Neal Cassidy**: I can't let you risk everything -

**Emma Swan**: I love you.

**Neal Cassidy**: I love you, too. You think you can do it?

**Emma Swan**: I know I can.

**Neal Cassidy**: (*on his way to sell the watches that Emma retrieved*) How do you know Emma?

**August Booth**: Name's August. And it's a long story, but trust me, you want to hear it.

**Neal Cassidy**: Alright, August. If you're not a cop, who are you? You got two minutes.

**August Booth**: Think of me as Emma's guardian angel.

**Neal Cassidy**: Guardian angel? I'd say you've been doing a pretty crap job.

**August Booth**: I've been looking for her for the past two years. Now I finally find her, and she's robbing convenience stores with some deadbeat. Tell me again who's doing the crap job.

**Neal Cassidy**: Let me tell you something. I'm the best thing that’s ever happened to her. Two years? Where were you the rest of her life?

**August Booth**: I'm not perfect. This world? Full of temptations. Turns out I'm not that great at saying no. I'm not built that way. But I'm here now.

**Neal Cassidy**: So who are you?

**August Booth**: We were in the same home as kids, and I thought she'd be safe inside the system. But now that she's out? Back then, I promised I would take care of her.

**Neal Cassidy**: Well, we promised to take care of each other.

**August Booth**: You love her. Good. That means you have to do right by her.

**Neal Cassidy**: That's all I'm trying to do.

**August Booth**: Then leave her.

**Neal Cassidy**: Never.

**August Booth**: She has a destiny. And you? This life? You're going to keep her from it. Okay? You believe in magic?

**Neal Cassidy**: I take it you do.

**August Booth**: So will you. Trust me. I'm going to show you something. Something that's going to make you look at everything differently. And, when you see what I have in here, you're going to listen. You're going to believe every word I say.

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah, right. (*August shows Neal a paper reading "I know you're Baelfire"*) Okay, I’m listening.

**August Booth**: There's a curse, and it needs to be broken. Emma is the key. I was tasked with keeping her on track and you, my friend, just got caught in the crossfire. Now, I'm going to tell you a story. And, at the end of it, you're going to have to make a decision. Will you do the right thing or not?

**Neal Cassidy**: I want to talk to you about Emma.

**August Booth**: I hope you're not trying to reach out.

**Neal Cassidy**: I just - I feel like if I knew that she was okay, then I could move on. Is she?

**August Booth**: She will be. She got eleven months.

**Neal Cassidy**: That should be me! I should be doing that time.

**August Booth**: No. We went over this. It's good.

**Neal Cassidy**: How's it good?

**August Booth**: It's a minimum security place in Phoenix. And no, I am not going to tell you which one. She'll get out of there, and she'll be fine. You keep your promise and steer clear, and she can have a good life. She can do what she’s supposed to do.

**Neal Cassidy**: And if I can't be there for her, man, you got to promise me that you will be.

**August Booth**: I promise.

**Neal Cassidy**: Then you should do something for me. I was able to fence the watches. Don't judge me. I'm giving it all to her. And the car – I got a clean VIN number for it, so it's legit. I just... It'll feel like I'm there with her, you know?

## After First Curse

### *Selfless, Brave and True* (Season 2, Episode 18)

**August Booth**: I'm turning back to wood, Neal. Which means that Emma's in Storybrooke.

**Neal Cassidy**: You're going there, aren't you?

**August Booth**: I gotta get her to break the curse to stop what's happening to me.

**Neal Cassidy**: If she breaks the curse, my father's gonna remember who he is and come looking for me.

**August Booth**: Flip side - You get to see Emma again.

**Neal Cassidy**: Not sure she wants to see me.

**August Booth**: You never know. When the curse is broken, I'll send you a postcard. (*exits, and an eavesdropping Tamara enters and pretends to bump into Neal, spilling coffee on herself*)

**Tamara**: Oh!

**Neal Cassidy**: I'm so sorry! Are you okay?

**Tamara**: It was me. I'm... I'm in a hurry. I'm late for work!

**Neal Cassidy**: Oh, here. You know what? Take my scarf. It'll cover up the stain.

**Tamara**: It's perfect. Thank you.

**Neal Cassidy**: I'm sorry.

**Tamara**: Thank you. I'm Tamara.

### *Manhattan* (Season 2, Episode 14)

**Emma Swan**: (*Emma and Neal reunite*) Are you Gold's son?

**Neal Cassidy**: What are you talking about? Who's Gold?

**Emma Swan**: You played me. You're from there. You played me, and *he* played me, you *both* played me.

**Neal Cassidy**: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay.

**Emma Swan**: You and Gold.

**Neal Cassidy**: Emma, slow down. What are you talking about? Who's Gold?

**Emma Swan**: Your father! Rumplestiltskin.

**Neal Cassidy**: He's here?

**Emma Swan**: Why else would I be in New York?

**Neal Cassidy**: You brought him to me?! Why would you do that?!

**Emma Swan**: *Hey*! *I* am the only one allowed to be angry here! Did you know who I was, where I was from, the whole time? Was this just some sort of sick twisted plan? Did you even care about me at *all*?

**Neal Cassidy**: Emma, do not -

**Emma Swan**: I want to know! I want the truth. *All* of it!

**Emma Swan**: Are you telling me that us meeting was a coincidence? Because how the hell did that happen if it wasn't in your plan, or your father's?

**Neal Cassidy**: Think about it. He wanted you to break the curse. Us meeting, that could have stopped it. Maybe it was fate.

**Emma Swan**: You believe in that?

**Neal Cassidy**: You know, there's not a ton about my father that I remember that doesn't *suck*. But he used to tell me that there are no coincidences. Everything that happens, happens by design, and there's nothing we can do about it. Forces greater than us conspire to make it happen. Fate, destiny, whatever you want to call it. The point is, maybe we met for a reason. Maybe something good came from us being together.

