Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25491743-20171008091814/@comment-25733960-20171014224953

I think we might get some clues soon, in 7x04

My bet is that Regina and Henry used the bottle from 7x02 to call Rumple when the curse was coming, so he would help them to stop it. But Regina and Rumple failed and that's how Rumple ended up in HH.