

The Sheriff of Notthingham appears in Henry's storybook in "Murder Most Foul".The doublet worn by the sheriff during his confrontation with Rumplestiltskin and during his meeting with Cora, is later worn by Lancelot on Guinevere's birthday in " The Broken Kingdom", and by the sheriff's Wish Realm counterpart in " Tougher Than the Rest".Gold, watches with a mischievous look on her face as he continues to beat up Keith. Gold lets his dark side loose by using magic to rip out Keith's tongue and hits him with his cane. Frustrated that trying to be the good guy didn't win Lacey over, Mr. Gold to apologize for putting the moves on Lacey since he assumed she and Mr. He angrily pushes Keith off of her, thinking she was being forced upon, but discovers it was planned. She excuses herself to the bathroom to fix her dress but actually goes out to the alley to meet up with Keith since she finds Mr. Later that night, Lacey goes out on a date at the diner with Mr. Gold are no longer together, so he attempts to flirt with her, but Lacey turns him down. ("Lacey")ĭuring one night at the Rabbit Hole, Keith meets Lacey, who is happily playing pool by herself. Taking the reply as a yes, Rumplestiltskin magically reattaches the tongue, to which Sheriff bitterly recounts all the wrongs the thief, Robin Hood, has done against him. When the Dark One demands the promised information in return for his tongue, the Sheriff tries to respond, which comes out as gibberish. Rumplestiltskin declines, and then, out of impatience, he takes away the Sheriff's tongue as a threat. In exchange for the thief's name, the Sheriff asks to spend a night with Belle. Rumplestiltskin, looking for an escaped thief, shows him a bow that belonged to the man. One day, while travelling through Sherwood Forest, he confronts the Dark One, Rumplestiltskin, and his servant, Belle, lingering around. Driven by his grudge against Robin Hood, he hunts after him, but the thief continues to elude capture. (" Mother")įrom this, the townspeople of Nottingham look down on the Sheriff, who is made a laughingstock. Afterward, Regina hangs the Sheriff upside down over a fire pit as punishment for his deception until Cora sends him back home. He admits wanting to be king, but Cora set her up hoping she would bear a child.

As the beast burrows under his clothing and attacks him, he shrieks in pain while she demands the truth. During a casual chat in the garden, the Sheriff attempts to charm Regina, who seemingly lets down her guard, before using magic to turn his fake tattoo into a miniature lion. Tempted by the idea of being king, he is given a fake lion tattoo by Cora and then presented to Regina. However, Cora quickly changes her mind and considers he can be her daughter's potential marriage match instead. The Sheriff agrees, but he wants something in return. Cora then considers that the man's wife can be eliminated and asks him to help her. She asks him about a man with a lion tattoo who her daughter is destined to be with, but the Sheriff reveals he is a thief and already married. While spending time at a tavern, the Sheriff notices a woman of high stature, Cora, walk in. Robin is undeterred, taking his reputation in stride, and renames himself Robin Hood. Later, Marian talks to her husband about what he'll do now since the Sheriff will almost certainly want him dead for his defiance. After two days have passed, he returns to the tavern to collect the taxes, but instead, Robin ambushes him with his Merry Men and takes all his gold to give it to the peasants. To Marian, the Sheriff implies this may be enough for her to finally come to him, but she stubbornly disagrees. He gives them two days to fulfill it, or Robin will be imprisoned and their business shut down. One day, sometime after the couple open a tavern business in Sherwood Forest, the Sheriff arrives to collect overdue tax payments from them. Although the Sheriff of Nottingham loves Marian, she runs away to marry a thief, Robin of Locksley.
