ABC's Once Upon a Time will be examining the idea of forgivenesss in the second half of season 4, particularly between Belle (Emilie de Ravin) and Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle).

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With all the trials and tribulations Belle and Rumple have gone through, she finally banished him from Storybrooke in the winter finale. As Rumple tries to make his way back, will Belle find it in her heart to forgive him for his past transgressions?

"That's one of the things in the second half that we're exploring, which is forgiveness," OUAT executive producer Edward Kitsis told Entertainment Weekly this week. "Can good people make a bad decision? Can bad people make a good decision? Can you come back from the bad decisions you made and how? What he did to Belle is really atrocious and that is not going to be solved with a mixed tape and flowers."

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Belle and Rumple, lovingly referred to as "Rumbelle" by their fans, have one of the more complicated relationships in Once Upon a Time. It remains to be seen if they will find their happy ending with each other.

Rumple is enlisting in the Queens of Darkness, a.k.a. Maleficent (Kristin Bauer van Straten), Cruella de Vil (Victoria Smurfit) and Ursula (Merrin Dungey) in order to help find their own happy endings as well.

Once Upon a Time returns for the second half of season 4 on Sunday, March 1 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.

Re-watch Belle and Rumple's big scene in the winter finale of Once Upon a Time here:

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