Toll Operator (5.22)

This toll operator is an episodic character on Once Upon a Time. He was threatened by Rumplestiltskin into letting him enter New York City.

Season 5
A familiar and very expensive-looking black car is seen coming to a halt when it reaches a turnstile, and it is only when we see Pandora's Box - which contains a sleeping Belle and her unborn child - sitting on a cushion in the passenger seat that we realize this vehicle belongs to Mr. Gold. The toll operator, who's working the booth, welcomes the Dark One to New York, then telling him that he has to pay fifteen dollars in order to get past the turnstile and proceed into the city. In response, Gold just makes a choking motion with his hand, and since the Olympian Crystal is out of Storybrooke he's able to use his magic to strangle the poor operator. Wanting the pain to cease, the latter hits some buttons within his booth which make it so that the turnstile lifts; to "thank" him, Gold relinquishes his grip and allows the civil servant to breathe once again. Rumplestiltskin then drives his fancy car into New York City. The turnstile drops behind him as he continues into the very same locale where his runaway grandson is currently trying to destroy magic.