Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24878053-20140429015332/@comment-6175354-20140429230318

Onceuponatimer22 wrote: I was actually thinking that it would be Hook and Emma too, but i thought it would be more along the lines of a flash forward that leaves you with many questions. No, thereis not  going to be a flash-forward. There are still plenty of unanswered questions, about the missing year.

Rumplestiltskin may have been held captive, the whole time, but the rest of the characters were doing other things. Snow White, Prince Charming, Regina were probably not always focused on Zelena. Belle and Robin Hood, while they lived in the castle, probably had their own adventures. Hook never even met Zelena, until Storybrooke, and has nine full months that are unaccounted for.... anything can still happen, during the missing year.