Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-24674051-20161013043134/@comment-24674051-20161013160521

That would be an interesting way to bring Neal back, but i'm not holding my breath for that occurance.

However, I could see Lampwick being someone that went to the LoUS to avoid turning into a Donkey. The story goes like: everything goes down on Pleasure Island based on the original story, and the boys start turning into donkeys. Pinocchio finds a key to the LoUS and gives it to Lampwick to escape, while he makes a run for it and ends up on the raft that gets swallowed by Monstro. Fast foward to SB present, and Lampwick appears, but since his story picked back up, he is turning into a donkey. August to recognizes him and looks for help to stop the progress of the transformation, which leads to a rare teamup of Emma and Rumple. (and during the episode, Lampwick will be completely turned to a donkey, but will be eventually restored).

Why these Emma and Rumple? Emma is obvious as the powerful friend of August. Rumple helps because of his past dealings with the Coachman, where the Coachman got the ability to turn boys to donkeys from Rumple, but went back on his part of the deal after Rumple was captured. Rumple, as we know, does not like people that go back on his deals, so he helps out (so long as he is able to correct the coachman's erroroneous ways).