Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6207588-20130209135913/@comment-6195464-20130216131155

Ravensong77 wrote: If Neal was meant to be Emma's end game romance at the end of the series I think they would have hired MRJ as a regular...right now he's just a recurring guest star with an option of returning next season. I hate to say that because I really liked their romance. It is one of the reasons I don't want him to have a girlfriend. We have no guarantees he'll be back next season and I would  like to see them together again as a couple before he's gone.

I suppose it's possible that they may have made him a regular and kept it under wraps thinking that revealing that would say too much about where they were going with his character but I don't know if they would really do something like that. Honestly - I can't see them bringing the character back  (especially for the rest of the season) if the end game ISN'T To have him and Emma be together. They made a pretty clear point of telling us that he was Emma's only love (in Tallahassee), and that says to me there's more to their relationship than the twenty minutes we've gotten to see. Will they get together right away? Probably not... But don't rule them out, just because MRJ isn't a regular (yet). They might be holding off on promoting him, for all we know, because they haven't been -renewed- for a third season yet.