Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-1916997-20160218220955/@comment-24674051-20160222034441

Well, I was more hoping he'd be a later episode and a potential setup for next season.

The plot being that Silver stole some magical macguffin and buried it, and our heroes require said macguffin for some (yet unknown) reason. but there is at least one other person (Blackbeard, anyone?) that is also seeking the item. and the plot centers around the quest to retrieve the macguffin, and how the antagonist tries to hinder the nevengers. And of course Rumple is a wild card in the whole thing, working both sides against each other for some personal reason of his own.