Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3038174-20130228160104/@comment-5305135-20130320180556

Yes, somehow I believe that August intervened somehow. Perhaps he had connections at the prison where Emma was serving time, or perhaps fooled the prison into believing he was Emma's relative, although that seems unlikely but somehow he came into possession of Baby Henry, either underhandedly or in a more legitimate way. He knew that Emma would never go to Storybrooke any other way, at least this way she had a knowing family tie there. How Rumple got Henry is beyond me. I'd like to think August had soem heart not to just dump Henry on a random doorstep. It is for sure that he never encountered Gold before he arrived in Storybrooke and pretended to be Bae, else Gold would have recognized him.