Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11464223-20140310010801/@comment-6175354-20140312052938

Arctucrus wrote:

SO, I'm deducing that his connection to Rapunzel is from BEFORE he was turned into a Flying Monkey, that's who he was, and then he gets turned into a flying monkey, and then the thing with Emma happens. This is OUaT, so anything is possible.

Except 3.12 implied, that Walsh is the flying monkey who attacked Regina. If you look closely, during the restaurant scene, Walsh has a scar on his neck. A scar in the same spot, where Robin Hood shot the flying monkey.