**Emma Swan**: No. Not that I can think of. I just went to jail. That's it. Doesn't matter now. I'm over it. And you.

**Neal Cassidy**: Why do you wear the keychain I got you?

**Emma Swan**: To remind myself never to trust someone again.

**Henry Mills**: Is that Baelfire?

**Emma Swan**: I need you to stay in the other room for a little while longer, okay? Come on.

**Neal Cassidy**: Wait. How old are you?

**Emma Swan**: Don't answer him.

**Neal Cassidy**: (*yelling*) How old are you, kid?!

**Henry Mills**: Eleven! Now, why is everyone yelling?

**Neal Cassidy**: He's eleven?

**Henry Mills**: (*to Emma*) Mom?

**Neal Cassidy**: (*to Emma*) Is this my son?

**Henry Mills**: No. My dad was a fireman. He... He died. (*to Emma*) That's what you told me. You said...

**Neal Cassidy**: (*to Emma*) Is this... my son?

**Emma Swan**: Yes.

**Rumplestiltskin**: (*finally reunites with Baelfire*) I know I've made mistakes, but you must believe me. I want to make up for it. There's no greater pain than regret.

**Neal Cassidy**: Try abandonment.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Please. Let me make it up to you.

**Neal Cassidy**: How are you going to do that? I grew up alone. I grew up without a father. You can make up for that?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Yeah. Yes, I can.

**Neal Cassidy**: Two minutes.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Come with me to Storybrooke. There's magic there. I can turn the clock back. Make you fourteen again. We can start over.

**Neal Cassidy**: Fourteen? I don't want to be fourteen, again. Are you insane?

**Rumplestiltskin**: I can't make up for the lost time, but I can take away the memories, Bae.

**Neal Cassidy**: Take away who I am? No, thanks. One minute.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Bae, please... Give me a chance. You once loved me.

**Neal Cassidy**: You were once a good man.

**Rumplestiltskin**: And I can be that man again. I've changed. Look. I came here, to this city, without magic.

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah, yeah, and you're still trying to use it to make up for your mistakes. Still think that that can make it all better. It won't. You can't. You have no idea what I've lived with. You're so worried about *you*. You know what *I've* dealt with? Every night, for more years than you could know, the last thing I see before I sleep, is the image of you; you and me, over that pit. Your hand wrapped around mine. And then, you open your grip. And as I fall away, all I can see is your face. Choosing all this *crap* over me. Letting me go. Now, it's my turn. Now I'm letting *you* go.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I'm sorry -

**Neal Cassidy**: I don't care. I didn't get closure, so you don't, either. Got to go.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, Bae...

**Neal Cassidy**: No. Time's up.

**Henry Mills**: So. You're my dad.

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah.

**Henry Mills**: I'm Henry.

**Neal Cassidy**: It's nice to meet you, Henry. Sorry I took so long.

**Henry Mills**: It's okay. You didn’t know.

### *The Queen Is Dead* (Season 2, Episode 15)

**Rumplestiltskin**: (*Captain Hook tracks Rumplestiltskin to New York City and stabs him*) It's poison. It's one of Hook's own making. There's no antidote in this world. It's not from here.

**Neal Cassidy**: Hey, hey, hey, hey. There's got to be some way we can save you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: There is, there is -

**Emma Swan**: Storybrooke. There's magic there now. We need to get him back.

**Neal Cassidy**: I'll get a car.

**Rumplestiltskin**: No, no, no. There's not enough time. We need something faster. The Captain's ship.

**Emma Swan**: The *Jolly Roger* instead of a car?

**Rumplestiltskin**: It's the fastest vessel in all the realms.

**Emma Swan**: Well, that's great, but who's going to captain it, since the only guy qualified wants you dead?

**Neal Cassidy**: I can do it.

**Emma Swan**: (*about Rumplestiltskin*) I have to admit, after some of the things you said, I'm surprised you'd rally to his side like this.

**Neal Cassidy**: There's a difference between running away from your father, and watching him die in front of you. He may be a monster, but he's my blood.

**Emma Swan**: What happens when he's healed?

**Neal Cassidy**: I don't know. Forgiveness ain't something I think is possible with him.

**Emma Swan**: But somewhere inside you, you hope someday, it will be.

**Neal Cassidy**: Life's full of surprises, isn't it?

**Tamara**: Neal! Thank God I caught you.

**Neal Cassidy**: What are you doing here?

**Tamara**: I don't know. I... Maybe I got a little worried after talking to you. You can't just say you're leaving town for a while.

**Neal Cassidy**: Hey. Yeah, listen. Everything's fine, okay? I promise.

**Tamara**: Great, sweetie. Just tell me what's going on.

**Emma Swan**: Neal?

**Tamara**: (*to Emma*) I'm Tamara.

**Emma Swan**: Emma.

**Neal Cassidy**: She's my fiancée.

### *The Miller's Daughter* (Season 2, Episode 16)

**Belle**: (*on the phone with Rumplestiltskin*) Mr. Gold, I told you before, I don't remember you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I know, I know. It's just... Sweetheart, I'm dying.

**Belle**: Oh. I'm, uh, I'm so sorry.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I know that you're confused about who you are. So, I'm going to tell you. You are a hero, who helped your people. You're a beautiful woman, who loved an ugly man. Really, *really* loved me. You find goodness in others. And when it's not there, you create it. You make me want to go back. Back to the best version of me. And that never happened before. So, when you look in the mirror and you don't know who you are, that's who you are. Thank you, Belle. (*hangs up the phone*)

**Neal Cassidy**: Didn't know you had that in you.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, I'm full of love. I've spent a lifetime looking for you. For a chance to say I love you. And I'm sorry.

### *Welcome to Storybrooke* (Season 2, Episode 17)

**Emma Swan**: (*Regina prepares to use the Curse of the Empty-Hearted on Henry*) Hey, Regina! Get away from my son!

**Regina Mills**: He's not yours, he's mine. And after I cast this, you'll *never* see him again!

**Prince Charming**: That's never going to happen!

**Emma Swan**: If you want to kill Mary Margaret you're going to have to go through us!

**Regina Mills**: Okay. (*Regina conjures a fireball, but Henry steps between her and the heroes*)

**Henry Mills**: Stop!

**Neal Cassidy**: Henry, get out of the way!

**Henry Mills**: Not until someone helps me destroy magic!

**Regina Mills**: There's no way to get rid of it, you can't just blow it up!

**Emma Swan**: Magic isn't the problem, kid. It's *her*.

**Henry Mills**: It's not just her. It's everyone! Look what magic did to Mary Margaret. (*to Regina*) Look what it did to *you*! It's ruining everything. It makes good people do terrible things.

