Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24674051-20140331041704/@comment-9232373-20140404135349

Amdonceuponatimer wrote: That' a good point. I still don't think Neal sent the note though. We have seen most of the flashbacks up until Rumple absorbs Neal into himself so that he preserves his life. From these flashbacks Neal doesn't know what the WWotW has planned, therefore not knowing that Storybrooke will be brought back from another curse, so he wouldn't have known to send Hook the message to bring back Emma. Unless there is a flashback we haven't seen yet, with Rumple/Neal.

It seems Neal and Belle went on their search for Rumple fairly quickly... I would imagine right after they took the castle back from the WWotW. So most likely Neal wasn't around in the EF to even be a part of helping bring Emma back. It is possible I suppose that Neal resurfaces in Rumple before the new curse, as the WWotW didn't seem surprised when it happened in Storybrooke. He could have escaped her then also to get a word out to Hook to get Emma. We'll just have to wait and see. Though at some point, Regina does have to be involved as she was the only one who knew where Emma was.