Season 3’s Rumpel is back and the plot thickens as with the rest of the characters. He was on a quest to find his son and redeem himself after abandoning Baelfire, a promise he made himself never to break after experiencing his own father leaving him. After he finally reunited with his son, he felt another chance at life was offered and wanted to redeem the lost time between them. Rumple found Bealfire with the help of Henry, his newly discovered nephew. He however remembers a witch’s prediction that this boy will help him reunite with his son but he will simultaneously be his own demise.

Baelfire is not happy to reunite with his father, having been through his fair share of hardship. He is angry, after all it is a devastating event to presence your own father leaving you in exchange for something else. As a child this is traumatizing and it leaves marks. Baelfire was not open to reconciliation and he was angry. He did not want his father to have closure and reunite with him after apologizing for his mistakes and lost time because he was left for years without closure, alone, wondering why he was abandoned. Why was magic more important than his own son and family?