Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24674051-20160625215037/@comment-24674051-20160626050116

I think this could be very much Emma centric, at least in the Non-Flashback portion. Emma is supposed to be the savior, the one that breaks the curse and returns all the happy endings. At least that is how she's been set up to this point.

So, This could be about how Emma fits into the new set of tales. Also, based on some of the other spoilers that they (the writing staff) are trying to move back to a more S1 or S2 feel, with Emma as the sheriff, Mary Margaret as Teacher, and Grumpy as Janitor, this could also relate. If you think back to season 1, even before the curse was completely broken by TLK, Emma was restoring the happy endings (Hansel & Gretel, Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Frederick & Abigail, etc).

So, based on all of that, I'll guess that what we see is maybe an introduction to one of the stories (maybe Sinbad, given the casting announcement), with Hyde challenging Emma (and maybe Henry) to help tell the story and restore the happy ending. And maybe the story requires locating Scheherazade, which falls quite in line with both Emma's role as savior and her role as Sherriff (utilizing her skills as a bailbonds person).

And for the record, I'm still not convinced that Hyde is a villain. I'm sticking to anti-hero for him, at least for now. And regardless of my opinion on the matter, I think we will see some deeper establishment of the character of both Jekyll and Hyde. It may be drawn out over a few episodes as they grow the characters, but we should see some beginning of that growth beyond what we saw in the s5 finale.