Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6175354-20140113165251/@comment-13019683-20140505211125

Many say that Rumpelstiltskin / Gold can become the new villan so I have a theory of my own. In this episode Rumpelstiltskin perceives that there is something wrong with time (maybe problems with preveggienza) and looking for the source of the problem is Emma and Hook from the future and discovers their origin but by then it opens a possibility for him, instead of waiting to fulfill his elaborate plan decides to follow Emma and Hook in the future.

Once we got there we find the world without Rumpelstiltskin (some excuse why there is still a curse), Storybrooke, still under the curse, and in this new world, Rumpelstiltskin, will deal with Emma and Hook, who want to send him back to the past to put things in place.