Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6036560-20131129174644/@comment-23906605-20131203125329

Actually, in those pictures, you can also see Hook with them.

So whatever Hook was doing in New York with Emma... well, it eventually led to him ending up in the EF.

As for how/why this is happening... I can only think of the "new curse" as a plausible reason.