Once Upon a Time (TV Series)
Manhattan (2013)
Robert Carlyle: Rumplestiltskin, Mr. Gold
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Quotes
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[last lines]
Seer : You will be reunited with your son. And it will come in a most unexpected way.
Rumplestiltskin : [as the Dark One] How?
Seer : A boy... a young boy will lead you to him. But beware, Rumplestiltskin, for that boy is more than he appears. He will lead you to what you seek; but there will be a price. The boy... will be your undoing.
Rumplestiltskin : [as the Dark One] Then I'll just have to kill him.
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Mr. Gold : There's no greater pain than regret.
Neal Cassady : Try abandonment.
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Henry Mills : Why are you so nervous? When I found my mom, I was excited.
Mr. Gold : Because I have the benefit of a little more... life experience. I know that things don't always happen... the way we want them to.
Henry Mills : Sure, but... in the book, it says that you could see the future. Why can't you just look and see what's gonna happen?
Mr. Gold : Well, that ability is... complicated. I didn't always have it. And then, when I did... well... it's maybe not the gift one would expect. Seeing the inevitable... can be a terrible price.
Henry Mills : But you wouldn't have to worry about stuff. You'd just know.
Mr. Gold : But that's the great trap. The future... is like a puzzle, with missing pieces - difficult to read, and never, never what you think.
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Henry Mills : You know, I forgave her. Emma. For giving me up. She thought it was the best for me then; that's why she did it. I'm sure your son'll forgive you, too.
Mr. Gold : Alas, the circumstances surrounding our separation weren't quite so noble.
Henry Mills : But... you're here now. And you want him back, right?
Mr. Gold : More than anything.
Henry Mills : Then that's all that matters.
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Rumplestiltskin : I left the front to be with you. You and... Baelfire.
Milah : You left because you were afraid! You became what everyone thought you were, a coward, just like your father!
Rumplestiltskin : I'm nothing like my father. He tried to abandon me! I will never, ever do that to my son! That's why I did this. For him. A-all for the boy. To save him from the same fate I suffered, growing up without a father.
Milah : You sentence him to a fate much worse. Growing up as your son.
Rumplestiltskin : What... but what... what else could I do?
Milah : You could have fought, Rumple. You could have died!
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Rumplestiltskin : Oh, it's all right, Bae. It's all right. Your Papa is here. And I promise... I will never... ever leave you.
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Seer : I've been expecting you.
Rumplestiltskin : Then you know exactly why I came here.
Seer : What I foretold during the ogres war has finally come to pass.
Rumplestiltskin : Well, in a manner of speaking. I, uh, hobbled myself on the battlefield, was branded a coward. My wife ran away and left me. Then my son was called to the front. Oh! Then I became The Dark One; *then* Bae left me. So, yes, my actions on the battlefield left my son fatherless. But it would've been nice to know about all that pesky detail.
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[in the Enchanted Forest, Rumplestiltskin aka the Dark One is trying to take over the seer's ability]
Rumplestiltskin : [as the Dark One] I can't... see... anything. It's too much. It's nothing but a jumble.
Seer : The future is a puzzle, with many pieces to be sorted. In time you will learn to separate what can be from what will be.
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Rumplestiltskin : Speak of what you know of my wife.
Young Seer : She's already with child.
Rumplestiltskin : I'm to be a father?
Young Seer : Your wife will bear you a son, but your actions on the battlefield tomorrow will leave him fatherless.
Rumplestiltskin : I'm gonna die? No, no, no. You you must tell me how I can stop that happening.
Young Seer : You can't.
Rumplestiltskin : Then I'm done helping you.
Young Seer : For now. Someday you'll help me again.
