I remember watching s1 for the first time and all the theorizing.

Who is who but also who knows what?

We began to realize that Regina still had her memories when she squashed Graham’s heart.

(Poor, poor Graham.)

But Mr Gold was always so enigmatic.

He never acted like anything other than a creepy land owner.

But then Regina confronted him in “Skin Deep” while he was in a cell.

For the first time we heard her verbally reference the truth and the Enchanted Forest, when she asked him his true name.

“I am Mr Gold. Every day I’ve spent on the earth that’s been my name.”

“What about the time you spent… elsewhere!”

And then his mask drops with a sly little smile and he gnarls breathlessly:

“Rumplestiltskin!”

Boom! Chills!

Man, Robert Carlyle is such a fantastic actor!