It doesn't take long for Baelfire's belief to be validated as he meets Henry for the first time and learns that he has a son.
Henry is a hopeful, intuitive child who is wise beyond his years and makes everyone around him a better version of themselves. Regardless of what happened between him and Emma, Baelfire sees that a truly wonderful and special person came from their relationship. Rumplestiltskin tells Emma that he can create an elixir that will save David's life, but says he will only do it for an equal favor in return. Baelfire refuses to let Emma or her family be manipulated or unforeseeably cornered into any of his father's dangerous deals or clever loopholes.
Knowing that Rumplestiltskin is desperate to reconcile with him, Baelfire knows he alone has the power to change his father's mind and to convince him to do the right thing without getting something in return. While Baelfire and Rumplestiltskin have different values and different approaches to tricky situations, Baelfire did inherit his father's uncompromising nature and the ability to get others-- even the devious Rumplestiltskin --to do what he wants.
Rumplestiltskin follows through with his promise and saves David's life without asking for anything in return when they return to Storybrooke. For years, Emma believed that Baelfire willingly abandoned her and never looked back. Even when they unexpectedly reunite years later, Emma still has a hard time letting go of this belief.
In a moment of genuine vulnerability, Baelfire admits that he never went after her because he was afraid she would not forgive him as he never forgave himself. This line embodies some of the show's thematic strengths, exploring the dangers of tormenting oneself with self-loathing and regret, and the power of being honest with others and confronting guilt.
Baelfire's self-deprecating humor is one of his most likable traits and works well in a show that recognizes its often campy, melodramatic tone. One of the best examples of this is when Baelfire references how he was engaged to Tamara, who secretly worked for his evil grandfather Peter Pan , and was only in a relationship with Baelfire as part of Pan's nefarious schemes.
As a character who lived in the Enchanted Forest, Neverland, London, New York City, and Storybrooke over the course of many years, Baelfire can't help but marvel at the absurdity and strangeness that has manifested in his own life and his journeys across the various realms.
He crosses the street, and soon afterwards he is seen walking along a sidewalk, and the doves on the sidewalk all fly far from reach as he passes.
The man is then seen crossing a road, and later he's seen at an underground train station. Immediately afterwards, he is seen riding the subway, handling his cell phone. The man then gets out of the subway station and heads to his apartment building. He lets himself in, enters the elevators, goes up and then enters his small apartment. Some lights flicker on and off as he closes the door - lights of thunder. He looks out the window to see that it is now pouring outside.
The man puts down his backpack, carelessly, and looks none too pleased to see the rain. He walks up to the window to close it down, but it is jammed. Cell phone still in tow, he tries to force the window down, but is unfortunate enough to drop his cell phone into the emergency staircase instead. He looks down as his cell phone falls to the ground below, and gets frustrated.
A white pigeon then shows up on his window pane, with a postcard connected to its paw. The pigeon walks around to rid itself of the card, and then flies away. The man looks somewhat surprised. He then picks up the card and a single world is written in black on the back of it: "Broken".
This word appears to trigger something within the man. He turns the card around to find that it features the message "Greetings from Storybrooke Maine", on top of a drawing of the small town's clock tower. Emma , Henry and Mr. Gold , otherwise known as Rumplestiltskin, head to New York in search of Baelfire and eventually arrive at his apartment building.
Emma soon deciphers that the apartment that's not labeled with a tenant is Bae's as he doesn't want to be found, and presses the buzzer. As soon as she does so, footsteps heard on the fire escape and Baelfire is seen running along the sidewalk. Emma is tasked with chasing him and does so through the streets of the city, eventually tackling him in an alley where she is shocked to discover that Bae is in fact Neal Cassidy, her old flame.
He takes her to a bar in order to explain himself to her, saying that August told him that he had to leave her so that she could break the curse. Emma does not care, simply wanting to take Neal back to Gold and fulfill her favor to him, however, Neal tells her that if she let's him go, he'll be out of her life forever, not wanting to see his father. Emma takes this option but Neal decides to go back anyway after remembering what his father does those who break deals with him.
He shows up at his apartment just as Gold and the blonde are in a confrontation after his father figured out that she lied. Rumple is happy to see his son again but the feeling is one-sided as Neal merely wanted to make sure Emma was alright, making Gold slowly realize they know each other. When Neal sees Henry, he realizes that this is his son when the kid states he's eleven.
