Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161010010027/@comment-24674051-20161012163038

My money, as far as Dopey is concerned, is on Dopey being released while the gang was in the UW. And it was likely Blue that was responsible for the transformation back.

And Edzz is correct that in the Season Finale, it was shown to be possible to enter and leave SB pretty much at will. My bet is again on the fact that once Killian was killed, the tree-conversion town line curse was removed (since it was Killian's/Nimue's Dark Curse that returned everyone back to SB from Camelot).

Now, back to the episode discussion, I find that Rumple may have, yet again, taken a situation and used it for his advantage (is that really any surprise?). He did not mastermind David coming to him for information, but once he was there, Rumple used what he knew about David, specifically the information on his dad combined with his understanding of David's thoughts on Father/Son relationships, to maneuver David into being the one to deliver the message. The taped message was legit, but the real message was the one that David did not know he was delivering, and that is that even if it is messed up, it is better to have a relationship between father and son than to not have it. Rumple knew (or at least guessed) that this conversation would arise, and had good insight into how David would respond, which plays right into Rumples desire to get back into the Good graces of Belle for the sake of his unborn son. (All of this is conjecture, admittedly)