**Emma Swan**: And bad people.

**Henry Mills**: Please! It's going to destroy my family. Help me get rid of it!

**Regina Mills**: I can't do that Henry. But there is something I *can* do. (*burns the Curse of the Empty-Hearted in her fireball*)

**Henry Mills**: Thank you.

### *Selfless, Brave and True* (Season 2, Episode 18)

**Neal Cassidy**: (*about Tamara*) She should be here at Granny's any minute now.

**Emma Swan**: What are you thinking?

**Neal Cassidy**: What do you mean?

**Emma Swan**: I mean, what are you gonna tell her when she sees a giant or a werewolf run past her on Main Street? Between Greg Mendell, our food-obsessed tourist, and now your fiancee, this town is turning into a theme park!

**Neal Cassidy**: Maybe I didn't think it all the way through. I'm sorry. I just... I need her. I'm sorry. I didn't mean it to -

**Emma Swan**: Don't need to apologize to me. I'm not the one you're lying to.

**Neal Cassidy**: Who's lying?

**Emma Swan**: Does she know who you really are and where you're really from? Take my advice. Don't let her find out on her own. Tell her the truth. Tell her everything.

**Neal Cassidy**: There's something I need to tell you. Here's the thing. I'm, uh... I'm not from here. I'm from a place called the Enchanted Forest. (*Tamara appears confused*) I'm being serious. Here. (*shows the storybook*) Go ahead.

**Tamara**: These are fairy tales.

**Neal Cassidy**: And they're real. In fact, they're more than real. They're history. They're *my* history. See this little boy? That's me.

**Tamara**: What the hell are you doing?

**Neal Cassidy**: I'm trying to be honest with you.

**Tamara**: If you wanted to be honest, you would tell me what this is really about. Cute blonde who was just here. Mother of your child? Emma? I'm not a fool, Neal. I saw the way you two look at each other.

**Neal Cassidy**: It's not like that!

**Blue Fairy**: (*after Tamara kills August*) I was able to turn Pinocchio into a real boy after he sacrificed his life for Marco's. If his actions today were indeed brave, truthful, and unselfish, then you're right. There's a chance I can do it again.

**Geppetto**: Please, I beg of you. Try. (*the Blue Fairy uses her wand to revert August into Pinocchio*)

**Pinocchio**: Father?

**Geppetto**: Pinocchio. Look. Look!

**Pinocchio**: I'm a real boy. I'm a real boy!

**Neal Cassidy**: (*Tamara enters*) Honey.

**Tamara**: It's... it's true.

**Blue Fairy**: Do better this time, Pinocchio.

**Tamara**: Pinocchio? That's...

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah.

**Emma Swan**: Pinocchio? I have to ask you a question. I need you to think real hard, okay? Before you turned into a little boy, you were trying to tell us something very important. Do you remember? You were trying to warn us about something.

**Pinocchio**: I... I don't remember. If I did, I would be truthful. I promise.

### *Second Star to the Right* (Season 2, Episode 21)

**Neal Cassidy**: You're unreal, you know that? You spend years looking for me. I come to town. You disappear. You haven't even bothered to meet Tamara!

**Rumplestiltskin**: Why should I concern myself with her?

**Neal Cassidy**: I'm getting married!

**Rumplestiltskin**: That's never gonna last. Not as long as you carry a torch for Emma.

**Neal Cassidy**: You know, you haven't changed one bit. For a second, I thought you might have. I started to think maybe you were worth my time. I guess I was wrong.

**Rumplestiltskin**: And yet, you're still here.

**Neal Cassidy**: For Henry. Not you. As far as I'm concerned, you can stay the hell away from both of us.

**Neal Cassidy**: I wanted to go to jail for you.

**Emma Swan**: Neal.

**Neal Cassidy**: It kills me I let August talk me in letting you go.

**Emma Swan**: I don't want to hear it.

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah, but I have to say it. I wanted to look for you. I just - I was too afraid.

**Emma Swan**: Of what?

**Neal Cassidy**: That you would never forgive me. 'Cause I never forgave myself. There hasn't been a day that's gone by that I don't regret having left you. I'm sorry Emma, for everything.

**Emma Swan**: Me too.

**Tamara**: I have to keep magic out of this world, Neal. It doesn't belong here. You more than anyone should understand that. It's a poison.

**Neal Cassidy**: You've been lying to me. How long have you been lying to me?

**Tamara**: This is more important than any -

**Neal Cassidy**: (*shouting*) How long?

**Tamara**: Since the beginning. Since I spilled coffee on you.

**Neal Cassidy**: It wasn't an accident. You planned it all. None of it was real.

**Tamara**: Neal, you're a good man. I know that. So please try to understand, I had a job to do, an important one, one I think you can agree with.

**Neal Cassidy**: You never loved me.

**Tamara**: No.

**Neal Cassidy**: (*Tamara shoots Neal and opens a portal beneath him and Emma*) You can't hold both of us!

**Emma Swan**: I'm not letting go of you!

**Neal Cassidy**: You have to!

**Emma Swan**: Neal, you're shot! If you fall through that portal you'll die, no matter what world you land in!

**Neal Cassidy**: I know! But Emma, Henry needs you! You can't lose both of us! Don't make him grow up like we did!

**Emma Swan**: Please don't let go! I need you! I love you!

**Neal Cassidy**: I love you too. (*lets go and falls through the portal*)

**Emma Swan**: No!

### *The Heart of the Truest Believer* (Season 3, Episode 1)

**Neal Cassidy**: (*finds himself in the Enchanted Forest after being shot by Tamara*) Emma Swan? You know her?

**Mulan**: How do *you* know her?

**Neal Cassidy**: She's... She's my... I... I don't know. But she's in danger. I have to get back to her. I have to help her!

**Prince Phillip**: You need to rest. You were gravely injured when we found you. Were you hit by some kind of arrow?

**Neal Cassidy**: 45 caliber arrow. Look, I... I need your help. I need to know that Emma and Henry are all right.

**Princess Aurora**: You're... You're Henry's father? (*Neal nods*) I was once under a Sleeping Curse. Snow taught me how to control the nightmare. And with practice, I'm able to walk the dream world - find others like me who have passed through. It's possible I can make contact with them. If I can, what would you like me to tell them?