Henry runs out of the room, previously told his father was dead. Neal gives Gold three minutes to talk to him so that Emma's favor will be fulfilled. But the reunion goes extremely badly, Neal having no interest in forgiving his father. Later, Neal, wanting to make up for lost time, steps out onto the fire escape and begins to talk and bond to Henry. As Mr. Gold watches his long-lost son and newfound grandson, the pawnbroker then thinks back to the prophecy that states he must kill a young boy who will be his undoing, meaning Henry.
Neal continues to bond and spend more time with Henry as Gold and Emma continue to commiserate over the strains in their relationships with their respective sons. Gold asks Emma to convince Neal to return to Storybrooke with them, telling her that if she does not, Henry will likely run away to find Neal, much like he did with Emma. The blonde considers this and begins to try and convince Neal to return with them, but he reveals that he has some news of his own.
However, before he can share his news, the two of them stand witness to Captain Hook's ambush of Gold as the pirate stabs the pawnbroker in the chest with his hook, before Emma knocks him out, imprisoning him. Neal takes his father upstairs where they are soon met by Emma, who reveals that Hook used his pirate ship to sail there. Gold soon deciphers that the hook used to stab him was laced with poison which is slowly killing him and tells them that they need a fast way to get to Storybrooke in order to use the town's magic to save him.
Neal reveals that he can sail them there on Hook's ship, knowing how to do so having learned in Neverland. Neal arranges for them to borrow a car to get them to the ship, and Emma wonders whose car it is.
Emma is taken aback. Neal sails Henry , Emma and a dying Gold back to Storybrooke on Captain Hook's pirate ship in order to find a cure to the poison that currently within Rumple's heart. They soon arrive at the town docks and are met by Mary Margaret and David , who are alongside Ruby. Knowing that Cora and Regina are after them with the Dark One's dagger in tow, Gold tells Emma to use the invisible chalk to draw a line across all entrances, which Neal helps her with.
The pawnbroker then tells the blonde that she must cast the protection spell herself, which she succeeds at. Neal, along with David and Emma arm themselves with swords as his son's adoptive family break the protection spell with ease and make their way inside the shop.
David quickly blocks one of Regina's fireballs, but is flown outside by Cora and knocked out. Neal tries to attack Cora, who disappears and reappears in a flurry of purple smoke. Realizing they cannot win, Emma and Neal run into the back room where Gold is, sealing it off with the chalk so that Cora cannot get through, no longer having Regina's help as the mayor has left to intercept Mary Margaret who's at her vault. As Cora tries to bust in, Gold makes a phone call to Belle , telling her that he's dying and romantically reminding her of who she is.
Baelfire comments that he didn't know Gold had it in him, to which Rumple replies that he's sorry he broke his deal with Bae. Cora soon manages to get into the back room, breaking the protection spell, and Neal and Emma aim their swords at her, however, Cora quickly makes them disappear in a swirl of purple smoke, causing them to reappear somewhere in the town woods, where the two of them become confused.
Despite this, thanks to Mary Margaret's actions, Cora ends up dying, and Gold is saved. After Regina poses a threat to the Charming family, Neal meets Henry at Granny's Diner and orders him an ice cream with "extra everything". Henry immediately sees through this as a bribe and Neal admits his agenda, wanting Henry to come back with him to New York as the fighting continues there.
Henry initially seems pleased with the offer but soon excuses himself to go to the bathroom. Emma , who's also in the diner, asks Neal how it went and he tells her that Henry agreed to come back with him, however, Emma notices that his backpack is missing. Neal suggests that Henry took it with him but Emma reminds him that Henry went to the bathroom and is his son, leading Neal to deduce that he's running.
The two of them and David use Ruby to track Henry down and she leads the three of them down to the old mines to a crate of dynamite, with sticks missing. The presume that Henry took dynamite but it is Neal who realizes why - he wants to blow up the town well as that's where magic originated from within Storybrooke.
The three of them go to the well to find Regina with Henry, having stopped the dynamite ploy but still planning to use a curse on him to make him love her. After Henry gives a sad speech on how magic is corrupting his family, Regina burns the curse and Henry goes back with David, Emma and Neal. Emma wonders if she knows who Baelfire really is, and Neal reveals that she does not. When Tamara arrives, Henry wonders how her and Neal met, and she explains that they bumped into each other and he spilled coffee down her shirt, offering her his scarf.
