Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6175354-20140319185751/@comment-13019683-20140506071350

Many say that Rumpelstiltskin / Gold can become the new villan so I have a theory of my own. In this episode Rumpelstiltskin perceives that there is something wrong with time (maybe will have some problems with his prescience) and looking for the source of the problem is Emma and Hook from the future and discovers their origin but at that point he opens a chance, instead of waiting to fulfill his elaborate plan decides to follow Emma and Hook in the future.

Once you get them there is the "world without Rumpelstiltskin" (some excuse why there is still a curse), Storybrooke, still under the curse and of course Neal is alive and Henry does not exist. In this new world, Rumpelstiltskin will face Emma Hook and they want to send him back to the past to put things in place while trying to retrieve his son.