**Neal Cassidy**: Tell Emma I'm alive, and I love her.

**Mulan**: How did you get here?

**Neal Cassidy**: I fell through a portal. I thought... I thought I was gonna die, and... and I thought about this place. I thought about growing up here. That's how portals work. They take you to wherever you think of.

**Mulan**: Well, what's it like? The other world?

**Neal Cassidy**: Uh, well, for starters, they think that this place is just a fairy tale. Like a... like a legend, like we're all just characters in a story.

**Mulan**: *I'm* in a story?

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah. They made a movie about you. It's actually pretty good.

**Mulan**: What's a movie?

**Neal Cassidy**: Uh...

**Princess Aurora**: (*wakes up*) It's worse than I feared! I couldn't make contact. I wish I could be more help. I fear no one can.

**Neal Cassidy**: My father can. He always had a plan. He would've left something behind if he ever found himself back here. Something that can be used to contact Emma, to get to her. I know it. I just need to get to his castle.

**Prince Phillip**: Who's your father?

**Neal Cassidy**: Rumplestiltskin.

**Robin Hood**: What are you doing trespassing in my castle?

**Mulan**: This castle belongs to the Dark One. It is *you* who trespasses.

**Robin Hood**: He hasn't been seen since the Queen's curse. If he ever shows up, I'll be happy to vacate.

**Neal Cassidy**: No, no need. In fact you can have it. I just... I need to look around for a bit.

**Robin Hood**: And who would you be to grant such title?

**Neal Cassidy**: In this land, I'm known as Baelfire. I'm his son.

**Robin Hood**: My apologies. Go ahead.

**Neal Cassidy**: You don't want to see ID?

**Robin Hood**: Who would claim to be that who wasn't?

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah, good point.

### *Quite a Common Fairy* (Season 3, Episode 3)

**Robin Hood**: (*Neal wants to summon Peter Pan's Shadow using Roland Hood*) Are you out of your mind? He's four years old!

**Neal Cassidy**: The Shadow won't touch him, I promise.

**Robin Hood**: How do you know that?

**Neal Cassidy**: Because I’ve done that before. It was what took me to Neverland as a kid. All Roland has to do is summon it. That's it. I'll take it from there. *I'll* be the one going to Neverland, not him.

**Robin Hood**: At best, my toddler is a *bait*. At worst, something goes wrong and a demonic shadow carries him through a portal to the nastiest person you've ever met!

**Neal Cassidy**: Look, Robin, I have to get there.

**Robin Hood**: I lost my wife a while back. For that, we almost didn't have Roland. She was so sick. Now, she's gone. He's all I have. I can't lose him.

**Neal Cassidy**: So you know how I feel. I need my boy, and Emma. They're all I have.

**Robin Hood**: So, because I know what it is to value family, I should risk mine?

**Neal Cassidy**: When she was sick, your wife, how did she live so that she could have your boy?

**Robin Hood**: You know how.

**Neal Cassidy**: My father. He saved her. *And* your son.

**Robin Hood**: Right. *Once*. He stands at the window. He calls out *once*. That doesn't take, that's it. No second chance.

**Robin Hood**: Now, Daddy's gonna be right there, okay? It might be loud, but nothing's gonna hurt you. You understand? You remember what you have to say?

**Roland Hood**: Yeah, I say —

**Robin Hood**: No!

**Mulan**: No! No! Not yet!

**Neal Cassidy**: No! Wait, wait, wait.

**Mulan**: Not yet. Positions.

**Robin Hood**: Okay. Okay, Roland. Say it.

**Roland Hood**: I believe. (*silence follows*)

**Neal Cassidy**: Maybe if he says it again, just once more.

**Robin Hood**: No, I'm sorry, mate. That's it.

**Roland Hood**: (*Peter Pan's Shadow enters to take Roland*) No!

**Robin Hood**: Hey!

**Mulan**: I got him! Neal, go! (*Neal lets the Shadow take him to Neverland*)

### *Nasty Habits* (Season 3, Episode 4)

**Rumplestiltskin**: Bae? You're not real. You're dead!

**Neal Cassidy**: What? Of course I'm real. What the hell's going on?!

**Rumplestiltskin**: You're a vision, just like Belle.

**Neal Cassidy**: No! No, hey, listen to me. It's me! I was shot. Okay? But I survived. See? I'm alive.

**Rumplestiltskin**: My son is dead! You're just here to remind me of my failure!

**Neal Cassidy**: That's not why I'm here!

**Rumplestiltskin**: My weakness!

**Neal Cassidy**: Put the spear down!

**Rumplestiltskin**: You're here to question my resolve. But you won't succeed. I *will* sacrifice my life for Henry! And nothing will stand in my way!

**Neal Cassidy**: Please, Papa.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Bae? Is that really you?

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I thought I'd lost you forever!

**Rumplestiltskin**: There was a seer, and she told me of a prophecy that a boy would help reunite me with you. And that boy would be my undoing.

**Neal Cassidy**: Henry.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I didn't know it was gonna be my own grandson, till I found you in New York and discovered you were his father.

**Neal Cassidy**: You were planning on getting rid of him, whoever he was, weren't you? To try and cheat fate? To get around the prophecy? You cold-blooded son of a bitch. You were gonna kill him!

**Rumplestiltskin**: Yes.

**Neal Cassidy**: Get back! You stay away from him!

**Rumplestiltskin**: That was *then*. Things have changed. I didn't come here to Neverland to hurt Henry. I came here to save him.

**Neal Cassidy**: After what you just told me, I'm supposed to believe you?!

**Rumplestiltskin**: I won't lie to you, Bae. Self-preservation has been a nasty habit I've had my whole life, but I came here to break it, to do the right thing and to save your son. Even if that meant sacrificing my own life. You have to trust me.

**Neal Cassidy**: How can I?

### *Ariel* (Season 3, Episode 6)

**Neal Cassidy**: It's okay. You can tell me anything.

**Emma Swan**: When I heard you might be here, and that you might still be alive, I knew I should be happy, but I wasn't. I was terrified. I didn't understand why until now. From the moment I saw you in New York, in the instant you stepped back in my life, I knew. I knew I'd never stopped loving you. And before I even had a chance to take a breath, I... I lost you once more, and all that pain that I had pushed down for all those years, it just came rushing back, and I... I didn't know if I could go through it again. I love you. I probably always will. But my secret is that I was hoping that this was a trick. I was hoping you were dead... Because it would be easier for me to put you behind me than to face all the pain that we went through all over again.