Henry soon leaves for school with Emma and Neal shows Tamara the story book, telling her that he's from a magical land known as the Enchanted Forest. Tamara refuses to believe his claim because she believes that Emma is after him now that he found out about Henry being his son, but Neal says that he and Emma are the past and Tamara wants him to prove it.
Neal later arrives outside the sheriff's station to find a completely wooden August stumbling out. With his dying breathe, he tries to warn Emma of something, but he passes before he can do so.
Henry points out that August's last act was honest, brave and unselfish and so Mother Superior turns him back into a little boy again, however, he cannot remember his warning.
Tamara soon approaches the scene, "shocked" to see that magic is real, and Neal remains completely unaware that she is in fact that one that killed August. Later, when Neal's in the shower, Tamara visits Greg Mendell in his room and has sex with him, the two of them being part of an ongoing affair.
Neal is seen sword fighting with Henry in the park as part of their father-son bonding as Mr. Gold watches. Regina approaches the latter and wonders what his son is doing with hers, Rumple reveals to her that Baelfire is Henry's father, something which shocks Regina. Later, Emma is at home when Neal drops off an unconscious Henry. She asks if he tranquilized him but Neal jokes that he just gave the kid a couple bourbons and that he's a real lightweight, before admitting that Henry's just tuckered out and commending him on how good he's gotten with his wooden swords.
Henry is placed on the couch as Neal and Emma sit down to talk, Bae says that August stopped by the park that day and that he and Henry really hit it off. Emma says that it will take her a while to get used to that before going on to say that she wishes Pinocchio would remember the warning he tried to give before he was "rebooted". Neal tells her that August always did have a habit of being cryptic, but assures the blonde that she always finds what she wants, so she has nothing to worry about.
Emma bumps into Tamara at Granny's Diner and sees that she has a list of Storybrooke's residents and their fairytale identities in her purse, and when Tamara states herself trustworthy, Emma uses her "superpower" to determine that she's lying. Due to this, Emma is lead to believe that Tamara's the "she" that August warned them about, and so enlists the help of Henry to stalk his father's betrothed.
Emma breaks in and tells Henry to keep lookout and to hit the door if he sees anyone coming. Neal returns to his room and sees Henry hitting the door, but, as he was the one who taught Emma that signal, he immediately knows that she is inside. He walks in to find Emma inside, investigating a loose floorboard. She tells him her theory of Tamara being August's "she", but Neal doesn't believe her, explaining the list away by saying that he helped Tamara make it, to help her adapt to the magical world.
Emma realizes that she looks like a jealous ex, and so tells Neal that if there's nothing under the floorboard, she'll back off. He stipulates to this and helps her lift it, however, there is nothing underneath. Neal wakes up to Tamara leaving to go and train for her marathon, but before he can go back to sleep, he hears ruckus outside and investigates to discover his father , Lacey in tow, is attempting to harm Dr.
Neal restrains Gold, letting Whale free, and accuses him of being so non-redemptive since he found him, stating that he's only still in town for Henry. Neal allows her to search the room and she discovers sand tracked in by Tamara's shoes when she states she had been running in the forest. Neal and Emma walk along the beach where they run into Tamara, who's running there. She makes it appear as though she's training for her marathon, before dashing off, seemingly proving Neal right.
Emma begs him not to make it a jealousy thing and as they get to talking more, he apologizes to Emma for letting her go to jail, saying that he wishes it were him.
When Emma learns that when Mary Margaret experienced Regina's whereabouts via one of Gold's spells, the place she was in smelled of sardines, her and Neal go and search Storybrooke's town cannery, in hopes of finding the lost mayor.
In there, they find David and Mary Margaret investigating also and the two pairs split up. Snow and Charming find Regina being tortured by Greg but set her free, getting her to the aid of Mother Superior as Greg escapes.
Meanwhile, Emma is hit over the head by Tamara. Neal is stunned at what his fiance is doing and presses her to reveal the truth, which she admits to lying about everything since the day they met.
