Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-6036560-20131129174644/@comment-25423394-20131227164358

ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Rafadeq wrote:

So whatever Hook was doing in New York with Emma... well, it eventually led to him ending up in the EF. Or.... Hook somehow leaves the Enchanted Forest, to try to find Emma. David and Mary Margaret might even be the ones, who suggest that it needs to be Hook. Okay, well, I think Hook was able to leave the Enchanted Forest because of pixie/fairy dust (we KNOW Tinkerbell can use it).

Why did it have to be Hook? That I don't know; probably because Emma's memories being erased and altered, she only remembers that Neal is the guy that left her and won't let him talk to her (although why a perfect "stranger" like Hook would be a better choice, no clue).