### *Dark Hollow* (Season 3, Episode 7)

**Emma Swan**: Pan's shadow? That's your way off the island?

**Neal Cassidy**: Unfortunately, it's the only way.

**Prince Charming**: We thought you learned how to navigate the stars?

**Neal Cassidy**: I know how to navigate the stars, but I can't fly.

**Snow White**: I'm guessing that's where the shadow comes in.

**Neal Cassidy**: That's why we have to capture it.

**Emma Swan**: Capture it? We've never been within ten feet of Pan unless he wanted us to be! Sneaking up on him to steal his shadow? That sounds insane!

**Captain Hook**: Except Pan's shadow is rarely with him. It's an entity unto itself. It can carry out his will from miles away.

**Prince Charming**: What does that mean for us?

**Neal Cassidy**: It means we can get his shadow without having to be anywhere near Pan, as long as we know where to look. I know where to look.

**Emma Swan**: Here it is. Your star map.

**Neal Cassidy**: It's not a star map. It's what we're gonna use to trap Pan's Shadow.

**Captain Hook**: A coconut? Are you daft?

**Neal Cassidy**: You came to Neverland on a pirate ship through a portal, but you draw the line at a magic coconut?

**Captain Hook**: Fair enough. What's out next stop on this mission?

**Neal Cassidy**: Dark Hollow.

**Emma Swan**: Really? Why couldn't it be called something like "Sunshine Valley" or "Rainbow Cove"? What exactly is it?

**Captain Hook**: Just what it sounds like. The darkest spot on the entire island. Any light that makes it's way in is snuffed out by the shadows that call it home. Even *I* manage to avoid it.

**Emma Swan**: Well, time to break tradition. Dark Hollow it is. That's where we're gonna find Pan's Shadow, right?

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah. It's the only way we'll ever get back to Storybrooke.

**Neal Cassidy**: We light the candle and the Shadow's drawn to it. When it gets close enough, the flame will suck it in, we put the lid on, and it's trapped inside this bad boy.

**Captain Hook**: Sounds like a fine plan, except for one thing. Our lanterns went out. How the devil are we going to ignite that bloody thing?

**Neal Cassidy**: (*takes out pocket lighter*) Welcome to the 21st century.

**Emma Swan**: How's it coming over there, guys?

**Neal Cassidy**: Hang on. (*tries igniting the lighter near the coconut's candle wick*)

**Captain Hook**: Let me help.

**Neal Cassidy**: No, I've got it.

**Captain Hook**: I've only got one hand, I can do better than that!

**Neal Cassidy**: You know what? Now's not the time to try to impress Emma!

**Captain Hook**: Oh, you think that's what I doing?

**Emma Swan**: Really? You're doing this *now*?

**Captain Hook**: You heard her. Are we gonna stand here and argue or are we gonna get the candle lit? (*Hook snatches the lighter but fails to light it*)

**Neal Cassidy**: Harder than it looks, huh, pal? Let me see it. Give it to me!

**Emma Swan**: Guys, we don't have time for this. (*Peter Pan's Shadow enters*) We really don't have time for this!

**Tinker Bell**: I was wondering if I'd see you again, but if you've come to talk me into helping you before you've found a way off this island, I still -

**Prince Charming**: We've found one; or, we're about to.

**Tinker Bell**: Not sure I like the sound of "about to".

**Snow White**: Pan's Shadow. Emma went with Hook and Neal to capture it. That's our way off the island.

**Tinker Bell**: Capture Pan's Shadow? Yeah, I'm not lifting a finger until I see proof you've actually succeeded.

**Neal Cassidy**: (*enters with Emma, Hook and Pan's Shadow trapped inside the coconut*) Hey. Here's all the proof you'll need. Been a long time, Tink.

**Tinker Bell**: Bae, is it really you?

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah, but most people call me Neal now.

**Captain Hook**: We did it. Are you finally ready to do your part, Tink?

**Tinker Bell**: Yes. Yes, I am.

**Neal Cassidy**: Uh, Emma.

**Emma Swan**: Neal.

**Neal Cassidy**: I - Listen, I just wanted to tell you that you're right. About Henry. He *is* all that matters. And if he's the only thing that came from us being together, I'd say we did alright.

**Emma Swan**: Yeah. Now let's go get our son back.

### *Think Lovely Thoughts* (Season 3, Episode 8)

(*Regina and Rumplestiltskin, with Pandora's Box, regroup with Emma, Snow White, Prince Charming, Captain Hook, Neal and Tinker Bell*)

**Neal Cassidy**: (*about Rumplestiltskin*) There's a prophecy that says that Henry will be his undoing. He didn't come here to protect him. He came here to kill him.

**Regina Mills**: (*to Rumplestiltskin*) That's why you didn't want to find Neal before you got Henry back... Because you knew he'd spill your secret.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Everything I did was to protect Henry, to rescue him from Pan.

**Emma Swan**: It all makes sense. You left before we even made shore.

**Snow White**: You wanted to get to Henry first...

**Prince Charming**: To be on his own...

**Captain Hook**: So no one could stop you...

**Regina Mills**: So you can *kill* him.

**Emma Swan**: It's not gonna happen, not unless you go through *all* of us first.

**Emma Swan**: There has to be a way for David to leave the island.

**Captain Hook**: Well, there isn't.

**Emma Swan**: He told me about your brother, what happened. I know it can't be easy to talk about, but -

**Captain Hook**: Well, then let's not, shall we? The water that cured David from dreamshade has connected him to the island. If he leaves, the connection is broken. The poison will kill him.

**Emma Swan**: What if we take some of the water with us? That way he stays connected. He can stay alive in Storybrooke.

**Captain Hook**: For how long? Once the water runs out, the dreamshade will take his life.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Unless there was another cure. You suddenly interested in what I have to say? Thought I wasn't to be trusted.

**Emma Swan**: You're not, but I'll take my chances.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, if you remember, I too was poisoned with dreamshade by a cowardly pirate. And yet -

**Emma Swan**: Yes, and we know how you cured yourself; with a candle that takes another person's life. David is not that selfish.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Oh, how noble. The point is, after my near-death experience, I discovered much about the poison. I believe I could create an elixir back in my shop.

