I love this scene but I have one problem with it. When Rumple said that the gauntlet points to a person's greatest weakness and Belle finds the real dagger so she assumes that must be the thing he loves most, which to me is a load of bull. Belle is obviously the thing he loves most but the dagger is his greatest weakness, why? The wicked with proved it. Because even if most of the time a person's greatest weakness is the thing they love most, if there is an object that can control your body and actions against your will and make you kill the person you love most, that would probably be a bigger weakness, as seen when Rumple gives the dagger to Zelena in the enchanted forest and the first order she gives him is to kill Belle. And he almost had to do it. See my point? Keep going strong Rumbelle, even if the writing in the 4th season is bringing you down
The fact that the dagger was his greatest weakness isn't entirely the reason why she banished him. It's the fact that he lied to her face, multiple times about the dagger. ...but I see your point :)
While the dagger controls him, holding Belle hostage is also a method of controlling him. The only thing Rumple loves more than Belle and his power is Baelfire, which was proven when he abandoned the dagger to save his son who was dying. But once Baelfire was finally dead, his true love was the dagger. If there was ever a point where he had to choose between power and Belle, he'd choose power. I mean damn, their marriage began with him stealing back the dagger from her.
Owie. Knowing that this ends with her throwing him out on his ear hurts. I hope they can fix this somehow. Oh, and did anyone else notice that he said "*usually* points to the thing they love most"? It might mean that power isn't the most important thing to him. I'm not saying for sure it's not, but I can dream, right?
that's kinda what I was thinking when I heard him say that this time around the gauntlet points to a persons weakness. the gauntlet pointed Belle to the dagger, we already know that the dagger is Rumple's weakness that's how the wicked witch was able to control him after all. so maybe power is not what's most important to him! hopefully Belle will eventually discover that
