Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-24386552-20140719163012/@comment-5051564-20141005073458

There's an interview somewhere on the Entertainment Weekly site which adresses this. It would have been a brief appearance when Emma was in the dungeons at the stars of 3x22.

She would never have tried to save him, that would have messed up the timeline in a big way, not to mention: if she took him to the future, he would never have landed in storybrooke with the first curse.