Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-27060727-20180128024732/@comment-34657163-20180415160350

There's a very good chance they could complicate the timeline again so I was thinking that part of whatever Alice or Rumple does to Facilier is what leads him to be trapped in...whatever he was in Greenbacks. But, then he couldn't have been trapped for that long...

-Rumple arrives in NEF, meets Alice

-Rumple sends Alice off to stop Henry because...reasons (this is assuming that when we see Alice, then Henry speeding off, that it's just before Henry meets Ella)

-After that, Rumple decides to test Alice because...he thinks she could be the Guardian? (whatever happens causes him to decide she isn't since he would remember it present day...) and Facilier gets trapped in whatever, and Rumple does something that causes him to go scaly or whatever sacrifice...

-"Greenbacks" occurs!

Therefore Facilier's revenge quest was for Rumple