She states he should understand her mission to magic means well due to his experiences he told her. Neal refuses to Tamara walk away after everything she's done, but she shoots him. Before she can execute her fiance, Emma kicks the gun out of her hand and the women duke it out. Losing, Tamara throws one of the magic beans she stole onto the ground and opens a portal before running away. Neal, still suffering the bullet wound, begins to get dragged down as Emma holds on.
He tells her to let him go so Henry doesn't go grow up an orphan like his parents had, despite that she points out that he'll die no matter where he goes because of his injury. The two share a teary goodbye in which they each confess their love for one another and Emma ends up letting go as Neal falls down the portal, which soon closes. Emma is left devastated at the apparent demise of Neal.
After Neal falls through the portal, he ends up in the ocean of the fairytale land that is, and washes up on the shore unconscious, still weak from the bullet wound he received from Tamara. Luckily, Prince Phillip discovers him and runs to his aid, wondering who he is. Of the two women with the prince, Aurora states that she doesn't know as Mulan remains silent. Phillip flips Neal over to his front and asks if he's alive; Aurora places her hands on his face and neck, feeling Neal's pulse, and says that he is - but barely.
She worriedly states that they have to get him some help and Phillip requests that she help him get him inland. The two of them team up to heave him off of the beach and somewhere they're able to heal him. Neal remains unconscious all the while.
Neal rests at Aurora's palace , back in the Enchanted Forest. He wakes up and is questioned by Mulan and her companions, and reveals himself to be the father of Emma's child, Henry. As Aurora tries to communicate with Neal's family via the Netherworld , Mulan asks Neal how he got to the Enchanted Forest, and he tells her he fell via portal. Mulan asks what the other world is like, so he tells her that everyone believes the people from the Enchanted Forest are just characters in stories, shocking her.
When Aurora fails to make contact, Mulan accompanies Neal to Rumplestiltskin's castle in hopes of finding a way to communicate. On their way, Mulan wonders why Emma never mentioned Neal when she was in the Enchanted Forest, so he explains that he broke her heart. When they arrive at the castle, they run into Robin Hood , who claims the castle to be his own. Neal introduces himself as Rumple's son and allows Robin ownership of the castle, but asks to find something first.
When he eventually finds a crystal ball, he tries to use it to communicate with Emma, but he's unable to use it. Mulan gives him advice, and it finally works, but he's horrified to discover she's in Neverland. Robin and Mulan remain with Neal in Rumplestiltskin's Dark Castle , as he frantically looks for a way to make a portal amongst his father's magical possessions.
He becomes angry when he's unable to find anything, and when Robin Hood's Merry Men sense disturbance, they enter the castle. Robin assures them that he's okay, and Neal is surprised to see that Robin has a young son named Roland , which gives him an idea. When Neal tells the archer that he'd like to use his son as bait for Pan's shadow, Robin initially refuses after being told how ruthless Pan is, but Neal then reminds him that his father spared his life, meaning that Marian and Roland were able to survive.
Due to his need to repay his debt to Rumple and thinking he can do it through Baelfire, Robin agrees to let Neal use Roland as bait once and under the assurance that his son remain safe. Robin, Neal and Mulan hide whilst Roland utters the phrase "I believe It attempts to take Roland but Mulan fends it off, allowing Neal to hitch a ride to Neverland and find his own son, as well as his true love.
Dropped on the ground, Neal is greeted by Felix , one of Pan's Lost Boys, who welcomes him back to the island and states that Pan will be pleased to see him again. Neal's hands are bound by Felix and the former Lost Boy is marched through Neverland. Felix has nostalgia of how Baelfire first came to the island, stating he hoped to never see him again.
Neal responds that he wouldn't have if Pan had abducted his son, with Felix countering he should've left well enough alone. However, whilst Felix brags, Neal is able to free himself and punch the teenager, knocking him out and escaping.
When running through the island, Neal happens across his father, Rumplestiltskin , having knocked out two Lost Boys. At first, Rumple thinks that Bae is a vision and tries to harm him, but Neal soon explains that when he was shot, he fell through a portal and ended up in the Enchanted Forest , where he was healed. Robin Hood then helped him get to Neverland.
Gold explains that he's currently trying to rescue Henry from Peter Pan and Neal suggests a way to defeat the powerful demon child He makes his way to a beach and blows on a conch shell which summons a large squid, he then fishes it from the water where his father extracts its magical ink.
