Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5521796-20130203025813/@comment-4928149-20130210190804

One way or another, only Neal can be Baelfire because, first, he lives in Manhattan and that's where Rumple heads to find his son. But if we view it from a more logical point of view; Michael Raymond-James is credited as guest star in all the remaining episodes after "Manhattan". I don't know really how to explain it in English (I'm Canadian/French), but what I mean is that Bae's retrieval is substantially an important plot during Season 2 so it would be reasonable that he makes an appearance in all the remaining episodes.