Neal’s kind of learning he tends to fall just outside the loop when it comes to stuff that goes on back home. It’s no one’s fault, really. He knows they don’t mean it—it’s just crappy to be the dead guy when everyone else you know is still alive and kicking.

But yeah, he’s getting told now thanks to Wonderland’s latest event, plus a blatant disregard for Regina’s privacy. And she’s right to think that the first part, that Rumplestiltskin went after Zelena right away, is exactly what Neal expects to have happened. So someone else had to be pulling strings, and it’s not all that difficult to figure out just how Regina managed to do it.

“So you got the dagger first, and used it to stop him.” Regina’s not going to find what she’s looking for. The truth is, Neal mostly feels numb to all this. There’s just too much mess for him to process, too many pieces crashing down for him to even start deciding what he thinks. He watches again how Zelena suddenly gets blown back, the one moment that should give him some comfort because at least it means Henry’s safe.

But it’s too messed up. All of it.

“So why’d you save her?”