The two of them then make their way to Pan's compound where Rumple uses a sleeping spell to knock out the Lost Boys, and Henry, but Pan remains conscious.
Neal fires an arrow at Pan who catches it, however, as the arrow's shaft has been doused with squid ink, Peter Pan becomes immobilized. This then allows Neal to grab Henry, who's still unconscious, and as he, his son and his father leave the camp, Pan makes a remark about Rumple wanting to murder Henry.
Once they're safe on the other side of the island, Bae asks his father what Pan meant, and Rumple explains that there was a prophecy stating that a young boy would be his undoing, and he believes this to be Henry.
Scared that his father will murder Henry in order to keep himself alive, Neal uses the squid ink to ensnare Rumple and then runs away with Henry over his shoulder.
But he is soon ambushed by Pan and his Lost Boys who take Henry back to their camp, all before the child wakes up from the sleeping spell. Shortly following his capture by the Lost Boys, Neal is drugged and made unconscious, to be placed inside a cage. Felix tells his companions that they heard Pan and therefore they know what to do with the captive Neal. Neal passed on nobly and with Emma by his side, both of which were fitting.
He also got to say a final, touching goodbye to Hook, the man who saved him from being trapped in Neverland forever and by extension, allowed him to meet Emma and fall in love and all that great, fairytale stuff.
So here's what went down — during the "missing year" in the Enchanted Forest, Neal and Belle were guided more like manipulated by Lumiere to a key that would return Rumpel to life. Am I the only one that realizes that resurrecting a Dark One sounds like a terrible idea, even if he is your dad? So, they go to the origin hellmouth of the Dark One and because all magic comes with a price — Neal ends up inadvertently sacrificing himself so that his family could be together.
Upon returning to the Forest, Neal's only goal was to reunite with Emma and Henry — and to do that, he thought he needed to resurrect his father. But he also wanted his family to be whole, so aside from needing Rumpel's help to return to Storybrooke, he also just wanted the father that he spent years running from to be alive again.
He reunites with Emma, who thought Neal was dead, and they all manage to save Henry from Pan's clutches and return to Storybrooke. Neal invites Emma on a date, but Emma doesn't show up. Neal, along with everyone else in Storybrooke, is consumed by the second Dark Curse and returns to the Enchanted Forest yet again and goes with Belle to Rumplestiltskin's manor where they meet an enchanted candelabra named Lumiere who reveals the Vault of the Dark One can be used to resurrect Rumplestiltskin.
Bae and Belle go there and bring Lumiere, and Bae uses the key to unlock the vault and resurrect him. However, whoever uses the key to resurrect the Dark One must die in his place, and Bae starts dying until Rumplestiltskin absorbs Baelfire. At Rumplestiltskin's castle, Bae briefly exits Rumplestiltskin's body to stop him from drinking the memory potion that Zelena gave him so that he would remember the past year in the Enchanted Forest after the third Dark Curse is unleashed, and ties the potion and a note to a messenger bird, before sending the bird to Hook and returning to his father's body.
When the third Dark Curse unravels, Baelfire is missing from Storybrooke and it is speculated by the others that he may have been attacked by flying monkeys at the town border or he may not have even left the Enchanted Forest.
However, he is found and sent to hospital with a strange symbol is burned into his palm. Hook is left to look after Bae, and the two talk for a bit. Bae plans on leaving the hospital to look for his father, but Hook stops him briefly and gives him a hug, saying that it is long overdue. He then lets Bae leave, telling him that he will give him ten minutes and then tell the others that he has gone.
Baelfire unintentionally meets up with Emma in the woods while he is searching for Rumplestiltskin, and it is revealed that Bae and Rumplestiltskin are magically connected so that Bae is alive. Baelfire insists that Emma uses her magical abilities to seperate Rumplestiltskin and him so that Rumplestiltskin can tell them who the Wicked Witch is.
Emma does this, and Baelfire eventually dies in Emma's arms, with a sad Rumplestiltskin watching over him. A funeral is eventually held for Bae where he is buried. A manifestation of Baelfire visits Emma while she is on her way to the Underworld to rescue Hook, and warns her not to go there. Emma learns that Baelfire is not in the Underworld, but somewhere where he is happy.
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