**Emma Swan**: What's your price?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Well, this is quite the favor. I'd expect one of equal weight in return.

**Neal Cassidy**: No. When we get back to Storybrooke, you're gonna save David because it's the right thing to do. No deals, no favors, understand?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Fine. I'll do as you ask.

(*the group find Wendy Darling*)

**Rumplestiltskin**: She knows where Henry is.

**Neal Cassidy**: Is that true?

**Wendy Darling**: You don't understand.

**Snow White**: You're helping Pan?

**Wendy Darling**: He's keeping John and Michael alive, only if I do as he says.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Trust me, whatever he's promised, he *will* go back on his word.

**Wendy Darling**: And why should I trust a man who abandoned his own son?

**Regina Mills**: Because your brothers did. They trusted a woman named Belle. (*about Pandora's Box*) They helped her get this box so we can defeat Pan.

**Wendy Darling**: They're okay?

**Rumplestiltskin**: For now, and only if we succeed.

**Neal Cassidy**: Wendy, we *will* save John and Michael, I swear to God. But right now, I really need your help. Please.

**Wendy Darling**: Pan told Henry that he needs his heart to save magic. But it's a lie. He needs it to save *himself*.

**Captain Hook**: What do you mean?

**Wendy Darling**: Pan's dying. He needs the heart of the truest believer to absorb all the magic in Neverland. And once he does, he will be immortal, all powerful.

**Snow White**: And what happens to Henry?

**Wendy Darling**: Well, it's a trade. When Pan lives, Henry will die.

**Henry Mills**: Dad? You're alive?

**Neal Cassidy**: I am, buddy. And I need you to listen to me. Pan is lying to you.

**Peter Pan**: Oh, pleasure to see you too, Baelfire, not to mention the savior and the Evil Queen.

**Emma Swan**: Henry, you need to get away from him, now. He's trying to hurt you.

**Henry Mills**: No. The heart of the truest believer - it's what's gonna save magic. It's gonna save all of you.

**Regina Mills**: No, it's not. This was never about magic, Henry. You have to believe us. The only person Pan's interested in saving is himself.

**Henry Mills**: That's not true!

**Peter Pan**: Of course it isn't.

**Neal Cassidy**: Yes, it is! Pan can't live without you dying. If you give him your heart, it's gonna kill you.

**Peter Pan**: They're trying to stem your belief, Henry. But don't let them. Remember, every hero gets tested.

**Emma Swan**: Henry, I know what being a hero looks like, and this isn't it.

**Henry Mills**: Why would they lie?

**Peter Pan**: Because that's what adults do, Henry. You know that better than anyone.

**Regina Mills**: Henry, you have to believe us!

**Peter Pan**: Your parents don't care about Neverland, Henry. They know if you give your heart to save it, then you'll have to stay. They're being selfish because they don't wanna lose you.

**Emma Swan**: Henry, you have to trust us!

**Peter Pan**: Trust? *I'm* the only one who's ever been honest with you, Henry. The only one who ever believed in you. This is *your* choice. Not theirs. You have to choose *now*. We're running out of time.

**Neal Cassidy**: We believe in you, Henry.

**Emma Swan**: Because we love you.

**Regina Mills**: More than anything!

**Henry Mills**: I love you too. But I have to save magic.

(*gives Peter Pan his heart*)

### *Save Henry* (Season 3, Episode 9)

**Regina Mills**: My son is dying!

**Emma Swan**: *Our* son. So yes, I know how you feel.

**Regina Mills**: You have *no idea* what I feel. You have your parents. You have this — (*gestures at Neal*) - person; a pirate who pines for you. You have *everything* and yet you claim to know what *I* feel? *All* I have is Henry and I am not about to lose him because he is *everything*!

**Emma Swan**: You're right. I *don't* know what you feel. So what do you want to do? You want to run the show? Run it. How do we save Henry?

**Regina Mills**: I don't know.

**Neal Cassidy**: Even if we *can* find Pan, he was powerful before. With Henry's heart, I don't know if we can hurt him.

**Regina Mills**: Yes, we can. Look. (*points to Emma's sword*) You nicked him. He can bleed. We can hurt him. And if we can hurt him, we can kill him. And we *will*.

(*Henry's heart is returned and he wakes up*)

**Neal Cassidy**: Woah, woah, woah. Take it easy, buddy.

**Henry Mills**: I'm sorry. I wanted to save magic.

**Emma Swan**: It's okay. It's okay.

**Henry Mills**: I wanted to be a hero.

**Prince Charming**: Hey, there's plenty of time for that.

**Snow White**: Right now, it's time to rest.

**Captain Hook**: Welcome back, young sir. Only the best for our guest of honor, don't you think? Captain's quarters.

**Regina Mills**: Come on, I'll tuck you in.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Bae.

**Neal Cassidy**: Papa.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Where's Henry?

**Neal Cassidy**: He's safe. He's safe.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I told you I wasn't gonna hurt the boy.

**Neal Cassidy**: I know. I'm sorry. I... Why didn't you tell me Pan was your father?

**Rumplestiltskin**: Because I didn't want you to know I was as bad a father as he was, because we're both the same, me and him... because we both abandoned our sons.

**Neal Cassidy**: No, you're not the same. You came back for me, Papa.

### *The New Neverland* (Season 3, Episode 10)

**Michael Darling**: Wendy!

**Wendy Darling**: Michael! John! Is it really you?

**John Darling**: You have no idea how long we've been waiting to see you!

**Wendy Darling**: Do you remember Baelfire? (*the four hug*)

**Neal Cassidy**: So now what?

**John Darling**: I think it's time for the Darlings to go home.

**Captain Hook**: I've made a decision when it comes to Emma. I'm gonna back off.

**Neal Cassidy**: Back off?

**Captain Hook**: For the sake of the boy. Let his parents have a fair shot without a devilishly handsome pirate standing in the way.

**Neal Cassidy**: You're serious?

**Captain Hook**: Yeah. I am devilishly handsome.

**Neal Cassidy**: Thanks, man.

**Captain Hook**: Don't thank me yet. You see, I'm in this for the long haul. You've already walked out on Emma once. Not so sure she'll let you back in.

