Now imprisoned, Rumplestiltskin traded Snow White information about The Dark Curse, which The Evil Queen had vowed to enact, for the name of her unborn daughter, Emma. But he was double-dealing, because he later told The Evil Queen how to cast The Dark Curse in exchange for a life of comfort in the new land and for the promise that she would do anything he asked if he simply said, "please." You see, Rumplestiltskin crafted The Dark Curse as his ultimate plan for being transported to the same world where his son, Baelfire, had been taken. But he knew every curse could be broken, and he created a special way for that to happen as well.