<P> The episode was received positively by critics, with most praising Robert Carlyle's role as Rumpelstiltskin during the flashback . The episode also saw an increase in ratings from the previous episode, with 7.50 million viewers watching, garnering an 18 - 49 rating of 2.4 . </P> <P> The skyline of New York City appears in the forest . </P> <P> Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle) is drafted into the Ogres War . Milah (Rachel Shelley) is alarmed, but Rumplestiltskin is eager to free himself of his father's legacy of cowardice . Milah exhorts him to fight honorably, and hopes they'll start a family when he returns . At the front, he is assigned to guard a prisoner, which proves to be a young girl who has deformed eye sockets but functioning eyes on her hands; she is a Seer, able to see the past and future . She demonstrates her knowledge of Rumplestiltskin's earlier life, then informs him that Milah is pregnant with a son, but that Rumplestiltskin's actions the next day will leave the child fatherless . He doesn't believe her, but she says he will once the army rides cows into battle . That night, another soldier describes their wounded comrades as lucky, because they'll be sent home . The men are then ordered to ride into battle, on leather saddles termed "cows ." Rumplestiltskin panics and, believing he is destined to die in battle the next day, crushes his own leg with a hammer . Rumplestiltskin returns home to find Milah cradling their son, Baelfire . She is aghast to see confirmation of the rumor that he took the cowardly action of wounding himself to escape the battle, and she denounces him . He didn't want to leave his son fatherless as his own father did by abandoning him, but Milah says that to be Rumplestiltskin's son is a worse fate, and it would have been better if he had died . Milah angrily leaves, and Rumplestiltskin promises to never leave Baelfire . </P> <P> Years later, after Baelfire has left the Enchanted Forest, Rumplestiltskin tracks down the now - adult Seer (Shannon Lucio) and criticizes her for omitting the details of his destiny . He then attacks her and demands to know how to find his son . She says that he will find him after many years and that it will require a powerful curse that will be both cast and broken by others . When he demands to know more, she asks him to take on the "burden" of her prophetic powers . He agrees, but is overcome by a multitude of visions, while the Seer is left dying . She tells him that, with time, he will learn to understand . As she dies, she informs him that he'll be led to his son by a boy who will also be his undoing . Rumplestiltskin states his intention to kill that boy . </P>

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