### *Going Home* (Season 3, Episode 11)

**Emma Swan**: Neal, I'm sorry.

**Neal Cassidy**: Don't be. You got a boy who you've got to keep alive here.

**Emma Swan**: And you have to go back *there*.

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah. Hey, this isn't over. I'll see both of you again.

**Captain Hook**: (*about Yellow Bug*) That's quite a vessel you captain there, Swan. There's not a day that won't go by that I won't think of you.

**Emma Swan**: Good.

**Regina Mills**: Emma, there's something I haven't told you.

**Emma Swan**: What now?

**Regina Mills**: When the curse washes over us, it will send us all back. Nothing will be left behind... including your memories. It's just what the curse does. Storybrooke will no longer exist. It won't *ever* have existed. So these last years will be gone from both your memories, and we'll just go back to being stories again.

**Emma Swan**: What will happen to us?

**Regina Mills**: I don't know.

**Emma Swan**: Doesn't sound like much of a happy ending.

**Regina Mills**: It's not. But I can give you one.

**Emma Swan**: You can preserve our memories?

**Regina Mills**: No, I can do what I did to everyone else in this town, and give you new ones.

**Emma Swan**: You cursed them and they were miserable.

**Regina Mills**: They didn't have to be. My gift to you is good memories, a good life for you and Henry. You'll never have given him up. You'll have always been together.

**Emma Swan**: You would do that?

**Regina Mills**: When I stop Pan's curse and you cross that town line, you will have the life you always wanted.

**Emma Swan**: But it won't be real.

**Regina Mills**: Well, your past won't. But your future will.

## Before Second Curse

### *New York City Serenade* (Season 3, Episode 12)

**Belle**: You'll see them again. Emma and Henry.

**Neal Cassidy**: Well, let's hope I don't have to curse an entire kingdom to get back to them.

**Belle**: I heard you talking to David about Rumple. You know, we never saw his knife. I think we can get him back.

### *Witch Hunt* (Season 3, Episode 13)

(*the citizens of the Enchanted Forest are attacked by Flying Monkeys*)

**Grumpy**: If I didn't know better, I'd say it looked an awful lot like a monkey.

**Prince Charming**: A monkey with wings?

**Evil Queen**: Yes, that's exactly what it is.

**Neal Cassidy**: Okay, you're acting like that's normal.

**Belle**: Actually, it is, but not here. There's only one land that has creatures like that. I've read about it; Oz.

**Snow White**: Oz? That's a real place?

**Evil Queen**: The bookworm's right. It's quite real. If our simian friend is any indication, then I think we know exactly who's taken up residence in our castle. The Wicked Witch.

**Grumpy**: We talking East or West?

**Snow White**: Does it matter? Neither one sounds good.

**Grumpy**: One you drop a house on, the other one you toss a bucket of water at.

**Prince Charming**: So Regina, what exactly are we up against besides green skin and a pointy hat? What did you do to her?

**Evil Queen**: This time, nothing. Never met her.

**Prince Charming**: This isn't a personal vendetta? Shocking. Okay then, Oz aside, we stick to the original plan. Arm up, then attack. Assuming you can get the shield down.

**Evil Queen**: You don't need to worry about me.

**Snow White**: I'm coming with you.

**Evil Queen**: No, this is a one-woman job.

**Snow White**: What? Against the Wicked Witch? She has flying monkeys, who knows what else!

**Evil Queen**: I don't care if the Lollipop Guild is protecting her. I can lower that shield on my own.

### *Quiet Minds* (Season 3, Episode 15)

**Neal Cassidy**: (*about Rumplestiltskin*) He died to save us. His family.

**Belle**: At least he died a hero.

**Neal Cassidy**: Were you surprised he had it in him?

**Belle**: Of course not. Were you?

**Neal Cassidy**: I don't know. I mean, my papa was never the most selfless guy. I know he wished he'd never let me go through that portal. I know how sorry he was, but now that I have a son of my own, I can't imagine ever doing what he did.

**Belle**: He regretted what happened with you *so* much. He was willing to do anything to get back to you.

**Neal Cassidy**: Well that's one thing about him I can relate to, because I would do anything to get back to Henry.

(*at the Vault of the Dark One*)

**Lumiere**: I've spent 200 years in Rumplestiltskin's library witnessing more dark magic and sorcery than any living creature has ever seen.

**Belle**: I'm sorry, how long did you say you were there?

**Lumiere**: 200 years, at least.

**Belle**: He's lying. Rumple built that library for me, not long before the curse. It's been there barely 30 years.

**Neal Cassidy**: Who are you? Unless you wanna spend the rest of eternity under a snowdrift, you better start talking.

**Lumiere**: I am who I appear to be. Only it wasn't Rumplestiltskin who turned me into this wretched form. It was the Wicked Witch of the West.

**Belle**: The Wicked Witch? She told you to lead us here?

**Lumiere**: She wants you to bring back the Dark One, so she can control him with his dagger.

**Belle**: We need to leave this place.

**Neal Cassidy**: Belle, wait. This means we can bring him back. Does it matter who got us here?

**Belle**: Rumple didn't sacrifice his life for good so he could return to be a slave to evil.

**Neal Cassidy**: My father is the king of loopholes. I'm sure he'll figure out a way to deal with her.

**Belle**: What if he can't? Think what she could do if the Dark One was under her control. We'll find another way to bring him back.

**Neal Cassidy**: What if there is no other way? I can't waste any more time. I need to get him back. To hell with the costs!

**Belle**: That's what your father told himself when he forged the curse that condemned countless people to misery. Don't make the same mistake he made! (*Neal ignores her and resurrects Rumplestiltskin*)

### *A Curious Thing* (Season 3, Episode 19)

**Wicked Witch of the West**: We're about to take an unplanned trip, my pet. The curse is coming.

**Rumplestiltskin**: You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed. You failed.

**Wicked Witch of the West**: Don't be so dour. What I need to do can be done from any land. I *will* succeed in changing the past. My spell *will* work.
**Rumplestiltskin**: But only if you remember it.

**Wicked Witch of the West**: Which I will, with this. (*shows Memory Potion*) To keep my valuable recollection safe and sound. (*drinks potion and gives another potion to Rumplestiltskin*) Here. Drink it. Dump it out. Sing it a song. Your brains are still mine. If you want to remember the loss of your son, so be it, but if you prefer to stumble about blind and stupid with the rest of them, be my guest. (*exits*)

**Rumplestiltskin**: Memories are pain. Pain is strength. (*prepares to drink*) For vengeance.

(*Neal takes over his body*)

**Neal Cassidy**: We don't need to remember. Emma does. (*gives a carrier pigeon the Memory Potion*) Find Killian Jones. On the *Jolly Roger*. Find Captain Hook. Go!

