[ He doesn't mean to, but the moment he opens his mouth to answer, the words tumble, heated and emotional as he reopens the wounds he's been picking at for nearly 30 years. ] I was tricked! By the-- by Regina-- the Queen. Tricked and taken from my daughter and then I lost my head! [ He snarls part of his story out, but then seems to deflate back into gloomy misery all too quickly. He can't seem to keep any fire going inside of him for long these days, not since he was imprisoned in Wonderland.

His voice is smaller and desperate again: ] I just wanted to give Grace a better life... [ And from the way he says it, from the way he looks at Peter, it's pretty clear that there's an undercurrent of please please please believe me. Too bad he sounds positively mad now. ]