## During Second Curse

### *Quiet Minds* (Season 3, Episode 15)

**Neal Cassidy**: It's good to see you - and even better to have you remember me!

**Emma Swan**: It's good to see you too.

**Neal Cassidy**: Has it really been a year?

**Emma Swan**: Yeah.

**Neal Cassidy**: When can I see Henry?

**Emma Swan**: Neal, I don't -

**Neal Cassidy**: I know, okay, I can't just come barging back into your life, but -

**Emma Swan**: No, it's not that. My memories came back, but his? He doesn't remember anything. The curse. His old life.

**Neal Cassidy**: Me.

**Emma Swan**: You.

**Neal Cassidy**: What does he know about his father?

**Emma Swan**: What I knew until about a week ago, which was that you let me go to jail and never came back for us.

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah, but I didn't have a choice, you know that!

**Emma Swan**: Yeah, I do know that *now*, but I didn't during that whole year.

**Neal Cassidy**: So my son has no clue who I really am? He just thinks I'm the jerk that abandoned him? We have to get his memories back. We have to fix this. There has to be somebody who can. The Blue Fairy or my father -

**Emma Swan**: Neal, he was really happy in New York with our life.

**Neal Cassidy**: You don't want him to get his memories back?

**Emma Swan**: Maybe that's for the best.

**Neal Cassidy**: But I'm his father! I want him to know who I am!

**Neal Cassidy**: What's it feel like to play the hero after being a pirate for so long?

**Captain Hook**: Unfamiliar. And you? How does it feel to play the villain?

**Neal Cassidy**: I'm a villain now?

**Captain Hook**: Well, if you truly had a hand in bringing your father back, I suspect you had to use the darkest of magic and paid an even darker price, though I'm sure you felt the end justified the means.

**Neal Cassidy**: I should be out there looking for him and set things right with him and my son. Question is, are you gonna stand in my way?

**Captain Hook**: I am in your way. (*hugs Neal*)

**Neal Cassidy**: What the hell are you doing?

**Captain Hook**: This is long overdue. Sometimes when I look at you, all I see is a man. I forget that beneath it all, you're still that boy, the one I looked after all those years ago.

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah, I haven't forgotten.

**Captain Hook**: We got caught up in so much nonsense over a women.

**Neal Cassidy**: I need to do this, Killian. You know that, right?

**Captain Hook**: You've got ten minutes, then I alert the others you've gone.

**Neal Cassidy**: Thank you.

**Emma Swan**: I think Gold is *inside* you. I think that's how you're still alive.

**Neal Cassidy**: I heard my father's voice in my head. He's in there. He's in me!

**Emma Swan**: He said there was no room. He meant *you*.

**Neal Cassidy**: I need you to help me, Emma. Use your magic. Separate me and my father.

**Emma Swan**: Really? You'll die!

**Neal Cassidy**: I know, but you need my dad more than me to figure out who the witch is, to save the town. You need to do this!

**Emma Swan**: I've never done anything like that before. Not that big.

**Neal Cassidy**: Do it. To save you and Henry. Do it, please. (*Emma uses her magic to separate Neal from Rumplestiltskin*)

**Emma Swan**: Neal? Neal, are you okay?

**Rumplestiltskin**: What have you done?

**Neal Cassidy**: It's okay, Papa. I told her to.

**Rumplestiltskin**: But why?

**Neal Cassidy**: So you can tell her who the witch is. So you can defeat her.

**Rumplestiltskin**: Zelena.

**Neal Cassidy**: It's too late, Emma.

**Emma Swan**: Just hang in there, please. You never even had a chance to see Henry... For him to remember you.

**Neal Cassidy**: It's okay. He doesn't need to. He just needs to know that, in the end, I was a good father. (*about Swan Keychain*) I saved this for you to give to you again. Take it. Go find Tallahassee... Even if it's without me.

**Emma Swan**: Neal.

**Neal Cassidy**: Hey. I'll be watching over you guys from somewhere. Promise me... Just prom-promise me you'll both be happy.

**Emma Swan**: I promise. I promise.

**Rumplestiltskin**: No. No, no, no. I can fix this.

**Neal Cassidy**: No, you can't. You can't. Thank you, Papa, for showing me what it is to make a true sacrifice. It's about saving the ones that you love.

**Rumplestiltskin**: No.

**Neal Cassidy**: It's my turn now.

**Rumplestiltskin**: No. I don't want to let you go!

**Neal Cassidy**: I need you to. Please. Let go.

**Rumplestiltskin**: I love you, son.

**Neal Cassidy**: I... I love you, Papa. (*Neal dies*)

## After Third Curse

### *Souls of the Departed* (Season 5, Episode 12)

(*Emma reunites with Neal in a vision*)

**Neal Cassidy**: How's our son?

**Emma Swan**: Great. He misses his dad. He's growing up.

**Neal Cassidy**: I bet.

**Emma Swan**: Is this the Underworld? I was on my way to the Underworld.

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah, I know that's where you're headed. That's kind of why I'm here. Don't go, Emma. Once you get there, it is not an easy place to get out of. I know you're trying to save Hook. But trust me on this. This won't end the way you think it will.

**Emma Swan**: I would have come after you, too. I didn't know I could do this.

**Neal Cassidy**: You couldn't have. I'm not there. I'm not in limbo.

**Emma Swan**: Does that mean that Hook is there? I can get him?

**Neal Cassidy**: Yeah, he's there.

**Emma Swan**: Then help me. I can split my heart and give it to him. It could work.

**Neal Cassidy**: The Underworld's for people with unfinished business, and that isn't me. That's why I'm not there.

**Emma Swan**: Where are you?

**Neal Cassidy**: Someplace. Someplace where I'm happy. I only came here because I care about you, Emma. Stop what you're doing before it's too late.

**Emma Swan**: I can't.

**Neal Cassidy**: I figured. But I had to try.

**Emma Swan**: Neal...

**Neal Cassidy**: I love you, Emma. I always have, and I always will.